Hart's niece Natalya Neidhart performs a slight variation where she crosses her opponents legs differently, putting more pressure on the knees.īret's brother Owen also used the Sharpshooter as his finishing move but he would always lead with his right leg where Bret always favored his left, many like Chris Benoit, Edge, and Shawn Michaels would also performed it with the right leg instead of the left. Hart alone has demonstrated various methods of performing the Sharpshooter - when an attacking wrestler performs a leg drop to the chest which Hart will block, cross their legs and flips them onto their stomach while he stands up, thus completing the move. In WWF publications of the era, Bret's father Stu Hart, long known as a trainer in the game, was generally given credit for devising the move. The name "Sharpshooter" was given in general line with Hart's "Hit Man" nickname (from the underworld slang hit, murder). Hart revealed that the only person in the locker room who knew about the move was Konnan, who taught the move to Hart. In Hart's autobiography, he noted that prior to his first major singles push, Pat Patterson asked if he could do a "Scorpion Death Lock", which he did not know at the time. While Bret "The Hitman" Hart is the wrestler with whom the Sharpshooter is most often associated, Ronnie Garvin and Sting were the first wrestlers to prolifically use the hold in North America, during which time it was called the Scorpion Deathlock, deriving from the original Japanese name. Holding the opponent's legs in place, the wrestler then grabs the opponent's leg which he has crossed over the other and steps over him, flipping him over into a prone position before leaning back to compress his lower back. If the applier decides to cross the opponent's legs around his right leg, he has to cross the opponent's right leg over their left, or, otherwise, he has to cross his opponent's left leg over their right. The Sharpshooter hold begins with the opponent supine on the mat with the applying wrestler stepping between the opponent's legs with his/her left leg and wraps the opponent's legs at shin level around that leg. Despite Japanese professional wrestler Riki Chōshū being given credit by Japanese fans with the creation of the move, the move was popularized by and is generally associated with Canadian Bret Hart. Despite its original Scorpion Hold name, the move is still commonly known by its Bret Hart-given nickname Sharpshooter. The move is also known by several other names: cloverleaf leg-lace Boston crab, standing reverse figure-four leglock, and, the most commonly known alternative, Scorpion Deathlock. The Sharpshooter, originally named Sasori-gatame, Scorpion Hold in English, is a professional wrestling submission hold.
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