Squared Circle's July Pro Wrestling Discussion Thread (SPOILERS!)
Hello Squared Circle! Welcome to our Monthly 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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Vice is selling VHS copies of the new Dark Side of the Ring episode about Necro Butcher vs. Samoa Joe.
If I had a VCR!
A few years ago I inherited a VCR/ DVD player combo, so I'm good to go, lol.
Jake Hagar got KO'd at Power Slap, in case anyone wants to watch him go down, lol.
Hot god damn that was a slap and a half
Athena has now been ROH Women's Champion for 1300 days.
Ring of Athena
Pepsi Phil ended Sami's title reign after only 9 days. smdh
I knew he was in trouble the minute they made the Cody-Sami match, I didn't expect Punk to end up the winner though, I was fully expecting some bullshit to get it back to Cody and then they would come back around to Sami at ArabiaMania, which I hope they do. I'm not the biggest Sami fan, but holy shit I want something different.
I look forward to Sami as a heel (tweener maybe) on a mission to destroy everybody that screwed him.
What I want to know is, was the original win planned, if it was planned was it always supposed to go this way, and if it was, why? To send the crowd home happy I guess, gotta keep the big money happy. Every now and then I miss the Attitude Era hot swapping titles, then this happens and I think, maybe I don't miss them that much.
From what I've seen reported that is how they've been planning things to go. There were also reports that WWE didn't bother telling their marketing department Sami was going to win, and that they don't view Sami as a big money maker for them, so the writing has been on the wall since the beginning of his reign that it wasn't going to be a long one.
Sad but not hard to believe, they spent over a year trying to make everybody view Bryan Danielson as a B+ Player and not worthy of the top, they treated Mankind and Kane the same way for years before giving in and letting them sit close to the top but never totally up there. There has never been a bigger lie than "they just need to grab the brass ring."
EDIT: Obviously never a bigger lie is an exaggeration, but y'all get it.
WWE did post this backstage promo Sami did that could lead to something, but I've been burned enough by WWE's creative that I'm not going to get my hopes up yet lol.
I just saw this picture and for a second was wondering when Kenny wore a tube top. I got to say, he pulls it off well lol.
Not to drag the nonsense in here but myself and cupcakezealot are on the Tesseract list. So if anyone is using the Tesseracts front end you won't see our stuff. Not even this!
I still haven't checked out the blocklist, and I can't now since they took the entire site down. Does anyone have an uncompressed copy?
I'm fairly certain it caught me, since the entire instance I'm on apparently was blocked, but I'm just curious to see what was on it.
It blocked all of blahaj I think, but this is what I used https://copyparty.adrian.place/u/?doc=policy.json
I've heard of it, but I'm OOL. What exactly is that?Nvm, I looked it up.It's a front end UI for Lemmy. Apparently it downloads a file that blocks users and communities the developer has decided are miscreants without the user of Tesseracts being aware.
Yeah, I'm looking at the literal list now. Checked out the "elephant in the room" post and dude seems to have a serious complex about what the fediverse should be. I get wanting to curate your personal fediverse experience, but this dude wants some kind of singular, centralized mindset, which just isn't what the fediverse is.
Blocking/filtering content should be up to the end user, not the person designing the UI.
It's dumb, but since it impacts some of the people here I figured I'd bring it up.
Funnily enough, if this "Admiral Patrick" dude followed me on bluesky, I'd 100% be on the list. lol
That sucks/ congratulations lol. I was kind of disappointing I didn't make the list, but then I realized 99% of my posts are about wrestling.
I'm probably about the same lol
What the hell? I've posted about Fuck ICE chants, Kidd Bandit, and how WWE buddies up to corrupt political regimes. What kind of bullshit censorship list doesn't catch me? Lol
This is discrimination!
high five
We did it!
Acknowledge her!
Might as well call her The Empire Strikes Back because if she's on the TV I am having a good time!
just ordered my first aew haul naturally it's the willow unicorn trinket, the aew sickos shirt, and the rebel benefit items so congrats to the aew shipping person who gets that order and says "yea that's about right"
Shoot, I just went ahead and posted the August thread as you posted this. 😅 Feel free to copy it over for visibility.
Now you can have you're very own Jeff Hardy table! No idea the scale, but I really hope it's life sized. Anything less and the creator is a coward.
Holy shit! That's stupid awsome.
When I first saw it I thought it was insane that anyone would get one, but now I'm picturing my cat sleeping on his back. I'm sure I could justify a $1500 cat bed to my spouse lol.