Why not this?

All these years later, the Montreal Screwjob still amazes me. Not that Bret Refuses to drop the title in Montreal or that Vince "screws" Bret, but that with all the creative story talent WWF had at its disposal, it couldn't find a reasonable way to allow Bret to save face but have the event end with the Title belt on someone else's waist. There are lots of ways they could have done this:

1) Create a second main event, after Shawn and Bret, where Brett can beat Shawn, then be forced to fight someone after where he drops the belt simply from exhaustion from the Michaels match. The second match could be to someone like Owen Hart, so the title stays Canadian.

2) Have some kind of "incident" earlier in the night that leads to Bret being "stripped" of the title, then Michaels and Hart fight anyways (out of mutual hatred). They can put on an amazing match that Bret wins but the title is "free".

3) Add a stipulation to the match where the title changes hands on a DQ, then have Shawn win it on a ticky-tack DQ that allows Bret to look like the real winner of the match.

It just seems like there were lots of ways to solve the 2 problems (Bret looks good in his final WWF match, the WWF Title isn't on Bret when he is potentially announced the next night as joining WCW). Amazes me no one could come up with a good compromise.