SquaredCircle Backup Community!

Saturday night's alright for fighting!!

Tonight, Collision comes to us LIVE from Huntsville, AL! The card includes:

• AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy, FTW Champion HOOK, Daniel Garcia, & Trent Beretta vs. TNT Champion Christian Cage, Brian Cage, Killshot, & Roderick Strong

• Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) vs. Christopher Daniels & Matt Sydal

• “Bounty Hunter” Bryan Kieth vs. Dante Martin vs. Penta El Zero Miedo

• The Bang Bang Scissor Gang (Anthony Bowens, Austin Gunn, & Max Caster) vs. The Dark Order (Alex Reynolds, Evil Uno, & John Silver)

• Mariah May in action!

• Thunder Rosa competes!!

• We will hear from AEW Women's World Champion Toni Storm, Deonna Purrazzo, & Wardlow!!!

And more!

Show starts at 8pm EST | 5pm PST | 7pm CST | 1am BST

AEW can be found on: TNT in the US, TSN+ in Canada, ViX in Latin America, ESPN in Australia, and FITETV/DAZN in the UK, EU, and elsewhere.

don't know if kbin is having issues tonight or anything but feel free to delete this if there's already one that didn't come through :)

and all take time to praise your hero and saviour riho :)

⚡ THIS IS RAMPAGE! ⚡

Tonight, Rampage comes to us from Huntsville, AL!The card includes:

• Claudio Castagnoli vs. Mexican National Tag Team Champion Rugido

• Mexican National Tag Team Champion Magnus vs. Matt Sydal

• Riho vs. Trish Adora

• Lance Archer & The Righteous (Dutch & Vincent) IN TRIOS ACTION!

And more!

Show starts at 10pm EST | 7pm PST | 9pm CST | 3am BST

AEW can be found on: TNT in the US, TSN+ in Canada, ViX in Latin America, ESPN in Australia, and FITETV/DAZN in the UK, EU, and elsewhere.

Steve McMichael, The Pugh Family and Valerie Coleman have won the 2023 Shad Gaspard/Jon Huber Award

As a reminder. the award was established in 2020 after the deaths of Shad Gaspard and Jon Huber and honor those who go above and beyond for charity or serve as inspirations. This year the awards were chosen by Dave and John Pollock of Post Wrestling, as it was felt that voting on such an award wasn't in good taste. Lance Storm suggested involving an unaffiliated reporter to help choose.

Steve McMichael has been battling ALS since 2021 and was recently elected to the NFL Hall of Fame. Despite briefly being hospitalized for MRSA, he remains determined to go to Canton to attend the induction ceremony.

The Pugh family received the award due to the class and resiliency they showed after the death of Jamin Pugh (Jay Briscoe). Despite the driver of the other car being at fault for the accident, they publicly asked people to stop attacking them on social media and fundraised for her family. It had already been determined early last year that they would be one of the recipients of the award.

Valerie Coleman is the widow of Superstar Billy Graham, who passed away in 2023. Despite his drug issues, health problems, and mood swings, she supported him and likely saved his life many times.

Zak Knight has signed with AEW

Zak Knight, real name Zak Bevis, 32, signed here. He’s the older brother of Saraya and was the person portrayed in the movie about Saraya, “Fighting with My Family,” as well as the U.K. documentary of the same name that inspired Dwayne Johnson to do that movie. His wrestling name in the U.K was Zak Zodiac and Zak Knight.

AZM and Mina Shirakawa from Stardom will appear in AEW/ROH in early April, when they are in for NJPW Windy Riot in Chicago

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOO...this is me, this is my own quote lol.

Hello everyone, benevolent overlord #376465 here!

This wonderful little community of ours has grown a lot since it was started by AKittyCat and gloomchen back in June when Reddit chose to increase its decade-long process of going to hell at Mach 3.

That being said no one can predict the future. At the time kbin seemed like an amazing alternative to Lemmy. More features, better interface, improved functionality with Mastodon, etc etc. The reality now 8-9 months later is that kbin is falling drastically behind. I'm sure everyone has noticed the random 500 errors, the errors when upvoting and/or boosting, the occasional downtime, etc etc. Development seems to have stalled out. Ernest (kbin's dev) has had personal issues (which I won't rag on him for letting get in the way, real life comes before this dumb-ass Internet shit 10 times out of 10) but regardless, an absent dev (especially when there's only one) does not make for a good software experience.

But..this is not just my community: It's yours. So it's time for everyone's favourite activity: Sounding off in the comments!

As things stand we have two basic options:

A: Ride the wave, stay on kbin and deal with it cause life sucks while hoping Ernest comes back.
B: Jump ship and move to another instance with whatever turbulence it could cause.

For A, well nothing changes. Things might get better? Things might get worse? Who knows, roll a die.

For B, we'd be starting fresh with (theoretically) fewer problems, but depending where we go would mean we could lose some features (like if we went to Lemmy, no more microblog and Mastodon integration).

I have set up a SQ backup community a day ago, located on Lemmy.zip (https://lemmy.zip/c/squaredcircle) as it's Federation is fairly wide open which should prevent issues (and from my own experience they don't have much if any issues error-wise like we do here) tho I am not opposed to other instances should people suggest em and they look better (though I love how the .zip community already has 31 subscribers for no reason besides existing lmao).

I'll make two comments below to keep the responses kinda-sorted, and this poll will remain up until approx. March 18th to give time for visibility.

Edit: Our current backup (and possible new home) which I linked above (and again, here) has been unlocked for posting given the heavy weekend we're coming to here, and with kbin's issues seemingly increasing today.

After a career that spanned across five decades, wrestling icon Sting wrestles his final match this Sunday

Tonight, TNA comes to us from New Orleans, Louisiana! The card includes:

• New X-Division champion Mustafa Ali will hold an inauguration ceremony!

• The System vs. Eric Young & ABC

• Tasha Steelz vs. Xia Brookside

• Mike Bailey vs. Steve Maclin

• Laredo Kid vs. Jake Something

• AJ Francis & Deaner vs. Joe Hendry & Rich Swann

And more!

TNA Impact! starts at 8pm EST | 5pm PST on AXStv, Fight Network, YouTube Insiders, TNA+, and DAZN. Check your local listings for more information.

I didn’t even know that my contract was coming up, to be honest. All this stuff happened with the termination of Scott D’Amore and stuff like that. And I looked at my contract, I was like, ‘Oh man, February 14? That’s like in three days. That’s weird.’

So I had to inform Anthem that my deal was lapsed and they had 10 days to pick up the option if they wanted to. And, you know, if you don’t ask, you might never find out. So I certainly asked if they could not pick up my option and we could negotiate something different, because I feel like I’ve outworked that contract I signed. But, you know, it was a team option. It’s something that the ball is in their court. I signed the deal. And it was totally within their rights to pick it up, and I’m completely fine with them picking it up. Like, it’s still a good deal. It’s not something that I’m upset about by any stretch. But just to read tweets and stuff [saying] like, I’m being held hostage and all this stuff and forced to stay here against my will -- that’s not the case.

I signed that deal two years ago. I knew what I was signing when I signed it. At the end of the day, at the end of my career, I want to be able to look in the mirror, hold my head high, and say that I carried myself as a professional first and foremost above anything else I do in this business. I want to say I did things right. And I signed that deal, I’m going to honor that deal, and we’ll see what happens in the next 12 months. Something could be renegotiated for something long-term in the meantime. Anthem has certainly mentioned that they would be interested in something like that. But, at the same time, I thought it would be cool for the first time in my career to kind of hit free agency and see what I was worth on the open market and then renegotiate then and see what could happen then.

But, yeah, I’m totally cool here staying in TNA. I’ve dreamt of being in TNA since I was a 15-year-old kid and I tuned in on Wednesday nights for the first time. So for that to happen, finally get in a TNA ring at the Palms for Hard to Kill and then the next day against Will Ospreay for Snake Eyes. Man, that’s a dream come true. So I want to see this thing through and I will for the next 11 months or whatever it is and then we’ll see where we go from there. But -- not being held hostage [laughs]. That’s a little too dramatic for me.

We know all the topics, but in terms of airing the first 3 episodes up (starting this Tuesday, March 5th) will be:

3/5 - John Tenta.

3/12 - Buff Bagwell.

3/19 - Terry Gordy.

Source: PWI

Sting says thank you.

It's Wednesday and you know what that means!

Tonight, Dynamite comes to us LIVE from Huntsville, AL!The card includes:

• STING'S LAST DYNAMITE. EVER!

• Continental Crown Champion Eddie Kingston & FTR (Cash Wheeler & Dax Harwood) vs. The Blackpool Combat Club (Bryan Danielson, Claudio Castagnoli, & Jon Moxley)

• Chris Jericho vs. Atlantis Jr.

• Kris Statlander vs. Skye Blue

• WILL OSPREAY IS ALL ELITE! He’ll make an appearance!

• AEW INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH: © Orange Cassidy vs. “The Prodigy” Nick Wayne

• We’ll hear from Hangman Adam Page!

And more!

Show starts at 8pm EST | 5pm PST | 7pm CST | 1am BST

AEW can be found on: TBS in the US, TSN+ in Canada, ViX in Latin America, ESPN in Australia, and FITETV/DAZN in the UK, EU, and elsewhere.

Source: PWI

In a developing situation that could have quite a negative ripple effect on upcoming events, PWInsider.com has learned that United States work visas for nearly 20 CMLL stars in Mexico are in the process of being canceled by the United States government. Once that happens, it could take months for new visas to go through the approval process and be issued.

PWInsider.com is told that 19 luchadors including including Volador Jr., Hechicero and Mascara Dorada (who have all appeared on AEW programming of late) as well as Blue Panther, Dulce Gardenia, El Sagrado, El Suicida, Electrico, Espiritu Negro, Euforia, Fugaz, Gemelo Diablo 1 and 2, Magico, Robin, Sangre Imperial, Soberano, Templario, and referee Sagaz are expected to be impacted and unable to perform in the United States.

In speaking to sources close to the situation, the visa blowup is a result of Texas independent wrestling promotion Full Blown Pro Wrestling, which runs Laredo and who had essentially sponsored the group visas for the CMLL talents, running into issues with CMLL management over the course of the visa process. PWInsider is told that CMLL head Salvador Lutteroth had placed other employees, one of whom was heading up the legal department for CMLL but has since left the promotion, in charge of the visa process on CMLL's end.

PWInsider.com is told that the United States Department of Homeland Security contacted Full Blown Pro Wrestling promoter Jerry Cadena with questions regarding the visas (PWInsider.com has not confirmed the specificity of the issue) and that he was informed that he could be accused of fraud if the visas were flagged due to the issue.

As the story goes, Cadena then contacted CMLL about working together to iron out the problem but CMLL's side claimed they would take care of the issue via the United States Embassy in Mexico and wouldn't respond beyond that statement. It should be noted that the Department of Homeland Security, not the Embassy for a specific country, actually issues the work visas here in the United States. We are told by one source that the belief on the CMLL side was they would be able to handle it as a family member works for The Embassy. Whether that could actually be the case remains to be seen.

However with CMLL no longer communicating with Cadena, but his name remaining on the line legally, the word is that he informed the United States Government he no longer had any intentions of working with CMLL going forward and that any agreements he signed to work with their talents were being terminated as of 2/28, which would be today.

So, what does this mean?

Unless there is some sort of miracle to sort this out, which seems unlikely, the aforementioned talents would not be able to travel into the United States legally to perform until a new work visa is acquired for them. We are told such a process could take a few months if everyone involved pays some pretty expensive fees to expedite everything and if everything goes as smoothly as possible, but at times the work visa process could take upwards of six to twelve months.

So, CMLL talents advertised for Wrestlemania weekend events in Philadelphia, New Japan Pro Wrestling's Windy City Riot, etc. may not actually be able to make those dates and perform - again, unless there is some sort of resolution - or someone spends a LOT of money to get the new visas in place while hoping they will be done in time for those big shows here in the United States this Spring.

More as we confirm.

Mike Jones, who wrestling fans knew as Virgil and Vincent, has died.

The news was confirmed by Pittsburgh referee Mark Charles III who had one of many who continued to look in on Jones as his health failed.

Charles III posted to Facebook on the morning of February 28, 2024:

My dear friends, it is with great sorrow that I bring news from the Jones family of the passing of our beloved Michael Jones, whom we know and loved as Virgil, Vincent, Soul Train Jones and more.
Virgil passed peacefully at the hospital this morning and I ask that you pray for him and for his family.
May his memory be eternal!

The former WCW star was diagnosed with dementia in 2022 and prior had two minor strokes before Jul. 12, 2022.

Just last week, Charles was spearheading an effort to have Jones moved from an ICU to a nursing home after two more strokes. According to Jones’ sister, he never had cancer as had been reported elsewhere.

We will have more on this story.

Oops.