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Due to its status, it's no surprise that the Montreal Screwjob was subjected to parody or reconstruction. Behold!


  • At ECW November to Remember 97, November 30th, a mere three weeks after the event, Al Snow cut this promo:
    "I didn't screw the Head. THE HEAD SCREWED THE HEAD!"
  • The main event of WCW's Starrcade 1997, one month later - Sting was pinned by WCW World Heavyweight Champion "Hollywood" Hogan via a "fast" three-count, but before the bell could be rung, Hart (a special referee during an earlier match) stopped the timekeeper from ringing it, knocked out the ref, and tossed Hogan back into the ring, where he eventually tapped to the Scorpion Deathlock (which coincidentally is Sting's version of the Sharpshooter) while Bret acted as the ref (this was made worse by the fact that the "fast" three-count wasn't really "fast", and it's long rumored that Hogan called for the screwy finish so as not to lose clean to Sting).
  • The Rock vs. Mankind at Survivor Series 1998 was the original Screwjob copycat in WWE, with Rock playing Michaels, Mankind playing Hart and McMahon betraying Mankind.
  • The Screwjob became a running gag on parody wrestling news site ScoopThis, as "Shootin' Vince McMahon" was said to call for screwy finishes at wildly inappropriate times; one such article had a submission victory due to a "devastating pre-match handshake", at McMahon's behest.
  • On the May 28, 2001 edition of Raw is War held in Calgary, Alberta (Hart's hometown), "Stone Cold" Steve Austin (the then-WWF Champion) put Chris Benoit (a long-time friend of the Hart family) in the Crippler Crossface, and McMahon ordered the bell rung. As if recreating the Screwjob in Hart's hometown wasn't bad enough, Hart's father Stu was sitting at ringside.
  • During the first World Wrestling All-Stars show on October 26, 2001, Bret Hart, serving as the WWA Commissioner, refused to ring the bell with the referee down and one of the combatants locked in a Sharpshooter. In a subversion, however, the screwiness was Bret refusing to ring the bell, as both Road Dogg and Jeff Jarrett, who were competing, tapped with the referee down, and Bret not only refused to count either of them, but tried to walk out with the belt himself.
  • Backlash 2004 played with the Screwjob by having Michaels put fellow Hart's fellow Canadian (and then-WWE World Heavyweight Champion) Chris Benoit in the Sharpshooter, then having Earl Hebner rush down to the ring to call the submission (the first ref had been knocked out). This time, Hebner plays the referee job straight, and Benoit never taps; in fact, he later wins by making Michaels tap out to the Sharpshooter, WWE offering up a symbolic apology for the Screwjob.
  • In the commercial for Royal Rumble 2006, the McMahon family were the Caesar family, rulers of Ancient Rome; in an arena, the crowd was shouting "YOU SCREWED BRETICUS!", which prompted Vince McMahon (as Vince Caesar) to shout, "SHUT UP!"
  • Hebner made his TNA debut at Against All Odds 2006, and was about to call for the bell when Jeff Jarrett had Christian Cage in the Sharpshooter, but Cage stopped him and went on to win the match.
  • Shane McMahon defeated Michaels on the March 18, 2006 Saturday Night's Main Event when he put an unconscious Michaels in the Sharpshooter, and Vince ordered the bell to be rung, and Shane to be announced as winner by submission.
  • Breaking Point (held in 2009 oh so coincidentally in Montreal)note  had CM Punk lock The Undertaker in the Anaconda Vice. Despite Undertaker not only not tapping out to it but actually escaping the hold, Theodore Long rang the bell and declared Punk the winner by submission. This match was actually a double screwjob. A few minutes earlier, Undertaker made Punk tap out with Hell's Gate, but Long declared that it didn't count and ordered the match to continue.
  • The January 21, 2010 edition of TNA Impact featured a damn-near recreation of the Screwjob; this time, however, the screwjob was in favor of the TNA World Heavyweight Champion (AJ Styles) rather than the challenger (Kurt Angle).
  • One of the endings of Botchamania #166, released on April 2011, has audio clips of the announcer from NFL Blitz set to photos of wrestlers and the horrible angles they were involved in, one of which is the Montreal Screwjob.
    • At #204 in March 2012, in "Sing Along With Ex-Drew Gulak Fans", the CZW crowd really gives it to Drew with plenty of Shout-Out chants, one of which is "You screwed Bret".
  • The July 17, 2011 match between CM Punk vs. John Cena was eerily similar till Cena, who locked Punk in a STF, knocks out John Laurinaitis, who was gonna ring the bell! Cena then tells McMahon that this match is his match and that he finishes it his way, comes back to the ring and gets hit with a GTS by Punk! CM Punk wins the WWE Championship belt with the stipulation that he leaves WWE and Cena gets fired if he loses.
  • On the July 18, 2011 edition of Raw, Cena outright calls McMahon out on trying to recreate this incident and on what it had done to Michaels' career as part of "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
  • Daniel Bryan locked The Big Show in the Yes Lock on the May 11, 2012 edition of SmackDown and John Laurinaitis immediately rang the bell and declared Bryan the winner by submission.
  • In 2013, seconds after Daniel Bryan won the championship from John Cena at SummerSlam 2013, special guest referee Triple H attacked Bryan with a Pedigree, and Randy Orton cashed in his Money in the Bank contract against Bryan, winning the WWE Championship. Bryan would be branded a "B-list wrestler" struggling to regain the championship as Orton joined forces with The Shield, and after regaining the belt at Night of Champions (2013), he was stripped of the belt a night later when referee Scott Armstrong was accused of making a fast count and conspiring with Bryan, and the feud with Orton would continue into 2014 at WrestleMania, defeating Triple H to qualify for a triple threat match against Randy Orton and Batista, later forfeiting the championship after sustaining injuries at the hands of Kane.
  • On Payback 2016, Charlotte puts Natayla in the Sharpshooter and the referee immediately calls for the bell. Bonus point for Bret Hart being there for his niece that night.

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