Bret Hart and Vince McMahon will forever be tied thanks to the Montreal Screwjob at WWE Survivor Series 1997 when McMahon called for the bell on an unsuspecting Hart during his WWE Title match against Shawn Michaels.
Bret left WWE for WCW at the time, but eventually patched things up with McMahon to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006.
Many thought there would never be a time when Vince was not in charge of WWE, but he resigned as chairman in January 2024 after a lawsuit was filed by former employee Janel Grant accusing McMahon of sex trafficking and sexual assault.
"No," Bret told Ariel Helwani on The Ariel Helwani Show when asked if he thought there would ever be a time when Vince wasn't running WWE. "I feel that, as great as he was as far as ideas and imagination...in a lot of ways there is nobody like him. At the same time, I feel that he kind of governed things in a shady way. He didn't care necessarily about the craft. I always thought about what he did to me. I like to think that I was his greatest artist and in the end I was just another [wipes hands] 'get rid of him. He's done.' As much greatness as Vince brought to wrestling, he always brought a lot of negative and corrupted thinking to it. It's kind of hard to explain, but there is a little more integrity right now and the guys being pushed are being pushed because they're talented and not because they are Vince's favorites."
Bret previously stated that knocking out Vince after Survivor Series 1997 was the greatest punch he ever threw.
Bret's match with Steve Austin at WrestleMania 13 is set to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2025 as an Immortal Moment.
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