Comedy Store Wrestling co-host Eddy Torres is Rob Pasbani's guest on this week's Squared Circle Pit. We kick things off discussing the advertised matches for this Sunday's Forbidden Door show, and which wrestlers we would like to see on the card. We discuss CM Punk's return last weekend with Eddy having some controversial opinions on Punk. Eddy talks about how he got into pro wrestling and rock, and how he started working with the Comedy Store to bring more wrestling to the store. He talks about Dolph Ziggler's standup, WWE coming to the Store for WrestleMania weekend wrestler tryouts and more.

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Major League Wrestling COO Mister St. Laurent is the guest on this edition. MSL loves rock and loves pro wrestling, so he's a perfect guest. We learn about advice Pat Patterson gave MSL before breaking into the business, and MSL offers us his career trajectory over the last few years that landed him in the COO position. A great chat for those looking for advice on how to break into pro wrestling.

MSL also discusses the big MLW Never Say Never event happening July 8th at the 2300 Arena and streaming on Fite+. For more info visit, http://mlw.com

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Sumerian Records Art Director Daniel McBride is Rob Pasbani's guest on Squared Circle Pit this week. He talks about growing up a wrestling fan in New Mexico, how he got into it, how it inspired him, his heavy metal journey and we spend a lot of time talking about the Ultimate Warrior. McBride worked with Warrior when Warrior made an appearance on a Winds of Plague track and shares the story of meeting his idol in person. Daniel talks about attending Smackdowns live, graphic design and more fun topics.

02:50 - How Daniel got into pro wrestling

7:40 - How Daniel got into rock music

13:45 - Discussing being in e-federations as teens

17:45 - Learning to code / Rob discusses his old wrestling website

25:18 - Working with the Ultimate Warrior

35:00 - Warrior's HOF induction and his passing

37:45 - Daniel's current wrestling diet

44:20 - Seeing wrestling live

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

See Daniel's work at https://instagram.com/mcbridedesign

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Host Rob Pasbani is flying solo this week with a full review of both major weekend events, WWE Night of Champions and AEW Double or Nothing, going through all the matches and the positives and negatives of both shows. Ultimately, Double or Nothing was Rob's least favorite AEW PPV in their five year history. Listen as he explains why.

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Comedian Josh Alba joins host Rob Pasbani to go through the announced cards for the huge Memorial Day weekend of wrestling, featuring a big event from WWE – Night of Champions AND AEW's Double or Nothing. We go through all the matches and angles, plus talk about growing up watching wrestling in the 90s.

Squared Circle Pit is hosted by Robert Pasbani and explores the intersection between pro wrestling and music.

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NJPW star and rapper Rocky Romero enters the Squared Circle Pit on this edition. Rocky talks about how he got into pro wrestling as a kid with his grandma, and the moment he decided that this was something he would pursue. Rocky shares great stories of training in the New Japan Dojo, working under Antonio Inoki, stories about his friendship with Kazuchika Okada, the insane amount of work that goes into organizing the AEW/NJPW Forbidden Door event, all the other cool NJPW events happening in the next few months and his latest hip hop music video, which was filmed in CMLL's Arena Ciudad. Plus, we sneak in a little talk about our love for The Beatles.

Squared Circle Pit is hosted by Robert Pasbani and explores the intersection between pro wrestling and music.

NJPW Resurgence is this Sunday, May 21st on NJPWworld.com PPV.

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Cattle Decapitation bassist Olivier Pinard joins host Rob Pasbani for this edition of Squared Circle Pit. The entire WWE Backlash card is recapped including Bad Bunny's incredible performance and the hot Puerto Rico crowd. Olivier also discusses how he discovered wrestling, his favorites growing up, the rest of his band's opinion on wrestling and how he keeps up on the road. A really fun conversation!

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Wrasslerap host and podcast producer Emilio Sparks is Robert Pasbani's guest on this edition of Squared Circle Pit. Emilio tells us all about how he got into wrestling, the Saturday morning killer lineups, the wrestling news telephone game, why Impact Wrestling is underrated, producing wrestling in Mexico and the wild Mexican crowds. Sparks then goes into detail about how WaleMania formed and how it's become the biggest party of WrestleMania weekend. Before the show ends, Rob and Emilio give some predictions for what's happening this weekend at WWE Backlash.

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Host Rob Pasbani talks to Islander vocalist Mikey Carvajal about how he and his band ended up forming a true friendship with wrestling icon Sting, how Sting appeared in their video and how Mikey and Sting connected about their spirituality. Mikey also discusses how he got into wrestling and being in a band, some rare wrestling memorabilia he has, his thoughts on CM Punk's upcoming return, AEW Collision and more.

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#sting #islander #AEW

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Host Rob Pasbani sits down with Rick Jimenez of Extinction A.D. to go over the entire card for WWE WrestleMania Goes Hollywood. We go through all the matches, give our thoughts on the buildup and our predictions on who we see winning. Plus, Rick shares some stories of growing up a wrestling fan.

Watch this episode here.

Extinction AD's album, Culture of Violence, is out now on Unique Leader Records.

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