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**Hello SquaredCircle! Welcome to our Weekly Discussion Thread!** --------------- What have you watched lately? Seen any great matches? Have suggestions for things to watch? Anything not getting covered in other threads that ya wanna fill people in about? Questions about promotions, wrestlers, 'the business' or more? Feel free to post below! ----------------- _(Reminder, this thread can and will contain spoilers for possibly any show. Spoiler tags are not required in here, but if the show *just* happened try and keep spoiler talk it to its respective discussion thread for the first day)._
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> WWE legend known as The Undertaker cut his own election promo in a video posted to social media on Friday after pro wrestling star Dave Bautista, known as Bautista, took shots at former President Donald Trump earlier in the week. > >The Undertaker, whose real name is Mark Callaway, was seen on a video next to his former WWE colleague Kane, the current mayor of Knox County, Tennessee, whose real name is Glenn Jacobs, and Trump and addressed potential voters about their options come Election Day. > > "All right everyone. November 5th – ElectionMania. The choice is yours. You can go with President Trump, Kane and The Undertaker or you can take Kamala Harris, Dave Bautista and Tim Walz. Choose wisely – the nation depends on it," Callaway said in a TikTok vieo. > >"And that should be an easy choice," Trump added. > > ... > > The Republican presidential nominee’s appearance with the wrestling greats came after Bautista made a video firing shots left and right at Trump as he expressed his support for Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for president. > > "Fellas, we gotta talk," Bautista said in part. "A lot of men seem to think that Donald Trump is some kind of tough guy. He’s not. I mean, look at him, he wears more make-up than Dolly Parton. He whines like a baby. The guy is afraid of birds. Donald Trump had his daddy pay a doctor to say his little feet hurt, so he could dodge the draft. Look at that gut. It’s like a garbage bag full of buttermilk." > >His rant was accompanied by various related images and clips of Trump during his presidency and campaign. > >In a comment to Fox News Digital on Wednesday, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung pushed back, calling Bautista a "stone-cold loser" and mocked his WWE career.
Tonight, **AEW Collision and Battle of the Belts XII** comes to us from Stockton, California! The card for tonight's show will be: **Collision:** --- **Tag Team Match** The Outrunners (Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd) vs. La Faccion Ingobernable (Rush & The Beast Mortos) **Six Man Tag Team Match** House Of Black (Brody King, Buddy Matthews & Malakai Black) vs. TBA **Singles Match** Ricochet vs. AR Fox **Singles Match** Kris Statlander vs. Harley Cameron **Six Man Tag Team Match** Daniel Garcia & Private Party (Quen & Zay) vs. The Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari, Josh Woods & Tony Nese) (w/Mark Sterling) **Singles Match** Orange Cassidy vs. Bulk Bronson **Singles Match** Jamie Hayter vs. Brooke Havok **Singles Match** Kyle Fletcher vs. Atlantis Jr. **AEW World Trios Title Match** Blackpool Combat Club (Claudio Castagnoli, PAC & Wheeler Yuta) (c) vs. Action Andretti & Top Flight (Dante Martin & Darius Martin) --- **Battle of the Belts:** --- **AEW Continental Title Match** Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Kyle O'Reilly **Tag Team Match** Jack Cartwheel & Jon Cruz vs. The Don Callis Family (Brian Cage & Lance Archer) **AEW Women's World Title Eliminator Match** Anna Jay vs. Mariah May *And more!* Please check your local listings and AllEliteWrestling.com for more information on how to watch. Card subject to change, enjoy your show!
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> Six former writers for the organization’s long-running shows SmackDown! and Monday Night RAW describe bullying and sexism behind the scenes while former CEO Vince McMahon was in charge > “Everybody was getting yelled at all the time in the room,” one former writer says. “It was more saying shit that was humiliating or mean [that was then] couched as a joke, but it’s a nasty joke.” The writer adds, “If you’re being targeted in the room, nobody stands up for you, but that’s because if they do, they will get the bullet in the head, too. You don’t stick your head up out of the foxhole for anybody, because nobody wants to take a bullet.”
[Nitter](https://nitter.poast.org/DrainBamager/status/1847337963455410468) Full quote: >“She makes any piece of shit work, because she's so talented and so committed. I honestly haven't seen anyone so wrapped up in a whole thing that is unique to themselves since, I don't know, The Undertaker? And *she's* not doing half-ass horrible podcast now, know what I mean?. She's not wearing weird problematic shirts and being like, 'wrestling is not telling stories.' >Thanks, Mark. I really appreciate it. His show is weird. The guy is weird. He's a weird man. 'Back in my day it was a lot better.' I'm sorry, were you always dead? Did you start off dead? Would you like to explain that?”
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::: spoiler spoiler And with that, ~~Mariah~~ Toni has received her third loss of the year. This one to one weak ass looking splash but if you get paid to count the ceiling lights you do so lol.
::: spoiler Spoiler technically included for today's show >Yuki Mashiro tearfully talked about unpaid wages and no communication from Ice Ribbon President Kazuhito Goshima after winning the ICE×∞ Championship: >"Well... I can't go into details, but we haven't been able to get in touch with him since a month ago, or since last month, or maybe late last month, and all of our calls and contacts have been cut off, and he hasn't responded to anything. No matter how many times we contact him or call him, he doesn't respond. Even though we all contacted President Goshima, he never responded, so we were all really anxious going into today. What should we do? What should we do? How? Everyone is naturally really anxious about the president being gone, and yes, we're putting our bodies on the line, risking our lives to do this, so the fact that the person who is in charge of the money and other aspects is gone, I'm sorry, I can't really explain it well, I'm sorry." >If wrestlers' salaries are not being paid: >"I can't say it myself, but that's the situation. Yes. That's why I was in a very anxious state heading into today." :::
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>“I know there was a big push from a lot of the boys, and I’m down with this too, Monty Brown was someone that was up for consideration but it seemed like they were having a hard time getting ahold of Monty Brown, he’s off the grid it seems like. He would’ve been a really killer candidate too considering it was in Detroit.”
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>"I can give you an exclusive. I had a no-compete through January of next year, and I worked it out with TNA on friendly terms. That’s officially over. The Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling stuff started while my no-compete was in place, but as we had discussions, we worked it out and I’m in a good spot where I get all the upsides, for the most part, that were there with the no-compete, and I’m free to move on and do what I want. A clean break is a good break and I’m happy to still be able to feature TNA talent on these shows along with people from AEW and New Japan and Tokyo Joshi Pro. We have a great roster on camera and behind the scenes. I’m super excited."
Tonight, **TNA Impact** comes to us from Nashville, Tennessee! The card for tonight's show will be: **Singles Match** Brian Myers vs. Mike Santana **TNA X-Division Title Match** Mike Bailey (c) vs. Leon Slater **TNA Digital Media Title / International Heavyweight Title No Disqualification Match** PCO (c) vs. Rhino **Singles Match** Nic Nemeth vs. Matt Cardona *And more!* Please check your local listings and TNAWrestling.com for more information on how to watch. Card subject to change, enjoy your show!
Tonight, **AEW Rampage** comes to us from San Jose, Californi! The card for tonight's show will be: **Singles Match** Mark Briscoe vs. The Butcher **Singles Match** Kyle O'Reilly vs. TBA **Singles Match** Trish Adora vs. Anna Jay **Tag Team Match** Private Party (Quen & Zay) vs. MxM Collection (Mansoor & Mason Madden) *And more!* Please check your local listings and AllEliteWrestling.com for more information on how to watch. Card subject to change, enjoy your show!
>He said Omega did great numbers for the company [Nitter](https://nitter.poast.org/SeanRossSapp/status/1847037241039716762)
Tonight, **WWE SmackDown** comes to us from Columbia, South Carolina! The card for tonight's show will be: **Tag Team Match** Los Garza (Angel & Berto) vs. TBA *And more!* Please check your local listings and WWE.com for more information on how to watch. Card subject to change, enjoy your show!
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While speaking to Fightful for a new interview, D'Amore talked about booking TNA talent on the shows and how he was able to work things out with TNA. >"I talked about it with the talent, which is often the first step. We talked through a lot of stuff with talent and eventually it came to we had to deal with it company to company, which we did. Gratefully, we were able to work it out and have the talent appear. It’s good for their talent as well. We have a great mix of talent for a lot of different companies, and I don’t see a downside to talent appearing on this platform. If I were still sitting in the chair as the President of TNA Wrestling, this is the type of event, similar to when we would send people to a New Japan event, it’s an event that has some prestige and buzz, so why not have your talent front and center on that?"
So last night, I have my tablet, and I'm laying in bed, watching dynamite. I don't USUALLY fall asleep in bed, but then Jericho came on, and Rene was interviewing him....and......something about Ocho.....zzzzzzz I still have to watch the rest of Dynamite now....
[Nitter](https://nitter.poast.org/Fightful/status/1846348481126191122)
Tonight, **AEW Dynamite** comes to us from San Jose, California! The card for tonight's show will be: **AEW TBS Title Match** Mercedes Mone (c) vs. Queen Aminata **Singles Match** Shelton Benjamin (w/MVP) vs. Lio Rush **Singles Match** Christian Cage vs. Jay White **Six Man Tag Team Match** The Elite (Kazuchika Okada, Matthew Jackson & Nicholas Jackson) vs. The Conglomeration (Kyle O'Reilly, Orange Cassidy & Rocky Romero) *And more!* Please check your local listings and AllEliteWrestling.com for more information on how to watch. Card subject to change, enjoy your show!
The context (courtesy of KXNGAO on Twitter) - >“Through the office from talks I heard it was Tanahashi on Collision. . . He was about to hit a High Fly Flow but he slips off, and I run up and I start fighting him and he knocks me off and hits me with the HFF and wins. That was the moment Tony was like ‘I can trust him with anything, I can trust him with anybody and anything.’ >That might be what saved the New Japan relationship with AEW, because he became the president very soon after that. If he gets hurt all of that goes away.”
[Nitter](https://nitter.poast.org/ariannagracewwe/status/1846945044567056783)
[Nitter](https://nitter.poast.org/sexychuckiet/status/1847002451305812186)
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>"I'll be there for the foreseeable future. We came to an agreement on a deal and I'm extremely happy working for TNA. I could see myself retiring at TNA and working behind the scenes. I love TNA Wrestling. As much as people talk about, 'I want to go to Japan, I want to work for WWE.' TNA was always on a pedestal for me, and being part of that is a dream come true," he said.
tl;dw: **Six Man Tag** Josh Alexander, Stu Grayson and ELP vs. Trevor Lee, Rocky Romero and Alex Zayne **Champions Grail Title Match** Rohan Raja vs. Jake Something **Table Match** Raj Dhesi vs. Bully Ray **4-Way Tag Team Match** Kushida/Kevin Knight vs. El. Reverso/Aiden Prince vs. Brent Banks/Johnny Swinger vs. Rohit Raju/Sheldon Jean **Singles Match** QT Marshall vs. Bhupinder Gujjar **4-Way Match** Laynie Luck vs. Taylor Rising vs. Kylie Rae vs. Aurora Teves **Singles Match** Gisele Shaw vs. Miyu Yamashita **Singles Match** Mike Bailey vs. Konosuke Takeshita
Any surprises? ::: spoiler spoiler 1)Toni Storm 2) Jordynne Grace 3) Rhea Ripley 4) Maika 5) Stephanie Vaquer 6) Sareee 7) Bayley 8) Willow Nightingale 9) Mariah May 10) Athena 11) Roxanne Perez 12) Liv Morgan 13) Iyo Sky 14) Mayu Iwatani 15) Masha Slamovich 16) Mina Shirakawa 17) Becky Lynch 18) Miu Watanabe 19) Miyu Yamashita 20) Lyra Valkyria :::
Tonight, **ROH on HonorClub** comes to us from Spokane, Washington! The card for tonight's show will be: **Tag Team Match** Derek Dillinger & Ren Jones vs. Spanish Announce Project (Angelico & Serpentico) **Tag Team Match** Midnight Heat (Eddie Pearl & Ricky Gibson) vs. MxM Collection (Mansoor & Mason Madden) **Singles Match** Yuka Sakazaki vs. Viva Van **Singles Match** Nick Wayne (w/Mother Wayne) vs. Bryan Hook **ROH Women's World Title Proving Ground Match** Athena (w/Lexy Nair) vs. Lady Frost *And more!* Please check your local listings and RingOfHonor.com for more information on how to watch. Card subject to change, enjoy your show!
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Kathy Colace, the mother of the Bella Twins, is officially divorced from John Laurinaitis. Colace broke the news on the Nikki & Brie Show podcast. John Laurinaitis is part of the Vince McMahon lawsuit filed by Janel Grant and has been accused of sexual assault. In one part of her filing Grant accuses McMahon of forcing her into threesomes and one was with Laurinaitis at WWE headquarters. Colace called the first few months of the year “heartbreaking” in her life but she had moved on and healed. She thanked everyone for the well wishes and prayers. In 2020, Colace had a mass from her brain stem that was initially mistakenly diagnosed as Bell’s Palsy. Earlier this year she had surgery to help with her facial paralysis. On the podcast, Brie Garcia spoke about all that has been happening with her family. “The last year has been really hard on my family,” said Brie. Brie hasn’t been impressed with some of the coverage she has read. “If there was an award for b——-t, there are a lot of you who would win that award,” said Brie. Brie then asked her mom for permission to announce the divorce. “Is it fine to tell everyone that you’re divorced? She’s not single and ready to mingle, by no means. She is, I feel like, enjoying your independent time. People are curious to know where you’re at,” she said. “I will tell you how the experience is from someone that goes through it. You need time. You need silence. This is for anyone. We all have our stories and we all have our challenges. My thought is, let yourself feel every emotion. One day, life is fine, and the next day you’re hit with something that just rocks your world. You actually feel a paralysis to yourself,” Colace began. She then spoke about how she deals with the comments she reads on social media and the like. “If you stay on any type of social media, everyone has great advice, what they think is advice and they have no idea what you’re going through. You need to give people grace. Everyone involved, whether you’re siding with one person or the other, give everybody grace. As a person going through it, you need to feel anger, heartbreak, sadness and recovery. Our body is made to feel emotion. When you tuck an emotion away it will find its way out. My recommendation for anybody going through anything challenging, give yourself some grace, allow yourself to feel all the emotions that you’ll feel and sit in silence and appreciate yourself. You will get through this. If you need outside help to get through it seek outside help. In regards to the haters, you’re going to hate. Maybe find it in yourself to give everyone grace. Hopefully you’re not treating people close to you with hate,” she said.
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This is why I love our tiny joshi gorillawoman: She just had zero concept of her own strength lmao