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Originally Posted by Mr. JL
Just some insights from the casual mark fan that I thought would be interesting to share here at TPWW.net 
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I was talking to my friend about the Montréal Screwjob recently (yes, I brought it up
again. Before you all groan, what I have to say about it is relevant to the thread) and I could not believe my ears at what my friend had to say. Before I begin though, I must tell you that my friend has always been a mark, especially where HBK and/or DX are concerned.
He refuses to believe that the Screwjob was a shoot. He says Bret Hart left for WCW because he couldn't handle the fact that HBK won the match fair and square. He also says that, if you watch the match,
YOU CAN CLEARLY HEAR BRET HART SUBMIT!!!! 
Not only that, he said he was pleased that HBK had 'got rid of the Hart Foundation from the WWF'.
When I asked him what he meant he said that the British Bulldog left because HBK had humiliated him by winning the European title from him at One Night Only and that Jim Neidhart left because he was crap and couldn't handle losing to HBK and Triple H all the time (did Neidhart face them at all in 1997??). He was also surprised that Owen Hart came back at IYH: D-Generation-X, and, up until he died, he kept referring to him as the Nugget and said that he hoped DX would 'kick his arse so hard that he wouldn't want to show his face in the WWF again'.
This is the best bit though:
He refused to believe it happened even
AFTER I had shown him Wrestling with Shadows and the WWE Confidential special on the Screwjob!!
If you get him started, my mate will defend HBK and DX like a true mark. And he will always begin by telling the story of how HBK 'single handedly got rid of the Hart Foundation'.