Shawn Michaels SHOOTS On Being Hated In The WWE Locker Room 

Did Shawn Michaels deserve all the heat he got from the Montreal Screwjob? Let us know in the comments below!

That's what I loved about Shawn Michaels' character in 1997. He was hated and arenas booed the hell out of him, and he would just dance to his hilariously arrogant theme song right through the boos without a care in the world. He was not afraid to be himself out there no matter what anyone thought of him.

Bret and Shawn hated each other but they were professional enough to work great together and did promos against each other that came off as real hate. Which it was.

I don't care what anybody says, there is no better wrestling match than a Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels match. We were robbed in 1997 that there weren't any more matches between these two.

There is no doubting his talent. But it was his attitude that rubs many the wrong way. Talented though, very talented, Ric Flair was always extremely high on him. So much so he chose him to have his last really good supposed retirement match in WWE with.

"What is better - to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?"

I was watching at that time. The heat Shawn Michaels had after Montreal was insane.

I love how carefully HBK is selecting his words, and not glorifying his actions and behaviour. A true gentleman whose reflected on his life

Shawn Michaels Raw 2005 Montreal.... possible the best heal promo ever!

I think this sort of thing is why Bret was able to eventually forgive Shawn, or at least move on. It's clear Shawn is pretty uncomfortable talking about that situation, and all of this as a whole. He is fumbling with his words a lot, more than he usually does, and I expect because it's a situation that still is a touch sore, even if it has healed a lot. I think Bret seeing Shawn talk about how he felt the consequences of his choice would help Bret move on a lot. Even if Shawn never regretted doing what he did exactly, Shawn felt consequences and had to live with what he did. Bret probably thought at the time that Shawn did what he wanted and never felt any sort of consequences or baggage from it, and now knowing the pain Shawn was going through and how bittersweet those times after were, really helped Bret overcome some of his bitterness. Toward Shawn at least.

If you hadn't watched the DVD, that is completely Shawn and Bret talking with JR as the moderator. It explains a lot. They cover many things, they feelings come out over several things and there is a lot forgiveness in this 1 hour of talking.

I'm 40 years old. I lost touch with wrestling probably for 15 years now but I absolutely love watching these shoots. Shawn is the best wrestler I think ever. I'm just basing this on his matches. He's got at least 20 five star matches. His 1991 Royal Rumble match vs the Orient Express is one of the best tag team matches ever. They nailed everything. His matches with Bret we're all great, his ladder match vs Razor was incredible, his hell in the cell vs Taker in my opinion is the best wrestling match I ever saw (I know it's objective) the story they told you cant replicate. His Kurt Angle match at WrestleMania was incredible. His match with Jericho also amazing and his WM25 match is considered by alot as the greatest match ever. He's bad matches with Mankind that are absolutely amazing. His matches with Nash and Sid were always great. He's had matches with Owen that are incredible and to someone my age, the superkick to Marty janetty on the barbershop was as good of TV that exists for wrestling. It's him or Bret for me. I know they weren't over as Hogan, Austin, Rock but just their matches. Top notch mate.

I was never a fan of HBK. The character was very good at getting under my skin, the oversell, the Sexy Boy attitude, all of it, never liked Shawn Michaels. But the real guy, like these interviews, I like the real guy, he did his job very well, and seems honest in interviews.

Lets be honest Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels were in the greatest Wrestling angle of all time. It just so happens that they were 2 of the best Wrestlers. People are still debating this shit till this day.

3:30 just like CM Punk said in his interview. Two great wrestling minds thinking alike.

If you just listen to Shawn talk, him and Bret speak very similarly. Bret has that "you know what" twang but still.

Bret vs Shawn was easily my favorite feud. It was like lightning in a bottle. I wish we could've got more matches between the two.

IF Shawn and Undertaker went WCW in 1997 WWE would have gone under

Shawn Michaels was my All time favorite wrestler good, bad, drugged or drunk we were much alike accept hes older then me im 38 but Shawn Michaels was always my number I guy

Bret vs Shawn was the rivalry throughout my childhood and they were 2 of my best wrestlers and had some of the best matches. I'm glad both buried the hatchet.

HBK always put on a show for every match he participated in

Shawn in WCW would've been crazy!

SS '97 is where it ALL began

I can understand HBK. You can you love it . Then you go home. It Suck.

Damn. That was deep.

i blame blaze now for what happened to shawn and brett-for throwing wwe womens title belt into a trash can

The Heartbreak Kid went from -A Young Rocker/Rockstar -Young TeenyBop Heartthrob -The Icon -The Showstopper -The Main Event -Androgynous Stripper -Degenerate "Dancing Bear" -Commissioner -Sober/Christian -HB Shizzle (DX Reunion) -Last Dance -Hall of Famer -DX/B.O.D. Catastrophe -NXT 2.0 -GET IT SEXYY! GET IT SEXYY! HBK STILL don't miss! 😭💯

It’s always amazed me how stupid people are. What screwjob??? Bret was leaving the company for the rival. What was Vince supposed to do? Let him walk out with it? Bret didn’t wanna drop the belt, Vince did what he had to do & so did Shawn. If anything in my eyes Bret is the asshole here if anyone is an asshole

I can relate so much. I have the same chip on my shoulder that he had.

He's filling sunny out like a application in the boiler rooms

Wow they can’t even say Vince anymore

What comes with being the greatest, is being the most hated

What does shoots mean?

Imagine if Shawn hit that breaking point and went to WCW instead of Brett. That would’ve been crazy to even consider let alone happen

Triple H was the top heel during the Ruthless Agression. People forget how fun he was.

When The Hurricane hates you gotta be doing something wrong

Man I totally disliked HBK back in the day.. but man I’ve grown to love and respect him so so much h!!

He did what he had to go to get to the top and stay there and hated it.

I can also see it was hard for The HBK . Bur it was a job. Working for the WWE Can be hard.

Everyone needs to remember shawn was very insecure when he first started so I can definitely see how this could bother him later on in his career

Glad he grew his hair back

When was this filmed?

Bret was the better “pro wrestler” and Shawn was the better “sports entertainer”

It's not that art imitates life/ Art is life/ Everything in life is practiced as the discipline of vocation and you master the art of thriving amidst chaos/ Professional wrestling is unforgettable, evocative theatre of heaven and hell, love and pain, fire and flame/ The general public gets it wrong when they think of professional wrestling as entertainment/ Politics and the absurdist antics of gov't are the crassest entertainment and thus doesn't merit our attention/

Shawn is one of those guys it's fashionable to hate on, but why? Bret let his pride get in the way of business, that's his problem. Shawn also made it quite clear he didn't like Bret at all so it's not like it was even a backstab.

The fans never hated Shawn at least

yall believe it if u want to.. screwjob was obv a work, the best one ever too

Shawn Michaels was a draw. At the end of the day, that’s what matters most.

How much water do you guys drink?

4:48 Why this Hat had to move 4 inches to the left?

Bret > Shawn. Any category.

"I did hear the phrase. (From Shawn) 'It's unsafe for me to work here'" - Jim Cornette

So many water bottles

I feel like the interview guy works the crowd to the point I get taken out of the story sometimes

Was expecting more outta this Interview.

Bret wishes he had even half the carrier HBK had. The fact that 20+ years later he is still bitter as ever proves his jealousy

Some good Shit PAL!

Why are all these uploaded again?

Shawn Michaels doesn’t know how to finish a sentence. Literally this whole video is one long answer.

It's a shame Shawn spent his prime wasted on alcohol and drugs. That stuff just brings the worst out of people. It should have been the best time of his career and I would have loved to see the 3-match program that was originally intended between Hart and HBK which got scrapped after Shawn lost his smile. Shawn actually screwed himself not wrestling Hart at WM13 because Steve Austin stepped in as THE guy going forward after the double-turn at WM13 and really never looked back.

Wish they would mute his voice or do a voice over. Like listening to Miley Cyrus on a good day.

Shawn the hitman Micheals

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This topic has been beaten to death lol

The belt is a prop that WWF owned, and Brett Hart ascribed some asinine value to. When I quit my job, they aren't going to have to fight me for the laptop they gave me. WWF owned that belt. Brett was going to greener pastures. WCW was happy to let Brett play with their fake belts for a while. As a business, the WWF didn't need their prop being desecrated on a competition's live television show. That belt was not Brett's to keep. The fact that he got caught up in the fake value of that belt is of no concern to WWF. They took their toys back from the petulant child who didn't want to give them up as he was leaving. That's Brett's problem. Shawn deserved none of the heat he received. I would argue that it worked out for him in the long run, but he was the tool that got the job done, that's all.

Growing up as a Bret mark and hating Shawn to see him come to Christ while Bret is whining to this day like an entitled teenager about how unfair everything is, HBK became a man and Bret got emotionally stunted about the screw job. It's as bad as Bret crying about WCW not having anything for him when he got to do long programs with Macho Man, Sting, went over on prime Goldberg, elevated Booker T and Benoit. He's just a miserable person.

Is this recent? Did Shawn grow his hair out again?

Man he grew his hair back 😂 ponytail and all

I was wondering how recent this was.And then the video started with sean having a ponytail and then you was at least fifteen years old

The moment he's talking about where broadcasters send them the list & Dx just didn't care 😳 & made fun of it but broadcasters thankfully found it funny instead of taking them down is probably the luckiest moment of both WWE & Shawn's life. I mean when we talk about how bad a joke can go wrong with your bosses & long term repercussions of that is nothing short of life time of self-sabotage. Had it went other way around, people would be mocking him to this day while comparing it to something like Fingerpoke of Doom moment of WWE.

Sean reminds me of Ed Gein

Is it me or does his eye look way better?!

Is anybody really ever liked? All the backstabbing I'm constantly seeing. I'm disliked by an entire village. Because I'm a chambermaid to a billionaires Homicidal daughter. Toothless and homel until she's pleased. This town has taken all the affordable homes off the market . I needed one. Everybody poisons me when ever I try to eat. I'm a chamber maid. Everybody's just another eye and ear for the kings daughter and she's always looking for a reason to spoon feed me more human shit while I'm unconscious. Village guards, apple stand owners, monks and priest.. all just trying to keep a job by watching me and reporting it. It's a crazy world around here. Deprived ten years of sunlight. They took the housing down three years ago. For three years people have been using x-ray eyes and watching me sleep in a ditch. Homeless. Because the kings daughter and her friends. Def dumb and blind and not even the cops have pity enough to speak up. All day long, these cops , circling around me. Do they not know? Everybody fucking knows. How can every stranger in the village know except 5 cops. 80 thousand villagers know, except 5. Sounds like royalty getting away with another murder.

The Montreal Screwjob is the most misunderstood thing in the last 30 years in pro wrestling. It was Bret’s fault, he got exactly what he deserved, and Vince had to do it. It never would have happened, and Bret could have lived in peace, if he hadn’t been such a mark for himself. Asking Vince to risk Bret leaving with the belt is simply not reasonable, and that is what Bret asked him to risk. He got what he got because of that childish decision on his part.

People shouldn't be cheering what he did, even if it was entertaining for us.

He died the day he cut his hair.

I skipped this thinking it was old, Michael's looking for a comeback 👀

It still "sucks" what Vince, Shawn, and Co did to Bret. With that said, where would wwe be if that didn't happen?

Why are you guys reuploading old videos? Im out

Shawn botched a crescent kick to a jobber. Doink beat Bret on a house show. Luger had stiffed Brody in the cage, in the humidity of Florida. Tempers flared and THAT’S why Bruiser no sold, and THAT’S why Lawrence Luger ran away. Heenan was supposed to go over Warrior in an upset. A one shot deal, ala Genius/Hogan. The LOD vs The Powers was the classic. Bob Holly was a mark for his drop kick. And Bret was pissed with Hogan before SS93. Hulk promised the title shot, then nixed it at the last push. Yes sir. Yes indeed. Spivey/HHH where known to be stiff. They’d tag jobbers for real if they didn’t sell their offence properly. Vince ribbed Jim with the ‘WHO’ gimmick. Candido stiffed Horowitz when Barry used Chris’s finisher without calling it. Crush’s heel turn WAS best for business, looking back.

How does he have hair again?

I love listening to Shawn's stories, but I swear, if you cut out all the filler words like "y'know" and "you know what I'm sayin'," I feel like this nine-and-a-half minute clip would be three minutes long. 😂

I like how he finally stopped wearing the hat and trying to hide his eye.

“You know”

I'd love to interview Shawn just to be able to tell me my 2 faves of all time are Bret Hart & Marty Jannetty 😊

Shawn Hickenbottom? Isn't his real first name Michael? Did HBK forget his real name?

When was this filmed? HBK doesn’t have this much hair now, does he?

Again, love hbk again lol

Shawn can't help Bret is a whiny bitter baby. Bret Fart didn't win those belts, the wwf owned that belt and when the boss says drop HIS title, u drop it, especially when u r going to wcw to make even more money. Bret has a hitman pool table, thousands of pictures of himself in gimmick all over his hitman styled home to this day, dudes unbelievable and a mark to the core. Bitter baby Bret even has the belts in zipper suitcases and presents them nowadays "I won this belt" lol. Out of touch. Once 1996 hit, Bret fart was yesterdays news. Promos were boring and whatever company he was with would lose the battle, no coincidence. Don't get me started on Brets family photo he had made with his ex wife and kids making them all wear the hitman gimmick for a family photo😂😂

Excepting Vince McMahon in his own class my himself, Shawn is in the top 10 of biggest wrestling names still alive that you can have an interview with (Top 10 : Stone Cold, Undertaker, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Triple H, Shawn Michaels, John Cena, Bret Hart, Bob Backlund and The Rock). Special mentions after that : Goldberg, Brock Lesnar, Kane, Edge, Kurt Angle, Mankind, Batista, Randy Orton, Ted Dibiase, Jake The Snake Roberts, Kevin Nash, Jeff Jarrett, Sid Justice, Chris Jericho, Jerry Lawler, Lex Luger, Jimmy Hart, Sergeant Slaughter and Ricky Steamboat are also big names still alives but a little bit lower level to me. After that ...finally ... we will have the other category of stars but less important : Paul Heyman, Eric Bischoff, Bruce Prichard, Big Show, Rick Martel, Demolition, Rougeau Brothers, Steiner Brothers, Marty Jannetty, Jim Duggan, RVD, Arn Anderson, Mike Rotunda, Michael Hayes, Sean Waltman, Bushwhacker Luke, Booker T +++

Everyone was pretty shitty back then, but Shawn did something that was agents the business and so disrespectful to a wrestler. Everything is all good now so.

Hbk trying to play the victim here doesn't really work with me. He was never single or alone for a minute. Between sunny and everyone else he had plenty of company not to mention being part of the most influential click in wrestling history. Not to mention that he was Vince's boy and could do no wrong and had a ton of support. And given the fact that he was the lowest drawing champion of all time at that time It's wild to think what he had to do to get there. I'm sure between all the drugs and the fact that he was tied in with Pat Patterson and who knows what else he had to do to stay on top that we haven't found out yet we will learn in due time. But HBK doesn't deserve to be on anybody's Mount Rushmore. The people who have him there don't know a lot about the inside part of the business. He nearly destroyed everything and the ramifications of his mark on the business are still being felt today. AEW is basically a very HBK friendly place if you know what I mean.

Stop saying “shoots” it sounds dumb

The HBK Hitman feud will always be tier 2 for me because Bret couldn't work the mic, he was monotone and had no acting ability. He will never be a TOP 5-8 guy for that reason. Austin, Hogan, HHH, HBK, Flair could make you feel like it was real. Bret lacked terribly on the mic.

And again...

I love HBK, the character, in all its forms. With that being said, Shawn always fed his ego FIRST. Bret on the other hand always put the business/wrestling first. Take that information how you wish. I love the Montreal Screw Job and all the historical events that stemmed from it. I just wish a technical master like Brett had never wrestled the low skilled strongman Goldberg. Brett should have ended his career in WWE.

Shawn's a sociopath for sure and could very well be a a psychopath. Their ought to be a documentary made on how much of a prick he was from '92 to '99.

I'm a millionaire and I made it back home safely from doing what I love, this sucks. Shawn Michaels

I lived through it…Shawn is full of shit (as usual). DX never spiked a rating especially when Shawn was there. Austin carried the WWF on his back to the promise land, DX was just along for the ride.

While Bret was there everything to everyone seemed very uptight, it sounds like there was a lot of backstage separation and the guys were always on their feet waiting for fights to happen. But when he left they seemed like more friends with less tension in the air. So, i would say it's probably better he left. Could you imagine him staying for "choppy choppy pee pee" and Mae young giving birth to a hand ?! i cannot see him saying in recent interviews "yeah, i had a great time back then with Val, Kaientai, & choppy choppy pee pee, Mae, and Mark henry's hand baby!"