GRPL+ Presents QCW Ruckus [s2e23 • March 31, 2023]

 The last Ruckus of March opened up with a video package that recapped Golden Rule - stills of the Hard Way beating the Red, White and True gave way to "Night Sky" Diana Spare winning an eight woman gauntlet match to earn a shot at the revitalized Crush championship.

Then we got video clips of all the big moments from Portland: Super Avión weathering some early One Man Jihad offense to come back and win clean in the middle of the ring, then el-Fadal quitting the company to the joy of the crowd - Autumn Powers beating both Serge Batroc and Naz to make her case as a favorite for Duquesne Classic winner - Diana Spare taking advantage of an OnlyFitness miscue to land Knightfall on Karyn Tisch-Warren to win the Crush championship - "Superfine" Reggie Strong being introduced to the roars of the crowd and the anger of someone from his past in "Dashing" Pierce Moore, who proceeded to Look Inward and get put to sleep by "Dark Mirror" Beckett Carpenter - the Unified World Tag Team championships up for grabs in a barnburner that saw the Consortium get the belts when a two man ripcord Wonder Cutter saw the Wonderful Ward Brothers beat the Game Changers to hold the gold - the Revenant dominating his ex-partner Einherjar and pinning him with a foot on his chest to be able to cash in his TV title for a shot at the Unified World title - Lolo Vuitton's open challenge for the Women's World Championship being answered by Gaia Green, who put up a game effort before going down to the Bloody Shoe; Lolo crowing she runs this triumphantly while Karyn scowled in the background after her rough night - the main event unification title match which saw both Ashok Banjerjee and El Vengador de Gente Jr. threaten to walk away with the gold, but in the end Razorblade dropped Evan O'Neill with the Soul Crusher to win the Unified World Championship…only for the Revenant to come out and tease a cash in just to double chokeslam both Vengador and Banjerjee before stomping to the back, ceding the ring to Savage.

No open this week, so it's straight to the Arena and setting off the pyro to the raucous cheers of the Quality Controllers.  Steve and Starr welcomed us to Ruckus and immediately got hype in hype mode, mentioning that there not only would be two title matches tonight…those matches might not be the biggest thing to come on the show. 

But they quickly threw things to Duck Eko in the ring, and the longtime ring announcer asked us all to please join him in welcoming the NEWWWWWW Unified World Heavyweight Champion: Mason "Razorblade" Savage!

The pop almost drowned out "Unscripted Violence" as Savage came out with the new title on his shoulder and looked around the Arena before nodding slowly twice and heading down to ringside.  Savage got in the ring and held up the title, causing gold pyro to explode from the ring posts as well as cascade down on the top of the stage in front of the Qualitron 9004.

Savage slapped the title a couple of times and yelled out at the cheering throngs before getting the mic from Duck.

Razorblade gave a small chuckle and said it was pretty obvious that he wasn't the sort of man who came out and asked them what they wanted to talk about - but he was the sort of man who would stand in front of an Arena crowd full of people who had seen him at his best and his worst - and would say to them all one simple, true thing: thank you.

The crowd applauded that before a flurry of "YOU DE SERVE IT! 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼!" chants rang out in the Arena.  Savage gave another chuckle (maybe to disguise the lump working its way down his throat) and said they could forget that noise, because we deserved it.  Nothing against his buddy Vengador or Ashok, and eeeeeverything against that weasel Evan O'Neill – who he BEAT for this, in case you missed it – but to those who doubted him, he thanked them, too.  They helped him channel his rage in Chicago - rage that brought him to QCW.  And what's he done since then?  In a land where everybody fights, he's proven himself not just the best fighter but the Unified Heavyweight Champion of the World.  And he didn't get to this point by dodging any fight; it's part of the reason why his resume says two time World champion, former double champion, and "do not [bleep] with me under ANY circumstances.".  Because the fans get his thanks, his opponents get their souls crushed, and titles go right here on his right shoulder.  Anybody who's got anything different to say about it can come between the ropes and see why the Arena, QCW, and the Unified World title are all property of Razorblade.

Savage walked a little closer to the hard camera and stared it down before "Unscripted Violence" came back on the PA.  Announce put Savage over as the most successful fighting champion QCW had ever seen, and as Savage headed up the ramp the crowd chanted "Razorblade!" at the top of their lungs.  Moments like these were why you braved Parts Unknown for QCW's finest.

Of course, when it comes to Parts Unknown?

Sometimes it's dawnest just before the dark.

All the lights went out in the Arena.  Phone lights went in the air and popped up throughout the Arena until the Qualitron whirred back to life in nothing but red.

"You fight pretty well for a mortal," and even Stevie Wonder knew what QCW star was talking since their gravelly voice sounded like a slow, painful death.  

"But you don't know what it's like to really fight.  Not just yet, little Savage.  Not just yet.

See, Sunday night I looked in the eyes of a man I once called my brother…a man who turned on me with his petty insecurities and desperate need.  And all those things got him was put seven feet under."

The red of the QT9K04 was suddenly gone, since the Revenant had taken his red right hand off the camera lens.  In his bear paw of a left hand, the TV title looked almost like a kid's replica.

"It got me to thinking about how everyone who's tried to take this off me all year have failed - which means the clock is ticking on you, Savage.  You see, if everyone else skulking these halls is out for themselves and I chokeslammed the closest thing I had to a conscience to hell on Sunday night, then maybe it's time to burn all allegiances.  It's not as if I need them.  Maybe it's time I stopped putting kid gloves on and started leaving my mark my way."

The sort of raspy chuckle that usually came from octogenarian smokers rumbled out of the Rev's voice for a few creepy seconds before his eyes stared straight ahead, with a smile far too wide to be friendly.

"After all,. kid, who's gonna stop me?

YOU?!"

That rhetorical got the Rev darkly cackling at his own black joke, and soon his red right hand covered up the camera.  The lights were restored, and Savage immediately swung his belt in anticipation of a blindside attack…but he was the only one on the ramp.  Savage's scowl went to .6 Roy Kent as he shook his head, hoisted the title back over his shoulder, and stomped to the back.

| • Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo (w/”Tiki God” Al Buffett d. “Swamp Trash” Ted Holland (w/the Red, White & True)  • | In ring action started off tonight with half of the now former Unified World Tag Team champions facing off against the creepy Florida Man.  As Ashley made her way to the ring, the announce noted her lack of usual upbeatness and Quality Social rolled out some of Jason the Terrible’s taunts on Twitter with the hard R and the Gram over the Wards’ win on Sunday night that he’d posted during the week over her getting pinned and losing the Changers the belts.

Some people slowly set themselves up to fail when they fight angry, but Ashley Szabo is not one of those people; she went at Holland right from the bell as if he were a third Ward and almost got DQed a couple of times early on for using almost the full five count to throttle Ted in the corner.  It took a desperation Stun Gun from Holland to slow Ashley down and start to move things in his favor, and he dished back out the same sort of flurries of stomps that Szabo had dished out to him prior.  Holland was starting to chain together some moves when the crowd’s reaction suddenly jumped up a couple of levels.  It happened because on the outside the rest of the Red, White & True had suddenly swarmed poor Al and were jumping him – the referee took a sec to figure it out, but then caught their dirty deeds and swiftly ejected both Bobby Bash & Drake Tremble to the joy of the crowd (and Al).  Ashley checked on Al, who told her to get back in the ring and finish the match; she did so to the point that after Al’s pep talk Holland literally didn’t get in an offensive maneuver for the rest of the bout.  A pissed off Szabo wrapped things up by landing not one but two of her signature Smash That Subscribe Button avalanche fistdrops before pinning Holland with her forearm in his face.  ** ½

After replays we saw Ashley posing on a turnbuckle while Al applauded behind her in the ring, Szabo holding up three fingers before making A Very Familiar Gesture around her waist.

From there we went TOTHEBACK~!, where Julius Duquesne III welcomed his guests – the International Workrate Consortium.  The crowd booed loudly but it didn’t concern the IWC, who for the first time in weeks if not months were all in chipper moods (even Pyotr).  Serge smiled at JDIII and asked him if he would like to note that as he promised, the WONDERFUL Ward Brothers are the new Unified World Tag Team champions.  Jason the Terrible cackled with glee as Rich admired his share of the hardware.  Serge added he said that the Wards would win the belts, just as around this time last year he promised to win the Duquesne Classic and did.  His goal was to keep the Duquesne Cup in the IWC’s possession, and he would start that tonight by taking on and defeating that sideshow carnival act Dark Mirror.  Then – Anton would qualify down the road, and despite the fact the insipid fools in the audience didn’t deserve the best wrestling in the world he & Anton would be in the Classic final.  Then the best man would win, and with Pyotr for backup there would be no stopping the Consortium from capturing more accolades and championships.  Viva le Serge and – everyone joined here – LONG LIVE THE CONSORTIUM!  They walked off and Julius threw us to our first big commercial break of the evening.

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| • "Night Sky” Diana Spare [c] d. Winter Wonderland to retain the Crush championship 1️⃣ • | This was sort of a rematch from the Golden Rule preshow, where Spare last beat Wonderland to win a gauntlet match - that earned her the opportunity against Karyn Tisch-Warren on the main show where she won the belt. The new champion got to show off in a showcase against Wonderland, who the announce admitted has looked a bit lost since the slow implosion of Mean Season at the tail end of last year.  It took Diana a little over five minutes to dust a frustrated Winter off with the Nightfall, and post match Spare held up her orange accented title to a hard camera and said her watch had just begun, that the Crush championship belongs to the night…and she wasn’t going to stop there.  **

Announce put over the new Crush champion Diana Spare and noted if she could keep her winning streak going that she’d be able to cash in the Crush title for a shot at the Women’s World Championship.  Steve pivoted from that, saying that while Diana Spare joined a list of great QCW champions Sunday night that there was one major thing in QCW that wasn’t itself a championship – but it was just as valuable and had a rich history.  With a small smile on his face, Vandeblanche said that he didn’t want to tell you when the hard working techs behind the scenes at QCW could help remind you.

This set up a lengthy video package setting up the return of QCW’s premier annual tournament: the Duquesne Classic.  Named for a late tag champion (JDIII’s grandpa) and one of the first Black champions in QCW history, the Classic was a hallmark of 70s and early 80s QCW before being revitalized last year, and we got a couple clips of Serge Batroc beating Summer Rose to win the Duquesne Cup and hoisting it high with a sneer on his face.  

This year, Serge looks to defend that Cup – and that begins tonight.

We got a few highlights of each of the other 15 competitors in the Classic: 

• “Tiki God” Al Buffett

• “Dark Mirror” Beckett Carpenter

• returning to action, “These Hands” Roy Fade

• Ambassador trios champion “the Fury” Jim Jaspers

• the still undefeated Jacques Krieger

• “Dashing” Pierce Moore

• Ambassador trios champion Katsuji Ootsuka

• Atum Pharoah

• Autumn Powers

• Anton “Teknik” Stahl

• Super Avión

• Karyn Tisch-Warren

• [deep sigh] “the Voice of Freedom”, Drake Tremble

• QCW Women’s World Champion Lolo Vuitton

• Ambassador trios champion “The Proper King” Richard Windsor

Random draws have set up the 8 qualifying matches, which begin up next and will take place over a month to determine who makes the 2023 Classic.  But the 2023 Classic has an additional Beat the Clock component to it that previous Classics haven’t had: the three fastest winners of the qualifiers will get to handpick their first round opponent at a ceremony to be held on the April 28th episode of Ruckus.  

The 2023 Classic will be held on May 5th this year – it’ll be an extra special limited commercial interruptions edition of Ruckus - and we’ll get to see who joins Serge and the likes of former Cup winners like “Bigshot” Billy Braggaducci, Josef “the Albanian Cannonball” Lusef, former multi time QCW champion “Cowboy” Jack Powers and Duquene’s former partner “King” Berger (who immediately retired following his tournament win).  On that note, the video package ended.  

Steve threw things to Duck in the ring, who announced with a bit of extra oomph in his voice that the following contest was scheduled for one fall [ONE FALL!] and would be the first qualifying match of the 2023 Duquesne Classic!  The Arena crowd popped big for that, firing up some DU QUESNE! chants before popping hard at Muse’s “New Born” taking over the PA again.  

“Tiki God” Al Buffett came out with Ashley Szabo to the pop of the night, Steve calling Al a dark horse to win the tournament while Starr was more dismissive of Al’s chances.  Al shook hands with the referee and stretched while “Kiss My (Uh Oh)” brought out an even frostier Karyn Tisch-Warren than usual with the rest of OnlyFitness in tow behind her.  Starr pointed out she had every right to be pissed since she’d lost the Crush championship in Portland and now had to see Spare defend it right before she tried to fight her way into the Classic.  Steve managed to put over their hard hitting match from Golden Rule and hype up an eventual rematch before the former #1 contender to the World title & the First Lady of Fitness started throwing shots…

| • Karyn Tisch-Warren (w/OnlyFitness) d. "Tiki God" Al Buffett (w/Ashley "THEE Influencer" Szabo in a Duquesne Classic qualifying match • | Well, this was sneaky good - a well above average TV match worth going out of your way to see.  OF & the Game Changers have had a sort of cold war going on since the muscle mommies got in formation last year, and that came to the head here with Al going against Karyn.  

Tisch-Warren came out with a hot start, throwing hard forearm shots across the bow of the Tiki God.  Karyn used her arsenal to wear down Buffett with back breakers, including a really innovative pendulum backbreaker where she drove Al back first into the top turnbuckle.  KTW went to work on Al and even locked him up with her signature Circuit Breaker.  But Al managed to scrape along the mat and get his hand to the bottom rope, drawing cheers from the crowd and disbelief from Karyn, who had to be told that (at that point) she hadn't won the match.  Tisch-Warren finally listened to her friends on the outside only to walk into a Buffett spinebuster that left them both wiped out going into commercials.

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We came back from the break just in time to see Al bench press powerslam Karyn, drawing a near fall that had some fans dejectedly sitting down in their seats after she kicked out.  Al continued the offense and looked like he was going to win with his Inner Strength.  But as you might expect, OnlyFitness was there to run interference and save Karyn's bacon - that drew in Ashley to have Al's back, especially when she went after the Women's World Champion.  However, with the ref occupied with the two of them fighting, this gave Scott Warren-Tisch an opening to clobber Al over the head with his hydro flask.  Karyn added injury to injury by slamming Al's head off the ring post before covering his limp body in the ring and getting the 3 count.  ***

After replays, we saw Ashley and the ref tending to Al by a set of steps before seeing Karyn make her way up the ramp and smacktalk some audience members about how she was going to win the Classic, when we suddenly heard a male voice ask if this was on and cameras cut to the ring – and “Off Book” Evan O’Neill was in the middle of the ring pacing and almost snarling.  

The now former Evergreen Wrestling League champion had plenty of complaints about Golden Rule, as you might expect.  He lost his title in essentially a handicap match against three other jamokes and now Razorblade is kicking off the show with the big belt when even these backwards Florida inbreds know that the Oracle of Off Book could beat any single chump from QCW in a FAIIIIIIIIIIIR one on one fight.  In fact, he’d prove it right now…and O’Neill made an open challenge to anyone in QCW if they had the brass to come down the ramp to try and prove him wrong.

A few beats of silence followed, and O’Neill laughed and scoffed, saying he knew that there was no way – and that’s Link Wray’s “Rumble”, even though Radiohead’s “Karma Police” would probably be more apropos.  The Quality Controllers roared and the KRIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEGEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRR! Chants fired up as the mysterious man from Atlantic City took his walk down the aisle.

| • Jacques Krieger d. “Off Book” Evan O’Neill • | O’Neill rushed Krieger when he got in the ring, and the bell rang.  Shortly after that, O’Neill got his bell rung – first by a vicious discus lariat, then a pop-up pump knee strike set up the Roll of the Dice.  It might’ve been the longest 21 seconds of Evan’s life.  DUD

He was a snow angel on the mat as Krieger got his hand raised before heading back to the back, the announce cackling heartily over Off Book’s “bad luck” before Starr put Krieger over as a probable Duquesne Classic winner and future champion, Steve not offering a lot of push back against those claims.

From there we went TOTHEBACK~! where Enya Face said hi to everyone before bringing on her guest - Super Avión!  

The crowd gave the luchadore a big pop as he walked onto the set looking marvelous in a tailored suit with subtle gold pinstripes.  Avión kissed Enya's hand before apologizing (for ripping off Raul Julia, I guess) and asking her to proceed with the interview.  Enya put over his win on Sunday night and said that his win made Nazir el-Fadal quit QCW…and that was as far as she got before the crowd pop took over for about 15 seconds.  And that got followed up with "Thank you, Avión! 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼" chants.  Avión thanked the Quality Controllers for the love, and Enya asked him after winning the Unified World Tag Team championships and essentially retiring Naz, what does he have next to accomplish in QCW?

Avión said that next week he would be facing off against "Dashing" Pierce Moore in a Duquesne Classic qualifying match, and he liked his odds – he spent Golden Rule retiring a QCW legend and Moore spent it being haunted by old friends and getting put to sleep.  He can call himself the Face of QCW, but that's only because Avión has too much respect for tradition to show his own face; and as for style?  Well, Enya, the last he checked, you couldn't get a suit this exquisite from a vending machine.  Avión did a slow pirouette while some fans cheered and Enya smiled before he smoothed his lapels and said that next week he proves he's better than Pierce Moore in every way and then he tries to move the Duquesne Cup from France to Mexico.  ¡Viva Avión!  Enya thanked him for his time and he smiled at her before she teed up the last big commercial break of the evening.

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Duck announced the second Duquesne Classic qualifying match as up next…

| • “Dark Mirror” Beckett Carpenter d. Serge Batroc (w/the International Workrate Consortium) in a Duquesne Classic qualifying match • | …and Serge's chances of repeating as Duquesne Cup holder don't even get a chance to take flight; in fact, they exploded on the runway.

Carpenter marched proudly down to the ring having finally shed themselves of Pierce Moore at Golden Rule by putting himself to sleep; meanwhile, the leader of the Consortium was so sure of himself that before walking down the ramp he gave the rest of them directions to stay in the back, that he had it.

He did not.

Carpenter pressed Serge from a second after the bell rang and showed no fear about the height and weight discrepancy they were facing.  Batroc bailed to the floor, but that didn't save him from eating a bulletproof Mirror tope that sent him crashing into the barricade right before we got in a few commercials.

We came back from the break but suddenly we saw Serge in control, and replays would tell the tale of what happened During The Break.

What happened During The Break?  This: Serge got the boots up on a Mirror corner charge and then used that opening to German suplex them into the corner.

Back in live action, Serge's sneer got wider and wider as he opened up his lead.  He even leaned over the ropes a couple of times and yelled at the announce that the Cup wasn't moving an inch off of his mantle.  Serge threw Carpenter around the ring with a few more suplexes then called for the denouement.  It started off looking like a textbook Arc de Triomphe right until Carpenter countered it with a rewind rana that spiked Serge's head into the mat.  Carpenter barely moved after pulling it off, and Serge wasn't doing much better in his own right.  Batroc got to wobbly feet first and went back to continue the attack…and Carpenter planted him with a picture perfect Fresh To Death out of the ether that crumbled Serge.  Carpenter let out a triumphant yell and called for the end, then hit a springboard rewind rana that turned Serge into an M before he flumped onto the canvas.  Carpenter made the cover and secured passage to the '23 Duquesne at the expense of the '22 Winner.  ***

A cut to backstage showed the Consortium (even Rich) looking shellshocked before we went back to the ring where Carpenter proudly held their fist high and walked to the back.  The leaderboard showed that their win happened faster than Karyn's, and remember that this year the three fastest qualifier winners will get to pick their first round opponent in the Classic.  Serge sat despondent in the ring, looking just as shell shocked as his compatriot in the back.

Before we got to the main event fight for the World TV title, the announce hyped up a bunch of big matches to come on next week’s episode:

📺  the winner of the main event (let’s be honest, probably the Rev) will defend the GRPL+ World TV title 📺

📺 “Night Sky” Diana Spare will once again defend the Crush championship 📺

📺 And two more Duquesne Classic qualifying matches will happen: Super Avión will face off against “Dashing” Pierce Moore in one; in the other, Ambassadors trios champion “the Proper King” Richard Windsor will face off against “the Voice of Freedom” Drake Tremble 📺

Tremble's a former TV Champ, but his reign was a short one - the Revenant was look to make history by officially becoming the longest reigning TV Champ to date.

| | • the main event • | |

| • the Revenant [c] d. El Vengador de Gente Jr. to retain the GRPL+ World Television championship (becoming the longest reigning TV champion to date) • | And make history he did, racking up another win in under half the time limit.  Vengador managed to stick and move and land some shots in the opening couple of minutes, but he went for a springboard something or other; the Rev punched him out of the air and dropped him like a bad habit.

Then the rout was on: the Revenant stood tall and started firing off chokeslams a couple minutes after he landed the right.  People seemed into the first couple, but as Vengador quit moving and the ref got more animated, a spate of boos could be heard bubbling up in the Arena.  Rev hears you, Rev don't care, and a half dozen chokeslams later he pinned Vengador with a foot on his chest the same way he did to Einherjar on Sunday.  There wasn't as much cheering this time, though.  **

Post match saw the Rev hold up the title overhead before grabbing hold of Vengador by the arm and dragging him behind him as he stepped over the ropes (poor referee, poor unlistened to referee).  Leaving the GRPL+ World TV title on the apron, the Revenant snatched up Vengador in a goozle and looked like he was going to chokeslam the luchadore into the ramp.

All things considered, it was a perfect time for "Unscripted Violence" to ring out over the PA, and out walked The Unified Champ, announce putting over his friendship with Vengador that grew over the past few weeks.  The Rev smiled darkly, tossing Vengador to the side as Razorblade started smacktalking the TV champ, who waved on the thunder from Savage.  Razorblade didn't hesitate and started coming down the ramp…when the lights went out.

The lights came back on – but there was no Revenant.  Razorblade looked around, everyone did.  But wherever the TV champ was, it wasn't in sight.  A pissed Razorblade and the ref looked over a decimated Vengador as the credit box popped up and Ruckus drew to a close.

Golden Rule 2023 PPV (Veteran's Memorial Coliseum • Portland, OR)

 

  Preshow:

1.  #1 contenders Crush championship gauntlet "Night Sky" Diana Spare last defeated Winter Wonderland
2.  The Hard Way d. the Red, White & True [w/"Great American" Bobby Bash (Goodish Down to Earth Holland -> pinfall)
   

Main Card

• Super Avión d. Nazir el-Fadal (Air Superiority -> pinfall)
• Autumn Powers d. Serge Batroc (Hazy Shade of Autumn -> pinfall)
  
• Autumn Powers d. Nazir el-Fadal (Hazy Shade of Autumn -> pinfall) 
• CRUSH CHAMPIONSHIP: "Night Sky" Diana Spare d. Karyn Tisch-Warren [w/OnlyFitness] (Nightfall -> pinfall) #AndNew
• "Dark Mirror" Beckett Carpenter dtko. "Dashing" Pierce Moore (Look Inward)
• QCW UNIFIED WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS: the Wonderful Ward Brothers (w/the International Workrate Consortium) d. the Game Changers [c] (R. Ward Wonder Cutter Szabo -> pinfall) #AndNew
• ladder the GRPL+ WORLD TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP: the Revenant [c] d. Einherjar (Fall From Grace -> Red Right Hand -> pinfall)
• open challenge WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: Lolo Vuitton [c] (w/OnlyFitness) d. Gaia Green (Bloody Shoe -> pinfall)
  
• fatal four way QWIC UNIFIED WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP:  Mason "Razorblade" Savage [c] d. Catch Hell Wrestling League champion "Boundless" Ashok Banerjee, Lucha Salvaje Campeon del Mundo El Vengador de Gente Jr., and Evergreen Wrestling League champion "Off Book" Evan O'Neill (Soul Crusher -> pinfall O'Neill)

GRPL+ Presents QCW Ruckus [s2e22 • March 17, 2023]

 LAST WEEK ON RUCKUS:

• The Unified World Tag Team champions the Game Changers & the #1 contenders the Wonderful Ward Brothers couldn’t even get through a singles match without throwing fisticuffs ahead of their titles match at Golden Rule

• The Evergreen Wrestling League champion Evan O’Neill intentionally got himself DQed quickly against Lucha Salvaje’s champion El Vengador de Gente Jr. early on and ran him & QCW down until The Champ made the save to set up tonight’s main event where O’Neill & a partner of his choosing will face Vengador & Razorblade

• The Revenant beat Super Avión to once again retain the GRPL+ World TV title, then Nazir el-Fadal further hurt Avión by smashing him over the head with a TV camera before putting his limp body into the Black Lotus and it took security to pull him off

Usual open, then we got a flurry of green pyro from and in front of the Qualitron 9004 and the always *ahem* enthusiastic Quality Controllers welcomed us to the last episode of Ruckus on GRPL+ before we heard from Steve Vandeblanche and S. Mark Starr.  Our longtime announce team hyped up the big interpromotional tag main event and Steve promised that he'd have a very special interview on tonight's program, but he threw things to Duck in the ring (plenty of fans in the crowd matching his usual green attire).

With a little less oomph in his voice than usual, Duck announced the first Pick Your Poison match of the evening.

Cue Arcarsenal.

As the Highlight Reel of Horrible Things rolled behind him on the QT9k04, Nazir el-Fadal stomped down to ringside and ignored the crowd being ⅘ths against him.  He took a moment to wipe his boots on the apron before coming into the ring to hop on a middle rope and glare out into the crowd while GRPL+ Helpfully Reminded Us That Last Week, Naz had vanquished longtime rival and Unified World Tag Team champion "Tiki God" Al Buffett with an unholy avalanche Saito suplex.  Returning live to the ring we saw el-Fadal sitting on the top turnbuckle right before "Aces High" popped up on the PA and popped the crowd.

Super Avión came out in a suit that probably costs more than my rent and set things up for anyone who hadn't been keeping up with QCW's online; later on tonight, Naz will pick his opponent…but right now, he gets to pick Naz's, and whomever wins in the fastest time will get to pick the stipulation for their Golden Rule match.  And Avión didn't even have a choice to make; so many people hate Naz that the first person to offer themselves to Avión was who he chose. 

Avión pointed to the back, and "This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us" came on to a big pop, putting a smile on Avión's face and causing Naz to roll his eyes before "Dark Mirror" Beckett Carpenter came out wearing a Razorblade shirt.  el-Fadal rolled his eyes even further upon seeing another longtime rival and Buffett's longtime buddy coming to get their pound of flesh.

The bell rang and Carpenter tried to start off hot with a Superman punch, only for Naz to calmly drop down and roll out of the ring before cackling at the announce team.  el-Fadal then turned around and ate a tope that sent him flying into the edge of the desk and Dark Mirror almost over the whole thing to the roars of the crowd. 

| • "Dark Mirror" Beckett Carpenter d. Nazir el-Fadal in a Pick Your Poison match • | Hot opener here that resulted in a low-level upset, but before Carpenter got their hand raised we had almost three segments of PPV level action between the enemies.

Carpenter continued their hot start and continued to press their advantage against Naz, who repeatedly yelled out in frustration about being put on the back foot.  Again Naz tried to bail after a few minutes and Carpenter went for a second tope but this time the former World Champ cut it off with a well-timed leaping knee that left Carpenter hung out to dry between the ropes on the apron.  With a sadistic grin, el-Fadal got to the apron himself and Irish whipped Carpenter into the post, their shoulder making a dull thud against the steel before they fell to the floor.  

The arm became Naz’s focus once that happened, and he went to work targeting it with torques, kneedrops, even joint manipulation.  The crowd started to rally behind Carpenter as they came out from under and caused some separation, but when they tried to distance themselves el-Fadal suddenly snatched them up and dropped them on their head with a big Saito suplex for the first nearfall of the match.

Noise from the crowd only got louder as Super Avión came back out and started firing them up further to stoke a Mirror comeback.  Naz took a swing at Avión on the floor before going back to try and lay out Beckett, but they dodged and Naz hit the post, then Mirror managed with their 1 ½ good arms to get el-Fadal over in a Saito suplex of their own to pop the Quality Controllers and sort of hit a reset button on the match.  

With Avión excitedly pacing the floor, Carpenter launched a comeback in earnest, at one point slipping a second Saito suplex attempt before launching a discus back elbow that got them a two and a half.  Carpenter didn’t hesitate when Naz kicked out and launched a series of hammer and anvil elbows before going for Look Inward, but Naz powered out of the attempt before launching them into the middle buckle and then following up with his Sudden Death Sling Blade Flatliner hybrid.  Avión pounded the mat to try and rally the former Unified Tag Team champion but Naz quickly scurried to his side of the ring and stomped on his hands to the boos of the crowd.  Naz sneered and cackled – and got snatched up by Carpenter, who threw him into the ringpost head first to the crowd’s enjoyment.  Dark Mirror shut things down after they pulled that off, and did so with a nod to their past in finishing things off with the Inner Strength of Al Buffett to set up the Smash That Subscribe Button from the top rope and fellow (ex?) partner Ashley Szabo.  Carpenter went for the count and Naz got his foot on the ropes, but Avión kicked it off before the referee noticed and the three count got made.  ***

Avión clapped and applauded from the floor while Carpenter got their hand raised;  Dark Mirror walked over to a camera and told Pierce Moore he just saw them beat a former everything champion around here, so what did that mean for him come Golden Rule?  Avión headed to the back and Carpenter followed suit without following him, leaving a livid Naz to complain to the referee about his foot being on the rope.  The zebra tried to point out that he hadn’t seen it, but Naz rolled his eyes, threw up his hands disgustedly and stomped to the back himself swearing that he would get his revenge later in the show with his own Pick Your Poison choice. 

After that, Steve told Starr that he’d be right back, and left the announce table.  He grabbed the microphone from Duck and entered the ring.  He thanked the fans both in the Arena and at home for supporting QCW, and mentioned that one of the reasons so many fans support QCW is that it has some of the finest fighters in the world, and if you manage to stay undefeated in QCW for months, well, guess what?  You’re an elite fighter.  And some have said that there is no more elite fighter in QCW right now than his guest right now – the man some call One Eye - Jacques Krieger!

Link Wray’s “Rumble” came on over the PA and Krieger strolled out to a big pop, his face unreadable as he headed into the ring and gave Steve a small nod.  It didn’t take too long after Rumble died down for the KRIIIIIIEEEEEGEEEEERRRRRRR chants to start happening, and a small smirk spread over Jacques’ face in response.  Steve put over his dominant undefeated streak before apologizing for asking the most obvious question on his and everybody else’s mind: what’s next for Jacques Krieger?

Krieger cleared his throat, and said he knew what wouldn’t be next – Golden Rule.  The biggest PPV in company history and somehow he’s on the outside looking in.  But that’s fine by him – he doesn’t want to be on a PPV beating a schmuck or even two schmucks back to back again, there’s greener pastures ahead for Krieger.  On the other side of Golden Rule is a big, big tournament in QCW – the Duquesne Classic.  Big pop for that, and even a few "DU QUESNE! (clap 👏🏼 👏🏼)" chants went out over the Arena; Steve & Krieger let them chant for a bit before One Eye continued that since he didn’t have to make the trip to Portland he’d stick around and get ready for the Classic, because as much talent as there is in QCW, the only one around here who’s undefeated is him.  BIIIG pop there.  So if there was a big tournament to win, with big money and a bigger spotlight, then Krieger was going to win it, because Jacques Krieger WINS.  It took a couple beats for Steve to realize Krieger was done talking there, and Steve wrapped it up by asking the Quality Controllers to give it up for Krieger (of course they did).  Krieger gave Steve another nod and left, and as Steve headed back to the table Starr put over Krieger and said if Krieger could live up to his promises, he had to be the favorite going into the Classic.

As the announce talked up Krieger’s record and the possibility of him entering and/or winning the upcoming Classic, the lights went out in the Arena.

“Killed By Death” rang out over the PA, popping the Quality Controllers even before the GRPL+ World TV Champ (the Revenant) came out to defend his title.  With only a few more defenses left until he can cash it in for the World title shot, Starr bragged about how he’d been calling that the Rev would win the TV title, have this kind of reign, and how he was probably the next World Champ.  The Revenant stood center ring and slowly held up the belt to even a bigger pop, and then startled the crap out of poor Duck when he asked for the mic.  Duck smartly handed it over quickly and bailed from the ring just in case, as the lights came up and the TV champ started to speak – saying that he knew he was supposed to wait until Golden Rule to get his hands on that slimeball Einherjar, but people know how he feels about waiting, so if his ex partner had the stones to get his ass kicked a few days early he was more than eager to get to his 10, sooo…

…what no one was expecting was for “We Made It” by Drake & Soulja Boy to pop up on the PA, and for the Wonderful Ward Brothers to walk out with Rich several steps behind Jason the Terrible, who had a mic of his own in hand.  Jason said for a normal man they’d be happy that they were about to become Unified World Tag Team champions with their brother, but not him: he was owed a TV title shot tonight and not only was he going to get it, he was going to shock the world and do what no one else thought possible in beating the Rev.  The crowd booed that loudly, but got interrupted by the dark laughter of the champ, who’s response was a “....well…you can try” before spiking the mic and waving Jason on.  The Albertan scoffed and power walked down to the ring to back up his words.

| • the Revenant d. Jason the Terrible (w/"the Wonderful" Rich Ward to retain the GRPL+ World Television title 8️⃣ • | He didn’t, of course – no one has come close to the Rev in his TV title reign and despite the fact Jason gave the Rev some early problems, sooner rather than later the champ cornered the Consortiumite and starting teeing off on him.  Even Rich couldn’t take too much joy in the beating that the Revenant eventually dished out, with Jason getting thrown around the ring from one side to the other on multiple occasions.  Once the Rev got a goozle on, the beginning of the end was in the air.  Jason went up and down the chokeslam elevator four times and after the 4th Red Right Hand was delivered, he stayed down.  ** ½ 

Replays fired off of the Rev’s impressive strikes and chokeslams but were suddenly cut off and we went back to the ring, where Einherjar was jumping the Rev from behind and keeping the big man from getting fully vertical, landing a knee strike that sent the Rev down in a heap by a corner.  Einherjar demanded the mic from Duck and said that he didn’t feel much like waiting, either, so if he was done flossing with that pretty boy he could come get a fight from a real man.  The Rev rasped out that someone like Ein had no idea what a real man consisted of, but he’d find out the hard way now.

| • the Revenant ddq. Einherjar to retain the GRPL+ World Television title 9️⃣ • | Except no.

The former partners fought at a fever pitch for several minutes, the crowd repeatedly oohing and cringing as the bombs flew from both men early and often.  Einherjar landed a tornado knee strike at one point but the Rev bench pressed his way out at two and continued to bring the offense against his former Immortal.  It looked like even Ein was going to be another victim that didn’t even meet the halfway mark of the time limit when the Rev rocked him with a back elbow and then goozled him — but instead of eating the Red Right Hand Einherjar just kicked him right in the tombstones to cause the DQ.  **

Ein quickly set upon the Rev with some strikes and knees before grabbing the mic from Duck and saying that he must’ve been knocked loopy…his shot was at Golden Rule, and it would be at Golden Rule when he ended all the hype about the Revenant and showed who the true engine of the Immortals was.   Ein laid in a shot with the mic and tossed it away before heading to the back and chuckling grimly.  The Revenant shoved off the referee’s attempted help and started getting to a knee to glare at his former second – but Einherjar just gave another chuckle, made A Very Familiar Gesture around his waist and headed to the back while we headed into a commercial break.  

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We came back from commercials to the lovely Enya Face and the far less lovely International Workrate Consortium.  Enya was in the middle of asking Serge Batroc a question when Anton asked if he could interrupt, with all due respect.  Serge thought it over but eventually ceded the floor, and Anton said it was sadly typical he could see her typically naive question coming.  So here were the answers: the Wards were 48 hours away from becoming the Unified World Tag Team champions and on Sunday night Serge would continue to show why he was the man who held the Duquesne Cup.  Now onto more immediate matters – Rich Ward would make his way to the ring and show why the Unified World Tag Team championships would soon belong to the Consortium.  Jason asked Serge if they would be accompanying them out, and Serge rejoined that that's what he was born to do.  Rich gestured to Jason to follow him out, but Jason took his sweet time in fulfilling the assignment.

| • "the Wonderful" Rich Ward (w/Jason the Terrible) d. "Tiki God" Al Buffett (w/Ashley "THEE Influencer" Szabo • | The Wards are headed towards a Unified World Tag Team titles shot against the Game Changers at Golden Rule, one that only got more steam behind it when Jason & Ashley ended up getting double DQed last week in their singles fight.  This is the other side of that equation, and while things didn’t end up as chippy as things got between Jason and Ashley it was a) hard-hitting and b) pretty solidly dominated by Al, who himself had some extra steam carrying the Changers’ banner into the tag titles fight.  Buffett used his strength to put Rich on the back end and with Ashley exhorting him from the floor it looked like the Tiki God was going to deliver the ultimate aloha with his signature Inner Strength (an avalanche delayed uranage slam).  However, Al got Rich up, then suddenly found himself fighting Rich and even worse, losing: Rich landed a couple of sudden European uppercuts and then flew off with an avalanche Wonder Cutter that sent both of them crashing hard to the mat and freaked out all the Quality Controllers.  RIch managed to get an arm over Al’s shoulders, and Buffett kicked out; unfortunately for Al, that kickout didn’t come until almost 5.  ***

After replays we went back to the ring, where Ashley was checking on Al while Jason gingerly got in the ring before celebrating his brother’s sudden victory, the announce surprised that Jason was even celebrating before Starr noted their growing closer as they got even closer to winning the tag titles.  Jason continued taunting the fallen Al, which pissed off Ashley as you might expect.  She got in Jason’s face and Rich eventually recovered to try and play peacemaker.  Rich did his best but within 30 seconds of that another Pier 4 was happening between the Wards & the Game Changers; this time, the fight went to the champs, with both Al and Ashley getting the upper hand on the Wards and eventually clearing the ring of their future challengers.  The Wards recovered on the ramp with Jason complaining that they took advantage of the Revenant’s work earlier while Buffett & Szabo stood in the ring smacktalking them, Unified World Tag titles each in a hand of a Game Changer and we got the chyron hyping their tag titles fight come Golden Rule.

From there we went TOTHEBACK ~! where Julius Duquesne III was standing by with "Dashing" Pierce Moore.  He got booed, looked salty about the fact that he was getting booed – and then immediately got jumped from behind by "Dark Mirror" Beckett Carpenter, sparking a brawl that went through the backstage area for a couple of minutes.  Both threw hands, both managed to bounce the other's face off a vending machine (good thing it wasn't glass) and it looked like they were content to fight all night until the purple shirts ran out and broke up the fight, both of them vowing they were going to take the other out at Golden Rule while the Quality Controllers chanted for Mirror and we headed into commercials.

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Back from the break we saw OnlyFitness getting their pictures taken backstage, both Lolo Vuitton and Karyn Tisch-Warren flexing and posing with their belts with Lolo in the foreground.  We saw Scott Warren-Tisch clapping for them but his applause was soon joined by some more, and you could see the shock on both faces of the muscle mommies as they were joined by Commissioner Scott Holmes.  

Lolo walked up to the Commissioner but he sort of bypassed her to talk to Karyn for a minute.  Vuitton scowled behind him as Holmes congratulated Karyn on the institution – what was he saying? – reinstitution of the Crush championship!  It was great to see her bring it back and have (he used the finger quotes, not me) "title defenses", but if the Crush championship was going to truly be back, then they were going to have to talk about what that meant for Sunday.

Because Sunday is Golden Rule, where every championship is on the line, so if Karyn is serious about this belt – she immediately assured him that was the case – then she was going to have to defend it for real.

Karyn wheeled on Lolo, who gave her a great WTF look in response.  But Holmes continued, saying that on the preshow for Golden Rule there would be a gauntlet match, and whoever won that would face Karyn for the Crush title on the main card of the PPV.  That got rid of Lolo's RBF behind him as the Commissioner started to leave, but after being off camera for a couple of beats he ran back into the frame, saying he forgot one last thing, and this would affect them both: the Crush championship would return with a bit of a bonus perk.

A la the GRPL+ World TV title, if a Crush champion could register 10 straight successful decisions that meant that they could cash it in for a shot at the Women's World Championship.  Holmes thanked them both and gave them best wishes for Sunday before leaving them to the photoshoot.  Karyn looked down at the Crush championship and looked both nervous and psyched for a bit.  She looked up and Lolo was smiling at her.  Mostly positively (at least it seemed that way, but your mileage may vary).

Next, we got the semi-recurring This Week In QCW History segment, and the ones here are pretty seismic and are both anniversaries, coincidentally enough – on this date in 1960, a young Olympian named Cassius Clay was on hand for the ground breaking ceremony for the OG Quality Arena.  He made a possibly mocking challenge to former QCW champion Paddy O’Grady, but the match never came to pass because young Clay was well on his way to not only winning the gold medal that year but several heavyweight boxing world championships; you probably know him better as Muhammad Ali unless you’re a barber in Queens.  And on St. Patrick’s Day 1984, certain Saudi-loving suddenly mustachioed assholes tried to buy QCW like they bought everything else, but found a truly independent wrestling promotion that wouldn’t sell out to him then, now, and forever.  

Back inside the Arena, Iron Maiden’s “Aces High” fired up over the PA and fired up the Quality Controllers, who gave Super Avión a good pop as he came out for the second Pick Your Poison on the evening in the driver’s seat.  Avión was posing on the buckles when Arcarsenal came back on the PA and brought out a borderline frothing Nazir el-Fadal, who was salty over losing his own PYP match earlier let alone to Carpenter, of all people, who essentially owed their career to him.  

Of course, the career of Avión didn’t have too much more left to it – he was going to get beaten into the ICU – again – by Naz at Golden Rule, who would be picking up the scraps left behind by his hired assassin for the evening.

"Engel" by Rammstein brought out Pyotr Caviar from the International Workrate Consortium, and Avión's head dipped a little bit in the ring while on the ramp Naz gestured towards the Tijuana native as if he was offering Avión up on a plate in a fine restaurant.  Caviar stomped down to the ring while Naz let out one last cackle and disappeared into the night, Avión looking up at possibly the only man on the roster who could match power with the Revenant.  

The bell rang and the early minutes saw Avión deploy a stick and move strategy against Caviar, while Starr noted on commentary that the quicker the match went the more likely things were to go in the luchador’s favor as a result.  Avión landed a few dropkicks that wobbled Caviar, but the big Russian surprised Avión by following him into the ropes at one point only to bounce back with an over 300 pound crossbody that almost ended the match right then and there; since it didn’t, commercials rolled.

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We came back to Pyotr almost ragdolling Avión in a bearhug while we noted that at ringside both Serge Batroc & Anton Stahl of the Consortium stood proudly, goading the fans as to how well their enforcer was doing.  Avión found a sudden surge of energy and landed a flurry of elbows to the top of Pyotr’s head to get free, only to eat a Face Eraser when he tried for a headscissors.

Most of the rest of the match went that way, with Avión not really being able to pull together a sustained offensive until he dodged out of the way of a corner charge and Pyotr went flying into the post.  Avión eventually landed a trio of missile dropkicks, the third of which actually dropped Caviar fully to the mat and barely got Avión a two count.  Still, the Tijuana native rode the momentum and continued to fly around the ring, leaving the bigger IWC man disoriented and pawing at the air.  Sensing defeat coming, Serge & Anton went in for distractions and backup – but Avión sent Anton flying and then the same for Serge.

That was the exact moment Nazir el-Fadal sprinted to and slid in the ring, the moment Avión turned around and saw him coming, so the One Man Jihad pulled a diagonal and rolled out of the ring.  Avión kicked at him from the ring…then walked right into a perfect Hit My Music that got Pytor the win.  ** ½ 

| • "the Tracksuit Tsar" Pyotr Caviar d. Super Avión in a Pick Your Poison match • |

Naz smiled a Cheshire cat’s grin and sauntered to the back while Pyotr got his hands raised and replays fired off.  

Before we got to the main event, Steve & Starr made sure to run down the card for Golden Rule (this is the go-home, after all).  The preshow will feature the Hard Way going up against Ted Holland and Drake Tremble of the Red, White & True.  And as announced by Commissioner Holmes earlier, there will be a eight-woman gauntlet match with the winner facing off against Karyn Tisch-Warren for the newly reinstituted Crush championship on the main card itself.

And not for nothing, but the main card will be the biggest PPV in QCW history.  

✨ ✨ They could barely be in the Arena at the same time earlier tonight; it's style vs. substance when “Dashing” Pierce Moore faces off against “Dark Mirror” Beckett Carpenter ✨ ✨

✨✨ Tired of being little sistered and belittled, Autumn Powers wants to make the leader of the International Workrate Consortium Serge Batroc eat his words, but can the former two-time Women’s World Champion stop the French Assassin? ✨ ✨

✨✨ Former tag champs collide and since they cost each other matches earlier, theoretically it’s a straight up one on one but the bad blood is going to boil over when Super Avión goes up against the Grand Slam winner Nazir el-Fadal ✨✨

✨✨ In addition to the Crush championship, there will be four other title matches on the show – but who’s going to answer Lolo Vuitton’s open challenge and try to dethrone her as the Women’s World Champion? ✨✨

✨✨ the Wonderful Ward Brothers will try to bring the Unified Tag Team championships to the International Workrate Consortium by beating the Game Changers, but Al & Ashley take too much pride in being the flagbearers to let the Canucks just take their belts – are the Wards returning to championship glory or will Buffett & Szabo continue their reign as the best tag team in QCW? ✨✨

✨✨ We got a tease of it earlier but it’s going down for real in Portland – Einherjar tries to take the GRPL+ World Television championship from his ex-partner; you know, the most dominant TV champ of all time, the Revenant.  Does their former association give Einherjar the upper hand he needs to win the belt or will he just be another victim the Rev puts six feet under? ✨✨

✨✨And the biggest PPV in QCW history deserves the biggest main event in QCW history, so how does a champion v. champion v. champion v. champion unification fight grab you?

"Boundless" Ashok Banjerjee, the Happiest Warrior and Catch Hell Wrestling League's man at the top of the mountain - the abrasive "Off Book" Evan O'Neill from Evergreen Wrestling League who's such a prick he might not even get cheered in his backyard - we all know The Champ, Razorblade - and Lucha Salvaje's Campeon del Mundo the steadfast El Vengador de Gente Jr.  

Four men walk in champions but only one can walk out Unified World Heavyweight Champion.  ✨✨

But that's Sunday fighting, and right now ¾ths of that main event are going to be involved in another one with (hopefully) less acrimony…but when the Quality Controllers saw that “Do It For the Kids” by Velvet Revolver was bringing out Evergreen Wrestling League champ “Off Book” Evan O’Neill, those hopes got dashed right quick.

O’Neill riled up the QCW fans as he made his way to the ring, with both Anton and Pyotr cocking fists ready to defend QCW’s honor…until Serge stepped between them and shook O’Neill’s hand while the EWL Champion cackled and Starr & Steve were aghast at the announce desk over Serge throwing in his lot with someone who’d done nothing but smacktalk QCW for weeks. Anton looked disgusted and Pyotr looked peeved as Serge tried to placate them, pointing towards the entryway as “Unscripted Violence” came on over the PA and the crowd roared.  “Unscripted Violence”, of course, meant Mason “Razorblade” Savage – The Champ.  The Champ who last summer made it so that Serge could never contend for the QCW World Title by beating him clean in the center.  Savage stood in front of the QT9K04 and stared down in the ring, the crowd’s raucous cheers not seeming to affect him at all while Batroc and O’Neill threatened him from the ring.  Savage started to walk down the ramp way and that was the moment his partner El Vengador de Gente Jr ran in from the crowd and jumped O’Neill from behind.  Savage sprinted into the ring to keep his partner from eating too much of a 2 on 1, Batroc was there to throw hands against his longtime rival, and the brawls began in earnest while the crowd roared.  

| | • the main event • | |

The brawls continued for the first couple of minutes, which wasn’t shocking; what was was the fact that apparently due to teaming with O’Neill, Stahl’s face went from  conflicted to hardened, and he eventually walked away from ringside while Serge was checking Razorblade’s ring size with his face.  Pyotr Caviar looked confused and kept switching his glances between the departing Stahl and Serge taking a beatdown in the ring, but eventually broke out into a light jog trying to catch up with the impressive German.

Batroc and O’Neill proved to be plenty annoying, but some of the wind seemed to go out of Serge’s sails when he saw himself suddenly the only representative of the Consortium out in the Arena (the Wards not having been seen since their own brawl earlier).  This lead to O’Neill upbraiding Serge, who obviously wasn’t a fan of an ugly American trying to lead any team he was a part of.  Thanks to fate, circumstance and his mouth talking thousands when his body only had tenners, O’Neill found himself getting a true welcome to QCW at the hands of The Champ, who took occasional moments to glare at Serge before continuing the offense on Evergreen’s flagship.  Razorblade made O’Neill eat his words and looked to have things finished off when Vengador tagged himself in right when it looked like a Soul Crusher was going to finish the job.  But Vengador wanted his revenge for last week and Savage let him get it, the Lucha Salvaje Campeon del Mundo snatching up the Oracle of Off Book before launching themselves through the air with a spectacular Spanish Fly that won them the match, with Razorblade keeping Serge at bay during the pinfall.  ** 1/2

| • El Vengador de Gente Jr. & Mason "Razorblade" Savage d. "The French Assassin" Serge Batroc and "Off Book" Evan O'Neill • |

But wait - there’s more!

Vengador was the only one getting his hand raised by the ref, and then he quickly broke that off to try and get Savage off of Batroc.  Serge will never stop hating Razorblade and vice versa, so pretty soon the well meaning Vengador caught an accidental back elbow from Savage and went sprawling.  The reaction of the crowd was the only thing that got The Champ’s attention.  He turned around and cursed himself before trying to help Vengador back up, who suddenly didn’t trust his now former partner and future opponent.  However, it was his past opponent Serge who’d signaled to the back, and after a bit of a delay out came Anton, Pyotr and Jason the Terrible.

The Consortium foursome took turns double teaming both champions until a buzz grew in the crowd and turned into a roar – someone was coming to try and save the day for the good guys, and that someone was Autumn Powers, who made a beeline to the ring and went right after her Golden Rule opponent in Serge.

The Quality Controllers popped big as Autumn started to get the upper hand on him before helping out in evening the odds, but a massive Russian sickle from you know who turned her into a snow angel on the mat, and with the numbers advantage the Consortium continued their beatdown on Savage, Vengador and Powers with no end in sight.  All three of them were getting folded up when the lights went out.

The crowd buzzed for a couple of beats before something louder than they were popped up on the PA: “Killed By Death”.

And out marched the GRPL+ World TV champion, and as Starr yelled excitedly on the broadcast if you wanted to even the odds, you couldn’t do better than the Revenant.  With the sides being equally joined at four a piece, to the shock of nobody ever four separate brawls broke out around the ring, in the ring and in the stands with the Consortium and O’Neill having varying degrees of success in their fights with Savage, Vengador, Autumn and the Rev.  Steve excitedly got in one last bit of hype for Golden Rule but Ruckus went off the air with everybody still throwing hands and the Controllers chanting Queue Cee Dub!