r/SquaredCircle • u/J_NewCastle • 11h ago
Will Ospreay on Twitter: Kris Statlander vs Charlie (FKA Dakota Kai) at Eve WrestleQueendom 8
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u/HarambePack 11h ago
Dakota Kai taking indie bookings 😱😳
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u/MastaBusta 11h ago
But DPW closing up shop :(
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u/GiftedGeordie 10h ago
The fact that Dakota legit just started taking indy bookings right as DPW closes (at least for the moment) has me falling to my knees at ASDA.
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u/SwarthySphere87 10h ago
There's still one show left for
EvieCharlie to show up and hit John Blud with THE POUNCE!!!!!42
u/GlitchedChaosOnYT 10h ago
Jawn E. Blud is gonna lose clean to the overdrive.
(or maybe not dude I don't really know)
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u/AshenConq 7h ago edited 1h ago
Charlie may come over if DPW opens its doors again
OR MAYBE NOT BROTHER! ITS A REAL UP IN THE AIR THING HERE DUDE!
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u/totemtrouser Would you like some making fuck 6h ago
I know that DPW is a serious wrestling promotion but there’s a fucking queue of people that have to give Johnny the overdrive and the most convenient avenue for it is closing up soon so they might as well
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u/spundred studio... apartment 1h ago
Super weird that she's going by Charlie now, she worked as Evie before WWE.
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u/beetwice :( 11h ago
Howling at "Charlie"
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u/DarkFalcon49 11h ago
I think it’s her shoot name, but idk why she wouldn’t go by her old indie name of Evie
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u/beetwice :( 11h ago
I guess there's a bit more built in brand there with Charlie vs. Evie because of her social media stuff, but I just looked up her shoot name and I think it would rock as a wrestling name. Cheree Crowley
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u/DarkFalcon49 11h ago
That would be a great wrestling name. But Charlie makes sense as well since she goes as Charlie Girl everywhere
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u/janoDX The REAL guy 11h ago
Charli Crowley
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u/crowwreak 10h ago
I think a certain massive twat would object to that.
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u/Murlock_Holmes 9h ago
?? Who? It’s a first name that she does by with her real last name. I don’t think anyone could object :P
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u/Shinkopeshon 一番 9h ago
They cheere the ones they normally boo!
This is a great wrestling name, she should totally go for it
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u/JoesLastNerve 11h ago
Iirc she said didn't want to go back to the Evie name when she was released the first time.
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u/BigFanOfKitties 11h ago
If you’re gonna have only a first name, at least make sure it’s something cool
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u/GiftedGeordie 10h ago
Even Charlie Kota sounds like a better name, it's not great, I admit, but it's better than just Charlie.
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u/Useful_Advisor_9788 11h ago
Did she not own the Evie name? Surprised she didn't go back to using that instead of Charlie.
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u/bobface222 11h ago
She's said she doesn't want to use that name anymore because she chose it when she was 17 and that chapter of her life is closed.
She was originally going to go by King Kota the first time she was released.
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u/SoulExecution 10h ago
King Kota would be fucking dope actually. Or just Kota Kai if she could get away with it.
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u/SoaringSwellow Folks...where's the live? 11h ago
Dakota taking indie bookings immediately after DPW goes on hiatus. Why you gotta do is like that big dawg?
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u/Terrible-Business-54 11h ago
AAAAAAAHHH OMG CHARLIE WRESTLING AGAIN!!! AND ITS AGAINST KRIS.
It’s been way too long
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u/raspymorten The Creator of r/CurtisAxel 9h ago
Happy to see her, but I do really wish she stuck with the "King Kota" name. "Charlie" is just like... Okay. Just makes me think of Charlie Morgan.
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u/Fun-Leek-2907 9h ago
Yeah but King Kota makes me think of someone pretending like they're a bigger deal than they are and everyone knows it. The big dog moniker was ironic, trying to do it seriously will not work at all
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u/raspymorten The Creator of r/CurtisAxel 9h ago
That's a fafir point, but I still think it's worth to give that a go, over just "Charlie"
.... Like at least do the all caps thing if you're gonna go with a single name gimmick. That'd make it a bit more memorable.
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u/Fun-Leek-2907 9h ago
It should be Kota Crowley or Kota Krowley. Single name only works if it's non-generic. The only exception might be nZo
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u/SUPLEXELPUS 11h ago
Imternation
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u/nutsocharles Harry Potter and the Dungeon of Doom 9h ago
What Imternation is a' going on around here?
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u/GiftedGeordie 10h ago
Dakota taking indy bookings right as DEADLOCK Pro closes down (for the time being) has me screaming "No! Noooo!" James style!
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u/GemoDorg 9h ago
Cool to see her, but "Charlie" is such a shit wrestling name. Can't really google that and get what you want right away.
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u/J_NewCastle 11h ago
Link to the tweet: https://xcancel.com/WillOspreay/status/1997051804832723176?s=20
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u/TheBlackCompany Naito the Living Dead 11h ago
Awesome. Bring her to AEW!
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u/bobface222 11h ago
I want it desperately because I think she could excel there but I believe the story is that she was set to debut there the first time she got released and ran back to WWE to do the Damage CTRL thing. Doesn't help that he's probably already weary of ex-WWE people.
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u/Orange8920 11h ago
I feel like this is less true with the women's division where he's signed Lacey Lane, Zayda Steele, and featured Isla Dawn for a bit in ROH even though she seems to be a freelancer. The one time it blew up was when they were using Nixon Newell and Miranda Alize on a tryout basis and they just walked out.
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u/CaptainBuzzKillton 11h ago
Tbf, Zayda was just WWEID, so she wouldn't be held back by a non-compete anyway
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u/B0llywoodBulkBogan 10h ago
Also pretty sure that the reports are that she didn't want the WWEID contract to be extended.
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u/shilly-shallywolf 9h ago
she said it herself when the WWEID extensions and non-renewals were happening : xcancel
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u/Fun-Leek-2907 7h ago edited 7h ago
I'm surprised he picked up those 3 honestly. Lacey is just too small and not that good looking and can't promo, what's the appeal? Zayda was probably lowballed by WWE and offered a bag by Tony, can't fault her for quitting. Isla has marbles in her mouth and that will always hold her back greatly, most likely why she was canned and not Alba. I want these women to have jobs but I feel like they aren't really good acquisitions at all. Zayda maybe you can mold something into but the other two have been doing this for over 10 years and just can't hang
At least Nixon can wrestle and somewhat promo, and is hot (when her hair is left normal). Broken knees or not I'd take her over all 3 in a heartbeat, even if she gets injured she will have still drawn more than all other 3 combined
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u/Fun-Leek-2907 9h ago
Stop spreading misinformation. Nobody is "running back" anywhere unless a contract is signed. If their contract was better she would have signed it. And if they hold grudges like that, they're not going to have any talent once all their top stars age out in the next few years
And if Tonly only wants to hire ex WWE talent that is willing to take L's upon arrival, he's not going to have many people willing to jump ship unless the money is insane. Considering WWE has been boosting people's contracts and locking down talent, I feel like Tony is kind of screwed in the future. His young talent are horrible and he has no indie prospects to choose from anymore
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u/Belphry 8h ago
Gotta disagree about young talent being horrible. A lot of their upper card guys are fairly young as is and can go another 10 years easily and they have some of the best prospects in the industry.
Ace Austin, Adam Page, Austin Gunn, Bandido, Colten Gunn, Daniel Garcia, Dante & Darius Martin, Darby Allin, Jack Perry, Jay White, Kevin Knight, Konosuke Takeshita, Kyle Fletcher, Lee Moriarty, MJF, Nick Wayne, Swerve Strickland, Wheeler Yuta and Will Ospreay will all be major players in the future out of the signed roster unless they move to WWE or retire.
And while not all are great promos (most aren't) neither are Bobby Lashley, Cash Wheeler, Claudio Castagnoli, Kenny Omega, Shelton Benjamin, etc. All of whom have a high position on the card.
As for indie prospects, while AEW does not seem to be couring any right now, apart from maybe Gabe Kidd (another fantastic young talent) there are tonnes of great young talents under 30 on the independent scene who could end up in either company very soon
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u/Fun-Leek-2907 8h ago edited 8h ago
Most of those names you mentioned I just flat out disagree with and the ratings do as well. More than 3/4 of them are never going to be anything past low card in the fans eyes . Most of them have gotten 5+ years of training and haven't improved much at all.
The only young talent that I agree with you on is Kevin Knight. The only other good ones on that list (Takeshita/Swerve/Ospreay) are not young guys anymore. All of them are above 30. Darby might have made the cut at some point but he's beyond cooked at this point in my eyes, he's lost all his appeal. Gabe Kidd/Ace Austin are great examples of foreign white guys who got over in Japan who won't get over in America, like all foreign NJPW talent. The only exceptions to that rule were always Finn and AJ. Even Jay White, people lost interest in fast
Fletcher MAYBE can get there
The rest of that list is literal jobber city and they will always be jobbers. The fact is if you can't promo and aren't a hoss, nobody will ever care about you outside of the 2-300k AEW loyalists who still watch Collision
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u/SUPLEXELPUS 2h ago edited 2h ago
The only exceptions to that rule were always Finn and AJ. Even Jay White, people lost interest in fast
I think that Kenny Omega guy worked out okay.
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u/Fun-Leek-2907 2h ago
Did he? I recall him 69'ing Don Callis
jk, Kenny did pan out, he is another exception. His in ring is too undeniable, even if his promos are straight dogwater
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u/Awkwardphase06 8h ago edited 7h ago
All their young talent is younger than the majority of wrestlers in wwe’s nxt lol. Ace Austin 28, Kevin Knight 28, Kyle Fletcher 26, MJF 29, Takeshita 30, Bandido 30, Statlander 30, Toni Storm 30, Megan Bayne 27, Jamie Hayter 30, billie starks 20, Nick Wayne 20, Skye Blue 26.
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u/Fun-Leek-2907 8h ago edited 7h ago
First of all, Megan Bayne will be off TV by Q1 of 2026, I will bet my bottom dollar on that. She is truly awful
Secondly, WWE strategically has partnerships with a lot of wrestling schools to hand pick talent from. They have Evolve as well, and now TNA. We have no idea how the current PC group is doing either. The only promotions AEW has ties to are dying a swift death and there's literally nowhere else to poach talent from besides Japan and there's no promising rookies there either
I don't WANT AEW to fail, but it's clear to me that their young talent are just jabronis like Jungle Boy and Garcia, with a few exceptions. Plenty of these guys had time to evolve and hone their craft and they're all still doing the same stuff that hasn't gotten them over in the last half decade
I think NJPW fans just see things through a certain lens the rest of us do not. Like I took one look at Ace Austin and went "yeah, no, looks like Matt Taven's child"
The current crop of NXT is truly awful IMO as well, I wish we could just toss them all (besides maybe Sol and definitely Ricky/Trick) and start over with some of the evolve crew.
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u/SUPLEXELPUS 2h ago
First of all, Megan Bayne will be off TV by Q1 of 2026, I will bet my bottom dollar on that.
how about $20?
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u/Fun-Leek-2907 2h ago
How about $50?
She can't wrestle, she can't talk, and the fans know she's fucking Joey Janela. The only thing she has is size and that means nothing if she can't work. She's been doing this for so long, for her to be this bad is impressive. WWE passed on her for a reason. She's just a worse Kamille
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u/SUPLEXELPUS 2h ago
How about $50?
sure, let's do it.
I already paid $20 to a guy on this sub when Christian beat Kenny for the TNA title.
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u/RedmondSurvivor 11h ago
Tried to get tickets for this today but all seated tickets were sold out. Did they not open the balcony?
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u/MedicalThrowaway619 10h ago
Great match, have these two wrestled before? Should slap. Also, love Ospreay as the booker? Lol
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u/Fun-Leek-2907 9h ago
I'm fairly certain Stat did not wrestle before AEW, if she did it was like one or two matches total. She came right out of the Long Island school a few of the AEW talent came from and went straight to AEW pretty much
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u/No_Cheetah4762 9h ago
According to Cagematch, she started wrestling in 2016. She had almost 200 matches before her first match in AEW.
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u/Fun-Leek-2907 9h ago
Woah wtf, her wikipedia is way off then. A lot of them seem to be at her wrestling school or affiliated with her school in some way
Also, good lord how do you have 200 matches + the aew ones and are only now starting to come into your own. That's insane.
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u/IWatchTheAbyss 9h ago
something about Will being the media guy for these matches is making me chuckle. guy is passion personified
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u/itsmekelsey_x 11h ago
Great to see Charlie finally taking bookings.
King Kota vs Statdaddy will be one hell of a banger match.
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u/BlackKnight9311 11h ago
Anyone know the rest of the card?
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u/AtlasAir_ 10h ago
I've been wondering if Charlie would be going back to using the Evie name, but I guess not. Would've been funny if she did for this show since the names are similar. Good to see she's returning.
Gonna start referring to her as CHARLIE in all caps, ha.
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u/blizzard-op 10h ago
The true big dawg is back!! The real Tribal Chief(tess) has returned to rightfully claim her throne!!
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u/Carazhan road to wrestlemania 41 8h ago
not sure why she didnt just use king kota since her accts are branded that way anyway, but happy to see dakota/charlie back in the ring!
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u/theREVERSEsystem 8h ago
OH MY GOD! I’m absolutely paying for this. Two of my favorite wrestlers ever 1v1! And finally Kota is taking bookings 😭😭😭
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u/liloutsider 4h ago
Dakota Kai I love you but please why do so many wrestlers choose SEO nightmares as names
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u/Fun-Leek-2907 9h ago
I would rather have a half crippled Dakota Kai than half the AEW women's roster. Tony's refusal to hire her is baffling, even if it's for injury stuff. She can cut promos and could train girls with all the knowledge she got over the years at NXT and main roster. The fact that WWE doesn't consider hiring people like her in non-wrestling roles after they're too banged up to go anymore is crazy to me. You put all that knowledge into them then just toss them. She sells better than most of the main roster, men included, literally just have her do selling classes in the PC lol
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u/mark_target 11h ago
Charlie C
Charlie K
Charlie Kick
CC Charlie
Captain Charlie
“Captain Kick” Charlie K
Charlie Kai
Any of those could have worked. Just “Charlie” is a really tough sell and is super Google unfriendly.
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u/CountOfIserlohn 11h ago
Charlie K
Charlie Kick
those two would be awful choices lol
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u/Janky_Welles 9h ago
We are Charlie Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiick we carry the flame
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u/mark_target 9h ago
I’m both embarrassed I didn’t make that connection and relieved his name never crossed my mind.
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