LAST WEEK ON RUCKUS:
Former TV champion Jacques Krieger said he was bringing in a figure
to help him start fixing QCW this week
“Night Sky” Diana Spare attempted to cash in the Crush championship
on Women’s World Champion Karyn Tisch-Warren only to be thwarted
by former Women’s World champion Lolo Vuitton, who laid out
both Spare & her former partner KTW
“Dark Mirror” Beckett Carpenter beat “These Hands” Roy Fade to win
the GRPL+ World TV title in a barnburner main event
The requisite pyro and hype work from Steve and Naz were interrupted by “This Town Ain’t Big Enough For The Both of Us” blaring over the PA, followed by a hearty pop for new GRPL+ World TV champion Beckett Carpenter. They bounded their way to the ring and motioned for the mic from Duck Eko.
“This time, I earned it.”
The crowd applauded. Naz scoffed.
“The Duquesne Cup is no longer a poisoned chalice. This shiny belt no longer reflects my flaws. I won this belt fair and square. I used to call myself the fairest one of all when I was bullying the Storybookers around, but what did I know about fairness?
“If I were truly fair, then I would be offering Ashley and Tiki a shot at the title, since they are every bit as good as I am. Say the word, loves, and I’ll make it happen…"
Those may have been Carpenter's intentions, but "Pray For Me" meant that the new champ wasn't going to get everything they wanted right away. The Tron parted and Roy Fade matched out to boos, but he opted to mean mug in front of it before addressing Beckett.
He said that the TV title wasn't supposed to get traded around between everyone stupid enough to join their little fan club, it was supposed to be around his waist. So their little friends weren't going to get title shots since he was exercising his rematch clause here tonight because These Hands wasn't done just yet, and he'd make history again when he became the first ever FOUR time TV champ. The crowd booed severely while Carpenter scratched the top of their head and continued on.
“Well, that was an awkward transition. Speaking of things transitional, let’s talk about your three TV title reigns. Even though you held the belt for less time than it took for Naz to bray out a promo, you still won the belt more times than anyone else. So, you can have your rematch. After all, it’s only fair.”
Carpenter turned briefly towards the announce and winked at Naz, who grew fangs for four seconds after that happened. Then they directed one last bit of repartee at Fade.
“Now shoo.”
Fade shook his head and tossed the mic aside before pointing at Dark Mirror. Based on the gestures he was making, he seemed to be threatening to shut them up once and for all. Fade disappeared through the Tron as Siouxsie came back on the PA and the crowd popped for the new TV champ.
As they headed up the ramp after making Fade retreat, "Aces High" by the Maiden hit the PA and brought out Super Avión to a decent pop. Mirror turned around as the luchador came out, and as he hit where Carpenter was they wasted little time in staring each other down. Carpenter gave Avion a finger gun gesture and raised the title a little bit higher on their shoulder & Avión eye fucked it for a bit before leaving Mirror and heading to the ring.
As Carpenter headed to the back and Avión fired up the faithful in the ring, we got a picture in picture of Avión cutting a promo in the back Earlier Today. He said that as nice as it was teaming with Crusazdo del Oro, just like everyone else he was watching all the chaos over the TV title and it had been too long since he was a champion. He was up against Krieger tonight, but QCW's biggest secret right now was that Krieger had already burnt through his best stuff. He wasn't undefeated - wasn't TV champ anymore - so if he was so desperate to fix something, he should start with his career. A career that was going to have another L in it by the time he introduced him to Air Superiority. Avión chuckled to end the promo and in live time let out a cackle while he stretched out in a corner.
"Rumble" hit the PA to boos, bringing out Jacques Krieger with a devious glint in his one eye. He simply stood to the side of the Qualitron and waited, and it didn't take long until we found out what he was waiting on…
…the sudden reemergence of S. Mark Starr.
It was Steve who let out a "What the hell?!" at the desk as Krieger extended his hand to Starr. Starr shook and gestured to the ring before following the mystery man from Atlantic City down the ramp. Steve was still in shock over his former broadcast partner coming out and seconding Krieger while Naz dismissed it as "a has been leading an almost was". Krieger and Starr hit the bottom of the ramp just in time for Avión to hit his opponent with a perfectly placed tope suicida that popped the crowd and actually made his ex partner Naz bust out laughing, since it proved his point. Avión took in the crowd cheers before wheeling and threatening to slap an approaching Starr, who almost backed into and over the steps as a result. Avión quickly pivoted back to Krieger and tossed him into the ring before waiting on the apron for him to recover.
Once he did Avión sent him ass over teakettle once again by hitting a springboard dropkick, and Krieger ate both boots before rolling out of the ring. Avión out a finger in the air and hit the ropes; it looked like he might try a second tope but this time Krieger moved around the corner. Unfortunately for the former TV champ, Avión spun between the ropes instead of hitting the tope – then hit a spinning plancha that popped the crowd even more.
Starr beat his fists against the apron and then headed over towards where Avión was pulling himself up. He had his fist clenched right up until Avión stood over him, at which point he was all open hands and smiles. Avión nodded a few times and then grabbed Starr by the lapels, at which point Krieger ran up behind him and shoved the Tijuanan into the ring post. Krieger checked on Starr while Avión writhed on the floor, and after making sure he was okay he went to work making sure Avión wasn't. He hoisted Avión over his shoulder and cinched him up before hitting Avión with a running powerslam into the barricade before rolling in the ring and dusting off his hands to boos. Replays played as Avión struggled to pull himself up on the floor, barely getting into the ring at 9.
Krieger had his way with a weakened Avión after that point; the slam into the barricade had done too much damage and Krieger worked over his back with some hard short range knees. By the end of the match Avión was flailing and missing while Krieger was taunting him. The end mercifully came when Krieger batted away a punch attempt and knocked him loopy with a rising palm strike that turned his east north. Starr told Krieger to end it and he didn't have to tell him twice - a Roll of the Dice later, Jacques had secured the W. ***
| • Jacques Krieger (w/S. Mark Starr) d. Super Avión • |
Starr refused to let the referee raise Krieger's hand since he was there to do it himself, then demanded the mic from Duck. Starr paced around the ring while Krieger stood behind him, saying that he was here at the behest of the only man who even cared to reach out to him after he quit: Jacques Krieger. Bad enough his so called replacement got to stand here in this ring and desecrate the championship, and even worse, the new network wanted him to work with that piece of crap. All of these morons in the Arena were lapping up G+ Kool-Aid and cheering while he was gone like he'd never existed, the same way they cheered when Mirror screwed his employer out of his undefeated streak, the Duquesne Cup and the TV title with one MASSIVELY ILLEGAL chairshot. This is what QCW is in 2023? Scumbags like Naz sitting pretty with six figure salaries and Carpenter getting cheered while holding a belt they knew they didn't deserve? He saw it reading the results at home while these people and this company turned their backs on his charge and he realized the best thing to do for QCW was to fix it. That's what he is: a fixer. This place thought they could turn their backs on them, they were going to find out how unlucky a place called Parts Unknown could be. Because once they fixed QCW for the better, they'd be the ones having the last laugh. Krieger spit on the mat as Starr tossed the mic to Duck Eko.
Steve was still stunned about the reemergence of his ex partner but eventually highlighted the fact that a former QCW champion would be teaching such a rising star and former TV champion. Naz scoffed and said "Yeah, if you can't win then both by yourself." Steve rolled his eyes before throwing to a commercial break while el-Fadal put his custom Chucks up on the desk, leading to Steve hitting them with his notes right before the camera faded to black.
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| • Drake Tremble (w/the Red, White & True) d. Atum Pharoah • | Unfortunately we came back from the first break to Atum already in the ring and "Stranglehold" over the PA to bring out the cosplaytriots. Even more unfortunately, the former QCW and TV champion kept things on his side of the ledger from the ringing of the bell - he hit and ran and ran some more, and just when it seemed like Atum was going to make him pay a handy eye rake or something of the sort would materialize and keep "the Voice of Freedom" in control. On the outside, Bash and Holland's taunts eventually turned into punches behind the referee's back…at least until they got caught and ejected.
Tremble complained about this to the zebra but his distracted focus allowed Atum to snatch his weaselly ass up and throw him around the ring a few times. After a kickout, Tremble lashed out with a chop block that sent a screaming Pharaoh tumbling down to the canvas, and he worked over the leg for the remaining minutes of the match until a weakened Atum fell victim to the Truth Bomb and got pinned. **
Tremble celebrated his way up the ramp after replays and was greeted by his sycophants allies on the ramp, all three bragging about how great the Drake is. WOOF.
After that, we got another stinger to hype up the imminent return of the College Park Family; this ran a little longer than your average stinger to give everyone in the squad a bit of the spotlight. We saw the odd couple tag team of Jane Doe and Cindy Monet together and winning matches as Science Fiction Double Feature - we saw Benjamin Valentino busting his ass to undo his retirement after suffering neck injuries a couple of years ago a thing of the past - and as usual we saw young prospect Lucius Patton sitting under the learning tree of who some call Mr. QCW: Jupiter Jones, one of the few Triple Crown winners in league history and someone who might end up with his own wing in the Hall of Fame. An Instrumental of Gasoline Dreams played in the background as the Family walked in slo mo towards and then past the camera, their signature maroon and cream colored logo popping up before we returned to the Arena.
"you should see me in a crown" hit the PA and the Controllers popped for the Crush champion Diana Spare. But she power walked her way not into the ring but over to Duck, who handed over the mic to her. Spare gave a nod, and quickly got into the ring to cut a rare promo.
She held up the belt and asked if everyone could see it; after the crowd roared she said it was her first championship and it meant everything to her. And being Crush champion for so long gave her a little pull. Usually what happened was someone stood across from her and she put them down, but tonight wasn't going to go like that - she was calling someone out, especially after the crap that went down last week. Lolo has the nerve to be in the Arena after she ruined her cash in attempt last week? Well, now she was going to ruin Lolo's face, and she was willing to put the belt up if it meant she could get her hands on Lolo and show an ex champion how someone who could hang onto her title did things.
The crowd didn't stop oohing before the Tron parted and a Jimmy Butler jersey dress wearing Lolo ran down to the ring, and the announce couldn't hype up a potential confrontation before Vuitton hit the ring and both women started throwing hands to a loud if mixed reaction from the crowd. Vuitton peppered Spare with some tight forearms and went for her Bloody Shoe, but a defiant Diana dodged it and sent Lolo over the top rope and out to the floor. Spare pounded the apron before lighting Lolo up with some kicks and got her in position for what might have been Nightfall but Lolo powered out, then shoved Diana into the steps. The Tron parted again as a ref ran out, explaining the situation to Lolo before asking her to get in the ring. Lolo didn't agree to it until the referee told her that it was officially a title shot she was getting…and then she turned around and Diana slammed the side of the top half of the stairs into her face. The referee started to read Night Sky the riot act and got five words in response:
"Ring the [naughty word alert!] bell, then."
The ref stared at her for a handful of seconds, then did just that.
Diana gave him a crooked smile…then picked up Lolo by the shoulder and arm and threw her into the barricade, splattering her across it before the former Women’s World champ went down in a heap. Spare snatched her up and bieled her into the LED boarded portion of the apron, then threw her back into the barricade, then back into the apron, then back into the barricade. Spare rolled in the ring and hopped to the second turnbuckle to bathe in the (mostly positive) response absolutely stone faced, just breathing fire before she hopped down and rolled back out of the ring.
Spare came to the floor and Vuitton immediately snatched her by the head before bouncing her face off the barricade – and the apron – then the barricade – then the apron – back to the barricade – apron – barricade – apron – barricade – then Lolo hooked Diana by the head and ran up the apron before spiking her into the floor with a tornado DDT that popped everyone, even Naz. Vuitton leaned against the barricade to gather herself and gulped a little air before tossing Spare into the ring and covering her with a leg hooked; Spare shot out at 2.1.
It was that kind of fight.
Vuitton continued her offense and literally laid a series of kicks in to Diana that sent her diagonally across the ring before sweeping her leg out from under her and stomping away on Spare in the corner. Vuitton let out a high pitched scream before setting up the Bloody Shoe and taking Night Sky’s head off.
Except.
Except the part where Spare caught Vuitton’s kick and lifted her up into powerbomb position. Vuitton punched away at Spare, trying to get free, and Spare seemed to be sagging under the weight of the blows when she powered up and powerbombed Lolo into the apron from the inside of the ring, drawing some well earned “Holy shit!” chants from the Controllers as Lolo splattered across the apron and replays of the apron bomb started firing off. In real time, Vuitton was sluicing out to the floor. The referee checked on Lolo, then went back to the ring where Spare still hadn’t fully recovered herself from the beating she took before pulling off the move. While the referee checked Diana, Lolo started to recover on the outside – then Scott Warren-Tisch shoved her into the steps and she went down in a heap. Scott ducked out of sight of the referee as they started the standing 10 count, with Diana slowly scooching in the ring towards the ropes. The Tron parted and out walked International Lotus with smiles far too wide to be friendly. They got to the bottom of the ramp just in time for the referee to hit 10 and name Diana the winner via a countout… ***
| • “Night Sky” Diana Spare [c] dco. Lolo Vuitton to retain the Crush championship 1️⃣2️⃣ • |
…right before Lotus hit the ring and swarmed Spare. She managed to get a hold of Scott briefly but Sohla Patel & his #1 Karyn Tisch-Warren saved him from taking an offensive move before dishing out some of their own – Patel eventually dropping Spare with her signature Ninth Incarnation before Karyn locked her in the Circuit Breaker accented with a knee in the back of the head while Spare was crying out in pain on the mat. Patel snatched up the Crush championship and began whipping Diana with it, and this drew all the referees out from the back to stop International Lotus. Karyn and Sohla finally got peeled off of Diana and they were busy celebrating their way up the ramp –
–but the crowd popping alerted them that something behind the had changed the tenor in the Arena, and it was a rare appearance from Commissioner Holmes on the Tron. He looked more than a little piqued when he said that he was enjoying the Crush championship match before they ruined it, and then tried to ruin Diana with the benefit of a sneak attack. Well, next week…next week they wouldn’t be able to have that in their back pockets.
Sohla and Karyn exchanged glances on the ramp as the Commissioner continued, saying that next week they would be facing both Diana and Lolo in tag team action – and not just any tag team action. For the first time in QCW history there was going to be a Double Jeopardy match – and since Diana was the Crush champion, if she was pinned in under 15 minutes, then whichever member of International Lotus pinned her would win the Crush championship. BUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTT
If Diana or Lolo pinned Karyn – then they got the next crack at Karyn and the Women’s World Championship.
The crowd cheered this while Sohla looked offended and Karyn looked a little concerned. Holmes added that, of course, that we could just skip to Karyn having to defend her title in maybe a triple threat or a fatal four way next week if Lotus didn’t get the hell in the back right now. The crowd’s oohs made this an early 90s Fox audience for a few beats, but Lotus quickly talked amongst themselves and speedwalked to the back while Diana and Lolo recovered in and around the ring. Announce put over Holmes announcing the first ever Double Jeopardy match in QCW history next week and chalked it up to the depth and levels of competition in the women’s division before we threw things to commercials.
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We got a pretape from Team Batroc, mostly interspersing a highlight reel of them working together as a precise unit in winning matches and wiping out former ally Anton Stahl while for obvious reasons, Serge cut a promo.
He talked about how crucial it was for him to regain tag gold, and how since he was charged with the development of young Pyotr he took the responsibility even more seriously to give them both championships around their waists. The castoff Ward Brothers would finally fall under his eye and if they didn't want to hand over the belts, then he and Pyotr would simply take them. Next week they got their rematch and without the referee looking to knife them in the back, the universe would go back to unfolding as it should: with he and Pyotr ruling over the tag team division for years to come. Viva la Serge - and long live Team Batroc.
Hour 2 kicked off in ring action with "Fly Like Me" escorting "Dashing" Pierce Moore to the ring. GRPL+ Helpfully Reminded Us That Last Week Moore made a challenge to the Game Changers for singles action this week and Ashley Szabo immediately accepted; not done there on the evening both of them got involved in Dark Mirror's eventual TV title win with Szabo hitting Moore with his finisher for the second straight week.
Moore got lippy with the referee patting him down as Muse's "New Born" hit the PA to bring out THEE Influencer and the Tiki God. They rode a wade of cheers as they walked down the ramp, Al focused on aloha with the fans and Ashley looking to knock the Baron of Beverly Hills down another peg. The bell rang and things were about to go down when the Qualitron 9004 parted and out walked Shelley LaVey, recent tag partner of Moore and someone who Pierce clearly has an eye for. (Apparently his good taste extends past finishers and his hysterically deep closet.)
The crowd buzzed as she stood in front of the QT9K04 and waited to see what came next. Al started to make his way up the ramp and as Ashley encouraged him, she got blindsided by Pierce because of course she did. Moore started to stomp away on Szabo as Al's attention pivoted back to the ring and Moore pushing his shady-ass advantage.
LaVey didn't make any moves towards the ring but Moore opened up the match clearly looking to impress her. At one point during the proceedings, Moore was standing on the back of a fallen Szabo's head and waved to the former Forbidden Book Clubber as he milked the zebra's five count. LaVey didn't change her expression, but when she suddenly disappeared after a couple more Dashing offensive maneuvers, he was in control.
That didn't last much longer after she left, as Ashley not only got her boots up in the corner to fend off an offensive charge from Moore but quickly snatched up her fellow Californian off the recoil and planted him into the mat with a nice tornado inverted DDT. It took a while for Szabo to cover afterwards and Moore shot out at 2 ½, but he soon found himself on the wrong end of more offense from The Woman Of A Trillion Likes.
Right up until a desperate Moore raked her eyes and dropped her with a Fresh To Death. The crowd deflated as Moore got his revenge, relaxed his way into a cover…and then Ashley countered with a crucifix that kept him on the mat for 3.1 seconds. ***
| • Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo (w/”Tiki God” Al Buffett) d. “Dashing” Pierce Moore • |
Szabo rolled out of the ring while the crowd popped and Duck announced her as the winner - Moore spent some time complaining to the zebra before looking like he was about to burst into tears, honestly. Al helped Ashley to her feet just as she was getting her hand raised while Steve put over her recent winning streak. A chagrined Moore could only watch the Game Changers celebrate their way up the ramp before taking a long sit on the apron. Other officials ended up cajoling him to the back after a minute or two so that the show could roll on.
| • Danny Castle & Martin Williams d. Blockhead Ferguson & Cliff Foster • | Perfectly cromulent tag action here - Foster is late of Evergreen Wrestling League and the NFL before that, so hence the team with Ferguson. Foster is rough but shows promise; unfortunately for him his teammate was named Blockhead and proved it by tagging himself in right when the perennially green-eyed Foster had just started putting together a string of moves. Castle and Williams then spent the rest of the match keeping Ferguson from tagging out before he tapped to their double submission with an inverted Boston crab and a crossface. **
Still silent, Castle and Williams picked up their slightly bloody THE END IS NIGH signs before going back to wandering the concourse. Steve hyped up the main event to come on the other side of the last commercial break of the night.
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We came back from the last break of the night to the announce, where Steve started to get the hype train a-rollin’ on next week’s episode with three title matches on deck:
📺 the Unified World Tag Team titles rematch will happen between Team Batroc and the champions, the Wonderful Ward Brothers 📺
📺 For the first time in QCW history, there’ll be a Double Jeopardy match – Crush champion Diana Spare will team up with longtime rival Lolo Vuitton to face International Lotus - Sohla Patel & the Women’s World Champion Karyn Tisch-Warren; if Karyn gets pinned, that woman will get a World title shot - if Diana gets pinned in under 15 minutes, that woman will win the Crush championship. Karyn could walk out with two belts or titleless; Lolo could become the first ever three-time Women’s World champ; Diana might finally be able to cash in; the ever scheming Sohla could walk out with a revenge win over Diana and take her title…a lot of options on the table for this pivotal match in the red hot women’s division 📺
📺 And the GRPL+ World TV title will be on the line once again – but we don’t know who’ll be walking in champion until we get done with… 📺
| | • the main event • | |
Last week it was Carpenter v. Fade in the main event with the TV title on the line…but then Fade was the champ and Carpenter challenged. This week wasn't last week, a thing that got further underscored when Fade interrupted Duck's introductions and landed a cheap shot right hand that dropped Carpenter to boos. Dark Mirror shook it off as best they could and called for the referee to get things started but it looked like a pretty big mistake, at least early on in the fight.
Fade teed off on them in the corner with body shots, with Mirror only able to offer some short kicks to the thighs in response a couple of times before going down in a heap. The announce put over Fade's Golden Gloves history while he tried to punch his way back to the belt and occasionally threw in some heel shenanigans like raking Carpenter's eyes with the ring ropes. Fade got the first nearfall of the match off of a counter, where he just alley ooped a charging Mirror and let them eat the mat full force.
Naz had just gotten off a couple of sarcastic comments about the TV title changing hands in back to back weeks when Fade went to throw a kick and Carpenter caught the leg before backing up a couple of steps and slamming it across the top turnbuckle. Carpenter managed to land a couple of kicks to the thigh before a Fade right hand knocked them between the ropes. Fade took a couple extra seconds to recover before going out to bring Mirror back in; as he came back to the apron the champ gave him a hangman that stunned him before bringing him in the hard way with a dragon screw leg whip. Carpenter looked to follow up with a heel hook but before they could get it firmly locked in Roy caught them with a kick to the face. After he connected with that he went for a falling back suplex and hit it…but came up limping.
Fade tried to go on offense for the next couple minutes after that - but Carpenter parried away his offense and continued doing whatever they could to target the increasingly bum wheel. Mirror tried a Look Inward but this week These Hands managed to Lawn Dart them without accidentally taking out a ref. Fade gave them a massive rabbit punch to the back of the head and with Carpenter groggy on all fours, Down Came the Kneepad.
Fade charged forward with the Decision but crumpled in a heap not even four steps into his run. Carpenter pulled themselves up and launched themselves at Roy, hitting the Code Red. Mirror locked their arms together around Fade's stronger leg while their feet were right across the shoulders in position. Even Steve sounded surprised when he realized he'd counted to 3 just like the ref had. ***
| • “Dark Mirror” Beckett Carpenter [c] d. "These Hands" Roy Fade [c] to retain the GRPL+ World Television championship 1️⃣ • |
Carpenter fell backwards on the mat as the crowd popped and Duck made it official; a livid Fade spun Mirror around and cracked them with their own headbutt. A frothy Fade bieled Beckett across the ring and looked like he was trying to put more feeling in his leg before revving up another attempt at the Decision.
This time his leg didn't crumble.
This time Autumn Powers came back from the injured list to almost Pounce him out of the ring, and the whiplash across the ropes put These Hands in position to eat all of a Hazy Shade of Autumn while the crowd roared. Fade bumped out of the ring and Autumn looked down on her handiwork before walking over to the corner closest to Duck and demanding the mic.
Once Autumn got done talking, nothing in QCW was ever going to be the same again.
"There they are, everybody! The World TV Champion, Beckett Carpenter! You know, after all that, there's really only one question that should be getting asked right now..
...who in the eighth circle of Hell do you think you are?"
The crowd oohed at this while at the announce desk Naz let out a quick hiss that had the words "Wreck. Them." in it.
Autumn continued on: "Because the day after Mayday Payday should have been the greatest accomplishment of my career, and I only got to enjoy it until I opened up my phone." Powers shook her head and her face darkened.
"I opened up my phone and saw I was a joke, because YOU handed me a title and thought that made us even."
Powers marched up to and got back in Carpenter's face.
"So I'll ask you again - who the hell do you think you are?
Because the only reason you're champion in the third place is because Roy took advantage of my injuries after the street fight in the second place which you could have won in the first place. But no. You thought your insecurities and whatever static is in your head got to overrule a title, and that's how I know you're not ready for this.
Because unlike you, I know what it's like to be a leader. I know what it's like to be a champion, because the division you thought you were too good for but in reality were too scared to hack it in?"
Passengers, please be advised, the pilot has turned on the Gangsta Shit sign, so don't walk around the cabin unless you want to catch a stray.
Carpenter suddenly found their voice, saying "I made that division. I RAN that division while you let Mean Season fight your battles for you while you were off playing softball or whatever the hell it was you were doing!"
This got a loud, mixed reaction from the Controllers, which turned into a massive pop when Powers put a hand up in their face and informed them "I.
Wasn't.
Finished.
Now SHUSH!" Carpenter fumed as Powers continued to spell things out for them.
"Right up until the Duquesne I couldn't have cared less about your limited series where Dark Keruoac goes off to find themselves -- then all of a sudden here you come, deciding who's going to be champ and who's going to get title shots.
NOPE.
You think beating Roy twice makes you a champion?
NOPE.
But since this month you want to be a champion, you're going to find out just what it takes. Because I didn't come here to save you out of the goodness of my heart, sorry - I came out here from Holmes' office and he's not the only one not in love with what you did at Duquesne or Mayday.
You playing Invisible Sky Chief with the division is over. You dodging me for two years is over.
Starting next week, you're going to find out what it really is to be a champion. Starting next week, it's going to be me and you.
Not just next week, either."
No one knew what that meant, so it was a good thing Autumn let us know.
"It's going to be me and you in a BEST OF FIVE SERIES FOR THE WORLD TV (that's a swear) TITLE!"
The roof came off the Arena as Carpenter's eyes narrowed to slits and Powers went forehead to forehead with them.
"You don't step between these ropes and hand me a title -- I step between these ropes AND TAKE PEOPLE'S TITLES FROM THEM.
It's a shame you're still finding out who you are, because I already know who you are:
The person who's ass I kick next."
Powers shouldered into Carpenter on her way out of the ring, causing Carpenter to bobble and then drop the TV title in the ring while Mota came on over the PA. The Controllers and Steve lost their minds as Carpenter put their hands on their knees before starting to reach for their belt. Powers marched up the ramp without looking at the explosion she left behind; so far as she was concerned every step she took got her that much closer to next week's show - kicking off the inaugural Best of 5 - and kicking some righteous ass on the way back to the World TV title.
We'll catch you next Friday night; same Ruckus time, same GRPL+ channel.
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