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Male Wrestler of the year
TIE Bandido & Adam Page (30 %)

Female Wrestler of the year
Toni Storm (80%)

Worst male wrestler of the year
Logan Paul (WWE)(50%)

Worst Female Wrestler
Nia Jax (WWE) (70%)

Best Tag Team/Trio
Brodidio (Bandido & Brody King) (AEW) 60%

Best Faction/Stable
The Don Callis Family (AEW) 80%

Worst Faction/Stable
Frat House (RoH) (60%)

Best Good Guy (Babyface)
TIE! Toni Storm & Hangman Adam Page (40%)

Worst Good Guy
CM Punk (WWE) 40%

Best Bad Guy (Heel)
TIE! Gabe Kidd (NJPW) & Jon Moxley (AEW) (30%)

Worst Bad Guy
TIE! Heel John Cena (WWE) & Chris Jericho (AEW) (40%)

Best Weekly TV Show[/ul]
AEW Dynamite (90%)

[u]Worst Weekly T.V. Show
TIE! iMPACT! & Smackdown! (50%)

Best Major Show (PPV, PLE, Supercard)
AEW All In Texas

Worst Major Show
WWE ID Tournament @ GCW Collective (50%)

Best T.V. Wrestling Company
All Elite Wrestling (AEW) 70%

Worst T.V. Wrestling Company
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) 50%

Best "Independent" Wrestling Company
DEADLOCK Pro-Wrestling (DPW) 30%

Worst "Independent" Wrestling Company
Does Evolve count? 60%

Best Singles Match
Mariah May vs. Toni Storm AEW Revolution 2025 (60%)

Best Tag-Team/Trios Match
Will Osprey and Swerve Strickland vs. The Young Bucks for the position of AEW E.V.P. (All in Texas) (60%)

Best Multi-Person Match
Anarchy in the Arena: AEW Double or Nothing 2025 (80%)

Best Match (Overall)
The Hollywood Ending: Mariah May vs. Toni Storm AEW Women's Championship AEW Revolution 2025

Worst Match (Overall)
The Hardys vs. Team 3D - Team 3D retirement match for the TNA & NXT Tag Championships at TNA Bound for Glory 2025 (50%)

Best Spot (Big moment in a match)
Bandido Lunar Slams Takeshta - RoH World Title Match - Supercard of Honor 2025(40%)

Worst Spot (Attempt at a big moment in a match)
Moose/Cardona/others fail to even try to catch Leon Slater from a 16' leap. (60%)

Best surprise of the year
Toni faking amnesia (80%)

Worst "surprise" of the year
DPW shutting down (60%)

Worst Storyline/Angle
NXT has all the TNA gold (70%)

Best in-ring announcer
Justin Roberts (AEW) (70%)

Worst in-ring announcer
Johnny Delicious (JCW) (40%)

Best Commentary (Play-by-play/colour)
Excalibur (AEW) (60%)

Worst Commentary (Play-by-play/colour)
Booker T (WWE) (60%)

Best on the mic (Wrestler/Manager/etc.)
Toni Storm (80%)

Best Promo of the Year
"I sentence you to a lifetime of mediocrity" Ton Storm & Mariah May (70%)

Best Gimmick
The youngest men alive/TheOutrunners (60%)

Worst Gimmick
Why is Danhuasen STILL not on T.V.? (50%)

Best Gear
Hangman Double or Nothing Pants (70%)

Best Enterance
TIE! Mercedes Moné with shirtless men carrying her belts & Saya Kamitani's Final Fantasy Joshi End-Boss-assed entrance - All Star Grand Queendom 2025 (40%)

Most Improved (Anything: Wrestler, Tag-Team, Faction, Promotion, Brand, show, etc.)
Ricochet's mic skills (80%)

Most Regressed (Anything: Wrestler, Tag-Team, Faction, Promotion, Brand, show, etc.)
MJF (50%)

Best wrestling website (other than lemmy.zip/c/squaredcircle
Cagematch (cagematch.net) 50%

Best ancillary content (Podcast, YouTube, etc.)
The still all suck (30%)

@squaredcircle Vote 2025 Over & buried Awards (Best & worst of Pro Wrestling)

Based on your nominations we now have voting open until 11:59 P.M. PST Friday 1/17.

We'll post results Monday 1/19.

May your favourite get over and the wrestlecrap be buried.

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He gave shoutouts to key matches, including Samhain in Cleveland against Tom Latimer, his death match with Matt Cardona, and his one-time bout against Jax Dane —and he didn’t forget the big one: “And yes, I retired Tyrus. You’re welcome.”

WrestleFriends it's time for the second annual squaredcircle@lemmy.zip Over & Buried awards. The Fediverse decides who got over and who got buried. You can fill it out anonymously, or if you use your (or create a) cryptpad account you can go back and edit your responses until the form closes January 10, 2026.

We'll vote on awards for the top nominees Jan 12-18. Winners will be declared January 20. Please share far and wide.

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What's better from a #libertarian perspective? The federal government staying out of it to avoid infringing on the "rights" of a state to set its own laws, or the federal government "encouraging" states to remove laws that are considered harmful for businesses? @libertarian The Trump Administration’s Order on AI Is Deeply Misguided

after seeing the comments in this threadI agreed to submit an issue to the friendica GitHub repo if @jonathan submitted one to summit too to see if either side would be willing to add robustness to ensure my post looked as expected on summit. I only saw three issues on github.com/idunnololz/summit-f… which made me question whether you guys have a different way you'd prefer to have bug reports submitted.
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I wrote a rather lenghty to reply to some guy's toot asking about if he should block mostr.pub. I thought it might be appreciated here.

Getting some reports about #mostr accounts that seem to just spew word soup, maybe to spam hashtags and links but after reading through a few profiles, I'm unsure what the deal there is. Am I right in assuming that nostr is by design more or less unmoderateable? Is that reason enough to block the bridge? #FediAdmin

NOSTR is a protocol just like ActivityPub is. Neither protocol in-and-of-itself is moderated but supports the ability to be moderated. ActivityPub does it via instances and sometimes is baked right into the platform. (I recall at one time Lemmy automatically blocked any posts that contained reactionary language unless the admin edited the source code and re-compiled it themselves). Similarly, NOSTR relays chose how to handle the reports much the same way AP servers set their own standards.

If I understand correctly, a report goes to whichever relays mostr.pub is connected to, and it's up to each relay how to handle it. Some tag you as a whinny little bitch, others take that note out immediately, others ignore, and I think some actually have a dude look at its content and make decisions whether to remove the nevent (post) or actually block the npub (user).

Same as if you were using a NOSTR "account" yourself, except you don't have control over which relays your account connects to as natives do, by specifically connecting, or specifically blocking in your client. Instead, I think, it is solely determined by which nostr users connect their client to wss://realy.mostr.pub/ and which other relays those same users are connected to. I believe a given nostr relay can choose to block any user that connects to a particular other relay.

I don't expect @alexto be making any such blocks from the mostr relay. My understanding is that one of the reasons he's shifted his focus for Soapbox from a Pleroma focused solution to a NOSTR one is one thing that always bothered him about the AP powered 'verse is some random dude can cut off communication between you and your friend unless at least one of the two of you administers your own instance or you create a new account on a different instance.

I'm uncertain if momostr.pink or the other nostr bridge, whose name I can't remember currently, have similar lax policies that mostr.pub does or not. Regardless if you want direct control over anything more than blocking particular users, you are going to have to block any of these bridges.

In my personal experience I've been on NOSTR for over a year now, but Frienidca remains my primary social media. In that time I can say I've seen way more Bitcoin propaganda than even I am interested in, but certainly a lot less fascist, TERF, and racist nonsense than I have in some corners of the AP based 'verse. But bitcoin bois can get awful annoying. In general hosting a mastodon (or other platform) instance can be a dicey legal situation because you have little control on whether someone's [potentially illegal] porn ends up being stored on your hardware . This doesn't significantly change if you choose to connect your server to a nostr bridge or not.

BTW Soapbox, including mostr, doesn't connect to lemmy. I don't know if that was a purposeful design decision or just no one has bothered to make it work. There is at least one lemmy-like NOSTR client, Zapddit if it could connect to lemmy it might make me shift from Friendica to NOSTR as my primary social media.

youtube.com/watch?v=NelyqyGebj… Although this is from a few months ago this showed up in my feed today. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of Eran Ashe. I don’t frequently watch CZW/GCW or the like much anymore. Did more before AEW was a thing. But man, this promo I though was f’n great.

Do you like death matches? You’re part of the problem. What happened to all those death match wrestlers? They all left didn’t they. They all left for greener grass. And what happened? Now they want to crawl back when I make it [embraces CZW title] relevant again. Do you know why I hate death match wrestlers? Do you know why I hate their fans? I hate you, because you think you’re special. You think because somebody falls on tubes, they go through panes of glass they’re hardcore. They’re tough. No, they’re idiots. Unlike me they didn’t have any redeeming qualities. There was nothing that made them special until they started bleeding, and that’s what the people love. The love the blood. They don’t love you Mickey, the don’t love Nick Gauge, the don’t love Rickey Shane Page. They love the fact that they are stupid enough to go out there and mutilate their selves. But unlike me, I don’t need that. I became a world heavyweight champion with these [lifts fist]. I stand in the middle of the ring; I beat the shit outta anybody that ever tries to fight me. Anyone who ever thought they were better than me. I am a champion because I do it by myself and with myself.

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I'm happy that Triplemania is in English without those washed up UFC douchebags who've been doing commentary the last few years. Sounds like it may end up being JBL & Konan doing the play-by-play. JBL has been aroudn AAA a bit the last few years, doing the same kind of pointless, I show up to close-line-from-hell some guy and leave, that he did in TNA.

Triplemania certainly has gone downhill the last few years. It should be better this year, but appears to be a bit WWE heavy, in my opinion. wwe.com/article/triplemania-ma…

Is it worth setting up a full house VPN to watch WWE on Netflix on TV?

How is streaming WWE in Canada l, or ornery parts of the world these days? The WWE Network was awesome. Honestly some of the best streaming service I've seen. When they moved to Peacock a few years ago it was never the same. Not all of content that was on the network seemed to be on Peacock. What was there was not well organized and difficult to find what used to be easy in "the vault." On the network if I started a PPV late there was an option to start from the beginning. On Peacock you had to join the regularly scheduled broadcast already in progress or wait till it was over to watch on demand. Recently they did add the option to at least rewind the show, but it's still annoying and finding th he sweet spot between the end of the pre-show and the start of the PLE is a real pain. Like VHS was easier.

How does Netflix compare? Is it worth paying for a Netflix account a VPN that let's me chose country of IP and maintaining ruining it on an old open router so I can connect my ROKU T.V. to it? Should I just pirate WWE?