Squared Circle Pit

Comedian Pete Angelo enters the pit to talk about being a gay, metal loving wrestling fan. We talk about death matches, how Pete is saving his mosh for only certain bands, how Pete got into wrestling, his favorite type of matches, which wrestlers are "his guys," coming out and how it affected his comedy, how Rob Halford doesn't get his due as a gay icon, plus we each give our takes on the crazy weekend of wrestling with WWE Payback, AEW All Out and CM Punk being fired.

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AEW's biggest event ever, All In London was this weekend and all anybody can talk about is the very real backstage fight between CM Punk and "Jungle Boy" Jack Perry that happened just as All In was going live worldwide, almost causing the entire show to be delayed. Host Rob Pasbani takes you through the entire timeline of events, explaining all the events that unfolded leading to this backstage altercation resulting in both men being suspended, pending investigation. Rob goes through multiple online sources to give you the full story. Plus, a recap and thoughts on all the matches that happened at All In, including a mark-out moment for Rob, seeing Sting enter the stadium to Metallica's "Seek and Destroy" for the first time in 20 years, and what it meant to Rob as a Metallica fan.

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SiriusXM Liquid Metal and Ozzy's Boneyard voice Shawn "The Butcher" Winkler sits in on this edition of Squared Circle Pit. Shawn and Rob reminiss about the golden age of pro wrestling in the eighties and how our lives were upgraded in the 90s with the cable hot boxes. Shawn realizes that WWE was one of his first exposures to heavy metal during the convo and shares fun stories of meeting Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, DDP, Metallica and others at his job at the SiriusXM radio station. Plus, Shawn talks about his new podcast, In Madness.​

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Lions at the Gate guitarist R Diego Verduzco enters the pit with host Rob Pasbani to discuss his love of pro wrestling, from watching it with his relatives as a child to getting back into WWE as an adult, and attending an AEW show live. Diego also shares some wild memories of attending AAA shows as a kid and getting to jump around in the actual ring before the matches started.

Lions at the Gate's new album"The Excuses We Cannot Make" is out on August 25.

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Host Rob Pasbani is joined by online wrestling personality Scotland Green a.k.a. Mister Green Mist to discuss the biggest events of the summer in WWE and New Japan Pro Wrestling. First, we go through all the action of WWE SummerSlam including the controversial ending in the Roman Reigns vs. Jey Uso match, and then Scotland offers a recap of this year's G1 Climax tournament from New Japan Pro Wrestling, and recommends some matches to watch.

Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the intersection of rock and pro wrestling. More episodes at squaredcirclepit.com

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Indie star Kevin Blackwood talks about how he got into rock and how he got into pro wrestling with Ultimate Warrior and watching Saturday morning recap shows of WWF. Kevin talks about how Dragonball Z bootlegs got him into nu-metal, and how that led him to AFI, which got him inot all these genres of music. Also, some love for Tony Hawk Pro Skater video games. Kevin talks about training in Buffalo alongside one of his favorite musicians, Every Time I Die's Andy Williams. Kevin takes us into the world of indie wrestling and what the day-to-day of that lifestyle is like, working PWG and what he's currently listening to.

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Mecho Wolf is the embodiment of what we're about here at Squared Circle Pit – the intersection of rock and pro wrestling. Not only is he one-half of the longest reigning NWA Tag Team Champions, with Bestia 666, but he also fronts a kick ass thrash band called MONSTER WOLF. Mecha talks about the anxiety of performing with his band at AAA TripleMania Tijuana right before he had to get in the ring and wrestle. He also discusses his love of all things Danzig and Misfits, his favorite metal bands and the wrestling scene in Puerto Rico and in Mexico.

Check out Monster Wolf's new video, "Insania"

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Jonathan King, artist manager at Shelter Music Group, enters the pit and really does a great job talking about the similarities between the life of a wrestler and a touring artist. Jon talks about his lifelong fandom of pro wrestling, how he got into the music business working at Loudside.com, and the lost art of street teams and compilations. Jon goes into his dipping his toe into wrestling production working with Championship Wrestling from Hollywood. Jon talks about his current role and how scouting bands has changed in today's landscape. We discuss the comparisons between indie shows like GCW and hardcore shows, and further comparisons between music and pro wrestling. We wrap up the show discussing the current moment in pro wrestling and Rob's obsession with Kota Ibushi.

Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the intersection of rock and pro wrestling. More episodes at squaredcirclepit.com

Knotfest has a bi-weekly wrestling column at http://knotfest.com/category/wrestling

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Host Rob Pasbani is joined by comedian and writer Pat Driscoll to recap this past weekend's WWE Money in the Bank premium live event. We go through each match to offer analysis of the storylines and the results and we take a peek at the direction WWE is taking heading into SummerSlam next month.

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0:00 - Intro

0:30 - WWE's streak of hot PPVs

3:00 - Men's Money in the Bank match

15:12 - Women's Tag Title Match

19:00 - Gunther vs. Matt Riddle

22:20 - Cody Rhodes vs. Dominick Mysterio

26:55 - John Cena returns / Rob's John Cena rant

33:30 - Women's Money in the Bank match

38:20 - Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor

41:16 - Bloodline Civil War match

48:20 - SummerSlam 2023 Match Predictions

Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the intersection of rock and pro wrestling. More episodes at squaredcirclepit.com

Knotfest has a bi-weekly wrestling column at http://knotfest.com/category/wrestling

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Outer Heaven' guitarist Zak Carter talks about getting into pro wrestling from a young age and how it influenced his music tastes, being an ECW guy and his love of Cactus Jack and Terry Funk. He talks about how Fozzy was his gateway to hearing Iron Maiden, which is his favorite band ever, stories about Lemmy, ECW's Sandman

0:00 Intro

1:45 New album "Infinite Psychic Depths"

2:25 What is your earliest wrestling memory?

3:30 Being an ECW guy

5:20 Finding Iron Maiden through Fozzy

7:00 Zak's fondest memory

8:25 Zak's dad shares a Lemmy story

9:25 How watching ECW affected Zak's musical taste

10:30 Death matches and Ring of Honor

12:35 Who were Zak's "guys"?

13:50 Rob was at the last two ECW PPVs in person

14:40 ECW One Night Stand

15:10 Zak shares some Sandman stories

18:35 Raven

19:00 Sabu

21:30 Rob going to the first WWECW house show

22:50 Zak attends House of Hardcore 2016

26:30 What Zak keeps up with now

31:10 Do Zak's bandmates watch wrestling?

33:00 Zak books a fantasy match

Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the intersection of rock and pro wrestling. More episodes at squaredcirclepit.com

Knotfest has a bi-weekly wrestling column at http://knotfest.com/category/wrestling

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