You've trained hard. You've worked on your moves and perfected your strut. You've got your gimmick down and you're ready to thrill audiences all around the world (or all around your backyard) with your amazing array of death-defying moves. But something's missing. You just don't have that capper. You don't have a devastating finishing maneuver that will obliterate your opponent and bring the crowd to their feet.

In wrestling, captivating and brutal finishing maneuvers are a must. Without them, an oiled-up man in tights is just…well, an oiled-up man in tights. Like with most elements of athleticism, wrestling has evolved over time. Long gone are the days of Ed "Strangler" Lewis making his opponent give up after holding him in a side-headlock for twenty minutes straight. Now guys will practically kill themselves leaping off the top turnbuckle and performing flips and twists that you'd only expect from Olympic gymnasts and divers. A finisher can take many different forms. It can be as simple as a knockout kick or punch, or as hokey and elaborate as TNA wrestler Suicide's "Suicide Solution" which can be technically described as a pump-handle reverse flip over rocker dropper. Sometimes a finisher can help define a wrestler and become that certain "X Factor" that really helps them achieve stardom. Other times, a truly exceptional wrestler can take a basic move and turn it into an iconic trademark of badassery.

An important thing to note here and a crucial part of any finisher is its ability to end the match. No one should be able to kick out of a finishing move, unless that wrestler happens to be way above the other guy in terms of their company's star-o-meter. When two Main Event-level wrestlers go nose to nose, it's likely that you'll see them kick out of each other's finisher to create more drama. On the independent circuit, however, and organizations like ROH, it's very common to see wrestlers kick out of two or three "finishing" moves before the match actually concludes.

There are tons of basic, blueprint maneuvers out there, and even more variations on those maneuvers. Springboard corkscrew tornado DDTs. Inverted reverse sit-out piledrivers. Hyper gonzo weasel bombs that result in explosive diarrhea. In markets where pure athletic spectacle is the name of the game, finishing maneuvers can get quite dizzying. Join us as we break down the 25 greatest and most effective finishing moves in wrestling. From Rock Bottoms to Figure Fours! It's all over but the screaming…

Honorable Mention: GRAVEYARD SMASH

Alright, first off we just want to give a honorable shout-out to Hallowicked's Graveyard Smash! It's one of the coolest moves around and it's essentially a variation of a sit-out driver (D-Lo Brown/Tommy Dreamer's "Sky High," Lance Cade's "Redneck Bomb"). Except in this case, it's starts out as a Fisherman's Suplex (suplex with one leg hooked).

Hallowicked has been a staple on the low-tier wrestling scene for years, competing in CHIKARA and Full Impact Pro. He'll most likely never cross paths with your TV screen, but it doesn't stop his finishing move to be complicated enough to be interesting, and damaging enough to look outrageously awesome. When we see this move we think of cool summer days with mint tea and grilled mozzarella sandwiches. And spinal trauma.

#25: WARRIOR'S WAY

The Double Stomp was a sinister move in its own right. The satanic Kevin Sullivan use to use it to knocked the wind (and breakfast) out of his opponents. It was simple enough. Your opponent lies on his back and you run up and just jump up and come down on his bread basket with the full force of both feet.

When we mentioned earlier that wrestling had taken various evolutionary steps, one of the ways that it's heighted the stakes is that it's taken basic moves and turned them into high-flying maneuvers. Like doing suplexes? Well, why don't you do them from the top rope? Dropkicks? Why not come flying off the third buckle like a crossbow bolt? The same applies to the double stomp, which ROH wrestler Low-Ki (later becoming TNA wrestler, Senshi) turned into a horrifying display of sadism. Why not get some distance? Why not leap fifteen feet in the air and then land on your foe's stomach with your feet? In-ring murder? Isn't that what we're going for here? Hell, that's what we expect when we pay $29.95 for the mezzanine.

#24: F-5

Brock Lesnar was so damn strong that his attempts to actually perform this move correctly became an exercise in futility. Named after the Fujita scale of Tornado devastation, the F-5 was a supposed to be a fireman's carry into a flip over facebuster DDT. The DDT part of it never actually caught on, as Lesnar was so mighty that he just usually wound up throwing his opponents up so hard that they just wound up pancaking on the ring.

Lesnar always brought an insane amount of intensity to the ring and the F-5 was just the perfect move for a maniac like him to perform. He used it to take out the likes of The Rock, The Undertaker and even Kurt Angle in the Main Event of WrestleMania XIX. Lesnar also began to get creative with how quickly he was able to counter with this move. Most famously, he turned Undertaker's Tombstone into a match-winning F-5.

Just watch the video to see just how freakishly powerful this mastadon actually was, as he turns a flying cross body from Randy Orton into the F-5.