"Cornette’s Crucible: The Montreal Screwjob Exhumed – Wrestling’s Original Sin"

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Step into the smoke-filled war room of wrestling’s most infamous betrayal with Jim Cornette—the industry’s most unflinching historian and the architect of the Montreal Screwjob’s nuclear fallout. This isn’t a sanitized WWE Network recap—it’s a forensic autopsy of the night Vince McMahon sold wrestling’s soul, told by the man who literally wrote the blueprint for Bret Hart’s crucifixion. Cornette, banned from WWE’s Hall of Fame for refusing to sanitize history, drags you into the gutted underbelly of 1997’s Survivor Series, where ego, desperation, and corporate treason collided to birth the Attitude Era… and damn a generation of wrestlers to chaos.Cornette’s confession—meticulously documented in his personal notes and podcast archives—reveals how McMahon weaponized his pitch for a “double-cross finish” inspired by a 1937 wrestling swindle 14. Relive the clandestine meetings where McMahon, Triple H, and Jerry Brisco plotted Hart’s public execution, while Cornette—ostensibly a “creative consultant”—was kept in the dark until the bell rang 1415. Hear how Cornette’s guilt over his role festered for decades, fueling his crusade against WWE’s “carny revisionism” and his icy feud with Vince Russo, who Cornette claims turned wrestling into a “soap opera for idiots”This extended cut unspools the real stakes: McMahon’s terror that Eric Bischoff would mock WWE by flaunting Hart as their “stolen champion” on Nitro—a fear Cornette dismisses as “bullshit theatrics” since Hart’s contract legally barred WCW from using WWE IP. Cornette eviscerates WWE’s narrative that the Screwjob was a “necessary evil,” instead framing it as McMahon’s power play to cement himself as the Mr. McMahon villain—a gimmick that made him billions while Hart’s career flatlined.With never-aired audio of Cornette’s post-Screwjob meltdowns, a frame-by-frame breakdown of Earl Hebner’s panic-stricken bell ring, and Cornette’s takedown of Bruce Prichard’s corporate-approved lies (e.g., Prichard claiming Hart would’ve refused to lose to the Brooklyn Brawler—a story Cornette calls “horse shit”), this podcast is a Molotov cocktail hurled at WWE’s ivory towerWhy isn’t Cornette in the Hall of Fame? Because he’s wrestling’s Socrates—too busy spewing inconvenient truths to lick Vince’s boots. Press play and decide: Was Cornette a co-conspirator… or the only historian brave enough to call the Screwjob what it was—the night wrestling died?