10 Most Believable WWE Finishers Right Now

3. Kirifuda Clutch (Shayna Baszler)

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Having ex-MMA fighter Shayna Baszler scream in your ear as she threatens to rip your head from your shoulders must be a nightmare...if WWE was real combat, of course. As it is, the Raw bad-ass still manages to make her 'Kirifuda Clutch' seem like it's the most brutal, convincing hold around.

She makes it look so effortless.

There's a legitimacy to seeing Baszler wrap her legs around her prey, lock her left arm snugly around their throat and push down with the right. As all this is going on, her face wears an expression of twisted and perverse pleasure. It's a fairly intoxicating sight to see when the moves appears late in a long, competitive match.

Shayna has the same sort of in-ring authority as Ronda Rousey or Brock Lesnar. You know she could kick anyone's ass just by looking at her mannerisms, and the 'Kirifuda' is a completely ideal move for someone with her real-fighting background.

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