The Hangman is technically a ladies’ wrestling submission hold, but it is seldom used to actually extract a submission from the victim. It is more of a weakening move, used to set up the victim for another submission hold. The hangman weakens the victim’s neck, as the distress it causes is similar to the effects of the camel clutch. The attacker and the victim stand back to back. The attacker reaches up and back with both her arms, clutching her hands around the chin of her victim. She then begins pulling the victim’s head upward and back (hence the name of the hold). Some wrestlers will lean forward while pulling on their victim’s chin, and they may even end up getting the victim’s feet off the ground, having them draped over their bent backs.

Possible escape:  if the attacker decides to be really nasty about it, the victim can do little to escape the hangman. Basically if the attacker decides to rip her head off she can do that. What mostly happens in ladies’ pro wrestling bouts though is that the attacker breaks the hold after torturing her victim in it for a while.

Rating: though not the most efficient submission hold ever, the hangman is spectacular enough to be used as a believable weakening hold. A girl caught in it for a while will most likely easily surrender to a camel clutch applied afterwards. Is the camel clutch suited to be used as a finisher? I have never seen it wrap up a ladies wrestling match ever, though theoretically it could be a finisher too.