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Regarding the third discrepancy, Shawn Michaels states in Heartbreak & Triumph "' This cannot be discussed with anyone.

Pat can't know, nobody can know about this but the three of us right now.

'", " We had the meeting, and as everyone was leaving, Vince asked me, Hunter, and Jerry Brisco, a longtime agent and close confidant of Vince's, to stay.

We sat down and talked.

" and " Pat was in the room with us, and he had no idea what was going to happen.

He had a strong relationship with Bret.

He wouldn't have done it, and Vince knew that.

That's why he didn't tell Pat ..." thereby stating that Pat Patterson was not in on the Screwjob.

However in Dave Meltzer's online account of events before, during and after the Screwjob, he states " Vince McMahon held a meeting at the hotel with Jim Ross, Jim Cornette, Pat Patterson and Michaels.

Reports are that at least two of the aforementioned names looked extremely uncomfortable leaving the meeting.

" thereby suggesting that Patterson may in fact have been in on the Screwjob.

This is corroborated by a Pro Wresling Torch article from November 15, 1997 by Wade Keller which states " However, a two-hour meeting was held on the second floor of the Montreal Marriot on Saturday night with McMahon, Jim Ross, Pat Patterson, Jim Cornette, and Michaels.

Bret was wrestling that night in Detroit.

There is some belief that at this meeting McMahon proposed the idea of the finish to whoever of that group wasn't already in on it.

Ross and Patterson entered the meeting in a good mood and when they were seen in the hotel lobby afterwards, were said to be irritable, forlorn, and shaken.