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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
It culminated with the Sunny Days promo, which Bret says almost wrecked his marriage (Now to be fair, Bret has admitted to cheating on his wife multiple times, just not with Sunny). This lead to a backstage confrontation where Bret basically beat the sh%t out of Shawn and pulled out a chunk of his hair and lead to Shawn storming out of the company.
Shawn drew a line in the sand with Bret and the other talent when he came back and basically said he wasn't going to lose especially to Bret.
At the same time, Bret has said that he didn't really like the attitude era wrestling. Though to be honest, his heel work at the end of his WWE contract was his best work period end of story.
Bret was willing to drop the title to anyone but Michael's because of the war between them. He was also willing to show up the next night on Raw and give up the title, even though his contract expired after the PPV. Vince having seen Medusa dumping the WWE Woman's title int he trash and badly losing the Monday Night Wars was terrified of Bret showing up on Nitro with the WWE title belt. Even though Bret I don't think was the type to do something like that. Up until the Screwjob he and Vince still had a good relationship.
Bret was willing to drop the belt to anyone, he was also willing to hand over the belt, so I don't think it was ever about Bret being difficult to deal with. He just refused to drop the belt to Shawn because he felt that Shawn had treated him with a complete lack of respect.
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Yeah I read Bret's autobiography and the Sunny days promo seems like a minor detail in the ending of his marriage. That would be some misplaced anger but maybe beside the point.
I also never found it very odd when Vince is on TV the next day doing an interview, black eye and all. He sure didn't seem to be shying away from what happened, almost like he was playing it up...
And Bret's offer to hand over the belt. How could he possibly think that would be OK? Leave without being beaten? WCW would most certainly play that up.
If it went exactly as Bret said it did, he certainly comes across as a primadonna. Wanting to pick the next champion, or not lose to the guy the promotion wants to hold the belt. While you are on your way out to a gigantic payday. Vince essentially had no choice.
Personally I think its much cooler to believe this is the arrangement they cooked up.