Squared Circle Pit

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, dip...

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, Wrestli...

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 w...

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...

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...

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 nee...

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 Squar...

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.in...

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, Ca...

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...

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 Thursd...

"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...

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 thei...

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 bein...

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://...

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 we...

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 al...

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...

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...

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 Wrest...

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...

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 an...

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 produ...

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 B...

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 earli...