Squared Circle Pit is about the intersection of rock and pro wrestling, and at that intersection, Eat the Turnbuckle is putting somebody through the table.
Squared Circle Pit is about the intersection of rock and pro wrestling, and at that intersection, Eat the Turnbuckle is putting somebody through the table.
Taking Back Sunday bassist Shaun Cooper talks about his longtime wrestling fandom on the latest Squared Circle Pit.
It’s the 1995 season finale of Knitro and we wind down with the biggest show of the year, WCW Starrcade 1995, which features a WCW vs. New Japan cup series of matches and the first ever triangle match in WCW with Ric Flair, Sting and Lex Luger.
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, and his favorite type of matches.
Lex Luger is in his contractually mandated weekly match and we decide we are not fans of the torture rack.
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.
The infamous return of Madusa kicks off this WCW Monday Nitro as she throws the WWF Women’s Championship in the trash.
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.
Nitro is in Horsemen Country in Charlotte, NC and that’s bad news for Hulk Hogan, who, once again, gets booed out of the building.
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.
We are back on the 1995 timeline as Bo joins us to witness a really weak episode of WCW Monday Nitro.
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.
Indie star EFFY joins us for this final flash-forward episode where we jump another few months in the Russo timeline to the night that David Arquette defends the WCW World Heavyweight Championship against DDP and Jeff Jarrett.
Indie star Kevin Blackwood 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.
We fast-forward four years for a very special episode where KNITRO transforms into KTHUNDER. We are joined by WCW Deep Cuts’ Thomas Green to go over the last night of Kevin Nash’s reign as booker, right before Vince Russo took over. It was an exceptionally terrible episode and we had a lot of fun reviewing it.