>>15859773>Why was he wanting out of the WWF so bad?Bret never wanted to leave in the first place. He knew WCW would book him horribly and he wanted to be a loyal company man to the WWF and retire there. The only reason this all transpired is because Vince wanted to go public and didn't wanna honor Bret's longterm contract anymore and then told him to go sign with WCW while he still was champion.
>Because they wanted him to lose the title in Montreal?Another misconstrued lie. Bret initially wanted to drop the belt to Shawn, but then Shawn had to be Shawn and punk Bret in front of the locker room, so Bret took it personally and refused to put Shawn over. Bret was also willing to drop the belt in Montreal to anyone else - Taker, Mankind, Shamrock, Vader - but Vince was adamant that he'd drop it to Shawn. And like said beforehand, Bret didn't want to drop it to Shawn.
>Why was he such a retarded self mark?What's wrong with being a self-mark? In fact, most top guys are self-marks. Flair was a self-mark, Hogan was a self-mark, Shawn was a self-mark, Austin was a self-mark, Haitch was a self-mark. Sometimes you got to know to respect your gimmick and character.
This entire feud between Bret and Shawn was just 2 self-marks working themselves into a shoot.
What Bret did isn't unique and I don't fault him. Every chance where he wants to play ball, Vince or Shawn fuck him over. Vince trying to finess him in the initial contract negotiations, Shawn faking his injury to not drop the belt, Vince reneging the contract and Shawn punking him in front of the boys.
Bret had every right to say "fuck em" and selfmark.
