Comedian Earl Skakel enters the pit this week and he's the ideal guest for exploring the intersection between rock and pro wrestling. Earl talks about getting into pro wrestling at a young age, and by chance finding himself backstage at a WWF house show when he was 15 and how meeting Kamala exposed that wrestling was pre-determined for him. We talk about the modern wrestling scene and what AEW needs to do. Plus, Earl shares some amazing stories about his friendships with Roddy Piper and Lemmy, i...
Nov 15, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Host Rob Pasbani is solo this week to count down the top 20 most metal entrance themes in pro wrestling history. Which entrance makes it to number 1? Do Rob's picks match your own? Let us know in the comments. 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 Follow Squared Circle Pit on Instagram: ...
Nov 08, 2023•35 min
Host Rob Pasbani is joined by Alex Lajas, aka @QueenoftheRing and they have a really fun discussion about the most metal women in pro wrestling, past and present. Lots of love for legends like Chyna, Luna Vachon, Lita, Bull Nakano, Aja Kong, Abadon, Rhea Ripley, Madusa, "The Fallen Angel" Nancy Sullivan, and more. Watch this episode on Youtube . Follow "Queen of the Ring" on socials https://www.instagram.com/_queenofthering/ https://twitter.com/queenoftheringg Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hos...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Steve from @Wrestling.Sucks joins host Rob Pasbani on this very special edition of the show, where we offer a mixtape of fun WCW Halloween Havoc matches to get in the spirit of spooky season. While we obstain from including Rey Mysterio Jr. vs Eddie Guerrero on our list (since it's been talked about to death), we do include matches from Rey, Ric Flair, Sting, The Great Muta, Terry Funk, Vader, Cactus Jack, Goldberg, Hulk Hogan, DDP and more. Plus, Steve talks about coming up in the Queens hardco...
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Host Rob Pasbani welcomes indie wrestling legend Vinnie Massaro to the Squared Circle Pit to talk about his over 25 year career in pro wrestling. Vinnie discusses his first exposure to pro wrestling, growing up in Italy, and how it inspired the type of wrestler he ended up being. Vinnie discusses wrestling some of his heroes like Mitsuharu Misawa and Jun Akiyama, wrestling in Arena Mexico and his latest challenge of training pro wrestlers at West Coast Pro Wrestling. We also discuss Vinnie's lov...
Oct 18, 2023•42 min
We talk to Power Hour co-host Josh Bernstein on all things pro wrestling. We discuss how he's a casual hardcore fan, and what that means. Josh discusses getting his two daughters into pro wrestling and who their favorites are. Josh also offers tips on how to get your friends or your kids' friends' parents into pro wrestling. We discuss how AEW can get fans back into arenas. Power Hour is on Thursdays at 11pm eastern on AXS TV following Impact and New Japan Pro Wrestling. We discuss what life is ...
Oct 18, 2023•50 min
"The Duke" himself, Rich Ward, guitarist of Fozzy, steps into the Squared Circle Pit and jokes he "owns some property" at the intersection of rock and pro wrestling. We jump right in to discussing Stuck Mojo's WCW crossover back in the day, his love of wrestling and metal as a kid, how he picked up the guitar, his love of music and touring, how he watched pro wrestling on the road, linking up with Chris Jericho to form Fozzy and how the band keeps busy on off-days when Jericho is wrestling. Ward...
Oct 04, 2023•57 min
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. Guitarist Shlak and drummer Mike Beer join host Rob Pasbani to discuss how the concept of the band came up, their association with Bad Luck 13 Riot Extravaganza, ECW's influence on their band, the first no-ring death matches/bar brawls and their new documentary "Stabbed in the Face." Watch this episode on Youtube . For more on Eat the Turnbuc...
Sep 27, 2023•49 min
Taking Back Sunday bassist Shaun Cooper talks about his longtime wrestling fandom on the latest Squared Circle Pit. Shaun recalls memories from watching in his youth to host Rob Pasbani. Cooper reveals it was Every Time I Die's Andy Williams, aka AEW wrestler The Butcher who got him back into pro wrestling as an adult. He talks about developing friendships with some pro wrestlers who ended up being fans of the band like Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch, and Shaun tells Rob about his journey to becom...
Sep 20, 2023•33 min
New York City death match legend Casanova Valentine enters the pit to talk about the performance art of death matches, the first death match he remembers seeing, the huge influence ECW had on his life, what he hopes to achieve as a death match wrestler, his New York City promotion New Fear City. Watch some of their shows here: @casanovavalentine666 Follow Casanova Valentine at https://instagram.com/mcdeathbear Watch this episode on Youtube . Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani ...
Sep 13, 2023•55 min
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, his favorite type of matches, which wrestlers are "his guys," coming out and how it affected his comedy, how Rob Halford doesn't get his due as a gay icon, plus we each give our takes on the crazy weekend of wrestling with WWE Payback, AEW All Out and CM Punk being fired. Follow Pete on Instagram f...
Sep 06, 2023•53 min
AEW's biggest event ever, All In London was this weekend and all anybody can talk about is the very real backstage fight between CM Punk and "Jungle Boy" Jack Perry that happened just as All In was going live worldwide, almost causing the entire show to be delayed. 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. Rob goes through multiple on...
Aug 30, 2023•43 min
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. Shawn realizes that WWE was one of his first exposures to heavy metal during the convo and shares fun stories of meeting Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, DDP, Metallica and others at his job at the SiriusXM radio station. Plus, Shawn talks ...
Aug 23, 2023•47 min
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. Diego also shares some wild memories of attending AAA shows as a kid and getting to jump around in the actual ring before the matches started. Lions at the Gate's new album"The Excuses We Cannot Make" is out on August 25. Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by...
Aug 16, 2023•39 min
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. First, we go through all the action of WWE SummerSlam including the controversial ending in the Roman Reigns vs. Jey Uso match, and then Scotland offers a recap of this year's G1 Climax tournament from New Japan Pro Wrestling, and recommends some matches to watch. Squared Circle Pit is a podcast hosted by Rob Pasbani ex...
Aug 09, 2023•45 min
Indie star Kevin Blackwood talks about how he got into rock and how he got into pro wrestling with Ultimate Warrior and watching Saturday morning recap shows of WWF. Kevin 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 w...
Aug 02, 2023•43 min
Mecho Wolf is the embodiment of what we're about here at Squared Circle Pit – the intersection of rock and pro wrestling. Not only is he one-half of the longest reigning NWA Tag Team Champions, with Bestia 666, but he also fronts a kick ass thrash band called MONSTER WOLF. Mecha talks about the anxiety of performing with his band at AAA TripleMania Tijuana right before he had to get in the ring and wrestle. He also discusses his love of all things Danzig and Misfits, his favorite metal bands and...
Jul 26, 2023•48 min
Jonathan King, artist manager at Shelter Music Group, enters the pit and really does a great job talking about the similarities between the life of a wrestler and a touring artist. Jon talks about his lifelong fandom of pro wrestling, how he got into the music business working at Loudside.com, and the lost art of street teams and compilations. Jon goes into his dipping his toe into wrestling production working with Championship Wrestling from Hollywood. Jon talks about his current role and how s...
Jul 19, 2023•44 min
Host Rob Pasbani is joined by comedian and writer Pat Driscoll to recap this past weekend's WWE Money in the Bank premium live event. We go through each match to offer analysis of the storylines and the results and we take a peek at the direction WWE is taking heading into SummerSlam next month. Watch the video version here . 0:00 - Intro 0:30 - WWE's streak of hot PPVs 3:00 - Men's Money in the Bank match 15:12 - Women's Tag Title Match 19:00 - Gunther vs. Matt Riddle 22:20 - Cody Rhodes vs. Do...
Jul 05, 2023•53 min
Outer Heaven' guitarist Zak Carter talks about getting into pro wrestling from a young age and how it influenced his music tastes, being an ECW guy and his love of Cactus Jack and Terry Funk. He talks about how Fozzy was his gateway to hearing Iron Maiden, which is his favorite band ever, stories about Lemmy, ECW's Sandman 0:00 Intro 1:45 New album "Infinite Psychic Depths" 2:25 What is your earliest wrestling memory? 3:30 Being an ECW guy 5:20 Finding Iron Maiden through Fozzy 7:00 Zak's fondes...
Jun 28, 2023•35 min
Comedy Store Wrestling co-host Eddy Torres is Rob Pasbani's guest on this week's Squared Circle Pit. We kick things off discussing the advertised matches for this Sunday's Forbidden Door show, and which wrestlers we would like to see on the card. We discuss CM Punk's return last weekend with Eddy having some controversial opinions on Punk. Eddy talks about how he got into pro wrestling and rock, and how he started working with the Comedy Store to bring more wrestling to the store. He talks about...
Jun 21, 2023•54 min
Major League Wrestling COO Mister St. Laurent is the guest on this edition. MSL loves rock and loves pro wrestling, so he's a perfect guest. We learn about advice Pat Patterson gave MSL before breaking into the business, and MSL offers us his career trajectory over the last few years that landed him in the COO position. A great chat for those looking for advice on how to break into pro wrestling. MSL also discusses the big MLW Never Say Never event happening July 8th at the 2300 Arena and stream...
Jun 14, 2023•40 min
Sumerian Records Art Director Daniel McBride is Rob Pasbani's guest on Squared Circle Pit this week. He talks about growing up a wrestling fan in New Mexico, how he got into it, how it inspired him, his heavy metal journey and we spend a lot of time talking about the Ultimate Warrior. McBride worked with Warrior when Warrior made an appearance on a Winds of Plague track and shares the story of meeting his idol in person. Daniel talks about attending Smackdowns live, graphic design and more fun t...
Jun 07, 2023•48 min
Host Rob Pasbani is flying solo this week with a full review of both major weekend events, WWE Night of Champions and AEW Double or Nothing, going through all the matches and the positives and negatives of both shows. Ultimately, Double or Nothing was Rob's least favorite AEW PPV in their five year history. Listen as he explains why. Knotfest has a bi-weekly wrestling column at http://knotfest.com/category/wrestling Follow Squared Circle Pit on Twitter http://twitter.com/squaredcirclpit Follow S...
May 31, 2023•36 min
Comedian Josh Alba joins host Rob Pasbani to go through the announced cards for the huge Memorial Day weekend of wrestling, featuring a big event from WWE – Night of Champions AND AEW's Double or Nothing. We go through all the matches and angles, plus talk about growing up watching wrestling in the 90s. Squared Circle Pit is hosted by Robert Pasbani and explores the intersection between pro wrestling and music. To follow Josh Alba, and get info on his upcoming shows (wrestling and comedy related...
May 24, 2023•1 hr 9 min
NJPW star and rapper Rocky Romero enters the Squared Circle Pit on this edition. Rocky talks about how he got into pro wrestling as a kid with his grandma, and the moment he decided that this was something he would pursue. Rocky shares great stories of training in the New Japan Dojo, working under Antonio Inoki, stories about his friendship with Kazuchika Okada, the insane amount of work that goes into organizing the AEW/NJPW Forbidden Door event, all the other cool NJPW events happening in the ...
May 17, 2023•57 min
Cattle Decapitation bassist Olivier Pinard joins host Rob Pasbani for this edition of Squared Circle Pit. The entire WWE Backlash card is recapped including Bad Bunny's incredible performance and the hot Puerto Rico crowd. Olivier also discusses how he discovered wrestling, his favorites growing up, the rest of his band's opinion on wrestling and how he keeps up on the road. A really fun conversation! Knotfest has a bi-weekly wrestling column at http://knotfest.com/category/wrestling Follow Squa...
May 10, 2023•47 min
Wrasslerap host and podcast producer Emilio Sparks is Robert Pasbani's guest on this edition of Squared Circle Pit. Emilio tells us all about how he got into wrestling, the Saturday morning killer lineups, the wrestling news telephone game, why Impact Wrestling is underrated, producing wrestling in Mexico and the wild Mexican crowds. Sparks then goes into detail about how WaleMania formed and how it's become the biggest party of WrestleMania weekend. Before the show ends, Rob and Emilio give som...
May 03, 2023•1 hr 17 min
Host Rob Pasbani talks to Islander vocalist Mikey Carvajal about how he and his band ended up forming a true friendship with wrestling icon Sting, how Sting appeared in their video and how Mikey and Sting connected about their spirituality. Mikey also discusses how he got into wrestling and being in a band, some rare wrestling memorabilia he has, his thoughts on CM Punk's upcoming return, AEW Collision and more. Listen to and subscribe to the podcast version of Squared Circle Pit at http://squar...
Apr 21, 2023•57 min
Host Rob Pasbani sits down with Rick Jimenez of Extinction A.D. to go over the entire card for WWE WrestleMania Goes Hollywood. We go through all the matches, give our thoughts on the buildup and our predictions on who we see winning. Plus, Rick shares some stories of growing up a wrestling fan. Watch this episode here . Extinction AD's album, Culture of Violence, is out now on Unique Leader Records. Knotfest has a bi-weekly wrestling column at http://knotfest.com/category/wrestling Check out au...
Mar 27, 2023•1 hr 7 min
