QCW Unleashed [s3e43 • Quality Arena]

• Sky’s the Limit (w/Kam Ellis) d. A Cut Above (w/S. Mark Starr & Prince Ootsuka)
• “Explosive” Emily Bennett d  Lolo Vuitton (w/Beast Mode)
• Forbidden Book Club (w/”Night Sky” Diana Spare) d. INTLTS
• Bonnie Agrippa (w/Hysteria) d. Benjamin Valentino (w/Collipark)

Mayday Payday PPV (2300 Arena • Philadelphia)

  Preshow

1. Genesis King d. Jacques Krieger [w/Ashok Banerjee] (Crowned -> pinfall)

2. "Explosive" Emily Bennett, "Cambodian Cool" Keo Tevi and the Undaunted d. INTLTS and Manifest Destiny ["Her Excellency" Fiona Fogg, Sohla Patel, Serge Batroc and "the Proper Villain" Richard Windsor] (Tevi Psychedelic Shock -> pinfall Fogg)

MAIN CARD

Science Fiction Double Feature (w/the International Players) d. Justine Danek and Bella Jolie [w/Bonnie Agrippa](Doe Down To Earth -> pinfall Danek)

the Chosen (w/Goody Gardner) d. Forbidden Book Club (Gray Repent -> pinfall LaVey)

triple threat QCW NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Orion [c] d. Bonnie Agrippa (w/Hysteria) & Summer Rose (Orion inside cradle -> pinfall Agrippa) 1️⃣1️⃣

Tre Boyd ddq. Omar Littlefield (w/Ig de Catur, the Republic & Republic Enforcement)

30 minute Iron Team QCW WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Pyotr Caviar and MalicÍa Fernandez d. Nazir el-Fadal & Mason "Razorblade" Savage [c] (tied at 2 after regulation, sudden death saw a Justice Davis taser attack hand the fifth and final fall to Fernandez on Savage) #AndNEWWWWWW

QCW WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Nancy Crowley (w/Hysteria) d. Jupiter Jones [c, w/Collipark] (4 Bite Mes -> pinfall) #AndNEWWWWWWW

QCW WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Orion Autumn Powers d. Nancy Crowley !c, w/Hysteria] (Hazy Shade Of Autumn -> pinfall) #AndNEWWWWWWW

QCW Unleashed [s3e38 • Quality Arena]

• The Cooper Brothers (w/Kam Ellis) d. Hawk Carter and “the Forsaken” Drake Tremble 
• Omar Littlefield (w/Ig de Catur, the Republic and Republic Enforcement) d. Il Postino
• Science Fiction Double Feature (w/Collipark) d. The Sound of Thunder
• “Sinister” Sarah Fowler (w/Summer Rose) d. Gaia Green (w/Winter Wonderland)

FDSN Florida Presents QCW Ruckus [s5e23 • April 10th, 2026]

 📺 live on FanDuel Sports Network Florida

📍 Quality Arena 💫 Parts Unknown, fL

• Ruckus opened up with a video package recapping last week's Duquesne Classic action to close out the first round with wins by surprise entrant Orion, Summer Rose, Nancy Crowley and Tre Boyd’s upset of Omar Littlefield.  We’re down to eight and tonight will kick off the quarterfinals with two matches - who will add their name to the storied Duquesne Cup and face Jupiter Jones for the QCW World championship at Mayday Payday?

• The standard Invincible open rolled from there before we went inside Quality Arena, already hot on a Friday night in Florida.  Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen are our captains on the good ship Ruckus, They hoped to get some answers of who attacked Justice Davis on Friday the 13th last month before pivoting to hype tonight's double main event of Duquesne Classic quarterfinals - we’ll get Tre Boyd vs. Malicía Fernandez of the Republic in one and the High Priestess of Hysteria Bonnie Agrippa will face off against Orion.  But Ruckus would kick things off tonight with some women's division action…

• 1. “Sinister” Sarah Fowler (w/Summer Rose) d. Christine Kent at 2:28 Ruckus started off with an ass kicking that barely gave Steve any time to talk about how Fowler’s twisted worldview has grown under the evil tutelage of former champion Rose.  Poor Kent’s odds were in league with the Washington Generals, and it only got worse when Fowler landed her Dark Days implant reverse DDT.  Things ended shortly after that when Sarah laid out Christine with a basement rana driver and pinned her.  Fowler & Rose posed over Kent’s body post match.  

• We got a sizzle reel from “Her Excellency” Fiona Fogg and Sohla Patel saying that believe it or not, they were tired of their private island and were directing their manservants to set sail for the hovel of Parts Unknown.  QCW would be reminded that a Lotus blooms in springtime, and that they weren't just unstoppable today, they were unstoppable every day.  Ciao for now!  They laughed coquettishly while a graphic that said INTLTS repeatedly flashed on screen.  From there, we went back to the ring where the Voice of QCW Duck Eko made the ring introductions for our next match. 

• 2. The Chosen (w/Goody Gardner) d. Sky’s the Limit at 9:09 The zealots of the Chosen had a wildly unsuccessful Golden Rule that took some of the shine off their names and knocked their leader, “the Purifier” Caleb Gray from the World title picture.  But they’ve started a minor winning streak since Rule that continued here in trios action despite some high flying offense early from StL.  The Cooper Brothers had the fans behind them as they were neon blurs and Kam Ellis outpowered all three Chosen men and made Caleb look small.  But Kam missed on a Shooting Star press attempt and the End Times and Gray were all over him like ants on a picnic once he did.  Danny Castle and Dr. Martin Williams took turns doing the dirty work of wearing down Special K and eventually got him into position to turn the big man’s lights out with the Reckoning.  Castle then essentially offered Ellis up as a sacrifice for Caleb, who tagged in and landed Repent close to the Chosen corner.  Caleb hooked both legs on the pinfall attempt while the Times kept the Coopers from being able to break up the count.  It was the white clad Chosen who got their hands raised in another victory with Steve giving much of the credit for the win to the acolytes instead of Caleb.  Still, the Chosen took up their cross formation victory pose post match with Caleb at the center of it demanding faith over fear from the booing crowd as Ruckus went to tonight's first commercial break.

• We came back from the break to Naomi Lee, who began to bring out her interview guest only to get interrupted by the eternally vain Genesis King, who bragged about his winning streak and his eight pack abs.  Genesis continued to brag about his general awesomeness right up until a familiar voice said “So you think you're the King of QCW, huh, kid?” The camera panned over and the crowd roared to see QCW World champion the Legendary Jupiter Jones walk into the set with the Fifteen Pounds of Gold draped over his shoulder.  Genesis said it made him sick to see an old man walking around with QCW’s greatest championship when it should be on his shoulder instead.  With a slight edge in his voice, Jupiter asked him if he was going to do anything about it.  King stewed, backed down and stomped off the set.  Jupiter then turned to Naomi but before he could say anything Genesis ran back into frame and slapped Jupiter across the face so hard it knocked him on his ass.  King laughed a manly laugh before quickly running off as Jupiter got his bearings about him and pulled himself up with fury in his eyes.  He then turned to Nao and said he was going to go to Commissioner Holmes and get a non-title match set up for next week for that chicken…soup attack.  He didn't know much about Genesis King, but he knew plenty about being World champion - and that punk ass kid had seven days before The Champ destroyed him.  The crowd cheered as a still stinging Jupiter made his way out of the interview area and we went back to the ring for a Golden Rule rematch 

• 3. The Undaunted d. Serge Batroc and “the Proper Villain” Richard Windsor at 8:33 We got a rematch from Golden State here with the upstart newcomer Undaunted up against the unwelcome wagon of QCW Mainstays Serge and Richard.  In the rematch the Assassin and the Villain were able to put the clamps down on the high flying Irishmen.  A Windsor tilt-a-whirl backbreaker set up a guillotine legdrop from Serge that left “Unforgettable” Dave Mullin behind the eight ball early on.  Mullin was stuck getting beat on by the black hats until he managed to duck a European uppercut by Serge that dropped Windsor instead.  Mullin managed to tag in Tim “the Only Hope” McMurray and Timmy Boy went to work on the haughty technicians only to get upended by a two man backdrop bomb that stopped the Undaunted rally in its tracks.  Serge and Richard kept rolling and began to taunt their opponents as not being ready for the bright lights of QCW as they began to dominate.  

• But as they looked to finish off McMurray, Mullin fell into the ring from the apron in a desperate attempt to make a tag…seemingly.  This allowed McMurray to send Windsor headfirst into Batroc’s crotch, and for Tim to give Richard a schoolboy.  As the ref made the count, Dave put Tim’s feet on the ropes and held onto his partner’s ankles to weigh them down further; with the ref missing the sneak pinfall similar to how Windsor had cheated at Golden Rule that allowed the Undaunted to steal this one here.  As the Undaunted celebrated their way to the back, Serge gingerly hit the ring and complained to the referee about the underhanded pinfall.  From the desk, Carl likened it to “one of those goose/gander situations”.

• Before we went to commercial break, we got a This Week In QCW History segment: last April 11th, acting Commissioner Ig de Catur shockingly fired Jupiter Jones and Justice Davis beat Pyotr Caviar to win the Duquesne Classic.

• 4. “Explosive” Emily Bennett d. “Shieldmaiden” Val Curry w Bettie Rokker at 5:14 The back half of Ruckus began with the return to action of Bennett from her leave of absence due to the unrest in Minneapolis where she grew up.  But this was a different Emily than the one QCW fans were used to, hair now shaved into a modified Mohawk with a blue streak in it.  Worse for Curry, Bennett brought a more strike based and harder hitting offense than she had in the past and despite the size difference Emily spent most of the match in the driver's seat.  Bennett took Val’s legs out from under her then put her to the mat with a pair of cradle piledrivers to decide the bout.  The announcers talked about the new look and possibly improved Emily Bennett at the desk post match.  

• A video package rolled from there and we saw Julius Duquesne III in the beginning stages of his investigation into who took out Justice Davis last Friday the 13th.  We saw him in the bowels of Quality Arena hoping to find some security footage of the attack happening but due to various circumstances and where cameras happened to be in the building all we saw was Davis being tossed off the loading dock onto and through the car windshield without being able to see Justice’s attacker or attackers.

• It looked like that was going to lead us into commercials but instead we went to the commentary desk, where Jacques Krieger was standing on it with a mic in his hand.  He said he wasn't usually much for talking, but if Omar Littlefield had a problem with him after last week Jacques damn sure had a problem with Omar taking out his partner at Golden Rule.  Krieger then dared Omar to try that crap on him and for Ig to let his pet project get embarrassed again as Quality Force Security came out.  Krieger tossed the mic and jumped over the barricade to leave through the crowd before QFS could get to him.  Steve hyped up that there would be no more commercials once we came back after this so as to allow the double main event of Duquesne quarterfinal matches to go off uninterrupted.

• 5. Tre Boyd d. Malicía Fernandez (w/Ig de Catur, the Republic and Republic Enforcement) in a Duquesne Classic quarterfinal match at 12:35 For the second time in a week, Tre upends a member of the Republic and becomes this year's first semifinalist.  Remember that in last week's main event he used every trick in the book to get past Omar Littlefield, who spent most of this match glaring at Tre from the floor when he wasn't making non-empty threats to send him to the hospital.  As if that wasn't enough, he had Malicía to deal with and the former World Tag and National champion put him through his paces early.  Fernandez got in a massive shot on Boyd when he tried a springboard attempt and her massive forearm knocked him out of the sky as it it was almost an afterthought to her.  La Monstrua took over as Ig directed her to make Tre pay for the previous week.  That may have been why her chokeslam had more stank on it than usual, and the only way Tre was able to save things for himself was to get a foot on the bottom rope.  

• The Gospel wasn't blessed with a lot of long term offense but he made up for it by finding escape routes from Malicía's most devastating offensive moves; he avoided the luchadora’s attempts at more chokeslams, he slithered out of the way of a somersault axe kick, and instead of eating an MF5 he not only managed to land on his feet but follow up with a step up enzuigiri that wobbled Malicía.  Tre upper his offense and landed a stiff legged missile dropkick that rocked Fernandez and her using the ropes to pull herself up.  A backflip kick sent her out to the floor and set the Gospel up to connect on a “look Ma, no hands” tope con hilo that had the Quality Controllers chanting his name.  Tre was woofing like it was going out of style right up until Link Wray's "Rumble” hit the PA.  The crowd popped over hearing Jacques Krieger's music, which caused Ig to deploy Republic Enforcement and sent them to different parts of the arena to head him off at the pass no matter where he came from.  What de Catur failed to account for was under the ring, as Krieger slid out from under the apron and rang Omar's bell with his tire iron.  The crowd went nuclear for that, and Krieger managed to flatten a couple of Enforcement flunkies as well.  But that left an opening for Pyotr Caviar to go after Tre and he launched a Russian sickle…that Boyd leapt over, leading Pyotr to lariat his usual partner’s head almost off of her shoulders.  Boyd furthered his cutthroat reputation by punting Pyotr right in the Kremlins before grabbing Malicía and throwing her back into the ring.  Feeling himself now, Tre cinched up Malicía and spiked her into the mat with a Blue Thunder bomb.  Boyd scrambled to the top rope and came down from the heavens with Say Hallelujah.  The Gospel got himself vertical and, looking for a little insurance, went up top so he could go for a second Say Hallelujah.  Boyd hooked both legs on the cover and a three count later was the Classic’s first semifinalist.  Ig couldn't find enough people to yell at, Krieger tossed his tire iron to the floor on the way to the back and Pyotr had his head in his hands.  All that paled in comparison to Quality Arena’s joyful noise and Tre was yelling right along with them as Carl called him the Republic Killer on commentary.  Steve updated us on what was next up for Tre from the southwest side of the bracket; the win will put him up against the winner of next week's Nancy Crowley v. Nazir el-Fadal quarterfinal.  Tre celebrated all the way up the ramp barking out “2 more!” repeatedly while Malicía hit the referee with the Death Warrant to take out some of her frustration over losing.  

• Before the main event, Steve had a couple of things to hype for 💫 next week's Ruckus 💫: we’ll find out the host location for Mayday Payday and the host city 💫 and the Duquesne Classic quarterfinal matches continue with Hysteria's Nancy Crowley going up against World Tag Team champion Nazir el-Fadal as well as Luz Cruz of the Forbidden Book Club faces off against Summer Rose

• Speaking of quarterfinal action from the Duquesne, it was time for our main event!

• Lights off.

• Lights on and Hysteria was in the ring, cackling.  Bella Jolie may not have been in the Duquesne but she was coming off a win on the last Unleashed, Nancy Crowley had her own quarterfinal next week and their leader Bonnie Agrippa looked to be locked in on her quarterfinal now.

• As Steve was hyping up how Hysteria could be going head to head in the final since they still had almost 30% of the field, Mastodon replaced the Cure on the PA and brought out Orion to a massive pop.  The National champion came down the ramp radiating focus in their own right, Carl pointing out that if they won the Cup they could maybe get two shots at the World title at Mayday Payday between the Natty and the Cup.  Both competitors stared across the ring from each other as the referee rang the bell…

• 6. Orion d. Bonnie Agrippa (w/Nancy Crowley and Bella Jolie) in a non-title Duquesne Classic quarterfinal match at 11:59 This had the most kinetic opening of any Duquesne match so far, as they both exchanged counters and blocks of each other's offense for most of the opening minute; it was a stalemate that was only broken up by Orion changing tactics and levels.  The National champion came off the ropes and sent Bonnie to the canvas with a basement dropkick to the knob, then followed up with a massive Shining Wizard that sent Agrippa sprawling and eventually rolling to the floor.  Nancy and Bella checked on Bonnie and tried to buoy her spirits while Orion hit a set of turnbuckles and looked down at the Cup they hoped to end up with.  

• Bonnie got her game face back on and hit the ring only to be rocked by Orion and quickly monkey flipped, sent over the ropes and back outside.  Hysteria huddled and came up with a plan before all three of them hopped up on the apron.  Orion waved them all on as Steve noted that the Cosmic Champion would advance in the Classic should Bonnie get herself disqualified.  Crowley and Jolie scowled as they got back on the floor and Bonnie hit the ring only to eat some more Orion offense.  But she managed to stay in the fray by having Orion’s biggest weapon scouted, as she avoided Orion’s Nebula and landed a falling reverse DDT.   Agrippa immediately pounced and followed with multiple flash elbows to keep Orion down and move things closer to her side of the ledger.  Bonnie combined short range strikes with occasional cheating to keep her advantage for the next couple of minutes, putting evil grins on her subordinates.  After landing a twisting suplex, Bonnie pointed to Bella and went up to the top rope in the hopes of extending her lead with Bella's Death From Above frog splash, Orion rolled out of the way and Agrippa crashed hard into the canvas. 

• To add injury to injury, Orion followed up with a pinpoint Shining Wizard to the back of the head that wiped out Nancy again.  While it didn't end the match, it turned out to end any real chances that Bonnie was going to advance in the tournament.  Orion stayed on top the rest of the way and amazed the attendees with a satellite DDT that you could hang in the Louvre, as the kids say.  From there Orion called for and delivered the end, hitting their signature Nebula to keep Bonnie down for the three count and punch their ticket to the semifinals - they’re now waiting for the winner of the Luz/Summer match next week.  Nancy and Bella hit the ring to check on Bonnie's condition and sent some glares in Orion's direction.  But Orion didn't see them, they were too busy looking at and standing next to the Cup while Steve wondered aloud that given the roll they were on, were we seeing the next winner of the Duquesne Cup?  Ruckus went off the air as Orion headed to the back dishing out high fives to ringside fans and autographing a sign on their way to the back.  See you next week, same time same channel as the quarterfinals of the Duquesne continue and QCW continues to bring the mother lovin’ Ruckus!

QCW Unleashed [s3e37 • Quality Arena]

• Bella Jolie (w/Hysteria) d. Hilary Highnote
• Science Fiction Double Feature (w/Collipark) d. The Sound of Thunder
• The End Times (w/the Chosen) d. The Cooper Brothers (w//Kam Ellis)
• Jonathan Livingston Clipper Esq. d. “The Forsaken” Drake Tremble

FDSN Florida Presents QCW Ruckus [s5e22 • April 3td, 2026]

 📺 live on FanDuel Sports Network Florida

📍 Quality Arena 💫 Parts Unknown, FL

• A video package opened the show recapping the first half of first round Duquesne Classic action, as a banged up Bonnie Agrippa got past a banged up Shelley LaVey, Luz Cruz pulled off a massive upset over Pyotr Caviar, Nazir el-Fadal bounced Caleb Gray and Malicía Fernandez pinned Razorblade in the main event.  The package ended with footage of all four winners celebrating their victories, followed by a slow pan of the Duquesne Cup and a voiceover promising that after tonight the number of people who would be able to hold the Cup in 2026 would be cut down to eight.

• The usual “Invincible” open began to roll but suddenly stopped midway through.  We were quickly ushered inside Quality Arena where Drake Tremble was in the middle of the ring with a mic, whining over being forsaken by Caleb Gray and the rest of the Chosen and made him lose his way – until last week, when he had finally gotten off the schneid  And now that he was in the Duquesne, he would get his ultimate revenge on Caleb by succeeding where he had failed: he would win a Classic Caleb couldn't even get out of the first round of, then he would get his revenge on all the idiot fans who’d forsaken him by beating their hero Jupiter Jones and becoming the QCW World champion for a fourth time.  But in order to win the main event at Mayday Payday, he had to win tonight and he wasn't going to wait around for it to happen.  So bring out his “mystery opponent”, soon to become a footnote in the redemption of Drake Tremble.  

• A murmur went up in the Arena as Drake tossed the mic aside.   A beat happened, then another, then Mastodon hit the PA and caused Drake's jaw to drop.  The camera followed his gaze up the aisle, where Orion parted the Qualitron to a huge pop, Steve Vandeblanche on commentary wondering how the hell Commissioner Holmes had managed to keep this a secret.   The National champion hit the ring as a referee slid into it and our opener kicked off…

• 1. Orion d. “The Forsaken” Drake Tremble in a non-title first round Duquesne Classic match at 2:53 The National champion made quick work of Tremble in a showcase match; a pair of massive release dragon suplexes set up Orion’s Nebula and that got the win.  Orion's win means that they have a date in the quarterfinals next week against the High Priestess of Hysteria, Bonnie Agrippa.  Call me crazy but after the most dominant first round victory so far this year, I doubt that Orion’s sweating it.  

• We went to the announce desk, where Steve reintroduced himself alongside long time partner and former QCW champion Carl Christensen.  They hyped the remaining first round Duquesne matches tonight - Jacques Krieger v. Summer Rose, Nancy Crowley v. “Night Sky” Diana Spare and  the main event tonight: Tre Boyd v. Omar Littlefield.   

• Appropriately enough, a cut to backstage showed Ig de Catur addressing the Republic and Republic Enforcement as they formed a half circle in front of him.  de Catur was dressing down Pyotr Caviar for losing both the tag titles and his first round match in the span of the same week before pointing out that Malicía Fernandez had won her match last week over that street trash Razorblade and Omar would win the main event tonight over the annoying Tre Boyd.   Just because Pyotr failed them all was no reason to lose sight of the big picture - now Malicía or Omar would win the Classic, and once that happened they would headline Mayday Payday against that fossil Jones and once they gave him a Republic retirement party, the World championship would be back in Ig’s trophy case and the Republic would rule over QCW once again.  Ig declared the meeting dismissed, and everyone got up and left before Pyotr could join them.  Once his head was up, Pyotr had only one thing to say: “You fine with Malicía fighting Omar next week, bro?”. With that question hanging in the air, Ruckus went to its first commercial break tonight.

• 2. Genesis King d. Kam Ellis (w/the Cooper Brothers) at 8:40 While the Duquesne takes up a lot of QCW’s oxygen as it does every spring, it's not the only thing that goes on in the company.  Here, the cocky King was looking to rebuild his name after coming in with a lot of hype months ago only to come up short against Orion in his attempts to capture the National championship.  Similarly here, he bit off more than he could chew against the power man from Sky’s the Limit and spent most of the match getting dominated by Ellis.  Special K had things in hand when he went to the top rope, but King drop kicked the top rope to undercut Kam’s balance and crotch him in the high rent district.  Genesis quickly hit Crowned to steal a victory while a post match cut to backstage showed S. Mark Starr watching the proceedings on a monitor.

• From there, we went TOTHEBACK~! for an interview segment as Naomi Lee brought on Serge Batroc and “the Proper Villain” Richard Windsor as her guests.  She asked if they'd heard the challenge that the Undaunted had put out for a rematch and Windsor responded that after their dominant win at Golden Rule, what the Undaunted were offering up wasn't a challenge at all, so they could have the honor of losing to them again on next week's Ruckus.  When Nao pointed out that they’d barely won at Rule and had to cheat to do so, Richard hand waved it away, saying that the important thing was that they'd won and would do so again next week - and once they prepared a proper victory party with fine dining and world class decor, maybe a delicious little tart like her would like to join then?  Nao looked disgusted and flatly said the word “achoo” before braining Richard with the mic, drawing a pop from Quality Arena and a “Zut alors!” from Serge, who quickly gathered up Windsor and made their way off set.  Lee shook her head a few times as they left before throwing things to Duck Eko in the ring so he could do the ring introductions for the next match…

• 3. The End Times (w/the Chosen) d. Science Fiction Double Feature (w/Collipark) at 8:41 Caleb Gray may have failed to take the World title off of Jupiter Jones at Golden Rule, but his acolytes beat Jupiter's proteges here.  Both teams' associates were on the floor for this one to make this a de facto lumberjack match.  SFDF came out of the gates hot, looking every bit like the former World Tag Team champions they were as they used their quickness to put Danny Castle and Dr. Martin Williams on the back foot early.  A series of dropkicks and double dropkicks sent them out to the floor and got the crowd feeling like a Collipark win was only moments away.  But while they cheered, Gray was in the Times’ faces and browbeating them, saying that of course they were going to lose wrestling at their opponents' pace - they had to wrestle their style if they wanted to come out triumphant.  

• It took some time for that to come to pass, but only about a minute for the tides to change in the favor of the Chosen as Castle went for a cheap shot only to be scared off by Jane Doe.  However, that opened the ATLien up to get a spinning falling back suplex from the Analyst, who quickly tagged in Castle so they could hit a double back suplex elbow driver on Doe.  The Times spent the rest of the match working over Jane's neck while preventing her from being able to tag out to Cindy Monet.  Jupiter and the International Players tried to provide some coaching, but the Times merely bent the rules as far as they could get without breaking them to keep Collipark at bay.  Things ended when they threw a double big boot at Cindy to knock her off the apron before taking Jane out with the Reckoning.  Despite an up and down record with the company, nobody has ever kicked out from Castle and Dr. Williams' tornado DDT Doomsday Device and Jane wasn't going to be the first.  The black hats gathered on the floor and Caleb had nothing but praise for the Times in victory while the rest of Collipark checked on the downed Jane in the ring.  With a small smirk on his face, Caleb took off his hat and bowed in Jupiter's direction before leading the Chosen up the ramp and to the back as Ruckus went to commercial break.

• Back from the break we got a decent sized video package for the returning Emily Bennett, who confirmed the online rumors of her returning home last summer after the government overreach led to one of her childhood friends being arrested and detailed.  Emily admitted to having rose tinted glasses about the way the world worked before that happened, but if she had learned nothing else she had learned to get loud and raise hell for the right reasons.  It was possible someone watching her right now had never seen her before, or had forgotten who she was, so she’d help them out.  Her name was Emily Bennett and she wasn't just Explosive anymore - she was Minnesota strong.  

• 4. Summer Rose (w/”Sinister” Sarah Fowler) d. Jacques Krieger in a first round Duquesne Classic match at 9:33 A few years ago Rose was the runner up for the Cup; this year, having just won her way back to an official position with the company at Golden Rule, she went over Krieger here.  At first the match seemed to be all Krieger due to the size and power discrepancies between the two that frustrated Rose early; he mostly shrugged off her early offense and kept moving forward.  A massive back body drop counter on his end sent Summer over the top rope and to the floor.  The New Jerseyite followed her out to the floor and went for his vaunted heart punch, only for Rose to scramble out of the way and for Jacques to accidentally punch the ringpost.  You could hear the sickening crunch of bones cracking in the skyboxes as QCW’s resident heavy hitter ended up cursing while trying to get some feeling back in his hand.  Obviously distracted by the massive pain jolting down his arm, he didn't notice Rose had gotten up onto the announce table - until he turned around and Rose launched herself into a huracanrana that sent him flying head first into the steel steps.

• Rose crawled back in the ring more than content to win by countout but unfortunately for her, Krieger managed to get back in at 9½.  Unfortunately for him, that left him wide open for Rose to attack his hand and arm in any way she could, using everything from joint manipulation to a Fujiwara armbar to wear him down.  Rose barely let go of the armbar in time to avoid disqualification and had words with the referee about it before turning around into a pump knee strike from Krieger that sent her down to the mat.  Krieger sank to his knees still trying to salvage his arm but it looked like he was having trouble even moving his fingers.   One Eye gathered himself and went back on the attack, only to get caught as Rose kicked his ankle out from underneath him and sent him face first into her protruding knee in a modified basement facebuster.  Most of the rest of the match played out the same way, with Summer’s devious technical abilities being a mountain that Krieger couldn't climb (especially after taking an Omar sized beating at Golden Rule and from almost all the Republic last week).  Rose continued wearing Krieger down until she had him in position for a basement rana driver that put a bow on things and sent Summer off to the quarterfinals where she’ll face off against the red hot Luz Cruz of the Forbidden Book Club.  As Rose and Fowler slithered to the back with crooked grins, Carl put over Summer huge and called her a good dark horse pick to walk away with the Duquesne Cup this year.  

• Before the last commercial break we got a This Week In QCW History video package.  You might have heard about this one before once or seven dozen times here and there on a Ruckus - on April 4th, 1991 beloved jobber Carl Christensen madehistory at the King Berger Tribute Show by first winning a 20 man battle royale by getting knocked between the ropes before the final two runner ups took each other out, thus earning a shot at QCW champion “the Golden One” Neil Everhardt in the main event.  Carl gets destroyed but when Neil goes for his finisher Christensen sneaks in an inside cradle to win the belt and end Neil’s reign at 941 days in the biggest upset in QCW history to this day.  Neil would win the two rematches handily and Carl never won another match in his remaining four years in QCW, but he's fine at the desk doing color commentary - the same desk from which the all-time call of “Christensen wins!  Christensen wins!  My God and King in heaven, Christensen wiiiiinnnnnnsssss!" came from.

• 5. Nancy Crowley (w/Hysteria) d. “Night Sky” Diana Spare (w/Forbidden Book Club) in a first round Duquesne Classic match at 10:18 When the Forbidden Book Club beat Hysteria in the extreme rules elimination match at Golden Rule it looked like the FBC had won the war between the factions and maybe end the rivalry - but the Duquesne has seen someone from Hysteria beat someone from the Club two weeks in a row.  Crowley eked out a hard hitting victory over Spare in the semi main, one that started off with a hockey fight to the joy of the crowd and the seconds at ringside.  Spare switched levels and slowed down Nancy with a knee to the breadbasket, but when she tried to follow up off the ropes she ran into a back elbow smash from Nancy.  Crowley got in the mount position and rained down wild swings before biting Diana, as Crowley's usual Feral attack gave her early control of the fight.  While Diana got in her licks, Nancy's willingness to cheat combined with her reckless offense had her ahead on points as she eventually knocked Spare loopy with a headbutt that sent “Night Sky” rolling out to the apron to try and regain her faculties.  Still attacking, Crowley went for an inside out sunset flip bomb that would've driven Diana to the floor had Spare not jumped up and buried a knee into Nancy's neck and driven it into the ring apron.  Things went from bad to worse as Spare got a running start on the apron and almost took Nancy's head off with a PK that you could hear at the concession stands.  

• We got replays of the PK as Spare looked like she was going to put Nancy back in the ring; instead she made sure she had Crowley hung out to dry over the apron before she got another running start and buried a million dollar knee lift upside Crowley's head.  Diana went after her ex partner as if the betrayal had happened moments ago instead of years and took a hollow eyed intensity to unleashing her offense over the next few minutes, including killing a brief Crowley rally in the crib with a massive textbook pop up Michinoku Driver that Nancy barely got her shoulder up on at 2¾.  Spare kept punishing Nancy over the next few minutes and got some more nearfalls, but even when Spare blocked a Code Black with an Alabama Slam that ragdolled the Cauldron of Chaos into a Black Hole Slam, Crowley managed to survive even if the kick outs were getting narrower and narrower.  After surprising Nancy with a Pele kick out of the Shelley LaVey playbook, former five time champion Spare let out a war cry and cinched up Crowley for her trademark Nightfall - and that's when all hell broke loose.  Seeing Nancy in trouble, the rest of Hysteria jumped into action and up on the apron but that didn't last long until Luz Cruz and Shelley LaVey pulled them down and kicked off a Pier 4 on the floor.  In the ring, before Diana could end things in her favor Nancy looked like she was biting the eye of Diana to make her let go before she could hit her finisher.  A blinded Spare staggered around until she walked into Devil's Wings from Nancy, and that set up the Salem native to hit Bite Me that got her the pin and the win to the surprise of the crowd and announce team.

• No sooner had Nancy gotten her hand raised than Diana jumped her from behind, a full on Pier 6 in the ring and on the outside that looked like 2 Golden 2 Rule…but after being able to toss LaVey head first into the steps, Bonnie Agrippa snapped her fingers and the lights went out in QA.  As usual, when they came back on, Hysteria was nowhere in sight and the Club was left to lick their wounds.  Lost in all this chaos is that at the top of the bracket, Nancy's advanced to face Nazir el-Fadal in the quarterfinals.

• Ahead of the main event, Steve hyped up the big matches we’ll see on 💫 next week's Ruckus 💫: in a rematch from Golden Rule, Serge Batroc and Richard Windsor will face off against the Undaunted 💫 and the quarterfinals of the Duquesne Classic will kick off with Orion vs. Bonnie Agrippa and Malicía Fernandez against the winner of tonight's main event – but would that be her stablemate in the Republic or QCW’s cocksure fastest rising star?  Time we found out.

• “Just Wanna Rock” brought out Tre Boyd to a mostly positive if still mixed reaction.  The Gospel wasted little time hitting ringside and sidling up next to the Cup, saying that at the end of the tournament he’d have it in his trophy case.  Boyd was in the middle of continuing his monologue to the camera when he got cut off by “The Old Guard Is Dead” bringing out the small army of black hats known as the Republic. Ig de Catur hyped up the two time former World champion Omar Littlefield as they headed to the ring flanked by Ig’s rent-a-uhhh, Republic Enforcement, completely ignoring Pyotr Caviar and Malicía Fernandez despite the fact that she'd won her first round match over Razorblade in last week's main event.  Tre wasted little time in getting face to face (well, face to chest) with Omar, who piefsced Tre and sent him flying.  The referee kept a snack talking Boyd from making any contact with Omar and backed the Gospel into a neutral corner before calling for the bell…

• 6. Tre Boyd d. Omar Littlefield (w/Ig de Catur, the Republic and Republic Enforcement) in a first round Duquesne Classic match at 11:33 Upsets continue busting the brackets of QCW fans but somehow I don't think they'll mind this one as Tre gets another massive win against a former multi time World champion to punch his ticket to the quarterfinals.  Despite coming into the match squarely as the underdog Tre didn't shy away from the moment or show any fear of the size discrepancy, managing to avoid big shots from Omar and deploy a hit and run attack primarily using short kicks to the thighs and knees to maybe get Omar off balance and closer to the mat to make the matchup more even.  Omar couldn't catch Tre early, which gave the Gospel room to operate and continue working Omar over in short bursts to the delight of the crowd and the shock of the announcers.  Boyd finally made his way to the top rope before landing a stuff legged missile dropkick for his first big move of the match that wobbled Omar a bit.  Tre went back up top and connected with another one that put Omar down to a knee.  Boyd went up to a different set of turnbuckles and tried a third, but Omar not only caught Tre - he picked him up and threw him over the top rope and Boyd crash landed on top of the announce table to gasps and murmurs.  It took another couple of seconds before the table collapsed under the weight of the throw, leaving Tre in a heap on the floor and Ig cackling maniacally on the outside.  

• Inside the ring all Omar did was glower as we get replays of him shot putting Tre from the ring to the announce table with one mighty biel.  Steve and Carl came back on scene and tried to check on Tre, as did the ringside physician, but Tre waved them all off and crawled on his knees to get to the steps to crawl up them and beat the referee's count just before 10.  Boyd’s reward for his tenacity was walking into a sitout choke bomb from Omar, and an uneasy silence washed over the crowd seeing how Tre was splayed out on the mat barely moving.  Steve and Carl got back on air after some choppiness and fuzziness, saying that Omar had broken their table in half and now it looked like he was going to break Tre the same way.  Omar spent the next couple of minutes alternating between barking out demands for a World title rematch against Jupiter and further dissecting Boyd.  Biels across the ring that should've come with an in flight movie.  Not even gutwrench suplexes but gutwrench throws where Omar never left his feet but his opposition landed on his ass.  And then it was torture time: Omar with a massive Vader Bomb - and another - and another - and another - and seemed to be getting ready to uncork another when Republic Enforcement started hitting the ground at the hands of a tire iron swung by Jacques Krieger who again got involved in the business of the Republic, still looking for revenge on Omar for taking his partner Ashok Banerjee out at Golden Rule.  Krieger was in a stand off with the rest of the Republic when Quality Force Security came out to drag the heavy hitter and his tire iron away from the scene.  But Krieger pulling focus away from the match and getting Omar's attention allowed Tre to land two massive low blow kicks behind the referee's back that drove Omar to his knees.  Krieger offered up a wry grin as he dropped the tire iron on the ramp and left right before Tre slowly got up to the top rope and landed another stiff legged missile dropkick that actually put Omar on his back.  Tre moved as fast as he could to the top rope and came off with Say Hallelujah and it connected…but Tre wasn't done there as he went back to the top rope and delivered another Say Hallelujah on the button…but Tre wasn't content there as he went back up ASAP and connected on one more Say Hallelujah from the rafters.  The crowd counted along with the referee but everyone in the building seemed shocked when they got to three and the bell rang.  

• Omar kicked out at five but it was too late as the Republic hit the ring furiously and Boyd and the referee went out to the floor. Omar literally ripped a ring rope off and threw it at them as they moved up the ramp where Tre finally got his hand raised to a huge pop from the faithful.  Carl kept exclaiming how he couldn't believe Tre had pulled that one off while Steve updated the bracket for us, as Tre’s win puts him in a quarterfinal match next week…against Omar's stablemate Malicía Fernandez (the winner of that will get the winner of Nancy Crowley vs. Nazir el-Fadal in the semifinals).  Ruckus went off the air with the crowd as hot as it had been to start the show, with Tre crowing about how he’d just eaten Omar's lunch and Ig demanding he come back with a real referee and r

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