BY MICHAEL GOODPASTER
“Worst Case Scenario” is a new take on the concept of “fantasy booking”. For years professional wrestling fans would spend endless hours of thinking up the coolest things that could happen. Why waste the energy? This only leads to high expectations. “Worst Case Scenario” flips that. Instead of looking through rose colored glasses, let’s take a bi-weekly look at the worst possible scenarios in professional wrestling. I’m not going to be malicious or anything too mean, but I will not refrain from letting my brain come up with the worst possible shit I can. Sadly, it seems the writers and producers of mainstream TV wrestling and the mainstream iPPV level indies are doing the same thing but charging us for it. And now…
“The Montreal Screw Job Was A Work!”
If you’re reading this and don’t know what the “Montreal Screw Job” is then you need to bookmark this page, go read, watch, and listen to about a hundred hours of backstory. If you love professional wrestling, juice scandals, or Shakespearian-style tragedy then you’ll have no problem with this. Okay, good?
Since 97, there have been tons of shoot interviews, audio interviews, and print interviews. There has been more time devoted to this historic story than pretty much any other wrestling moment I can think of including WWE buying WCW and even the Benoit tragedy. The “Screw Job” is just a really intriguing situation involving a handful of some of the most interesting personas in wrestling. Everyone has theories about this. Based on Bret Hart’s side, he’s the victim. Based on Shawn Michaels’ side, he wasn’t as guilty as people assume. Vince stands by the fact that he had to do what he had to do. The strange part is that it seems everyone involves’ motives and stories change every few years.
The only person that knows EVERYTHING is Vince McMahon. He’ll never go public with it and I don’t blame him. Shawn has his perspective, Bret has his, Earl Hebner has his side, Triple H has one, Chyna, Owen, Bulldog, Bret’s ex-wife, and even the convenient timed and placed documentary film crew has one. Here’s the twist. Who really knew? Let’s get creatively bad!
I’m going to throw this one out there. We’ll say Vince knew because he had to. But what if the “work” was on Shawn Michaels? What if this whole thing was Triple H and Vince working together to get Bret Hart out of there? Triple H obviously knew what was up because as soon as the bell rang he was out there in his horrible pink polo shirt to pull Shawn away. I’m not saying Shawn is innocent. I’m saying that maybe he didn’t know WHAT was going to happen. He just knew something would.
Then we could cross a really bizarre bridge. What if Bret Hart was in on it too? I’ve read others and heard others say this stuff too. Bret was under contract for a lot of money and really, he deserved it. He goes to WCW, a company who can pay him, and leaves the WWF in the biggest scandal ever. Bret gets his money, he gets his dignity, and he gets all of that. But what else? Bret was never a fan of Hogan. For years he was such a die-hard WWF flag bearer. I’m wondering if he left WWF to go to WCW and destroy them from the inside. Maybe Bret provided a little “inside” information for Vince? Maybe Bret went to WCW as a spy!
Then again, maybe THIS was the start of the Triple H/McMahon regime.
We’ll never know…
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