Live from Montreal, Quebec, CanadaAttendance 20,593Your commentators are Jim Ross & Jerry LawlerThe Headbangers & The New Blackjacks Vs The New Age Outlaws & The GodwinnsOrder of EliminationHenry Godwinn (By Bradshaw with a roll-up)Barry Windham by Phineas Godwinn (Clothesline)Mosh by Billy Gunn (Something like a reverse flapjack)Phineas Godwinn by Thrasher (Stage Dive off the top)Bradshaw by Road Dog (Roll-up)Thrasher by Billy Gunn (Leg drop off the top)Sole Survivors: The New Age OutlawsI think even a two-year old could realize that the Outlaws would be survivors. The Headbangers were fun, but everyone else was languishing. This match isn't as bad as it could have been, but it's really below average for an opener.*3/4 out of 5The Truth Commission Vs The Disciples of ApocalypseChainz by The Interrogator (Sidewalk slam)The Jackal (Sidewalk Slam)Recon (Running clothesline)One of the twins (Bulldog)One of the twin (Sidewalk Slam)Sniper by Crush (Tilt-A-Whirl slam)Crush by The Interrogator (Sidewalk Slam)Sole Survivor: The Interrogator This was pretty bad. I've never seen so many sidewalk slams get three counts before. I didn't care about anybody in this match. The crowds may have digged D.O.A, but they don't hold up well. Kurgan (The Interrogator) was just another big man Vince fawned over before the experiment failed.* out of 5Team USA (Vader, Goldust, Marc Mero & Steve Blackman) Vs Team Canada (The British Bulldog, Jim Neidhart, Doug Furnas & Phil Lafon)Steve Blackman (Countout)Jim Neidhart by Vader (Big splash)Phil Lafon by Vader (Big splash)Marc Mero by Doug Furnas (roll-up)Goldust (countout)Doug Furnas by Vader (Big Splash)Vader by the British Bulldog (Bulldog nails Vader with the ring bell)Sole Survivor: The British BulldogThis match was kinda dull at times, but it did have enough moments to make it watchable for the most part. The anti-American crowd was fun to listen to as well. Overall, it was about average.** out of 5Mankind Vs Kane (W/PaulBearer)Kane wins with the tombstone. This was actually a decent brawl. Foley put over Kane in a huge way by bumping like a madman. Some of the bumps Foley took were sickening. It wasn't all one-sided either. Mankind got in some legitimate big-time offense to keep this match competitive. Overall, it did what it set out to do. Make Kane look like a monster. **1/2 out of 5The Nation of Domination (Farooq, Rocky Maivia, Kama Mustafa & D'Lo Brown) Vs The Legion of Doom, Ken Shamrock & Ahmed JohnsonOrder of EliminationHawk by Rocky Maivia (Rock Bottom)Farooq by Ahmed Johnson (Pearl River Plunge)Ahmed Johnson by Rocky Maivia (Farooq held Ahmed's legs so Rocky could pin him)Kama Mustafa by Animal (Roll-up)Animal by CountoutD'Lo Brown by Ken Shamrock (Ankle Lock)Rocky Maivia by Ken Shamrock (Ankle Lock)Sole survivor: Ken ShamrockThis was a fun match. It moved quickly and had a lot of action. You could tell The Rock was a burgeoning star as a heel and he looked like a star in this match. There were also other developments, such as the budding feud between The New Age Outlaws and LOD. Giving Shamrock the win here was smart. My only complaint is the never-ending feud between Ahmed and Farooq. It was really good at one point, but it was starting to get stale at this juncture.*** out of 5Intercontinental ChampionshipOwen Hart (C) Vs 'Stone Cold' Steve AustinAustin gets a loud mixed reaction. More cheers than boos, though. Austin certainly has his fans here. Owen Hart gets a big pop, of course. The fans completely turn on Austin after his entrance. Small "Break his neck" chants and cheers for a piledriver attempt from Owen. I'm Canadian...and we should have more class than that. Austin wins the title with a stunner. Austin stuns almost the entire Hart Foundation afterwards. The fans go nuts for that. Canadians are weird. Just being honest. This wasn't a very good match. WWE was being very cautious with Austin and rightfully so. Not too many big bumps at all. Can't really blame them for making the match short. *1/2 out of 5WWF ChampionshipBret Hart (C) Vs Shawn MichaelsMichaels completely desecrated the Canadian flag. Bret gets a huge ovation. If you don't know the result, I don't know where you've been, but I'll give it to you anyway. Michaels had the Sharpshooter on Bret. Bret didn't submit, but Vince demanded they ring the bell. It's known as the "Montreal Screwjob" Bret was leaving for WCW and Vince was paranoid Bret was taking the WWF title with him. Unbeknownst to Bret, Vince and Shawn planned the screwjob. A dismayed Bret, spit on Vince at ringside. There is much more, but you can read the rest online. The match is pretty good, but nowhere near what they were capable of. It's very disjointed due to all the circumstances. It's memorable, that's for sure.***1/2 out of 5This event is a must see, simply for all the controversy. As a whole, it's not bad, but the main reason to see this is the main event. 7/10

I'm not going to blow things out of proportion here. Bret Hart's infamous screwjob loss is not the first time a person has gone into a match expecting one result and had the owner, referees, wrestlers conspire to produce another. It's not even the first time it had happened in the WWE. It's certainly not the first time a wrestler had shown sour grapes toward their former promotion. Ric Flair bringing the WCW Championship belt onto the WWE television and Austin's angry rant at WCW politics on his arrival in ECW are about on the same level. But this was the night that I sat there as a 16 year old and was given, for the first time, an inkling that there was a bit more going on here than choreographed fighting between friends, It was for me the night wrestling lost its previous innocence.The night kicked off with a traditional four on four Survivor Series match, with the New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn) teaming with the Godwinns (Henry and Phineas) to defeat The Headbangers (mosh and Thrasher) and the New Blackjacks (Barry Windham and Bradshaw). This was quite an average match with Bradshaw getting the ball rolling, pinning Henry Godwinn. Phineas Godwinn struck back for his team, taking out Windham following a clothesline. Next it was Mosh taken out by the Bad Ass Billy Gunn following. Thrasher then hit a stagedive on Phineas to square the match again. The New Age Outlaws then combined to take care of Bradshaw and then beat down on Mosh a few times to settle the match with the New Age Outlaws surviving.The next match, which I can't really tell you much about the lead up to saw The Truth Commission (The Jackyl, The Interrogator, Sniper and Recon) defeat the WWE's #4 stable the Disciples of the Apocalypse (Chainz, Skull, 8-Ball and Crush) with the INterrogator the sole survivor. This was a short, not very good, match and the less said about it the better.Next match saw the Survivor Series match done properly with Team Canada (THe British Bulldog, Doug Furnas, Phil Lafon and Jim Neidhart) defeating Team USA (Vader, Marc Mero, Goldust and Steve Blackman)> THe match eventually came down to Furnas and Bulldog vs Vader. Vader was bale to hit the Vader bomb on Furnas for the pin, but was then jumped from behind and hit with the ring bell by the Bulldog who got the pin to be the sole survivor.It was then time for Kane, who had debuted at the Badd Blood PPV where he cost the Undertaker the No.1 contendership in his Hell in a Cell match with Shawn Michaels, to have his first singles match on PPV taking on Mankind. This is not a great match, and Kane wins with the Tombstone. The Kane character still moved a little awkwardly at this stage. Guess it's not easy getting around in a rubber mask.Next match, another four on four Survivor Series match was easily the best SS match of the night. It saw Ahmed Johnson enlist the help of the Road Warriors (Hawk and Animal) and Ken Shamrock to take on the evil Nation of Doimination (Farooq, The Rock, Kama Mustafa and D Lo Brown) The match comes down to an exhausted Shamrock taking on D Lo Brown and the Rock, but Shamrock survives, forcing first Brown, and then the Rock to tap out to his devastating ankle lock as JR screamed "Shamrock has survived!" in the background.It was then time for rising star Steve Austin to win the Intercontinental Championship from Owen Hart. Austin had defeated Hart at the Summerslam PPV, but had broken his neck in the fight. Owen then won back the title in a tournament so he could lose it to Austin here. This was a bad short match.This finally brings us to the infamous main event which saw Shawn Michaels put Bret Hart in the sharpshooter to win the WWE Title in an average match. The problem was that Bret Hart was not aware that he would be losing the title. He then blew up, spitting in Vince McMahon's face, breaking TV monitors and writing "WCW" with his finger as the show went off air. The incident has sparked various conspiracy theories and opinions that I'm not going to bother getting into here. The main immediate consequence was the establishment of Vince McMahon as a boss who likes to screw his employees, something that Vince would milk for all it was worth over the next decade.Just imagine the shock for me, a 16 year old watching what was going on at home. Something off had just happened and wrestling would never be quite same again.

Survivor Series 1997 let me get right to the point,the Main event of the Pay Per View the other matches were OK but i was only really interested in Bret's match so that's all I'm going to summarise Main Event the best there is the best there was and the best there ever will be, Bret "Hitman" Hart vs HBK Shawn Michaels the match starts before the bell rings Hart and Michaels fight up and down the aisle before being coaxed into the ring to start the match for real. I'm not going to spoil the ending of the match except to say that what happened was absolutely ridiculous and Vincent Kennedy McMahon should be ashamed of himself! I strongly suggest you get this pay per view on video or DVD and watch it for yourselves.

Probably the greatest PPV for argument of all time.Of course this event is not only remembered for the infamous 'montreal screw-over, it signifies the return of a then injured Stone Cold Steve Austin to the ring to regain intercontinental championship from Owen Hart, and other great matches Vince McMahon lined up.This is also in my opinion remembered for careful viewers, to see it is the first tme Vince McMahon left the commentators seat to be announced officially as the owner of the company. Well we all know why now don't we....This is the final display of the Hart Foundation (despite the death of Brian Pillman a month before), as they united to see Bret down the ring, but yet failed to notice why Vince was hanging around ringside, until the infamous screw over, seeing Bret spit in Vince's face, and watching what seemed to be a bewildered Shawn Michaels escorted out the stadium by a blatantly guilty Gerald Brisco.Most definitely worth the watch.