The Untelevised Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels vs Sid 1997 Match
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When WWF Monday Night Raw went to the Toronto Skydome on February 3rd 1997 the company recorded a match featuring Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels and Sycho Sid. The match was intended for fans in the arena and it wasn't going to get televised. Years later, WWE released "Attitude Era: Unreleased" on DVD and for the first time ever the match was made available for fans to view.
What's interesting about Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels vs Sycho Sid in Toronto is the fact that this is the very first Triple Threat WWF match that was professionally recorded. Also, fans were eager to see Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels once again in 1997 with their rivalry heating up again ever since Bret's return in late 1996.
This video looks at the WWE Unreleased series, Raw in the Toronto Skydome, and an in-depth look at the dark match itself.
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Hart vs Michaels vs SId in a DARK MATCH in 1997?? That is quite something! I'd totally be up for more of this content!
There are so many great dark matches that were never recorded. I’m glad this one was. There is another one from 9/22/97 in MSG, Bret vs HBK vs Undertaker.
Sid spoke about this match several years back in a shoot expressing his distain for Bret Hart. Essentially Sid claimed Hart was not a team player and to get through these matches he and HBK had to design a plan to work around Bret rather than with him. I call BS on that because I don’t see Hart as the type to sabotage a match, but there you have it.
All the wrestlers say Bret was always for himself and not caring about the other talent..it's his fans don't wanna believe he was as big if not bigger douchebag then Shawn was
@@edsmash82which wrestlers? Sean Waltman credits Bret for making him. So does Austin. Undertaker has nothing but great things to say about him. Even Nash says Bret gave him his best matches.
I love that these were recorded. It's wild looking back at some of these untelevised matches.
Some untelevised matches were probably absolute gold but we'll never know. In house shows and dark matches the superstars can get away with so much and can do things they couldn't on TV, and have a little fun or experiment. Shame that they'll be forever unknown.
Say what you want about Sid, but he was a low key important contributor to the Attitude era and really underrated. He was the first true antihero to win the title and was mega over.
yup! and he did without feuding with the owner for years to get himself over. he was just psycho lol. just think about if he stayed in wrestling companies longer
i usually save these new videos for the end of the day when i smoke, but something tells me i should watch this Now.
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Oooooh! This is quite a find! This is the kind of match someone would do in a wrestling video game or something.
Very recently, there was a snippet from Kurt Angle's podcast talking about how he had a dark match with Owen Hart (not recorded IIRC). Imagine how amazing that match must have been. Really looking forward to seeing more of these.
Yeah, theres an image of that match floating around the internet (pro photo by WWE). Would love to see that match!
Kurt has said that the match wasn't too good.
@@arciks11 Maybe due to being way before his TV debut and overall career, which I can get how/why. But even then, with hindsight and innate talent still makes it something to see regardless IMO.
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It's crazy how influential some wrestlers quotes are, like Bret referring Shawn as a degenerate months before the DX debut or like how Smackdown was from one of Rock's one liners that later named the show. Good stuff.
It probably wasn't where the inital name ideas came from but still cool how it sorta connects.
WHOA... never knew this existed. I know what I'm doing for the next ~half hour.
Thanks as always, WrestlingBios
also, wtf@ 3:53 lol
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Would love to see more analysis of these unreleased match ups. What a great avenue to explore! Thank you much for all your effort on this channel. Been watching for years now and it only gets better and better. 👍
97 was such an underrated yet action packed year
I remember this match being featured in an article in WWE Magazine. Highlighting the concept of the, then completely unknown, "Triple Threat" match. I remember being confused, but intrigued by the concept.
ECW 3way dance wasnt familiar to you back then?
@@aceassn716 this was the time period where WWF was copying everything ECW was doing lol
That Sid choke slam on HBK was massive!
You ever seen the Shawn vs Bret vs Undertaker Dark Match on Raw? There’s a clip of the ending of the match where Bret pins Shawn
I was at this show my mother won tickets on the radio and this match was amazing to see live!
I think you should make a quick summary mini series of every dark/unreleased/house match you find interesting or somewhat important or vital that's like a 10 minute wrap up alongside the War series, or do one big video of every match all together.
This is awesome, I'll have to try and track down the match. I'd love to see the triple threat match from 22.09.1997 featuring Bret, Shawn and Undertaker get a release. I've seen clips from it but not the whole thing.
That could've been a great PPV match. A huge missed opportunity by WWF
Ikr this could’ve been a nice match for Royal rumble 1997 or the in your house final four
@@dantecarroll2435 or Wrestlemania
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@@lexkanyima2195 but everything worked out for the best we wouldn’t have had the legendary submission match between Bret Hart and stone cold Steve Austin at wrestlemania 13
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I like how Shawn and Bret are some of the most talented performers in wrestling history, who both had their sense of identity tied up in wrestling, and Sid was just a big dude who liked softball and used wrestling to pay the bills, and yet he somehow hung around the main event scene with the other two for a long time because Vince just can't help himself with bodybuilder types.
The mashups alone with the music are goated. I'd been trying to find this match in full for years. My cousin was in attendance that night and it's one of the few things he can brag to me about to this day and I can't say a damn thing 🤣. The DVD release helped, finally saw it
Sweet! Starting the year at full throttle, thank you very much Wrestling Bios
I was just watching a clip of this match, and Wrestling Bios already has a video about it. Top Notch!
My dude that would be an awesome new series!
Unreleased matches are intriguing as hell, I'd tune in for that if you did it.
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You can tell that Shawn absolutely loves antagonizing his coworkers. He’s like the original troll. But not in a fun way.
A lot of these matches are post RAW matches. For example, I went to the 4/13/98 RAW. This was the RAW where Stone Cold was supposed to take on Vince but Dude Love comes out and interrupts then attacks Austin as the show goes off the air. After the actual show an 8 man tag match with Stone Cold, Undertaker, and LOD 2000 vs Kane, HHH, and the NAO. Match lasted about 3 minutes with Stone Cold getting the pin on Road Dogg.
Triple threat or fatal four matches were not common in WWF so this would have been very exciting at the time.
Remember the final four ppv with Austin, Bret Hart, Undertaker and Vader...and then Sid confronted bret at the end. I had that on VHS and watched it many times.
I was there that night in the Skydome. It was cool being apart of WWE history.
Great content as always. Only started watching Wrestling B.I.O.S in 2022 but you have a fan in me for life now. Keep up the great work
It's cool seeing these unreleased matches. By all means, if you want to cover more, it's welcome. Keep up the good work
I was there! This event was a big deal locally at the time and the undercard was taped for the first 2 hour Raw. The setup was the Toronto Raptors layout as they were playing at the Skydome at the time. WWF was banned from the Maple Leaf Gardens as they had a falling out with the Tunneys, and were holding bigger supercard/house shows at the Skydome and Exhibition Stadium until the Air Canada Centre (now Scotiabank arena) opened.
That's awesome Anton. Thanks for sharing the info!
A few other little notes:
Petro stations in Ontario were giving away posters of Bret, Shawn, Sid and Sunny to promote the event. WWF hadn't done anything big tv or ppv wise since Mania 6, so this event seemed like a "supercard" of sorts.
On Canadian channels, WWF commentary was edited to talk about this card during Raw, Superstars etc.
The Raw broadcast and video of this match came across as much dimmer and quiter then the actual live event. In person, it was very load and as brightly lit as usual tv. Must have been the cameras?
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@Wrestling Bios oh no! One more comment....I'm sorry!! The spot that was edited that you mentioned was a botched suplex out of the ring spot between Shawn and Bret where they got tangled up and fumbled a bit...
@@AntonPasquarella I always wondered about this...as far as the lighting, it looked so off, and was one of the oddest aws from that standpoint. Funny enough, when they went back in 1999 that was not an issue. Guess the problem was fixed by that time. This would be a good question for Bruce Pritchard actually as to why the lighting was that way here. Thanks for posting how it was live.
I was there too. Really awkward Skydome setup though with the wrestlers having to walk halfway through the stadium to get to the ring entrance curtain. You could actually see the wrestlers walking to the curtain and then walking back dejected if they lost lol. I wish I had of gotten big into wrestling a few years earlier because some of those 1994 Maple Leaf Garden shows looked amazing, would have loved to see Bull Nakano and stuff.
I never knew about this match, thank you for making a video on it. I absolutely love this channel.
Great stuff and thanks for bringing stuff like to life for wrestling fans all over the world.
Bret Hart was definitely supposed to go over Shawn at Mania 13. Everyone knows it. But Bret always does his best work when he feels wronged. Look at that 93 King of the Ring.
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I was at this show! Thank you for posting this.
Couldn't possibly thank you enough, Wrestling Bios.
As is the case with all of your presentations, this was great. Keep them coming!
Oh man that clip from Bret and Shawns ladder match. I remember watching that match OVER and over and OVER. Loved it!
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I love the idea of you doing more videos of "unreleased matches" Keep up the great wrestling content
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I saw this live! I did the HBK fistpump from Good Friends Better Enemies when he won. Lotta Bret partisans in the house!
Happy New Year this video is awesome and very interesting I didn't even know about this I might get these DVD'S since I'm a massive DVD collector.
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I cant wait for you to go over the other matches, i find un aired matches interesting
These videos are so good.
Definitely looking forward to this being something of a series, seeing the match like this made it better than just watching it by myself with no context.
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Bret vs Shawn vs Sid, what a great idea for a triple threat match.
I was there! This is so great to finally see again :D
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For a House Show this match looked to be PPV ready Awesome Vid s Always
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I just seen highlights of this match ironically three days ago before wrestling bios posted this video on a Facebook wrestling page. From what I saw it was a good match and had a pretty cool finish how this wasn't on a ppv that year is a shock beyond me.
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Thanks for the video wrestling bios. There was a triple threat match between bret hart vs undertaker vs shawn micheal. I think it was prior to montreal screw job. So please make a video on that as well.
I was there live! It was my second wrestling event and little did I know it would be taped for Monday Night RAW.
I was there too, I'm not sure if i knew it was going to be a Raw either, probably not. Just curious was the earlier show you went to in 94 or 95 at the maple leaf gardens?
Love the Bret Hart intro music 🎶 💞🖤
Sweet upload. Thanks for sharing
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Watched this match last year on TH-cam last year and it is a bit of a gem tbf. The way Shawn winds up Bret at the beginning you cab really tell the tension was building up
From posters I have seen it did look like Bret v HBK was definitely on the card for WM13 but think SCSA was always a backup because of Shawn's history of refusing to drop the belt/ drug use spiralling, even in this match he looks unwell
Great review though and another reminder of what could have been really which is really tragic
Happy New Year WB
as a HUGE Piper fan, I would absolutely LOVE if you covered both his DVDs. I remember being into wrestling for only a year when he did he Piper's pit with Cena, and it was the only time in my life ever where I legit shook from a wrestling promo. He became my favorite heel and my favorite promo of all time ever since :D.
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I never was a huge Bret fan but I can see how his and Shawn's style would have complimented each other greatly in a normal singles match. They could tell the story of how Shawn wants to go aerial and keep the pace fast and Bret forcing him to slow down with holds and traps. And eventually Shawn hits a super kick out of nowhere for the win or Bret catches his leg and turns it into a sharp shooter.
Pretty much described the Iron Man Match they had ha.
16:07 This chokeslam was sick. If you cant perform it like this than you shouldn't have it in your arsenal.
Outstanding. Sounds like a great new series!
Nothing like a kick ass mix of the Hitman's theme to wake me up from all of the new years chinlocks it feels I've been taking
Man this is soo cool,. I stopped watching wrestling years ago then all of a sudden i had an urge and i found this gem thanks so much
I was there with my dad and grandad when I was 10. A fond memory.
A hell of way to start the new year!
We want more! We want more!
This is the type of content that made me love this channel, I really wish you did more of this and less of the reliving the war series, which I don't watch, and the game series, which I don't watch, never heard of 99% of them, anyway thanks for this video
Sid has a reputation for being inept and dangerous in the ring but the way he powerbombed Bret and also Shawn at SURVIVOR SERIES 96 proves that he's not as cumbersome as he's painted 👊💪
sid is the man he main evented WrestleMania with undertaker and hulk hogan and the only man next to stone cold to beat hbk for the wwf title
I was there as a kid. Never knew it was a raw tapping though. It felt like any regular House show in a big city (I've been to small town shows as well... I think Adam bomb headlined one of the smaller shows. Also bushwhackers vs. well done lol
Never forget, "It's Kick or be Kickin' " whenever Psycho Sid is on the Show.
i was there at this Raw, i got the tickets for christmas that year when i was 11. i was a huge wrestling fan that year and the year before. I had a subscription to wwf magazine that whole year of 1997. i was counting the days for this event as i was a huge Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels fan! looking back it was a strange Raw that more resembled a house show with the dark lighting and awkward ring entrance that seemed to be hundreds of feet from the back area that was just a curtain and you could see the wrestlers walking half through the stadium to get to that curtain. The matches were alright, I got to see Rocky Miavia vs The Sultan and saw Rocky doing his patented finishing maneuver, The Shoulder Breaker lol. classic times for sure. Also got to see Mankind which was huge for me being a big fan of his initial feud with The Undertaker (boiler room brawl, buried alive etc.) I think Vader was there but I'm not remembering if Goldust was there. Ahmed Johnson was there which was great! Watching a few weeks later on TSN was strange, it just came off like a house show or something. I don't quite remember for sure if they showed the Triple Threat but for some reason i feel like they did air it here. I felt like the triple threat went short and I didn't like how Sid was in the match because it interfered with Bret and Shawn having a match. Little did we know this would actually be one of their last matches. Also the closest thing resembling an actual normal modern style match between the 2 as mentioned in this video. As much as I love Iron Man for it's athletics, i would have loved to have seen an In Your House style match between them which we never got to. I ended up getting a Shawn Michaels toy at this show (Jakks figure with red pants), and a Shawn Michaels shirt (Promo Shot of Shawn from 1995 with zebra patterns all over it).
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For everyone of those unreleased matches should setup a stream where you would be the lone commentary I'm sure all us fans would love to watch those matches with your commentary 👍🏾☝🏾
Had to hit pause at 3:55.
Went off to find the match in total disbelief.
Found it.
Still can't believe it.
That 86 to 95 dvd cover looks awesome.
Imagine if the Wrestlemania 13 rematch happened
I was at this event! It was a blast!!!
Really loved this, great idea, let’s have more dark match reviews.
Not gonna lie the way Bret’s theme was edited in the intro it sounded like the music cue from Alien.
2:13 Never in my life would I ever thought I’d see Stone Cold Steve Austin wear any other color wrist tape, let alone pink!
Must’ve borrowed from Bret that night lol
I can’t remember the full reason but part of it was just a rib to HBK I think,you can look it up because Stone Cold actually did a shoot interview about that
It’s somewhere on TH-cam
Love all your videos Ryan, long time subscriber would you cover in a video when Bret Hart broke his sternum bone during a match after getting stun gunned on the guard rail.
Saw this same match in Philly the date of the Super Bowl in 1997, same finish.