The sasorigatame. The Scorpion Death Lock. It's a move that has a few names and a few iconic users. Innovated in the '80s in Japan by puro legend Riki Choshu, the move quickly gained a foothold in America being used by two bigtime stars. One of them was Sting. The other, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, who called the move the Sharpshooter. Arguably the best user of the hold, Hart used it to win many a match, and the application of the move on one Vince McMahon is most likely the endgame of their current angle. Here it is applied to Shawn Michaels at Survivor Series 1992, ironic seeing that Hart would be driven out of the WWF five years later with Michaels applying the move to him in the most infamous screwjob of the modern era. Here it is:
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