Per Super Luchas, Konnan remembered how WWE Hall of Famer Bret Hart taught him how to do a sharpshooter:
The Sharpshooter is one of the most legendary moves in wrestling history and it is now discovered how Konnan taught Bret Hart to do it. This movement that, speaking of current affairs and WWE, can be seen using Natalya, the niece of the McMahon Empire Hall of Fame, was invented by Riki Choshu with the name of Sasori ga tame, whose translation is “constriction of the scorpion”.
Here are Konnan’s comments on the teaching through Bret Hart:
“When I was working on non-televised matches like Max Moon in WWE, Bret Hart wanted to have a new move and asked, ‘Does anyone know what Riki Choshu does?’ I was a fan of Japanese professional wrestling so I answered: ‘Which one?’ Then he said: ‘The one who makes Sting’. I just showed it to him and that was it. From then on he started using it and the rest is history.
Hart recounts that in March 1991, days after WrestleMania VII, they went to record a round of TV shows in Las Vegas, and Pat Patterson had the idea that their finisher would be the Scorpion Deathlock, in order to highlight their technical skills. The problem is that Hart did not know how to apply that key.
So I started looking for a wrestler who could teach me. The only one in the arena who knew the key was Konnan. He motioned for me to lie on my back, held the heels of my boots with his hands, slipped his leg between mine, ran over me as he crossed my legs, and tied one of his feet under his armpit, all while folding me like a crab.”
Joonie, of Super Luchas, reports:
Returning to Riki Choshu, he was the one who carried the Sasori ga tame around the world, starting with Mexico, during his classic bouts with Canek in El Toreo. Although in the United States the key was brought to popularity by Ronnie Garvin, Sting, or Bret Hart himself.
It was not an idea of its own, nor a creation of the Canadian legend, but this movement, the Sharpshooter, has become a hallmark of the Hart family. The protagonist of countless historical moments, such as the Montreal Screwjob of 1997, when Shawn Michaels applied it to “Hitman” himself to “make him surrender” and snatch the WWE Championship in his native country.
It should also be mentioned that it is not the first time that Konnan makes a similar statement, but for a long time many did not believe him and ended up becoming an urban legend. […]
