Did Shawn Michaels deserve all the heat he got from the Montreal Screwjob? Let us know in the comments below!

That's what I loved about Shawn Michaels' character in 1997. He was hated and arenas booed the hell out of him, and he would just dance to his hilariously arrogant theme song right through the boos without a care in the world. He was not afraid to be himself out there no matter what anyone thought of him.

Bret and Shawn hated each other but they were professional enough to work great together and did promos against each other that came off as real hate. Which it was.

I don't care what anybody says, there is no better wrestling match than a Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels match. We were robbed in 1997 that there weren't any more matches between these two.

I love how carefully HBK is selecting his words, and not glorifying his actions and behaviour. A true gentleman whose reflected on his life

"What is better - to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?"

There is no doubting his talent. But it was his attitude that rubs many the wrong way. Talented though, very talented, Ric Flair was always extremely high on him. So much so he chose him to have his last really good supposed retirement match in WWE with.

Shawn Michaels Raw 2005 Montreal.... possible the best heal promo ever!

I was watching at that time. The heat Shawn Michaels had after Montreal was insane.

I think this sort of thing is why Bret was able to eventually forgive Shawn, or at least move on. It's clear Shawn is pretty uncomfortable talking about that situation, and all of this as a whole. He is fumbling with his words a lot, more than he usually does, and I expect because it's a situation that still is a touch sore, even if it has healed a lot. I think Bret seeing Shawn talk about how he felt the consequences of his choice would help Bret move on a lot. Even if Shawn never regretted doing what he did exactly, Shawn felt consequences and had to live with what he did. Bret probably thought at the time that Shawn did what he wanted and never felt any sort of consequences or baggage from it, and now knowing the pain Shawn was going through and how bittersweet those times after were, really helped Bret overcome some of his bitterness. Toward Shawn at least.

Lets be honest Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels were in the greatest Wrestling angle of all time. It just so happens that they were 2 of the best Wrestlers. People are still debating this shit till this day.

If you hadn't watched the DVD, that is completely Shawn and Bret talking with JR as the moderator. It explains a lot. They cover many things, they feelings come out over several things and there is a lot forgiveness in this 1 hour of talking.

I'm 40 years old. I lost touch with wrestling probably for 15 years now but I absolutely love watching these shoots. Shawn is the best wrestler I think ever. I'm just basing this on his matches. He's got at least 20 five star matches. His 1991 Royal Rumble match vs the Orient Express is one of the best tag team matches ever. They nailed everything. His matches with Bret we're all great, his ladder match vs Razor was incredible, his hell in the cell vs Taker in my opinion is the best wrestling match I ever saw (I know it's objective) the story they told you cant replicate. His Kurt Angle match at WrestleMania was incredible. His match with Jericho also amazing and his WM25 match is considered by alot as the greatest match ever. He's bad matches with Mankind that are absolutely amazing. His matches with Nash and Sid were always great. He's had matches with Owen that are incredible and to someone my age, the superkick to Marty janetty on the barbershop was as good of TV that exists for wrestling. It's him or Bret for me. I know they weren't over as Hogan, Austin, Rock but just their matches. Top notch mate.

I was never a fan of HBK. The character was very good at getting under my skin, the oversell, the Sexy Boy attitude, all of it, never liked Shawn Michaels. But the real guy, like these interviews, I like the real guy, he did his job very well, and seems honest in interviews.

IF Shawn and Undertaker went WCW in 1997 WWE would have gone under

The Heartbreak Kid went from -A Young Rocker/Rockstar -Young TeenyBop Heartthrob -The Icon -The Showstopper -The Main Event -Androgynous Stripper -Degenerate "Dancing Bear" -Commissioner -Sober/Christian -HB Shizzle (DX Reunion) -Last Dance -Hall of Famer -DX/B.O.D. Catastrophe -NXT 2.0 -GET IT SEXYY! GET IT SEXYY! HBK STILL don't miss! 😭💯

HBK always put on a show for every match he participated in

Bret vs Shawn was easily my favorite feud. It was like lightning in a bottle. I wish we could've got more matches between the two.

Bret vs Shawn was the rivalry throughout my childhood and they were 2 of my best wrestlers and had some of the best matches. I'm glad both buried the hatchet.

If you just listen to Shawn talk, him and Bret speak very similarly. Bret has that "you know what" twang but still.

3:30 just like CM Punk said in his interview. Two great wrestling minds thinking alike.

Shawn Michaels was my All time favorite wrestler good, bad, drugged or drunk we were much alike accept hes older then me im 38 but Shawn Michaels was always my number I guy

Shawn in WCW would've been crazy!

SS '97 is where it ALL began

i blame blaze now for what happened to shawn and brett-for throwing wwe womens title belt into a trash can

I can understand HBK. You can you love it . Then you go home. It Suck.

Damn. That was deep.

The most hated but now one of the most loved by fans

Imagine if Shawn hit that breaking point and went to WCW instead of Brett. That would’ve been crazy to even consider let alone happen

Wow they can’t even say Vince anymore

He's filling sunny out like a application in the boiler rooms

I can relate so much. I have the same chip on my shoulder that he had.

Imagine what could have been if no screw job happened, and Bret was still around. You had him, Austin, DX. The storylines there lol. BUT on the other hand, the screwjob pretty much made the McMahon character, and out of that, we got the Austin Vs McMahon story, which was one of the best at the time. Would we have still gotten that, or maybe even something better. A lot of what ifs there.

Nobody knows what it's like.. ..to be the sad man... ..the bad man.. ...behind super kicks.

What does shoots mean?

hes s a friggin LIIIIAAAARRR!!!..HE CRIED LIKE A " LITTLE GIRRRRLLL!!2😂

Glad he grew his hair back

What comes with being the greatest, is being the most hated

Man I totally disliked HBK back in the day.. but man I’ve grown to love and respect him so so much h!!

Everyone needs to remember shawn was very insecure when he first started so I can definitely see how this could bother him later on in his career

Triple H was the top heel during the Ruthless Agression. People forget how fun he was.

I can also see it was hard for The HBK . Bur it was a job. Working for the WWE Can be hard.

It’s always amazed me how stupid people are. What screwjob??? Bret was leaving the company for the rival. What was Vince supposed to do? Let him walk out with it? Bret didn’t wanna drop the belt, Vince did what he had to do & so did Shawn. If anything in my eyes Bret is the asshole here if anyone is an asshole

It's not that art imitates life/ Art is life/ Everything in life is practiced as the discipline of vocation and you master the art of thriving amidst chaos/ Professional wrestling is unforgettable, evocative theatre of heaven and hell, love and pain, fire and flame/ The general public gets it wrong when they think of professional wrestling as entertainment/ Politics and the absurdist antics of gov't are the crassest entertainment and thus doesn't merit our attention/

When The Hurricane hates you gotta be doing something wrong

yall believe it if u want to.. screwjob was obv a work, the best one ever too

It's a shame Bret couldn't have stayed. I would've loved to see him turn face again and get in a storyline where he and Shawn team up to battle against some bigger foe. OR BRET RETURNS AS THE HIGHER POWER! LOL

When was this filmed?

Bret was the better “pro wrestler” and Shawn was the better “sports entertainer”

How much water do you guys drink?

*WWF locker room after he screwed Bret Hart at the Montreal Screwjob.

Bret > Shawn. Any category.

shawn in wcw probably would have languished

My fav wrestler ever but for fuck sake he never ever answers the questions 😂😂😂😂 it's like he's punch drunk

Bret screwed Bret

I hated WWF, not Shawn!

Shawn Michaels was a draw. At the end of the day, that’s what matters most.

I'm a Bret guy through and through. But I like that Shawn found sobriety and his own faith to give the world his side as a clean man.

Shawn is one of those guys it's fashionable to hate on, but why? Bret let his pride get in the way of business, that's his problem. Shawn also made it quite clear he didn't like Bret at all so it's not like it was even a backstab.

Wish they would mute his voice or do a voice over. Like listening to Miley Cyrus on a good day.

So many water bottles

I feel like the interview guy works the crowd to the point I get taken out of the story sometimes

The fans never hated Shawn at least

"I did hear the phrase. (From Shawn) 'It's unsafe for me to work here'" - Jim Cornette

Is anybody really ever liked? All the backstabbing I'm constantly seeing. I'm disliked by an entire village. Because I'm a chambermaid to a billionaires Homicidal daughter. Toothless and homel until she's pleased. This town has taken all the affordable homes off the market . I needed one. Everybody poisons me when ever I try to eat. I'm a chamber maid. Everybody's just another eye and ear for the kings daughter and she's always looking for a reason to spoon feed me more human shit while I'm unconscious. Village guards, apple stand owners, monks and priest.. all just trying to keep a job by watching me and reporting it. It's a crazy world around here. Deprived ten years of sunlight. They took the housing down three years ago. For three years people have been using x-ray eyes and watching me sleep in a ditch. Homeless. Because the kings daughter and her friends. Def dumb and blind and not even the cops have pity enough to speak up. All day long, these cops , circling around me. Do they not know? Everybody fucking knows. How can every stranger in the village know except 5 cops. 80 thousand villagers know, except 5. Sounds like royalty getting away with another murder.

The belt is a prop that WWF owned, and Brett Hart ascribed some asinine value to. When I quit my job, they aren't going to have to fight me for the laptop they gave me. WWF owned that belt. Brett was going to greener pastures. WCW was happy to let Brett play with their fake belts for a while. As a business, the WWF didn't need their prop being desecrated on a competition's live television show. That belt was not Brett's to keep. The fact that he got caught up in the fake value of that belt is of no concern to WWF. They took their toys back from the petulant child who didn't want to give them up as he was leaving. That's Brett's problem. Shawn deserved none of the heat he received. I would argue that it worked out for him in the long run, but he was the tool that got the job done, that's all.

Shawn might be an ass, but is all Vince’s!!!

Bret wishes he had even half the carrier HBK had. The fact that 20+ years later he is still bitter as ever proves his jealousy

Some good Shit PAL!

It's a shame Shawn spent his prime wasted on alcohol and drugs. That stuff just brings the worst out of people. It should have been the best time of his career and I would have loved to see the 3-match program that was originally intended between Hart and HBK which got scrapped after Shawn lost his smile. Shawn actually screwed himself not wrestling Hart at WM13 because Steve Austin stepped in as THE guy going forward after the double-turn at WM13 and really never looked back.

Shawn the hitman Micheals

Why are all these uploaded again?

Shawn Michaels doesn’t know how to finish a sentence. Literally this whole video is one long answer.

And now it’s commercial and publically traded and is unwatchable crap.

4:48 Why this Hat had to move 4 inches to the left?

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He did what he had to go to get to the top and stay there and hated it.

Is this recent? Did Shawn grow his hair out again?

This topic has been beaten to death lol

The Montreal Screwjob is the most misunderstood thing in the last 30 years in pro wrestling. It was Bret’s fault, he got exactly what he deserved, and Vince had to do it. It never would have happened, and Bret could have lived in peace, if he hadn’t been such a mark for himself. Asking Vince to risk Bret leaving with the belt is simply not reasonable, and that is what Bret asked him to risk. He got what he got because of that childish decision on his part.

The moment he's talking about where broadcasters send them the list & Dx just didn't care 😳 & made fun of it but broadcasters thankfully found it funny instead of taking them down is probably the luckiest moment of both WWE & Shawn's life. I mean when we talk about how bad a joke can go wrong with your bosses & long term repercussions of that is nothing short of life time of self-sabotage. Had it went other way around, people would be mocking him to this day while comparing it to something like Fingerpoke of Doom moment of WWE.

Man he grew his hair back 😂 ponytail and all

I was wondering how recent this was.And then the video started with sean having a ponytail and then you was at least fifteen years old

I skipped this thinking it was old, Michael's looking for a comeback 👀

Sean reminds me of Ed Gein

I love listening to Shawn's stories, but I swear, if you cut out all the filler words like "y'know" and "you know what I'm sayin'," I feel like this nine-and-a-half minute clip would be three minutes long. 😂

Was expecting more outta this Interview.

Shawn Hickenbottom? Isn't his real first name Michael? Did HBK forget his real name?

Is it me or does his eye look way better?!

Shawn botched a crescent kick to a jobber. Doink beat Bret on a house show. Luger had stiffed Brody in the cage, in the humidity of Florida. Tempers flared and THAT’S why Bruiser no sold, and THAT’S why Lawrence Luger ran away. Heenan was supposed to go over Warrior in an upset. A one shot deal, ala Genius/Hogan. The LOD vs The Powers was the classic. Bob Holly was a mark for his drop kick. And Bret was pissed with Hogan before SS93. Hulk promised the title shot, then nixed it at the last push. Yes sir. Yes indeed. Spivey/HHH where known to be stiff. They’d tag jobbers for real if they didn’t sell their offence properly. Vince ribbed Jim with the ‘WHO’ gimmick. Candido stiffed Horowitz when Barry used Chris’s finisher without calling it. Crush’s heel turn WAS best for business, looking back.

People shouldn't be cheering what he did, even if it was entertaining for us.

Again, love hbk again lol

How does he have hair again?

“You know”

Excepting Vince McMahon in his own class my himself, Shawn is in the top 10 of biggest wrestling names still alive that you can have an interview with (Top 10 : Stone Cold, Undertaker, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Triple H, Shawn Michaels, John Cena, Bret Hart, Bob Backlund and The Rock). Special mentions after that : Goldberg, Brock Lesnar, Kane, Edge, Kurt Angle, Mankind, Batista, Randy Orton, Ted Dibiase, Jake The Snake Roberts, Kevin Nash, Jeff Jarrett, Sid Justice, Chris Jericho, Jerry Lawler, Lex Luger, Jimmy Hart, Sergeant Slaughter and Ricky Steamboat are also big names still alives but a little bit lower level to me. After that ...finally ... we will have the other category of stars but less important : Paul Heyman, Eric Bischoff, Bruce Prichard, Big Show, Rick Martel, Demolition, Rougeau Brothers, Steiner Brothers, Marty Jannetty, Jim Duggan, RVD, Arn Anderson, Mike Rotunda, Michael Hayes, Sean Waltman, Bushwhacker Luke, Booker T +++

Stop saying “shoots” it sounds dumb

He died the day he cut his hair.

The HBK Hitman feud will always be tier 2 for me because Bret couldn't work the mic, he was monotone and had no acting ability. He will never be a TOP 5-8 guy for that reason. Austin, Hogan, HHH, HBK, Flair could make you feel like it was real. Bret lacked terribly on the mic.

I like how he finally stopped wearing the hat and trying to hide his eye.

It still "sucks" what Vince, Shawn, and Co did to Bret. With that said, where would wwe be if that didn't happen?