I've seen it talked about elsewhere so I figured I'd post a link to it, although they cut a minute and a half from the beginning. The full version starts off ok, with Danhausen and Hendry doing a song, but then the "I believe that you are cursed" starts and just keeps going lol.

WWE’s new fan club will officially launch this week.

Club WWE is expected to open for sign-ups this Friday, per a press release issued on Monday.

The service offers fans exclusive merchandise and ticket opportunities, as well as a rewards program and special digital content. Access to the service goes for an annual fee of $99.

The full list of rewards currently available on the service was unveiled on Monday:

• Premium Welcome Kit available for a limited time to the first fans to sign up as Founding Members including a match-used canvas, a personal note from John Cena, and more.
• Members-Only WWE Shop featuring exclusive merchandise, including the newly announced ‘Never Seen 17’ collection and additional Superstar-exclusive product drops. The Minneapolis Collection will be available to members on day one and at the Fanatics SummerSlam Takeover in Minneapolis from July 31 to August 2.
• Early Access to Tickets for select WWE events,along with access to members-only lounges at select Premium Live Events and live events.
• Premium Content Library featuring iconic matches from WWE’s archive, behind-the-scenes content, exclusive interviews and brand-new original programming.
• Live Match Chats, giving fans a dedicated second-screen experience during WWE programming.
• Club WWE Rewards, allowing members to earn points through purchases as well as by logging in, watching content, participating in live chats and playing games, with points redeemable for exclusive rewards and experiences.

Club WWE has been teased since March, when the brand’s logo started popping up on broadcasts of Raw and Smackdown. The fan club opened earlier this month for “Founding Members,” who similarly paid $99 to sign up.

Welcome to SquaredCircle’s ‘Meme Monday’!

Have you seen a great wrestling meme this week that just made you crack up? Did you watch a silly moment in a show and just need to craft a meme out of it? Well post ‘em below!

The highest voted meme shall win and be showcased in next week’s thread!

Tay Melo’s release request will be granted.

Ahead of the AEW Redemption pay-per-view, Tony Khan hosted his pre-pay-per-view media call, and one of the questions asked of him had to do with the status of Tay Melo.

It was reported by Bryan Alvarez of F4WOnline that Melo requested her release from AEW in 2025, but it was denied.

Khan said that Melo did request her release, but that happened after the June 6th, 2026 AEW Collision during which she and Anna Jay challenged for the AEW Women’s World Tag Team Championship. She told Khan that she wanted to step away from wrestling, and Khan said he would be granting her release.

“With Tay (Melo), also a lot of inaccurate things I saw about Tay, and to be honest, in this case, there was smoke to the fire but people were reporting the fire in the wrong place, so what does that really accomplish? And with Tay, Tay had said she wanted to step away from wrestling. She has said, ‘I love AEW and I love the people here but I wanted to step away from AEW and step away from wrestling,’ and that’s what she told me. That wasn’t in 2025. That was weeks ago at Collision after she wrestled against the Divine Dominion, and she came to me after the match, and said, ‘I would like a release,’ and I was taken aback, and we had a very nice talk. It’s far to the contrary of what I’ve seen reported about this being last year or that it’s been an ongoing thing, and I heard from Tay this week and she said she’s not putting those reports out and it really bothered her, and we haven’t had an unpleasant conversation ever. I’ve always had a very good relationship with Tay, and she has asked about stepping away recently. It hasn’t been a long thing and also, I haven’t kept her here. Since that talk, I haven’t brought her back, booked her, and I am gonna give Tay that release.”

Melo first began appearing for AEW in 2020 after her release from WWE.

There's also been a rumor going around that Sammy Guevara is on his way out, but Tony Khan disputed that. The main quote being:

“Sammy (Guevara), I thought it was unusual that people said there was a change in Sammy’s status because nothing has changed. Sammy’s done well. He’s wrestling in Ring of Honor more often. He’s done some good things in AEW and he’s one-half of the ROH World Tag Team Champions — had appeared in AEW with L.F.I… As I understand it, when Sammy changed his bio, I don’t think Sammy ever had AEW in the bio in the first place so I don’t think it was any negative change and I got a nice message from Sammy saying he wasn’t trying to do anything bad and he loves AEW, and I believe that, and Sammy has been a good wrestler for us in AEW and ROH. He’s a great talent and a very good person, so I don’t think he meant to do anything, and it seemed like people jumped on him for something he didn’t even do. Certainly just messing around with the Twitter bio. It’s pretty amazing how people would jump to conclusions but also jump on him, and in my opinion, in this case, probably unfairly…”

It's Sunday, you know what that means! AEW Redemption comes to us from Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada!

Tonight's card includes:

(The Buy-In) AEW World Trios Title Match: The Conglomeration (Kyle O'Reilly, Orange Cassidy & Roderick Strong) (c) vs. The Lethal Twist (Blake Christian, Jay Lethal & Lee Johnson)

Double Chain Tag Team Match: Bang Bang Gang (Jay White & Juice Robinson) vs. The Dogs (Clark Connors & David Finlay)

AEW TBS Title Match: Hikaru Shida (c) vs. Maya World

Tag Team Match: Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) vs. Death Riders (Jon Moxley & Will Ospreay)

AEW World Tag Team Title Match: Cage And Cope (Adam Copeland & Christian Cage) (c) vs. Death Riders (Claudio Castagnoli & PAC)

No Holds Barred Match: Jericho vs. Tommaso Ciampa

AEW National Title Match: Mark Davis (c) vs. Andrade El Idolo

AEW International Title Match: Kyle Fletcher (c) vs. Bandido

AEW Women's World Title Match: Thekla (c) vs. Willow Nightingale

AEW World Title Match: Kenny Omega (c) vs. Kevin Knight

And Weena Mercator as the Hopping Woman

Enjoy the show and have fun!

It's Saturday, you know what that means! AEW Collision comes to us from The Pinnacle in Nashville, Tennessee!

Tonight's card includes:

Singles Match: Tommaso Ciampa vs. Zachary Wentz

Tag Team Match: The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) vs. Death Riders (Daniel Garcia & Wheeler Yuta)

Singles Match: Persephone vs. Angelica Risk

Six Man Tag Team Match: SkyFlight (Dante Martin, Matt Sydal & Scorpio Sky) vs. The Lethal Twist (Blake Christian, Jay Lethal & Lee Johnson)

AEW International Title Qualifier Match: AR Fox vs. Nick Wayne

Non-Title Six Man Tag Team Match: Dalton Castle & The Outrunners (Truth Magnum & Turbo Floyd) vs. The Conglomeration (Kyle O'Reilly, Orange Cassidy & Roderick Strong)

AEW International Title Qualifier Match: El Clon vs. Lio Rush

Tag Team Match: Hikaru Shida & Thekla vs. Maya World & Willow Nightingale

And more?

Enjoy the show and have fun!

Looks like AEW is safe for now

Sting is showing his support for Rebel by taking the ALS Ice Bucket challenge.

Wearing his trademark face paint and a Rebel t-shirt, “The Icon” was drenched with an ice bucket. He went on to nominate Dustin Rhodes, Mick Foley, Darby Allin, Tony Khan, and his sons Garrett and Steven.

Britt Baker, Gail Kim, ODB, Kris Statlander, The Young Bucks, Renee Paquette, Jon Moxley have all already done the ice bucket challenge to support Rebel. In June, Rebel joined I AM ALS as an ambassador.

“ALS may be a terminal diagnosis, but I’m showing up to fight as an Ambassador for I AM ALS. This patient-led movement is stepping into the ring every day to drive real progress and passing laws like the ACT for ALS for research and treatments. I’m proud to join I AM ALS and I’m asking you to step into the ring with us. Please take action,” wrote Rebel on the site.

Fans can donate by clicking here.

The article has Sting's video embedded. Here's links to the rest that I can find.

• Rebel did one, but I can only find it on social media. Here's an Instagram link.

• Britt Baker's is embedded in this article.

• Gail Kim with Robert Irvine on YouTube.

• ODB on TikTok.

• Kris Statlander on YouTube.

• Young Bucks on YouTube.

• Renee Paquette on YouTube.

I can't find one for John Moxely, but he's in Renee's, so maybe that's why he's on the list.

It's really sweet to see AEW and the wrestling world as a whole rally around Rebel.

Edited because I had the url in the title spot like a dummy lol. Hopefully it federates out.

WWE and SiriusXM announced the launch of WWE Radio, which will begin airing July 27 on channel 156 and the SiriusXM app. WWE Radio will replace Pro Wrestling Nation 24/7 on the same channel.

WWE Radio will provide play-by-play audio coverage of WWE premium live events. Vic Joseph and Booker T will call it for radio and other programming.

The channel will also feature WWE podcasts, such as Cody Rhodes’ “What Do You Want To Talk About?” and Stephanie McMahon’s “What’s Your Story?” It will also feature daily shows, such as “Busted Open,” “Notsam Wrestling Live” and “Cheap Heat Live,” shows whose hosts (Dave LaGreca, Sam Roberts and Peter Rosenberg) have appeared on WWE programming.

The launch of WWE Radio came on the same week Jim Ross called out shows like “Busted Open” for being a “WWE infomercial” due to how often they talk about WWE and the lack of coverage of other wrestling promotions.

WWE also has made content partnerships with Spotify and Front Office Sports in recent years.

WWE released a ton of talent 90 days ago (April 24), with many being main roster names who had to wait out a 90-day no compete clause.

Well, that no compete clause has now finished, meaning that a number of talent are free to appear on other televised wrestling programmes such as AEW, TNA, CMLL and NJPW. WWE Releases 2026

The following talent have now completed their 90-day no compete:

• Motor City Machine Guns
• Kairi
• Hijo del Fantasma (Santos Escobar)
• Zoey Serrano (Zoey Stark)
• Aleister Black
• Zelina
• Erick Rowan
• Nikki Storm (Nikki Cross)
• Joseph Sawyer (Joe Gacy)
• Samuel Shaw (Dexter Lumis)
• Bo Dallas

We’ll be updating here as and when these talents confirm their next move. Zelina Vega recently filled to trademark her new in-ring name, Xelina back on July 20. MCMG are expected to be headed to AEW and Nikki Storm will be focusing on her new role as co-owner of PROGRESS and DEFY Wrestling alongside her partner and former NXT name Big Damo/Killian Dain. Joe Gacy has also been teased for an appearance in GCW, although he has not yet been officially confirmed for a match against Atticus Cogar.

It's Wednesday, you know what that means! AEW Dynamite comes to us from The Pinnacle in Nashville, Tennessee!

Tonight's card includes:

Singles Match: Jay White vs. Clark Connors

AEW Women's World Tag Team Title No Disqualification Match: Divine Dominion (Lena Kross & Megan Bayne) (c) vs. Sisters Of Sin (Julia Hart & Skye Blue)

AEW TNT Title Match: Kevin Knight (c) vs. Darby Allin

Six Man Tag Team Match: Carny Hotdog Kidz Don Callis Family (Brian Cage, Hechicero & Jake Doyle) vs. Death Riders (Jon Moxley & Will Ospreay) & Kenny Omega

And perhaps more?

The match happened in my wrestling dark period, but I have gone back and watched it. I didn't know about the build to the match, with Necro roughing up some ROH trainees in Chikara. I also didn't realize the ref for the match was Bryce Remsburg.

We also got another wholesome ending, with them talking about how Necro beat cancer and is back wrestling. I'm really enjoying having episodes that don't end in someone dying, but next week's episode is about Big Boss Man, so don't get too used to it.

VIce also uploaded the episode to their YouTube channel!

The match is also up on Youtube, in case you want to watch it too.

More WrestleMania watch parties will be announced.

WWE WrestleMania 43 will be emanating from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2027. The company pushed out the announcement that in April 2027, they’ll be hosting a WrestleMania watch party at the Infosys Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

That same venue will host AAA Eternal Glory and NXT Stand & Deliver that weekend.

WWE issued a press release to announce that they are planning on hosting other WrestleMania watch parties across the USA.

“WWE has announced NXT Stand & Deliver, NXT’s marquee annual event, and AAA Eternal Glory will take place at Infosys Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York during WrestleMania 43 Weekend in April 2027, creating a city-wide moment for fans to celebrate the global two-night event.

Prior to Stand & Deliver and Eternal Glory, WWE will host official WrestleMania 43 watch parties at Infosys Theater, transforming the versatile venue into an immersive live viewing experience for the WWE Universe, complete with giant LED screens, brand activations, merchandise and more. Additional details regarding official WrestleMania 43 watch parties in cities around the country, including major commercial venues and select COSM locations, will be announced soon.

Complementing the weekend events, WWE and Fanatics will partner to deliver interactive fan experiences and exclusive WrestleMania 43 retail activations to New York.

Additional ticket, event and fan experience details will be announced in the coming months. Fans can register now to be the first to receive general event information by visiting wwe.com/WM43Weekend.

In September 2025, WWE, in partnership with The General Entertainment Authority (GEA), on behalf of HE Turki Alalshikh, announced that Riyadh Season will host WrestleMania 43 in 2027 in Riyadh, marking the first time that the cultural phenomenon will be staged outside of North America.”

With the assumed absence of a stateside WWE presence during WrestleMania weekend, AEW President Tony Khan had been asked about the possibility of AEW being the center of a weekend of wrestling in its place.

Sheamus reportedly remains under WWE contract until October 1, after appearing to confirm his departure from the company earlier this month.

According to Fightful Select, the 48-year-old is expected to become a free agent on that date. It is unclear whether WWE added time to his agreement for injury rehab.

Fightful reported that Sheamus decided to leave WWE after rejecting a restructured contract extension. The outlet’s latest report states that he quickly turned down that proposal.

WWE subsequently moved Sheamus to the alumni section of its website. On July 10, he changed his social media name to S. Farrelly and wrote, “Goodbye my WWE friends” in Irish.

The former world champion has not wrestled since the November 17, 2025 edition of Raw, when he teamed with John Cena and Rey Mysterio against Dominik Mysterio, Finn Bálor and JD McDonagh. He underwent shoulder surgery the following month.

Neither WWE nor Sheamus has publicly clarified his contractual status.

Welcome to SquaredCircle’s ‘Meme Monday’!

Have you seen a great wrestling meme this week that just made you crack up? Did you watch a silly moment in a show and just need to craft a meme out of it? Well post ‘em below!

The highest voted meme shall win and be showcased in next week’s thread!

It's Saturday, you know what that means! AEW Collision comes to us from MGM Music Hall in Boston, Massachusetts!

Tonight's card includes:

Singles Match: Adam Brooks vs. Will Ospreay

Singles Match: Athena vs. Ava Everett

Tag Team Match: Kayla Lopez & Tiara James vs. The Brawling Birds (Alex Windsor & Jamie Hayter)

Singles Match: Jack Perry vs. Nick Wayne

AEW TNT Title Match: Kevin Knight (c) vs. AR Fox

Six Man Tag Team Match: Gino Medina, Nic Nolan & Tome Filip vs. The Carny Hotdog Kidz Don Callis Family (Brian Cage, Hechicero & Jake Doyle)

Singles Match: Tommaso Ciampa vs. Myron Reed

ROH World Title Match: Bandido (c) vs. Adam Priest

AEW TBS Title Match: Hikaru Shida (c) vs. Queen Aminata

And more?

Enjoy the show and have fun!

The Fediverse's colabritive pixel art event, Canvas, starts in less the 12 hours, at 4 am UTC, which is midnight EDT. It will run for 48 hours, although one year there were problems so they extended it. Here's the last thread I posted about it.

If you're new to Canvas, it's pretty simple to participate. Just go here and enter your full username when prompted. For example, mine is siv9939@lemmy.zip. You'll then get a message with a code that you'll put into the prompt on Canvas and you'll be good to place pixels. You'll get a new pixel to place every 30 seconds, and can bank up to 6. You can also check out !canvas@toast.ooo for more information.

Here's this year's design compared to the one we used previously. It is bigger, but as long as no one draws over top of us we should be fine. Worst case scenario, we can just do the center plate.

I don't think I shared that I when I was drawling it I made Canada more central since that's where Geek lived.

I'll post a link to the template once I get one set up. Here's a link to the template. It's the same as the one in the comments, I just figured I put it here so it can't get lost.

If anyone is available tonight when it starts I'd greatly appreciate help. Not getting our outline down fast enough is what caused problems last year. Let's have some sleep deprived fun!

An update ahead of Ludwig Kaiser’s pre-trial conference.

On July 16th, there is a pre-trial hearing scheduled for WWE talent Ludwig Kaiser following his arrest for a battery incident in April 2026.

The incident between Kaiser and the alleged victim, Richard Reap, took place in Orlando, Florida at an apartment complex where they both resided. Reap alleges that Kaiser and a female were aggressively kissing, to which he told them to have some manners, and that escalated to Kaiser putting his hands on him.

Kaiser’s version of the events is listed as follows:

“The elevator stopped at the 12th floor where Mr. Reap exited, and as he exited Mr. Reap made loud comments to Mr. Barthel and his girlfriend to the effect of, ‘Have some f***ing respect.’ Apparently, Mr. Reap was offended by Mr. Barthel and his girlfriend hugging while in the elevator. Mr. Barthel leaned out of the elevator to ask Mr. Reap what he said as he was confused by the statement. Mr. Reap then made a statement to the effect of, ‘Have some respect before I call ICE on that bitch’ Mr. Barthel’s girlfriend is of Mexican descent.”

Mr. Barthel exited the elevator and confronted Mr. Reap verbally telling him his statements were offensive and inappropriate. Mr. Barthel did not threaten or touch Mr. Reap at that point. Mr. Reap then came toward Mr. Barthel aggressively raising his hands and getting very close to him. Mr. Barthel, in fear that Mr. Reap was going to batter him, pushed Mr. Reap away.

Mr. Barthel walked back into the elevator, where his girlfriend was standing. Mr. Reap then approached the elevator in a threatening manner. Mr. Barthel stepped out of the elevator and told Mr. Reap to leave them alone. Mr. Reap walked away briefly and came back toward the elevator again in a threatening manner. Mr. Barthel was concerned that Mr. Reap would physically attack him or his girlfriend, so he pushed him away, and returned to the elevator.

Mr. Reap then threw a soft drink bottle at Mr. Barthel. Mr. Barthel did not retaliate. Rather, he remained in the elevator, pushed the button for his floor and left the area.

In this altercation, Mr. Barthel pushed Mr. Reap only after Mr. Reap had approached Mr. Barthel aggressively and threatened him. Mr. Barthel pushed Mr. Reap to stop his continuing approach and attack. Mr. Barthel then entered the elevator where his girlfriend remained and left the area.”

In late June, Kaiser’s defense was granted access to view the surveillance footage of what occurred.

Thekla and the Sisters of Sin made a surprise appearance in Japan today.

The Triangle of Madness crashed a STARDOM broadcast on Wednesday night, showing up more than 30 minutes into what looked like a casual talk show.

The AEW trio immediately caused chaos, shouting and derailing the talk show involving Syuri. Thekla, with a drink in hand, delivered a series of big announcements.

First, it was revealed that the Triangle of Madness will challenge for the Artist of STARDOM trios titles this Saturday. They’ll take on the God’s Eye team of Ami Sourei, Hina, and Lady C as part of a kick-off card for this year’s 5Star Grand Prix from EBARA WAVE Arena.

It was also confirmed that Julia Hart will remain in Japan following that trios match, as she will be entering this year’s 5Star GP. She’ll be joining the Blue Stars A Block, which had a spot open up recently after Bea Priestley withdrew from the tournament due to injury.

The announcement means Hart will be in Japan until mid-to-late August, when the tourney wraps up. Making her debut run in the tournament, Hart is the sole AEW name in the lineup.

With Hart’s participation in the 5Star GP confirmed, the tour’s full lineup has been set. Here’s how it looks:

Red Stars A

• Maika
• Sayaka Kurara
• Rina
• Tomoka Inaba
• Itsuki Aoki
• AZM
• Natsuko Tora
• Akira Kurogane

Red Stars B

• Konami
• Saya Iida
• Lady C
• Azusa Inaba
• Mei Seira
• Rina Yamashita
• Maki Itoh
• Utami Hayashishita

Blue Stars A

• Aya Sakura
• HANAKO
• Rian
• Hina
• Miyu Amasaki
• Ruaka
• Bea Priestley [Julia Hart]
• Suzu Suzuki

Blue Stars B

• Starlight Kid
• Hanan
• Yuna Mizumori
• Koguma
• Ami Sohrei
• Saya Kamitani
• Momo Watanabe
• Kikyo Furusawa

ok, just finished watching this and i was a little emotional at the end for jeff. for the record, if you're looking for tony in it, he's in the last 15 minutes of part 3 during the aew part and there's some really good footage of him in the owen and him backstage interacting with the talent and training them and it's just so wholesome.

i actually liked part 3 as a rise and fall and rise of jeff jarrett episode since the bischoff/hogan stuff has been played out.

part 1 also has some real emotional stuff about jeff and owen too, which i would go out of your way to see it.

i just wasn't a fan of the rewriting by vince russo and bischoff, considering how instrumental they were in destroying both wcw and tna; i think they got to rewrite things a bit and push it all off on dixie (don't get me wrong she does get the blame but eric and russo should have gotten it too).

definitely watch part 1 and the last half of part 3 (although i did like how jeff hardy got to talk about the victory road stuff and kind of get closure there, which was very heartwarming - and i loved that he already got to have the redemption arc with sting in aew too).

i feel torn because i do wish i watched early tna or ring of honor but a lot of the tna ppv era stuff, from watching part one, was definitely not up my alley and i was just too burnt out from wwe destroying wcw - which i had been a fan of for like 13 years - to care about wrestling until aew.

edit: oh yeah also kia stevens/awesome kong is absolutely SO funny i loved her in this <3

It's Wednesday, you know what that means! AEW Dynamite comes to us from MGM Music Hall in Boston, Massachusetts!

Tonight's card includes:

Singles Match: Andrade El Idolo vs. Jake Doyle

Six (Wo)Man Tag Team Match: Hyan, Maya World & Willow Nightingale vs. Divine Dominion (Lena Kross & Megan Bayne) & Mercedes Mone

And most likely more!

Enjoy the show and have fun!