QCW Unleashed [s3e46 • Quality Arena]

• Serge Batroc (w/”The Proper Villain” Richard Windsor) d. “Unforgettable” Dave Mullin (w/Tim “the Only Hope” McMurray)
• Bonnie Agrippa and Nancy Crowley (w/Hysteria) d. Hilary Highnote and Christina Kent
• “Cambodian Cool” Keo Tevi (w/”Explosive” Emily Bennett) d. Veronica Vespa
• The International Players (w/Collipark) d. Beast Mode (w/Lolo Vuitton)

FDSN Florida Presents QCW Ruckus [s5e30 • June 5th, 2026]

 📺 live on FanDuel Sports Network Florida

📍 Quality Arena 💫 Parts Unknown, FL

• Ruckus kicked off with the Invincible open before we went inside Quality Arena, which was packed and just as rowdy as any other Friday night.  Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen are back for another Ruckus full of quality championship wrestling, and they hyped “Sinister” Sarah Fowler vs. “Night Sky’ Diana Spare as well as a big tag team main event of former tag champs Nazir el-Fadal and Mason “Razorblade” Savage going up against Pyotr Caviar and Vengeance Davis of the Republic.  As it turned out, tonight's show would be bookended with tag team action…

• 1. The End Times (w/the Chosen) d. “Swamp Pride” Ted Holland and Robert E. Moonshine at 8:36 The Times mostly rolled here, allowing “the Purifier” Caleb Gray to crow to the cameras and the announcers about his divine plan to regain the National championship.  Robert and Ted threw a scare into the flock late  - even getting a couple of near falls about a minute apart - but the Times recovered quickly from the scare.  A Lawn Dart into a cutter shut down the dreams of an upset and set up the Reckoning that got Donny Castle and Dr. Martin Williams the duke.  

• We saw a vignette from Earlier Today where the members of Sky’s the Limit interrupted Tre Boyd signing autographs in the parking lot as he came into QA.  The Cooper Brothers and Kam Ellis tried to talk their former friend Tre into rejoining their unit and stop playin’ with them.  Tre turned away from the signing and said they had to stop stalkin,’.  Win Serge’s money, check - beat Naz Almighty on PPV, check - beat all of the Republic’s land monsters - check.  The best thing he ever did was leave them behind and get after his.  They needed to get theirs.  When Kam Ellis sarcastically asked if they could get one of the many title shots Tre had gotten and failed at, Boyd whipped off his designer sunglasses and did a triple take at the beefy California King.  When Ellis folded his arms and stared down Boyd, Tre marched off screen.  A few seconds later a rental car peeled out of the parking lot while the Cooper Brothers asked big Kam why he’d do that when they're trying to get Tre back with all of them.  Ellis remained staring off where Boyd had sped off.  “Tre make it sound like he don't need us.  Maybe it's the other way round, tho.”  That sentence landed hard on DeMarcus and DeMarius; you could see them mulling it over as Ellis walked off.  We returned to live action and “B.o.B” as the crowd got to their feet out of respect for a legend –

• 2. Jupiter Jones (w/Collipark) d. Hawk Carter at 5:00 Jones’ first match since dropping the World title at Cruel Summer.  QCW’s resident shit kicking cowboy got in a few shots, but one of these men is going to end up a unanimous Hall of Famer and the other one’s Carter.  A double underhook powerbomb set up the Bolt From Olympus in the showcase win for Jupiter, and Collipark's night is just beginning - Science Fiction Double Feature will try to make things 2-0 on the other side of the evening’s first commercial break.

• We came back from the break to Naomi Lee backstage, right before she brought on the Undaunted as her interview guests.  She asked them about Manifest Destiny challenging them to a pure rules match on the heels of their rivalry intensifying over the past few months.  Tim “the Only Hope” McMurray was quick to accept, saying that they were willing to fight on their terms if Manifest Destiny was willing to lose with them in place.  “Unforgettable” Dave Mullin began to add to Tim’s comments…right until they got jumped from behind by Manifest Destiny.  Serge Batroc and Richard Windsor went after the former Catch Hell Wrestling League tag team champions with a vengeance, bouncing them off the walls, vending machines and production crates before Quality Force Security came on the scene to break things up.  

• As they were being led away from the scene of their crimes, Serge was laughing about it all; he mentioned that while the match was going to be under pure rules…well, this wasn't a match, was it?  Naomi checked on the disoriented Undaunted while we went back to the ring for more traditional tag team battling.

• 3. Science Fiction Double Feature (w/Collipark) d. A Cut Above (w/S. Mark Starr & Prince Ootsuka) at 6:21 You know things are going bad when the announcers were openly referring to the Starr Slump while the match was still in progress.  But in this battle of former tag champs it was almost wholly one way traffic from the Family, who used their speed to deal Starr’s men another L.  Another win delivered by their new Down To Earth finisher, Cindy pinning O’Neill.  Starr wandered by the announce and asked Carl if he could have his old job back; your mileage may vary as to if he was kidding or not.

• Moments later, the lights cut off briefly before coming back on and revealing Hysteria in the ring.  They commandeered some mics from Duck Eko and wasted no time in demanding that the troglodytes in the truck remind these people of what happened last week.  Footage on the Qualitron played and ran on air of Hysteria beating Mean Season and the rest of Hysteria having to pull Nancy Crowley off of Autumn Powers after she’d pinned her to win the match.  Crowley went on one of her “World National champion” rants, saying that Autumn was a fraud who’d stolen her Fifteen Pounds of Gold.  She couldn't beat her in the Duquesne and the only way she could beat her was to put on a mask and show up after Nancy had already beaten a legend and these horrible, ugly sheep that hung on Autumn's word no matter what had the nerve to call her crazy?!  What was crazy was that Autumn was too scared to give Crowley her rematch…so until she got it, Hysteria was going to hurt some people.  

• Starting with Ashok Banerjee, again.  He didn't learn like Autumn didn't learn and if they were two peas from the same idiot pod then they would fit fine inside Hysteria's cauldron.  For all the obvious reasons, Bella Jolie would take care of him. He would get orange crushed by the beauty and the beast of Hysteria, they’d put him right back in the hospital ..and it would be all Autumn's fault.  Bella dared Ashok to look into the Face of Death and know his future was doomed to be a short one.  Bonnie Agrippa seemed like she was about to chime in when Steve hurriedly said that we had to go to a commercial break but that tape machines were rolling; Ashok vs. Bella was next!

• We came back from commercial break with the rest of Hysteria circling the ring while Bella stayed in the ring and waited for Ashok to come out.  As Banjerjee fist bumped some fans on his way down the ramp a picture in picture showed highlights of him winning over Justine Danek two weeks ago.  Banerjee took a good look at all of Hysteria before focusing on Jolie as the bell rang.

• 4. Ashok Banerjee d. Bella Jolie (w/Hysteria) by disqualification at 8:09 Frustrated by Ashok early on, Bella decided to take shortcuts to get the upper hand; using Ashok’s hair against him to throw him down to the mat, eye rakes with her boots and fingers and more plays out of the cheating playbook while her sisters rooted her on.  Jolie hit a diving leg lariat a la her tag partner Justine and went up top for her Death From Above signature frog splash.  But Ashok managed to roll away and avoid it, leaving Bella to eat a rough looking crash landing into the canvas.  Ashok began coming back, and began putting together high flying Boundless offense before hitting a pair of Destroyer DDTs to further deplete Bella's chances of a comeback.  However, when Ashok went for the Decolonizer Driver to end things the rest of Hysteria came in to beat him down, save Bella and draw the DQ.

• Ashok was left on the wrong side of a four on one beating (as Carl reminded us, Ashok's usual tag partner Jacques Krieger has been AWOL since catching an Omar sized beating weeks ago).  Hysteria ignored the bell repeatedly ringing and played Finisher Bingo: first Justine and Bella connected on Twelve Feet Under, then Nancy hit him with Code Black before Bonnie picked up his limp body and spiked him with a brainbuster.  Quality Force Security hit the ring but Nancy snapped her fingers to do the lights off/lights on/Hysteria disappears in the darkness tradition.  Some of QFS helped Ashok to the back.

• The announcers teed up a live announcement from the Commish but when cameras went back to his office he was in a heated argument with Ig de Catur about the National championship.  de Catur said there wouldn't even be a National championship without him, so that meant it would be coming home to the Republic come hell or high water.  He had the finest wrestlers from around the world under his roof so any one of them could carry that belt - and he'll, if Malicía was healthy she'd be the one taking back her belt.  If she couldn't, someone else from his roster would.  Holmes seethed but said that if he wanted one or more of his people to get a shot at the belt then he needed another week to move things around and figure out a different approach to what was going to happen next for the National championship.  Ig said Holmes could do as he wanted, but his people were going to be able to get shots at it or his lawyers would come down on Scott like a Biblical plague.   

• Holmes said that he didn't need to see Ig around until he main event, and the duplicitous former Commissioner laughed and pointed out the words main event.  It's what Ig did - and what the Republic would do once they regained the National title.  He walked away laughing with his group trailing behind him as Holmes threw up his hands and swiped some papers off his desk.  The announcers noted that Holmes had better come up with a solution fast because the National title was on the minds of most of the roster.  After some speculation over how Holmes could solve the problem, “Change (In the House of Flies)” began playing as the bell rang for our semi main event and out came “Sinister” Sarah Fowler with mentor Summer Rose to booing and weirded out fans…

• 5. “Night Sky” Diana Spare (w/Forbidden Book Club) d. “Sinister” Sarah Fowler (w/Summer Rose) at 11:52 The semi main turned out to be more of a hockey fight than a wrestling match; somehow, the crowd, Fowler and Spare didn't seem to mind.  The opening minute of the match saw them exchanging fists until they’d driven each other to their knees, then both slapped their opponent repeatedly with shots that echoed to the fifth row of the upper deck, then slowly rising while punching each other before the second hockey fight in 75 seconds broke out to the roars of the crowd.  It appeared Diana had won the fight when she landed several consecutive rights and a headbutt, but when Diana tried to whip Sarah into the ropes Fowler reversed into a straightjacket neckbreaker before getting in the mount position and throwing some headbutts of her own to take control.

• As Fowler worked Spare over and wore her down, commentary gave begrudging praise to Summer’s tutelage of Sarah over the past couple of years.  Diana landed some hard back elbows to get free of Sarah's cravate then whipped her into the ropes, but Fowler narrowly dodged a Black Hole Slam and hit a jumping neckbreaker for a nearfall.  Sarah kept rolling as Summer urged her on, and in short order went for the kill with her finishing basement rana driver - but Spare shocked her by powering up and delivered a pop up Michinoku Driver to save her bacon.  As Luz, Shelley and Summer pounded the apron to rally their stable mate both Fowler and Spare began to come up off the canvas.  Fowler went for a larist that missed but Diana’s spear off the ropes was right on target.  

• The championship experience of Spare came to the forefront as she began making her rally with a couple of leg lariats and then ran Sarah down by hitting a big boot off the ropes.  Spare kept her momentum rolling from there and even gave a shout-out to Shelley LaVey when she hit her teammate’s Heartbreaker draping cutter to stick Sarah.  Spare followed up with her trusty Nightfall and it hit so hard it looked like Ms. Sinister was out on her feet while almost standing diagonally…so Diana snatched her up and hit a second Nightfall to make the subsequent pinfall academic.  The announcers put over Sarah putting Diana to the test as “Night Sky” got her hand raised and Luz and Shelley joined her in the ring.  When we came back from replays, the Club was on the floor as Cruz and LaVey continued to pump up Spare.  They weren't the only ones looking Diana's way, as from the ring Summer was staring a hole into the woman who'd just beaten her protegê.  It was on that unsettling note that Ruckus threw to the last commercial break tonight.

• We came back from the break to Julius Duquesne III, who brought out his Explosively Cool guests Emily Bennett and Keo Tevi.  JD3 congratulated Emily on her win over Fiona Fogg on Unleashed before asking what was next for her and Keo.  Emily said she wouldn't presume to speak for Keo but said that with plenty of jerkoffs in QCW, there were plenty of opportunities for her to keep fighting the good fight.  Keo.added that as far as they were concerned, what they wanted to get accomplished next in QCW was two fold: (1) wear down Emily until she became her best friend in the world (Bennett seemed slightly annoyed but also smiled a little) and (2) go after the National championship.  She’d been a champion multiple times Down Under, and the National championship here was very cool.  Autumn had set the standard and shown the blueprint, and she confessed to Jules seeing so many people throw their rings in that hat made them want it for themselves.  And the more they said “National champion Keo Tevi” in their head the more it made their heart sing.  So add their name to the list, Holmsy!  Keo thanked JD3 for his time, Emily gave a small nod in his direction, and he threw it back to Steve and Carl.

• Per usual before the main event, Steve conducted the hype train for 💫 next week's Ruckus:💫: we’ll get two major announcements from Commissioner Holmes (gotta assume one of those will be about the National championship) 💫 Justine Danek and Bella Jolie of Hysteria will face Mean Season’s Gaia Green and Winter Wonderland 💫 and the pure rules tag between Manifest Destiny and the Undaunted will take place

• Speaking of tag team clashes, it was time for our main event!

• Clipse’s “So Be It ‘ brought out Nazir el-Fadal to a big pop, and he came down to the ring looking focused.  And once he got in the ring he warmed up in a corner Instead of doing his usual posing.  “Unscripted Violence” took over on the PA And brought out Mason “Razorblade” Savage to a huge pop of his own.  Fans patted him on the back as he came down the steps and hit the ring.  Once he stepped between the ropes he had a frosty staredown with Naz, but the glaring came to an end when “The Old Guard Is Dead” brought out the Republic en masse   They had barely begun coming to the ring before Razorblade broke his staredown with Naz to roll out of the ring and charge up the ramp.  Multiple Republic Enforcement guys couldn't stop Savage from going after his former protégé Vengeance Davis, and they threw hands like rice at a wedding.  Razorblade getting the upper hand drew Pyotr Caviar in to defend his new stablemate, and the bad guys quickly got the upper hand to deliver a two on one beatdown of Savage down the ramp.  They were so focused on pummelling Razorblade that they didn't see Nazir el-Fadal building up speed off the ropes before diving on all three of them with a springboard plancha that had the Quality Controllers and Naz alike fired up.  el-Fadal pointed at Ig before giving him a crotch chop, then got Davis in the ring to get the main event officially started…

• 6. Pyotr Caviar and Vengeance Davis (w/Ig de Catur, the Republic and Republic Enforcement) d. Nazir el-Fadal and Mason “Razorblade” Savage at 15:33 …a main event that wouldn't end without controversy.

• It didn't take long for the tides to turn the Republic’s way, as Pyotr provided a distraction that set up a Davis modified cannonball off the ropes that gave control over to the Republic.  Vengeance worked over Naz for a couple minutes before tagging in Pyotr so that they could team up on a Russian sickle x side Russian leg sweep combo.  But Pyotr didn't go for a cover; instead he gestured for Naz to tag out to Razorblade.  Savage stared into the ring and extended his hand, but Naz pivoted and came up from the canvas with a European uppercut to stagger Pyotr.  Four more sent Pyotr into the corner, but when Naz charged him Caviar shut him down with a running high knee.  Pyotr turned el-Fadal over to Davis for more punishment.

• With Davis in the ring, the beating continued.  Carl noted the fact that Ju–uh, Vengeance and Naz had had it out for each other for the better part of a year and they still tried to destroy each other every time they fought.  Truth be told, it reminded him of how Naz and Razorblade had gone after each other in the past.  After he said that, the One Man Jihad missed a corner charge and went flying shoulder first into the ringpost.  Vengeance took advantage and grabbed Naz as he staggered out to spin him around into a double arm DDT.  Not only that, but he maintained his hand lock after it hit and dragged Naz up to hit again and for good measure drilled Naz with a third to literally hit a trifecta while Ig screamed about retribution.  But Vengeance didn't make a cover and also gestured to a now slightly bleeding Naz to tag out of the match so that he could fight his mentor.  Naz’s response was to laugh as he rolled onto his backside then spit in Davis’ face.  The crowd cheered Naz’s insolence as an enraged Vengeance pulled.Naz up by the hair - only to eat a dose of Nazquil that dropped him to the canvas.

• Both men were down for a spell but it was Davis who recovered first, rolling to the Republic corner to tag Pyotr back in.  Caviar hit the ring only to walk into a Hamrin Valley Driver that made him hit the canvas.  Naz hesitated once he got to the corner, but while he was deliberating Razorblade just tagged himself in and quickly covered Pyotr.  Caviar managed a kick out but he was still reeling from the HVD and Razorblade was quick to take advantage by pummelling him with a barrage of rights.   It took an inverted atomic drop for Pyotr to even slow down Razorblade a little bit but the now three time tag team champion missed a Russian sickle of lf the ropes, then stumbled into a massive spinebuster that got Savage 2¾.  Savage went for a bulldog choke but Pyotr powered his way out of it and threw Razorblade down to the canvas with a borderline judo throw.  Caviar hit the ropes but got hit by a cheap shot from the apron by Naz, who dropped to the floor when Pyotr swung at him.  That series of distractions set up another Razorblade spinebuster, and this time Vengeance had to dive into the ring to save his current partner from his former one.

• Naz came in and a Pier 4 broke out, but just when it seemed like he and Razorblade had the Republic on their heels things went awry.  el-Fadal tried to stagger Vengeance with a cross chop to the throat but Davis slipped it and it ended up connecting with Razorblade instead.  Caviar spun Naz around before spinning himself into a discus Russian sickle that hit so hard the One Man Jihad flipped off the impact and landed on his stomach.  Razorblade recovered enough to get after Pyotr with some blindside rights but when he whipped Pyotr into the ropes it got reversed into a 3D by the black hats just like the one NaZorblade had hit on Pyotr in Philly at Mayday Payday.  Vengeance bundled Naz up and tossed him out of the ring while Pyotr picked Razorblade’s bones and grabbed him for a spinning sit out powerbomb.  The Quality Controllers groaned when it connected - but gasped a three count later when it got the win.

• Ig was jubilant on the floor as his men got their hand raised in the ring.  Steve noted the bitter irony of a team called Caviar and Vengeance paying dividends as they joined their boss on the floor, who was in the middle of letting every fan within hearing range know that the Republic had proved once again that they were better than QCW’s best.  The Republic began to head to the back as Ig put the tag titles on his shoulders and promised them the finest champagne and lobster tails on his yacht while at ringside, Naz crawled in under the bottom rope.

• Naz pulled himself up - and began berating Razorblade for dropping the fall again, wondering why he was trying so hard to make a team work when he wasn't the reason it was failing.  Razorblade was slow to get up, but once he did he pointed to his neck and gave Naz an earful in return.  Savage punctuated his end of the argument by shoving Naz down, which got a loud reaction from the crowd that leaned positive.  Naz shook his head and sneered before getting up and shoving Razorblade down, asking him if he wanted to go, because if so he’d just lose again.  Razorblade got to his feet but before the long time rivals could throw down, Quality Force Security hit the ring to loud boos with Commissioner Holmes right on their heels.  Holmes directed his men to keep them in opposite corners, first approaching Naz but it not being a fruitful conversation before going to Razorblade’s corner - and whatever Savage said had the censors repeatedly hitting the button like a kid in an elevator.  Naz and Razorblade couldn't get free of the half dozen security members they each had on them, and Ruckus went off the air with some Grand Slam level tension in the air while the Quality Controllers changed the same three words: “LET THEM FIGHT!  LET THEM FIGHT!"

QCW Unleashed [s3e45 • Quality Arena]

• "Explosive” Emily Bennett (w/”Cambodian Cool” Keo Tevi) d. “Her Excellency” Fiona Fogg (w/Sohla Patel)
• Ashok Banerjee d. “Dashing” Pierce Moore (w/Beast Mode)
• Justine Danek & Bella Jolie (w/Hysteria) d. Hilary Highnote & Christine Kent
• The Chosen (w/Goody Gardner) d. Anton Stahl & the Wonderful Ward Brothers

FDSN Florida Presents QCW Ruckus [s5e29 • May 29th, 2026]

 📺 live on FanDuel Sports Network Florida

📍 Quality Arena 💫 Parts Unknown, FL

• The Invincible open rollled to open the show with a few tweaks; Ashok Banerjee taking Jacques Krieger’s place a handful of times, more of both Manifest Destiny and the Undaunted as well as “Explosive” Emily Bennett and that turncoat Vengeance Davis.   With no current National champion, that gave more time for the Republic and Autumn Powers to be shown in the Cavalcade over the Pat Benatar classic.

• It's another raucous Friday night from the jewel of Parts Unknown, Quality Arena.  We’ve got Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen behind the announce table to help shepherd us through another episode of Ruckus, and they hyped up Summer Rose vs. Ashley Szabo as well as a trios main event where Hysteria would take on the reunified QCW World champion Autumn Powers and Mean Season, but this Ruckus would begin with more traditional tag team action…

• 1. Manifest Destiny d. The Cooper Brothers (w/Kam Ellis) at 7:10 Two nights ago Unleashed ended with Richard Windsor pinning DeMarius Cooper; the Air Force twin alumni came together here looking for a measure of revenge but couldn't get it.  The Coopers looked good early with their high flying offense and cleared Serge Batroc and Windsor from the ring with a flurry of double dropkicks.  As the Coopers celebrated in the ring, INTLTS came out on the ramp to watch the match - at least Sohla Patel did, Fiona Fogg seemed more interested in whatever she was doing on her phone.  Either way, Manifest Destiny composed themselves and returned to the ring with renewed fire and started to gain control of the bout when Windsor managed to cut off a DeMarcus top rope offensive attempt and hit a massive avalanche double underhook suplex   That turned the tide for Destiny, who pounced all over the weakened Marc and halved the ring on him so he couldn't make a saving tag to his brother.  The crowd spent the back end of the match hoping for a save that never came and the black hats used a springboard European uppercut from Serge into the Necessary Evil half and half suplex by Richard to get the win and put poor Marc out of his misery.  You could see the frustration on Sky’s the Limit’s faces after the match, but it was of no concern to Manifest as they shook hands and then tried to catch up to Patel and Fogg as they headed to the back.

• We went backstage, where Naomi Lee was chasing down Nazir el-Fadal.  The One Man Jihad eventually slowed down and told Lee to get her Taylor Rooks on, because he had something important to disclose to his rabble and certain members of the roster.  Nao asked if that was why she saw him come out of Commissioner Holmes’ office moments ago and el-Fadal said that a well-known rule of wrestling was that if you wanted something booked you went to the bookerman and if you were someone on Naz’s level…well, there were only one of those, but you generally got what you wanted even when you and certain Holmeses didn't exactly sing from the same hymn book.  

• Naomi then asked Naz what match he’d gotten the Commissioner to approve, and Naz said that in next week's main event it would be him and…Razorblade against two of the Republic’s finest cuts of grade A asshole in Pyotr Caviar and Mr. Vengabus.  They'd screwed him out of the tag belts without beating him, then because he had no back up in last week's main event they’d cheated him out of victory there too.  So if Davis wanted to see true vengeance and Pyotr was going to cash Ig’s checks, Naz was willing to beat their asses so bad no direct deposit would be enough to cover their hospital bills.  But this was a referendum on Razorblade, too: the one who didn't show up until it was too late, the one who’d lost the titles…and the one who’d lost THE title last Cruel Summer because Naz had made sure of it TWICE.  If Razorblade wasn't going to hold up his end of this tag team, then maybe the old Naz needed to come back and remind him and everyone else on the roster what cruelty came when Jihad Season was in the air.

• el-Fadal started heading towards the exit when Naomi semi casually mentioned that he was handling Autumn Powers winning the World title well.  Naz didn't break stride but rather let out a Razorbladian short bark of a laugh.  When Nao followed up that Davis’ match was next and wondered out loud if he was going to stick around for it, Naz let out some machine gun cackling as he kicked the exit door open and (presumably) left Quality Arena.  Lee let out a wry smile and shook her head watching him leave; “The Old Guard Is Dead” could be heard faintly in the background and got louder as we returned to the ring for…

• 2. Vengeance Davis (w/Ig de Catur, the Republic and Republic Enforcement) d. Atum Pharoah at 6:12 Showcase match for the Republic's newest acquisition, who wrestled more like he was being programmed than the Davis QCW fans had gotten accustomed to seeing the past few years.  A trifecta of double arm DDTs got the power man from Egypt on the mat where Vengeance locked on multiple cross arm breakers to further deplete Atum.  Unfortunately for Pharoah that set him up perfectly to eat the reverse fireman's carry into a sit out piledriver that took a couple of inches off of Pharoah’s height and got Davis the dub for the second week in a row.  Steve said that move was called the Silencer and it’d lived up to its name once again.   We went to commercial break (unfortunately) with Ig de Catur crowing that now that he had Vengeance in his back pocket, nothing could stop the Republic.  He added “Two belts down and two to go!” before letting out a high, keening cackle like the jackal he is.  Ruckus is just getting started and will keep rolling right after some ads.

• A bath of white light welcomed us back to Ruckus before settling down into a vignette from the Chosen.  As you might expect at this point, who did the talking was leader “the Purifier” Caleb Gray.  As he addressed his acolytes he apologized for not winning the World championship but took credit for weakening Jupiter Jones ahead of his World title loss.  After making sure to tell Goody Gardner he was right about Davis, he mentioned that what he thought was his window closing at Golden Rule was in reality a door opening at Mayday Payday.  When Goody asked him what that meant, Gray elaborated; abhorrent though she was, Ms. Punk Rock Music had created an opening…an opening that had his name written all over it.  All the pieces for his prophecy to be fulfilled were in place save one, and once he got the word from on high the future would be secured.  It was the blessed name of Caleb that had to restore the honor in an honorless place, to infuse prestige that drowned out the ignominy suffocating the so called Quality Championship Wrestling - “simply put, Ms. Gardner…it is time for the greatest National champion of all time to take back what is his.” A discomforting smile crept over Gray's lips until his smile and the bath of white light were one and the same.

• 3. Glam Squad and the Undaunted d. The All Starr Stable and Glory Days (w/S. Mark Starr) at 8:07 When's the last time we got a ten man tag on Ruckus?  Match was there to show off the skills for the babyfaces as they won going away, and their smarts as they used Glory Days’ overzealousness to run them into the Starrs a few times.  Too Damn Glam finished off Cliff Foster to notch a win for the mismatched babyfaces, who celebrated on the floor while the Stable cheap shotted Glory Days and beat on them since the ex footballers caused them to lose without them losing.  Carl noted the losing was clearly getting to the Starr men and Steve put over both babyface teams as potential challengers for the tag titles.

• We went backstage, where Gaia Green and Winter Wonderland were getting in some light stretches ahead of the main event.  The crowd’s joyful noise exploded into raucous cheers as Autumn Powers came onto the scene with the QCW World title on her shoulder.  Gaia and Winter looked over at their former stablemate, who uncharacteristically was stumbling over her wards as she tried to apologize to her old friends about her being severed from them for the past couple of years while she was Orion.  

• Winter charitably waved off Autumn’s attempts and said that doing what she did kept Hysteria from holding the World title for more than a TikTok.  Now it fell to her and Gaia to follow Autumn's example and rise up to the top of the tag ranks the same way their Punk Rock Queen had taken over the singles division; that would begin tonight when they beat Hysteria just like Autumn beat Nancy at Mayday Payday.  Gaia looked at her childhood friend with a slightly harder glance but said that the band couldn't get back together if they’d never broken up in the first place.  That put a smile on Autumn's face as she draped her World title over a bar in a locker behind them before getting to work on some push ups.  Gaia and Winter took a brief look at the Fifteen Pounds of Gold before Gaia smirked and then sat on Autumn's back.  Winter told Gaia to get off of Autumn but Gaia said this made them apology pushups.  Autumn gritted her teeth (unless she was smiling) and continued her workout while Winter did some modified box jumps with the bench.  A chyron hyped the main event of Hysteria v. Mean Season as Ruckus hit another commercial break.

• 4. Summer Rose (w/”Sinister” Sarah Fowler) d. Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo (w/”Tiki God” Al Buffett) at 8:41 We had a hard hitting affair to kick off the back end of the show that saw Summer pull out a come from behind victory.  After a feeling out period Ashley got the upper hand with a series of arm drags before surprising Summer with a Codebreaker that got her a near fall.  S-Tier Szabo held her own - as commentary pointed out, Ashley could match Summer in strength and had a championship pedigree of her own - and then continued moving onward and upward from there.  Szabo hit the Game Changer and pulled Rose into the drop zone, but fell victim to Summer's veteran smarts and whiffed on the Smash That Subscribe Button avalanche fist drop.  Rose immediately pounced by hitting Dark Days and as it turned out, landing the implant reverse DDT was exactly the momentum shifting move that sparked a Rose rally.  Summer dominated the majority of the rest of the match and punctuated things with her Crown of Thorns basement rana driver to pick up a hard earned victory.  Rose gave a sinister grin as she got her hand raised, blood trickling out of the corner of her mouth.  Outside of getting herself intentionally DQed in the Duquesne Classic semis, Summer hasn't lost in singles competition since emerging as herself again and winning the contract match over Keo Tevi at Golden Rule’s preshow.

• From there we went TOTHEBACK~!, where Julius Duquesne III brought on Manifest Destiny as his interview guests after their win to kick off the show. Serge Batroc and Richard Windsor strolled onto the set while the fans booed.  The French Assassin and the Proper Villain turned up their noses even further to the sky if such a thing were possible as JD3 started to ask about Mayday Payday, but the ladies of INTLTS also came on the set and flanked JD3.  The moment that Fiona Fogg and Sohla Patel showed up on the scene, Windsor grabbed the mic and lost his usual cool in verbally tearing down the Undaunted; they were floppy circus rejects instead of pure technical wrestlers, they stole that win over he and Serge by stealing a page from their playbook and worst of all, they were Irish.  But if they had the potatoes to meet Manifest Destiny again - and not in just any match, but a pure rules match, in a specialty of both he and Serge's, real wrestling between the ropes and not flippy garbage off of them - they would grind them into the mat, wipe the smirks off their faces and show why Manifest Destiny was the future of the tag division.  Sohla looked on admiringly while Fiona gave a quarter-assed golf clap with her phone in her hand.  Serge clapped Richard on the back and all four of them left the set, which left Julius to throw things back to the ring…

• 5. The College Park Family (w/Jupiter Jones) d. Hellraisers and the Sound of Thunder at 6:24 A rare treat for the Quality Controllers, who got to see the International Players and Science Fiction Double Feature team up in eight person tag action while the legendary Jones watched from the floor and continued recovering from the arm injury inflicted on him by Nancy Crowley in his World title loss at Mayday Payday.  His protegés didn't waste much time in overwhelming the opposition whether they were Player or Feature, and the cherry on the sundae came when SFDF hit their new finisher Down To Earth on the towering Shieldmaiden that allowed Cindy Monet to pin Val Curry after her and Jane Doe’s spinebuster x falling splash combination.  Collipark celebrating their win by each posing on a turnbuckle while Jones applauded from the floor took Ruckus into our final commercial break on this Friday night 

• We went to Steve and Carl at the announce desk, but before we heard from them they got interrupted by a familiar voice.  Cameras panned the arena until they found Tre Boyd leaning out of a skybox with a mic in his hand.  The Austin native soaked up the loud and mostly positive reaction from the Quality Controllers before saying that whooping Roy Fade last week was no big deal for him: he’d done it in 2025, he’d done it in 2026 - hell, if Roy was still around in 2036 he’d whoop his behind then, too.  But Commissioner Holmes?  Now, that was a man who needed to quit playing with the Gospel.  Forget what the psycho witch and the fake holy man were talkin’ ‘bout: he’d taken the World champion to the limit and beaten everybody in the Republic.  You ask Tre, that sounded like someone with the resume to be the next National champion.  So he was letting it be known: if Holmes Boy didn't want to see Tre walk out the door and take his talents to Jacksonville or New York, he damn sure better have Tre in the mix to be able to snatch the Natty up.  Boyd tossed aside the mic and took a big swig of champagne as cameras panned down from the skybox to Steve and Carl at the desk. 

• Before we hit the big trios main event, it's time to let Steve conduct the hype train for 💫 next week's Ruckus 💫: we’ll hear from Commissioner Holmes about the future of the National championship 💫 “Sinister” Sarah Fowler will take on “Night Sky” Diana Spare from the Forbidden Book Club 💫 and in the main event, Pyotr Caviar and Vengeance Davis will represent the Republic against Nazir el-Fadal and Mason “Razorblade” Savage.  But that's next week's big money tag match with years of hatred between both sides…and we have one of those on deck right now.

• Lights off.

• Lights on - and you know that meant Hysteria, who bathed in the boos from the Quality Controllers.  Steve pointed out that Justine Danek was originally slated to be in this match but after her loss to Ashok Banerjee last week Nancy Crowley either was chosen or decided to take her place.

• As QCW’s resident coven held down the ring, Armored Saint’s “Hit A Moonshot” hit the PA and brought out the mostly reunited Mean Season out to a massive pop that reverberated throughout Quality Arena.  Winter Wonderland, Gaia Green and the QCW World champion Autumn Powers.  Hysteria left the ring but glared at their opponents' as they hit the turnbuckles to fire up the faithful.   Nancy seethed up at Autumn, who was too busy holding up the QCW World title to notice.

• 6. Hysteria (w/Justine Danek) d. Autumn Powers and Mean Season at 11:00 The main event made sure Ruckus lived up to its name, but in the end Hysteria took the wind out of the sails of the attendees by finding a way to pull out a hard earned victory.  It was an inauspicious beginning for Hysteria as Bonnie and started things off for them against Gaia Green only to be put on the back foot by Green shutting down her attempts at a falling reverse DDT or hitting any flash elbow drops.  Once she had Bonnie where she wanted her, Gaia tagged in Winter so they could not only team up on a double hiptoss but a basement double dropkick as well that put Winter in position to score the first near fall of the match.  The Ice Queen began working over Bonnie but when she went for a Penalty Kick, Bonnie picked her ankle and sent her crashing into the canvas 

• Bonnie tagged in Bella, and they joined forces to hit a falling reverse DDT x frog splash combination that got Jolie a near fall.  Bella continued working over Winter while we got a replay of Hysteria's successful double team, then back in live action we saw Bella send Winter heels over head with a perfectly placed kitchen sink shot to the gut.  Winter tried to crawl for the Mean Season corner only to get tossed into Hysteria’s, and quick tags to Bonnie and then Nancy allowed all three women to beat down Wonderland with some clubberin’ in the corner.  Nancy tagged in Bonnie and they took down Winter with a double roundhouse kick to officially put Winter in trouble. A cut to backstage showed Summer Rose and “Sinister” Sarah Fowler stone faced as they watched the main event play out on a monitor. As Bonnie kicked away at WW it allowed Steve and Carl to highlight the fact Hysteria was a dangerous, bonded together unit used to performing at the highest levels and used to winning World titles; the brief taste they’d gotten at Mayday Payday had pushed a group known for their psychotic styles even further past the point of no return and you (us at home) knew they weren't going to stop until the World title was back in their control.

• Bonnie hit a snap powerslam and then followed it up with a PK to keep Winter down and under control.  Nancy was screeching “GET HER!” from the apron, so Bonnie pointed at Winter and did the throat slash that suggested she was about to put this main event to bed.  Agrippa hooked up Winter and started Eclipsing the Light – but after eating a pair of suplexes Wonderland rallied by cutting off an attempted brainbuster with a series of knees to Nancy's head to get free.  W2 landed safely on the mat then snatched up Bonnie and dropped her with a Nuclear Winter implant DDT that left both women literally down for the count.  Autumn and Gaia fired up the faithful while in the other corner Bella tried to make the tag while Nancy's eyes got colder and darker while she glared over at the opposition.

• Bonnie managed to forward roll towards her corner and tag in Nancy, who’s ankle pick should've cut off the tag - but Winter suddenly blasted her with an enzuigiri from her free leg that sent Crowley down and gave Winter the opportunity she needed to tag in Autumn as the crowd went ballistic.  Powers leapfrogged a Crowley charge before running to Hysteria's corner and sending both Agrippa and Jolie to the floor.  Nancy tried to sneak up on Autumn and go for a Code Black but Powers slipped it and dumped Nancy with a German suplex.  Bella ran in and ate one, then Bonnie did, too; when Crowley tried to surprise Autumn with a senton The Champ rolled out of the way before scrambling Nancy's brains with a release dragon suplex that had Quality Arena rocking and rolling.  Autumn came firing out of the corner with a basement dropkick that sent Crowley onto her knees, then bounced off the ropes and plastered the Feral member of Hysteria with her vaunted Hazy Shade Of Autumn.  Powers went for the cover but both Bonnie and Bella dove on Autumn to break it up and save the match.

• That save drew Gaia and Winter in to return fire and before long a Pier 6 broke out to the joy of the crowd.  Mean Season held their own but some quick thinking by Bonnie allowed her to low bridge Gaia out of the ring and then have Bella send Winter over the top onto Gaia.  With them on the floor, Hysteria stepped things up a notch as Agrippa and Jolie hit a double superkick that sent a staggering Autumn right into the arms of Nancy's Devil's Wings.  The Agrippa/Jolie tandem then went out to the apron before flying off with stereo triangle moonsaults that wiped out Green and Wonderland - and left the ring clear for Nancy to cinch up Autumn and drop her with her Bite Me finisher.   No save came, Autumn tried but couldn't kick out, and when the zebra’s hand came down for three it seemed like it took all the air out of Quality Arena with it.

• The referee tried to raise Nancy's hand but she ripped it away and went on a rant against Autumn, saying that's what would've happened at Mayday Payday if she’d seen Autumn coming ahead of time.  Crowley went into a frothy tirade calling Autumn a fraud, a weak, worthless paper champion and more to the point that Bonnie and Bella hit the ring, both forcing Nancy into a corner to keep her from launching another attack.  But all Nancy was launching was more madness out of her mouth, repeatedly declaring herself the World National champion and demanding Autumn give her her rematch so she could get back what Autumn had stolen from her.  Gaia and Winter hit the ring to check on the recovering Powers, but as Steve wrapped things up and wished us good night from Parts Unknown, Ruckus went off the air with the crazed Crowley still running down Autumn to anyone who’d listen while the rest of the coven held her back with evil smirks on their faces.

QCW Unleashed [s3e44 • Quality Arena]

• "Night Sky” Diana Spare (w/Forbidden Book Club) d. Goody Gardner (w/the Chosen)
• Summer Rose and “Sinister” Sarah Fowler” d. Hilary Highnote and Christine Kent 
• Glam Squad (w/John Arneson) d. Glory Days
• “the Proper Villain” Richard Windsor (w/Serge Batroc) d. DeMarius Cooper (w/Sky’s the Limit)

FDSN Florida Presents QCW Ruckus [s5e28 • May 22nd, 2026]

 📺 live on FanDuel Sports Network Florida

📍 Quality Arena 💫 Parts Unknown, FL

• We got a Mayday Payday recap video package to open the show; stills of Genesis King then “Explosive” Emily Bennett + “Cambodian Cool” Keo Tevi and the Undaunted celebrating their preshow victories gave way to longer highlights of results from the pay per view proper…

• 💲 A quick paced and high octane opening tag saw Science Fiction Double Feature debut a new finisher called Down To Earth in going over Justine Danek and Bella Jolie of Hysteria (neither Nancy Crowley or Jupiter Jones were at ringside ahead of their main event and missed the winning spinebuster into splash combo from Collipark) 💲

• 💲💲 The Chosen managed to eke out a win over the Forbidden Book Club, catching a break when some mistimed offense led to Shelley LaVey accidentally wiping out “Night Sky Diana Spare - “the Purifier” Caleb Gray took advantage and hit Repent on Shelley for the win 💲💲

• 💲💲💲 The triple threat for the National championship followed with Orion taking on both Bonnie Agrippa from Hysteria and Summer Rose • Orion having beef with both challengers but the challengers also not getting along despite the fact they've both heels, feeling that the other was a pale imitation of themselves • Orion and Bonnie briefly teamed up to keep Summer down for a stretch • Bonnie and Summer put their bad feelings aside to take down Orion repeatedly but when they both went for a cover at the same time the truce blew up • Orion and Summer teamed up to send Bonnie from the ring but Bonnie would yank Summer from the ring and Lawn Dart Rose into the steps • this left things as an Orion/Agrippa fight that Bonnie was getting the best of – but Orion countered Eclipsing the Light with an inside cradle to retain leaving the High Priestess of Hysteria mad she got pinned and Summer just as mad that she didn't 💲💲💲

• 💲💲💲💲 Tre Boyd v. Omar Littlefield kicking off the back end of things from Philadelphia, Omar beating on Tre but Boyd refusing to stay down • Omar hitting Tre with multiple Vader Bombs and a couple of Face Erasers but Boyd getting a foot on the bottom rope • Littlefield bench pressing the Gospel and tossing him into the crowd, Tre getting body surfed but just barely managing to beat the ten count • Omar saying the hell with it and punting Tre in the balls to get intentionally DQed • The Republic drawing a bed of barbed wire from under the ring but Tre bailing out before it could be used against him, Tre crowing that he'd beaten every one of Ig’s foot soldiers in the Republic 💲💲💲💲

• 💲💲💲💲💲 The Iron Team challenge for the QCW World Tag Team championships was the semi main with Pyotr Caviar and Malicía Fernandez of the Republic trying to regain the belts from the oil and water team of Grand Slam holders Nazir el-Fadal and Mason ‘Razorblade” Savage • Razorblade winning the first fall by making Pyotr tap to a bulldog choke • Malicía pinning Razorblade after a Death Warrant to tie things up at 1 • Naz pinning Malicía after Nazquil to give the champs a 2-1 lead • Pyotr giving Naz a hidden low blow before Hit My Music tied things up • a full on Pier 4 happening as time expired • Duck Eko announcing that by order from Commissioner Holmes we were going to sudden death overtime • the babyfaces fighting from underneath and hitting 3D on Fernandez to have Philly going nuts • Naz getting pulled from the ring by Caviar while Ig distracted the ref, allowing a member of Republic Enforcement to get in the ring and zap Razorblade with a taser • Malicía pinning Razorblade for the shady 3-2 win to regain the belts • everyone but Ig shocked when the Enforcement member revealed Razorblade’s protege and the previously missing in action Justice Davis • the newly expanded Republic celebrating the title victory while the One Man Jihad sat shellshocked on the floor 💲💲💲💲💲

• 💲💲💲💲💲💲 The main event for the Fifteen Pounds of Gold as Hysteria backed up Duquesne Classic winner Nancy Crowley while Collipark backed up the legendary Jupiter Jones, turning the World title tilt into a defacto lumberjack-and-jill match • a match kickstarted by Crowley jumping Jones during the pre match intros, the most Feral member of Hysteria willing to do whatever It takes to become World champion • Jones bouncing back quickly and getting the upper hand with his power advantage • Crowley proving her toughness by kicking out of a double underhook powerbomb • and the Thunder Rolls running powerslam • dodging the Bolt From Olympus with a Matrix bridge and throwing Jupiter repeatedly into the ring post as Hysteria seemed to be casting a spell and chanting at ringside • Nancy continuing to work over the arm to Collipark’s concern • Nancy cutting off a second try at the Bolt by hitting a cutter, then spamming her Bite Me finisher • Crowley practically howling as she hits it not once, twice or even thrice but four times – and pinning Jupiter clean in.thr shock of the year (so far) • Surrender Cobras out in force as Crowley takes the Fifteen Pounds of Gold • Hysteria hitting the ring to rejoice, Justine and Bella going nuts while Bonnie appluds • Jupiter holding his limp right arm close to his side as he heads towards the medical bay with his concerned, disbelieving and saddened proteges trailing behind him • Hysteria having finally taken over QCW as they long promised they would and nothing to stop them now – except why is Mastodon suddenly playing? 💲💲💲💲💲💲

• 💲💲💲💲💲💲💲 Orion at the top of the ramp, National championship in hand • Crowley ordering the rest of Hysteria to stop the Cosmic Champion from getting to her • Agrippa, Danek and Jolie go after Orion and all get laid out whether it's strikes, belt shots or a run up the retaining barrier into a huracanrana to send Bonnie flying into the steps • Nancy now waving Orion on as they enter the ring • Duck announcing officially that Orion’s cashing in • Nancy trying to get herself DQed by using her newly won belt but the referee yanking it away from her • Crowley turning around into a satellite DDT - and then Orion's Nebula – then an enzui Shining Wizard – and a very familiar looking Shining Wizard - the three count on Nancy sending Philly into bedlam as Orion’s the new World champion - except they’re not + because they rip off their mask to reveal Autumn Powers, back from seeming exile

• Streamers going nuts • Steve and Carl yelling at the top of their lungs • all four jaws of Hysteria somewhere in Jersey • the giddy and overjoyed fans vaulting the barrier to hug Autumn and put her on their shoulders as she holds up the title she regained • even more fans getting into the ring as pyro explodes at the top of the ramp • the ring literally buckling under the weight of the mass of humanity in the ring as everyone ends up on the floor (thankfully no one appears to be too shaken up or they're flying so high on adrenaline, serstonin and/or alcohol they wouldn't come down until Tuesday anyhow) • Autumn holding up the QCW World title on the shoulders of dozens as the rabid Philly fans chant “QCF’NW!” to take Mayday Payday off the air and end this recap

• As the video package faded out, the live shot of Quality Arena faded in.  Per usual on Friday night it was packed with nearly a thousand loud and proud Quality Controllers - and the decibels only went up when we heard Duck Eko say "Please help me in welcoming the NEEEWWWWW QCW World Champion: Autumn Powwwwwwerrrrrrrrrrssssssss!”

• The usual Orion entrance began, only to get substituted by radio tuning noises setting the table for an almost forgotten drum beat and crunchy guitars. Spotlights throughout QA pulsed to the beat, and in due time out strolled the Final Woman to make her official return to QCW with the Fifteen Pounds of Gold shining away on her shoulder. Armored Saint's "Hit A Moonshot" lit up the PA as Powers held up the title, setting off a barrage of gold and white pyro all around her on the stage and from the Qualitron.

• The lights restored after the pyro was spent, allowing the fans who were going ballistic to get their first live looks at an evolved Powers that still carried Orion with her.  She maintained Orion's black undercut with some Final Woman red streaks now in evidence to compliment her leather jacket, scuffed jeans with holey knees and the top she'd worn in the Finals of the Duquesne.  Autumn being Autumn, she slapped as many hands as she could while she headed to the ring as "Moonshot" began in earnest:

• *♫♪ To get to the cream of the crop is going to take a move like a wild hare

• Patronize all night long, yet I'm still full of hot air

• Stick and a move and a rat-a-tat-tat and you don't know what's coming

• One-sided game of leapfrog, and I keep on jumping! ♫♪*

• A chyron in the bottom right corner informed us that this was off of Armored Saint's new album Emotional Factory Reset; an album so new, in fact, that it'd just gotten released earlier today and was available wherever one got their music from nowadays.  Autumn sang along as she rounded the corner and got up on the apron...

• *♫♪ Man... I hit a moonshot, a moonshot

Right off the yacht... yeah

Girl... I hit a moonshot, the jackpot

Look what I got...! ♫♪*

• And right on cue, she hoisted the Fifteen Pounds of Gold to the sky, causing more gold and white pyro to fire up out of the turnbuckles and shower the ringside area.  Duck dodged it to hand Autumn the mic, and she thanked him before entering the ring to a rapturous reception.  She looked around the arena bathing it all in and she couldn't help but smile at the dueling chants filling the building; half of the crowd chanting "YOU DE SERVE IT!" followed by the other half chanting "AUT UMN POW ERS!" (and to be sure, cameras found more than a few fans chanting both).  Autumn took it all In before saying "it's been a long time coming, and it's great to be back!" to even more cheers and chants.

• Powers said that she had been waiting far too long to be able to stand in front of the fans as herself and as World champion.  She mentioned that after losing to Naz a couple of Anniversaries ago she went to Japan and then Mexico to master more styles, to elevate her game, to turn herself not just into a sharpened point once she stepped between the ropes but the whole damn knife.  That's why she became Orion: to prove in her deepest heart she could climb the mountain on her own merits and not just be a champion again but THE Champ again.   That got a huge pop from the Quality Controllers, and Autumn continued that the lessons she learned as Orion would carry on both as a patch on her ring gear and why she had the top she wore at the Duquesne Cup Classic final on under her jacket right now.  In this reign of the Final Woman there was always somewhere higher to go and she would prove it by being a fighting champion against the best roster in independent North American wrestling today.

• Before she left this ring, however, she was going to put several contenders on notice and give flowers to some others.  She shouted out Jupiter Jones as someone who helped make QCW what it is today and admitted that while he cast a massive shadow she wasn't going to hide in the darkness - if he wanted a shot at her she wasn't going to hide.  She contrasted him with Ig de Catur, who'd had it too good for too long and sucked so bad it'd put Naz and Razorblade into a rad bromance.  He might've been able to buy this title last year but Autumn Powers wasn't for sale and none of his goon squad had what it took to keep her down.

• And it didn't end there - she saw "Explosive" Emily Bennett doing the work that really mattered when she couldn't be herself and the Punk Queen of Puget Sound sent love and respect from an aging punk to one of the new class.  She saw her old friends in Mean Season treading water or worse without her and wondered if she'd been gone too long to make amends (the tease of Mean Season got the crowd buzzing) - but if Gaia and Winter were willing to hear her out she would have apologies for years to those who had supported her for so long.  

• She knew Nancy, Bonnie and the Hysteria Wolfpack had her in their scope after how she won Sunday night - she knew the likes of old friends like Razorblade and old enemies like Naz were looking to get this belt back around their waists - knew that newcomers like Tre Boyd and Genesis King or stalwarts like Caleb Gray and Ashok Banerjee all had their eyes on her and her title.  But they all needed to remember one crucial thing: Autumn Powers was not only back, she was back on top...and you'd have to hit way more than a moonshot to get the Fifteen Pounds of Gold off of her.  

• Autumn tossed the mic aside and held the World championship up one more time as Armored Saint hit the PA once again.  The crowd cheered loudly as Powers made her exit, signing a ringside fan's sign as she went to the back.

• From there we went to the announcer desk, where Steve reintroduced and Carl Christensen were holding things down per usual.  They hyped up tonight being the fallout from Mayday Payday, including a grudge match between Ashok Banerjee and Hysteria’s Justine Danek as well as a main event showdown between Nazir el-Fadal and the Republic’s Pyotr Caviar before throwing things to Duck Eko in the ring so that the Voice of QCW could make the ring introductions for tonight's opener…

• 1. “Night Sky” Diana Spare (w/Forbidden Book Club) d. “The Forsaken” Drake Tremble at 4:45 Bounce back win for Spare over the mostly hapless Tremble after the Club went down to the Chosen at MDPD Sunday night.  Diana got the win clean with her trusty Nightfall and while Luz Cruz and Shelley LaVey clapped it up for her post match, our announcers wondered what would be next on the docket for Spare and the Club and noticed that despite the snafu at Mayday Payday everything seemed to be fine between Spare and LaVey.

• Before the first commercial break tonight, we got a This Week In QCW History segment - on May 20th, 2013 Jupiter Jones won over the Qualitoriun in a hard hitting loss to QCW champion "Jacked" Jared Jarlsberg, using some moves he picked up on his excursion to Japan.  Unusually, the segment didn't end there, ending with a voiceover that wondered what would be next for the legendary Jones after getting upset by Nancy Crowley for the Fifteen Pounds of Gold at Mayday Payday…

• 2. Tre Boyd d. “These Hands” Roy Fade (w/Beast Mode) at 8:22 We came back from the break to QCW’s fastest rising star putting another win in his column despite Fade jumping him at the bell and going after his ribs and kidneys with body blows after the Omar sized chair shots they took in 2300 Sunday night.  The man who put the Beast in Beast Mode was ahead on points until Fade did a Matrix bridge counter to avoid Roy and followed it up with a Spanish Fly and stiff legged dropkick to take over control of the bout.  It was all one way traffic for the Gospel from there, who hit his majestic Say Hallelujah to get his hand raised.  

• As Boyd made his celebratory strut up the ramp, the lights went out in Quality Arena.  A bright purple light pulsed and suddenly the Qualitron was the only light in QA - Hysteria had taken over the broadcast.  Bonnie Agrippa began to speak but Justine Danek cut her off, saying that the last time Ashok Banerjee saw her he couldn't see her and tonight she was gonna – now it was Justine who was getting cut off by Nancy Crowley, who let out an ear piercing scream and began ranting herself.  

• Bonnie looked on quizzically as Nancy vented, saying she'd beaten the Autumn out of Orion and Jupiter Jones in less than half a month and what had it gotten her?!  She beat the National champion; she should be the National champion; she’d had the World championship in her hands not even a week ago.  But Commissioner Holmes was being a little bitch about things because she didn't want to hold the Cup when her crown was so much better.  Crowley swore she would regain the World championship, said she's the uncrowned National champion and then kept muttering like a mantra that she was the World National champion, that she was the Worst National champion, that she was the World National champion, etc.  

• Bonnie looked at Nancy with confusion before saying that until her right hand woman got her titles back everyone in QCW was on notice that they would get crushed under Hysteria's heels beginning with Ashok tonight since he was used to trips to the ICU.  Holmes would do well to give Nancy the belts she earned before he found out her bite was way, way worse than her bark.  If QCW wanted to drive them mad it was far too late for that…now they would go crazy trying to stop the inmates running this asylum.  Agrippa snapped her fingers and restored Quality Arena to its factory settings; after a few beats and some looking around, the Voice of QCW Duck Eko hit the ring to make the introductions for our next match…

• 3. “Cambodian Cool” Keo Tevi (w/”Explosive” Emily Bennett) d. Sohla Patel (w/”Her Excellency” Fiona Fogg) at 6:56 The ladies of Lotus were able to pick on and one up Tevi until Bennett returned and stood side by side with Tevi; the white hats have had them on the run since including in an eight person on Sunday's preshow and in tonight's one on one.  Patel has a championship pedigree and acquitted herself well here, yet Keo managed to stay a step ahead throughout.  Turning point came when Keo caught a Blockbuster attempt from Sohla and countered it into a oshigoroshi that folded Sohla up like a J-4 off suit.  Tevi rolled the rest of the way and polished off Patel with her trademark Psychedelic Shock to secure the dub.  Heading into the commercial break, the commentary put over Keo strong as they slapped hands with ringside fans and posed for selfies, saying that there was no reason they couldn't be a champion in QCW some day soon, especially with Bennett having their back.  More Ruckus after this…

• We came back from the break to “The Old Guard Is Dead” by Ghais Guevara, which meant that the Republic would kick off the back half of the show.  The crowd jeered loudly seeing Ig de Catur with a World Tag Team championship belt on each shoulder, surrounded by Republic Enforcement and his goon squad: Pyotr Caviar, Omar Littlefield and the newest convert to Ig’s corrupter corps: Justice Davis. de Catur held the belts up and a barrage of gold and white pyro exploded on the stage while the chyron on the Qualitron confirmed that the Republic were the new World Tag Team champions.  

• Ig got a mic from Duck Eko and talked over the boos, saying the mouth breathers could hate it all they wanted but the Republic were back in control of the tag titles.  He noted that Malicía Fernandez had fought so hard to help him….uh, them regain the straps that she’d separated her shoulder in the Iron Team match on Sunday. He offered up thoughts and prayers for Malicía, the first soldier to join the Republic.  But others had seen the light as she had, and none of them made him more proud than the latest member of the Republic - another man tired of suffering under the Scott Holmes reign of terror - the man who made sure the tag belts were once again property of the Republic: Vengeance Davis! Ig handed the mic over to the rechristened Davis while the crowd erupted into waves of jeering and boos.  Davis brought up the mic to speak but immediately got drowned out in a sea of thunderous “YOU SOLD OUT!” chants.  Davis scowled and paced the ring a little bit because of that before he brought the mic back up, but this time he wasn't just interrupted by the crowd revolt against him: “Unscripted Violence” hit the PA to a mega pop.

• Razorblade came out in streets clothes with a barbed wire wrapped baseball bat in one hand and a mic in the other.  The crowd roar died down just long enough for Mason Savage to get out “I don't care what your name is, Davis – you're [F💣]ing dead.” Savage threw down the mic and charged the ring, dropping four members of Republic Enforcement with the bat before turning around and getting laid out by a pop up European uppercut from Pyotr Caviar.  Razorblade went down in a heap on the floor as all half a dozen members of REnforcement stomped away on Savage, but that wasn't enough for Ig as he yelled at Caviar to use the bat and carve him up.  Pyotr picked it up and raked it across Razorblade's forehead until the clarin was flowing while Ig mocked Razorblade on the mic and said that Pyotr would carve up that malcontent Nazir el-Fadal just like that in tonight's main event.  Quality Force Security hit the scene to break things up, and as a couple of them tried to help Razorblade up he shoved them away before dodging the medical staff and staggering off to the back with the bat dragging behind him.

• Ig continued and blamed Razorblade for the interruption when he came out here to celebrate the Republic regaining the tag belts and their rightful place atop the division.  That didn't stop because Malicía was on the shelf - on the contrary.  de Catur said that with Pyotr busy he was issuing an open challenge right now to any tag team in the division to step up to Omar and Vengeance, who would destroy any team who got placed in front of them tonight.  Ig’s revelry was broken up by Drake on the PA, which brought out the Wonderful Ward Brothers and Anton Stahl to a decent reaction.

• Jason the Great said that as former champions, seeing a douchebro like Ig trying to buy their old titles made him and his brother sick, so they had a scoop for him: they were going to walk down that ramp, get in that ring and take down Iggie’s glorified hand puppets.  The Wards were tired of hearing him run his mouth, these people were tired of hearing him run his mouth (that got a bigger pop), so they were going to give his boys a Wonderful beatdown that came straight from Calgary…Alberta, Canada!  Rich grabbed the mic and added a “Yeah!” as a referee moved past them quickly to get to the ring first as they marched down the ramp.  de Catur laughed as he left the ring, saying it looked like Canadian bacon was on the menu tonight…

• 4. The Republic (Vengeance Davis & Omar Littlefield w/Ig de Catur, Pyotr Caviar and Republic Enforcement) d. The Wonderful Ward Brothers (w/Anton Stahl) in an open challenge at 6:57 The Wards hit the ring steaming, and a Pier 4 broke out before the bell rang.  It continued afterwards for about half a minute and looked to be ending in the Wards hitting their Cutting Express on Ju–uh–Vengeance only to have Omar Pounce Jason into Rich and sent them flying into each other like bowling pins.   The next few minutes saw Omar do everything short of floss with the Wards while Vengeance paced on the apron.  After a couple of Vader Bombs and a Face Eraser, Omar tagged in Davis, who hit a reverse fireman’s carry into a nasty piledriver and pinned Jason afterwards.  The crowd booed the result as Omar scowled and Vengeance stood over his conquered while Ig clapped him on the back - crowing over his new acquisition and pumping him up, saying that this was only the beginning.

• Back at the desk, Steve had an injury report for us couch-bound Quality Controllers.  He confirmed what Ig had said about Malicía, saying that she should be back in the next few weeks.  He then pivoted to preshow footage of Genesis King beating Jacques Krieger and dropping him on his head and neck, compressing his head and neck to put him on the injured reserve.  While the medical staff will reassess his condition in 10-14 days, he’s currently listed as being out indefinitely.

• A cut to backstage showed his partner Ashok Banerjee looking pensive as he slipped on his orange vest and headed towards the ring - he’ll be facing the woman who blinded him last fall, Hysteria's Justine Danek in her return to singles action - and they’ll face off right after this last commercial break!

• 5. Ashok Banerjee d. Justine Danek (w/Hysteria) at 8:53 We came back from the break to this grudge match months in the making with Ashok getting a measure of revenge on Justine for blinding him last fall.  After a feeling out process saw Ashok get a slight advantage, he missed a springboard crossbody attempt and Justine compounded his mistake by hitting a diving leg lariat to get control of the match.  The Lash of Hysteria worked him over and was leading on points when she ducked too soon after an Irish whip and Banjerjee wiped her out with a Destroyer DDT.  Clearly rocked by the DDDT, Justine rolled out to the floor and got checked on by the rest of her coven - but a massive tope con hilo from the Boundless One wiped all four women out and had the Quality Controllers going nuts.  Ashok dished out as much offense on Justine as she’d dished out earlier and then some, dominating for minutes and hitting a massive Orange Crush bomb.  If Danek hadn't been able to grab the bottom rope things would've ended there.  Seeing her partner in trouble, Bella Jolie jumped up on the apron to get the referee's attention while Bonnie Agrippa pulled a set of brass knuckles out of her decolletage and headed Justine’s way.  However, Agrippa sneezed and then tripped, accidentally catching Justine with the knucks instead.  Danek managed to get to her feet while the rest of Hysteria had a three way huddle on the floor about what had just happened.  They were so caught up in that talk that they missed Ashok landing the Decolonizer Driver and getting the three count.  Ashok wisely rolled out of the ring before the rest of Hysteria could hit it, and he left them to bicker about how their end game had gone full ACME while he got his hand raised by the referee on the ramp.  

• Ahead of the main event, Steve got the hype train rolling for 💫 next week's Ruckus 💫: Summer Rose will face off against Ashley THEE Influencer Szabo 💫 rumors are everywhere about what Commissioner Holmes will do about the now vacant National championship and we hope to get some answers next week 💫 and Justice Davis will have his first singles match since joining the Republic.

• Speaking of which, “The Old Guard Is Dead” brought out the Republic and their whole coterie came back out in support of Pyotr Caviar as he marched to the ring with half of the World Tag Team championships on his shoulders.  Back in his patron’s good graces, de Catur was at the shoulder of the Tracksuit Tsar hyping him up right until “So Be It” by Clipse took over the PA and flipped jeers to cheers in Parts Unknown.  Nazir el-Fadal’s music hit but there was no Naz coming out to it.  Ig complained to the referee that Pyotr should win by forfeit, but the ref told him to hold off the had Duck make a second introduction.  Clipse again but no Naz again – until a black and gold blur flew into the picture with a springboard dropkick that sent Pyotr stumbling to the outside and had the Republic scattering.  Guess who?  Naz took off his rugby jersey and threw it at Ig right as the bell rang, then hit the ropes for a follow up.  But his try at a tope suicida was greeted by a massive European uppercut from Caviar, delivering a whiplash effect that temporarily turned Naz into a capital C on the floor and had Ig’s annoying laugh back out in full force as the main event began.

• 6. Pyotr Caviar (w/Ig de Catur, the Republic & Republic Enforcement) d. Nazir el-Fadal at 10:52 Having dropped Naz like a bad habit, Caviar removed his tracksuit and got Naz back into the ring to continue his offense against his long time rival.  Pyotr landed a series of clubbing blows across Naz’s back while the announcer team hyped up the Iron Team match at MDPD and hinted we might see it come up as a Match of the Year candidate when we got to the end of ‘26.  Naz got out from under a bit and fired off some European uppercuts of his own but Caviar shrugged them off and hit a Russian sickle that has el-Fadal corkscrewing through the air before he crash landed and the now three time tag champion covered him for the first nearfall of the match.

• The match took on the flavor of a Pyotr showcase up until Naz ducked a running crossbody and followed it up with his Night Night hiptoss Michinoku Driver that reset the balance of the match a bit and had both men momentarily down on the canvas.  Pyotr beat Naz to getting vertical but it was the One Man Jihad who took the lead on offense: stomping on Pyotr’s feet to get him off balance before delivering a cross chop to the throat, then a European uppercut off the ropes made Caviar almost stumble out of the ring.  But Naz used that to his advantage, tying Pyotr in the ropes before hitting him with a barrage of European uppercuts until Ig’s asset fell down awkwardly to the mat clutching at his jaw.  Caviar stumbled up and ate another cross chop in his Adam's apple, then the self proclaimed Greatest Man Alive got him up on his shoulders and sent him crashing to the canvas with a Hamrin Valley Driver; Pyotr barely shouldered out at the death after a long two count.

• Seeing their man in trouble, the Republic went into action to save things for the third generation star.  Ig jumped up on the apron to accuse the ref of a fast count, allowing Omar to reach in the ring and grab Naz so he could pull Naz to the floor.  Omar pulled Naz up only for the Grand Slam winner to uppercut him where the sun doesn't shine.  That helped take Omar temporarily out of the picture but even as Omar was falling Vengeance walked over with a blank.expression on his face.  Davis quickly double underhooked Naz and planted him with a double arm DDT before bundling Naz up and tossing him in the ring.  Ig finally got down off the apron and said something to Pyotr in Russian, gesturing as an almost out of it Naz was slowly pulling himself off the deck even if a bit of blood was running down his forehead.  It took Naz almost the full ten count to get to his feet, less than five for Pyotr to mow him down with a massive running crossbody and exactly three for Pyotr to win the main event.  

• Steve pointed out the Republic had run a similar play at Mayday Payday and used it to steal back the tag team titles.  But the dissection of Naz continued, as all three active members of the Republic stomped away at a barely moving Naz.  Ig de Catur even got in a few shots before Repubkic Enforcement started dropping like flies.  They were going down to Bolts From Olympus and shots from a barbed wire baseball bat.  Both Jupiter Jones and Razorblade had hit the scene and were cleaning house on Republic Enforcement.  The faces of QCW cleared a path to the ring and hit it together; coincidentally that was the moment the Republic decided that they’d had their fun and left the ring behind with a bloody Naz in it.  Ig and the Republic’s wrestlers got together at the bottom of the ramp as both Jupiter and Mason waved them on to come get in the ring so they could throw hands.  But Ig waived it off, saying that the Republic weren't going to let Team Has Been dictate the terms on the playing field.  As the show we off the air, it left us with both sides still exchanging smack talk as a bloodied Naz leaned on the ropes to help him get up.