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Wrestling with shadows is the bret hart story which has the screwjob media in it. Theres really not that much to it. Vince wanted hart to leave as wwe was in the shit for money and hart was getting a guaranteed paycheque which was supposodly costing vince more than he would like. The womens champion medusa had left months earlier and appeared on wcw with the wwe womens belt and dropped it into a bin live on air.

Vince was afraid bret would do the same thing so he wanted bret to drop the title in montreal against michaels, those 2 never liked each other though so bret refused and said he didn't want to lose the title in canada but he would drop it the next night on raw in america. His wcw contract was already in effect though so vince was still shitting himself that his belt would show up on nitro and be seen geting dumped into a bin. He basically agreed with hart that the match would end in a no contest with interference from backstage getting involved. Michaels and the referee however were in on it though and had a little ploy worked out with vince.

When michaels locked bret in the sharpshooter what hart was told would happen was he would reverse it and then some other wrestlers would interfere causing the no contest decision. But when hart went to reach back to reverse the hold the referee called for the bell as if hart had submitted to the hold, michaels gets the belt, vince gets spat on and hart goes on a mini rampage smashing up cameras and monitors and laying out vince backstage.

Thats really al there was to it, hart had "reasonable creative control" written into his contract, vince layed out a few options but they more or less all resulted in hart dropping the belt in canada which he didn't want to do, especially against michaels.