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Stills of OnlyFitness winning their debut during the preshow and Drake Tremble beating Crusazdo del Oro and taking his mask gave way to an AnIIversary video package recap::
Jupiter Jones taking in the black and gold bunting bathing Quality Arena • "Dashing" Pierce Moore scoffing at Jones and the Quality Controllers • Moore gaining an upper hand and sneering • Moore getting disfigured and dropped by the Bolt From Olympus that got Jones his hand raised and Moore lying on his side on the mat counting his teeth, Jupiter looking back at the ring with a small grin after his revenge win •• "the Wonderful" Rich Ward opting to go into the Consortium Esp茅cial solo much to the chagrin of the Proper Villains, especially "the Fury" Jim Jaspers • the Consortium coming out as a unit ahead of their leader, "the French Assassin" Serge Batroc • Rich nearly got Serge on a rollup early on which rattled Batroc • Serge picked off a diving headbutt attempt with a massive European uppercut that rattled Rich worse • Jason the Terrible handed Serge something which floored Rich and secured the victory for Serge • Now expanded, Anton and Pyotr held up Rich and stood proudly behind Serge while Jason seethed over his brother joining the group even if he was the reason why
Roy Fade coming out in a swanky Escalade setting off gold pyro, flanked by a dozen land monsters in suits then making an open challenge to anyone who thought they could take the TV title from him • Katsuji Ootsuka made his return much to the delight of the crowd and Fade's anger • Ootsuka flying around the ring, only to get caught by Fade on a dive and thrown into the barrier • Fade whaling on Ootsuka and setting up the Decision, only for Katsuji to counter with a basement rana driver before winning the belt with his signature Magical Sky • Ootsuka was nearly moved to the tears by the "You deserve it!" chants after he held up the title proudly while Fade cradled the back of his neck and seethed from the ramp •• Summer Rose coming out for her title rematch with the dead eyes of a shark • Autumn Powers coming out with the Women's World Championship focused and ready • Rose getting the upper hand and cackling • Rose getting increasingly unhinged at her being unable to put Autumn away • Powers drilling Rose with the Hazy Shade of Winter to win, then asking the crowd to give it up for Summer • (they did, barely) • Someone started singing a certain song • (the crowd loved this and a group sing-along ensued) • Summer scowling on her way out of the company letting many (blurred out) middle fingers fly •• the Revenant coming out solo after Einherjar got laid out somehow by someone(s) backstage to try and unify the tag team titles • the Game Changers coming out as a unit, a row of hopeful row of fans in Hawaiian shirts hoping they'd take home the gold • the Rev flooring the Tiki God with a belt shot then trying to fight off both the other Changers at once • the Revenant on his heels under the attack • the Game Changers living up to their name and words by making even the mighty Revenant Like And Subscribe to the inaugural Unified World Tag Team champions, the row of Hawaiian shirted fans losing their minds •• Nazir el-Fadal coming out in black and gold looking steely eyed, standing on the buckles and slowly raising a pair of fingers skyward • Razorblade coming out to a God level pop, mocking an amused Naz with a Are You Not Entertained? pose before showing off the belt in Naz's face • Naz jumping Razorblade with a cheap shot at the bell, then choking Razorblade with his boot and doing the pose staring down The Champ • Savage dropping Naz a couple times and avoiding Naz's signatures • Naz hitting Razorblade with a new move (a Sling Blade Flatliner called Sudden Death) then following up with a chop block and shots on the leg • Razorblade struggling at first for bigger maneuvers, then clearly limping if not hobbling • Naz reversing a move into the Hamrin Valley Driver, then absolutely drilling a WMDDT to win back the World championship and become the first person to do so in the history of the league, much to the shock and disgust of the crowd (well, yunno, mostly) • that didn't stop with booing, as Naz's posing got interrupted by some thrown trash and sodas • a fuming Naz looked around, paused, held up the belt
And then he
THREW IT IN THE AIR.
AND LEFT.
That stopped the air garbage strike because too many people were screaming their brains out, especially the sickos who loved it even before a cackling Naz hit a Steph Curryesque night night pose and parted the gold ⏸️ curtains, an absolutely livid Razorblade dragging his deadened leg towards the discarded World title • "Nazir el-Fadal, you can go to hell! Straight to hell!"
…taking us not back to the Arena (thanks, Hurricane Ian) but due to an 11th hour location change, the legendary Center Stage Theater from Atlanta that’s housed pro graps for decades and a couple generations. Duck Eko stood in the middle of the ring, clearly seething because the moment he had been fearing and maybe dreading for the better part of a year was about to happen.
Duck took a deep sigh, grumblemuttered “let’s do the thing” barely audible, then shifted into professionalism.
“Please – uh, please join me in welcoming the first ever two time – (deep sigh) ANNNNNNNNNND NEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW”
That was as far as the Quality Controllers in the crowd let him get before erupting with all the noises, reactions, and emotions. Cell phones went in the air as Duck finished the introduction.
Cue Arcarsenal.
And give credit to QCW’s production team, because some highlights of him beating Razorblade Sunday night and then summarily tossing the World belt, hitting the Chef Curry night night taunt and leaving the Arena were already in the highlight package playing on the QualiTron 3000 for the man more than willing to make them wait a couple extra beats to soak in his moment:
Nazir el-Fadal.
I must have read a thousand faces!
I must have robbed them of their cause!
Out sauntered the once and current champion, basking in a 60-40 negative response. He wasn’t even looking at the crowd, whether they were cheering him or not. He was looking past them, through them, beyond them. Wan smile on his face, Naz took a little extra time to get to the ring, making sure on his way to Duck he got right in Starr’s face and sneered. Starr fumed but said nothing, and Steve opted to follow suit. Not done with humiliations there, Naz made Duck sit on the ropes so he could enter and not ruin his suit. He offered Duck some money, but a fuming Duck opted to take his normal position on the floor instead. It made no difference to el-Fadal, who slowly drew himself up on the middle turnbuckle and put two fingers in the air setting off a baptism of golden pyro on the stage and out of the buckles he wasn’t posing on. Steve grudgingly gave this devil his due as the camera picked up Starr laying facedown on the desk, head down in his arms as if he was a second grader being put in timeout.
The crowd went through chants for nearly a minute straight before Naz took control of the moment - simply by sitting down cross legged in the middle of the ring.
For the first time since he came out, he smiled and said simply the following:
“Do I have everybody’s attention now?”
….well, surely, no one on the Internet is going to have an overreaction to that. Naz pulled himself up in the wake of the crowd’s reaction, and then as you might expect made things about him. He noted that going into AnIIversary, everyone was either talking about QCW’s glorious nearly 70 year history or The Artist Formerly Known As The Champ. Like he wasn’t delivering instant classic after instant classic, like he wasn’t being called Five Star Naz, like his Last Stand was just going to be another bad thing that happened to him but ah ah ah ah AHHA!
Sure, bad things happen to Naz – but more often than not, he’s the bad thing that happens to something else. Like, say, Razorblade’s knee. People can say whatever they want to about him, but they better have their facts straight: he took legal advantage of something that happened to his opponent over the course of the fight, hit him with the best parts of his arcarsenal, and just like he ended the Myth of Mayhem so too went the half year long Razorblade Reign. Clean, in the middle, again, just like he beat Fade to kick off the year, just like he beat Jupiter last year.
The most decorated individual in QCW history. The first ever two time World champion – and the rabble had the unmitigated gall to throw trash at their champion!? They wanted to show disrespect to Allah’s Anointed and then get their fee fees even further in a wad when he shows them what real disrespect is by tossing that belt and leaving it to rot?
GOOD!
Because he had to sit there waiting, fuming for almost a year as his contractually obligated rematch kept getting kicked down the road, “oh, we’ll get to it”, February 30th, March 37th, Smarch 89th, watching the belt he made that got stolen from him held up as a signal of excellence as if they could erase him from the narrative. That’s not how this works. That’s not how anything in QCW works. And there will never EVER be an erasing of Nazir el-Fadal.
People in wrestling love to tell you that the belt makes the man, and sure, that’s true if the man isn’t up to snuff, was lacking that last little indefinable, had something that could only be found out in becoming champion. But since Naz is a champion whether or not he’s got a title – psst by the way, he does, check the replays – then he’s the man who makes the title. Literally.
“Dear Julius, come onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn down!”
Naz pointed towards the entryway, where out came Julius Duquesne III after a few beats, carrying a silk satchel in his hands and pleasantly surprised at the decent pop he got. Naz actually held the ropes open for J3, and they shook hands before Naz took the satchel from J3. He said that in his hands was the most prestigious title in professional wrestling today, because he worked too Allahdamned long and too Allahdamned hard to make it anything else, and while the rabble didn’t deserve to see it, he DID deserve to show it off, so!
J3 pulled the satchel as Naz pulled the title, and it looked like Race ‘78 instead of a pair of new Jordans or the like. The QCW logo featured prominently in the middle right under the golden words WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION and right above the nameplate that said NAZIR EL-FADAL (again) ((it actually says that, fucking Naz)). Flags from Mexico, Canada, Japan and the UK joined the American flag as side plates as Naz put the belt on himself and stood up on the buckles again to bathe in another reaction from the crowd before facing away from them and sitting on the top buckle – we’re going to have to invent a term beyond “shit eating” to describe his grin.
"Say hello to the 13 Pounds Of Gold, rabble!" The finest in diamonds, the most expensive leather, the embossing, once again a gift to QCW from Naz except he’d be keeping this one around for some time, thanks. So it was nice that QCW threw a massive party to set the stage for his inevitable victory, just as it was nice that Razorblade had been running around all year like he was King Shit. But the REAL World's Champion reshuffled the deck at AnIIversary…now QCW’s ACE was once again the first card in the deck. And if anybody had a problem with that –
– I literally have no idea what made Naz think he could finish that sentence besides his massive ego. Yup, that’s Unscripted Violence, turning the crowd completely positive in anticipation of the arrival of Mason “Razorblade” Savage. Savage came out to the ring as fast he could ahead of his match, Naz climbing off the buckles and looking like he was going to clout Razorblade with the belt, only to roll out of the ring as Razorblade was hitting it, and head out through the crowd. In the ring, Razorblade was loud and mad enough to be heard off mic demanding Naz get in the ring and fight him, that this wasn’t over. Naz gave him a couple of raised eyebrows in the aisleway and brought the mic back up, before saying “Rabble and gentlerabble, please, please, PUHLEEEEAZE give a round of applause – for your FORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR QCW World Heavyweight Champion, Mayhem Razorblade Savage!”
Naz got off a couple of Rollins level cackles before Savage opted to leave the ring and start going after him, but he got cut off by “Aces High” and the arrival of his opponent: Super Avi贸n. el-Fadal used this moment to proclaim he was taking the night off and give Savage a sarcastic good luck on his way out the building.
| • Mason "Razorblade" Savage d. Super Avi贸n • | The ex Champ had his hands full with the talented anti establishment luchador, who nearly took him three segs deep in the opener. Yet despite having a (probable) lead on points, Avi贸n sunk his own ship when he slapped Savage after stunning him with a counter boot. Far from that putting Mason in his place, it clearly fired up Savage who went on a roll after the insult. By the time he emptied the tank, Super Avi贸n was out of gas. Razorblade hit Avi贸n with the Soul Crusher to end it…but pulled up Avi贸n at 2. Razorblade set up and hit another Soul Crusher and pulled Avi贸n up again before delivering a third Soul Crusher and mercifully for Avi贸n letting things end with that. ** ½
Enya Face went for a post match interview with an obviously still seething Mason, who scoffed and left after she asked him what was next after AnIIversary. While Enya looked forlorn on the ramp and took the Sad Hulk walk to the back, announce attributed his response to focus; namely, getting his rematch for and trying to regain the newest iteration of the QCW World title.
They perked up a bit leading into the next part of the show, saying that the Game Changers made history at AnIIversary by unifying the World Tag Team titles (that ceremony's coming later in the show). As a result, Commissioner Holmes put together a single elimination eight team tournament that would start tonight to determine the next challengers then random drew the matches. For specifics and details, they threw it to JD3.
Duquesne the Younger welcomed us back to QCW's Control Center. He'd be joined by Enya Face in a moment, but he'd be the one to kick off the rollout of the Unified Contenders Challenge and show us the brackets. And we were going to get things started off with the likely favorites.
Despite his injuries, earlier in the day Einherjar was cleared for action tonight: the former champions the Immortals will be going up against Los Nuevos Caballeros. Between their title loss and Crusazdo del Oro's mask being yanked by living Stormfront comment Drake Tremble, this fight shouldn't see anyone holding back trying to get back on the right side of their records.
In the other half of the bracket, fellow former champions the Forbidden Book Club would go up against the ladies who won their debut at AnIIversary, OnlyFitness. The FBC were the longest reigning Women's World Tag Team champions before being upended by the Changers and would love nothing more than to hold the new titles - the newly formed team of muscle babes have gotten their team off to a successful start and hope to keep that momentum going with a deep tournament run.
At this point, Enya Face was back from her aborted interview and took over from J3 to show us the other side of the brackets, and she almost couldn't believe what she was about to say. The third team of former champions the Hard Way were going to be facing…
…The Wonderful Ward Brothers.
Sunday night, Rich Ward failed to gain control of the International Workrate Consortium thanks to his turncoat brother Jason the Terrible slipping Serge a weapon that he used to knock Rich out and win the match to force Rich to join the IWC. His plan was apparently to reunite the most dominant tag team in Canadian wrestling over the past decade, but under his eye. The Wards have a resume almost as long as the Immortals but their falling out kept them from QCW gold, and getting back tag gold is the main driver for THW - something's gotta give when these two championships level teams face off next week.
But the Challenge would kick off next with the final match in the brackets: Fated To Become Champions going up against beloved Brits the Proper Villains. Two sets of unlikely mismatched teams roughly on the same level, both hoping for that breakout moment (and in the case of the Villains, another shot at tag titles) - so Enya & Julius³ bade us farewell from the Control Center and sent it to Duck in the ring for the introductions.
Maybe the biggest story going on was happening predominantly online with "the Fury" Jim Jaspers - he was upset over Rich Ward opting to fight solo Sunday when he & his partner had promised to have his back, and he was coming up on a sometimes long, titleless anniversary in QCW. Without being explicit, most of his messages the past week have had a "the center cannot hold" vibe to them.
The match ping ponged a number of times as both teams had control at various points, but the craftiness of the black hats would turn out to win the day for them. Roberto VillaLobos blind tagged in as Jaspers went for his Fury Road only to get powerbombed and turned into a paste on the mat; VillaLobos followed up with his 450° kneedrop El Armagedon while Toddzilla sent Richard Windsor flying and the FBC got the W. **
| • Fated To Become Champions d. The Proper Villains in an Unified Contenders Challenge first round matchup • |
Announce floated the idea of a possible all-FBC lineup in the finals of the Challenge before hyping that Fated would face the winners of a first round match next week that would be unveiled before we got to the main event tonight. In the ring, Jaspers was sitting staring into nothingness while Windsor eventually made his way over to his partner and tried to console him…it didn't seem like anything he was saying was getting through to Old Jim.
They ran the previously online exclusive interview of Jupiter Jones after he got his revenge on and beat "Dashing" Pierce Moore at AnIIversary, the whole Family around and behind him while he took some sips of water with a small grin on his face. Jones said that his goal going in was to make Moore put respect on his name and he did that. So now it's back to the old goal: bringing back some gold to Collipark. When asked if he had a specific title in mind, Jones said that while he was still a threat to any title…wellllllll….well, he is one TV title away from being the first person in QCW history to win the Triple Crown. Jones sauntered off with a Cheshire cat grin, leaving the rest of the Family whooping behind him before following their OG.
| • the Immortals d. Los Nuevos Caballeros in an Unified Contenders Challenge first round matchup • | Sadly for the unlucky luchadores, this ran way closer to a squash than an actual back and forth match - the Immortals obviously still incensed over Einherjar's getting jumped by somebody (or somebodies) taking him out at AnIIversary and the Revenant failing to secure the Unified World Tag Team championships in a handicap affair. While Einherjar was still clearly not 100% it still barely took he & the Rev 5 minutes to send Caballero Obscuro through Death's Door and them into the semifinals to face the winners of next week's Forbidden Book Club/OnlyFitness fight. **
The former champions barely celebrated their victory, Einherjar swearing to a hard camera that he would find out who jumped him at AnIIversary when a buzz grew in the crowd and got louder. The Revenant and Einherjar were expecting opponents and another fight - what they saw was Commissioner Holmes coming down to ringside with a large satchel in his own right. A few moments occurred as Holmes hit the bottom of the ramp way and ran into the Immortals. They made sure to make him sweat before they let him pass to the ring, Holmes looking over his shoulder as he entered.
As he got the mic from Duck, the announce hyped up that he would award the Game Changers the new Unified World Tag Team championships - and the Immortals were still skulking around ringside. They just had to cram in a quick ad break before the ceremony got underway.
When we came back the Immortals could be seen periodically popping up in the background on the floor, but the Commissioner and the satchel under his arm held down the middle of the ring. After some congratulations to Naz on becoming the first ever two time World Champion that sounded about as legitimate as Confederate money, Holmes noted that there were other new champions to celebrate in QCW's ranks: after they got done with this, the new TV Champ Katsuji Ootsuka would defend that belt against Serge Batroc. Holmes let the pop and ensuing chants for the Prince of Punishment fill Center Stage for a bit before pivoting to why he was here - he hesitated looking at the Immortals on the floor but continued with his speech, saying that for the past few months he and the fans had watched this unlikely trio and the strength of their friendships live up to their name and change the game in QCW once and for all.
Holmes unveiled the Unified World Tag Team championships, beautiful pieces of 24k magic with white leather. Hilariously enough, despite the fact he was about to introduce a trioka, the center plates features two people raising each other's arms in victory. Holmes said they'd earned the privilege and he had the honor of introducing the inaugural Unified World Tag Team Champions - Dark Mirror, THEE Influencer and the Tiki God - stand up and help him welcome Al Buffett, Bennett Carpenter and Ashley Szabo, the Game Changers!
Center Stage shook from the force of the pop as Muse's "New Born" took over the air and the Changers arrived, clearly moved by the rapturous reception. Ashley and Al were the most extroverted in giving love right back to the crowd while Carpenter seemed to be brought up short a couple of times as announce mentioned that across the board, this was the first QCW championship any of them had earned. They ended up in quite the staredown with the Immortals where the ramp ended and while we couldn't see Holmes we could hear him asking all five of them not to start anything right now and ruin this moment. It probably took another 10 or 15 seconds before the Immortals shuffle stepped to the side and let the Changers pass, the air riddled with barbed glances. But the Changers did get into the ring to exchange handshakes with the Commish (well, Al hugged him) before he handed off a belt to Carpenter and to Szabo, Sunday's official GC representatives.
(Carpenter and Szabo each cradle their respective belts like newborns, then each places their belt on each of Tiki’s shoulders, as the three wrestlers enter into a group hug. Holmes offers Carpenter the mic.)
“QCW, we did what many of you thought was impossible. We earned the gold we promised at the beginning of 2022. We took the belts from one of the most decorated teams in wrestling history. We brought the biggest, baddest hombre in QCW off of his feet and onto the mat. And we broke down the very construct of gender here in QCW. To reflect the fact that these belts can be claimed by anyone on the gender spectrum, they will be defended by all genders: Myself (they/them), Ashley (she/her), and Tiki (he/him). And out of respect for the comfort level of our opponents, we will even allow the challengers to choose which two of us they want to face in the ring. It’s only fair that we respect you before the match, since you’ll definitely be respecting us after you lose.”
It was at this point the Immortals, who'd stuck around and circled the ring continuously while the ceremony went down, interjected.
E: “Is it time to discuss respect then?”
R: “Might be.”
E: “Then I will be claiming my time. I will concede that taking my titanic brother down to the mat is a feat worthy of respect. There are almost no duos or even trios who can claim to have done that, so, well played.”
R: (Sarcastically tips hat)
E: “That said, what doesn’t warrant respect is the legitimacy of your title win. You only defeated one half of the world tag team champions.”
R: “One might could say them thar belts is fool’s gold.”
E: “Exactly. And to the big man’s point, It was foolish to have someone ambush me before the bout. When we take our belts back, it will not be the only thing we take from you”
R: “There shall come a reckoning.”
(Tiki grabs the mic out of Beckett’s hand)
Tiki: If you want us to chew you up and spit you out, name a time and place. But when we put your Walking Dead asses through tables, we’ll be looking you in your glassy eyes the whole time.
Ashley: Yeah, we had nothing to do with that. #asskickersnotbackstabbers (yes, that does appear on the corner of the screen; good eye).
E: At least be forthright with your treachery. After all, who else would have reason to…
(From there, Toddzilla and Villalobos ambush the Ungrateful Undead, and the two teams begin to brawl. E & Rev gain the upper hand when a third man enters into the fray: a giant of a man who is roughly as large as Todzilla and The Revenant with one half of his face painted red & black in a fiery motif where the other half has his face painted blue and white in an icicle pattern. While a flash of recognition crosses the face of the Decomposing Duo, only the smarkiest of smarks or Norwegian metalheads may recognize him. He takes that moment of hesitation to double clothesline the former champs off their feet. Quickly, your new tag champions run en masse up the ramp to drive the ambushers off. Tiki helps them to their feet.
Tiki: Respect?
Rev: Respect.
With the ceremony coming to a close, the announce noted that we would be going from a championship ceremony to a title match right on the other side of these ads.
We came back from break to the dulcet tones of Rammstein's Engel, the Consortium presaging the arrival of their leader: Serge Batroc. Of note, Rich Ward was in the back being badgered by Anton and Pyotr but Jason the Terrible wouldn't look at his brother and instead focused on Serge. And he was focused on bringing home the first singles gold to the IWC.
Someone enjoying their first singles gold was his opponent, the newly minted World Television champion, Katsuji Ootsuka. As he came out to nearly a standing O and "You deserve it!" chants, we got stills from AnIIversary of him answering Roy Fade's open challenge and beating him for the belt.
| • Katsuji Ootsuka [c] ddq. "The French Assassin" Serge Batroc (w/the International Workrate Consortium) to retain the QCW World Television title 1️⃣ • | So loath as I am to admit it, it made perfect sense for Fade to ruin this Cruel Summer rematch. It was just starting to climb into another gear, too; it was a coin flip, then Fade showed up and he and Katsuji started throwing hands. ** Serge looked a little piqued at the interference but let them fight it out while he gathered up the Consortium and they took their leave. It took Team Teal to break up Fade and Ootsuka, the new champ more than willing to go after These Hands.
From there we got a video package introducing us to "the Iron Dwarf" John Arneson. The resident Evergreen Wrestling League champion on his third reign with the belt, he's a pint sized powerhouse who's dominated pro graps in the PNW. Due to his stature, he's on the short end of a lotta jokes. Such hilarity ceases once he starts throwing suplexes: ask the likes of "All Night" Johnny White, "Hardcore Samurai" Ken Sanjuro or "Renton's Favorite Son" Spencer Lutz. Arneson himself closed the promo (after a quick camera adjustment) by saying he'd be adding some Iron to QCW's rebuild and rebirth, and he'd be bringing his championship with him…
| • "the Voice of Freedom" Drake Tremble d. "Swamp Trash" Ted Holland • | Bizarre, bizarre semi main this ep. Holland looks like he has a gazebo made out of dead hookers and the already insufferable Tremble is now wearing Crusazdo del Oro's mask on a chain when he comes out. Holland was going blow for blow with Tremble early, then sort of seemed to and then just outright stopped fighting The Drake. Tremble seemed as pleasantly surprised as the crowd was confused and wrapped things up with the Truth Bomb. * ½ Post match, Holland even gave Tremble his mask chain, which got him some appreciative words from the departing Tremble. This is how it starts, people. This is how it starts. They said I was mad for wanting to replace the Iowa caucuses with a winner take all Madden tournament BUT I WAS RIGHT THEN AND I'M RIGHT NOW CONSARN DADGUM BLAST IT
We went from Tremble's preening to the announce, who hyped up next week's Ruckus as being more loaded than your grandpappy after 2 on Thanksgiving; it's no ordinary episode - it's the First Anniversary Fight Fest featuring the following (FFS):
1️⃣ John Arneson is not just going to be in the Arena, but he's going to be main eventing - he's bringing the Evergreen Wrestling League championship, Naz is bringing the newly minted Thirteen Pounds of Gold - and the Iron Dwarf and the One Man Jihad are going title. For. TITLE. 1️⃣
1️⃣ Despite running into Roy Fade again earlier in the evening, Katsuji Ootsuka will be defending his newly won World TV title a second time 1️⃣
1️⃣ The first round of the United Contenders Challenge closes out with OnlyFitness taking on the Forbidden Book Club and former tag champs The Hard Way against the reunited Wonderful Ward Brothers. Serge's reunited one of the most decorated tag teams of the past decade to try and give the Consortium all the tag gold - can the former champs stop a Wonderful Renaissance? 1️⃣
1️⃣ Throw in a major announcement about QCW's next PPV and there's plenty of reasons to catch next week's First Anniversary Fight Fest 1️⃣
The main event saw QCW Women's World Champion Autumn Powers in non-title action against OnlyFitness' Lolo Vuitton, a former champ in her own right and bringing her new lifting buddies along with her. Lolo tried to hang with Autumn early and almost found herself catching a Hazy Shade before she bailed out. While Lolo stalled on the floor, Scott Warren-Tisch tried some hydro flask interference that was caught and snuffed out by the champ - but that of course left the door for Karyn to sneak in and hit the full Nelson front Russian legsweep she's added to her arsenal and bail out. Lolo quickly got in the ring and tried to scavenge a pin but Autumn powered out at 2 ½.
Lolo controlled most of the match and seemed to have Autumn set for her Bloody Shoe, but Autumn caught the attempt and drilled LV with a spinebuster so tight you could be forgiven if it made you pull out your Glock. After dropping the married couple off the apron, Autumn followed up with the Hazy Shade and the win. ** 1/2
| • QCW Women's World Champion Autumn Powers d. Lolo Vuitton (w/Karyn Tisch-Warren and Scott Warren-Tisch in a non-title match • |
Autumn got to celebrate her win briefly before the OnlyFitness collective banded together and began to triple team the champion. Karyn ended up snatching up Autumn in another full nelson and it looked like Lolo would get off the Bloody Shoe – and then the lights went out.
"NOW what the hell?!" Steve almost screamed.
He got his answer when two neon green blips lit up the darkness; when the lights reset, there stood Jane Doe in a QCW ring for the first time since the spring and even though she had a big lavender colored knee brace she stood between the recovering Autumn and OnlyFitness, who clearly didn't know how to really handle Jane's sudden reappearance or her rigidity.
Then Scott Warren-Tisch tried it.
Then Scott Warren-Tisch got heart punched, of all things, and he folded like a Q/4 offsuit as the crowd roared and Jane looked down at Scott quizzically. OnlyFitness responded in kind, but Jane's arrival gave Autumn enough time to recover and while the black hats avoided any more big offense they ended up on the wrong end of a Pier 4 and found themselves cleared from the ring. Ruckus wrapped up September with Autumn smacktalking from the ring, proudly holding up the Women's World Championship while Jane offered a finger wave and half smile to the beaten.
