Being a good pro wrestler isn’t enough. To really get over, a wrestler needs a cool finishing maneuver. It’s a performer’s final statement in a match that shows not only what his or her abilities are, but also what they believe it takes to put away an opponent. 

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The stars of All Elite Wrestling (AEW) get this, and as a result there are lots of great finishers across the whole roster. With that in mind, here are ten of the best finishers in AEW that not only look like they can convincingly end a match, but also look awesome in the process.

10 Dirty Dancing (Big Swole)

It’s safe to assume that Kazuchika Okada, with his awesome Rainmaker lariat finisher, is responsible for all the ripcord strike maneuvers being done in wrestling these days, from Seth Rollins’ Ripcord Knee all the way to Big Swole’s Dirty Dancing. This isn’t to say that it’s a half-rate Rainmaker or anything, as it has its own style.

Big Swole does the ripcord but also spins herself in the process, rotating into a brutal forearm shot to the opponent’s face.

9 Buckshot Lariat (Hangman Adam Page)

Here’s another good variation on the Lariat, as done by Hangman Adam Page, a man so drunk he forgot that he quit The Elite. Anyway, his version, called the Buckshot Lariat involves him flipping over the ropes, and getting a running start as he takes a dude’s head off with his arms.

It’s even better when done in tandem with Kenny Omega’s V-Trigger knee strike in a team maneuver named The Last Call.

8 Lockjaw (Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D.)

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The Mandible Claw was originated by Sam Sheppard, the former doctor turned wrestler whose life inspired the TV show and the 1993 film The Fugitive. However, in recent decades it’s become used by monster characters like Mankind and “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt and most appropriately, Dr. Britt Baker D.M.D., who is a dentist in real life.

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What really puts Britt Baker’s Lockjaw over the top is the use of the Rings of Saturn hold to keep an opponent’s arms from being able to yank Baker’s hand out.

7 Gin & Juice (Private Party)

So many tandem tag team finishers are just two guys holding a dude up and slamming him down, so a flashy non-body slam move like Private Party’s Gin and Juice is much appreciated.

First, Marq Quen does a top rope Frankensteiner, sending the opponent flying, at which point Isiah Kassidy grabs the dude’s head to perform a Cutter (aka an Ace Crusher or an RKO). It requires great timing, and it’s always kind of surprising when they pull it off.

6 Big Bang Theory (Kris Statlander)

The Tombstone Piledriver is a beloved move in American pro wrestling thanks to The Undertaker and Kane, but it feels like you can’t really take that move unless you want to risk drawing comparisons. Instead, you have to tweak it to make it look different.

Kris Statlander’s Big Bang Theory does exactly that, combining a package style setup and the Tombstone to create a move that doesn’t draw comparisons to The Undertaker, but also looks devastating.

5 The Black Arrow/Brutalizer Combo (Pac)

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When Neville turned heel in WWE, he stopped using the Red Arrow, his signature top rope corkscrew shooting star press, in favor of the Rings of Saturn submission, because WWE is pretty strict about heels not having cool moves.

However, now that he’s in AEW, Pac has combined the two moves for much greater effect, as the renamed Black Arrow leads into the Rings of Saturn, now named the Brutalizer.

4 Beast Bomb (Nyla Rose)

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You can’t go wrong with a powerbomb. Aside from, like, Kevin Nash screwing up and nearly killing The Giant, it seems like you’d have to go the extra mile for a powerbomb to not look cool. Especially if you’re a larger competitor like Nyla Rose, whose Beast Bomb is a particularly nasty sitout powerbomb.

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What’s especially good about the Beast Bomb is that Nyla actually uses the seated position to get the pin, instead of awkwardly rolling away so she can do a standard lateral press with a hooked leg.

3 Coffin Drop (Darby Allin)

Darby Allin’s whole thing is that he’s a gothic skateboarder who is “half-dead inside,” so his finishing move being a high flying maneuver where he literally turns into dead weight and falls on you is pretty a inspired choice -- and that’s before you even get to the name.

What makes Allin’s move the Coffin Drop stand out so much is that it’s just so incredibly simple. There’s no flip or corkscrew whatever -- just a guy falling backwards as hard as he can.

2 Falcon Arrow (Hikaru Shida)

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One of the best moves in pro wrestling, the Falcon Arrow is often just used as a dependable move if the goal is to get a really close two-count. Which is a shame, because it’s such a fierce yet simple maneuver: just set them up for a vertical suplex, and slam them down real hard for a pin.

Hikaru Shida’s version of the move is the one Falcon Arrow nobody kicks out of.

1 One-Winged Angel (Kenny Omega)

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Not practical or simple, the One-Winged Angel is awesome because it perfectly matches the wrestler. Kenny Omega is a ridiculously theatrical performer who talks like an anime villain and often dresses in cosplay, so of course his finishing move would be this complicated thing where he puts a guy in the electric chair position and turns it into a piledriver/Falcon Arrow type thing.

But in Omega’s hands, the movements are so fluid and precise that it couldn’t be anything else.

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