Last week on Ruckus: "These Hands" Roy Fade cheated to beat Mason "Razorblade" Savage and regain the World TV title, having a handful of tights and his feet on the ropes • the Immortals kept their undefeated streak and the QCW World Tag Team championships over the entire International Workrate Consortium in a handicap match, only to end up having words and comparing belts with all of the Game Changers • To the surprise of everyone, Nazir el-Fadal refereed the main event and did so fairly, as Razorblade retained the World title over Serge Batroc and kept him from getting another World title shot in QCW, but after that Nazir's lust for his old belt was evident - not that The Champ cared much, and we ended with him staring down Naz while Naz stared at the belt
The opening stinger played to open the show; of note Roy Fade celebrating with the title has been inserted into the champions collage that ends up the run to
Pyro!
Quaranteers!
Announce!
"Pray For Me" opened up the show, and Roy Fade took his sweet ass time getting to the ring, routinely taunting the fans by putting the TV title almost within their reach then pulling it back to himself. Once he got the mic from Duck, he sauntered into the ring and held up the title while laughing. Once he spoke, he mentioned that he was in the hospital then going through rehab, watching Ruckus, everybody kissing Razorblade's ass, and it made him sick. That's why he trained harder than ever - not just to come back, not just to get back the TV title, but to show all y'all their precious Razorblade was a man. Not this Champ Champ B.S., not this conquering hero, a man. And any man could get a These Hands sized ass whooping. Fade tapped his title twice and was about to continue when a slightly accented voice said "ANY man?"
Everyone turned towards the entryway while Fade wondered who was fool enough to interrupt his celebration, and the crowd popped as "The Wonderful" Rich Ward came onto the ramp. Rich said it'd been a crazy year for him, a crazy, crazy year. But Roy was out here talking about comebacks? His own brother knifed him in the back and he did the same rehab Roy did only he wasn't yapping his flap about it, he was just putting in the work. Ask Jason what that work looks like. Ask the big Egyptian he beat last week and ask him about a work ethic that was going to cut his way right to the World TV title tonight. Fade looked a little shocked in the ring but recovered quickly, and said that he could work with that. He needed to get started on his path to 10 anyway and maybe take another title away from Razorblade. But tonight this punk-ass white boy was going to get beat down so bad that he'd think it was his brother all over again…and wouldn't that just be Wonderful?
The crowd barely had time to gasp before Rich took off running down the ramp, causing Fade to flee the ring with his belt. Rich got to an empty ring and ran to the closest turnbuckles to Fade and demanded he come back to the ring and fight. Fade smack talked him from the crowd before leaving through the concourse. The camera focused on Rich's narrow eyed glare towards where Fade left, announce hyping this title fight before some commercials and our first match of the evening:
| • "Dashing" Pierce Moore d. Jupiter Jones (w/Lucius Patton) • | No, you read that correctly. Yes, there were shenanigans.
Three weeks ago, Moore shaded the rules to beat the former QCW Champion's partner, Lucius Patton, and he did so again here. The difference this time was that Moore was clearly out of his league against Jones, who controlled almost all of the match until he went for the Bolt From Olympus. Moore pulled the referee in front of it, and Jones barely pulled up on it - but that was all the opening Moore needed for his Fresh To Death cutter and the upset. ** ½
Moore obnoxiously celebrated his win while a recovering Jones looked mortal for a change on the mat. When Moore got in a couple of post match kicks in on Jones, Patton came in to put an end to that and send him packing, both men exchanging words before Sweet Lu went over to check on Jones, who seemed more chagrined than hurt.
While the screen was black, we heard soft yet feminine grunting, followed by the Quaranteers cheering and counting one, two, three. Silence. Grunting. Cheering. Pinfall. Silence. Grunting. Cheering. Pinfall.
Footage played from last week of Autumn Powers retaining the Women's World Championship over Karyn Tisch-Warren, who was doing the grunting and the obsessive rewatching while trying to set a land speed record on a stationary bike. She rewatched the footage a couple of more times before another figure stepped into frame, and if the taught but shapely derriere in leopard print fit gear didn't give it away, then her words would.
"If you're serious about running this…then you need me."
Karyn Tisch-Warren looked up to see the former Women's World champion Lolo Vuitton in front of her and a slow smile spread across her face.
"I mean, I love Scott…but I could use someone to push me past my limits."
Lolo gave a low chuckle before saying "Oh, you know me, girl. I'll work that ass out!" Vuitton got on the stationary bike next to Karyn and they both started pedaling faster, grunting gleefully as they worked out harder and a thousand fanfics were launched.
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Where stretching is an absolute must.
Let Us Take You Back To Last Week, where the handicap World Tag Team titles match started off with the Immortals delivering a conchairto that more or less took Pyotr Caviar off the board for the fight, which got us singles action tonight - him one on one against Einherjar. The rest of the IWC were banned from ringside while the Revenant didn't show up, probably due to his match with Naz later on tonight.
Caviar and Einherjar dished out some restaurant quality strikes and European Strong Style for the better part of ten minutes, but Einherjar couldn't keep Caviar down for more than a two count and Caviar couldn't keep Einherjar down for three, either. Both men ended up fighting to the floor, where the hatred spilled over in a chair duel that the referee couldn't control, and she ended up throwing the whole match out (I'm assuming this was a no contest instead of a double countout but I could be wrong).
| • Pyotr Caviar no contest Einherjar • |
Crowd didn't like that much and neither did the participants, as Caviar couldn't score a bounce back win for the Consortium, who Einherjar and the Immortals don't fully have in their rear view yet. Refereee came out to get between the two men, though it took the Consortium coming out to lead a peeved Caviar to the back.
We were "treated" to another Freedom Watch with Drake Tremble, who amongst his usual spiel threw in some back patting over his winning streak, a streak he was going to continue next week. He'd clear QCW of every masked wrestler it had and send them back to where they came from - then it would be title time.
| • The Game Changers d. The Forbidden Book Club (w/Diana Spare) • | Intergender trios action followed Tremble, with Al joining the Women’s World Tag Team champions to battle their longtime rivals in the FBC. Of note was Spare being put on the outside possibly due to her possibly costing the Club the titles rematch a couple of weeks ago. This was pretty much a 50/50 affair and even almost went three segments, but when the Club started getting into trouble, out went the lights.
When they came back on four red throbbing lights later, out were Fated to Become Champions, smiling evilly at the end of the ramp as Spare cackled. It looked like Toddzilla and Roberto VillaLobos were about to climb into the ring when suddenly they got taken down from the apron and suddenly found themselves fighting the Hard Way. The crowd popped as the former Club disciples, seemingly having finally broken the spell of the FBC took it to the men who took their places. Meanwhile in the ring, Al Buffett got the hot tag and cleared Club house, eventually managing to secure the win for his squad by planting Nancy Crowley with his Inner Strength delayed avalanche uranage. ** ½
Post match, it seemed like the fight was going to continue, and it did for a while, but this time the Club disappeared after pulling the lights out, ceding the ring for the babyfaces to celebrate in, with Bennett Carpenter mentioning on their way out that they weren’t scared of zombies, so they were going Immortals Hunting.
Of course, that fed directly to a video package featuring the Immortals talking about the upcoming PPV next month, AnIIversary. Einherjar mentioned that walking the earth as they did, the days tended to melt together into a dull blur unless there were victims to be had. In his low rumble, the Revenant added that this time last year they had yet to set foot in QCW; now they stood here the best tag team in the world with the belts to prove it. Einherjar resumed, and noted that no one - not the Consortium, the Family, or the men they beat the Hard Way upon arriving had been able to stop them, because mere mortals couldn't. So congratulations to QCW - they could have the biggest, fanciest party they wanted and baptize the building in gold until you could see the Arena from space…so long as Holmes brought them some more victims. The Revenant said that wasn't a threat, but a promise, then added a sinister "Trust us." before his red right hand engulfed the camera.
Before the night’s tite match, Duck went over the rules before introductions: Rich Ward has 15 minutes to win the title; after the fifteen minute mark he has an additional five minutes to beat Fade; if twenty minutes go by with no decision, then Ward gets a 20-minute time limit rematch next week.
| • "These Hands" Roy Fade d. "The Wonderful" Rich Ward to retain the QCW World Television title [1️⃣] • |
Unfortunately, he wasn't able to gain the belt here.
Rich usually runs a little cooler in the ring, but Fade's comments to kick off the show meant that Rich left the holds in the back, almost getting DQed three times in the opening five minutes. Starr pointed out on commentary that while Rich was holding his own, it might not be sound to get in a brawl with a Golden Gloves winner, and moments after that Fade baited Ward in a chase around the ring before he suddenly turned and drilled Ward with a lariat, then threw him into the steps before trying to win it by countout.
Rich stumbled back in at seven, but the damage had been done and after swarming him with kicks and ground and pound sessions, Fade was firmly in control. Rich got in a couple of tight nearfalls, at one point dodging the Decision and countering into a rollup with a press pinfall that Fade got out of by the skin of his teeth. Rich went for the Wonderful Cutter to snatch the belt, but Fade countered with a rear naked choke to buy himself time. Rich got free then got taken off his feet by a massive chop block, then Fade leveled him with the Decision that got him the dub. *** ½
Fade greedily snatched his title back from the ref before doing the same taunt to Rich that he'd done to the Quaranteers earlier, then ran to some buckles to pose with the belt. Despite the boos, Fade's smile almost took up half the ring as he slapped the belt two times before yelling down at the camera "One down! Nine to go! Y'all GOTSTA respect These Hands! I'm champ for a reason!"
We went from the TV champ in the ring to a video package as we caught up to the former World TV champion, Party Animal. He wasn't at the Arena because he was criss crossing the country on his Claws Across America tour! Before completely devolving into an ad for White Claw we saw Party kicking it in his beautiful RV (the Clawmobile, obviously) as it sped into Atlanta. P.A. popped up in some ATL locales signing autographs, and trying to take the sting out of some chicken wings with his hard seltzer of choice. Party said he'd be bringing the party to his fans all over the US this summer, so keep your eyes peeled for the Clawmobile - you don't know where it'll turn up next.
Let Us Take You Back To Last Week, where Nazir el-Fadal found out from Commissioner Holmes the price of his getting to guest referee the World title match between Razorblade and Serge Batroc would be going one on one with the Revenant right about nowish. Naz hesitated before he took the deal, but take it he did.
| • the Revenant d. Nazir el-Fadal • |
Mayhaps he shouldn't've.
It wasn't that Naz didn't get in any offense, but the Rev was able to shrug most of it off; now that I'm thinking about it, I'm not even sure Naz got a 2 ½ off of the big man. As Starr pointed out from the desk, Naz had an experience advantage on Pyotr Caviar a couple of weeks ago and eventually managed to exploit an opening to barely snag a win, but a man of the Revenant's size and experience was a different animal entirely.
Failing to gain much ground with his usual offense, Naz went to his usual Plan B: cheating.
[Insert DJ Khaled quote here.]
The Rev got angry at the eye pokes and eye rakes, then caught Naz coming off the ropes and threw him so high in the air that the only thing missing was a stewardesses and way too many crying kids before he went splut on the canvas to the roars of the Quaranteers. Playtime being officially over, the Rev made the familiar signal with his red right hand, then goozled and chokeslammed Naz down with authority. Naz was barely moving before the Rev stood over him, smiled evilly, snatched him up off the mat just so he could chokeslam him again, and that's what got him the win.
But the referee couldn't even try to raise the Rev's hand before he was back in Naz's face about trying to screw him out of a win, getting bleeped once (the ring mic also caught "little pissant", amongst other love notes). The Rev started grounding and pounding Naz, who eventually even ran out of the strength to try to cover up. The referee pleaded with the Rev to stop the beating, so he did.
Until he turned around and planted Naz with a third chokeslam, Naz flopping about as bad as Morbius. It got the ovation of the night and a sick grin spun out across the tag champ's face as he prepared another goozle, only to be cut off by the referee being essentially forced to save Naz, much to the boos of the crowd. The Rev set Naz down and then piefaced the poor zebra ¾ of the way across the ring, nearly sending him from it. The referee stood up slowly, then turned to Duck and spoke quietly.
Then Duck informed us that due to laying his hands on an official, the Revenant had been disqualified and therefore by reverse decision, the winner was Nazir el-Fadal.
The entire Arena jeered that, and some "Bullshit!" chants got bleeped out on the broadcast.
| • Nazir el-Fadal d. the Revenant (reverse decision) • |
Murder danced in the Revenant's eyes as he cornered the hapless ref, and before he could get out a word he was goozled and standing chokeslammed into the recovering Naz, sending both men flat to the canvas. Eyes narrow and almost black now, the Revenant grabbed the ref in a goozle and walked him around the ring before chokeslamming him onto Naz, who feebly, hilariously tapped out as Starr bellowed "As the kids say, HANG THAT [BLEEP] IN THE LOUVRE!" That yell had barely died down when the "One more time!" chants got a second, bigger wind, causing the Rev to pause on his way out of the ring to look back at his victims. He then came back to the center of the ring and pointed at the ref, which got a pop…but not as big as the pop he got when he pointed at Naz. He checked it with the crowd a couple more times, but the verdict was in and Naz soon found himself falling victim to the same delayed chokeslam that had levelled the ref, Starr literally jumping up on the table to give a one man standing O that matched a lot of the Quaranteers' response in the bleachers.
While Naz was being scraped off the mat and the Rev stomped to the back ignoring the roaring crowd, the announce provided a rundown on some of what's to come on next week's Ruckus (once Starr was talked into sitting down again):
🌟 Roy Fade will be making another defense of the World Television title, this time against the "Tiki God" Al Buffett - can big Al overcome These Hands and bring some more championship gold to the Game Changers or is Fade's second reign going to keep on rolling? 🌟
🌟 They confirmed the online rumors that there will be a big announcement from the Commissioner's office (the last one introduced the Ambassadors Trios championships, so something major is coming down the pike - new title(s)? Did they secure a network's bag? New signee? Something else? 🌟
🌟 And an eight man elimination tag will headline the show, but you're not going to believe one of the squads.
We all know and tolerate the International Workrate Consortium - hell, they're about to main event once again in trios action - but their opponents next week?
The World Champion, Razorblade.
The World Tag Team champions, the Immortals.
And…brace yourself for the fourth man:
Nazir el-Fadal. 🌟
Understandably, the announce freaked out over Naz being in the match before Starr let out a loud, booming laugh and said maybe Holmes was getting over on Naz. He would have to participate in the match since it was elimination rules, and one of his partners was the guy who just beat his ass, and the other two partners would also like to beat Naz's ass, not to be confused with his opponents who – get this – also wanted to beat Naz's ass. Naz got two things from Holmes, and Holmes set him up to get two king sized beatings in consecutive weeks! Steve said that that was crazy talk, but was uncharacteristically quiet when Starr fired back an "Is it?"
More trios action was featured in the main event, as the last fight of the night featured the suddenly suffering International Workrate Consortium taking on long time rivals in the Proper Villains and the World Heavyweight Champion, Razorblade, who wasted no time in taunting Serge about never being able to hold the Twelve Pounds of Gold after beating him last week. The referee had to keep all six men separated before the bell, things already testy as you might expect.
With Caviar holding an ice pack to his jaw on the floor, the Consortium actually banded together and showed some of the teamwork that'd gotten them the Ambassadors Trios championships earlier in the summer, routinely being able to punish former teammate "the Proper King" Richard Windsor and stay ahead of the brawling style of "the Fury" Jim Jaspers. Managing to keep the World champ on the outside looking in, down the stretch it looked like they would be able to put them away when Jason the Terrible and Anton Stahl combined offense for a second rope Blockbuster into a Mt. Everest German that required Savage to jump in and make the save. That was all that was needed for the previously threatened Pier 6 to pop off in earnest, Quaranteers cheering hard as everyone threw shots at their opponents. The referee started to get involved to get the legal men out and keep the legal ones in (Stahl and Windsor). Seeing his opportunity, Caviar flung off the ice pack and slid into the ring so he could sickle Windsor's head off but the veteran Brit managed to matador him into almost taking poor Anton's head off before Jaspers lowered the top rope and sent Pyotr to the floor. Razorblade and Old Jim formed a protective wall that Serge nor Jason could get through, and a three count later victory was secured for the good guys. ***
| • Razorblade and the Proper Villains d. the International Workrate Consortium (w/Pyotr Caviar) • |
Razorblade and Jaspers took the win in stride, but upon notching probably the biggest victory of his QCW career, Windsor was in full celebration mode having bested his ex blokes, jumping into the arms of his tag partner and letting some very uncharacteristic middle fingers fly in the Consortium's faces. Not content to stop there, Windsor ran into the ninth row of the crowd where some Quaranteers holding a British flag was and let them give him a beer, which he gradually downed to the amusement of Jaspers and Savage, who soon joined him in the Arena, all three men celebrating with a post fight pint (or in Jaspers' case, three).
Meanwhile, back in the ring, Serge glared at the rest of the Consortium. Anton and Jason were in the middle of apologies when Serge slapped both of them with the same backhand and turned to curse out Pyotr on the floor in French before disgustedly ripping off his wrist tape, throwing his elbow pads at his subordinates and stomping to the back, Steve speculating that the past month of failure wasn't sitting well with Batroc but Starr pointed out that they had to come together for the big eight man elimination main event next week. Ruckus faded to black with the Consortium in disarray and Razorblade and Windsor firing up the faithful's Queue Cee Dub chants while Jim was looking for a Quaranteer to volunteer a fourth pint.
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