5 most shocking WWE Title changes

#2 Montreal Screwjob

Bret Hart didn’t tap out, but he still lost at Survivor Series in 1997.

Everyone who’s followed pro wrestling in the last 20 years or so knows what the Montreal Screwjob was all about. Bret Hart, the WWF champion, was headed to WCW, and Vince McMahon wanted to make sure he dropped the title on the way out.

The way this went down was absolutely shocking though.

Hart thought the original plan of the match ending in a disqualification was still intact, but McMahon ordered referee Earl Hebner to ring the bell with Michaels applying Hart’s own finisher, the Sharpshooter.

Hart never actually tapped, but lost anyway, and the ensuing melee is as infamous as the match finish itself.