All these years later Bret Hart has no guilt and no remorse over punching Vince McMahon over the infamous Montreal ScrewJob.
Speaking to the The Attitude Era podcast, Hart remains proud of how he handled the situation.
“I was never a hothead. I wasn’t a guy who acted out and just punched everybody that he wanted to. I was a guy that if you were in my shoes that day, Vince was calling my bluff, he was going to confront me and he wanted me to back down and take the high road. It was a gamble that he made and then he thought he was going to try and get into a little altercation with me and he wanted it to be like a pull-apart and everybody pulls us apart and then he can act like he stood his ground against me. In those fleeting seconds of having to think about this like ‘I can’t believe Vince McMahon is going to confront me.’ I didn’t charge him or anything, we actually walked up to each other and locked up like a wrestling match and then I knocked him out with one punch and it was the greatest punch I ever threw. It was an absolutely beautiful uppercut right between his arms, I lifted him about a foot off the ground, broke my hand but it was the sweetest punch I ever threw and I wouldn’t change anything about it and Vince McMahon can rot in hell.”
Looking back though Hart wishes he had been more generous in doling out haymakers that day.
“If you were in my shoes after everything that I did for them for them to do what they did to me? I always hear this crap, I think Undertaker said it a few days ago, that they had to do what they were going to do because there were no other options or something. B——t! I had another six weeks left on my contract. There was a million things that could have been done. It was a case of liars and cheaters and backstabbers and guys that made that moment all happen. Shawn (Michaels), Triple H, Vince McMahon. I wish I’d knocked them all out! I have no regrets. It was the single greatest thing I ever did,” Hart said.
Hart also revealed that Jimmy Snuka came up to him three years after and said he wanted to shake the hand of the man who knocked out Vince McMahon because he lied to and screwed over so many people.
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