Bret Hart Tells Us How He Created The Legendary SHARPSHOOTER!

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[TheForgottenFlesh]

Uh......Riki Chosu created the sharpshooter. It's actually called the Scorpion Toe Hold I believe.

[Wafflesaurus]

simple. someone asked him if he knew how to do the scorpion deathlock. he didnt so he found out how and vinnie mac brainstormed names with him and they decided on sharpshooter.

[kitfistoyma]

SWEDEN! :D

[EGarrett01]

The Sharpshooter, as done in this video, is different from the Scorpion Deathlock. Either there was a mistake in the spot causing him to have to hold it that way, or Bret got lazy after awhile and just started doing the standard Scorpion Deathlock instead of the modified version.

[dannielpreto]

Mitsuo Yoshida who wrestles as Riki Chosu invented the move. Konnan taugh it to Bret, it just happened that out of all the wrestlers there he was the only one who knew the move and Bret wanted to do it. Sting was probably the first in America to use it he got it from Mitsuo though and called it the "Scorpion Deathlock." Mitsuo calls it the Sasori–Gatame.

[evilmm80]

@LuckiLove87 On the bonus section Bret admits that Konnan showed him how to do the Sharpshooter. I don't know how far back the move has been used, but Sting was using the move long before Bret was a singles wrestler.

[TK45236]

@thestinger101 Riki Chōshū created the Sasori–Gatame so you are so wrong

[TK45236]

@neomysterio no man Riki Chōshū created it

[TK45236]

@LuckiLove87 dude Riki Chōshū who created the move he called it Sasori–Gatame it's Scorpion Hold in English AKA cloverleaf leg-lace, Boston crab, standing inverted figure four leglock, Scorpion Deathlock and the SHARPSHOOTER

[neomysterio]

He stole it from Sting.

[downwithleetspeak]

And noone's considered that each athlete - working in two different promotions - developed the move on their own? Or at least discovered it?

[marcus813]

@KillerMJ Even after the future WCW gave Sting that finisher from Choshu, he still used his previous pet move, the Stinger Splash, as a setup move for it.