We had our usual show open and then it was over to the usual suspects at the desk, who were more than happy to inform us of more history that QCW would be making in 2022 (now just hours away): a tournament instituting Women’s Tag titles, with the first round beginning on the first Ruckus after Cold As Hell. Your participants?
@smashleysmithofficial & Justine
Angel Sisters (the creepy doll twin Crush alums)
Forbidden Book Club representatives Bonnie Agrippa & Diana Spare, Equinox & the High Priestess
Hell On Wheels (more Crush alums, the hot tub tag machine - Jammerhead Shark & Block Solid)
Mean Season (Spring Green teaming with Winter Wonderland)
Science Fiction Double Feature (“the Electric Android” Cindy Monet teaming with Crush alum “Regular Human Being” Jane Doe based off their being simpatico at the Ascent battle royale a few weeks back)
The Sound of Thunder (Crush alum “Shieldmaiden” Val Curry & Bettie Rokker, another team blending QCW & Crush)
The Storybookers (Bella D’Ball & Wendy Neverland)
The brackets will be put up on QCWWrestling.com in the days to come as well as put up on Ruckus, and the finals of the tournament will be held at the March PPV - Golden Rule. But enough talk - NYE or not, this is still a Friday night, and here on Ruckus, we fight–
| • Mirror Mirror d. “Tiki God” Al Buffett • | Considering their behavior in recent weeks, it was weird to see Mirror…for lack of a better term, a little weirded out by Al’s general conviviality. They had control early on but lost it within a minute, and then Mirror & Al had pretty much a coin flip of a match that ended with Mirror countering the Lava Rock into a snap Code Red, legs over the shoulders for the pin with Al kicking out of it a fraction too late. **
Al hung his head a little after the match, then shook his head & nodded to accept the results. Mirror got the mic (Scott Holmes was probably backstage with the censors on standby) and said this: "I'm at a loss. Someone as reedy and small as yourself who can wear shirts that ugly and go toe-to-toe with Toddzilla clearly has all the confidence in the world... would you like to have a drink with me?" Al took the mic, smiled, and said “You had me at drink.” They shook hands and walked up the ramp together. Since this is professional wrestling this undoubtedly will never end in heartbreak. Maybe they’ll be the first really tight friends who don’t let the BS get to them. A recapper can hope…
Anyhow, from there TOTHEBACK~! where Winter Wonderland was about to get interviewed by Enya Face, when the Storybookers (Wendy & the Red Queen) walked up to her. Clearly remembering past history, Enya slowly backed out of the frame before you could hear her heels running down the hallway. Winter squared up ready to fight, while the Queen admitted that the Storybookers had had a very long year. Winter’s “No shit?” got bleeped a couple seconds late and a pop from the crowd. The Queen did mention that they cut the dead weight of Mirror, and lo, how their fortunes have improved: they’ve added Bella d’Ball - they could become the inaugural Women’s Tag Champs - and on top of all that, they just came from Holmes’ office and are back on PPV at Cold As Hell.
Versus the Forbidden Book Club.
In matriarch fornicating W A R G A M E S, daddeh.
Winter sarcastically asked why she was telling her about her plans to lose a handicap match. The Queen swallowed a bit, nodded, then shook her head and said the past is the past. New Year, New and Improved Storybookers. The FBC is trying to take over the women’s division, the men’s tag division with Gothic Horror, and of course they’ll go after the women’s tag belts themselves; does Winter think they’re magically going to overlook her if she’s in their way? She doesn’t need to leave Mean Season if she’s happy there, doesn’t even need to like her former teammates – but for one night, the biggest night QCW history so far, in probably the most sadistic match in QCW’s 21st century, when the Queen thought of whom to go into battle, Winter wasn’t the top of the list; she was the list. Would she join them inside the steel and beat these Craft ripoffs back into the bargain bin where they belonged? The Red Queen extended her hand - Winter smirked - then turned on her (metaphorical) heels and walked off. Wendy looked like she wanted to go after her but the Queen held her up and said “That’s not going to help anything. Let her choose.”
As the now two-man International Workrate Commission came out to the ring, Let Us Take You Back To Last Week where Serge Batroc started his weekly gauntlet against the IWC, trying to take them over by beating every one of them. He went over Martin Williams, who then was shockingly (?) turned on by both Stahl & Windsor. Serge didn’t help them, but he didn’t save Martin, either.
| • Serge Batroc d. “King Carny” Richard Windsor (w/Anton “Teknik” Stahl) • | He did beat Richard clean in the middle in a nice match, though. Windsor went after the leg early, and while Serge looked over his shoulder for Anton - they exchanged passive aggressive compliments last week before Teknik went out and advanced in the TV title tournament - Stahl, either because he’s in the main event tonight or because of his code, didn’t get involved at any point during the proceedings. With increasing “Serge!” chants fueling him on, Batroc fought through the pain, threw Windsor around the late portion of the match with nice suplexes, then did a one-legged Arc de Triomphe to secure the pin with the injured leg figure fouring his good one during the pinfall. Worth going out of your way to see, especially if you like no frills no bullshit pro graps. ***
Stahl slid in the ring, and got in Windsor’s face – then shook his head, and clapped Windsor on the back. He offered a hand to Serge, who laughed in his face and rolled out of the ring, before offering up a smile too wide to be friendly and yelling out “Two down, mon ami!” Windsor was obviously apprehensive about heading to the back with Stahl, but it wasn’t him he would have to worry about – Williams came flying in out of the crowd and went after the Commission, but 2>1 and Martin eventually got a two-man wheelbarrow DDT into the ramp that stopped his onslaught.
| • “The Island Flower” Luz Cruz & Summer Rose NC the Forbidden Book Club • | It never happened because as the FBC were coming out, Winter Wonderland ran out with a chair and started laying them all out. Cruz & Rose were very much like “Not my circus, not my monkeys” and headed to the back. The Club started ganging up on Wonderland, drawing the Storybookers with their own chairs, and people with steel chairs will always beat people without them regardless of gender. Not only did the Forbidden Book Club end up laid out, but Bonnie “Equinox” Agrippa got her haircut into a mullet not even a Von Dutch enthusiast could love. The Storybookers rejoiced, Winter nodded and smirked before heading to the back, and suddenly you get the feeling WARGAMES might just steal the show in the 6.
| • Toddzilla d. Caballero Blanco • | As happened previously to another Caballero, QCW’s resident land monster ate him. SQUASH After making the referee count to 5, Toddzilla piled on after the bell, but Caballero Verde (entirely possible they’re related) came out for the save and the luchadores knocked Toddzilla out of the ring even though they never knocked him off of his feet. After that, Verde got on the mic and challenged Todd to a handicap match on next week’s Ruckus, which he accepted eagerly. It’s a big go-home show with that underneath the TV Title tourney semis.
After commercials?
The Immortals.
Teased for the past couple of weeks, this was the first time for QCW fans to see them in the flesh - the hot new signing of the tag team division, two bad-ass mofos who strike fear into the hearts of all their future victims – except, apparently, Gothic Horror, who came out in a bad mood and already dismissive of the newcomers, cutting them off before they could utter a syllable. Fear? Pain? How could two men who just got here put those silly notions into the heart of former and future QCW tag team champions, especially two men who were just playacting at what they already were? The Revenant said that the Immortals had died and been reborn multiple times over, and if inferior copies of them were willing to be their first victims, then they were grateful for their sacrifice. Gothic Horror sure AF didn’t like that, and headed down to the ring – only to be cut off by a bunch of NPCs, security, suits, et al. Golly jee willikers, if only we had an upcoming PPV they could settle this beef at…
| • “Party Animal d. “These Hands” Roy Fade, Mason “Razorblade” Savage, and Anton “Teknik” Stahl in a fatal four-way match • | These four men are going to be in semifinal matches in the TV title tournament next week: Stahl/Savage and Fade/Animal. But with those matches next week, Scott Holmes made this the last QCW match of 2021. Usual rules in effect, but still highly chaotic with all the moving parts involved, much to the constant roars of the crowd. Fade and Stahl briefly teamed up, only to turn on each other. (Phrasing!) One Tower of Doom spot saw Savage come off the top with a Blockbuster to lay out Animal, who was on Fade’s shoulders, but Stahl broke up a possible winning pinfall. Stahl got the Matter of Time on Savage, with Fade making an unlikely save. Fade hit Animal with the Decision, only for Stahl to toss Fade and go for the win himself; Party kicked out at the death. The end came off a different high wire act: Savage hit the Soul Crusher on Fade, only for Party to knee him in the back to send him out of the ring and score the pinfall on the obviously out of it Fade. ** ½.
"The Claw is Law" chants rang out as Animal celebrated in the crowd Fade seethed, and Savage started to get helped to the back by his friend (?) the QCW World Champion Mayhem – only for Savage to get fireballed in the face by somebody in the crowd on the aisleway, who would then jump the rail and throw Mayhem into the steps.
Survey SEZ?!
Nazir.
El.
Fadal.
While EMTs checked up on Savage, Nazir threw Mayhem into the steps a couple of more times before throwing the steps in the ring, then Mayhem, then himself. Already helpless, Mayhem was easy prey for a WMDDT into the top of the stairs; the show (and year) ended with Nazir bellowing “I WANT MY REMATCH, YOU CHARLATAN! I WANT MY REMATCH!” on the top step yelling down at the unconscious Mayhem on the mat.
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