Bret Hart Credits Konnan For Helping Him Execute The Sharpshooter, Says He Was First Shown The Move In The Shower

Bret Hart excellently executed opponents throughout his career by putting them in the sharpshooter and forcing them to tap out.

Speaking on Ringer Wrestling, Bret recalled the origin of the shapshooter.

“Vince McMahon said, ‘We want you to use the scorpion deathlock.’ ‘Okay.’ ‘Do you know how to put it on?’ ‘No.’ I always say I learned it in my dad’s basement, but we didn’t. I learned it in Japan. I had it put on me a few times, but I never put on a sharpshooter. That was a thing too, Vince was like, ‘We have to call it a different name.’ We weren’t going to call it the scorpion. We went through a bunch of names and I think I threw out sharpshooter. Vince goes, ‘That’s the one.’ I said, ‘I don’t know how to put it on, but I’ll go find somebody that knows how and get somebody to show me.’ I went walking all around the dressing room area asking guys, ‘Do you know how to put the scorpion deathlock on?’ You wouldn’t be surprised to know that nobody knew how to put it on. Finally, it was Konnan. He said, ‘I know exactly how to put it on.’ We went in the shower. I would have loved to have done it on carpet, but the only place I could do it where there was any room was the shower. I put it on, walked out, put it on in the ring, and that was it,” he said.

The Scorpion Deathlock was Sting’s version of the sharpshooter that he used in WCW.

Many wrestlers have used the sharpshooter as an homage to Bret since he retired. Elsewhere during the interview, Bret commented on wrestlers paying homage to him. You can find his comments here.

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