Even after it turns out the show started, we couldn’t see the Quality Controllers in the darkened Arena. But we could hear the buzz as a spotlight focused on a stool in the ring with a microphone on it.
Things were quiet until Arcarsenal came on over the PA, at which point the Arena got as chilly as the weather outside. As Nazir el-Fadal came out to a negative ovation, there was a brief shot back at the announce table: both Steve Vandeblanche and a clearly seething S. Mark Starr with their backs to the ring, facing the audience. el-Fadal came out in street clothes looking displeased (you’re familiar with the concept) and paused on the top stair of the steps before shuffling into the ring and holding up Lucky 13 overhead.
Naz reached down and grabbed the microphone before sitting on the stool. His smile only grew with the noise, full of ASSHOLE! and Naz sucks (clap clap) chants. el-Fadal rhetorically asked if he sucked, what did that make the abomination who failed to do his job for months and tried to screw him out of hiiiiis World Heavyweight Championship and ended up in the ICU as promised? Furthermore, what did it make his so-called boss who not only let this disrespect continue onward but encouraged it, leading to the tragic events of last week? Well, not tragic, what was the word Naz was looking for….ah, yes!
Deserved.
Duck Eko thought it was his place to come into Naz’s ring and Naz proved his place was shotgunning Jello in the hospital cafeteria. He got what he deserved, and Naz didn’t care if we ever saw him again after he refused to put the proper respect on the name of a man — the only man, need he remind you, to be a two time World Champion in the nearly 70 year history of QCW – who surpassed Duck's life achievements the moment he waddled into preschool.
And if the Commissioner was in the business of light fines, Naz was sure that he would get a similar treatment to Duck's - unless, of course, the Commissioner was worried that an elite wrestler who could make an impact and lay the smack down anywhere on Friday nights was going to waltz out the door with the belt he literally built with his own two hands. Because make no mistake about it, what happened to Duck was on Holmes' head. And if The Champ wasn't about to get the respect he went out and fought for? Then he had no qualms about adding Holmes' head to an already crowded wall of stuffed heads who once thought they could get the best of Nazir el-Fadal and wound up poster kids for milk cartons.
So while he would watch the Immortals fight over who faced him come Season's Beatings with an interested eye, the only presents he would be giving away were more reminders about just where the power is in QCW: not with some nobody announcer, not in the Commissioner's Office, but with Nazir Allahdamned el-Fadal: the GREATEST Man Alive. Naz gave a smirk, then threw the mic up and started leaving the ring to another chorus of boos as the squawking and feedback of the mic reverberated around the Arena.
After focusing on the mic dropped in the ring, we faded into the open. But instead of the standard open it was slightly extended, probably to show the usual Last Week On Ruckus footage. So before the cavalcade of champions we saw Al Buffett win a 20-man battle royale by slamming Pyotr Caviar over the top - then Jupiter Jones making not one but two successful World TV title defenses to shut up his rivals in the Red, White and True - and of Naz’s World title defense against Al, Duck hitting him with the belt and Al seeming having the match won only to lose by DQ, then we saw a livid el-Fadal turning mid MDK elbow to drop Duck.
They spared reshowing the beating as well as Naz laying out S. Mark Starr, but showed Commissioner Holmes checking over the fallen ring announcer in almost a photo negative of a smiling Naz patting down the belt on his way to the back.
Back to the usual pyro and another sellout crowd from the Quality Arena - Steve Vandeblanche & S. Mark Starr tried to shake off that horrendous opening and welcome us to an episode of Ruckus where we’d have an Immortal new #1 contender by the end of the night to face Naz for the World title at Season’s Beatings and Jupiter Jones trying to continue his World TV title reign, but speaking of champions, QCW’s longest reigning one was about to try to prove her dominance once again in a tag team rarity, the three way dance.
| • OnlyFitness (w/Scott Warren-Tisch) d. Science Fiction Double Feature and QCW Women's World Champion Autumn Powers and "Night Sky" Diana Spare in a three way dance • | After a few weeks of tight competition between these six women, the muscle babes with hearts of iron prevailed here.
It was a solid comeback victory bolstered by the fact that in the early going, both sets of opponents had the upper hand on them and even at one point were employing hybridized double teams going into the first commercial break. But the short lived alliance between SFDF and Powers and Spare fell apart, with Lolo Vuitton wriggling free of Autumn right before Diana Spare connected with a pinpoint missile dropkick that accidentally drilled her partner. Cindy Monet again showed her ring generalship by blind tagging the disoriented Vuitton then laying out Powers with her signature Tightrope lariat, and three seconds later everyone was in shock over the outcome.
Well, almost everyone: Diana Spare shook her head and took the Sad Hulk walk to the back alone while Autumn rolled to the floor and refs checked on her (she quickly waved them off before stomping to the back herself). This left the tenured teams fighting through the second segment of the match while announce put over Cindy for pinning Autumn.
SFDF & OF fought from the second segment through commercials and into the third. It looked like Cindy was going to win the three way dance all by herself and got in position for the Tightrope but Lolo saw her coming and cut her down with an almost standing Bloody Shoe, then pivoted to knock Jane Doe off the apron with the usual version. She tagged Karyn in, and they laid out Cindy with Only Finished This before Karyn got them the W. *** ½
After replays we saw OnlyFitness celebrating in the ring with Scott whooping it up while Karyn and Lolo loudly crowed they were coming for gold. Tisch-Warren and Vuitton held hands but also made Familiar Gestures around their waists with their free hands before jumping on turnbuckles to put every champion on notice as Ruckus went to pay some bills.
Back from the break and TOTHEBACK~! where Julius Duquesne III welcomed his guests: the Immortals. The crowd popped as we had to pan out to get J3, Einherjar and the Revenant all in the frame at the same time.
Julius asked them what it was like tonight knowing that they'd have to face off tonight with a World title shot at Season's Beatings on the line. The Revenant gave a raspy laugh and said he and the crowd would bear witness to something spectacular tonight: an Immortals training session in public for the first time ever. Einherjar cackled and added that that wasn't good for the Rev since he usually won out in their sparring sessions. The Rev started to get a little testy at this, his response got Einherjar a little testy back in response, and JD3 was stealthily scanning for an exit when they both started cracking up, Rev clapping Julius on the back so hard his glasses almost flew off his nose. The Revenant laughed and said that no matter which one of them won tonight, the good fans of QCW could sleep easy because either way, one of them was going to get their hands on Naz and end his reign of terror. Einherjar added that with the loser getting the TV title shot at Season's Beatings (!), Season's Beatings was going to end with the most dominant tag team in QCW history holding up both singles titles, and all you had to do to get him in a festive mood was to let him fight and then hand him a championship afterwards. QCW, the Double Tap League, Europe, it flat out didn't matter: the Immortals took what they wanted, and if they got to throw some hands tonight to give Naz a preview of how his ego parade would come to an end six feet under, even better. The Revenant bumped fists with Einherjar then apologized to Jules since they preferred Enya as their interviewer. With a smile JD3 said you didn't have to explain it to him, then threw to the announce. In turn, they threw it to Enya Face who was filling in for Duck and announced the next fight - a triple threat match for the QCW World Television championship.
| • Jupiter Jones [c] d. Pyotr Caviar and "the Wonderful" Rich Ward in a triple threat match to retain the QCW World Television title 6️⃣ • | This was originally set up over the course of the week online mostly through QTube and a little bit via Elonbook, where Serge Batroc upbraided Jupiter for only facing other weak Americans for the title and challenged Jones to put up the title against a member of the Consortium. Jones readily agreed and picked Rich; Serge clearly didn't want that and offered Pyotr to represent the IWC. Jupiter said if Serge's idea of leadership meant not knowing how to lead, then he was champ at that. Jones offered up a triple threat, which Starr noted early on in the match was lunacy given Ward's experience and Caviar's power.
But Serge's plan to add the TV title to the IWC's trophy case seemed to be bulletproof…until it fell victim to ballistics. Caviar caught a Bolt From Olympus attempt and converted it into a one armed spinebuster. Pyotr then walloped Jones with a Russian sickle, but at 2 ¾ Rich pulled Caviar off the cover and went for one of his own. When Jones kicked out, the sniping began. Serge was furious about Rich going into business for himself, Pyotr was furious over being thwarted for the title, and Rich was salty about the salt of the others since he was also trying to win the belt. Caviar and Ward had words, then shoves.
Then it broke all the way down: Rich slapped Pyotr to the oohs and aahs if the crowd. Caviar felt the blow, made sure his jaw was in place, then spit in Rich's face. Ward angrily wiped off the spit before throwing it on the mat – and drilling Pyotr with a king sized Wonder Cutter. The crowd popped huge as Pyotr got driven into the mat, and Jupiter and Rich exchanged glances before Jupiter pinned Pyotr with Rich looking on cooly while the Consortium lost their minds on the floor. ***
Post match saw Jones get his hand raised while pointing at Rich and giving him some nonverbal dap. Jones went up the ramp pocketing a successful title defense while the Consortium bickering lasted so long that Steve threw things to commercial noting singles gold remains just out of the Consortium's reach.
Back from the break, where Super Avión was headed down to the ring for a match. He complained about having to go to a Commissioner he couldn't stand to try and get justice, but at least he got something out of the deal. Avión stopped the promo to upbraid a fan yelling at him that if he wasn't going to shut his fat face up that he could at least eat that hot dog faster so it'd shut him up and then that way his inevitable heart attack would hurry up and get here, which got the response you might expect in the Arena and nobody chuckled at home, nuh uh. Avión started his promo over only to be cut off by "New Born" by Muse and the arrival of the QCW Unified World Tag Team champions, the Game Changers.
The champions were in a jolly mood, with Al Buffett handing off his shirt to the upbraided fan. Avión's opponent Beckett Carpenter called him a one hit wonder and sarcastically asked that since all of us were on pins and needles for it, when did he think his next win was going to happen? Because if it was going to take him a whole year to win again, someone was going to have to get the RIGHTFUL World's Champ the Tiki God some snacks. Avión's body language showed he might have been the only person unamused by the barb, and Carpenter actually had to stop the next part of their promo to let the crowd get all the "Tiki God!" chants in while the announce put over his winning the battle royale last week and almost getting Naz for the 13 Pounds. Once that'd died down, Carpenter continued, saying that Avión was awfully fired up about Looking Inward tonight. Avión retorted that what he was looking was forward to getting a shot at their belts…a shot he'd get in about five minutes once he pinned Dark Mirror. Carpenter scoffed, then informed Al and Ashley that they could handle this lucha loser on their own. The three of them exchanged dap ups before Buffett and Szabo went back to the back and Carpenter came down to shut up Avión…
| • Super Avión d. QCW Unified World Tag Team champion "Dark Mirror" Beckett Carpenter to earn a tag titles shot at Season's Beatings • | …and failed.
Carpenter came out of the gates hot and had Avión on the floor not three minutes in, cursing loudly in English and Spanish before ripping the facade off the announce table. Avión even kicked the stairs, then started hopping around on one foot, drawing the referee’s attention. The luchador waived off the referee’s asking him if he needed help, and then when Carpenter came to follow up sprung the trap and leaped up with a huracanrana that sent Dark Mirror mask first into the post. Avión then ran Carpenter from barrier to the other side and back again before rolling in and doing a cartwheel. As Avión demanded the ref count Carpenter out, we saw a replay: Avión had not actually kicked the stairs but pulled up his leg then banged his hand against the top of the steps to trick everybody. Starr got a good chuckle out of it at the desk, saying Avión wasn’t going to lose sleep over any tricks he pulled after the past couple of weeks for him and especially with a title opportunity in sight.
Out of the second segment and into the third Avión continued to press his advantage. Yet Carpenter continued to rally in their own right, and managed to somewhat counter a superplex attempt by Avión with a mid-air shift to a Codebreaker that also devastated them upon hitting the mat. Avión was groggy and Carpenter went to make him Look Inward, but a desperate Avión grabbed at Carpenter’s mask and pulled it until it was off kilter and they were temporarily blinded. Avión took full advantage of the opportunity by flinging Dark Mirror shoulder first into the ring post before winning the match with his Aces High avalanche crucifix slam. ** ½
Avión bailed from the ring when Al & Ashley came back on the scene to check on Mirror, but Avión was more than happy to crow from the bottom of the ramp about his multiple wins meaning that maybe HE should be the Unified World Tag Team champions. The Game Changers seethed as Avión cackled heading into the break.
We came back from the break to go to a pretape from Earlier Today featuring Jupiter Jones, being photographed for the cover of QCW Magazine out next Tuesday and posing for the cover at the intersection of the North Pole and the squared circle. Beard lowered, Jupiter sat on a production crate between shots and talked about this time of year being especially important for family found and held. As a few quick clips of his recent career renaissance played, Jones said that even though his boys in West End hated Naz’s ass after the time limit draw BS, Jupiter himself had love for this time of year. And nothing kept on giving like the gift of gold. Jones was speaking metaphorically and literally, as a few shots were snapped of him pulling the World TV title out of a red, fuzzy sack. We had another plug for QCW Magazine before we took things back to the ring.
| • Lucius Patton d. "Swamp Trash" Ted Holland • | Proxy war in the neverending Jones/Tremble feud, which has been going on for the better part of two decades and now enfolds the College Park Family for the sane and the Red, White and True for the star spangled ding dongs. This was actually a stealthily good match between two of the younger guys on the roster so it’s nice to know the future’s in good hands. Early on in the match Drake Tremble got involved and tricked the referee into thinking Benjamin Valentino was guilty, so he watched and cackled as the innocent International Lover got ejected. However, when Tremble tried to dip his toe in that pool again, the referee caught and ejected him to leave Holland and Patton to face off truly one on one.
At the end, a double crossbody spot wiped them both out of the frame for quite a bit, then when they got up they both parried off attacks before both superkicked the other and they fell down almost in stereo to a crowd pop. Both men almost recovered at the same time, but Ted did first and raked the eyes, then a superkick sent Lucius into the corner. Holland draped Patton over the top rope so his ear was against the turnbuckle, then Ted took a couple of steps back before drilling Patton with another superkick to his wide open jaw. He scooped Sweet Lu up for what looked like a running powerbomb, but Patton had enough wherewithal to slip out the back into a sunset flip attempt. Holland countered out, then grabbed the ropes during the pinfall – but the referee busted him. Holland complained to the referee, which put him in perfect position to get rolled up by Patton. This time, the referee missed Patton grabbing hold of the tights on the rollup, and the 3 went to the former tag champ. ** ½
Patton high fived a couple of front row fans and had a few laughs at Ted's expense, who had so much murder in his eyes he forgot to shake the zebra"s hand as he usually does.
Back to the announce, who went over the continuing Collipark/Red, White and True rivalry before getting more serious and providing a medical update on Duck Eko's condition after Naz's attack on him last week. Fortunately, Duck cleared the concussion protocol earlier in the week and the worry he got his bell ring permanently was the worst of it going in; Eko is at home recuperating from his injuries but the current hope is that he'll be back in a couple weeks for the PPV. Starr was especially pleased with the news and seemed to be ramping up to an apology to Duck for not being better back up last week (!!) when Steve cut him off, saying that Jupiter Jones was now back in the ring.
Not only that, but he was commandeering the mic from Enya. The crowd cheered for Jones' unexpected return but he tamped down the cheers and said that while he was happy winning earlier he wasn't in love with the way it all went down. Pierre, sorry, Serge got his bear in to muddy the waters when what Jupiter had been looking forward to all week was testing himself against Rich Ward and it wouldn't be right for him not to deliver on a promise. If Rich felt the same way, he could meet him in the ring.
The crowd buzzed but the curtains didn't part, and there was dead air for a bit before Jupiter offered to sweeten the pot and put his title on the line again which got the audience shocked and awed. There was dead air for awhile longer, then haunting whistling from Rammstein's Engel brought out the Consortium. (The bickering was down by 2/3rds from earlier.) Serge seemed uncommonly pensive, but despite Jason the Terrible's protests, Serge then gestured for Rich to walk down the aisle and accept. Rich double checked, then headed down to the ring. Serge waited a couple of beats and then led the rest of the Consortium to support Rich. As Ward made it into the ring, Jupiter made a gesture towards the back, and the College Park Family came out to help even the odds on the outside. Rich and Jupiter adhered to the code of honor after the bell rang.
| • Jupiter Jones [c] (w/Collipark) d. "The Wonderful" Rich Ward (w/the International Workrate Consortium) to retain the QCW World Television title 7️⃣ • | The opening few minutes of this one were full of veteran babyface pro graps: several nearfalls but way more holds, counter holds, and counter counter holds. The crowd would have ordered another round of this with dessert if they could've, but none of this buttered Serge's baguette. Even without being miced up or even on camera you could hear Serge exasperatedly tell Rich that he had to fight more aggressively, especially with the time limit ticking.
But Rich didn't listen to Serge, saying that he had it under control; while Ward Island didn't materialize in the Arena the Canadian stalwart was winning on points, especially after he speared down a Bolt From Olympus attempt late. The camera changed briefly to Serge's somewhat hesitant cheering before Rich signaled that he was set to slam the door shut. Ward went for the Wonder Cutter but Jupiter wrapped him up and then countered into an inverted suplex. Jupiter avoided a swipe on the outside from Jason the Terrible then drilled his brother with a Bolt From Olympus that sent a string flying from Rich's lips before Ward fell between the middle and bottom rope to the floor.
He spilled out by the Consortium, but when Jupiter went to the outside to collect Rich Serge made a big show of walking towards him with his hands up. The rest of Collipark had Jupiter's back and the Consortium were already in lock step behind Serge. Starr said it must feel like having to look both ways before crossing the street as he dumped Rich in the ring, while the Family and IWC on the outside seemed ready to add a fight outside the ring to the one in it. Jupiter told the Family that if the IWC started something, they'd have to finish it.
Jupiter got back in the ring and started to snatch Rich up, but Ward surprised him by pulling him into a small package for 2 ½. Both men staggered up but Jones' slight advantage in getting to his feet first gave him the window of opportunity to drill another Bolt. Rich remained upright after it hit but went down in sections a second later. As the referee made the count it looked like the Consortium was going to jump in the ring for a save, but a gesture from Serge saw them all get down from the apron while Jones secured the count. ***
Jones pulled Rich to his feet after replays and the two men shook hands again to Serge's displeasure. While the Consortium went back to bickering, Jupiter and the rest of the Family celebrated while Steve put over Jupiter now having made four successful title defenses in the past two weeks, and, yunno, Naz didn't beat him a few weeks ago…maybe…juuuuuuust maybe…
Next week is the go home show before Season's Beatings, but that doesn't mean QCW is taking their foot off the gas:
🌟 Jupiter Jones' quest for 10 continues with another World TV title defense…hell, maybe two again… 🌟
🌟 Based on what went down earlier, Cindy Monet will finally get a one on one shot at Autumn Powers and the QCW Women's World Championship 🌟
🌟 And a king sized main event tag, which would see the Immortals take on the QCW World Heavyweight Champion Nazir el-Fadal and a partner of his choosing. But who the hell would possibly team with Naz after last week…and which one of the Immortals will he be facing for the title at Season's Beatings? 🌟
Steve announced that since the main event was a #1 contenders match, that they would unfortunately be joined on commentary. Starr said if they were going to have Naz come out here, then he wasn't going to be here for it. Sure enough, when Arcarsenal hit we heard a thump on the announce table. By the time Naz and his beam came over Starr was shown leaving the Arena and walking out through the lower level. Naz offered a handshake to Steve, who somehow found a way to be polite while coldly rebuffing him. Naz gave a chuckle and said Steve should be happy trading in a never was for The Only World Champion That Matters! World Champ on the mat and the mic, what could be better than that?
Steve smiled at that, and said while it was….*ahem* nice to be joined by Naz, he wasn't going to be the only one joining them at the table.
Cue Unscripted Violence?
A huge roar from the crowd and an almost equal eye roll from Naz set the table for the arrival of Mason "Razorblade" Savage. Steve crowed that he had gotten some insurance for his safety after the crap Naz pulled last week, so he better act right while he's at the desk. Naz cooly retorted that he had just gotten done whooping Steve's backup twice in a month, so he wasn't sweating it. Of course, within seconds of him saying that Savage was at the desk glaring at Naz. Savage told Naz he was looking for an excuse to drop him, so if he wanted a dislocated jaw he should test him. Naz slowly stood up and held up the 13 Pounds before CACKLING; Razorblade was looking for an excuse to look at his World championship since pretty obviously, he was at the back of the line.
Razorblade and Naz went nose to nose, both seemingly trying to goad the other into throwing the first punch while Steve hilariously, ineffectively tried to get them to be civil.
And any chance of civility went out the window when "Killed By Death" hit the PA, popping the crowd and putting a pin in the el-Fadal/Savage contretemps for a couple minutes.
The crowd roar only grew when it turned out that while they were about to face off, the Immortals walked to the ring together as if they were about to shove another team into a wheat thresher. Both Razorblade and Naz grumbled about the Immortals since they both have had antagonistic backgrounds with the former tag champs. The Immortals didn't forget either, and there was a great shot of Einherjar whispering into the Revenant's ear before pointing at the desk, causing the leviathan to laugh a laugh that would make Terry Jeffords look like Charles Boyle. Razorblade sniped at Naz that it was going to be a fun main event for Naz at the PPV. Naz put on a wan smile and sarcastically asked Razorblade how he remembered what main events were like. Steve sighed and Naz told him that he played himself by bringing Savage out here and what was it with his fetish for ex champions? Does Mrs. Vandeblanche know??
| • | • the main event • | • |
| • the Revenant d. Einherjar in a #1 contenders match to earn a World Heavyweight Championship shot at Season's Beatings; Einherjar receives a World Television title shot at Season's Beatings as well • | QCW’s socials all week long hyped up the dream match nature of the main, with plenty of talk of this not only being a match we thought we’d never see, but one we might never get again.
It’s rare for something pretty widely hyped to live up to the bombast especially in 2022, but this fight did.
Pretty funny bit to start as they shook hands after the bell rang and then immediately tried to hockey fight each other to the increasing roars of not only the crowd but both Razorblade and Naz at the desk. As the Rev started to use his bigger frame to take a little bit of early control, both Savage and Vandeblanche needled Naz about having to face one of them at the PPV. El-fadal said with a shark’s grin that that was why he hoped they destroyed each other in there, just like he destroyed Mason’s title reign at AnIIversary. That started a fresh round of sniping between the forever rivals as the Revenant set up Einherjar in a tree of woe, only for the Norwegian to pull himself up to the top rope when Rev came in with a follow up baseball slide. Naz cackled and said it was a few weeks early for the Nutcracker Suite right before Einherjar followed up with a flying knee strike shot from the second rope and went for the cover.
The Rev kicked out right before 2.
It was that kind of fight.
Naz actually kinda/sorta got his wish as it took nearly 30 minutes for a winner to emerge here – Einherjar slipped a Red Right Hand and countered with a couple of enzuigiris before somehow splattering the Rev with a double-arm DDT, but he kicked out late; Einherjar also got his knees up on a frog splash (!) attempt and executed a trifecta of German suplexes (!!) with the last one bridged, but the Rev got a black cowboy boot on the ropes over the ref’s head but in her line of vision; the Rev landed a Tree of Woe baseball slide and frog splash combination that looked to have things wrapped up and popped the Arena when Einherjar shouldered out at 2.8; the Rev went for another right hand but Einherjar countered into a triangle hold, then transitioned the triangle into a grounded sleeper hold, which the Rev barely survived then slowly powered out of before landing a Tombstone that left both men out on the mat after it hit and the Quality Controllers chanting Queue Cee Dub loud enough to be heard in Cape Canaveral.
The Rev eventually crawled over and got an arm across Einherjar but the Norwegian got out before two and a half as Naz talked about how great a match it was and living up to every one of his hopes and dreams. Both Razorblade & Steve gave him shit about it, and part of the reason a very small part of the fanbase cheers for Naz is his pretty forthright sliminess (shown here when he said the more they killed each other just to get a shot at him the sadder it was going to be at the PPV when they inevitably failed; I know for a fact childhood fan me would have ha ted Naz but was he wrong?). Razorblade started talking about how that was the difference between his reign as The Champ and Naz, which had that tea kettle about ready to boil over before Naz yelled a “Look out!” Nobody believed him, and this really didn’t work out well for Razorblade since it turned out that the International Workrate Consortium (well, not Rich Ward) had come in from the crowd behind the announce, and had suddenly started pounding on Razorblade to Naz’s sheer vile glee. That glee turned when Pyotr Caviar started remembering the last time he saw Naz, and suddenly The Champ wasn’t on commentary but doing the slowest moonwalk ever. Caviar seemed like he was about to catch up to Naz when suddenly the Proper Villains came into the fight, starting with Caviar and then going after the rest of the Consortium to try to get them off of Razorblade. Naz continued to back up the ramp, only to get dropped as a blur raced past him and into the ring.
The blur ran up to the top rope, springboarded off to the parallel top rope, and then Katsuji Ootsuka uncorked another “you know you’re gonna see this in the open” highspot with a beautiful tornillo/spinning plancha onto the Consortium, the Villains and Razorblade. Naz gathered himself up on the ramp while Einherjar laid in a cavalcade of strikes and knees, but the Rev blocked and then spun away a uraken attempt before finally getting to plant Einherjar with that Red Right Hand. Unfortunately for his partner, just because he delivered a chokeslam didn’t mean he didn’t still have him by the neck, and the Rev delivered a second chokeslam – but didn’t win until he finished the string and delivered a third rolling chokeslam that had Einherjar gazing up at the lights. It looked like he tried to get his foot on or under the bottom rope but he was about half a foot short there. Still, absolute great TV match and worth going out of your way to see. *** ½
The Villains, Razorblade & Ootsuka were fighting all over the Arena as “Killed By Death” hit the PA and the Rev got his hand raised, then he pulled Einherjar to his feet. The Rev offered a fist bump, and Einherjar thought it over before following suit. They then turned their attention to Naz as the Rev made A Familiar Gesture around his waist. Naz scowled and held his title a little bit closer to his chest as “B.O.B.” cut off “Killed By Death” and the crowd popped again. Jupiter Jones came out alone (unless you count the TV title) and had a smile too wide to be friendly as he came out onto the ramp. el-Fadal looked in that direction at the man he failed to beat in October, turned his head the other way to see his new 7 foot tall 330 pound newly minted #1 contender and his MMA best friend backup, and you could see the sneer harden across his lips. As Jones closed in – or was it the Immortals – both? – you coud see Naz slowly backing out of the Arena through the little gap between the ramp and the barricade as Ruckus closed out with el-Fadal suddenly having problems that were way bigger than a little Duck.
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