10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Sting

2. He Did The Scorpion Death Lock Before Bret Hart Used The Sharpshooter

If a WWE fan saw the submission move that Natalya and Tyson Kidd currently use on WWE TV, they would immediately call it the Sharpshooter. That's because that is the name that Natalya's uncle Bret Hart called it when he became a top guy in WWE in the 1990s. However, it was not a move that he invented, nor was he the first big name to use it in American wrestling. Sting was. When Bret became a singles wrestler 1991 he needed a finishing move. Apparently it was Konnan that taught him the move. At the time, Konnan was working in WWE as Max Moon. Since nobody was using it in WWE, they figured it was okay. Any wrestling fan that grew up watching the NWA/WCW knows that Sting was doing that move (the Scorpion Death Lock) in the late 1980s. He won almost all of his matches that way and since he was the top face for much of his career, he won a lot of matches. In the mid to late 1990s he started doing the Scorpion Death Drop (reverse DDT) as a pinfall finisher too. When Bret went to WCW in 1997, he eventually had a feud with Sting where they had battles to see who was the master of that submission move they both made famous. It would be nice if WWE could educate the fans on the origins of the move, but a lot of WWE fans will probably think it was a Bret move more than a Sting move if they only watched WWE in their life.