QCW Unleashed [s3e36 • Quality Arena]

• "The Proper Villain” Richard Windsor (w/Serge Batroc) d. DeMarcus Cooper (w/DeMarius Cooper & Kam Ellis)
• Luz Cruz (w/Forbidden Book Club) d. “Shieldmaiden” Val Curry (w/Bettie Rokker)
• Hawk Carter d. “Swamp Pride” Ted Holland (w/Robert E. Moonshine)
• “Sinister” Sarah Fowler & Summer Rose d. Hilary Highnote & Christine Kent

FDSN Florida Presents QCW Ruckus [s5e21 • March 27th, 2026]

 📺 live on FanDuel Sports Network Florida

📍 Quality Arena 💫 Parts Unknown, FL

• The show kicked off with a Golden Rule highlights recap video package.  Stills of Cindy Monet celebrating her win over Goody Gardner and Summer Rose signing her new QCW contract after beating “Cambodian Cool” Keo Tevi gave way to longer video clips from the main card…

• 👑 The right back and forth between challenger Tre Boyd and QCW National champion Orion with the belt on the line • Boyd with a slight advantage that only grew after he hit a Blue Thunder bomb and an avalanche Spanish Fly • but eating Orion's knees on his Spiral Tap that led to Orion rolling him up with a La Magistral cradle to get the three and complete the 10 Count so they could cash in the Natty for a World title shot whenever and whenever they wanted • we saw Orion celebration on the buckles while Tre stomped off to the back 👑

• 👑👑 The extreme rules elimination match followed, the latest and biggest chapter in the Forbidden Book Club vs. Hysteria rivalry • most of these clips were in black and white while being quicker due to the graphic nature of the match's majority • “Night Sky” Diana Spare giving Bella Jolie a pop up Michinoku Driver into a trash can to give the Club a 3-2 lead early • Hysteria rebounding, laying out both Diana and Luz Cruz before taking out Shelley LaVey with a spike brainbuster into the bottom set of steel steps to even things up at 2 a side • they threw Luz over the announce table and buried her underneath it before turning their attention to Diana, who put up a fight and spit in their faces right before another spike brainbuster into a pile of chairs to take out Spare and give Hysteria a 2-2 lead • Cruz managing a brief rally, landing a springboard dropkick that drove a steel chair into Bonnie and landing a massive tope con holo over the ring post that put Nancy Crowley through a part of the retaining barrier • Hysteria throwing a trash can at her to avoid her finisher, both landing their finishers before deciding that wasn't enough and continuing the punishment • Bonnie holding Luz up for a shot from a whole pane of glass - only for Luz to skip it and have Crowley accidentally turn out Agrippa's lights with it • Luz picking off Crowley with ¡MUERTE! and the double jump poison huracanrana leaving the match down to two women • Cruz landing a massive dropkick on Agrippa that sent a spray of blood into the Seattle night • Agrippa countering ¡MUERTE! with a Backstabber into a crossface • Luz seemingly going limp but stabbing Bonnie in the wrist with a shard of glass to break the hold • a bloody Agrippa screaming in pain until a ¡MUERTE! into the chair pile that ended the battle with a come from behind victory for the Club • a bloody Cruz being held up by LaVey and Spare, cursing out Bonnie in Spanish before Hocking a bloody loogie onto the woman who’d taken her place atop Hysteria, the crowd clapping and cheering the ovaries to the wall nature of the back and forth the Club triumphed in 👑👑

• 👑👑👑 The tag match that followed between the Undaunted and Serge Batroc and the Proper Villain Richard Windsor couldn't match that in violence and levels of hatred though the four men have been on opposite sides for weeks • Windsor & Batroc teaming up with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker+ guillotine legdrop combination that took down “Unforgettable” Dave Mullin and gave the haughty newly formed team a man and a body part to focus on • Mullin managing a handspring tornado DDT on them both to give him space to tag in Tim “the Only Hope” McMurray who immediately tilted things in the favor of the Irish aerialists • The Undaunted looking like they were going to end things with Shamrock Air before Windsor countered and used the ropes for leverage to steal a victory that made the only happy people in the building Serge and Richard 👑👑👑

• 👑👑👑👑 Ashok Banerjee looking focused and supported by Jacques Krieger going into his match with Omar Littlefield, flanked by the Republic as he entered and bragged after he sent Ashok to the hospital he’d get his long owed shot at the World title • Omar beat the brakes off of Ashok and that was just to start • massive Pounce • sit out choke bomb • five Vader Bombs • Littlefield hit his Face Eraser but Ashok got his foot on the ropes • Omar went for another one only for Ashok to hit a flash Code Orange and get the upset • Omar crashing out post match, hitting Ashok with another Face Eraser and tossing the referee from the ring • more Face Erasers until Jacques Krieger broke free from Republic Enforcement and hit the ring for the save • Omar laid him out too and got off another couple of choke bombs before getting swarmed by Quality Force Security with Commissioner Holmes on their heels 👑👑👑👑

• 👑👑👑👑👑 Ig de Catur repeatedly poking Holmes in the chest, leading to Holmes shoving him down and announcing Ig and his Enforcement were being banned from ringside for the World Tag Team championships match up next • Omar, Ig and REnforcement being cuffed and escorted out of Climate Pledge • a barely moving Banjerjee being loaded into a stretcher and into an ambulance with Krieger getting in as well, vowing to destroy Omar as it headed into the night • a clearly heated Pyotr Caviar and Malicía Fernandez remaining at ringside before defending their World Tag Team championships against Razorblade in what turned out to mostly be a handicap match given that Justice Davis was taken out two weeks ago tonight • Razorblade had the toughness but he was also facing a 2 on 1 so eventually the math caught up to him • the heels hit a double pop up European uppercut and signaled for the double chokeslam when the lights went out - when they came on someone in Republic Enforcement gear was distracting the ref with batons before turning and jabbing a taser into both Caviar and Fernandez out of nowhere - Razorblade pinned a twitching Pyotr to win the belts, but the shocks didn't stop coming as the interloper revealed himself to be Nazir el-Fadal • Naz reached over to grab a tag title and thrust it skyward to set off gold and white pyro while Razorblade's jaw hadn't even come off the mat yet • Naz gave Razorblade a couple of pats on the cheek and swaggered to the back with his belt, Seattle rippling with cheers and Surrender Cobras while the One Man Jihad headed out leaving his long time rival still sat down and shellshocked in the ring with his newly won belt 👑👑👑👑👑

• 👑👑👑👑👑👑 Speaking of belts, “the Purifier” Caleb Gray came out for the main event with the physical World title he’d stolen off of Jupiter Jones weeks ago and the rest of the Chosen following their leader • Jones coming out with the rest of Collipark, now fully healed after weeks of Chosen sneak attacks • Jupiter dominated early and worked over Gray’s leg until a desperation backdrop sent the champ out to the floor • while Caleb drew the ref, his acolytes in the End Times attacked Jupiter until the ref caught them and ejected the Chosen, Collipark running then off to the back • Gray tried to secure the Fifteen Pounds of Gold but too much damage had been done to the leg and he couldn't get the legendary Jones up for Repent • Jones fired off a Bolt From Olympus but kept Caleb from landing, scooping him up and breaking out his old school finisher the Thunder Rolls to retain the title 👑👑👑👑👑👑

• 👑💫 Jupiter getting the belt back and celebrated with the rest of Collipark - right until Orion's music hit • everybody gearing themselves up for a cash in from the National champion as Orion arrived on the scene • but they merely bowed in Jupiter's direction and held the Natty overhead before Jupiter gave a nod and held up the World title right back 💫👑

• The standard “Invincible” open rolled as usual from there except for the notable change in the Cavalcade of Champions before we zoomed inside Quality Arena.  Pyro went off the stage before we saw another sellout crowd of rabid Quality Controllers.  Steve Vandeblanche welcomed us to Ruckus and said that as much as he liked Seattle there was nothing like Parts Unknown on a Friday night.  He introduced Carl Christensen and they said this would be one of the biggest episodes of Ruckus all year, because the first round action in the 2026 Duquesne Classic would kick off tonight with four big matches – Nazir el-Fadal would go up against “the Purifier” Caleb Gray 💫 Malicía Fernandez of the Republic would meet Mason Razorblade Savage 💫 Bonnie Agrippa and Shelley LaVey weren't quite done with each other after Sunday's war in the Forbidden Book Club/Hysteria extreme rules elimination match and would go one on one tonight 💫 and the Forbidden Book Club’s Luz Cruz would try to take down the Republic's Pyotr Caviar 

• No sooner had Steve and Carl hyped up the Classic matches to come than the Florida A&M marching band split the Qualitron, coming out in formation to line both sides of the aisle and encircle the ring.  After some peppy fanfare, they launched into a cover of “Bombs Over Baghdad” that brought out the College Park Family to a huge pop.  The International Players danced down the aisle, Science Fiction Double Feature followed them, and behind them by a couple of steps was the man who'd been World champion all year, the legendary Jupiter Jones.  The Fifteen Pounds of Gold gleamed off his shoulder as they hit the ring and the QCW stalwart was the only one in the maroon and gold letterman jacket with the big bold C on it.

• Jones cut a promo once the band died down, saying that it was great to be home again inside Quality Arena on a Friday night…but Sunday night at Golden Rule was a little bit better because not only did he get to knock Caleb Gray off his throne of delusions, he’d gotten his belt back for the first time in weeks.  So with all that behind him, he was going to start looking forward.  This year's Duquesne Classic was going to have the deepest field in Classic history, and the winner wouldn't just add their name to the Duquesne Cup - they’d get a shot at him and the World heavyweight championship come Mayday Payday.  So while he wished everyone in the tournament good luck, he was going to do what the kids call stand on business and he called living up to your word: they would only get as far as the Cup, because after the wars with the Republic and Caleb's thievery, he was here not only to prove why Old Man Jones was still The Champ, but someone would have to let the dogs of hell loose before he let the World title out of his grasp again.

• The crowd popped for that and barely began to fire up “You deserve it!” chants before the lights in Quality Arena went out.  When they came back on, Hysteria was in the ring across from the College Park Family and Steve lit into them for ruining a special moment Jupiter was having with the fans.  Despite being outnumbered five to three QCW’s resident coven wasted no time in getting in the faces of Collipark; with the mic by Jupiter’s side you could hear every word Bonnie Agrippa hissed as she railed against how the company had set Hysteria up with an extreme elimination match they clearly hoped would be an extermination, but they were still here - still breathing - and still in the Classic.  Which meant that this wasn't a time for a pep rally or rah-rah speeches - this would be the Year of the Dark Coronation.  The year of Hysteria walking away with the Cup.  And the Era of Hysteria would go into legendary status just like Jupiter when they took from him what they’d come back for to begin with: the QCW World title and all the power that came with it.  Nancy Crowley had a wild look in her eyes as she clapped at Bonnie's words like a sugared up preschooler.  Nancy said that this dark future was destined to become truth, because this was the year of –

• “The year of Hot Topic wondering why all y'all been missing your shifts the past couple of years?” Both Collipark and Hysteria whipped their heads up the ramp, where Shelley LaVey and the rest of the Forbidden Book Club were standing to bask in the cheers of the crowd (those not laughing at Shelley's joke).  LaVey said after the FBC had whooped some witch ass Sunday night, she thought things couldn't get any better than that…but then not only had she and her girls (Luz Cruz and “Night Sky” Diana Spare) all gotten put in the Classic, she was going up against Bonnie tonight to kick off the tournament. Sunday night had only been an appetizer and tonight she was going to tear into her like a medium rare porterhouse for all the times Bonnie had made fun of her when they were supposed to be a team or had her running her errands like an au pair.  There would be a woman winning the Duquesne this year, but it would be one of the women of the Forbidden Book Club who’d not only hold up the Cup but the World championship when Mayday Payday came to an end.

• Jupiter let out a humorless laugh and cut off the back and forth sniping between the years-long rivals with three simple words: “Y’all can try.”. He then noted since they were going to throw down for a shot at him, they might as well get a ref out here so they could pick up where they left off last weekend.  He and Collipark were going to the skybox to watch all of tonight's tournament action - because if one of them did end up winning the Classic, they'd end up in their first PPV main event at Mayday Payday - and he’d be more than happy to show them that legends never die.  Collipark left the ring and headed towards the skybox as Shelley's music hit the PA; while “Shockadelica” played a ref came down and hit the ring.  Agrippa and LaVey locked eyes when Shelley hit the bottom of the ramp and neither broke the hateful glares they sent the other as the referee felt that tension.  Despite the ref clearly feeling uneasy and awkward given the stakes of the match and the history involved, the bell rang - three seconds later a hockey fight was on in the middle of the ring as the former friends tried to take the other's consciousness away.

• 1. Bonnie Agrippa (w/Hysteria) d. Shelley LaVey (w/Forbidden Book Club) at 8:30 in a first round Duquesne Classic match It took almost a minute for the hockey fight to end, as Bonnie stomped on Shelley's foot and drove a knee into her breadbasket before throwing her down hard to the canvas.  In a mirror of their relationship, Shelley fought to get out from under Bonnie's thumb, but a falling reverse DDT snuffed that rally out in the crib and got the first nearfall of the tournament.  Agrippa continued her bruising offense and almost got disqualified a couple of times in her zest to take it to LaVey.  Hysteria’s High Priestess didn't relent and almost buried Shelley with nearly a dozen flash elbows, but Shelley still kicked out.  A clearly irate Agrippa went to end things with Eclipsing the Light and pulled off the rolling suplexes, but when she went to end things with her trademark brainbuster Shelley kneed her in the face repeatedly to fend it off, then connected on a Pele kick that left both women down.

• But it was a renewed Shelley who was up first and laying in the shoe leather to Bonnie with some noisy forearm shots before laying her out with a basement DDT to fight her way back into the bout.  Shelley beat on Bonnie until Agrippa staggered into a neutral corner, and once that happened Shelley rained down 13 punches before biting Agrippa’s forehead for the full five count.  While the rest of the Forbidden Book Club cheered on from the floor, LaVey set up Agrippa on the top rope before sticking her into the canvas with her Fall From Grace draping cutter.  With Bonnie laid out on the mat, Shelley spit in her face before going to the top rope.  On the floor, Nancy Crowley and Bella Jolie were desperately yelling at Bonnie to move out of the way of Shelley’s Fallen Angel splash.  Agrippa couldn't get out of its path – but what she could do was get her knees up at the last second and drive all the air out of a now collapsed Shelley.  Agrippa recovered enough to grab LaVey by the hair before hitting a running brainbuster that turned out to be the winning blow that got Bonnie the three count much to the disappointment of most of the Quality Controllers. 

• Agrippa stood over Shelley and put the badmouth on her but the rest of the FBC hit the ring.  Before even more Club/Hysteria violence could break out, Bonnie flashed a sadistic smile at Cruz and Spare before snapping her fingers - and you know what that meant.  A few seconds after the lights went out, they came back on with Hysteria nowhere in sight. Who Bonnie will face next in the quarterfinals is a mystery, as she's paired against the one blank bracket in the ‘26 Classic, so keep an eye out there.  As we saw Diana and Luz help Shelley up, Steve noted from the desk this had to be especially difficult for Luz; while Shelley had just barely lost and Diana's first round match wasn't until next week, Luz’s opening round match wasn't only up next - it was against the Republic's Pyotr Caviar, who’d made the finals last year and would be even madder than usual after losing the World Tag Team championships five nights ago.  

• After that, we went TOTHEBACK~!, where Julius Duquesne III said he was going to have a major interview with Commission Holmes.  He strided up to the door and knocked before being let in.  Holmes welcomed JD3 and said it was going to be a little weird because Holmes wanted to put another job on JD3’d shoulders.  He noted it was two weeks since somebody had taken out Justice Davis on the loading dock.  Quality Force Security was made mostly to handle crowd control, not something like this.  But he knew three things about JD3: he went to Morehouse, he got a degree in journalism and part of his DNA was literally the reason QCW was around today.  Julius could use his knowhow to help him figure out who was behind this, he’d owe him a big favor.  Nobody knew the roster like he did and he had faith Duquesne III could get to the bottom of this.  Holmes thanked him and said that he’d await his word, leaving the usually mild mannered JD3 to get out a “What the–” right before Ruckus very quickly went to commercial break.

• 2. Luz Cruz (w/Forbidden Book Club) d. Pyotr Caviar (w/Ig de Catur, the Republic and Republic Enforcement) at 10:08 in a first round Duquesne Classic match It didn't take long for our first upset in this year's Duquesne, as despite taking a tremendous beating Sunday night in the extreme rules elimination match she pulled out the win there and (without as much blood this time) managed to sneak out a win here.  Cruz did so despite Caviar dominating most of the match, in an even saltier mood than usual after getting tased out of the World Tag Team championships in Seattle.  Having Cruz survive a series of near falls obviously did nothing to improve his mood so Pyotr upped the offense, using a spinning sit out powerbomb to set up a follow up Russian sickle before pulling La Reina of the Ropes into a pop up European uppercut that seemingly made her two inches shorter and had her splayed out on the canvas.  But as he began to set up Hit My Music, Jacques Krieger came marching down the ramp with a tire iron in his hand and swearing he was going to make Omar pay for what he did to Ashok at Golden Rule.  Quality Force Security came streaming out as Republic Enforcement formed a human wall at the bottom of the ramp to stop Krieger from hitting the ring - but that drew Caviar's attention away from the match and bought Luz some much needed recovery time.  As Pyotr was daring Jacques to come and get him, Cruz flew off the top with ¡MUERTE! abd git hin instead.  The third double jump poison huracanrana she was able to pull of in five days got her the shocking three count, causing Quality Arena to explode in cheers and sending de Catur nearly into a stroke at ringside.  Krieger dropped the tire iron with a wry smile and headed back up the ramp while the Republic couldn't break the human wall of QFS to get to him.  In a direct contrast to the last match, the Club hit the ring to celebrate a win; that win puts Luz into the quarterfinals to face the winner of next week's match between Summer Rose…and Jacques Krieger.  Small world.

• As the Republic and then the Club took their leaves, Steve and Carl narrated the replays and put over Luz’s massive week until “Unscripted Violence” hit the PA and brought out Razorblade to a king sized pop from the Quality Controllers.  Mason Savage came out through the crowd and down the steps per usual before hitting the ring.  After getting the mic from Duck Eko, Razorblade said the past few weeks had been the craziest in his QCW career and that was saying a lot.  First, he & Justice win Tag Team Turmoil, then the next week Justice is taken out, then at Golden Rule he gets the hell beaten out of him and when he comes to not only is he a tag champ but the guy who helped him out and is taking one of the belts off his shoulder is – is – of all the people in the back – Nazir el-Fadal?!  The crowd popped and chanted for Naz, causing Razorblade to shake his head and say if they wanted to cheer for that jackal, that was on them - but either way, he wanted Naz to get his ass to the ring right now so he could get to the bottom of some things.

• “So Be It” by Clipse brought out Nazir el-Fadal to a monster reaction of his own, strutting down the ramp with his JIHAD 1 rugby jersey and his share of the tag titles gleaming over his left shoulder.  Naz went to hit the turnbuckles and pose but Razorblade yanked him down before hissing questioningly if Naz was behind the attack on Justice two weeks ago so he could take his spot and win the belts.  Naz held up a finger so he could get a mic of his own from Duck.  Naz joked that Razorblade threw a wildly crappy championship celebration but Razorblade barked at him to cut the crap - what happened to Justice has Naz’s stink all over it.  Razorblade continued but Naz shut him down, saying that it didn't because when you're Nazir el-Fadal you don't need to jump the Justices of the world - if he was going to jump Justice he’d let everyone know about it and do it out here in public, not out back in the loading dock, and hell, Apple TV would be begging to make a eight part limited series documentary about it.  And to be real real about things, he had more important things to worry about than JD’s boo boos.  He had his Duquesne match up next, Razorblade had his put in the main event somehow and if he would focus on his current partner who had won them the belts instead of the one on the shelf then they could rule the tag division for years.   Naz didn't want to come out here to get accused of crimes he didn't commit, he wanted to win the Duquesne for the first time - but if Razorblade wanted to apologize, he could stand on the outside and watch his back while he rinsed Caleb Gray faster than Old Man Jones did on Sunday night.  It would be a nice way of saying thank you.  

• Razorblade let out a short bark of a laugh, saying it would be April 34th before he thanked Naz for anything.  At this point “Shall We Gather At the River?’ hit the PA and brought out the Chosen with a clearly fuming Caleb Gray leading the procession of him and his acolytes towards the ring.  Razorblade said to Naz he wasn't going to stand in his corner because he didn't trust him, and if he found out he was behind the attack on Justice then he would take apart Naz in sections whether or not they were tag team champions.  Razorblade scowled at Naz before he left the ring and headed back the way he came.  As Steve was hyping the Malicía/Razorblade main event and Naz was demanding Razorblade come back here and thank him for saving his sorry ass, Caleb slid into the ring and waffled Naz from behind.  Gray got in a few stomps before a referee got in the ring and pulled Caleb off Naz.  Gray and the zebra argued, allowing Naz a window to get up and lash out with a cross chop to the throat that staggered Gray.back.  Now the ref had to pull Naz off of Caleb, and managed to get both complaining men in neutral corners before calling for the bell.

• 3. Nazir el-Fadal d. “The Purifier” Caleb Gray (w/the Chosen) at 10:45 in a first round Duquesne Classic match  The pregame shenanigans effectively got rid of the feeling out period, and el-Fadal jumped out to an early lead.  Naz forced Caleb into a corner but instead of breaking clean, he rocked Gray with a European uppercut, then tacked on four more for good measure.  As Naz continued attacking, Steve pointed out that this was a rematch from last year's quarterfinals where Naz had ended Caleb's chances of becoming the first back-to-back Cup winner.  But Gray couldn't get the measure of revenge he sought, and after Naz countered a desperate attempt at Repent with his Heat Check cobra clutch Lungblower, Gray rolled out to the floor to buy some recovery time.  Naz fired up the faithful and went for a tope suicida, but the End Times stood in the scope to protect Caleb and take the tope instead.  That was all the opening Caleb needed to sneak up on Naz and toss him into the ring post, sending Allah's Anointed splattering on the outside to boos.  

• Caleb shut out that noise and picked up Naz before sticking him with a DDT on the floor.  The Purifier rolled back in the ring and was content to win by countout, but a reeling el-Fadal managed to break the count at nine and flop back into the ring.  Gray looked peeved for a few moments but merely waited on his opponent to get up before laying him out with Reap the Whirlwind; the cyclone kick took Naz down but not out as he managed to shoulder out at 2½.: As Caleb continued wearing down Naz, Carl pointed out on commentary that if Gray could win the Cup again, he’d get a World title rematch against Jupiter at Mayday Payday.  Caleb continued rolling - literally and figuratively, as a chained trio of German suplexes sent Naz rolling out to the apron to try and break up Caleb's momentum but it was too late for that now.   Gray staggered Naz with some rights and went to put his lights out with a superkick, but Naz dodged it and he ended up kicking the ring post.  To.add injury to injury, that slight misstep was all the opening that Naz needed to pick him up and plant him into the apron with the Hamrin Valley Driver.  The crowd cheered, gasped and groaned as the impact saw Naz almost bounce off of Caleb to the floor…but Caleb wasn't moving at all.

• We got a couple of replays as Naz gathered himself on the floor, audible “Holy shit!” chants popped up throughout Quality Arena.  el-Fadal slid back in the ring with an evil smirk on his face before grabbing a limp Gray up by his arms then running into a corner with another Hamrin Valley Driver that sent the patriarch of the Chosen heels over head.  The follow up dose of Nazquil put to bed any shot Caleb had of winning the Cup twice in three years and gave Naz the dub.

• After replays, we saw Caleb limp up the aisle, occasionally screaming and ignoring the pleas from Goody Gardner as the End Times trailed behind her.  Bad week for the 2024 Duquesne Classic winner and a great week for the man celebrating on the turnbuckles while pointing at the Cup; Naz will take on the winner of next week's Nancy Crowley v. “Night Sky” Diana Spare match in the quarterfinals.  More Ruckus on the way after a few commercials.

• We saw the previously online only footage of the Undaunted after their match at Golden Rule and they were understandably angry after Serge Batroc and “the Proper Villain” Richard Windsor cheated to beat them in Seattle,  The proud Irishmen demanded a fair rematch against the snobby Euros, and “Unforgettable” Dave Mullin promised that if they got that rematch they’d be the ones getting their hands raised and they wouldn't need any [censored] tricks to do it; now they weren't just Undaunted, they were out for blood.  He & Tim “the Only Hope” McMurray walked off backstage on Sunday night; we went back to the ring on this Friday night for some trios action.

• 4. Sky’s the Limit d. The All Starr Stable (w/S. Mark Starr) at 8:26 A match between two factions looking to bounce back from recent losses and get things going in a positive direction with a win here.  It was the Stable who jumped out ahead early, with Evan O'Neill and Prince Ootsuka combining on a slingshot spear into a snap cobra clutch suplex on Kam Ellis to take down the power man of the Air Force alumni.  Starr was borderline manic on the floor as the black hats took over, sensing that an elusive victory was finally coming his unit’s way.  But the match changed minutes later when Ellis pulled Ootsuka in front of another slingshot spear, then laid out Evan with a massive Blue Thunder bomb.  That gave him the window to get to DeMarius Cooper and make a tag, allowing Mare and then his twin brother DeMarcus to light up the Stable like Times Square.  While the All Starrs have bonded over the years, it couldn't come close to matching the Coopers’ bond or varied high flying offense.  The Stable managed a brief rally that got wiped out in short order when Kam hit a massive tope suicide that took out both Ootsuka and “Upper Class” Broderick Palmer II; there was no way O’Neill was going to win a three on one handicap match and Sky’s the Limit ping ponged him around the ring for the match’s final moments.  The Coopers ended it with Aim High, and after getting hit with the tandem 450° splash x guillotine legdrop Mare pinned O’Neill.  Sky’s the Limit celebrated their way to the back while Starr put the bad mouth on O’Neill for costing them another match.

• We cut to Commissioner Holmes in his office talking to someone on the phone when some loud rapid fire knocks caused him to depart the call and invite the loud knocker in.  You could hear the crowd groan in the background as Drake Tremble walked in and demanded an opportunity to be in the Duquesne Classic.  How could a three time QCW champion – let alone a hometown hero from North Parts Unknown – be Forsaken yet again like this?  Was Holmes just another Caleb Gray with more power?  Drake continued on like that for a few more beats before Holmes cut him off and said there was one bracket of the Classic left open, so if Drake could break his losing streak and win a play-in match, he was in. 

• The catch was, they were about to hit the last commercial break tonight, so that gave Drake 150 seconds to get ready and head to the ring startiiiiing…now! Drake stared at Holmes for a few seconds before running for the door, tripping over himself on the way out.  Holmes shook his head as we went to break.

• 5. “The Forsaken” Drake Tremble d. Jonathan Livingston Clipper Esq. at 7:51 in a Duquesne Classic play in match Both men wrestled with a sense of desperation given their respective losing streaks (Drake's being much longer, obviously).  After a short feeling out period, JLCE came off the ropes with a spinning heel kick and began to take over.  In fact, the match was 90% Clipper's as he used his youth and power advantages to the point where Tremble bailed to the floor and brought in a steel chair.  The referee stopped him before he could connect with a shot, but as the zebra got rid of the chair Tremble kicked a field goal with Jonathan's buoys.  The ref turned back to the action just in time to see Tremble drop the Captain with the Broken Halo discus back elbow and pick up a win much to the disgust of the Quality Controllers.  Drake paid them no mind and celebrated like he’d just won the World Series with a grand slam, leaving the ref to check on a groggy and unlucky Clipper in the ring.

• Before the main event, Steve and Carl hyped up 💫 next week's Ruckus 💫, which will continue and conclude the first round of the Duquesne Classic: now that he's forced his way into the tournament, Drake Tremble is one half of the mystery bracket and we’ll find out who he's facing next week 💫 the relentless rivalry between the Forbidden Book Club and Hysteria continues when Nancy Crowley faces off against “Night Sky” Diana Spare 💫 Tre Boyd may’ve drawn the shortest straw as he goes up against the Republic’s seething 2x former World champion Omar Littlefield 💫 and Summer Rose looks to down the heavy hitter Jacques Krieger

• Say, speaking of first round Duquesne Classic matches, it's time for the main event between two people who’ve gotten to know and hate each other pretty well since last summer…

• 6. Malicía Fernandez (w/Ig de Catur, the Republic and Republic Enforcement) d. Mason “Razorblade” Savage at 10:54 in a first round Duquesne Classic match Another great match between the off and on again rivals culminated in a minor upset that sent me crowd home unhappy, as Malicía not only got the W but did so cleanly.  Razorblade may have been distracted by the Justice attack and Naz being his new partner as well as banged up from Sunday night, but have you met Mason Savage?  You know he isn't going to let that sort of thing stop him from slugging away and raising hell, especially against any of the Republic’s foot soldiers.  Savage fired off plenty of massive rights right from jump, and after kicking Fernandez’s leg out from under her to set up a ring shaking double underhook suplex, Razorblade looked to follow up with one of his King Kong lariats.  He shot out of the corner and it connected but to the shock of the arena it barely wobbled Fernandez.  Malicía glared at the Grand Slam winner before spitting in his face, and that gave her just enough of an opening to snatch him up and lay him out with a big MF5 to turn the tide of the match her way.

• Malicía couldn't match weight with Razorblade but he couldn't match her height, and she brought down her barrage of elbows from on high to repeatedly send Razorblade down.  As she took over on offense the announcers pointed out that former National and World Tag Team champion Malicía was only a World title away from the Triple Crown, and she could get a shot at it at Mayday Payday if she could win the Duquesne.  Razorblade began fighting out from under and managed a brief rally only to have it shut down by a roundhouse kick from the lanky luchadora that got her a nearfall.  Fernandez didn't need Ig’s urging to stay on the attack, hitting a massive lariat that sent Razorblade spinning before he smacked into the canvas.  Malicía got on the move when he started to stir, then connected with a somersault axe kick that left Razorblade having to kick out at 2¾.  Malicía glared at the referee over the count but quickly got back in motion and went for the Death Warrant.  Razorblade managed to dodge it, then took Fernandez down with a spinebuster.  Malicía didn't stay down for long, but another massive lariat rocked her long enough for Savage to hit La Monstrua with another spinebuster that kept Malicía down and helped fuel Razorblade's second wind.

• Savage brought the house and tried to bring it crashing down on Malicía's head.  A couple more lariats, a couple of spinebusters and most impressively a delayed vertical suplex that lasted nearly half a minute.   As he was rolling, Jacques Krieger suddenly jumped the dividing barrier and leaped onto Omar Littlefield and began firing rights and lefts before Republic Enforcement swallowed him up and laid a beating on him.  Razorblade looked over at the beating on the floor and shook his head before he turned back to Malicía and threw her shoulder first into the ringpost before setting up for the Soul Crusher that had won him championship after championship in QCW.  Savage took Malicía up to the top rope but as he tried to hoist her up on her shoulders Malicía slipped free and bounced his head off of the ringpost with a dull thud.  The Quality Controllers groaned as Razorblade went limp and Malicía snatched Savage up in a goozle.  Fernandez took a step up to the top rope then flew off and took them both to the mat with an avalanche chokeslam that folded Razorblade up like a K-3 off suit.  Fernandez got to her feet first before letting out a roar and grabbing Razorblade off the deck.  He couldn't stop the Death Warrant from getting signed this time or the three count that followed.  “The Old Guard Is Dead” rang out over the PA and the crowd booed as Malicía posed over Razorblade's body.  Carl said he hated to say it, but Razorblade had just gotten flat out beat and it wasn't all because of what went down on Sunday night.

• Replays fired off highlights from Malicía’s win and when we came back to live action Ig was hugging a stone faced Fernandez while telling her the Duquesne was here for the taking.  The win by Malicía sends her to the quarterfinals, where she'll face the winner of next week's match between Tre Boyd and her Republic co-conspirator Omar Littlefield.  Ruckus ended with Fernandez standing next to the Cup with Ig enthusiastically clapping next to her and Steve wondering if we were seeing a preview of things to come.  

QCW Unleashed [s3e35 • Seattle • American Airlines Arena]

• Serge Batroc (w/”the Proper Villain” Richard Windsor) d. “Fahrenheit” Freddie Valsada (w/”Zaddy Longlegs” Cole Grant & John Arneson)
• Beast Mode (w/Lolo Vuitton) d. The Hard Way
• Forbidden Book Club (w/Shelley LaVey) d. The Sound of Thunder
• Lolo Vuitton (w/Beast Mode) d. Gaia Green (w/Winter Wonderland)

Golden Rule PPV (Climate Pledge Arena • Seattle)

 {preshow} Cindy Monet (w/Jane Doe & the International Players) d. Goody Gardner (w/the End Times) 🪙 This came as a sort of appetizer for tonight's main event, with Gardner proving over the past few weeks that despite her former reticence to get her hands dirty that she could acquit herself well between the ropes.  But Monet controlled the match almost from the bell and it took only a couple of minutes for Gardner to roll to the floor after getting hit by Rolling Thunder.  It turned out that Goody was actually setting a trap; when Cindy went for a follow up baseball slide, the matriarch of the Chosen trapped Cindy in the ring apron and laid into her with a barrage of forearms.  Goody controlled the offense for the next couple of minutes but when she went to Lawn Dart Cindy, multi time champion slipped out the back door and countered by hitting Gardner with a reverse suplex.  That set up the Tightrope ropewalk lariat and Cindy's win while allowing the announcers to debate if we would see Collipark beat the Chosen in the main event.

{preshow} | contract match Summer Rose (w/”Sinister” Sarah Fowler) d. “Cambodian Cool” Keo Tevi 🪙 Since Tevi debuted at the top of the year she's been targeted by Fowler, whose sidekick Midsomar revealed themselves to be Summer Rose a few weeks ago.  Coming out from under the mask and self imposed exile, the former champion had to get back on the roster by beating Keo here to nullify the Loser Leaves Town loss she suffered against Autumn Powers (speaking of QCW alums) years ago.  

Rose fought without her former grace and wore Tevi out early while Fowler looked on from the floor with deranged glee in her eyes.  Summer was rolling until Teo caught a flying crossbody attempt and turned it into an oshigoroshi to stay in the fight.   Keo showed why they'd been a three time champion Down Under as they emptied their offensive tank, but when it looked like they were going to banish Summer again, Rose bit their hand to block Psychedelic Shock.  When Keo doubled over to check on their hand, Summer log rolled into Tevi to send them crashing into the canvas to set up a basement rana driver that got the Beautiful Reckoning a three count and officially back into QCW.  Summer put pen to paper five minutes before the PPV proper started; Rose and Fowler celebrated by stomping out Tevi some more before the rest of the referee corps were able to order them to the back.

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[ QCW NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ] Orion [c] d. Tre Boyd 🔟 🪙 One of the big selling points of Golden Rule was every title in the company being on the line, so what better way to start than with one of the title matches?  Once a tense handshake started the match, the two of them zipped around the ring with both of them going hold for hold and counter for counter.  But after a couple minutes of back and forth it was Boyd who'd hit an early momentum shifter as he.dodged an Orion clothesline with a Matrix bridge before nipping up into an enzuigiri that took Orion down.

But the Cosmic Champion refused to stay down for long, reversing a Blue Thunder bomb into a huracanrana takedown before following up with a step up knee that sent Boyd bouncing through the ropes and out to the floor.  Tre got himself vertical just in time to eat an Orion triangle moonsault that wiped them both out.  

But Boyd bounced back when he countered a top rope flying attack with a powerbomb that drove Orion into a smear on the canvas.  From there, Boyd increasingly put pressure on the titleholder and kept them grounded for the most part.  After landing some strikes and suplexes, Tre began opening the throttle on his offense 

It looked like Tre was well on his way to taking the Natty even though Orion kept managing to kick out at the death.  But after using a Blue Thunder bomb to set up an avalanche Spanish Fly, Boyd called for the end and looked to connect with his Say Hallelujah the same way he’d just hit Heaven Sent.  Tre leapt to the top rope in one jump that he almost overshot, then balanced himself before flying off with his trusty Spiral Tap.

But the couple of moments Boyd balanced himself gave Orion just enough time to get their knees up and snuff out Say Hallelujah.  Boyd was doubled over on his hands and knees on the mat right before Orion snuck up on him and wrapped him up in a La Magistral cradle.  Tre kicked out…unfortunately for him, it was at a count of four.  Just like that, Orion had snatched victory from the jaws of defeat and once again retained the National championship.  

Still the Cosmic Champion, they got their hand raised and the title in their arms while the Qualitron showed that Orion had completed the 10 Count; it was only a matter of time until they cashed in the Natty for a shot at the World title.  Orion finished posing on the turnbuckles and hopped down, turning around and coming face to face with Tre.  They draped their belt over the top rope and offered Tre a handshake, but Boyd (openly seething after complaining to the ref several times about the three count) waved it off and rolled out of the ring before stomping off to the back to a loud, mixed reaction.  Orion shrugged and picked up their belt, allowing Mastodon to hit the PA and Orion to enjoy the moment without any of Tre’s sour grapes to leave a bad taste in their mouth.

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A video package set up our second match on the evening, recapping “Night Sky” Diana Spare “rejoining” the Forbidden Book Club and their challenge to their ex friends in Hysteria to an elimination match - with Hysteria accepting as long as it was an extreme rules match as well and the Club more than eager to accept that stip too - weeks and months and years of broken/new/reformed allegiances, sneak attacks from both sides, and both sides promising they would be the ones who’d get their hands raised while putting their rivals in the dirt…

extreme rules elimination match Forbidden Book Club d. Hysteria (survivor: Luz Cruz) 🪙 To the surprise of nobody, this was a chaotic bloody brawl that went at peak intensity for nearly half an hour; to the surprise of some the Club ended up victorious, with Luz Cruz landing the decisive shot that finally ended the brawl.  Hysteria emerged out from the darkness they created, but to the surprise of everyone in Seattle the FBC all emerged from underneath the ring and jumped QCW’s resident coven before they could pose and kicked off a Pier 6 that spilled out to ringside and a little bit up the ramp depending on which of the three fights you were watching the most.  

The Club was the first to use plunder, grabbing multiple weapons from under the ring and swinging for the fences on their ex friends.  After Bonnie Agrippa and Nancy Crowley had taken several shots each from kendo sticks, Bella Jolie threw her body onto theirs to act as a human shield.  FBC then mugged her with a myriad of kendo stick shots before sending Bonnie and Nancy out of the ring.  Luz and Shelley handled them while Diana beat Bella like a rented goalie, using a Black Hole Slam to set up a pop up Michinoku Driver into a trash can to bounce Bella and give the Club a 3-2 lead. 

But that only fueled the fires of Hysteria and made Nancy Crowley more Feral than usual; first she grabbed Carl’s candy jar from off the announce table and smashed it over Diana's head to leave her laying, then she & Bonnie worked over Luz and Shelley long enough to be able to bring steel chairs into the fray and tilt things further in their direction.  Both Cruz and LaVey ate steel, and when Spare recovered enough to get vertical again Hysteria dropped her with a standing Conchairto.   Having taken out who they clearly thought was the Club’s linchpin, Agrippa and Crowley put knots on the heads of the rest of the Club.  They managed to even up the score in vicious fashion, not only hitting their trademark spike brainbuster on Shelley LaVey but doing it into the bottom half of the steel steps to even things up at 2 apiece.   The Hysteria team began showing why they weren't too long removed from being the World Tag Team champions as they sent Cruz sailing over the announce table then overturned it onto her, and even pinned her underneath the remnants of the table with both parts of the steps, the announcers’ chairs and even a piece of the retaining barrier that Bonnie and Nancy had put Luz through moments earlier.  They then bundled Spare up and tossed “Night Sky” into the ring.  Diana staggered over to grab a cookie sheet but Crowley quickly ran up on her and gave Diana a Code Black into some scattered chairs.  While Nancy dragged Diana to her knees, Bonnie made sure to taunt her former tag partner and point to where Luz was buried under the announce table, and even without being miced up you could hear Agrippa mocking Diana about how she should've left the Club for dead and now she was going to get her little sidekicks put in the ICU.  Spare’s response was to spit in her face and Nancy's as well to a big pop, but Hysteria’s response was to give Spare a spike brainbuster into the chair pile before Nancy put a foot on Diana's chest and pinned her to send Hysteria up 2-1.

The crowd's shock and disappointment quickly gave way to loud “Fuck Hysteria” chants that only made the diabolical duo cackle.  Having saved Luz for last, they were more than ready to give La Reina of the ropes flashbacks to last year's Golden Rule and worse.  They rolled out of the ring at the same time and began picking through the wreckage to get Luz Cruz and turn this chaos filled match into a gentlewoman’s sweep - but they couldn't find Cruz, who was hiding in the timekeeper’s area and blasted them both with a spray from a fire extinguisher.  Cruz then climbed up onto the barrier and took them both down with a tornillo off of it to drop Hysteria again before letting out a war cry followed by some cursing in Spanish.  Luz picked up Nancy and lawn darted her into the ring post to stop her shrieks then focused on the woman who’d replaced her 360 days ago as the top of Hysteria's food chain.

Agrippa scrambled into the ring for the high ground and to get a chair, but her swing missed and Luz's springboard dropkick sent the chair into Bonnie's face to a pop.  Cruz grabbed that chair and another one before opening them up to face each other.  Cruz moved as quick as she could and hit the opposite corner on a diagonal, running up onto the chairs before launcherung herself over the ring post with a queen sized tope con hilo that drove Nancy through another section of the retaining barrier, causing the crowd to break out into “HOLY SHIT!” chants.  Cruz staggered up and grabbed Nancy.pff the floor before tossing her back in the ring.  Luz had Nancy in the drip zone and went up for ¡MUERTE!, but that meant she’d taken her eyes off of Bonnie and Agrippa threw a trash can at her to knock her off of the top rope and send Cruz back down to the canvas.  Bonnie pulled Nancy off the deck for a two on one stomping out of Luz while Steve told us that with this advantage it was only a matter of time before Hysteria got their hands raised - but first they were going to make Luz suffer.  Bonnie held Luz down as Crowley climbed to the top rope and flew off with an avalanche senton.  Agrippa shower why she took Luz's spot as leader, giving Crowley whispered instructions in Crowley’s ear.  Crowley cackled before rolling out of the ring while Bonnie laid out Luz with Eclipsing the Light.  Two suplexes and a brainbuster later, Luz was dead weight so she missed Crowley coming into the ring with a full pane of glass.  Bonnie pulled up a limp Luz as she smiled, encouraging Nancy to bring the hammer down.  Crowley reared back and swung the pane like Cal Raleigh…but Luz either went limp or fell down and Bonnie took the sheet of glass to the head as Hysteria’s lieutenant accidentally wiped out her general to the delight of the crowd.  Bonnie was out like Shia LeBouf on Bourbon Street as Nancy screamed in the ring - but for once it was out of panic and not sadistic glee.  Crowley reached down to check on a clearly out of it Agrippa, and she was borderline crying as she tried to bring the High Priestess of Hysteria back to consciousness.  With her attention focused on Bonnie, Nancy forgot all about Luz until she heard cursing in Spanish.  Nancy turned around just in time to block a flying chair with her face that spun her around and dropped her to her knees.  It took Luz longer to climb the ropes but once she was in the penthouse she flew down to ground floor with ¡MUERTE!, sending Nancy head first into the mat with her double jump poison huracanrana.  Cruz flopped on top of Nancy to get the three count to save the match for the Club.  And then it was down to her and an out of it Nancy…

…or not, as when Luz tried to pick her up Agrippa snuck in an inside cradle for 2.8.  Cruz beat Bonnie in getting vertical and laid her out with a massive dropkick before letting out a war cry and pointing to the corner.  Cruz went up top again and flew off for ¡MUERTE! but not only did Bonnie counter it, she picked Cruz out of mid air with a Backstabber and then jumped on Luz with a crossface.  Blood came down Luz’s face while Bonnie was bleeding but also screaming at Luz while she had the hold on, screaming at Luz that this was what she deserved, that this was the reason Hysteria was better off without her, that she was going to humiliate her at Golden Rule just like she was last year.  Cruz started going limp as Bonnie screamed at her to tap out.  Luz slumped over as Agrippa torqued the hold.  Luz’s hand went limp on the mat for a couple of seconds but then it suddenly shot out, back and to the left leaving Bonnie screaming in pain   The crowd gasped or popped upon seeing Bonnie freak out and holding her right wrist where Luz had just stabbed it with a shard of brown glass.  The usually haughty and composed High Priestess screamed for a good while, right until Luz came flying out of the sky to drop Bonnie with another ¡MUERTE!, delivered head first into some of the chairs.  Agrippa was bleeding from the hand and wrist as she was flat on her back, a spent and bleeding Cruz getting her arm across her former friend for the winning pinfall.

We got replays for a solid couple of minutes recapping the biggest moments of the back and forth battle and Cruz stealing victory from the jaws of defeat.  When we cut back to live action we saw Luz Cruz getting her hands raised by the referee while LaVey and Spare helped to steady her.  Cruz looked like she was going to go limp in their arms but suddenly reared back and hocked a bloody loogie onto Bonnie, before cursing her out in Spanish.  The referee quickly moved FBC towards the ropes and they opted to celebrate on the floor, Cruz repeatedly beating her chest while Shelley and even the usually stoic Spare gave her praise.  Steve and Carl were doing the same, but got interrupted by Cruz herself as she talked to the ringside camera she’d shut up Hysteria and that two witches were no match for one brujera. The Club headed to the back as a bloody Agrippa sat up and gave them the finger behind their backs before falling over to her side.  The referee and the medical staff checked on Agrippa heading into some commercials.

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Serge Batroc & “the Proper Villain” Richard Windsor d. The Undaunted 🪙 It didn't take long for the “styles make fights” chestnut to play out in this battle where Serge & Richard continued to be the unwelcome committee for the newly arriving fun-loving Irishmen.  It was the heels who struck a big blow early, a blind tag from Windsor setting up a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker + guillotine legdrop combination.  Windsor & Batroc then targeted the back of “Unforgettable” Dave Mullin and halved the ring on him.  It took Mullin a few minutes to get out from under and he did so in spectacular fashion by planting the black hats with a double handspring tornado DDT.  They both tried to pick his ankle to prevent a tag, but Dave upkicked Serge away and then did so to Windsor, sending him flying into Serge to allow room for the tag to Tim “the Only Hope” McMurray.  Tim came in fresh and went wild on his opponents, hitting flying forearms, hard knife edged chops and even a Sliced Bread #2 of both of them at the same time.  The Undaunted landed some double team offense and looked to put things away with the Doomsday Meteora they call Shamrock Air – but Serge broke it up with a charging European uppercut that sent Dave to the floor, allowing Richard to counter with a victory roll that helped secure a victory…as he wrapped his arm around the middle rope and Serge pulled on it from the floor.  The referee missed both cheats and declared Serge & Richard the winners to a tidal wave of boos; they quickly made tracks up the ramp while Mullin rightfully complained to the referee having seen the last bit of their cheating.

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A brief vignette showed Tre Boyd stomping out of Climate Pledge, ignoring questions from Julius Duquesne III about the title loss to Orion as well as pleas from his former friends in Sky’s the Limit to reunite since they were better off as a unit than set apart.  The Gospel ignored everyone on his way to a Town Car that sped off into the Seattle night the second he closed a back door behind him.

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Ashok Banerjee (w/Jacques Krieger) d. Omar Littlefield (w/Ig de Catur and Republic Enforcement) 🪙 The upset of the night - maybe of the year - came before the double main event as Ashok managed to steal a victory over the former two time World champion.  Banjerjee was able to successfully play a cat & mouse game with Omar, but once the Republic’s land monster caught up to him he turned him into a figurative and at times literal punching bag.  Omar showed off his deep offensive playbook; he nearly Pounced Ashok out of the ring, he cut off a Banjerjee rally with a sit out choke bomb, and after five consecutive Vader Bombs he looked to have things wrapped up after connecting with his Face Eraser.  But Ashok managed to get a foot on the bottom rope to save the match, which Omar didn't notice as he celebrated what he thought was a victory.  When the referee had to inform him someone had actually survived his vicious crucifix powerbomb DDT, Omar let loose several f-bombs (good thing we were on PPV) and backed the ref into a neutral corner before threatening to lay them out, too.  Omar went for another Face Eraser, but Banjerjee hit a flash modified Code Red that stunned Omar just long enough to get the three count, keep his undefeated streak going and ostensibly kill Omar's campaign for another World title shot.

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Climate Pledge got to enjoy the moment for about ten seconds before Omar popped back up and laid out Ashok from behind.  Omar hit another Face Eraser, then tossed the referee out to the floor when he tried to intervene.  Republic Enforcement held off Jacques Krieger while Omar hit a third Face Eraser, but as he went for a fourth Krieger got in the ring and went after Omar.  That worked until it didn't and Omar stopped his heavy hands by laying him out with a sit out choke bomb.  Littlefield turned his attention back to Banjerjee and laid him out with the fourth Face Eraser tonight. 

The bell kept ringing and the crowd kept booing and heckling Omar, but changed their tune as Commissioner Holmes came out and waved on not only Quality Force Security but some members of the Seattle PD.  They hit the ring too late to prevent a fifth Face Eraser but immediately swarmed Omar after it connected and took him down to the mat.  As they finally managed to stop Omar's onslaught and put him in cuffs, de Catur got in Holmes’ face and launched into a series of complaints before punctuating it with a couple of hard pokes into the Commissioner's chest.  Holmes let the first one go but after the third he socked Ig on the jaw and sent the techbro multimillionaire on his ass to a big pop from the crowd.  Shaking his head furiously, he walked over to Duck Eko and took control of the mic.

Holmes said he’d be damned if the World Tag Team titles match was going to turn into a Republic debacle as well, so by his ruling he was banning Ig de Catur and Republic Enforcement from ringside for the next match!  It was probably their fault that Justice Davis had gotten taken out on Friday the 13th, and if he could prove it he’d see the lot of them bankrupted and blackballed from the industry - these people deserved better and he was going to give it to them!  Ig de Catur had barely gotten to his feet before he too was in handcuffs, and his private security was as well.  Littlefield, de Catur & Republic Enforcement were taken out of Climate Pledge - but things quickly turned somber once the chaos died down, as it soon became clear that Ashok was barely moving.  The medical staff came to the ring and after some tests loaded Banjerjee onto a stretcher.  An absolutely irate looking Krieger followed them into an ambulance that sped out of the arena saying only one thing twice on the way out: that he was going to destroy Omar.

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A video package ahead of the semi main for the World Tag Team championships showed Savage Justice reuniting at Cold As Hell, Justice Davis pinning Malicía Fernandez at Pure Massacre and SJ being named #1 contenders for their old titles after winning Tag Team Turmoil - then jumped to last week when the end of the Friday the 13th Ruckus showed Justice taken out and being thrown through a car windshield, causing Razorblade to say two nights ago that he knew the Republic was behind the cowardly attack because they were scared of losing their belts and that if he had to, he’d fight them in a handicap match because now that they'd taken away the angel on his shoulder the devil in him was going to show them everyone bleeds, especially Republic bootlickers.

[ QCW WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS ] Mason “Razorblade” Savage and…somehow, Nazir el-Fadal d. The Republic [c] #AndNEWWWW 😞 No, that's not a typo.  And before you ask: no, that's not a typo.  Remember, with everything that went down in and after the last match Pyotr Caviar and Malicía Fernandez were left on their own to defend the straps with no help.  Still, when Razorblade came out alone it looked like they wouldn't need it as the semi main turned out mostly to be a handicap match.  Battle tested as Razorblade is, sooner rather than later the math caught up to him and that's before the size advantages of Malicía’s height and Pyotr's heft came calling.  Razorblade mustered brief rallies, but every time it seemed he was about to make some real headway, his opposition would tag out double team hin or both.  The Republic representatives had Razorblade dead to rights after hitting a double pop up European uppercut and called for the double goozle - and that's when the lights went out.  

When they came back on, someone in Republic Enforcement gear and their hat looked like they were about to strike Razorblade with a baton.  The referee got that baton and another one out of the wiry man’s hands, but as the referee had to get rid of those the man shocked everyone in attendance by pulling out a taser and literally shocking both Pyotr and Malicía.  Razorblade managed to pin down a convulsing Caviar's shoulders for three.  Razorblade looked shocked over being saved, and even more so when his savior lost his cap and ripped off the Enforcement top to reveal a familiar looking Gold Lion black and gold rugby jersey that had JIHAD 1 on the back.  Savage sat stunned on the mat while the referee draped the belts over his shoulder.  This only lasted for a moment, as Nazir’s grin was so big it almost touched the belts before he snatched one off of Razorblade.  The crowd chanted “Holy shit!” loudly while Naz gave a smirk to end all smirks and thrust the belt in the air, triggering a barrage of gold and white pyro as the Qualitron put up a graphic announcing the longtime rivals as the new World Tag Team champions.  Naz gave Razorblade a couple of pats on the cheek and swaggered his way to the back while Steve and Carl were stumbling over their words on commentary.  Razorblade turned his head towards the ramp shellshocked while Naz got in another pose with the belt and a shit eating grin before he headed to the back.  It's a good thing a couple of commercials happened after this, because what the entire f

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Before the main event we got a sizzle reel hyping up the return of QCW’s beloved and vaunted annual tournament - the Duquesne Classic not only will allow one person to join the ranks of QCW immortality but will grant them a World championship opportunity at Mayday Payday.  The 16 person tournament will kick off on this week's Ruckus, which means that Duquesne season has returned…who will put their name on the Cup this year?

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We got a video package ahead of the main event, covering Jupiter winning the World championship again at Holiday In Cambodia and following it up with a successful title defense at Cold As Hell, then successfully fighting the Republic only to get blindsided weeks ago by “the Purifier” Caleb Gray, the leader of the Chosen who stole the Fifteen Pounds of Gold and has promised to win it tonight to bring about his desire to turn the company into Quality Christian Wrestling with him on top.  Repeated attacks by the Chosen haven't deterred the legendary Jones from promising the fans that he’ll get the physical belt tonight or get crucified trying - even as the former Duquesne Classic winner and National champion Gray promises his ascension to QCW World champion tonight will be the sort of revelation that makes even the staunchest non-believer choose faith over fear…

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[ QCW WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP ] Jupiter Jones [c, w/Collipark] d. “The Purifier” Caleb Gray (w/the Chosen) 🪙 Golden Rule ended on an up note, as the legendary Jones retained the Fifteen Pounds of Gold over the duplicitous Gray.  Gray went after Jupiter right from the start, peppering him with punches.  But when he tried to land Reap the Whirlwind, Jupiter caught it and turned it into an over the shoulder kneebuster to halt his momentum.  Jupiter spent the next few minutes working over the leg and grounding Caleb while the announcers pointed out how Jupiter used his veteran skills to not only make an opening for himself but change up his usual offense to further tilt the scales in his favor.  After dropping Caleb with a double underhook powerbomb, Jones played to the fans before launching a Bolt From Olympus - but Gray countered and his backdrop sent Jones over the top and to the floor by his acolytes.  

Gray laid out on the mat clutching at his shin, which drew the referee's attention while the End Times grabbed Jones and launched him head first into the retaining barrier to boos from the Seattle Quality Controllers.  Jones tried to fight back, but the Times gave him a toss into the steps to slow him down further.  That drew the attention of the ref, and after hearing the crowd’s complaints ejected the stoic End Times to cheers and sent the innocent Goody Gardner along with them.  When they stood their ground, the International Players and Science Fiction Double Feature ran them off to the back.  

Gray tried to take advantage of the situation and succeeded for a little while, but the biggest weapons in his arsenal had been taken away by Jones’ leg work.  He couldn't land his Whirlwind and the one time he attempted Repent he couldn't get the bigger Jones up for the elevated crucifix neckbreaker and he collapsed under the weight of the attempt which caused Jupiter to essentially reverse splash him into the mat.  That was the beginning of Gray's end, as Jupiter hit the ropes multiple times before sending Gray heels over head with a massive spear.  When he went for the Bolt again, this time it found the target…but before the Purifier could hit the mat, Jones blocked the Chosen leader’s body with his own.  Jupiter looked at the cheering crowd before hoisting Caleb up on his shoulders and serving up a little old school Jones with his Thunder Rolls running powerslam.  Gray was down and out for the count, leaving Seattle to count three as Jupiter retained his belt and finally got back the physical object after weeks of chicanery from Caleb.

We got replays of the match highlights as Carl accurately pointed out Jupiter turned Caleb into a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.  After they were done, we saw Jupiter in the ring celebrating with the rest of Collipark - right until “Bombs Over Baghdad” cut off and was replaced by Mastodon.  

“Orion” brought out Orion to a massive pop and excited commentary from Steve and Carl; they weren't alone in wondering if this would be the moment Orion cashed in their now certified National championship for a shot at the World title.  Jupiter seemed to be waving them on, but the Cosmic Champion merely sketched out a small bow in the direction of the ring before holding up the Natty.  Jones gave a respectful nod before thrusting the World title overhead.   The cash in is going to happen at some point, but not tonight.  Golden Rule went off the air with Steve wondering if Orion’s meteoric rise would end up with them as the one to dethrone Jupiter and be the next one to hoist up the Fifteen Pounds of Gold.