QCW Ruckus [s1e20 • February 25th, 2022]

Last Week On Ruckus: The College Park Family beat Más Histeria in an instant classic to retain the World Tag Team titles • Nazir el-Fadal again successfully defended the World TV title and suggested that Razorblade was getting screwed over by the same conspiracy he was… • …even if that was hot air, Mayhem teamed with Razorblade against the Immortals in the main event, got pinned by Einherjar, then left Razorblade high and dry after Savage tried to make a save for him…

Not the usual opening - we, the viewer, were looking up at Mason “Razorblade” Savage in a vintage grey jacket/maroon vest combo, who pointed his index finger at the camera and intoned the following, occasionally interrupted by shots of him walking various San Franciscan rooftops:

I know what you’re thinking.

Was it a three count or only two?

To tell you the truth?  I lost count myself in all the excitement.  But being that this is the Soul Crusher, the most powerful finisher in QCW and will knock your head clean off, you gotta ask yourself one question: do I feel lucky?

Well?!

Do you – Mayhem?

QCW GOLDEN RULE

March 12th

Cow Palace

San Francisco

ALL the gold up for grabs.

Who’s gonna rule?

Now that we’re done screening Dirty Razorblade, roll the open, set off 20 seconds worth of pyro (!) and let Steve and S. welcome you to another edition of Ruckus - two more title matches tonight and a couple of grudges that might get settled tonight in other matches.  A video package segued out of that, focusing on everyone competing for TV title shots, most specifically Mirror Mirror, “These Hands” Roy Fade, and the men competing in the opener who first butted heads when Jaspers accidentally cost Party Animal their title shot last month going after Naz himself.

| • Party Animal dco. “The Fury” Jim Jaspers • | Animal is slowly reasserting themselves as title shot worthy again, having bested Mirror last week with a pin - but two weeks ago took a trip down to Fury Road.  Jaspers still hasn’t gotten a shot at Naz yet, but has been pretty dominant since coming back from maternity leave a few weeks ago.  Crowd didn’t know who to root for and seemed to slide their favor based on whomever was getting their ass kicked at x point in the match.  It went 50/50 and into two segments, ending when Party’s spear between the ropes took him and Jaspers to the floor; Party rolled in and while the ref checked on him, These Hands ran down and shoved Jaspers into the ringpost, then hid out of sight while The Fury got counted out.  **  After that, Fade got into the ring and beat down the tired Party Animal, lining him up for then hitting the Decision.  Crowd booed as Fade cackled, brushing some dirt off his shoulders before he left the ring.

After commercials, fire up nin’s “Wish” and the crowd was Not Pleased.  The World Champion came out and looked hurt by the reaction he got, taking the microphone from Duck but opting to cut his promo on the ramp rather than in the ring.  He’s heard the boos and seen everything everyone has been saying on social media about him “ditching” Razorblade last week (he, of course, got cut off by a big round of boos after saying this) but he didn’t become champion by playing nice.  Everyone’s too busy joining Team Razorblade to note that he cost them the match against the Immortals, but as a champion Mayhem’s here to tell him that if he can keep his violent tendencies under control, who knows?  He might learn to wield it to his advantage.  Crowd booed lustily as Mayhem set down the mic, then roared when “Unscripted Violence” hit the PA to bring out the aforementioned Razorblade.  

He opted to stay at the apex of the ramp, chuckling wryly before calling horseshit (getting bleeped as a result and another big pop from the crowd).  Maybe the problem with his tendencies is that they haven’t been violent enough…or violent against the right people.  Pointing at Mayhem while he said that got his point across, as did him saying that both Mayhem and Mirror Mirror have cost him the Television title and he was tired of it.  So maybe there was a different championship he should be going after.  Crowd roared again as Mayhem got offended, wondering how he could do this to his best friend?  Razorblade noted he was wondering the same thing while he was laid up in the hospital watching Naz preen around with what should be his belt.  So maybe they’re not best friends anymore; maybe they’re just the two best guys in QCW and should be fighting for the World Title since they are.  Because while Mayhem was out here whining, Razorblade was in the back with Scott Holmes, and he gave up his golden goose real quick.  So tonight’s main event is Mayhem v. Razorblade – don’t worry, CHAMP, non-title - but when Razorblade wins, he gets his first one on one shot at the World Title come Golden Rule.  And when Mayhem’s in a hospital bed after that?  It won’t be an accident. Crowd roared as Razorblade smirked before heading off to the back, while Mayhem’s face got a couple shades of red before he yelled out a “Fine!” and threw down the mic for good.

| • Science Fiction Double Feature d. The Angel Sisters in a semifinal Women’s World Tag Team championships tournament match • | The unlikely duo of Jane Doe & Cindy Monet found some unique chemistry starting in December at the Ascent to the Throne battle royale then formed this tag team.  The Angel Sisters came over in the acquisition of Crush around this time, though all that brought these duos together was a desire to make the finals against the Forbidden Book Club.  Match was a coin flip and came close to hitting the 30-minute time limit, but it ended when SFDF won as they had in the opening round, Monet’s Tightrope into Doe’s Standard Finisher.  ** After the match, when the Features posed on the ropes signaling that They Want the Belts, the lights turned red and blinked four times as you might expect.

Steve passed along word from Scott Holmes that Razorblade was right: should he beat Mayhem in the main event tonight, he’ll get him one on one for the World Title at Golden Rule.  But what he didn’t know is that should he win his match tonight, both he & Mayhem will Pick Your Poison next week and pick the other man’s opponent for that episode of Ruckus, a QCW first yet again.  Dope.

| • Mirror Mirror d. “These Hands” Roy Fade • | A minor upset here given that Fade’s been on a roll since dropping the TV title to Naz at Cold As Hell last month and Mirror just got pinned clean by Party Animal on last week’s show.  Also notable by his absence was one Tiki God; maybe that relationship’s already fizzled out somehow.  Still, Mirror got their revenge for Fade pinning them in one of the quickest matches in QCW history on Christmas Eve and they did it as you might expect - they outthought Fade.  They fought dirty when they had to, did some chickenshit stuff when they had to, and most importantly avoided the Decision.  When Fade missed and went flying into the corner buckles, Mirror spent the rest of the match working over Fade’s leg and eventually trapping him in an STF.  He made the ropes eventually but was diminished goods for the rest of the match and shockingly got caught by a WMDDT from Mirror that ended the match to oohs and applause from the faithful.  ** ½  Mirror bathed in the crowd’s loud, mixed reaction post-match and told the hard camera that they weren’t done with the Champion of Chatter just yet.  He couldn’t get rid of them that easily.  No one could.  And no one will.  

Like the Dirty Harry parody/homage that kicked off the show, another one played a la Bullit, with Nazir driving around San Francisco with the Television championship buckled up in the passenger side seat while he was chased by the likes of Fade, Jaspers, Animal and the College Park Family.  What he couldn't see was Mirror Mirror looking down on the chase on a rooftop through binoculars while Al was behind them on a computer typing coordinates furiously.  Scott Holmes told Naz to compromise, Naz said bullshit as you might expect - but will he even be TV champion after tonight?

| • Summer Rose [c] tld. “The First Lady of Fitness” Karyn Tisch-Warren (w/Scott Warren-Tisch) to retain the QCW WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP • | As you might have noticed for the past few weeks, several barnburners have crept up close to the 30 minute time limit including the Women’s World Tag Team tournament semi a couple of matches ago.

But this was the first one to hit the time limit, definitely the first of QCW's Quarantine Era and maybe the first time limit draw this century.  The challenger started out dodging Summer's attacks - walking around on the floor, ducking between the ropes, etc. - then used her husband as a shield to buy her enough time to blindside Rose and throw her into the barrier a couple of times.  KTW then unveiled several different types of backbreakers to wear Rose down.  Rose was able to fend off one Circuit Breaker attempt, but Karyn was smart enough to not only catch a Come Up attempt but to transition it into the elevated Texas cloverleaf Rose had fended off earlier.  As Rose was crawling to get to the ropes, Scott was on the outside and pulling the bottom rope away from Summer; the referee caught it and ejected him to a pop from the crowd.  Karyn got in the referee's face then turned around and blocked the Come Up with her face…but the force of it sent her between the ropes before Summer could grab her and try to pin her.  Summer actually tried to win by countout due to her FUBAR back, but Karyn saved the count at 9.  In the final five minutes, Karyn got a bunch of nearfalls and in the closing minute reapplied the Circuit Breaker.  Summer crawled for the ropes - but Karyn dragged the hold to the middle of the ring and screamed at Summer to give up.  Summer was screaming herself, and in the closing seconds alternated between punching herself (!) and biting her hand…but she survived the clock.  *** ½

Huge ovation for Summer, while Karyn lived up to her name and complained, first to the ref, then to her husband, then Steve & S. at the announce, and finally to the hard camera that she should be champion RIGHT NOW, dammit, and when she gets her rematch she'll ask for a sixty minute time limit so she can take the Women's World Championship and give it some class.  Interspersed with her whining were shots of the rest of Mean Season and the medical team helping Summer to the back while the announce wondered when and if Karyn would get a rematch.

TOTHEBACK~! where Enya Face welcomed the World TV Champion, Nazir el-Fadal.  Enya asked Nazir how he felt going into his defense up next against longtime rival Jupiter Jones, but he cut her off and said that Jones wasn’t a rival, since he’d never beaten the Triple Crown Jewel of QCW.  He heard the talk that Jupiter is QCW’s first Triple Crown winner, but that’s the man who’s standing here - the former QCW Champion, the uncrowned QCW World Champion (“they’ll tell you former, but whatever”), and the TV champion, at least for a few more weeks until he cashes it in and gets back what never should have been thieved from him.  Jupiter’s an all-time legend, the greatest man to ever hold two different QCW titles…so what does it make the man he can’t beat?  Mirror can get a gold star on their helmet and put a big shiny 1 next to their wins in a row column, because he hit that when he main evented and won this title at Cold As Hell and he hasn't looked back since. After that, he'll focus on the main event and see which man he's already beaten that he'll end up cashing in the TV title against.  "Don't concern yourself with cracked Mirrors or paper champions; look at the REAL World's Champion and make me King." The crowd booed as he smirked (you might be familiar with the concept).  Cue Arcarsenal.

| • “the One Man Jihad” Nazir el-Fadal [c] d. QCW World Tag Team Champion Jupiter Jones to retain the QCW WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP • (7) | It was around this time last year that Naz had won the Worldwide Leader tournament to become the #1 contender and Jupiter was QCW Champion.  But last month in a six-man elimination match, Jupiter took advantage of Naz’s ego to pin him.  So while the rivalry isn’t at its hottest, it was still there, and it showed when both men engaged in a hockey fight right after the bell rang.  At one point Jupiter was laying in vicious knife-edge chops in the corner only for Nazir to come back with some hard European uppercuts in retort.  The match went back and forth as you might expect - Jupiter ducking under the MurderDiscusKill elbow to hit a Michinoku Driver for a near fall, Nazir ducking under a Jupiter handspring attempt (!) to come back with a springboard European uppercut that even got some begrudging praise from Starr, Naz being able to hit Thoughts and Prayers but Jupiter getting his foot on the bottom rope to keep the match going.  Jones hit his own Bass Drop and looked to put el-Fadal away with the Bolt From Olympus, only for Naz to counter with a vicious MDK elbow.  Jupiter staggered up into another one that sent him reeling into the corner, and the most vicious European uppercut of the match set up the finish – an avalanche WMDDT that not even Allah themself would have kicked out of.  *** ½  After the match, Naz greedily snatched up his title, but paused to put a hand on the fallen Jones’ shoulder and whisper something.  Whatever he said was lost to us; Naz rolled out of the ring and put the TV title on his shoulder, loudly and proudly proclaiming he only had 3 more defenses left to make the rabble’s worst nightmares reality again.

This Week In QCW History: back in 1991, former QCW Tag Team Champion “King” Berger passed away in a tragic car accident on his way to attend a show at the old Qualitorium.

Steve hyped up next week’s show - another Naz defense of the TV title, and a trios match with Luz Cruz, the Red Queen, & the champion Summer Rose against Karyn Tisch-Warren and Crowley and Spare from the Forbidden Book Club.  In addition, there could be some Pick Your Poison in play depending on the results of tonight’s main event: 

| • Mason “Razorblade” Savage d. Mayhem [c] in a non-title match to earn a title match at Golden Rule • | Keep in mind, Razorblade has been in this situation before - three months ago he had to beat Naz to get in the World Title match at Yule Be Sorry and did so, causing el-Fadal’s first loss.  And Mayhem barely squeaked out a title defense against These Hands a fortnight ago, scuttlebutt running wild that the Champ is more injured than he’s letting on but came back injured rather than forfeit the belt.  It was evident from the start that Razorblade had no problems going at Mayhem right off the bat, dominating the first couple of minutes.  After Razorblade knocked Mayhem to the floor, he sat on the middle ropes and opened them up for Mayhem to come in; Mayhem was clearly thinking about what to do next and what he ended up doing was pulling Razorblade by the leg, sort of making the ring apron give his “best friend” a low blow.  Steve mentioned as Mayhem threw some punches at Savage that he was clearly getting rattled by the crowd not loving him as much as they did Razorblade, while Starr noted that if Mayhem wanted to stay champion - something he knew a little something about - that he’d have to maintain this level of aggressiveness to hold onto the gold.  Given their longstanding history together, it was probably inevitable that they’d have each other scouted for long stretches of the match.  It looked as if Razorblade was going to win the match with the Soul Crusher, but Mayhem countered into a second rope Russian legsweep that made everybody lose their shit.  Mayhem went up for the senton bomb - Razor got his knees up - Mayhem faked the dive then hit it full on when Razor realized too late he wasn’t flying off - but Razor kicked out.  Mayhem was livid, questioning the ref, and rolled out to grab the World Championship.  He brought it into the ring and was clearly thinking about taking Razor’s head off with it, then decided to not.  (Was it because he’d get DQed and give Razor the match and title shot or was it him finally having a moment of conscience and letting his better angels win out?  The announce didn’t know and your mileage may vary.)  Mayhem handed the referee the title back with a warning, then got rolled into a small package.

Mayhem did kick out, and the two men exchanged rollups for the better part of a minute until Razorblade saw he had Mayhem pinned on a counter’s counter counter, took a look at the ref making the count – then figure foured his legs into the ropes while he had the jackknife cover to earn his shot at the World Title the same way Mayhem had earned the World Title.  Am I bumping this up a little because of the callback?  Yes.  Yes, I am.  ****

Crowd went nuts out of joy.  Starr went nuts cackling on commentary.  Mayhem went nuts because he got pinned.  (Shoutout to the one cut TOTHEBACK~! during the post-match: Nazir also going nuts cackling while watching a monitor.) Steve went nuts as the main event of Golden Rule is set, but this time if Razorblade pins Mayhem, no matter how he does it, he gets the World Championship he and his fans have been after for months.  As for the man himself?  He smirked his way up the aisle.  Bonus points if you guess the gesture he made around his waist.  As Mayhem continued reading the ref the riot act, the credits box came up and Steve hyped up Pick Your Poison next week - another Friday night where QCW will continue to bring the matriarch fornicating Ruckus!

Next: s1e21 Ruckus

QCW Ruckus [s1e19 • February 18th, 2022]

Last Week On Ruckus: QCW is heading to the Cow Palace for their next PPV, Golden Rule on March 12th with every title to be contested • Más Histeria won a triple threat match to earn a shot at the World Tag Team championships tonight • Mayhem returned and successfully/barely defended the World Title against “These Hands” Roy Fade, then exchanged a nod with his friend (?) Razorblade…

Pyro, but no ballyhoo - QCW fights on Friday nights and the only thing better than a fight is a title fight:

| • College Park Family [c] d. Más Histeria to retain the QCW WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS • | At Devil’s Night, Histeria beat former Family members (the newly monikered Hard Way) to claim the belts, which they dropped to Lucius & Jupiter at Yule Be Sorry - as seen in the opening highlight recap package, they won a triple threat match last week to get a rematch for the straps.  So it shouldn’t shock that this not only went three segments and crept up upon the 30-minute time limit, but was easily the best tag match in Ruckus history and maybe the best tag match of the Quarantine Era, full stop.  Opposed to usual Family matches, Jones was the one drawing the heat and getting his ass kicked for the majority of the match, Patton making multiple saves to save the titles.  After a couple of teases that had the crowd ready to jump the ref, Jones sluiced free of the former champions and tagged Patton in, who’s freshness and quickness was no match for the opposition.  End came when Patton hit his own Bolt From Olympus to set up the Bass Drop; Jones prevented interference on the pinfall, and the champs hold onto their belts another week.  *** ½  Histeria grumbled and winced their way up the aisle while the champs proudly held up their belts on the buckles, bathing in the “Collipark! (clap clap)” chants from the QCW faithful.  Good luck to the rest of the show trying to live up to this instant classic.

TOTHEBACK~! where Enya Face welcomed the QCW Women’s World Champion, Summer Rose.  Summer confirmed to Enya she’d heard all of Karyn Tisch-Warren’s talk over the past few weeks, but what KTW wasn’t talking about was the fact that the last time they were in the ring together, she went down to the Come Up.  So she can cut all the commercials she wants, do all the squats she wants, put up all the cute pictures on her site she wants – those are all things you can do when your time isn’t being taken up by being QCW’s longest reigning champion.  Next week, she shuts up Miss Fitness once and for all.

| • Party Animal d. Mirror Mirror • | Last week, QCW World TV Champion and self-proclaimed Once And Future King of QCW Nazir el-Fadal told Mirror that they would never get a shot at his belt as long as they only faced lower-caliber foes. Mirror took this as a challenge and they are now trying their luck against Party Animal, who is climbing up the card despite a loss to Jim “The Fury” Jaspers. 

Curiously, Mirror’s friend(?) “Tiki God” Al Buffett was nowhere to be seen. Tiki & Party were seen drinking together at Benjamin Valentino’s party last weekend. Could Mirror be jealous? Anyway, despite Tiki’s absence, Mirror was still accompanied by their other omnipresent sidekick, their microphone. 

“Fans, Stans, and Haters… The Champion of Chatter, Nazir el-Fadal has decreed that he will continue to duck me like Mayhem ducks him until I face competition that he deems worthy. If I must go through Party Animal like he goes through a case of Hard Seltzer, then so be it.”

Mirror runs down Party for being reckless, clumsy, and a danger to everyone he faces in the ring. They offer the mic to Party, hopefully so he can admit that he has a problem and make the first of 12 steps, but Party grabs the mic, pauses for a moment, and…

“BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURP!”

The crowd, which is probably ⅔ as drunk as Party, pops huge for that belch. Mirror immediately strikes Party in the head and the timekeeper rings the bell. Mirror is used to maintaining a level of control in their matches, but they could not come up with a workable strategy against the elusive Party Animal. Party clumsily swung at Mirror, and Mirror was able to play defense until seizing an opportunity to hit the Look Inward. Unfortunately, Party’s flop sweat made holding him in a grapple next to impossible, and Party oozed out of their hold. Party blows a White Claw Mist into Mirror’s eyes and hits an awkward, but effective spear. Party eschews 12 steps for a count of 3. This was a styles clash, but the marks were into it and the gimmicks meshed well, so I’ll call it * ½.

As Party stumbles to the back, Mirror just sits in the corner, obviously confused over what the hell just happened. 

From there, we cut from a close up of Mirror’s mask to a close up of Mayhem’s face with a black background behind him. The camera zooms all the way into his eye, and a rotating spiral pattern is projected in said eye. We then cut to a view of the iconic San Francisco skyline, and Mayhem jumping from roof to roof. He slips off of one roof, but catches himself on the rain gutter. As he looks down, the ground pulls further away from the viewer. We then cut to Mayhem jumping on boxes as part of his physical therapy from the car accident. As he jumps onto the box, he looks down, and once again, we see the floor pull away from the viewer. Finally, we cut to Mayhem in an empty Arena Quarantina on the top rope. He leaps off of the turnbuckle to deliver a splash to a sparring partner, but we then cut to a birds eye view of Mayhem as his silhouette spins and the ring is replaced with the same rotating spiral pattern we saw in his eye at the beginning of the vignette. 

As his silhouette disappears into the center of the spiral, the following caption pushes out towards the viewer: 

Party Animal was cracking open some celebratory Claw backstage when it was rudely slapped away from him by “the Fury” Jim Jaspers, who said he wanted a match against him next week.  Animal agreed, but asked why they should wait.  Jim smirked and said “Cheers.” then the next thing you know a hockey fight broke out.  As you might expect, security and some suits had to flood the scene before any more windows got damaged at the Arena.

Let Us Take You Back To Last Week, where Rich Ward overcame the International Workrate Consortium and wanted a shot at the TV title; in addition, let’s take you back to Nazir el-Fadal getting a DQ win over Mason “Razorblade” Savage thanks to some unlikely help(?) from Mirror Mirror to get him halfway to the ten defenses he’ll need to log in order to cash in the TV title for a shot at the World Title.

Long thought to be the workhorse of the Ward Brothers, Rich put up a hellacious fight in this one, gaining several near falls, and looked to have things put away when he went for the family cutter.  However, Naz had it scouted and reversed it out into a giant swing version of the cobra clutch (!) transitioned into the Thoughts and Prayers cobra clutch suplex.  A particularly nasty MurderDiscusKill elbow had Rich almost out on his feet, but Naz kept him from hitting the mat only so he could hit him with a running WMDDT that sealed the deal. ** ½

| • “the One Man Jihad” Nazir el-Fadal [c] d. “The Wonderful” Rich Ward to retain the QCW WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP (6) • |

Post match, Naz rolled out of the ring and got a chair, freaking out Steve who reminded everyone how the IWC had taken out Jason Ward a few weeks back.  But Naz “merely” opened the chair over Rich so the bar pressed down on his neck, and with the title in one hand and the mic in the other, cut a promo (as is his wont).  

He apologized to Mirror Mirror, since he’d previously suggested they couldn’t beat anyone noteworthy when the reality is after tonight they couldn’t even beat a drunk who just fell off their barstool.  What seemed to be a more heartfelt apology went out to an unlikely source - Mason “Razorblade” Savage.  Naz noted Razorblade had a fair shot at the TV title that Mirror, ever so desperate for approval from the main eventers, ruined.  Naz finally sees the truth: now Razorblade is getting screwed over by the same conspiracy that he is, all because Scott Holmes delusionally sees Mayhem as the chosen one.  Mayhem couldn’t beat Naz clean for his property, so we all know he’s not the best.  The rabble have chosen their champion, and we all know it’s clearly Razorblade.  And it’s not like Mayhem can beat Razorblade, either – Mason didn’t lose that triple threat, and Mayhem beat him in a battle royale, not a match, to get the title shot.  Face facts, rabble: if he’s not ducking Naz, he’s putting his “best friend” in the hospital and ducking him, too.  That’s your champion – not the REAL World’s Champion. “Until next time, rabble, I ask of you one simple request:

Make me king.”

Cue Arcarsenal, pissed off fans, and a sneering Nazir – but also a clearly rattled Vandeblanche, who noted that Nazir’s outlook was warped but he clearly raised some interesting points, while Starr rolled his eyes and said it was typical Naz.

TOTHEBACK~! once again, where Enya welcomed Crusazdo del Oro.  She started to ask him about his match tonight against Toddzilla, but quickly fled the scene when she saw Los Luchadores Locos approach.  Gran Atomico said something to Crusazdo in Spanish, who replied that if he was a disappointment to the raza and lucha libre, what’d it make the guys who just lost their title shot clean in the middle of the ring?  The crowd barely had time to “Oh, snap!” that one before Crusazdo found himself on the wrong end of a 3 on 1 beatdown, culminating in El Gato Negro lawn darting him into a vending machine.  Referees came to get rid of the black hats while the medical staff checked on Oro, putting his match later on tonight in jeopardy.

| • The Forbidden Book Club (Bonnie “Equinox” Agrippa & "the Goddess of Love" Shelley LaVey) d. Hell On Wheels (Block Solid & Jammerhead Shark) in a semifinal Women’s World Tag Team Title tournament match • | Hell On Wheels is one of the many units gunning for the Club, who’s gunning for total domination in the women’s division at the very least.  The former roller derbyists put up the fight you knew they would, but Agrippa & LaVey used their teamwork (as well as a cheapshot on the outside by Crowley unseen by the ref) to get the W. ** Agrippa/LaVey get the winners of next week’s Angel Twins v. Science Fiction Double Feature semifinal in the finals at Golden Rule.  The now-standard red lights special took the Club out of the ring.

On This Date In QCW History back in 1978, “Sweet” Curtis Jones won the QCW title off of Billy “Mud Stomper” Porter in front of a sold-out Qualitorium.  Yes, kids, that’s Jupiter’s dad.  

TOTHEBACK~! where Enya Face tried to interview the Forbidden Book Club, who instead of opting to cut a promo, circled Enya and cackled for a while before leaving.  Eagle-eyed viewers noted in the background that the Hard Way were briefly in the shot, saw the Club, and then remembered they left the dog open and hadn’t fed the stove.

| • Toddzilla d. Crusazdo del Oro • | Already banged up from getting jumped in the back earlier in the show, things got worse for Crusazdo when Toddzilla jumped him before the bell, throwing him into the steps once and the barricade twice.  The ref asked Crusazdo if he wanted to fight and he agreed to have the match.  He showed a lot of heart, but couldn’t get Toddzilla down for more than a short 2 at any point during the fight.  End came when Toddzilla crotched Oro on the top rope and gave him an avalanche powerslam then followed it up with There Goes Tokyo; as Toddzilla celebrated in the ring, the Luchadores Locos were seen watching it on a monitor backstage and laughing at Crusazdo’s plight. * ½ 

Back to the announce, where Steve noted that Toddzilla’s frequent tag team partner “These Hands” Roy Fade had been fined $25,000 and suspended from this week’s show for his actions last week (a little picture-in-picture while Steve talked showed Fade punching out the referee after narrowly losing a World Title match to Mayhem last Ruckus) but that the former World TV champion would be back in action next week facing off against longtime rival Mirror Mirror.  In addition to that there’s the Angel Twins/Science Fiction Double Feature Women’s Tag Team title semifinal that got discussed earlier as well as the Party Animal/Jim Jaspers rivalry continuing in a rematch, another defense of the TV title, and Summer Rose putting up the QCW Women’s World Title against the First Lady of Fitness Karyn Tisch-Warren.  A lot of show next week, but this week’s show started with an instant classic tag team match and may end that way, too…

| • The Immortals d. QCW World Champion Mayhem & Mason “Razorblade” Savage  • | Not quite an instant classic but a damn good TV match that ended in – well, I’m tempted to say an upset even though the Immortals are a long-standing tag team and Mayhem & Razorblade, while constantly in each other’s orbit, haven’t teamed that often, especially lately as they’ve branched out into singles successes.  Early on there was some noticeable frostiness between Mayhem & Savage when they were tagging in by practically open-handed chopping each other’s chests, but it was that period that gave the Immortals the control almost off the bat and forced the white hats to come together as a more cohesive unit.  Biggest pop in the match came from Razorblade & the Revenant having a strong style tradeoff mid-ring that ended when they both took each other out with simultaneous cross body blocks; ending seemed to come when Mayhem was looking for his signature senton bomb on Einhenjar but the Revenant threw Razorblade into Mayhem, forcing him into an unwanted 7-10 split on the top rope.  Savage fell to the outside as the Immortals quickly took advantage and hit Mayhem with Death’s Door to get the victory.  ***

After the match, the Immortals continued to stomp out Mayhem.  A loud, mixed reaction ensued as Einhenjar and the Revenant did this, followed by a huge pop as Razorblade recovered and started to go after them for going after his partner.  As these things tend to go, Razorblade was winning until he wasn’t, and the Immortals then started to stomp him out, too.  Mayhem had rolled to the floor by where Savage had been, but he had an entirely different reaction to the events in the ring: he grabbed his World Championship and started staggering to the back, crowd booing loudly as he left Razorblade to get got.  The Immortals checked to see if this was a feint, but Mayhem went behind the curtain – a few beats after he did, Razorblade got laid out by Death’s Door himself.  A loud and mixed reaction for the Immortals, but Einherjar & the Revenant don’t seem to care too much about the crowd’s opinion; based on the familiar gestures around their waists, They Want the Belts!

We’ll see you next Friday night once again when QCW continues to bring the Ruckus!

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QCW Ruckus presents All's Fair [s1e18 • February 11, 2022]

Last Week On Ruckus: Party Animal & “the Fury” Jim Jaspers couldn’t get along in their tag match, culminating in them brawling and Animal spearing Jaspers’ through Scott Holmes’ office window • Said Commissioner demanded Mayhem show up tonight to either forfeit or defend the World Championship •  Nazir successfully defended the World TV title against Benjamin Valentino then got trucked by the returning Mason “Razorblade” Savage, who’ll face Naz for the TV title tonight on a special two-hour episode dubbed All’s Fair with limited commercial interruptions…

HOUR ONE

After an unusually long pyro sequence that ended mostly in red, pink and white, Steve & S. welcomed us to the biggest Ruckus so far in QCW history - both men’s titles up for grabs with still no word from Mayhem, a #1 contendership match for the Men’s World Tag Team championships, an eight-woman tag featuring all the semifinal teams in the Women’s World Tag Team championship tournament, and if that weren’t enough a submissions only match called Beg For Mercy where the imposing Dom DeSade goes up against perpetual pot-stirrer Mirror Mirror.  

We throw to Enya Face backstage with her mic in one hand and a champagne flute in the other. We pull back to Scott Holmes trashed office, but it looks like someone hung streamers in red, pink and white, as well as a huge banner that says “FOR INTERGALACTIC LOVERS ONLY” over where the window is certainly still not broken. Enya is standing next to a bandaged up Benjamin Valentino, wearing a bowtie without a shirt and a warm smile. 

“Enya, you know that Valentine’s Day is my favorite holiday, so the Intergalactic Lover is gonna go all out this year. Welcome to LOVETOWN, baby girl!”

In the corner, we see Party Animal, “Tiki God” Al Buffett, and Todzilla pounding White Claws. Cindy Monet is teaching her new tag team partner Jane Doe* how to dance, and it is going as well as you can expect. 

We also see QCW’s hottest (and coldest) new tag team, The Immortals, as they are talking to Bettie Rokker and Val Curry, known collectively as The Sound of Thunder. Einherjar is gesticulating wildly, Revenant is nodding sagely, Bettie is coyly laughing, and the Shieldmaiden is hanging on every word. Who knew that an undead Norse soldier and a Chooser of the Slain would have so much in common?

Einherjar and Revenant excuse themselves for a moment when they see the QCW tag team champions, Jupiter Jones and Lucius Patton popping Hershey’s Kisses and looking cool as hell. 

EINHERJAR: It is noble of you to invite the enemy to your festivities. I thank you. 

JUPITER (waves it off): Enemy? (clicks tongues) You’re a challenge, son! We know what y’all can do in that ring. That’s why we wanted you in the contender’s match. 

PATTON (puffs chest out): Once y’all whup the other team’s asses, then WE get to square up. 

JUPITER: And when we handle business and beat your ass, then there will be no question that we’re in the GOAT conversation!

REVENANT: If. 

PATTON: Excuse me? 

REVENANT: If you win, not when.

JUPITER: My bad. IF we beat you, then we’re the GOAT.

(Revenant nods)

EINHERJAR: No offense taken. You have every reason to be confident. Fat Stacks, is it? You held many tag team titles with the host of this fine party. And Mr. Jones, you have been a champion both in QCW and in Japan, so I have unlimited respect for you and your skills. 

JUPITER: Oh word? I appreciate you. 

EINHERJAR: It will make our inevitable victory much more satisfying to defeat those at the top of our game. We too, shall be GOATs.

(Patton cocks his head)

JUPITER: Whatever, man. We’re heading out. Try the Chex Mix. 

(EXIT the Champions, stage left. Revenant grabs a handful of Chex Mix) 

REVENANT: Good dudes. And good Chex Mix.  

Let Us Take You Back To Two Weeks Ago, where the revamped International Workrate Consortium cheated to beat the Wards, then injured Jason post-match while making Rich watch.  It was his night for revenge, which he started enacting by not coming out to his entrance music and instead came out through the crowd with a chair to lay out Windsor and Batroc before the bell could even ring.  Stahl was obviously wrestling distracted as a result, frequently not pressing his advantages to look over at where the medical staff were checking on his stablemates.  As he was recovering, Serge yelled at Anton to refocus on the match.  He did, going for Matter of Time, but Ward rolled through and hit the Wonder Cutter for the clean win.  ** 

| • “the Wonderful” Rich Ward d. Anton “Teknik” Stahl (w/Serge Batroc & “King Carny” Richard Windsor • | He got out of dodge before the IWC could come after him, then told the camera if there was anything left of Naz or Razorblade after their match, he’d be waiting next week to make the World TV title – well, you can guess.  Back in the ring, Serge dressed down Anton, then slapped him a couple of times; when Windsor laughed and said something smartass about it, Serge slapped him a couple of times as well and left steps ahead of them obviously furious.

This Week In QCW History: the Intergalactic Lovers won the QCW Tag Titles for the first time back in 2016.

Appropriately enough, back to Lovetown.

The Immortals and the Sound of Thunder are laughing and talking together when “The High Priestess” Diana Spare enters stage left. Curry & Rokker give her a death stare, but Revenant shakes his head. 

EINHERJAR: Can I help you?

SPARE: Oh, I hate to bother you, but we could use your help. We need to get a few kegs out of the storage room down the hall, and you two are clearly the strongest people here. I mean, other than Tiki, but he’s busy. 

(swish pan to Tiki God looking like he’s about to vomit; Revenant shrugs)

REVENANT: Shouldn’t take long. 

EINHERJAR: We will return. 

(Spare points out a storage room)

SPARE: They’re in there.

(the two enter the room and look around)

REVENANT: I don’t see any…

(“The Cauldron of Chaos” Nancy Crowley appears behind the door, slams it shut, and locks behind them)

CROWLEY (performatively): DIANA! I have been looking all over for you! The match is about to start! Let’s bounce!

SPARE: Coming, mother!

(From the other side of the door, we hear the Immortals pounding; Guy with a rolling cart full of kegs enters)

BEER GUY: Where do you want me to put these kegs?

SPARE: Just leave them in front of that door.

(Beer Guy sets keg cart in front of door)

Let Us Take You Back To Last Week, where a still injured Luz Cruz was able to pull out a W over Diana Crowley, leading to a Club beatdown and then Hell On Wheels & Sohla Patel making the save, ending by Patel punching out Spare with brass knucks.  The Crush emigres were happy to take the fight to the Club, and while they never were dominant over the Club they definitely had them on their heels at more points than we’ve seen during any other Ruckus.  Unfortunately for the longtime friends, it didn’t translate to a victory; the end came when Cruz went for her signature Orihara moonsault to save Patel from a 2 on 1 on the floor when Spare pulled Patel into its path - once Crowley threw Cruz into the barricade, the Club duo finished off the Bollywood Diva with their underhook powerbomb/diving headbutt combo platter.  Wouldn’t mind seeing a rematch of this one.  *** 

| • The Forbidden Book Club (Crowley/Spare w/Agrippa & LaVey) d. “The Island Flower” Luz Cruz & “Bollywood Diva” Sohla Patel • |

The Club stood on the buckles and cackled while Cruz seethed on the floor holding the back of her neck and Patel was laid out on the mat underneath them. The four blinking red lights on - lights off - normal lights back on - no Club.

TOTHEBACK~! where Enya Face was in the parking lot, looking for a sign of Mayhem, who still had yet to arrive at the arena.  Back to the ring.

This was originally scheduled to be a fatal four-way match, but Spare’s antics earlier in the show kept the undead from being involved and the match was changed to a triple threat.  Histeria & the Caballeros have a long history of lucha libre wars; the Hard Way are the former tag champs getting back to their roots, and given last week’s hype video might have been the favorites going in with the Immortals out of the picture.  But Más Histeria are also former champs who dropped to the College Park Family, and they used their extra man on the outside as well as some perfectly timed blind tagging to drop Verde and then fight off the Hard Way to get a shot at the Family next week with the World Tag Team championships up for grabs.  ** ½ 

| • Más Histeria d. Los Caballeros & the Hard Way in a triple threat #1 contenders tag title match • | 

Both Jones & Patton came out on the ramp post-match to offer up light applause and proudly hold up their belts; Más Histeria were doing some smacktalk in Spanish and El Perro Loco pointed at them, then held up two fingers and made the motion of a belt around his waist.

TOTHEBACK~!, where thanks to bolt cutters, a forklift and the Sound of Thunder, the Immortals were freed from the locker room about 20 minutes too late for them to earn a title shot.  Methinks the Club didn’t think this one all the way out.  The Immortals responded by shoving various people out of their way, most notably Mason "Razorblade" Savage, who had to be restrained from going after them by about half a dozen security guards.

| • Mirror Mirror d. Dom DeSade in a Beg For Mercy match • | Let’s sum up a year & a half in a paragraph: Mirror Mirror’s former tag partner @smashleysmithofficial has joined the Polycule & Mirror thinks @ can do better. Dom & @ got hired by Nazir a couple weeks ago to duff up Mirror, then last week Mirror whispered into the ear of Dom’s primary Justine about the rest of the Polycule Netflix & Chilling without her.  Justifiably this made Justine un-Chill & she said she was “taking a break” from Dom.  So with bitter rivals with submission finishers wanting to get at each other, this match was made online earlier in the week and is on free TV instead of OnlyFans for $10.99 (what’s OnlyFans?) Both the seconds were banned from ringside to make this a fair fight.  

Starr grumbled through the whole thing, hating everyone involved, but I was pleasantly surprised.  Dom showed off some previously unseen jujitsu and worked a triangle choke variation he calls Breathplay.  Mirror left their usual theatrics at the door and met him for a fight in kind.  There was some comedy, but Dom spanking Mirror just pissed them off; fighting with renewed furor, Mirror saw Dom get trapped in a hangman in the ropes, then unleashed some Kobashiesque machine gun chops across Dom’s big back for almost half a minute straight while gleefully yelling “Thank you, sir!  May I have another?”  Dom tried to recover after that and even looked like he was going to be able to get the Safeword Torture Rack on Mirror, but Mirror slipped out into Look Inward.  Dom powered out of it after a bit, Mirror chop blocked him then reapplied it.  Dom tried to get to the ropes, but Mirror released the hold and double stomped his battered back before a third and final Look Inward sealed the deal. *** ½ and could’ve gone another 5 minutes, which is something I never thought I’d be saying about a Dom match. 

Postmatch, Mirror shoved Dom out of the ring with their foot. Duck instinctively offered Mirror the mic, but they waved it off. Instead, they just laughed maniacally at Dom as he shambled to the back. That laughter was interrupted by the opening notes of “Arcarsenal” as Naz and his surgically-attached mic made his way onto the ramp, his title defense up next in one of those wrestling coincidences that make the world go round.  He made a shoo!ing motion to Dom as the loser went through the curtain. 

“Another dominant victory for You Got Rorschach At Home.  Six weeks into the new year and you’re already in reruns, Mirror? ”

STARR: Lord, spare me. Could the roof cave in and stop me from having to listen to these two squawk at each other?

“You can run every one of these red shirts out of QCW until their seven years of bad luck is over, but it won’t change a thing. You’ll always be a busted former Instagram thirst trap who runs from actual competition like Starr does from… well, from you, I will give you that. Still, you will NEVER - and let me reiterate this, rabble - NEV-ER, get a hold of this championship. I am the Triple Crown Jewel of QCW, the Once and Future King; you are nothing more than its court jester. Now go back to your safe space, take your boyfriend with the eating disorder with you,  and go watch Mukbang videos together or whatever the hell it is the Midcard Express does for amusement. Most importantly, and I cannot stress this enough, shoo.” 

As officials blocked both wrestlers from going after one another, we cut to one of our limited commercials. 

We are treated to a montage of The First Lady of Fitness, Karyn Tisch-Warren engaging in a variety of physical activities: Peloton, Crossfit, jogging, tai chi, and maybe one or two shots of her in the ring.

KARYN (VO): Are you ready for summer? Are you ready to wow them on the beach, in the club, and…

Cut to KTW winking to Scott Warren-Tisch and him giving the “how you doin’” nod. She turns to the camera and smirks.

KARYN: …other places? 

Cut to KTW teaching some fitness class. 

KARYN (VO): If not, then you need the K2 Circut Training program right now! With the help of doctors and scientists, I have developed the perfect training regimen that gets results FAST! 

Cut to a set of utterly unconvincing before & after pics. 

KARYN (VO): Don’t believe me, just look at these results. If you’re too fat, K2 will help you lose. If you’re too skinny, K2 will give you those gains!

Cut to KTW standing in an empty ring in an empty arena.

KARYN: Just look at me. Yes, I may look nearly perfect, but I need to gain ten pounds! Ten Pounds of GOLD! 

Cut to a black and white montage of QCW women’s champ Summer Rose botching spots and taking bumps in the ring.

KARYN: Two weeks from now?, I’ll be gaining those ten pounds, and helping Summer Rose lose that extra weight around her core… well, some of it anyway. 

Back to Karyn in a living room straight out of Architectural Digest. 

KARYN: So if you want to show Summer who’s boss, go to the website on your screen! Use the promo code ANDNEW for 50% off your first three months!

But much like Summer’s reign as Champion, this offer won’t last long.

 

So ACT NOW! And be a winner like me! 

HOUR TWO

“The following contest is scheduled for one fall (ONE FALL!) with a fifteen minute time limit for the belt to change hands, and it is for the QCW WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP!”

Fire up “Unscripted Violence” and the fans welcomed Mason back to Arena Quarantina as if he had come back from the dead, gotten out of jail, and brought a cheese tray with him. Not waiting to start the match, Nazir slid out to the floor and they fought each other hammer and tong for several minutes - as in their Christmas Eve rematch, there was five minutes of brawling around and in the ring before the bell even rang.  Once the bell started, they went at it in an instant classic.  With rivals this long, it’s about countering counters at this point: Savage caught a leg lariat and powerbombed Naz for a nearfall.  Nazir countered a Soul Crusher attempt with a vicious sunset bomb for 2.8.  Savage slipped a Hamrin Valley Driver attempt with a rewind rana and went up top (maybe for a senton bomb?); when Naz put his knees up, Savage changed in midair to a flying elbowdrop that runs in the family for 2.9.  Naz slipped another try at the Soul Crusher to Stun Gun Mason into the top turnbuckle, then ran diagonally from corner to corner before hitting a Hamrin Valley Driver into the opposite side buckles; Savage got his feet on the ropes at the death and I’ve never seen so many happy Surrender Cobras in my life.  Yet moments after that and the crowd’s “This is awesome!’ chants, the match ended as Mirror Mirror skulked down to ringside – and popped Savage in the head with the microphone.  That’s a no-no. ***

| • “the One Man Jihad” Nazir el-Fadal ddq. Mason “Razorblade” Savage to retain the QCW WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP (5) • |

Post-Match: Mirror hisses into their dented mic as they make their way to the back:

“Congratulations, King of the Midcard! You’ve finally gotten that win over Razor that you’ve been so thirsty for! Nobody can doubt your “Real World’s Champion” claims in the YouTube comments now, can they?”

STARR: Do these two get paid by the word? Does this arena have a mute button? Production truck, do your damn job and cut to commercial!

“Lord knows I couldn’t cut into your precious promo time to respond to your… something something B-plus player screed, but I was owed a rebuttal, so here we are. And since your time in the ring takes second fiddle to your time on the mic, this seems more polite somehow. So if I have to start going up against tougher opponents to get a shot at “your preeeeecioussss”, so be it. Now go make sockpuppets accounts on Reddit to convince r/squaredcircle that you are the best worker in QCW (makes shoo-ing motion). “  I’ve seen some online rumors that Mirror is going to make sure Naz gets to 10 just so they can fuck up their cash-in and can’t decide if that’s pure lunacy that’ll never happen or absolute brilliance to root for.

After the commercials, we went backstage and if you think Nazir el-Fadal was a happy man, I have some beachfront property in Omaha you might want a gander at.  He stormed into Lovetown looking irate, then made a beeline for the Tiki God - only to lift Al’s head, see he was passed out drunk and let it fall back to the table.  Nazir turned around, yelling out for Mirror, when he heard a voice say “I think I saw them over there!”  Nazir turned around and Benjamin Valentino pied him right in the face to the cackles of everyone in attendance.  Naz stood there fuming for a few seconds before hissing he was going to burn this place down while people were still in it someday because of things like this.  Jupiter Jones walked over and took a selfie with his longtime rival while Naz was too furious to move, happily noting that Lucius had been teaching him about social media for his new year’s resolution. “Hashtag content!”  Naz was so shellshocked he did a silent sad Hulk walk out of the room.

| • “the Fury” Jim Jaspers d. Party Animal • | Of note, Party Animal lived up to his name in Lovetown, while his opponent tonight was nowhere to be seen.  It quickly became evident that a sober Jaspers was going to wrestle circles around a drunken Animal, so Jaspers had a little more fun than usual and showed off some World of Sport influence.  It played into the ending as he pulled out a Lady of the Lake (seriously) and waved at Party Animal, who got too close and then found themselves pulled into a nasty-looking cobra clutch/crossface hybrid that sealed the deal for Jaspers, who after rendering PA unconscious and getting his hand raised walked over to the camera and said “Oi, Nazzie!  How’s that for a slice of fried gold!”  **

| • The Angel Twins & the Forbidden Book Club (Agrippa/LaVey) d. Hell On Wheels and Science Fiction Double Feature • | The biggest women’s tag match in Ruckus’ short history featured all the semifinalists in the Women’s World Tag title tournament ahead of the semifinal matches to come over the next two weeks.  So tense was a good way to describe everything with both makeshift teams’ attitudes towards their possible future opponents.  Match went mostly for the black hats even after Spare & Crowley got sent to the back, culminating in the Angel Twins doubly blind tagging in to put away Jane Doe with Hands to God.  ** ½  

After the match, the Angel Sisters stood on the buckles and outstretched their arms in a Cornellian fashion, then you could see the Club exchange glances behind them.  As the Club went to swarm, the lights got blindingly white and baptized the ring – flickered twice – and the Club were left in the ring alone.  

| • Lolo Vuitton ddq. The Red Queen • | This wasn’t even really a match, like a five minute fight that had 45 seconds of in-ring competition.  Lolo jumped the former Dorothy at the bell and was trying to choke her out in the corner, then shoved the referee when she wouldn’t break at 5.  After arguing the count, Dorothy spun her around and choked her, then wouldn’t break at 5 and shoved the ref, who threw it out while they threw hands, Lolo got the upper hand and rolled out to grab a steel chair, but before she could do any lasting damage with it Wendy and Bella came out to make the save for their monarch, causing the former #1c to bail.  Fun spectacle, DUD “match”.

This Week In QCW History: back to “Cowboy” Jack Powers winning the QCW Title in ‘83

Next week’s hype today with Vandeblanche: another defense of the TV title, the former champs Mas Histeria going for the tag belts again against the College Park Family, and the first semifinal match of the Women’s Tag Title tournament but then he was getting word that Enya Face was in the back, just in time to receive Mayhem to a gigantic and gigantically mixed reaction.  He said he missed his stomping grounds no matter what people said, and he was set to DEFEND the World Championship because at the end of the day, he was all about two words: #AndStill.  If Cold As Hell didn’t teach Fade he didn’t belong in the main event, then The Champ will.  Enya turned white as the Immortals skulked into frame, Einherjar saying "Champ." in a fashion that suggested he was looking for an excuse.  Mayhem said if they were looking to fight tonight, his dance card was full.  But if the new guys wanted to fight The Champ in the future, he didn't get to be World Champion by going in reverse.  The staredown continued for a few beats until "Wish" hit to a seismic (and 2:1 positive) reaction.  Enya waved at the Immortals after he left; they opted for polite nods.

The Champ ultimately did, but he honestly spent most of this match getting his ass kicked.  Wearing a positively shocking amount of rib tape against a former Gold Gloves honoree like Fade was obviously going to set him off, and Mayhem spent chunks of the match getting bullied in the corner and his ribs worked over as well.  Fade was absolutely dominant and it looked like he was going to win the belt, but he missed a Decision and went knee first into the corner, and Mayhem schoolboyed him for about 3.1 seconds.  I guess he’s a secret Raiders fan.  **

| • Mayhem [c] d. “These Hands” Roy Fade to retain the QCW WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP • |

Fade argued the count but then punched out the ref, which I haven’t seen in QCW in months if ever.  Fade got spun around and then drilled right between the eyes with the World Championship, and Mayhem looked down at Fade and talked smack before holding his ribs with one hand then his belt with the other.  As the champ was bathing in the glow of that pop, “Unscripted Violence” came on over the PA to cause a bigger one.  Mason Savage came out onto the ramp, annnnnnnnddddd….eventually gave a nod.  Mayhem gave one back, then looked at him.  But was the Razorblade looking at his friend (?)...or the belt?  We won’t have any answers for you before V-Day, sorry, but tune in next week as QCW continues to bring the Ruckus…

…whatever happened to predictability? asked a familiar voice after the credit box came up. Bobby Bash wasn’t the milkman, though Il Postino came a little bit closer to being the paperboy on this evening TV ahhh ahhhhhhhhhhh…

Everywhere you look, highlights of the Quarantine Era interspersed with some scenic footage of the Bay Area - because on March 12th, the next QCW PPV will be called Golden Rule.  

Every single championship QCW has will be on the line.  

And for QCW’s first trip to the West Coast in the 21st century, it needs to be somewhere with a deep wrestling history.  

So thanks but no thanks, Oracle: Uncle Scotty Holmes and the rest of the QCW family will see you at the Cow Palace.  

As soon as he finishes waxing his car.

SHOOBY DOO BOP BA DA! (This song is playing on a Friday night?  WHAT YEAR IS IT??!!!???!)

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