I have just watched the Bret and Shawn interview DVD and I'm still in shock.
This is the one where Jim Ross sat them both down to talk about their beginnings in the great tag-team era of the late 80s, their subsequent singles careers, their behind-the-scenes rivalries and of course a certain match from Montreal.
Both were very open and pulled no punches about what annoyed them about each other, both acknowledged that 'the office' encouraged it but what was a bit of a shame was quite often when Bret mentioned something nasty Shawn did or said, HBK did the "I don't remember that but it sounds like something I'd have done so I take responsibility for it" thing - not bad for someone who was whacked out on drugs for most of the era.
Both took their own share of responsibility for Montreal, neither admitted their parts were wrong but there was a genuineness in their desire that it should have been avoided - Bret pointed out that at that point he didn't even have to turn up at Survivor Series as he'd far exceeded his contracted number of matches for that year.
But towards the end, Bret gets really emotional when he talks about his stroke, when Vince called him up as soon as he switched his phone on in the hospital, about how he felt relieved to know that Shawn also wanted to make peace, it was awesome and a number of times Bret was fighting back tears.
Fantastic DVD and I recommend it to any WWE fan from that era. I've always been a massive HBK mark and was pretty indifferent to Bret in the 90s but IMO the Hitman came off slightly better in this. It wasn't a rivalry DVD in the way of trying to get more sympathy than the other, it was just honesty. Bret had a lot to get off his chest (Shawn has done numerous interviews over the years admitting his part in Montreal and being a hard person to like back in the day) and you get the impression this was the first time he'd spoken so openly like this.
Incredible stuff, certainly my favourite wrestling documentary after 'The Monday Night Wars'.
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