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Tonight, AEW Collision and Battle of the Belts XII comes to us from Stockton, California!

The card for tonight's show will be:

Collision:


Tag Team Match
The Outrunners (Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd) vs. La Faccion Ingobernable (Rush & The Beast Mortos)

Six Man Tag Team Match
House Of Black (Brody King, Buddy Matthews & Malakai Black) vs. TBA

Singles Match
Ricochet vs. AR Fox

Singles Match
Kris Statlander vs. Harley Cameron

Six Man Tag Team Match
Daniel Garcia & Private Party (Quen & Zay) vs. The Premier Athletes (Ariya Daivari, Josh Woods & Tony Nese) (w/Mark Sterling)

Singles Match
Orange Cassidy vs. Bulk Bronson

Singles Match
Jamie Hayter vs. Brooke Havok

Singles Match
Kyle Fletcher vs. Atlantis Jr.

AEW World Trios Title Match
Blackpool Combat Club (Claudio Castagnoli, PAC & Wheeler Yuta) (c) vs. Action Andretti & Top Flight (Dante Martin & Darius Martin)


Battle of the Belts:


AEW Continental Title Match
Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Kyle O'Reilly

Tag Team Match
Jack Cartwheel & Jon Cruz vs. The Don Callis Family (Brian Cage & Lance Archer)

AEW Women's World Title Eliminator Match
Anna Jay vs. Mariah May

And more!

Please check your local listings and AllEliteWrestling.com for more information on how to watch. Card subject to change, enjoy your show!

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Hello SquaredCircle! Welcome to our Weekly 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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WWE legend known as The Undertaker cut his own election promo in a video posted to social media on Friday after pro wrestling star Dave Bautista, known as Bautista, took shots at former President Donald Trump earlier in the week.

The Undertaker, whose real name is Mark Callaway, was seen on a video next to his former WWE colleague Kane, the current mayor of Knox County, Tennessee, whose real name is Glenn Jacobs, and Trump and addressed potential voters about their options come Election Day.

"All right everyone. November 5th – ElectionMania. The choice is yours. You can go with President Trump, Kane and The Undertaker or you can take Kamala Harris, Dave Bautista and Tim Walz. Choose wisely – the nation depends on it," Callaway said in a TikTok vieo.

"And that should be an easy choice," Trump added.

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The Republican presidential nominee’s appearance with the wrestling greats came after Bautista made a video firing shots left and right at Trump as he expressed his support for Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for president.

"Fellas, we gotta talk," Bautista said in part. "A lot of men seem to think that Donald Trump is some kind of tough guy. He’s not. I mean, look at him, he wears more make-up than Dolly Parton. He whines like a baby. The guy is afraid of birds. Donald Trump had his daddy pay a doctor to say his little feet hurt, so he could dodge the draft. Look at that gut. It’s like a garbage bag full of buttermilk."

His rant was accompanied by various related images and clips of Trump during his presidency and campaign.

In a comment to Fox News Digital on Wednesday, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung pushed back, calling Bautista a "stone-cold loser" and mocked his WWE career.

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Six former writers for the organization’s long-running shows SmackDown! and Monday Night RAW describe bullying and sexism behind the scenes while former CEO Vince McMahon was in charge

“Everybody was getting yelled at all the time in the room,” one former writer says. “It was more saying shit that was humiliating or mean [that was then] couched as a joke, but it’s a nasty joke.” The writer adds, “If you’re being targeted in the room, nobody stands up for you, but that’s because if they do, they will get the bullet in the head, too. You don’t stick your head up out of the foxhole for anybody, because nobody wants to take a bullet.”

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Spoiler technically included for today's show

Yuki Mashiro tearfully talked about unpaid wages and no communication from Ice Ribbon President Kazuhito Goshima after winning the ICE×∞ Championship:

"Well... I can't go into details, but we haven't been able to get in touch with him since a month ago, or since last month, or maybe late last month, and all of our calls and contacts have been cut off, and he hasn't responded to anything. No matter how many times we contact him or call him, he doesn't respond. Even though we all contacted President Goshima, he never responded, so we were all really anxious going into today. What should we do? What should we do? How? Everyone is naturally really anxious about the president being gone, and yes, we're putting our bodies on the line, risking our lives to do this, so the fact that the person who is in charge of the money and other aspects is gone, I'm sorry, I can't really explain it well, I'm sorry."

If wrestlers' salaries are not being paid:

"I can't say it myself, but that's the situation. Yes. That's why I was in a very anxious state heading into today."

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::: spoiler spoiler

And with that, ~~Mariah~~ Toni has received her third loss of the year. This one to one weak ass looking splash but if you get paid to count the ceiling lights you do so lol.

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Nitter

Full quote:

“She makes any piece of shit work, because she's so talented and so committed. I honestly haven't seen anyone so wrapped up in a whole thing that is unique to themselves since, I don't know, The Undertaker? And she's not doing half-ass horrible podcast now, know what I mean?. She's not wearing weird problematic shirts and being like, 'wrestling is not telling stories.'

Thanks, Mark. I really appreciate it. His show is weird. The guy is weird. He's a weird man. 'Back in my day it was a lot better.' I'm sorry, were you always dead? Did you start off dead? Would you like to explain that?”

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“I know there was a big push from a lot of the boys, and I’m down with this too, Monty Brown was someone that was up for consideration but it seemed like they were having a hard time getting ahold of Monty Brown, he’s off the grid it seems like. He would’ve been a really killer candidate too considering it was in Detroit.”

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"I can give you an exclusive. I had a no-compete through January of next year, and I worked it out with TNA on friendly terms. That’s officially over. The Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling stuff started while my no-compete was in place, but as we had discussions, we worked it out and I’m in a good spot where I get all the upsides, for the most part, that were there with the no-compete, and I’m free to move on and do what I want. A clean break is a good break and I’m happy to still be able to feature TNA talent on these shows along with people from AEW and New Japan and Tokyo Joshi Pro. We have a great roster on camera and behind the scenes. I’m super excited."

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Tonight, WWE SmackDown comes to us from Columbia, South Carolina!

The card for tonight's show will be:

Tag Team Match
Los Garza (Angel & Berto) vs. TBA

And more!

Please check your local listings and WWE.com for more information on how to watch. Card subject to change, enjoy your show!

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Tonight, AEW Rampage comes to us from San Jose, Californi!

The card for tonight's show will be:

Singles Match
Mark Briscoe vs. The Butcher

Singles Match
Kyle O'Reilly vs. TBA

Singles Match
Trish Adora vs. Anna Jay

Tag Team Match
Private Party (Quen & Zay) vs. MxM Collection (Mansoor & Mason Madden)

And more!

Please check your local listings and AllEliteWrestling.com for more information on how to watch. Card subject to change, enjoy your show!

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He said Omega did great numbers for the company

Nitter

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While speaking to Fightful for a new interview, D'Amore talked about booking TNA talent on the shows and how he was able to work things out with TNA.

"I talked about it with the talent, which is often the first step. We talked through a lot of stuff with talent and eventually it came to we had to deal with it company to company, which we did. Gratefully, we were able to work it out and have the talent appear. It’s good for their talent as well. We have a great mix of talent for a lot of different companies, and I don’t see a downside to talent appearing on this platform. If I were still sitting in the chair as the President of TNA Wrestling, this is the type of event, similar to when we would send people to a New Japan event, it’s an event that has some prestige and buzz, so why not have your talent front and center on that?"

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"I'll be there for the foreseeable future. We came to an agreement on a deal and I'm extremely happy working for TNA. I could see myself retiring at TNA and working behind the scenes. I love TNA Wrestling. As much as people talk about, 'I want to go to Japan, I want to work for WWE.' TNA was always on a pedestal for me, and being part of that is a dream come true," he said.

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So last night, I have my tablet, and I'm laying in bed, watching dynamite. I don't USUALLY fall asleep in bed, but then Jericho came on, and Rene was interviewing him....and......something about Ocho.....zzzzzzz

I still have to watch the rest of Dynamite now....

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The context (courtesy of KXNGAO on Twitter) -

“Through the office from talks I heard it was Tanahashi on Collision. . . He was about to hit a High Fly Flow but he slips off, and I run up and I start fighting him and he knocks me off and hits me with the HFF and wins. That was the moment Tony was like ‘I can trust him with anything, I can trust him with anybody and anything.’

That might be what saved the New Japan relationship with AEW, because he became the president very soon after that. If he gets hurt all of that goes away.”

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tl;dw:

Six Man Tag
Josh Alexander, Stu Grayson and ELP vs. Trevor Lee, Rocky Romero and Alex Zayne

Champions Grail Title Match
Rohan Raja vs. Jake Something

Table Match
Raj Dhesi vs. Bully Ray

4-Way Tag Team Match
Kushida/Kevin Knight vs. El. Reverso/Aiden Prince vs. Brent Banks/Johnny Swinger vs. Rohit Raju/Sheldon Jean

Singles Match
QT Marshall vs. Bhupinder Gujjar

4-Way Match
Laynie Luck vs. Taylor Rising vs. Kylie Rae vs. Aurora Teves

Singles Match
Gisele Shaw vs. Miyu Yamashita

Singles Match
Mike Bailey vs. Konosuke Takeshita

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