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Okay, here are my final thoughts on the Bret Hart Screw Job thingie for the night…
First and foremost I’m not going to defend Vince in any way. Giving anyone creative control is a gamble, and it didn’t pay off. It made Vince look like an asshole, and on a personal note Vince deserved that punch from Bret Hart.
BUT
Bret should have known that he was there to do a job (I swear to God, no pun intended). He didn’t want to lose the title in front of his “home town.” And this thread has a lot of “Well HBK didn’t want to job!” How many champions WANT to lose the title? At that point in time the WWF Heavyweight Title meant that you were the very best in the industry. It was what every single wrestler wanted to do and wanted to be. It was the title that took legends such as Randy Savage, The Warrior, Hulk Hogan, Andre The Giant, “Nature Boy” Buddy Rogers, The Undertaker, and more from mere legends to immortals, and today it’s still doing it with Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, HHH, hopefully Kurt Angle and Eddie in the future… Name one champion in their right mind that would want to lose that status.
See? Now don’t bitch about how HBK didn’t want to lose the title.
In speaking of HBK not losing the title do to various “injuries” I’ve yet to hear of HBK having creative control yet, so I’m going to assume that Vince didn’t want HBK to lose it fairly, or saw potential for HBK and didn’t want to piss him off… The potential to one day grab the torch, run with it, and help get a group of wrestlers over to start a nation wide craze based on the idea of being anti-authority while telling people to suck it. Don’t blame HBK for not losing the title; he didn’t have creative control.
Vince was an asshole, he did deserve to get knocked out by Bret.
Bret was being too defensive. I’m not going to say, “he wasn’t a team player” because Bret bent over backwards for that company… but I will say his ego got the best of him.
Unless you give me proof I’m going to believe that HBK had nothing to do with the screwjob.
All in all both Bret and Vince were wrong, but Bret should have done the job cleanly, yet Vince messed up when he gave Bret creative control.
and on a side nore SS '92 was a damn good match
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