Today marks the 25th Anniversary of the Montreal Screwjob

[fg]

Where were you when this incident happened?

I was watching the SSeries 1997 PPV. I didn’t have Internet access at the time and so I assumed that everything I watched was a part of the show. And when I heard that Bret got screwed, I assumed it was all for the show. It wasn’t until 1999 that I first heard the news that it was real and the following years, that is when I started to get a full understanding.

[koreycaskets]

God I'm getting old

Was 20 at a friend's apartment, a bunch of us watching it on one of those 90s "magic boxes".

We all thought it wasn't real at that moment anyways. "Oh Bret will be back on RAW tomorrow cutting a promo about being screwed". Uhh nope!

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Just following online. Didn’t see the event until whenever the VHS came out.

[chronocross]

I didn't see the PPV but the night after on Nitro when they mentioned the nWo signed Bret Hart I was intrigued and thought there was no way WCW could botch this lay up.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Had already happened by the time I became a fan

When I went back and watched it the main thing that surprised me was how damn good the match was until the ending

[Ozman]

Had took a break from watching wrestling during that time. The first time I heard about the Montreal Screwjob was about a year and a half later, when one of my buddies had a wrestling segment on his sports talk radio show (the pre podcast era). He and his co-host talked about it, and I started researching it myself.

[héad.casé]

I remember watching half of the PPV before going to bed cos I had school the next day. I walked to school with my friends and they were telling me all about it. That Bret gave up to the Sharpshooter and smiled. That Bret was going to be joining DX. It sounded crazy. So I watched the rest of the PPV when I got home, and none of that happened at all 😂.

But I do remember being very confused and didn’t fully understand what happened. Bret was my guy through my teens. Even watching “Wrestling With Shadows” a couple of years later I didn’t understand why Vince didn’t want Bret around anymore. I mean, I know Vince said he couldn’t afford him, but Bret was a guy you go out of your way to keep around.

[Triangle Lancer]

Was at a Army base, but in a bar watching football, because the guy that was setting it up at his barracks never told us where he lived.
And he didn't even show.