Bret Hart reveals he knocked out Vince Mcmahon and would've choked HBK

The Montreal Screwjob continues to be the most controversial moment in WWE History. For those who don’t know, Bret Hart was going to leave the WWE for WCW in 1997 but was still champion. In a conspiracy involving Vince McMahon, opponent Shawn Michaels, and referee Earl Hebner, they took the bell off Hart by calling for the bell despite him not submitting.

In an interview with SI.com, he revealed that he knocked out Vince Mcmahon in the locker-room after the incident.

This is how it happened.

Michaels put Hart in a submission hold, and the Hart was supposed to break his way out. But the actual plan was for Hebner to declare that Hart had submitted. Vince McMahon, at ringside, demanded that the timekeeper "ring the ****ing bell.” Hart said that Hebner was in adifficult position but had he told him, he“would have choked Shawn out in the middle of the ring and front-face locked him and ended the match."“

Hart was greeted by Shawn Michaels later that he was as surprised as every one else.

 

Hart says he didn't believe Michaels. He just wanted to shower and leave. While in the shower, he was told that McMahon was waiting for him. So in the visitor's dressing room of the Bell Centre, Bret Hart squared off against Vince McMahon:

Vince was still there when Hart came out dressed from the shower.

When we walked towards each other, it was a lot like a wrestling match," explained Hart. "On one side of the room was Vince, and he had Sgt. Slaughter, Shane McMahon, and Jerry Brisco with their arms crossed behind him. On my side of the room was Owen, Davey, Rick Rude, and Neidhart all in the corner to my left.[...]"I got a good grip in with my left hand," said Hart.

"I think everyone in the room – including Vince – was expecting me to throw an overhand punch. That would be my one shot, but then a bunch of guys would grab my arm, they'd grab Vince, and then we'd have a little pull-apart like they do in wrestling.

It would end with me yelling at Vince, calling him a bunch of names, and Vince would have left having backed me down. I knew as we grabbed each other that this was not going to be a long scuffle. Everyone in the room was ready to pounce on us. No one in the room wanted to see us fight.Hart's father, the legendary Stu Hart, taught his son an amazing array of submission maneuvers.

But "The Hitman" delivered an uppercut in the defining moment of his wrestling career."It was the most beautiful uppercut punch you could ever imagine," said Hart. "I actually thought it would miss and go right up the side of his head, but I popped him right up like a cork was under his jaw and lifted him right off the hand. I broke my right hand just beneath the knuckle, and knocked Vince out cold."He thought he would come out of that OK, but he didn't plan on an upper cut. They dragged Vince out of the room and it was pretty much done.”