Old WWF/WCW fans?

Question

I was reading something on "The Hit Man" Bret Hart, and from what I understood, he really dose not like Shawn Micheals.. What went down between them two if anyone knows? Thanks

Answer 1

The only person here that has even gotten close to the real answer is Steven S. Their rivalry started WAY before The Montreal Screwjob. The following is an article taken from http://prowrestling.about.com/od/thebiggestrivalries/a/shawnvsbret.htm

Shawn vs Bret
Intro
Unlike most of the feuds covered in this section, this feud was very personal. In addition to great matches, it also had backstage fights, in ring shooting insults, and the most controversial match ever.
Hart Foundation vs Rockers
These two men first faced each other as tag team opponents. In November 1990, The Hart Foundation lost the tag team titles to The Rockers in a match taped for Saturday Night’s Main Event. Jim Neidhart had been fired by the WWF and was contractually obligated to lose the titles. During the match the top rope broke. The Rockers defended the belt for a week before Jim Neidhart was rehired. The match was never aired and The Rockers title reign was never mentioned on TV. The excuse the WWF used for the lack of title switch was that the top rope broke and made for an unfair working condition.

The Kliq
When The Rockers first entered the WWF, they were fired after a few days. Shawn felt they were set up to look bad outside the ring. When Shawn became a singles wrestler, he started friendships with the new superstars of the era. They became known as the Kliq. The members of this backstage group were Shawn, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Sean Waltman, and Triple H. This group was notorious for hurting other careers and not losing matches. When Kevin and Scott left for WCW, Shawn became WWF Champ. The best example of the hatred for this group was when Scott Hall entered ECW in 2000. He was thrown out of the locker room by the wrestlers because many of them blamed The Kliq for ruining their WWF careers many years earlier.

WrestleMania 12
Even though they had fought in the past, WrestleMania 12 is where the issues between the men became personal. This match was a 60 minute Iron Man Match. Bret had just won the title a few months earlier and spent the months prior to the match traveling and wrestling. Shawn was given several months off to train for this match. In videos promoting the match, Shawn looked like Rocky about to gain glory yet Bret was shown being beaten up by his elderly father. Shawn won the match and Bret took some time off.

WCW Calls and I Lost My Smile
When Bret was gone, WCW offered him a major deal. Bret was loyal to the WWF and signed a 20 year deal to stay with the company. It has long been rumored that Shawn was scheduled to lose the title to Bret at WrestleMania 13. A few months before the match, Shawn vacated the title in the infamous lost my smile speech. He claims a doctor told him that his knee injury would be career ending. It is worth noting that Shawn lost all the three major titles by vacating them and not doing the job in the ring.

The Feud is Personal
Shawn returned from his career ending injury a few months later. Inside the ring, both men were making very bad comments about each other even though they never fought each other. Bret made several comments questioning Shawn’s sexual preference because he appeared in Playgirl. Shawn made a comment about Bret having Sunny Days. This was in reference to a possible relationship between Bret and Sunny. Shortly after that comment, Bret and Shawn had a major fight in the locker room.

The Montreal Screwjob
The two men fought at Survivor Series 97. Bret was the champ and this was going to be his last match before leaving for WCW. Shortly before this match, Vince informed Bret he would no longer honor the 20 year contract. He used the excuse that he could no longer afford him because they were losing the Monday Night Wars to WCW. Others have said that since the company was going public, Vince needed to get long term liabilities (ex: a 20 year contract) off his balance sheet. Bret had worked out a deal with Vince where he would not lose the title to Shawn that night. He offered to lose the belt to anyone else, but he refused to lose to Shawn in his home country of Canada. The match ended with Vince McMahon calling for the bell even though Bret was in the process of reversing the sharpshooter. After the match, Shawn ran to the back with the title. On TV Bret spit on Vince, broke the TV equipment, wrote out WCW with his fingers to the audience. Backstage he gave Vince McMahon a black eye.

The Aftermath
Shawn would suffer an injury at the next PPV that would keep him out of wrestling for 5 years. Bret’s career would end in early 2000 due to 3 concussions he received from a kick from Goldberg. A year earlier, his brother Owen died in a tragic accident during a WWF PPV. Vince would use the Montreal incident to become the hated Mr. McMahon character. His feud with Steve Austin turned the tide in the battle with WCW. He would go on to become a billionaire when the WWF went public and in 2001 he bought WCW from AOL-Time Warner.

What really happened in Montreal?
Through the years many things have come out about that night. Dave Meltzer wrote the best article on the subject when it happened. A year later, the movie Wrestling with Shadows was released. This movie featured a camera crew following Bret around during 1997. They had backstage access to some of the events. At the time, Shawn said he didn’t know what was going to happen. In 2002, Shawn revealed he knew beforehand. In his 2005 autobiography, Shawn admits that the screwjob ending was Triple H’s idea. In what should not be considered a coincidence, Shawn’s autobiography came out a few weeks after Bret’s DVD release. The working title of Bret Hart’s DVD was Screwed: The Bret Hart story. The title and focus of the DVD changed when Bret decided to work with the WWE on the DVD set. Even though it has been eight years since they last met, the war of words between the two men still continues.

Answer 2

The reason Bret hates HBK is because almost ten years ago at Survivor Series 97 HBK helped Vince Micman screw Bret out of the then WWF championship and cost the Hit Man his career in the old WWF. Bret was never herd from again until the Hall or Fame earlier this year. It goes to show that gruges last a lifetime.

Answer 3

The short version of the story is that while Bret was WWF champ, he Signed a contract to leave WWF for WCW. On his last pay per view he was supposed to lay down for shawn michales and lose the title... but the event was in Canada so Vince told Bret he could win and vacate the title... but when HBK put Bret in the Sharpshooter Vince ran up to the ring and had the ref ring the bell and say that Bret submitted.... Supposedly Shawn didn't know anything about it.... but Bret thinks that Shawn was in on it...

Answer 4

The infamous "Montreal Screwjob" which have went down Survivor Series 1997. Vince feared that Bret was going to show up on WCW"s Monday Nitro With The WWF Title and Discard it
in the trash it was thought that Bret's Contract was about to expire the next day.(That's all I know about it)

Answer 5

bret hart got screwed out of the wwf title by vince mcmahon by letting shawn michaels win the title. bret hart had the match won and had shawn michaels in the sharpshooter and the bell rang automatically and bret hart was stripped from the title. a damn shame and therefore he went to wcw.

Answer 6

He is still pissed from the Montreal Scewjob. All of the other parties have attempted to make peace and move on, but Brett continues to hate HBK. It was so bad that at the WWE Hall of Fame Induction Hart demanded that HBK not be there or he (Brett) would walk out, so during Brett's induction, HBK and his wife left.
The funny part is that Brett had no problem making up with Vince, so he could get some money from his Hitman dvd

Answer 7

Even before Montreal, Bret never liked Shawn, because he thought his fame exceeded his talent and his devotion to wrestling. He was jealous, pure and simple. That's why he refused to Do The Right Thing at Survivor Series, which forced McMahon to screw him over.

Answer 8

He was screwed out the WWF Champion title... Shawn and Vince cheated to screw him.... Sorry thats all know... I also know that Shawn is hated by Canadians even today because of the incident....

Answer 9

when they had that Iron Man Match in 96 or 97 Vince McMahon screwed Bret so he said and he still thins to this day that Shawn had something to do with it also...which he didn't

Answer 10

shawn michaels admitted in a telivision interview that he knew ahead of time what was gonna happen. shawn was put between a rock and a hard place. he WAS in on the screw job. i guess bret just couldn't swallow that. he spit a d*mn big lugie in vince's face. i'll never forget that---vince with lugie drippin down his face!