Squared Circle Podcast

Welcome to the Squared Circle Podcast! This is part of the A Chit Chat Interview Series! I am your host Marie Shadows! I talk with Michael Richards who's from the Fale Dojo. This is his origin story. 

We talk:

New Zealand is in the summer season? | NJPW Tamashii | His favorite championships | Who would be his tag team partner for a Tag League tournament | Which Championship he would like to win 

and more!

Welcome to the Squared Circle Podcast! I am your host Marie Shadows! And we're talking about All Elite Wrestling!

Hey everyone,

This is part two of the AEW Talks. We need to talk about AEW. AEW needs some type of structure and consistency. I talk about the following topics:

This is just some of the topics. Please listen to the full thing.

Any comments? Any questions? Concerns? Leave a comment! ([email protected])

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Welcome to the Squared Circle Podcast! I am your host Marie Shadows, and today, I'm talking all about THE ELITE!

Hey everyone,

I’m exhausted talking about The Elite and AEW. I’m being honest. And you might be thinking: Well, why do you cover it? Why do you talk about it?

Because I want All Elite Wrestling to improve. That statement might be difficult for some to believe. I know I’m blocked and/or muted by what feels like a large percentage of AEW fans, so not sure how far this will reach people.

Please listen to this with an open mind. An open perspective.

This is part one of an AEW talk about podcast. For the mini break I was, there were topics I wanted to discuss but held my tongue until I decided to create content again. I didn’t want to say my thoughts on Twitch because then what would be the point to say it again, you know. Even though I do that anyway.

In this episode I talk about The Elite. Listen, The Elite can still make me feel and that’s a good thing, however, I need them to grow up a little. There’s a time and place for pettiness — we all do some petty things to each other — but when it’s a constant pettiness that is blatant passive aggressive jabs, it tells me they are still children.

I talk about the interview that Kenny Omega did with Sports Illustrated. I go over his quotes because red flags are raising. He mentions how we should move on from the CM Punk / The Elite drama yet during the second match of their best of seven series with the Lucha Bros, played the crowd like a fiddle and took so many jabs — in directly — at CM Punk. I understand it was a Chicago crowd but damn. The icing on the cake was during the Being The Elite they added a choice of a song and then highlighted the “Fuck CM Punk” chants.

The Elite used to be good at telling stories. I think the only story I’m invested in is Kenny Omega vs Will Ospreay. I talk about that in depth on this podcast episode.

Please listen to it all and let me know what you thought about.

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A new interview added to the A Chit Chat Series! Marie Shadows is joined by Robbie Eagles!

Robbie Eagles is a member of Chaos, wrestles for NJPW and Pro Wrestling Australia primarily.

He is a previous IWGP Jr Heavyweight Champion and an IWGP Jr Tag Team Champion with Tiger Mask.

We discuss these various topics:

✨Is he still in Chaos?

Super Jr Tag League Lineup!!!

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Tony Khan answers the media's questions ahead of AEW's PPV Full Gear for 2022.

Full Gear 2022 starts at 8pm EST at the Prudential Center in New Jersey. It is streaming on Bleacher Report.

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Welcome to the Squared Circle Podcast! I am your host Marie Shadows! This is a special, exclusive twitch podcast episode! If you aren't following me on twitch, please do so now with an easy 2 second follow at: twitch.tv/marie_shadows.

In this episode, I discuss the hot topic from the angry Internet Wrestling Community on Twitter. On Friday Night Smackdown, from WWE, on November 11, 2022, Sarah Logan made her appearance with the Viking Raiders. She's dressed in standard and traditional Viking priestess attire and has been part of the Viking Culture for a long time. In Ohio, where Sarah and her family live, there are Viking Festivals to celebrate the culture because there are Scandinavian people living in that state. 

So, Sarah has a wonderful entrance with the deer antlers head dress and the whole imagery screamed Assassin's Creed Valhalla. 

Max The Impaler is dressed and inspired by the movie Mad Max. As a civilization that creates fictional places and characters, we created the idea of apocalyptic societies and lore. There's no Viking culture in an apocalyptic setting or lore. The dress is different. Sure similar for the colors and material but these two women have two different story paths. 

What I talk about:

Everything expressed in the video are of my opinions and it's ok to disagree. If you are going to disagree, then please do it respectfully. That's all.

In other news, this week, I will be interviewing NJPW Star Robbie Eagles about NJPW Tamashii, the brand-new brand for NJPW. Tamashii will focus on New Zealand, Australian, and Oceania wrestlers. NJPW Tamashii just a 2-night successful wrestling event in New Zealand and Australia.

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The twitter stalker wants me to unblock them. I didn't appreciate the condescending, down talk and dismissal of my experience in the wrestling business all because the stalker wants to be 100% right or else. I discuss the tweet that was sent to me and talked from the heart.

And I reveal the number one secret that wrestling journalists don't want you to know.

The beginning of the podcasting drama.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0aSaXCm1tR22V2vKB9izou?si=0d5c75085b534101

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Listen to Part 1 here: https://anchor.fm/squaredcirclepodcast/episodes/Chris-Jericho-Confronts-CM-Punk---Twitter-NewsRumorsUpdates-PT-1-e1pvghv

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Just one girl’s opinion. My opinions are my own.

Thunder Rosa slander needs to stop altogether especially from her “co-workers” in All Elite Wrestling. I understand that personal stories and grudges make for great television, but only when there is a clear call for a storyline to develop. We’ve already seen the storyline between Thunder Rosa and Britt Baker. It was compelling. It was good. But now, after the dust settles and both wrestlers have gone their separate ways — in a way — Britt Baker still talks about Thunder Rosa in a negative way that it’s becoming cringe and harassment towards another worker in the business.

That doesn’t help women’s wrestling at all. And fans can become alienated from the words spoken.

So here’s the mini video of the specific clip.

Twitter Clip: https://twitter.com/RULXRAO/status/1584969130490617856?s=20&t=0qYy32PjP_WTJ6iRfAo8Vw

This clip got a lot of quote tweets and most of the podcasting community wasn’t happy with the clip. From the quote tweets I’ve read, they are correct in their opinions. It felt like another bashing that was prompted through highschool instigating in order for elicit a high-and-mighty response. Keep in mind that Britt Baker and Thunder Rosa isn’t in a storyline anymore in AEW, so these comments are unnecessary.

Thunder Rosa got injured recently. That’s why she isn’t on AEW TV at the moment and why we have Toni Storm as interim AEW Women’s Champion. Thunder Rosa suffered a back injury that requires physical therapy care to not have surgery. Thunder Rosa hasn’t said anything about Britt but Britt continues to push the narrative of Thunder Rosa being a bad worker. Back injuries are serious. It’s not like a broken nose or wrist.

Over all, it makes everyone looks bad. So, based on the reaction, it backfired for what Swerve probably had in mind. No one in the wrestling community wants to hear more bashing of Thunder Rosa. Thunder Rosa gave AEW a lot of her women from Mission Pro Wrestling — an all women’s promotion that she started on her own — to get Youtube time for her girls and help create more matches & content for AEW. So, in response to everyone chiming in, the damage control option was to put up the full context video because simply saying to people “just sub” when they’ve made up their minds that the interview is just about bashing — something people probably don’t want to watch — isn’t the way to go for building a platform.

Twitter Clip: https://twitter.com/swerveconfident/status/1585346458940997632?s=20&t=0qYy32PjP_WTJ6iRfAo8Vw

How are we supposed to care about women’s wrestling when someone continues to take shots at someone else when it’s getting old and childish and unprofessional. Just stop talking about Thunder Rosa.

Thank you for listening to part 2 of the news/rumors/updates podcast ep! And thanks for reading the extra context.

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Hello! I’m releasing a one-hour long podcast episode that talks about the news, rumors, and updates on twitter from the IWC because lately it’s been a warzone. These are news, rumors, and updates that I don’t agree with and would like to dive deeper into the topics and discuss it further. Wrestling media is running rampant with 3 different CM Punk — AND ONLY CM PUNK — stories. It’s the burial of CM Punk to the highest degree of making him look bad. Now look! CM Punk is an asshole through and through. But as you’ll hear in this part 1 episode I talk about the human condition and the traumas we all experience and how we deal with them. Sometimes we lash out because we don’t know how to redirect that anger or frustration into a more positive and constructive way where insults and/or physicality isn’t involved.

My main concern with the first story I’ll talk about in this episode is that Chris Jericho goes into CM Punk’s locker room after CM Punk said his peace during the media scrum, and Jericho “allegedly” tells Punk: you’re a cancer to the AEW locker room.

First of all, when you make it to the final episode of this 3-part event, I do say that Jericho saying something like that is completely OUT OF CHARACTER. And in this episode, I explain that being a “locker room leader” isn’t going in there and saying that and then the Internet Wrestling Community hypes it up as a victory. CM Punk is already angry and frustrated and you are going into his room with that same energy matched and don’t think there’s consequences? That’s not a locker room leader. A locker room leader would show empathy and compassion because Punk doesn’t have the trust of his colleagues to talk things out because someone is going to leak it to a dirt sheet reporter. And since a wrestler designated themselves as locker room leader rather than having a committee, the self-appointed wrestler’s “job” should be to hear out the frustrations of the wrestler in question to FIND A SOULTION TO THE PROBLEM! Not antagonized an already angry man.

Thank you for reading this and listening to the episode. These reports are very contradicting and wrestling media is once again proving themselves to be unreliable and will create stories for the sake of clickbait and your hard earned $5-13 when original content creators struggle soooooooooo much in this pool of wrestling podcasting because I don’t talk about drama and give a platform to toxic wrestling media. These stories just bothered me and I’m tired of seeing the warzone of arguments that make no sense. Creating kayfabe wrestling content doesn’t make money as you would think. Everyone wants to be a Jerry Springer. No one wants to be themselves.

I also tell you guys the number 1 secret wrestling journalists don’t want you to know. You need to listen to all 3 to know this number 1 secret.

As always, thanks for listening, liking, sharing, and telling a friend.

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