QCW Unleashed [s4e4 • Quality Arena]

• INTLTS 2.0 d. Hilary Highnote and Christine Kent
• DeMarcus Cooper (w/Sky’s the Limit) d. Prince Ootsuka (w/the All Starr Stable)
• Lolo Vuitton (w/Beast Mode) d. Gaia Green (w/Winter Wonderland)
• Glam Squad (w/John Arneson) d. Glory Days

QCW Ruckus [s5e37 • July 31st, 2026]

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📍 Quality Arena 💫 Parts Unknown, FL

We got the Invincible open to the show, now with a full Cavalcade of Champions (Caviar + Malice • Nancy Crowley • Autumn Powers) to close it out. From there, we zoomed inside Quality Arena where another loud and proud crowd welcomed us to Ruckus before Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen did so officially. They hyped up Serge Batroc vs. Razorblade on tonight's program as well as Nancy Crowley defending the National championship for the first time against ex-friend Shelley LaVey before action kicked off with the debut of the newest addition to the QCW roster…

1. Claudia Watson d. Bettie Rokker (w/”Shieldmaiden” Val Curry) at 4:29 Watson, “the Girl Next Door” who emigrated over from the Fed’s developmental system got her QCW tenure off to a successful start by bouncing Bettie all around the ring. Watson showed off some impressive power, most notably when she held Rokker up for nearly half a minute before dumping her with a vertical suplex. A face lock into a snap facebuster to the knee she calls Marie Antoinette got her a showcase victory.

But no sooner had Claudia gotten her hand raised then she got jumped by a figure all in black. Watson got pummelled with hammer shots across her back before the interloper cinched her up and drove her into a corner with a buckle bomb. Things only got worse for the newcomer when she ate a familiar looking around the horn Yakuza kick that left her slumped and barely conscious in the corner. Suspicions turned into confirmation when the mystery figure ripped off their mask and revealed Lolo Vuitton, clearly finished with her stint on the injured list. After putting the bad mouth on the groggy Watson, Vuitton took a bow and rolled out of the ring, leaving shocked and/or booing Quality Controllers in her wake.

We got a sizzle reel of Nazir el-Fadal voiced over by the One Man Jihad himself. As highlights from his Cruel Summer win in the triple threat over Razorblade and Vengeance Davis rolled, Naz said that over the years he'd been called so many names and given himself so many nicknames that he’d lost count - but one thing the One Man Jihad did was live up to his promises, and he’d done that at Cruel Summer when he’d won that bootleg handicap match and beaten Razorblade again. So as far as he was concerned, that made him the #1 contender to his World championship, just in time for his favorite time of the year: Anniversary season.  

In fact, he was going to add another nickname right now because Mr. Anniversary made it the biggest event of the year every year: saving the company from Ig last year, winning the World title off Razorblade and then tossing it skyward when the rabble didn't give him his flowers, or…or even running Autumn Powers what should have been out of town and into a mask. But what he had lined up for her was a few weeks in the offing, and he didn't want to wait this long to get his hands dirty again, so he proposed an open challenge next week, same Ruckus time, same Ruckus channel. He was sure someone disagreed with him naming himself #1 contender and would want to fight about it, and he wanted to show off a bit for his rabble. But whoever answered his challenge would be reminded just like Razorblade was and Autumn was about to be that this long, hot Jihad Summer would only end one way - with The Greatest Man Alive walking out of Anniversary once again World champion. 

2. Glam Squad d. The All Starr Stable (w/S. Mark Starr) at 7:22 The Fall of the House of Starr continued here as they dropped another match to the unlikely trio of John Arneson, Cole Grant and Freddie Valsada. Once known for their cohesiveness as a unit, they made several mistakes and repeatedly accidentally took each other out in their pursuit of double teams - and against ascendant pros like the Glammers, they paid for those mistakes in spades. By the end you could almost hear “Yakety Sax” in the background, an end that came after Too Damn Glam and Valsada pinning Evan O’Neill. The Squad celebrated their victory up the ramp and to the back, leaving Starr to verbally tear into his charges for ten or fifteen seconds before slapping them all repeatedly (O’Neill getting the worst of it for obvious reasons) and storming up the ramp. O’Neill, Broderick Palmer II & Prince Ootsuka argued amongst themselves in the ring for a bit before realizing their manager was getting away and went up the ramp to try and catch up to the former World champion.

Backstage, we saw Shelley LaVey doing box jumps with a production crate while Luz Cruz and “Night Sky” Diana Spare gave her encouragement during her pre match workout. A chyron popped up hyping Shelley going after Nancy Crowley and the National championship later in the show as we went into the first commercial break of the evening.

We returned from the break straight into an interview Julius Duquesne III had with “Cambodian Cool” Keo Tevi. Keo sheepishly admitted Hysteria had gotten them twice last week, but all stealing the National championship had done for Nancy Crowley was to put a bullseye square on her witchy back. In fact, she wouldn't be surprised if Shelley LaVey wasn't about to stop her title reign before it got started, but either way she had Nancy in the scope. You couldn't do the things Hysteria did and expect Keo to be cool about it. She thanked Jules for his time and headed off - we went to the ring for tonight's title defense.

3. Nancy Crowley [c, w/Hysteria] d. Shelley LaVey (w/Forbidden Book Club} to retain the National championship at 10:27 1️⃣ The latest chapter in the Forbidden Book Club v. Hysteria feud culminated in Crowley pulling out a narrow victory to retain the title they got at Cruel Summer with some help from their friends. This time the former friends and longtime rivals went head on with their groups on the outside, turning this into a bootleg lumberjill match. Crowley and LaVey brawled early, a fight that the champ would win before laying Shelley out with Devil’s Wings to get the first nearfall of the match and secure the upper hand. At the desk, Carl wondered if it was smart for Shelley to try and outbrawl Nancy while the Feral titleholder stomped away at the fallen Shelley. Crowley continued to bring her narrowly controlled chaos to bear on the Goddess of Love - at least until she went for a Code Black that Shelley shook free from before catching Nancy right across the jaw with a springboard enzuigiri.

LaVey gave back as good as she got and then some, blasting Nancy with some hard forearm shots before really working her over and getting nearfalls off of a surprise Pele kick and a second springboard enzuigiri. At one point it looked like Bonnie Agrippa was going to get involved and save the Natty, but both Luz Cruz and “Night Sky” Diana Spare getting up on the apron killed that idea in the crib. Right after Duck Eko announced we were halfway through the 20 minute time limit, Shelley hit her biggest move of the match and laid Crowley out with her Heartbreaker draping cutter. LaVey let out a war cry and went to the top rope but before she could leap off for her Fallen Angel splash Crowley dove into the ropes to cause Shelley to crash land into the ring. Crowley quickly hit a Bonniesque brainbuster that Shelley kicked out of, but the follow up from Crowley was a successful Code Black followed up by Bite Me that gave Hysteria's right hand woman the win and a successful title defense. Nancy made sure to taunt Shelley with the belt afterwards, which seemed like the precursor to a Club/Hysteria brawl. But Bonnie snapped her fingers and the lights went off, and as you might have guessed Hysteria was nowhere to be seen when they came back on.  

From there, we went to Steve at the desk who set up a highlight package of the Republic running wild to open the show last week - not just content to have Vengeance Davis win the opening contest over Kam Ellis, they laid out the entirety of Sky’s the Limit and Pyotr Caviar took out a referee with a Russian sickle when they tried to intervene. Steve’s voiceover revealed the punishment for those actions: Commissioner Holmes suspending the faction for tonight's show and possibly beyond (Steve was quick to add Ig de Catur’s legal team was already on the attack against the Commissioner). More Ruckus to come after the break.

4. Mason “Razorblade” Savage d. Serge Batroc (w/”the Proper Villain” Richard Windsor) at 10:59 After what happened at Cruel Summer, you knew that Savage was itching to go back to his winning ways. But Serge weaponized Razorblade’s anger against him, uncharacteristically not wanting to lock up or engage in the match’s early moments until he could lure the Grand Slam winner into position to snap the top rope into his neck and take over. The French Assassin worked over Mason's neck by battering it with European uppercuts and keeping him grounded by applying cravats. Batroc controlled the match and kept the pressure on, but lost the plot when he tried to connect on his signature guillotine legdrop and Savage rolled out of the way.  

Razorblade pulled himself up with the ropes and waited on Serge, then blasted him with a King Kong lariat. It took Serge most of a ten count to pull himself off the mat and once he did Razorblade walloped him with an even bigger lariat that sent Serge spinning through the air before he crash landed on the mat. The rest of the match was mostly one way traffic for the former World champion, who down the stretch took Serge to the corner and put 20 knots on his head while the Quality Controllers counted along. Three spinebusters and the Soul Crusher flattened Serge out for the three count much to the joy of the crowd.

After the match, it looked like Windsor was going to launch a sneak attack, but Savage wheeled around at the last second and drove that thought out of Benedict Richard’s head with a glare. Richard instead gathered up Serge and helped him to the back, leaving Razorblade to grab a corner camera and cut a very short promo: “Too bad for Serge that he had to take Davis’ ass whooping. Commish, we need to have a word.” Savage handed the camera back over and left through the crowd as usual, ignoring all the claps he was getting on the back.

From there, we went TOTHEBACK~!, where Naomi Lee was standing by for an interview. She brought on Tre Boyd, who received a good pop from the Quality Controllers as he came into the frame. Boyd looked heated as he came on the set and proved it when he wouldn't even let Nao ask a question - instead he launched into his legitimate complaints about getting screwed out of the National championship at Cruel Summer. It was bad enough Nancy Crowley was a crazy witch, but now she was a paper champion on top of things. But she wouldn't be for long because she had violated the 11th commitment: thou shalt not play with the Gospel. Next time they’d throw down one on one and she could bring all the mall goths she wanted - but either way, we were about to be blessed with Championship Tre. Boyd walked off set, leaving us to return to the ring for tonight's semi main event clash…

5. Genesis King d. Anton Stahl (w/ the Wonderful Ward Brothers) at 4:51 A showcase win for the cocky King in our semi main event, who didn't waste much time in taking down the veteran Stahl. For some reason, Goody Gardner was at the top of the ramp for a portion of this one but left before King could end things with his trademark Crowned finisher. GK made sure us couch taters got a good look at all eight of his abs before heading to the back after his win.

A split screen showed Jane Doe and Cindy Monet warming up with the rest of Collipark while Summer Rose and “Sinister” Sarah Fowler skulked through the back corridors of Quality Arena with fog lightly billowing around their knees somehow. Our main event is Rose and Fowler vs. Science Fiction Double Feature - and it's going down after tonight's final commercial break!

Ahead of the main event, Steve hyped up just a taste of what's to come on 💫 next week's Ruckus 💫: “Explosive” Emily Bennett and “Cambodian Cool” Keo Tevi will face INTLTS 2.0 | Cindy Monet will go one on one with the returning Lolo Vuitton | and who will answer Nazir el-Fadal's open challenge as he marches towards Anniversary?

“Change (In the House of Flies)” rang out in Quality Arena, bringing Summer Rose and “Sinister” Sarah Fowler out to jeers from the crowd. As they made their way down to the ring, highlights of their dominant win on last week's Ruckus played on a picture in picture.

Rose & Fowler stood confidently in the middle of the ring and delivered thousand yard death glares to the hard camera, even as “Elevators (Me & You)” hit the PA and the crowd roared as stalwarts the College Park Family came out - the International Players and the legendary Jupiter Jones supporting their teammates Science Fiction Double Feature. A picture in picture promo from Cindy Monet and Jane Doe ran and they (well, Cindy) talked about how tonight was a must win they needed to get themselves back in the World Tag Team championships chase.  

6. Summer Rose and “Sinister” Sarah Fowler d. Science Fiction Double Feature (w/Collipark) at 11:01 But SciFi’s title hopes took a hit as the Rose/Fowler duo notched the biggest win of their careers as a duo with this main event. Rose’s twisted tutelage of Fowler showed early on as her protegê was able to hold her own against the former World Tag Team champions in the feeling out portion of the bout. It was Summer who found herself behind the eight ball when SciFi started stringing together offense; a double hiptoss fed a double basement dropkick that set up back to back Penalty Kicks from the ladies of Collipark as the crowd cheered them on.

However, SFDF’s offensive run hit a wall moments later when Fowler hit the ring to break up a double suplex attempt, pulling Summer out of the setup. Sarah and Summer shoved SciFi into each other to cause a noggin knocker, then they both hit Cindy and Jane with electric chair facebusters. The referee coaxed Sarah into returning to the apron but with the opening created Summer was able to tag in Sarah, who immediately tossed Monet from the ring before laying Jane out with a straightjacket neckbreaker that got a two count.

While Jane mustered a kick out there, Sinister/Summer immediately went to work wearing her down and making her life hell. In fact, thanks to a couple of double teams and more than a couple of cheap shots Cindy never legally got back into the match as the black hats were at their piranha like best while halving the ring and making increasingly quick tags. The exhortations of Jupiter Jones and the crowd alike fell on deaf ears as a massive offensive display by former singles champion Summer on Jane in the closing two minutes shut the door on any chance of an offensive comeback - an avalanche poison rana set up the Lost In the Woods combo finisher with Summer pinning Jane while Sarah threw herself at Cincy to intercept her and make sure she couldn't break up the three count.

Rose and Fowler got their hands raised but just stared daggers at the hard camera…at least until “Hit A Moonshot” hit the PA, causing Summer and Sarah to roll their eyes almost in unison as Mean Season and the QCW World champion Autumn Powers parted the Qualitron and came out onto the ramp to the joy of the crowd. Winter Wonderland was the first to speak, congratulating them on an impressive victory. Gaia Green was next and with way more acidity in her voice, said that Summer and Sarah have been proving themselves to be a winning combination, and despite her misgivings – well, she’d let The Champ say her piece.

The crowd popped as Autumn brought the mic up to her lips and said that tonight's main event confirmed something she and Gaia had been thinking about since Summer spoke about it last week and she was right: Mean Season wasn't Mean Season without Summer Rose. If her protegê Sarah Fowler didn't mind curbing the worst of her excesses, then there was room for her as well. Imagine how they could dominate QCW for months and years to come, a newer, bigger, better Mean Season with the five of them standing tall.  

But Autumn wasn't blind to how the past few months had gone since they’d both unmasked. So Summer and Sarah had a week to think about it - and next week they’d be face to face and set the direction of Mean Season’s future. And who knows? Maybe the band would end up getting back together after all. Autumn dropped the mic and “Hit A Moonshot” filtered back over the PA, leaving Summer and Sarah to look at each other, Jupiter Jones with pursed lips on the floor, and Autumn gesturing between herself, Gaia and Winter and back to Rose and Fowler in the ring. On the heels of that bombshell, Ruckus went off the air with the announcers buzzing about the fact that we might be seven days away from the reformation of the vaunted Mean Season.

QCW Unleashed [s4e3 • Quality Arena]

• Lolo Vuitton (w/Beast Mode) d. Gaia Green (w/Winter Wonderland)
• Serge Batroc (w/”the Proper Villain” Richard Windsor) d. Anton Stahl (w/the Wonderful Ward Brothers)
• Science Fiction Double Feature (w/Collipark) d. The Sound of Thunder
• Ashok Banerjee and Jacques Krieger d. A Cut Above (w/S. Mark Starr & Prince Ootsuka)

QCW Ruckus [s5e36 • July 24th, 2026]

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📍 Quality Arena 💫 Parts Unknown, FL

• The show kicked off with a Cruel Summer highlights video package.  Stills of the International Players and “Explosive” Emily Bennett celebrating their wins on the preshow gave way to lengthier video clips of action from the main card –

• 🥵 The Undaunted fending off interference from “the Purifier” Caleb Gray to defeat his protegés the End Times 🥵

• 🥵🥵 Next was the four corners elimination match to fill the vacant National championship – the Orlando crowd being stunned by Omar Littlefield getting eliminated first by the rest of the field followed by his immediate revenge in laying all of them out with Face Erasers - Nancy Crowley using the threat of a Hysteria distraction to pin Keo Tevi and eliminate them - Tre Boyd looking like he was about to score his first piece of QCW gold only for Justine Danek and Bella Jolie to successfully interfere, causing his Say Hallelujah to crash and burn to set up Crowley pinning him too to win the belt, Bonnie Agrippa looking a little sheepish post match since her attempt at interference failed while Justine and Bella celebrated with Nancy 🥵🥵

• 🥵🥵🥵 Next was the match for the World Tag Team championships rematch with Science Fiction Double Feature trying to regain the belts from the Republic’s Caviar + Malice - the ladies of Collipark providing a sturdy challenge but the power of the Republic able to overcome their speed, Jane Doe eating a double chokeslam and the pinfall as the black hats retained 🥵🥵🥵

• 🥵🥵🥵🥵 Summer Rose and Diana Spare having a hard hitting brawl, as violent as a straight up one on one match could be without gimmicks or weapons, a back and forth affair that saw Summer land the last shots when she countered Nightfall with a massive avalanche Dark Days then hit the Crown of Thorns to pull out the win, Rose offering up a sick smile as she wiped blood from the corner of her mouth and got her hand raised by the referee 🥵🥵🥵🥵

• 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵 The all star triple threat semi mained the PPV with turncoat Vengeance Davis now representing the Republic against Nazir el-Fadal and “Mason” Razorblade Savage, enmity cutting in every direction - Davis and Savage briefly teaming up like the old days to take Naz out of the picture with a Doomsday Device before going back to trying to destroy each other - Davis and Naz hitting a combination cobra clutch suplex and lariat on Razorblade, only for Naz to pull Davis off the cover into Nazquil and then have Razorblade break up that pin attempt - Naz and Razorblade both dodging Busiaku knees from Davis and then hitting him with a 3D - el-Fadal sending Razorblade into the ringpost before hitting him with an avalanche Hamrin Valley Driver into Vengeance to take him out and then pin Razorblade to get the win, a smirking Naz strutting to the back saying to the camera that after he got his hand raised at Anniversary, they’d have to put the World title back in the other one where it never should've left because he's the Greatest Man Alive 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵

• 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵 The main event for the Fifteen Pounds of Gold, Autumn Powers defending the World championship against the legendary Jupiter Jones - both shaking hands as the bell rang, the crowd loud and split in their chants - as things get chippier between respectful rivals Autumn and Jupiter in the ring, so do things on the outside between Collipark and Mean Season - Jones surprising the crowd with a no hands plancha to Powers on the floor - as Jones started to gain the upper hand, “Sinister” Sarah Fowler and Summer Rose came out, engaging in barbs with both Collipark and Season - Autumn ducking the Bolt From Olympus and the ref getting dropped - Autumn hitting the Hazy Shade with the ref down and unable to make the count, things got more contentious at ringside.. and then Naz began creeping towards the ring -  Rose & Fowler going after Science Fiction Double Feature and sending them into the stairs before Mean Season arrived on the scene to break it up and start fighting with Rose and Fowler themselves - Naz edging closer to the ring with his head cocked - Jupiter showing concern for SFDF on the outside and telling the International Players to help them out before a recovering Autumn hit him with a Hazy Shade that knocked him ass over teakettle - Powers looking at the chaos in the floor before seeing Jones start stirring - Powers putting a Hazy Shade in the back of Jupiter's head, making the cover - the ref crawling into position and making a slow but solid three count 

• Rose and Fowler taking off through the crowd after the three count - Collipark and Mean Season exchanging tense handshakes - Naz shrugging before turning around and heading to the back - and Jones, as usual, the classy vet, raising Autumn's hand and fastening the World title around her waist before leaving the ring, leaving Mean Season to celebrate in the ring with The Champ - the final images of the package show Autumn on the turnbuckles with the Fifteen Pounds of Gold, hands triumphantly overhead as she continues her reign 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵

• We're back in Quality Arena where nearly a thousand loud and proud Quality Controllers have packed the place on another Friday night for tonight's episode of Ruckus.  As usual, Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen were on the call and hyped up that we’d hear from the Undaunted as well as have “the Purifier” Caleb Gray vs. the legendary Jupiter Jones in the main event before they threw things up to Duck Eko in the ring; the Voice of QCW then proceeded to do the ring introductions for tonight's opening contest…

• 1. Vengeance Davis (w/Ig de Catur, the Republic & Republic Enforcement) d. Kam Ellis (w/the Cooper Brothers) at 6:15 Davis didn't lose in the big triple threat match at Cruel Summer but clearly had a chip on his shoulders for this opener.  The heavy hitter of Sky’s the Limit got in some early shots but in short order Davis cleared him from the ring and took him down with a cannonball off the apron.  Davis dominated the match and hit Retribution four times down the stretch before shocking the crowd by being able to get the California King up on his shoulders to set up planting Ellis with the Silencer.  Once it hit, the three count was a mere formality.

• Davis was busy getting his hand raised by the referee when Omar Littlefield hit the ring and laid out Ellis with a Face Eraser.  The Cooper Brothers hit the ring in order to make the save, but that caused the rest of the Republic to hit the ring and stomp Sky’s the Limit out.  The referee tried to intervene only for Pyotr Caviar to take his head off with a Russian sickle.  The crowd booed but Littlefield continued laying waste to the Coopers and Ellis, hitting all of them with more Face Erasers.  Commissioner Holmes came out from the back, really verbally tearing Ig de Catur a new one and Ig firing back some verbal javelins of his own.  It looked like the Republic was going to surround Holmes and maybe get physical with him as well, but Holmes headed to the back as Quality Force Security came out.  The Republic ignored them entirely, with Ig leading the charge and saying that he wasn't done talking to that corrupt Commissioner (causing long time viewers’ irony meters to explode all around the world).  The Republic stomped backstage with QFS  right on their heels, leaving poor Kam and the Coopers trying to pull themselves off the mat after getting swarmed by the World Tag Team champions, Davis and Littlefield.

• After a few weeks of teasers, Claudia Watson (aka “the Girl Next Door”) will make her QCW debut on next week's show.   Done being underutilized on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, CW has made the jump to QCW and looks to take over Friday nights.  Back to the ring, and if Claudia looks to succeed in her new spot she’ll do well to steer clear of the women heading to the ring…

• 2. Summer Rose & “Sinister” Sarah Fowler d. Christine Kent and Hilary Highnote at 5:48 A squash that got sadistic towards the end as Rose and Fowler ground the lawful good Christine and Hilary under their heels metaphorically and literally.  Poor Kent ate the fall from Fowler after eating a nasty top rope double stomp into Dark Days. 

• After the match, Fowler got the mic from Duck Eko before handing it to Summer.  Rose hissed that she’d taken down one Summer Rose knockoff at Cruel Summer (Diana Spare) but that meant there was one more to go - her old…friend…Autumn Powers and her little…sidekicks.  They could play pretend all they wanted, but a real Mean Season had Summer Rose in it front and center, not two parasites desperate to stay relevant.  Autumn needed to drop the dead weight and bring on the real personification of Mean Season in her and Sarah - because at this point, that might just be the only thing that kept her from burning this place to the ground.  Summer tossed the mic over her shoulder and stared dead eyed at the camera while a cackling Fowler patted her on the back and massaged her shoulders.  Garbage’s “Vow” took over the PA as they headed to the back and Ruckus headed towards tonight's first commercial break. 

• 3. Bonnie Agrippa (w/Hysteria) d. “Explosive” Emily Bennett (w/”Cambodian Cool” Keo Tevi) at 7:09 This was a rematch from Cruel Summer’s preshow, where Bennett pulled off the upset win by cradling Agrippa as she was trying to complete her Eclipsing the Light finisher.  Here, Emily came out the gates hot; she beat the High Priestess of Hysteria in the feeling out stages and put a second rope missile dropkick right in Bonnie's chin and chest that drove Bonnie from the ring.   However, the match shifted dramatically when Emily followed up with a tope suicida that Bonnie sidestepped, leaving the Minnesotan to go flying headfirst into the retaining barrier.

• Agrippa decided to add injury to injury with a falling reverse DDT on the floor before tossing Emily in the ring and working her over.  The targeted attack on the back of Emily's head and neck continued to pay dividends as Agrippa laid Emily out with a tornado neckbreaker for a solid nearfall.  Bennett tried to come out from under Agrippa’s arsenal only to eat clubbing blows to the back of her neck that sent her to the canvas just to get buried underneath a slew of flash elbows.  Agrippa taunted the crowd about dominating Emily while Keo Tevi pounded the mat on the outside and tried to rally Emily.  That just caused the always sadistic Agrippa to lay in harder stomps to Ms. Explosive while taunting Keo and saying she couldn't stop her from breaking her social justice Barbie buddy.   After doing further damage with a Code Black that got a loud, cackling screech of approval from Nancy Crowley, Agrippa announced she was done playing with her food and pulled Emily off the mat by her hair - only to get surprised by a sudden Bennett brainbuster that left both women down on the canvas.

• They were both down for most of the ten count, with Bonnie up at 8 and Emily staggering up a second later.   Agrippa rushed Bennett, who caught her off guard with a jawbreaker, then stunned the High Priestess of Hysteria with a superkick before pulling her in and flattening Agrippa out with a cradle piledriver.  Emily let out a war cry before bundling Bonnie up and going for her Time’s Up finisher, but before her slingshot elevated powerbomb could connect, Agrippa undercut her and swept Emily's feet out from under her to stack her on the mat.  Crafty veteran Agrippa saw the referee go down for the count and quickly got her feet on the middle ropes, Crowley held them down by wrapping the National championship around them, and the zebra missed the cheating but not the three count.

• Bennett complained about the cheating while Agrippa was getting her hand raised, and Keo hit the ring to support her best friend and say that she’d seen it from the floor.  The referee seemed to be listening and reconsidering right before the rest of Hysteria hit the ring to jump Emily & Teo from behind.  Emily & Teo damn sure weren't going to win from the short side of a four on two fight, and the fight ended when Nancy buried the title in first Emily then Teo’s heads.  With the crowd booing and their opposition strewn around them, Hysteria demanded the mic and got it.

• Bonnie said that she just proved that Cruel Summer was a fluke and that the new Emily Bennett would be in the exact same place the old one was: looking up at Hysteria.  But this night wasn't about her victory - it was about the National championship coming home to where it never should've left -  it was about her right hand woman, the deliciously feral Nancy Crowley!  The crowd booed as Crowley took the mic from Bonnie with one hand and held up the National championship with her other.  Crowley had an evil grin on her face as she brought the mic up and seemed to be ready to launch into a soliloquy – but instead dove onto the mat and drove the mic repeatedly into Keo’s head before jumping from body to body and doing the same to Emily.  Agrippa and Crowley told Justine Danek and Bella Jolie to get them some chairs; once their subordinates did, they wrapped Bennett and Tevi’s heads with the chairs.   Before any Pillmanizing could happen, Quality Force Security came streaming from the back and made a beeline for the ring.

• Bonnie just shrugged, smirked and snapped her fingers.   Lights out in Quality Arena…and when they came back on Hysteria had once again pulled their disappearing in the darkness trick.  QFS worked to get the chairs off the heads of Emily and Keo while the medical staff hit the ring to check on them.  Steve apologized for Hysteria's dark celebration and said they would restore order during the commercial break.

• We came back to find out that During the Break, Commissioner Holmes (backed up by QFS and some babyface members of the roster) had ejected the Republic from the building after what they did to Sky’s the Limit and the referee in the opener.  Ig railed against this, calling it overreach during the same week Holmes had the nerve to put Davis in a glorified handicap match against two Grand Slammers who couldn't even beat him.  De Catur threatened to sue on behalf of his clientele and get QCW shut down if necessary, but that just triggered a red faced and multiple obscenity laden response from Holmes - causing Ig to quickly hustle his people into their fleet of Town Cars and leave the arena, but not before he swore to Holmes that this wasn't over and that he’d get justice for Vengeance.  As the cars left the parking garage, Holmes turned to a pair of QFSers and told them to lock the gates before telling the rest of them that if they found Hysteria still lurking around, kick their asses out, too   A fuming Holmes went back towards his office as we went back to the ring for some trios action…

• 4. Forbidden Book Club d. The Sound of Thunder & Veronica Vespa at 7:27 After Diana Spare narrowly lost to Summer Rose on Sunday night, FBC were looking for and got a bounce back win here to kick off action in the back half of the show.  Diana may have been laying in the shots a little harder than usual but this trios match was here to show the Club’s cohesiveness and how well they function together as a unit.  Vespa took the fall after some Finisher Bingo, Luz Cruz’s ¡MUERTE! setting up Diana’s Nightfall that paved the way for Shelley LaVey’s Fallen Angel splash that got the win.  

• As they got their hands raised by the ref and soaked in the cheers from the Quality Controllers, Carl hyped up that Shelley would be getting a shot next week at Nancy Crowley and the National championship thanks to her three way dance win last week.  Given that their long standing friendship turned into this rivalry, you know Shelley is going to bring the house against Hysteria's absolutely Feral titleholder.

• From there, we went TOTHEBACK ~!, where Naomi Lee was standing by to interview her guests: the Undaunted.  Tim “the Only Hope” McMurray and “Unforgettable” Dave Mullin came on the set to a good pop.  Nao said they might be the fastest rising team in QCW, so what was next up for them?  Tim said that they'd beaten Manifest Destiny at their own game and ended the End Times ‘ winning streak at Cruel Summer, Dave said their Undaunted mentality came to the front after they lost to Hysteria a couple of Anniversaries ago and while they weren't champs anymore, he & his mate still wanted the belts and if they could pull it off at this year's Anniversary in a couple months’ time, all the better.  Tim added that he knew the good people of Parts Unknown were as sick of the Republic acting like the tag titles were their property, and they were going to go forward taking straight aim at Ig’s goon squad.  Dave said that they would remain Undaunted but what was next for them was capturing the QCW tag team championships just like they’d held the Catch Hell straps in the recent past.  They were the only hope, they were unforgettable, and they were declaring it was Republic hunting season.  They thanked Lee for the interview and confidently strode off set while Nao teed up our final commercial break on the night.

• 5. Tre Boyd d. “The Forsaken” Drake Tremble at 6:04 We came back from the break to a semi main showcase, as Boyd came into this one pissed off over being screwed out of the National championship by Hysteria on Sunday night and took it out on the hapless Tremble.  Boyd fought without his usual sense of art before grappling and bloodied Tremble’s nose before hitting a stiff legged missile dropkick that set up Say Hallelujah for a decisive victory.  A clearly seething Boyd didn't even stick around to get his hand raised by the ref and stormed off to the back, ignoring the cheers of the crowd.

• Ahead of the main event, Steve conducted the hype train for 💫 next week's Ruckus 💫: we’ll hear from Nazir el-Fadal | Summer Rose and Sinister Sarah Fowler will go up against Science Fiction Double Feature | and Nancy Crowley will defend the National championship for the first time against her former friend and current Forbidden Book Club member Shelley LaVey

• Our main event kicked off with “Shall We Gather At the River?” playing to bring out the Chosen.  The bath of white light faded in Quality Arena as the End Times and Goody Gardner cleared the path for their leader “the Purifier” Caleb Gray to head to the ring.  The white and gold clad believers got in the ring and formed a cross formation around Gray, who looked less like the beacon of Christianity he molds himself as and more an angry man itching for a fight he couldn't wait to start brawling in.

• “B.O.B.” from Outkast replaced the hymn and got the Quality Controllers roaring as the College Park Family came out to support their leader, the legendary Jupiter Jones.  His protegés the International Players and Science Fiction Double Feature surrounded Jones, who was the picture of calm as he slapped fans’ hands on his way to the ring.  

• Steve put over the fact that Jones had just main evented on Sunday night going after the World championship and had it not been for all the increasing chaos on the outside as the match continued he could've regained the World title he’d held most of the year.  Carl pointed out that it would be a similar environment tonight - a borderline lumberjack match given that the rest of the Chosen and the Family would be on the outside rooting for their leaders; counting the referee, this match would have ten people involved in it and both Gray and Jones would have to rely on their experience to steward them through it if things broke down like they did on Sunday.   The bell rang and we were underway…

• 6. Jupiter Jones (w/Collipark) d. “The Purifier” Caleb Gray (w/the Chosen) at 9:34 Gray and Jones fought to a stalemate early, but a rope running sequence saw Jones finally get a firm upper hand by flooring Caleb with a massive flying shoulderblock.  Jones then went on offense and kept himself in the driver's seat by battering Caleb repeatedly with his meaty forearms until a running clothesline sent the former National champion flying out of the ring.  Jones left the ring to follow up on his offense only for a desperate Gray to take his eyes.  The Purifier tried to send the legendary Jones into the ring post but Jupiter managed to put on the brakes; when Gray came charging after him the two time former World champion gave him an overhead belly to belly suplex that nearly sent the leader of the Chosen into the dividing barrier.

• Jupiter had grabbed Caleb by the hair and was coming up the stairs to get them both back in the ring when Gray suddenly undercut Jones and sent him crashing hard into the steel steps.  Caleb leaned on the apron for support while Jupiter tried to pick himself off the floor, but once he began stirring Gray surged to shut him down before he could get started and moved into position.   A nasty release German suplex sent the legendary Jones flying into the side of the ring, drawing cheers from his holy trinity of acolytes and boos from pretty much everyone else in Quality Arena.  As the Purifier rolled into the ring and demanded the referee count Jones out, replays confirmed that must have sucked real bad for the leader of Collipark.

• Jones managed to crawl back in the ring at 8 but all that got him was an un-Christian like stomping from the former Duquesne Classic winner, who went after the back of Jupiter's head with his boots and eventually his fists.  Carl pointed out from behind the desk that this run of offense highlighted why Caleb had held the National championship for so long and why he was so dangerous - his willingness to leave the Gospels behind and get aggressive as needed.  Shortly after that Jones looked like he was putting together a rally to get out from under, but Gray nimbly dodged a pair of lariats  and dropped the stalwart Jones with Reap the Whirlwind; the cyclone kick got him a nearfall as well as a couple of replays afterwards for those of us at home.

• Gray continued teeing off on Jones and continued showing off his surprising strength by chaining together a pair of German suplexes.  But when he went for the trifecta, Jupiter countered with a standing switch and a release German suplex that was so massive Gray landed on his chest and stomach - exactly the break in his flow Jones needed to buy himself some recovery time.

• As it turned out, that was the necessary spark for a Jupiter sized comeback: when both men got to their feet and Gray charged him, Jones countered with an overhead belly to belly suplex that sent Caleb flying upside down into the nearest corner and crumpling into the canvas.  Down the stretch, Jupiter’s power came to bear down on Caleb again and again as the familiar “Ju-pit-er!” chants got louder and louder inside of QA.  A desperate Gray tried to stem the tide with a kitchen sink knee but the wily Jones rolled through and hooked Gray into setup position for a double underhook powerbomb that rocked the ring.  Jones fired up the faithful and the Chosen looked on helplessly as Jones floored Gray with a Bolt From Olympus that ended any chance Caleb had of pulling off the upset, JJ hooking a leg and securing the three count.

• Jupiter got his hand raised by the referee as we got replays and the Chosen helped their aching leader to the back.  When we came back to  live action, Collipark was holding down the ring in celebration - and Jupiter was on a set of turnbuckles applauding the crowd before making A Very Familiar Gesture around his waist.  Steve encouraged us not to count Jupiter out of the World title picture just yet after a showing like that.  After some hype for next week's Crowley vs. LaVey National championship match, Ruckus went da

QCW Unleashed [s4e2 • Quality Arena]

• INTLTS 2.0 d. Christine Kent and Hilary Highnote
• Tre Boyd d. Blockhead Ferguson (w/Cliff Foster)
• Sky’s the Limit d. Hawk Carter & A World of Pain
• “Sinister” Sarah Fowler (w/Summer Rose) d. Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo (w/”Tiki God” Al Buffett)

Cruel Summer PPV (Rock Athletic Center • Orlando)

   Preshow

1. the International Players (w/Collipark) d. Manifest Destiny [w/INTLTS 2.0] (Patton Playa Hata -> pinfall Windsor)

2. "Explosive" Emily Bennett d. IBonnie Agrippa [w/Hysteria] (inside cradle -> pinfall)

MAIN CARD

the Undaunted d. the End Times [w/the Chosen](McMurray Shamrock Air -> pinfall Castle)

four corner elimination QCW NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP Nancy Crowley (w/Hysteria) d. Tre Boyd, Omar Littlefield (w/Ig de Catur, the Republic & Republic Enforcement) & "Cambodian Cool" Keo Tevi (w/"Explosive" Emily Bennett) [order of eliminations: 

1st fall: Littlefield by the field

2nd fall: Tevi by Crowley

3rd fall: Boyd by Crowley] 

#AndNEWWWWWW

QCW WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS Caviar + Malice [c, w/Ig de Catur, Vengeance Davis & Republic Enforcement] d. Science Fiction Double Feature [w/Collipark] (Caviar double chokeslam -> pinfall Doe) 

Summer Rose (w/"Sinister" Sarah Fowler) d. "Night Sky" Diana Spare [w/Forbidden Book Club] (Crown of Thorns -> pinfall)

triple threat Nazir el-Fadal d. Vengeance Davis (w/Ig de Catur, the Republic & Republic Enforcement) & Mason "Razorblade" Savage (avalanche Hamrin Valley Driver -> pinfall Savage)

QCW WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Autumn Powers (w/Mean Season) d. Jupiter Jones [w/Collipark] (enzui Hazy Shade of Autumn -> pinfall)

QCW Unleashed [s3e47 • Quality Arena]

• INTLTS 2 0 d. Hilary Highnote and Christine Kent
• Gaia Green (w/Winter Wonderland) d. Bettie Rokker (w/”Shieldmaiden” Val Curry)
• Serge Batroc (w/”the Proper Villain” Richard Windsor) d. Il Postino
• The International Players (w/Collipark) ddq. The End Times (w/the Chosen)