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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?

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(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).

Unconfirmed where but almost a guarantee he'll pop up in NXT I figure.

Tonight, NJPW brings us Wrestle Kingdom 20, live from the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan!

The card for tonight's show will be:

Pre-Show Tag Team Match
Shoma Kato & Tatsuya Matsumoto vs. Katsuya Murashima & Masatora Yasuda

Pre-Show NJPW World Television Title Match
El Phantasmo (c) vs. Chris Brookes

NEVER Openweight Six Man Tag Team Title Rambo Match
Master Wato, Toru Yano & YOH (c) vs. Ryusuke Taguchi, Tiger Mask & Togi Makabe vs. Kaisei Takechi, Shota Umino & Yuya Uemura vs. Bishamon (Hirooki Goto & YOSHI-HASHI) & Oleg Boltin vs. Team 100 (Satoshi Kojima & Taichi) & Tomohiro Ishii vs. House Of Torture (Ren Narita, SANADA & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) vs. TMDK (Hartley Jackson, Ryohei Oiwa & Zack Sabre Jr.) vs. BULLET CLUB War Dogs (Clark Connors, OSKAR & Yuto-Ice)

IWGP Women's Title / NJPW STRONG Women's Title Match
Syuri (c) vs. Saya Kamitani (c)

Ten Man Tag Team Match
United Empire (???, Andrade El Idolo, Callum Newman, Great-O-Khan & HENARE) vs. BULLET CLUB War Dogs (David Finlay, Drilla Moloney & Gabe Kidd), Hiromu Takahashi & Shingo Takagi

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Title #1 Contendership Four Way Match
Taiji Ishimori vs. El Desperado vs. SHO vs. Kosei Fujita

NEVER Openweight Title Match
EVIL (c) vs. Aaron Wolf

IWGP World Heavyweight Title / IWGP Global Heavyweight Title Match
Konosuke Takeshita (c) vs. Yota Tsuji (c)

Singles Match
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. Kazuchika Okada

And more!

Please check your local listings/the promotions website for more information on how to watch. Card subject to change, enjoy your show!

Tonight, Collision comes to us from Arlington, Texas!

The card for tonight's show will be:

Singles Match
El Clon vs. TBA

Singles Match
Scorpio Sky vs. Shelton Benjamin

Singles Match
Darby Allin vs. Wheeler Yuta

Tag Team Match
Hyan & Maya World vs. Timeless Love Bombs (Mina Shirakawa & Toni Storm)

And more!

Please check your local listings/the promotions website for more information on how to watch. Card subject to change, enjoy your show!

Velvet Sky had a Hall of Fame career in TNA Wrestling, but never signed with WWE despite having multiple appearances as an extra.

On social media, Sky explained why she was never signed by WWE.

The reason I didn’t get signed, per right from Johnny Ace’s mouth at our meeting at headquarters when I was told prior to the meeting that I was gonna be signed, was because I was in a long term relationship with one of the talent who worked there at the time, and I was told by Ace that he “didn’t want HIS divas dating within the company.”

I chose loyalty to my long term man at the time and got passed up because I wasn’t single. 🥴 Oh well. I had a helluva career at TNA and wouldn’t have changed it for anything. ✌🏼

Tonight, SmackDown comes to us from Buffalo, New York!

The card for tonight's show will be:

WWE Women's Title Match
Jade Cargill (c) vs. Michin

Eight Man Tag Team Match
Alexa Bliss, Charlotte Flair, IYO SKY & Rhea Ripley vs. Lash Legend, Nia Jax & The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka & Kairi Sane)

Ambulance Match
Aleister Black (w/Zelina) vs. Damian Priest

And more!

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

Madison Rayne has announced her retirement.

Rayne competed on the January 1st episode of ROH TV, teaming with Deonna Purrazzo in a loss to Billie Starkz & Diamante.

In a backstage segment, Rayne said that it was the end of an era for her. “I know it was coming. This time comes in everyone’s career.” She said she lost a piece of herself when she lost her dad, but she is refinding herself as a coach in AEW and ROH.

Rayne said that teaming with Purrazzo was a perfect way to end her 20-year career.

https://twitter.com/ringofhonor/status/2006890433432207550

Rayne made her debut in 2005 as Lexi Lane.

She is a former five-time TNA Women’s Knockout Champion and three-time TNA Women’s Knockout Tag Team Champion. She competed in TNA, ROH, and AEW during her career. She was also part of the 2018 Mae Young Classic.

Rayne signed with AEW as a coach and wrestler in August 2022.

https://youtu.be/tGYfxkPZgNM