The Undertaker reveals how the infamous 'Montreal Screwjob' went down | WWE

So one night where your name always comes up, of course, it's the stimulus work and you kind of play the cut somewhere between the peacekeepers, you know, some kind of audience broke out and the enforcer, can you explain a little how do you remember that thing developed? for you, so you know a lot of Breton, I know we still are, we're pretty close and you know Bret's radar was on like he sensed something might drop so he was working like he kept asking. Earl Hefner and I were like, hey, do you hear something, is something going on? and you know every time I asked him what it was, no, I don't think he found out until late, he was really late to what was going to happen, but yeah, so.

I'm just, you know, keeping my, you know, my ears and my radar were up, like okay, what's going to happen here if something's going to happen and then it was getting close to game time and this is the In a Where I let my guard down, someone said to me: Hey, wouldn't you go watch Vince's game in his office? So I thought, "Okay, you know, okay," so I

went

back and sat in Vince's office watching, you know, watching the game then everything fell apart, all hell breaks loose, you know, and I ended up working my way to the Brett's locker room and you know, I can't believe this happened and I finally

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, I left there and I went to find Vince, so I wish Vince had to address this to Brett, so I left there and I was going to the Vince's office.

Vince was already on his way, you know, he was already on his way to come talk to Brett about it, of course, you know everything. The kids are, you know, in an uproar and what I did was like, "Okay, this is bad enough, since a lot of you don't care, it doesn't matter, you have to stay out of here." so there's a lot of people that I didn't let in the dressing room, so I think Brett if he had met Owen and Davey Boy, it seems like there was someone else who was a gymnast, gymnast, a better gym mat again.

I could have been in the gym and then Brett. and then Sean was there and then Vince came in with Shane and Jerry Brisco Pat Patterson and Bruce Prichard, so they all put Vince on one side and Bret on the other side and I took Shawn to the other end of the locker room and sat down. Next to Shawn, I knew at some point he was going to step in and that wasn't going to help anything, so we sent him there and you know they're going back and forth. Vince is trying to explain his and Bret's position, you know? giving his opinion on what he thought about Vince and what he did and basically said I'm going to come in here, I'm going to shower, I'm going to get dressed, if you're still here I'm going to knock you out as some kind of deal and that's basically they talked he se showered you got dressed they got up and you know then they said I'm going to give you one and to this day I can't understand how that blow went through so many people it was like really I No, I don't know because there were so many people there and they weren't there face to face, but in that blow he managed to pass and hit Vince.

Vince fell and that was it, so Bret Bret says it was an uppercut. What did you see? Was it a right cross? Was it the jab? It was a right hand for sure. I don't know if it was a hook or more of a right type like a looping overhand. true, but I know that it's fair in the temple to hit someone of good reputation and, he was that type of person that Vince McMahon is that if he feels that in this circumstance the only thing that is going to happen is that he has to take the shot that is.

I just got taken get up and keep moving because he knows that's what the locker room needs so I think you know Vince didn't want to do that who wants to have quality yeah in the face to do business that way ? right, Vince, his eyes couldn't let breathe, he couldn't let Brett walk away with the belt and then end up on WCW TV the next day with the WWF belt, that's how you know it and from what I understand, Bret wasn't . I'm going to drop the belt - Shawn, do you think you could have helped if the events had recruited you to try to help with Bret, do you think there is any way you could help.

I definitely could have done it and that was the next day, so he was really angry. I got it, man. He made me angry that he had gotten to that point and as if I didn't know it, I didn't show up the next day until very late because I didn't know if I was going to watch TV the next day. Mick didn't go and It was late in the day before I decided no I gotta go I gotta go I gotta go I gotta go figure out what the hell do you know what happened here and why I did this this way my point It was that you should have said it, which you already know. you should have traded me, you should have put me, you know, you should have put me in the game somehow with Brett.

I'm sure Brett would have dropped it on me, right? You could have beaten it, you could have dropped it on Shaun later. You know, right after that, there was a way to do it, there was a job, there was a different way to do it, but you know this had to be made sure and he had to let you know that he had to cover his bases, I guess. in his mind and you know, but that's the point, I think the whole locker room leader was really starting to emerge, you know, because I had to solidify it.

The guys knew how upset I was because one of us got screwed. but then the office could see the sense that you are trying to do what is best for the business and that's how it was for me, it was like you know I will defend you if you need to defend yourself, but it all ends at the end of the day, it's all about business and That's where I fell, you know, he was one of the few people that I guess fell into that groove where they trusted me, you know, yeah, I was one of the guys, but The Office trusted me just like you know, I was sitting on it. new in your meetings.

I wasn't, but the wrestling question: where did you get the inspiration to come up with so many signature moves that aren't finishes? Do you know if? it's Snake Eyes chokeslam old last trip old school there was someone who inspired you to do that and also where did I get lost where did this happen where had the name the school controlled the school it's funny I mean it came from Tommy Dreamer or of all people Victoria I really am and I'm not sure which of them it was, but what of them? You know, he screamed one day at the old school and he stayed and you know, especially when he was American Badass, you know?

I deal old school, you know, and this got stuck. Like, I can't take credit for that, if someone said it, I think in passing, and it was something that you could always do and that you knew. It was a good trick of yours that you were so big but you could walk on the upper path so when I entered when I entered Texas when I entered Texas I had the opportunity to work with the original spoiler and that was his move. about six by 65 about 275 and I knew when he did it to me. I said as soon as this guy retires, you know he was late in his career.

I said that's mine, yeah, so you know I saw him do it and I thought about it. You know, there was a time where I walked the top rope and walked down the tightrope and then dropped an elbow, but that's probably one of the reasons my hips got so bad. I remember when I was in WCW, Jodi Hamilton, you know? We do three or four squash matches on a TV taping and I remember coming back one day and Jodi Hamilton was sitting in front of the monitor and he looked over her glasses and said, "You're taking years off your career there." . child I was like no lord sir.

Hamilton, I'll be able to do this forever, no, when I started with WWE I was already limping, you know, it was from dropping that flying elbow off the top rope, what does that leg drop on the apron feel like? Another one that you do that always looks brutal is brutal to me, yeah it's not, I mean it depends on who it is, I know it should be good for them, but put it in the ring you want to fall into, that's the most difficult part of the Ring and yes. It looks cool, but man, it's hard and it gets harder, like when you do it all the time, you kind of condition yourself to it, yeah, you do it once or twice a year, it's like yeah, but is there anyone else who did that?

I mean, listen, there's some urine, everyone has their settings, right? You know, you know, Randy, of course, has that DDT in the second row. You know people have one or two things, but you really have a lot of signature moves, was it that, was it a plan or these are it. just things that happened over years and years, yeah, I mean, 30 years, come on, yeah, I mean, you have a truck, that's where a lot of guys go wrong now in the way they work, they have those two or three moves and they do it. them every week, right, and then no, they don't have anything else they can think of and they just keep relying on those same moves, like old school, for example, you know, after, I mean, after so many.

After years of watching it, I would use it as a cutting point like I would start, get up on that second rope and let whoever it was, know, still a couple of body shots there and they would get me out of there. and then hopefully, you know, sometimes depending on the crowd, God comes back to it and pays for it later or maybe they didn't get it that night, you know, but I had to let you know that I had to give options, There were certain moments where I would reach the top rope and let his arm drag me off the top rope, but he would use those signature moves to set up, you know, places that they weren't expecting, but I mean, that's after what you have to consider.

A lot of TV time I've had if you don't continue we add to the repertoire then you know you're going to get pretty stale pretty quickly thanks for watching ESPN on YouTube to stream live sports and premium content subscribe to ESPN Plus