10 Best AEW Finishers

10. Hangman Page's Buckshot Lariat

Hangman Page's entire aesthetic is inspired by Stan Hansen, from the burly frame to the bull rope, and so of course he has adopted a face-caver of a lariat to put his opponents away.

But it isn't a mere tribute, it's an update, and so it never resonates as a hopelessly optimistic callback. One might even call it an upgrade, which some may read as sacrilege, but just look at it. Hangman Page is a brick sh*thouse with an uncanny ability to blend that power with a propulsive energy. He boasts the best suicide dive bar none in an era in which it's more pervasive than a worked punch, and that explosive power informs his finisher.

The way he lays out the closing stretches of his matches is as impressive on a psychological level, too, so it never comes off like a superfluous flex.

He flips over the ropes to outwit his opponents as much to pop the crowd, and when they are drawn to him, they are repelled instantly, gruesomely, away from by way of a splattering bicep right in the f*cking mush.