Darren Delgado, my co-host from RIP a Livecast, joins me to recap this weekend's major WWE PLE event, Clash at the Castle. We recap all the matches, the positives, the negatives, the controversial finish and we also discuss the WyatSick6 return this past Monday on Raw. Watch this episode on Yout ube . Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the intersection of rock and pro wrestling. More episodes at squaredcirclepit.com Follow Squared Circle Pit on Twitter http://twitter...
Jun 19, 2024•47 min
Cattle Decapitation frontman Travis Ryan and Jim from PutrefactioN Management sit in on this edition of Squared Circle Pit. Jim took Travis to his first live wrestling event, AEW Double or Nothing in Las Vegas last week, and we all discuss the experience. Plus, Travis talks about his newly formed friendship with Jerry Lynn and how Jerry is a big fan of the band and eeath metal in general. A great interview worth checking out! Watch this episode on Yout ube . Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hoste...
Jun 05, 2024•42 min
Rob reviews the major pro wrestling weekend with WWE King & Queen of the Ring last Saturday and the epic AEW Double or Nothing PPV on Sunday. We go through the injuries, the big moments and all the news that you may have missed. What were your thoughts on the shows? Watch this episode on Yout ube . Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the intersection of rock and pro wrestling. More episodes at squaredcirclepit.com Follow Squared Circle Pit on Twitter http://twitte...
May 29, 2024•31 min
DDT Japanese Pro Wrestling icon MAO sits in on the Squared Circle Pit, with some help from DDT's Ash for translation. Mao talks about his beatdown hardcore band, Dos Quatro, wrestling in no-ring death matches, how he always wanted to be in a band, and balance life as a pro wrestler and rock musician, plus his hopes to tour with God's Hate. Listen to Dos Quatro's new single, " No Disqualification " Watch this episode on Yout ube . Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring th...
May 22, 2024•14 min
WWE superstar and current World Heavyweight Champion Damian Priest steps into the Squared Circle Pit for a very fun discussion. We discuss his epic WrestleMania moment where he cashed in his Money in the Bank briefcase and achieved his lifelong dream of being world champion. We discussed the moments before and after the win, and also talked about how it felt to go backstage and thank Paul "Triple H" Levesque. Damien then discussed his incredibly memorable match with Bad Bunny in Puerto Rico and ...
May 15, 2024•22 min
20 Buck Spin's Jason Cantu enters the pit and we go over this past weekend's epic WWE Backlash event in France, the surprises, the crazy crowd and Cody Rhodes' first title defense. But Jason talks about how he originally got into pro wrestling and rediscovering his love for sports entertainment in the last year with his girlfriend. He talks about attending WrestleMania and his current wrestling diet. Watch this episode on Yout ube . Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring...
May 09, 2024•33 min
Legendary WCW/TNA ring announcer David Penzer steps into the Squared Circle Pit and talks to Rob Pasbani about how he broke into the business, watching pro wrestling in Florida, his passion for broadcasting, lovingly referring to himself as a stooge, being in a room of a murderer's row of announcers and much more. David's new book Sitting Ringside: Vol 1 WCW is available at DavidPenzerBook.com . Watch this episode on Yout ube . Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the ...
May 01, 2024•35 min
Comedian Josh Alba re-enters the Squared Circle Pit as we discuss AEW's new PPV, Dynasty. We go through the entire card and talk about our likes and dislikes and spend a good amount of time gushing over Bryan Danielson vs. Will Ospreay. Watch this episode on Yout ube . Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the intersection of rock and pro wrestling. More episodes at squaredcirclepit.com Follow Squared Circle Pit on Twitter http://twitter.com/squaredcirclpit Follow Squar...
Apr 24, 2024•32 min
It doesn't take a deep investigation to recognize how pro wrestler Ozzy Kilmeister is the perfect guest for Squared Circle Pit. The Floridian pro wrestler talks about his lifelong love of pro wrestling, how his older brother got him into heavy metal and how he began training with Gangrel, developing his metalhead character and meeting Kevin Sullivan. Follow Ozzy at https://www.instagram.com/ozzykilmeister/ Watch this episode on Yout ube . Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exp...
Apr 17, 2024•33 min
Rob is once again joined by comedian Peter Angelo and the two recap the insane WrestleMania XL weekend, and talk about their favorite moments, some disappointments, Cody Rhodes finishing his story, CM Punk, The Rock being the absolute best and more of our favorite moments. Watch this episode on Yout ube . Follow Pete on Instagram for all his stand up comedy dates: https://www.instagram.com/metalpetecomedy/ Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the intersection of rock a...
Apr 10, 2024•41 min
Former UFC champion and catch wrestling legend Josh Barnett enters the Squared Circle Pit to talk about his lifelong passion for heavy metal. Josh talks about how he discovered the genre, growing up in the Pacific Northwest, and how he found his favorite band ever, Bolt Thrower. We discuss how music discovery has changed as well as how Josh has become personal friends with musicians he looked up to. Josh spends time discussing this year's Bloodsport, happening this Thursday, and how he was able ...
Apr 03, 2024•56 min
Host Rob Pasbani offers a very special edition of Squared Circle Pit, where he ranks every WrestleMania ever. Which Manias achieved GOAT status? Which were a total mess? And which were just average? Here's Rob's opinion. What's yours? Watch this episode on Yout ube . Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the intersection of rock and pro wrestling. More episodes at squaredcirclepit.com Follow Squared Circle Pit on Twitter http://twitter.com/squaredcirclpit Follow Squared...
Mar 27, 2024•34 min
WWE 2K24 game producer Bryan Williams steps into the Squared Circle Pit to discuss the new game. We discuss the new game modes and the surprising challenges in creating them that you wouldn't expect. Plus, we discuss how the game determines wrestler rankings. Bryan discusses how he got into pro wrestling, his love of The Rock, and his current wrestling diet. Watch this episode on Youtube . Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the intersection of rock and pro wrestling....
Mar 20, 2024•39 min
TNA Wrestling star and current DFW tag champion Jake Something enters the pit. Jake talks about his lifelong fandom of Slipknot and how he recently befriended Sid Wilson. We discussed Jake's early memories of pro wrestling, his favorites growing up, his favorite nu-metal bands, and why he chose to train at the Ring of Honor dojo. Plus, his recent appearances for New Japan Pro Wrestling and breaking language barriers when working with foreign wrestlers. Watch this episode on Youtube . Follow Jake...
Mar 13, 2024•31 min
Rob Pasbani welcomes Scotland Green aka MisterGreenMist of the weekly streaming series Pro Wrestling Potluck to go through this weekend's monumental AEW Revolution event. We go through the card match by match and gush about what a perfect retirement it was for Sting. Watch this episode on Youtube . Check out the Scotland's Pro Wrestling Potluck here . Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the intersection of rock and pro wrestling. More episodes at squaredcirclepit.com ...
Mar 06, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Hath frontman Frank Albanese steps into the pit to discuss this past weekend's WWE Elimination Chamber premium live event. We recap all the matches, and Frank tells me a bit about his own wrestling fandom, and how he channels the Ultimate Warrior onstage while performing with Hath. Watch this episode on Youtube . For more Hath visit https://linktr.ee/hathband Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the intersection of rock and pro wrestling. More episodes at squaredcircle...
Feb 28, 2024•34 min
Nick Miller, guitarist of the recently reunited Flesh & Blood Robot joins the show to discuss the band's recent ressurection, mathcore, his favorite era of wrestling, which is the "Attitude Era," why he preferred WWF to WCW, and how he recently started paying attention again with the return of the Rock and his promo on WWE Smackdown. Watch this episode on Youtube . On Sunday, Mar 17, 2024, Flesh and Blood Robot are playing a reunion show at Pyramid Scheme in Grand Rapids, MI with From a Seco...
Feb 21, 2024•45 min
Tom Fraizer, the owner of the Technique 2 Training Wrestling Academy in Brooklyn, NY enters the pit this week. Tom talks about his unique path into the wrestling business through a radio show, his philosophy on wrestling, similarities between promoting wrestling shows and punk bands, and his favorite ECW matches. Watch this episode on Youtube . Learn more about T2T at https://www.t2twrestling.com/ Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the intersection of rock and pro wr...
Feb 14, 2024•32 min
Comedian and former WWE writer Milly Tamarez enters the pit. She talks about some of her early concert experiences and growing up a wrestling fan. Milly also discusses how she got on the radar of WWE to be hired as a writer on the creative team, and the intense backlash from fans after she made her announcement. We touch on the Vince McMahon allegations and Milly convinces Rob that pro wrestling should take some notes from The Real Housewives. Watch this episode on Youtube . For more on Milly, v...
Feb 07, 2024•55 min
Kevin Diers, DJ on Seattle's 99.9 KISW, steps into the pit with @RobPasbani this week to discuss the crazy week in wrestling, including the Royal Rumble, the truly insane allegations against Vince McMahon and the incredibly disappointing week for CM Punk. Watch this episode on Youtube . For more on 99.9 KISW's Metal Shop, click here . Check out clips of DEFY's Defyant Ones podcast. Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the intersection of rock and pro wrestling. More ep...
Jan 31, 2024•39 min
Host Rob Pasbani is joined by Evan Minsker, the former Associate News Director at the recently gutted esteemed music publication Pitchfork. Evan and Rob discuss the similarities between music and wrestling journalism, how the Pitchfork restructuring statement felt like it used wrestling lingo ("kayfabe"), the politics of journalism, and how music journalists can use techniques from wrestlers released from WWE to get new work. Evan also discusses his fandoms of punk and wrestling, going to WCW sh...
Jan 24, 2024•46 min
You might not be familiar with Juan OFTHEDEAD's face, but you've definitely seen his work in AEW and on the pro wrestling indies. Juan is also a metalhead. Rob talks to Juan about how he got into wrestling and metal, how he fell into graphic design after being in a band, how he got his start and made his connections and why we should all pay for fonts. Watch this episode on Youtube . Follow Juan and see his designs on Twitter . Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the ...
Jan 17, 2024•35 min
The Red Chord frontman Guy Kozowyk joins Rob Pasbani on the Squared Circle Pit to talk all things 90s wrestling. Guy talks about getting into the golden era of wrestling as a kid, watching Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior and Andre the Giant and then rediscovering pro wrestling in the late 90s with the Attitude Era. He also reveals that Matt Bloom, the former Prince Albert, was a coach at his high school. Guy also discusses how he got into extreme music as a kid. Finally, Guy talks a bit about The R...
Jan 10, 2024•38 min
The final week of 2023 and the first week of 2024 turned out to be quite eventful in the world of pro wrestling. Rob Pasbani is joined by KNITRO co-host Jordan Olds aka Gwarsenio Hall of Two Minutes to Late Night to discuss the Rock's shocking return, plus a full review of the final AEW PPV of 2023, Worlds End, including Adam Cole revealing himself to be a devil. A very fun convo! Watch this episode on Youtube . Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the intersection of ...
Jan 03, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Join Rob as he counts down his favorite matches of the year and offers some opinions on them, including stars like Cody Rhodes, Kenny Omega, Bryan Danielson, Roman Reigns, CM Punk, Mercedes Moné, Charlotte Flair, MJF, Adam Page, Vikingo and more. Watch this episode on Youtube . Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the intersection of rock and pro wrestling. More episodes at squaredcirclepit.com Follow Squared Circle Pit on Twitter http://twitter.com/squaredcirclpit Fol...
Dec 27, 2023•42 min
Former Morbid Angel frontman, David Vincent, currently of I Am Morbid and Vltimas, talks about his love of pro wrestling from childhood. David reveals that he grew up in Charlotte and shares stories of being neighbors with Ric Flair. He discusses his love for old school wrestling, seeing ECW for the first time, the brief Morbid Angel/ECW collaboration, stand out memories from the Attitude era, dipping his toes into promoting wrestling events and his thoughts on modern wrestling. Watch the new vi...
Dec 20, 2023•43 min
Journeyman pro wrestler Matt Cross aka M-Dogg 20 talks about his 25 year career in the pro wrestling business, getting into punk and ska as a teenager and how that led him to ECW and his passion for pro wrestling. Matt also discusses his time in Wrestling Society X and Lucha Underground and his awesome punk band, Forlorn United. Listen to Matt's band, Forlorn United . Matt's clothing line, Wrestling is Forever Watch this episode on Youtube . Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani ...
Dec 13, 2023•52 min
MLW Tag Team Champion and Circle6 World Champion Matthew Justice steps into the Squared Circle Pit this week. Matt talks about his love for Metallica, how ECW got him into pro wrestling, his favorite pro wrestlers, deciding to be a wrestler in high school and his journey over the last 20 years, including moving to New York, getting signed to WWE's developmental system and his love of death match wrestling. Catch Matt Justice at MLW One Shot Thursday, December 7th in NYC. Matt will also be at the...
Dec 06, 2023•40 min
Squared Circle Pit offers a full review of one of the most talked about events of the year. Comedian Pete Angelo joins host Rob Pasbani to through all the matches, including the men's and women's War Games matches, PLUS our reaction to the shocking return of CM Punk. How should Punk be presented going forward? We talk all about it! Get all of Pete's comedy dates at his Instagram page . Watch this episode on Youtube . Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the intersectio...
Nov 29, 2023•53 min
Comedian Katie Rose Leon joins host Rob Pasbani to recap this weekend's controversial AEW Full Gear PPV. Did Hangman and Swerve go too far with their Texas death match? How was the MJF angle recieved? A full recap of the show, as well as some fun stories from Katie on how she got into wrestling and Rob explaining what a big wrestling fan Rick Rubin is. Watch this episode on Youtube . Listen to Katie's wrestling podcast here . Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani exploring the in...
Nov 22, 2023•57 min
