For my first post in the revived SquaredCircleComics.com I’m going to take a look at some of the people who have recently found themselves on the unemployment line.

It’s been a grim couple of weeks in the world of professional wrestling. Four people, at least three of which had great futures ahead of them have lost their jobs. A couple by choice, a couple by force.

ODB leaves TNA.

News broke on June 14, 2010, via her twitter account that ODB made the decision to leave TNA. It, honestly didn’t come as much of a shock as she hadn’t been used on TV in months. However it is sad because she brought something very different to the world of ladies wrestling. And different is something TNA desperately needs. But, it’s been reported before that Eric Bischoff wants more ‘pretty girls’ which in non-business-asshole speak is that he wants to hire girls that look good in lingerie regardless of how good or bad they may be in the ring. I enjoyed watching ODB’s matches. Not just for the matches themselves but for the reactions from people around me watching the show, who are used to the more ‘diva’ look of lady wrestler. So I’m personally going to miss ODB. (more…)

Last Friday, CZW, ROH and indy star Mike Verdi, known by his stage name Trent Acid, was found dead by his mother at the horrifyingly young age of 29.

CZW announced shortly after the news broke that they would be holding a memorial show on July 10th at 230pm in The Arena.(Formerly the ECW Arena) Admission will be free with a suggested 10$ donation. 100% of the proceeds are going to the Verdi family.

There has also been an online memorial fund set up via PayPal at AcidMemorial@aol.com. Again, all donations will be going to the Verdi family.

Check http://www.czwrestling.com/ for more information as it becomes available.

I’ll start off by saying that overall, Fatal 4 Way was not a bad show overall. It had some great matches like Kofi Kingston vs. Drew McIntyre, Miz vs. R-Truth, and Chris Jericho vs. Evan Bourne and the Hart Dynasty vs the Usos. You notice, though how all of those are singles matches? On a show where the gimmick is 4 way matches?

Now, to be fair, the Divas 4-way match was alright considering who you have in there. No mat classic by any means but the girls get an A for effort. And both the World and WWE title matches were good, until the endings. The World title match ending wasn’t so bad, except I didn’t realize that Rey had pinned Swagger until they were showing replays as Mysterio winning his second World title was the secondary story to the Kane vs SES angle.

Speaking of Kane vs SES. If Kane knew it was Punk and the SES that incapped Undertaker? Why wait till the PPV? Why come out and chokeslam everyone every week if you know who your enemy is

But anyway, now Kane will be put in another meaningless feud with a smaller guy that no one will remember in 6 months and he’ll go back to being the worlds reddest jobber.

But that’s not what I want to talk about. What I want to talk about, is the WWE title match.

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