Ruckus actually started with the open for a change, ending with the cavalcade of champions and Nazir el-Fadal outside of the Arena with his titles - once that was done, we were inside the sold out Arena full of Quality Controllers for the last show before Mischief Night. The pyro had barely died down before “Unscripted Violence” kept them on their feet, since it heralded the arrival of the #1 contender & former champ Mason “Razorblade” Savage.
Savage was in better spirits than he’d been over the past month, though there wasn’t any selfie taking or high fiving any fans. Mason got in the ring and got the microphone from Duck, shaking his hand before accepting the huge ovation from everybody in the Arena. Savage said that – and before he could even say it, cue Arcarsenal. Razorblade almost let out a small chuckle because At the Drive-In meant his rival & the World Champ: “the One Man Jihad” Nazir el-Fadal.
el-Fadal demanded that his music be cut and stomped down to ringside, saying that as much as he hated, hated, haaaaaaaaaated it, Razorblade won Pick Your Poison. Naz will live with that; what he can’t stand is the past week of BS, of lies, of double talk, Razorblade lording it over him. So whatever the stip is, let’s just get to it so Naz can beat him at it. Razorblade started chuckling, then laughing, then cackling.
Because he’s known the whole time what he would pick, especially once he found out they would be having their rematch in New Orleans. So this time Naz can’t run away, hide, do his little BS games. He’s going to have to stand and fight…and to make sure that Naz does it, measures have been taken. Savage reached behind him in his jacket, then tossed Naz something. el-Fadal took the chain, then saw what was hanging at the end of it and the microphone dropped from his hand.
Naz held it up as if he’d never seen one before, fear growing in his eyes as the crowd popped. A few hundred people roaring over a dog collar.
Razorblade said he’s been saying for years that everybody bleeds, but somehow he’s never made Naz bleed. That changes Sunday. Naz is going to bleed his way into the ICU, and when the Blood Bank of Naz is full, Razorblade will pin his lifeless body and take back the QCW World Title no matter what it looks like now. Unless, of course, Naz has something to do or say about it right now.
el-Fadal’s eyes flashed between two things, and he was looking far more at the dog collar than his past and future opponent. He gulped a bit looking down at the studs of the dog collar, touching a couple of them and confirming the sharpness of the studs. Naz started mumbling to the dog collar, and then to the shock of everybody started walking to the back with the collar in hand and mumbling. Razorblade offered up a shrug at the retreating Naz before “Unscripted Violence” came on over the PA, both Steve & Starr praising Savage for finding a stip that immediately got into the head of Naz. Starr also pointed out that the stip made the rematch a fight that played right into Razorblade’s hands, and that just because Naz was the first two time World Heavyweight Champion that sure didn’t mean that someone of Razorblade’s skills and fighting background couldn’t become the second one at Mischief Night.
| • Jupiter Jones d. Super Avión • | The man Razorblade took down in last week’s Pick Your Poison looked to right the ship here and came up narrowly short against one of QCW’s best having a career renaissance right now.
The feeling out process early on came to a quick halt when Avión did a nice ropewalk armdrag to set up a Woo dropkick that actually sent Jones rolling to the floor after he smashed into the corner. They started to fight on the outside with Jupiter getting the upper hand but he charged the luchador, who back body dropped him into the announce table and caused him to land awkwardly. While the table didn’t break, the facade of it slid to the floor, and Avión further exacerbated things by doing a modified pendulum backbreaker only using the apron in lieu of his knee.
For the rest of the match, Avión went after Jones’ back with clubbing blows and a few backbreakers, the former QCW champion having to spend energy kicking out repeatedly. A textbook tornado DDT with Avión running up the ropes drilled Jones so hard that the impact turned him into an uppercase i before he again grabbed onto the bottom rope and rolled out to the floor. Seeing an opportunity, Avión angrily gestured for the referee to move out of the way so he could build even more rope running momentum for his tope suicida, but as he came through the ropes Jones spun away and Avión went fuh-lying right into the barrier in a nasty looking spot that got “Ooh!”s and “Holy shit!” chants going from the Quality Controlllers. Jones got back in the ring and Avión barely saved himself from being counted out at 9. Jupiter’s subsequent run was a little wobbly, but he uncorked a Bolt From Olympus that blasted across Avión’s mask and left him in a heap. The man from Tijuana got the tip of his boot on the bottom rope at 2.8, but when Jones pulled him away from the ropes and pinned him again, he got the W. ***
Jones held onto his back with one hand while the ref raised the other, and he left the ring to the welcoming embraces and cheers of the rest of Collipark who’d stayed in the back while he TCOB. Meanwhile at ringside, once he recovered Avión threw a shitfit over eating another loss to a former champ, ripping up the mats, smashing the table facade against the stairs, and eventually ripping off the top half of the steps and throwing them into the barrier on the other side of the ring from where he’d been standing. They whistled by and scared the crap out of Duck in the process. Starr actually had some slight praise for Super, saying that it was fine losing to former champions if you learned from them and it spurred you on to become a champ yourself – but of course Avión couldn’t hear that, he was too busy getting bleeped.
We got a pretape and a woman’s voiceover, saying that while life seems intricate, there’s always a decision to make. There’s this or that, X or Y, A or B, good witch or bad witch. We heard boots, then saw they were actually black heels with purple and silver undercurrents. The voice continued that when they saw what had happened to the Immortals…after what had happened to them…the time to make the decision had come.
We then saw the footage of the person in the hoodie last week jumping the rail and following behind the stretchered out Immortals.
We then saw a figure in a hoodie walk towards the screen, and slowly remove it to reveal Diana Spare, formerly of the Forbidden Book Club.
Diana said that her former comrades may have underestimated her, but these men haven’t – and from the darkness, behind her slowly walking towards us came The Hard Way. With a rising smirk on her face, Diana pointed out that just because they beat her down didn’t mean that they had her power, which meant that these men weren’t underestimating her either after she did what the medical team couldn’t – and from the darkness slowly walked up an evilly grinning Einherjar and an even more evilly grinning entity known as the Revenant.
Spare said you knew all of these men, so it was time for an introduction of her own: she was “Night Sky” Diana Spare, and she would be one of the ones that would burn the Forbidden Book Club once and for all. Ragnarok is coming for them all, and once it does, the ones who will be left behind will be them and the ones getting written off will be the FBC and all their weak little boy cronies.
The Revenant stood next to and dwarfed her before letting out an evil cackle and saying “See you soon, Toddie. See you real damn soon, boy.”
The Immortals cackled, Spare smirked, and the Hard Way looked unlimp as some purple and silver static briefly popped up on screen – then enveloped it – then left nothing but darkness.
| • "the Fury" Jim Jaspers d. Dom DeSade • | Jaspers had to be happy his online campaigning got him back on Ruckus and even happier to face DeSade whom despite his imposing stature is one of the lowest rings of the singles ladder in QCW. Jaspers looked particularly aggressive with suplexes and crossfaces before DeSade found himself going down to Fury Road and Old Jim lodged a W. **
Post match saw Bobby Bash come out to live up to his surname and go after Jim; that brought out the other half of the Proper Villains, "the Proper King" Richard Windsor to stick up for his partner. A Pier 4 broke out until Team Teal came out full force to break the fight up to the displeasure of the Quality Controllers.
From there? TOTHEBACK~! where Enya Face was rushing through the backstage area and eventually managed to catch up to the departing World Champ. A seething el-Fadal said Enya got one question before he hopped a flight to a real town, drawing boos from the crowd. Enya asked Naz if he was ready for the dog collar match at Mischief Night but Nas started to lash out before the question even got finished, saying that of course Razorblade had to drag him down to his level because we saw what happened at AnIIversary, while the rabble got fat in the Arena and at home he gained 13 poinds. So if Razorblade wanted to go down in history as a two time loser with a…with a…dog collar on his neck, he – Naz closed his eyes and shook his head, his lip curling in disgust.
"What I don't understand is how you even champ right now!" Naz's head whipped around at the offense, and the camera followed him to see long time rival and current College Park Family manager Benjamin Valentino. Naz looked like he was going to try something when both Jupiter Jones and Lucius Patton showed up to big pops to have their boy's back. Jupiter allowed himself a small smile as he said that if Naz wanted to run it back with the title on the line – and Naz stopped him right there. Jupiter fought him to a draw last week, that's all. He wants a shot at the World title, he needs to start by getting the TV title and putting in the defenses. Jupiter's eyes narrowed before he a) said "All right then, bet." to Naz followed by b) turning and asking Lucius if he said that right (getting a thumbs up from Sweet Lu). Naz sneered and said if Jupiter wanted to be next up after he wiped Razorblade off the mat, then it would be him who Naz destroyed. Collipark got red over that as you might expect, but before anything physical could take place, a Town Car rolled up and el-Fadal got in it with instructions to the driver to head to the airport. The ride departed, leaving Enya and Collipark behind. Enya was kind enough to inform Jupiter that it was cool that the World TV title match was next and Jupiter got a wide grin on his face, saying it was his night to call next before walking off camera, the rest of Collipark boisterously whooping behind him.
| • "the Voice of Freedom" Drake Tremble [c] (w/"Swamp Trash" Ted Holland d. Il Postino to retain the QCW World Television championship 1️⃣ • | To the absolute shock of nobody ever, this was squash served up a month early. It didn't even take 4 minutes for Tremble to put away the postman with the Truth Bomb. Thankfully, the post match brought what the match didn't…DUD
…since “Bombs Over Baghdad” hit right before Ted Holland could put the TV title around his waist. The crowd popped and it only grew when Jupiter Jones strolled out from between the curtains, the grin he had backstage only growing as the rest of the College Park Family followed him out a few steps behind. Tremble’s face did a complete 180 as he looked at Jupiter, who stopped halfway down the ramp and left the rest of the Family at the apex.
Jupiter waited out the chants then sarcastically asked the crowd to give it up for their TV champion, which got the boos we all expected. Tremble looked disgusted at the crowd as Jones continued that he’d been around QCW a long time – and so had Tremble. And truth be told, he’s never liked Tremble: all that red hat bootstrap crap ain’t never had a home with him, or his daddy, who also used to whoop up on Tremble’s ass if he remembers things correctly. Tremble got livid in the ring and started yelling off mic at Jones, who didn’t care and kept rolling. The fact that a piece of crap like him is the TV champion, that his face is going to be assaulting people’s eyes every Friday night? Nah. It don’t go like this. Here’s how it’s going to go.
Tremble is going to defend his TV title at Mischief Night.
Tremble is going to defend his TV title at Mischief Night – against him.
And once that happens, it’s only a matter of minutes before he’s not TV champion and Jupiter is, and once that happens, the Triple Crown is his as well. Something Tremble couldn’t sniff in a thousand comebacks, nothing he could achieve in a hundred lifetimes. He’s not just doing it because QCW deserves better, though there’s obviously that. He’s doing it for the Family behind him. For the family he’s got watching him at home right now, blood or not. And for the family he’s got all around him in the Arena, who can’t wait until Sunday. Because the person who’s going to Make QCW Great Again isn’t that jackass or his future Dateline episode sidekick – it’s the same man it’s been the past two decades in QCW: Jupiter [and he actually got bleeped! Go ‘head, old man!] Jones. Jones did a mic drop and walked back to his crew, crowd roaring while Tremble now was standing on the apron yelling at his retreating figure. Jones only looked back once to make A Familiar Gesture around his waist – then held up three fingers before being welcomed by the rest of Collipark. Announce understandably flipped out over this before a set of commercials – longtime QCW staples, eternal rivals Tremble and Jones fighting for the World TV title in New Orleans and Jones trying to win the Triple Crown with a victory Sunday.
When we came back from the break, We Took You Back To Last Week where OnlyFitness used some chicanery, timing and the threat of the gargantuan Erik Norville’s possible outside interference to win the Unified Contenders Challenge.
Their tag titles tilt set for Sunday in the Big Easy, we got an amuse bouche served trios style with the champions daring the imminent challengers to find a third and fight them tonight. The champions came out first to Muse’s “New Born” and bathed in the crowd pop, Al Buffett even throwing out a couple of Hawaiian shirts to the fans as the Game Changers came to the ring.
OnlyFitness came out next to the crowd boos, none too pleased with their recent shady wins over the Immortals and the Hard Way in the UCC. It turned out that the third that they’d found was “Dashing” PIerce Moore, who conveniently showed up after Jupiter Jones’ departure. The Changers were nonplussed over his being the partner, possibly to their detriment; despite recent consecutive losses to Jones the rookie carried his share of the team, rooting them on when they had Ashley THEE Influencer in trouble for the bulk of the match and managing to pique Al off something fierce when he used the Hawaiian shirt Al had taken off as his own personal Kleenex. Of course, if a heel blows his nose into a babyface’s shirt in Act I, Act III features Checkov’s Tiki, as both Lolo Vuitton and Ashley had to make hot tags that found homes with Buffet & Moore. Al got the upper hand on Mr. Dashing and threw him around the ring with several suplexes, but got aid down the stretch from an unlikely figure: Scott Warren-Tisch, who first distracted the ref when it looked like Al was going to put him away with his avalanche delayed urange then threw the hydroflask around and behind the ref’s back to Moore, who brained Buffet with it and then drilled Bennett Carpenter on the apron with it as well. Moore then leapt off the second rope and absolutely wrecked Buffet with a flying variant of his Fresh to Death cutter; with OnlyFitness swarming Ashley THEE Influencer, victory was secured. Gonna bump it a bit for the flying cutter. ** ½
| • OnlyFitness & "Dashing" Pierce Moore d. QCW Unified World Tag Team champions the Game Changers • |
The unlikely trio (well, quartet) celebrated on the ramp with Karyn and especially Lolo yelling at the ring to bring their belts on Sunday because they’d be the ones changing the game in New Orleans. The Changers ignored the smacktalk and made sure Al was okay. He seemed to be bleeding slightly from the forehead, probably from where the hydroflask got him, but seemed to be otherwise fine and got up under his own power after a few beats.
TOTHEBACK~! where Julius Duquesne III was standing by to welcome his guests, half of the main event trios fight tonight – the reunited Science Fiction Double Feature, Jane Doe & Cindy Monet and the QCW Women’s World Champion, Autumn Powers. The crowd popped as they came on the scene and exchanged pleasantries with J3 before he asked them about how they came together as a team ahead of the match tonight. Cindy said that she missed her down to Mars girl, and it was great to be back by her side. Autumn smiled at that, and Jane wasn’t smiling at all – she was looking at the Women’s World Title on Autumn’s shoulder as if it was something from the farthest reaches of Earth. Autumn chuckled a little bit and Jane pointed to it and said “Title!” Yes, we’re all in agreement there, Powers included. Jane then said “Sunday” and was informed it was Friday before pointing at herself – then Autumn – then the title.
“Sunday, please.”
Everyone who wasn’t Jane had the reactions of shock you might expect, with Autumn confirming that Jane - in her own way - wanted a shot at the belt. There was silence for a few beats before Jane nodded and said “Sunday, please.” Autumn crooked her head a little bit and told Jane if that’s what she wanted, she’d get it, but it wouldn’t be like tonight. Autumn reminded her that she was the longest reigning champion IN QCW no matter what title you were talking about, and as much as she’d appreciated Jane having her back recently, if she tried her with her belt on the line, Jane would find out how unfriendly she could be. Jane got closer to Autumn, then tapped the title with her pinky and looked Autumn directly in the eyes. She said “Sunday. PLEASE.” in a low tone. Autumn extended a pinky, and Jane immediately shook it with her own. Autumn pulled her in and said “See you out there” right before Cindy’s pinky joined their own.
“Y’all have fun Sunday.” Cindy’s smile was almost a mile wide before she continued. “‘Cause I got next.” Cindy walked off between Autumn and Jane, then after a brief look once again at the title, Jane followed her tag team partner. Autumn looked at them then turned to J3. “We got this tonight, Jules.
But I got my title months ago…and after Sunday night, it’s still going to be my title.” She thanked Julius for his time and went off towards her partners for the night.
| • the Revenant d. Toddzilla • | HOSS FIGHT!
In the opening couple minutes of this one, the referee had to stop focusing on the fight between them and had to get help in the rest of the zebra corps coming from the back to break up all the fights on the outside (between the FBC, the Hard Way, Diana Spare, the Sound of Thunder, the other FBC). Once the match settled down from all the outside craziness the Revenant only took a couple of minutes to get the upper hand then a couple more to get the W, setting off camera flashes when he got Toddzilla up for then planted him with his signature chokeslam. A second Red Right Hand cinched the victory. **
With one match left before the PPV, announce began to hype up Mischief Night and the Hot 8 Brass Band’s awesome cover of “Ghost Town” kicked in; the preshow will feature "Dashing" Pierce Moore against "the Iron Dwarf" John Arneson and based off of earlier events A World Of Pain will face off against the Proper Villains. And those are on the preshow because the main card is loaded like a college sophomore at Mardi Gras:
⚜️ We just got a taste of this one: the Forbidden Book Club will take on the Sound of Thunder with Diana Spare, but not in any ordinary trios match – for the first time ever, QCW will have a Cauldron of Chaos match.
It will start as a standard singles match, then every five minutes not only will there be another participant introduced but a different gimmick will pop up as well. The match will end once all six women are in it, with whatever rotating gimmick of the block helping to decide a victor; are the FBC back on track or will the SoT bring the hammer down on some witches? ⚜️
⚜️ That's not all by way of debut matches; Fated To Become Champions (El Gato Negro, "Pyre and Ice" Erik Norville, Toddzilla and Roberto VillaLobos) will face the Hard Way and the Immortals in a Ragnarok Rules match – a tornado tag match that can only be won once a match participant is buried alive. This one is going to be whatever the level above insane is. ⚜️
⚜️ In the first of four title matches, "the Voice of Freedom" Drake Tremble puts up his newly won World TV title against longtime rival and fellow QCW legend Jupiter Jones, who can win the Triple Crown should he be able to win the belt ⚜️
⚜️ OnlyFitness won the Unified Contenders Challenge, now the health obsessed #1 contenders look to supplant the Game Changers and take away the Unified World Tag Team championships while the champions look to continue to reign over QCW's expanded tag team division ⚜️
⚜️ They're about to be teammates and have been friendly, but all that between Jane Doe and Autumn Powers will go out the window Sunday night with the Women's World Championship on the line: will the returning Doe get her first QCW title or will QCW's longest reigning champion continue ruling? ⚜️
⚜️ And the 13 Pounds of Gold will be on the line in the main event; for the first time in nearly 40 years there will be a dog collar match in QCW and for the first time ever it's happening with the World title on the line: the former champion and #1 contender Mason "Razorblade" Savage won Pick Your Poison to get this fight but can he overcome the first ever two time QCW World Heavyweight Champion who beat him clean at AnIIversary, the unctuous Nazir el-Fadal? ⚜️
| • | the main event | • |
As Duck made the announcements for the main, the lights went out in the Arena. Three red blips later, they were back on and the Forbidden Book Club was doing their usual thing of cackling while posing on the buckles. Shelley LaVey was just being flirtatiously coy to the camera when suddenly the viewpoint didn’t make any sense, and it showed LaVey down in the ring with a figure in a hoodie (!) going after her, the rest of the FBC pulling off who turned out to be Diana Spare off of Shelley and tuned up their former stablemate; picture in picture showed that Spare had been posing as one of the camerapeople and then when LaVey leaned in to the fans at home, Spare brained her with it.
Distracted by the incursion, they were too busy fighting to realize they still had a fight coming. “Mota” by the Offspring brought out the white hats, with Cindy out first followed by Jane next to her, and The Champ a couple steps behind them with the belt hefted up over one of her shoulders. Medical staff came out to check on LaVey, who angrily waved off their attempts to help them and ripped the band-aid off her forehead and threw it at one of the poor white shirts, saying she damn sure wasn’t going to miss out on the match. Diana Spare got hauled off to the back by Team Teal and we got underway…
| • QCW Women's World Champion Autumn Powers and Science Fiction Double Feature d. Forbidden Book Club • |
To be fair, the friction I assumed would be happening with the white hats never really materialized; maybe it’s me, maybe I watch too much wrestling. Cindy and Jane took a couple of beats to find their footing again as a unit but had no problem getting the upper hand on the Club and especially the weakened LaVey. Bonnie Agrippa tagged herself into the match seeing LaVey in trouble, and she used her power to dominate Science Fiction Double Feature until Jane was forced to tag out down the stretch to The Champ.
Agrippa and Powers were tagging each other with some meaty forearms in the middle of the ring, and it went on nearly a minute and a half with them getting second and third winds before Agrippa went for the eyes. Bonnie went over to talk smack, only to get interrupted by Cindy Monet vaulting over the top rope and going after her – pretty shortly thereafter, a Pier 6 broke out to the joy of the crowd. The referee was trying to put out three fight fires at once, which is probably why he missed Diana Spare running in from the crowd and chop blocking Agrippa when she had Powers up – Powers landed in almost a spike leg lariat as a result before Spare bailed back out through the crowd, Team Teal giving hilariously inept chase while in the ring, Powers put a button on the match with the Hazy Shade while Science Fiction Double Feature squashed the rest of the Club during the three count. ***
After the replays, the club harassed the poor referee up the ramp while back in the ring, Jane had jumped the queue and taken the Women’s World Title out of Duck’s hands. Cindy snatched it from her, saying that it wasn’t hers, it belonged to Autumn and she should give it back to her…but then as she was handing over the belt, the handing off didn’t happen as Cindy looked down at the title nearly four months after competing for it last in the match that Autumn had won. CIndy shook it off, and handed a slightly peeved Autumn the belt before they all got their hands raised. But in Autumn’s non-raised hand was the title, which Jane had her eyes locked on; a couple of beats later, Cindy’s eyes appeared to be watching Jane watch the belt and watching Autumn watch Jane, saying that Sunday she was going to still be champion when it was all said and done. Seeing both members of SFDF peer at the title, Autumn gave it a couple of slaps before turning on her heels and hitting the buckles to show it off to and pump up the crowd, Jane and Cindy eventually following suit. That’s all the Ruckus October can handle – we’ll see you in the Big Easy Sunday for Mischief Night!