10 reasons the 'Montreal Screwjob' may have been a work

10. The Montreal incident brought greater interest to the wrestling business

In 1989, Vince decided to spill the beans on the wrestling business.

Even though a majority of the fans, even diehard fans, knew that wrestling was staged or choreographed, the wrestling companies still put out an effort to make it seem as real as possible. However, masquerading as a legitimate sports competition had its downside; The federations were often required to make huge payments and even percentages of their ticket sales to the state athletic commission.

In order to stop paying these high fees, Vince McMahon came out an admitted under oath that pro wrestling is 'fake,' and that the wrestlers were trained to avoid injuring each other. While the die-hard wrestling fans didn't mind this declaration, as they'd long suspected or known as much, the casual wrestling fan quickly lost interest.

With the Montreal Screwjob, many of those casual fans were drawn back in. Now they were closely watching for signs of another 'real life' incident playing out on television, and eagerly checking the internet news feeds to learn the 'drama' happening backstage. These days most fans are of this ilk, greedily consuming every rumor and tidbit of backstage knowledge they can glean from the internet wrestling community. And it all happened because the Screwjob was a work, so the theory goes.

Here's the Montreal Screwjob in all its glory, so you can draw your own conclusions;

There you have it; Ten reasons the Montreal Screwjob may have been a work.