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Bret: First of all, first of all, I want to apologize .... I'd like to apologize to all my fans over in Germany, I'd like to apologize to all of my great fans over in Great Britain. Actually, I'd like to apologize to all my fans all over in Europe, all over in Japan, the Far East. I'd like to apologize to my fans in the Middle East, down in South Africa. I'd especially like to apologize to all my great fans in Canada.
And to you, my fans right across here in the United States of America, to you, I apologize for nothing. You know, it seems really strange to me that no matter how much I try that I when I beat Stone Cold Steve Austin to a bloody pulp. You know I find myself no matter how much I win, when I walk back to my dressing room the way you American fans treat me across the United States of America, I feel like I lost.
You take a gutless creep like Stone Cold Steve Austin, and beat him to a bloody pulp even though he knows, and you all know, that he lost. You cheer him on the way back to the dressing room like he won. It didn't just start right here.
Let's go back to WrestleMania last year, when I was the WWF champion. When the bell rang the belt was around my waist was where it belonged. You cheered on a pretty boy like Shawn Michaels and you allowed him to screw me out of the WWF championship belt. I find myself sitting at home, watching the WWF on TV in Canada, saying to myself, the WWF needs a hero. They need a role model, somebody they can look up to. Not somebody that's got earrings all over himself and tattoos, not somebody who poses for girlie magazines. And I don't think it was a girlie magazine, I think it was a gay magazine.
(AUSTIN chants)
I found this calling from myself to comeback and set the record straight, and clean up the World Wrestling Federation. So I came back in the Survivor Series, and I beat Stone Cold Steve Austin there, and I think I garnered a little respect. Then I found myself stepping in the ring with Psycho Sid, and your hero, your pride and joy Shawn Michaels cost me the World Wrestling Federation Championship belt.
Nobody cared, nobody did anything about it. You people didn't do anything about it.
They say, "Oh don't worry about that, you can get in line with 29 other guys and you can go in the Royal Rumble. Being the man that I am, I got no problem fighting 29 other guys, so I went in the Royal Rumble, and I won. I was the lat legal man standing in the Royal Rumble. But again, everybody just turns their back on it. You somehow justify in your minds, that Stone Cold Steve Austin won. Still a better man would have quit. Maybe I should have quit, gone home.
Vince: You did, Bret. That is what you threatened.
Bret: You got Gorilla Monsoon & Vince McMahon on their hands begging me to come back. "Don't quit. Think of your fans." Yeah I thought of my fans, and I came back. They come up with this idea for the Final Four. The winner of the Final Four will get a World Wrestling Federation title shot at WrestleMania 13. That sounds good to me. I accept. I come back.
Then all of a sudden. Your hero, Shawn Michaels, comes up with this life-ending, career-ending knee injury. And he forfeits the title so he can go home and find his smile. That's KO. You people think that is just fine. I see everybody crying in the audience for that. Talk about me crying. So I go into the Final Four, with the outcome now being whoever wins the Final Four will be the WWF Champion. And who won the Final Four? I did. Right in the middle of the ring in 1 night I defeated 3 other guys, I defeated Vader, I defeated Stone Cold Steve Austin and I defeated the Undertaker, and I became the World Wrestling Federation for the 4th time.
Lawler: You know he is telling the truth McMahon.
Bret: Then they come to me, and they go "Well, wait a minute. You don't get to rest. Even though you fought three other guys, even though you are beat up and sore, you got to in and fight 6-9 Psycho Sid and defend the title." You think I ran and hid? You think you went and found me forfeiting any titles? NO! I put the title on the line, and I took Psycho Sid and tied him in a big knot in the middle of the ring. There he was, in the Sharpshooter. After being booed all way through the match, by my American wrestling fans. You somehow justify, only in America you can do this, Stone Cold Steve Austin climbs right up in the ring and whacks me over the back of the head with a chair. Somehow, you justify that. That's OK. That's acceptable in America.
So I ask, or as you say it, I cried to Gorilla Monsoon, I ask and I beg and I plead, and I say "Give me Stone Cold Steve Austin. Give me a match with this guy that seems to be making my life a miserable hell. So I get Stone Cold Steve Austin, and they agree to a match, a submission match. And they go, we got some better news for you. We will give you Sid, in a 15 foot high steel cage match, and nobody will be able to interfere in that. And you'll have your shot at the WWF championship belt, cause we respect you.
Well, in that match, outside interference played a big factor again. And somehow, for some reason, the Undertaker is out there, and he finds himself slamming my head in the door and costing me the WWF championship belt for a 5th time.
So I got one thing one my mind. After being screwed over by everyone in the WWF, after being abandoned by all you good fans right here in the United States of America. I decide that I am going into the submission with Stone Cold Steve Austin, and give him what he deserves. Just a good old fashioned a$$-whipping. And so when I do it, when I actually take that lousy stinking hyena Stone Cold Steve Austin and beat him to a bloody pulp, you somehow find it in your hearts to abandon me and cheer for him.
Vince: The poison is spewing from Bret Hart.
Bret: I've proven myself so many times here in the WWF. I've tried to be everything you wanted me to be. But it seems to me, that you don't understand, you don't understand what it meant to have dignity, to have poise to bring prestige to the WWF. To be a man that brings a little class. Cause you'd rather cheer for heroes like Charles Manson, and O.J. Simpson.
Nobody glorifies criminal conduct like the Americans do. All the countries that I go to around the world, they still respect what is right and what's wrong. Respect. Now that we've made everything really clear with ourselves here tonight. It is obvious to me, that all you American wrestling fans coast to coast. You don't respect me.
Well, the fact is, I don't respect you. You don't deserve it. Well, from here on in, the American wrestling fans, from coast to coast, can kiss my a$$.
(Michaels comes out)
Shawn: Yo! Hitman! Let's get one thing perfectly straight. You can come out here, and say whatever you like about me. Everyone does. You don't have to explain to me, or the WWF that you will never give up the title because nobody knows better than me or the WWF, that it takes a handwritten note from the Lord Almighty to get that belt from you.
But, Bret. What you don't understand is I come out her and I choose to live my life openly and freely, instead of putting on a facade like you, does not make you a better man, Bret. I am well aware of my faults. I can admit them up and down the line.
As far as Steve Austin is concerned, I was there last night. He didn't give up. Now I am no fan of Steve Austin's. But he passed out, and even you have to admit, somewhere in there, there is some of the old Hitman left, even you've to admit that he is one tough SOB.
Now, Bret. I have tried and tried to take the high road. I am in no shape to wrestle. I know. you are tougher than me, bla bla bla bla bla bla bla. I admit that. That's fine. I don't have to be number one, Bret. I don't obsess like you do. I do this because I like it. You do it, because, in your mind, mark man, you really think all of this is yours.
What you need to understand, is that every time they reach into their pockets and pay to watch you, me, or anybody else, they have to cheer and boo anybody they want.
Now. Hey. You don't have to tell me. They are cheering me now, but they booed me before. You didn't see me get all bent out of shape about it. You know why, Bret? It's because In this country, we have something that is called the first Amendment. And that amendment allows us to live our lives, as we see fit, as long as it is causing harm to no-one.
If that guy there, wants to stick a belly button piercing through his navel, he can do it whether you like it or not. If that girl over there chooses to go out with someone you don't approve of, tough titty said the kitty, she's gonna do it.
Now I don't want to be on my high and mighty roller coaster here Bret. But you my friend, have got to look at this. I am in no shape to go, but if you want to go. What the hell, let's go now.
You know something, we have a saying in the United States of America. It's called "America: Love it or LEAVE IT!".
Bret: Shawn Michaels, boy toy, I think you should go back to the dressing room, and get the hell out of my face.
(Shawn steps closer)
Shawn: You know me Bret, I'm not real good with authority. By the way. How did you know I was in that girlie magazine? You couldn't help. You couldn't help yourself, could ya? You had to flip through the pages just a little bit.
Shawn walks away and then Bret attacks. He gives Shawn the Figure 4 around the post. Sid comes out, and Bret walks out.