Although D-X and the members of the Hart Foundation continued to battle on-screen in some fashion through the end of 1997, the Bret Hart-Shawn Michaels feud ended abruptly at Survivor Series when Michaels won his third WWF Championship via the Montreal Screwjob, whereby Hart was lied to about the match's pre-determined outcome after Hart had signed with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and refused to drop the WWF Championship in Canada and instead agreed to drop the title one month later in Springfield, Massachusetts. Rude was also legitimately upset over the Montreal Screwjob, and he subsequently left the WWF to return to WCW. On the November 24 episode of "Raw Is War", Michaels invited Neidhart to join D-X which he accepted prior to a match between Big Van Vader and Michaels. Michaels, Chyna and Triple H assaulted Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart at the end of the show after Michaels defeated Vader showing that Neidhart's invitation to the group was a ruse. The following week on the December 1 episode of "Raw Is War", Triple H defeated Neidhart. After the match, D-Generation X assaulted Neidhart once again, before Michaels spray-painted "WCW" on Neidhart's back, and signifying him following Bret Hart and The British Bulldog to WCW. Sgt. Slaughter and Ken Shamrock saved Neidhart, before Slaughter and Shamrock attacked D-Generation X at the end of the show.