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Michaels, who was backstage, appeared on the screen and responded with the following: “Bret, i know, you couldn’t last10 minutes in 'any' situation, if you know what I mean. Even though lately you have had some ‘Sunny days’, my friend, you still can’t get the job done.”
Hart, in later interviews, said he the inference didn’t sink in at the time. But it did cause problems. Hart, who was married and with children, said he was later asked about whether he was having a real-life affair with Sytch.
Hart and Michaels, a few weeks later, had a real-life backstage fight over the promo.
“‘Sunny days’ personalized the feud,” Altman said. “They worked themselves into a shoot, they got involved in a storyline and it got too real. It explodes in Montreal and Bret leaves to WCW.”
He added, “Out of that, you get the next week on Raw and McMahon pulling back the curtain and talking about Bret Hart. It’s the beginning of the character that would feud with ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin that would save the company.”
