LAST TIME ON RUCKUS:
Lucius Patton won a battle against Serge Batroc but Team Batroc won
the war by laying out both of the International Players after his win
Cindy Monet retained her Crush championship and continued her
push towards 10
Autumn Powers retained the GRPL+ World TV title over Jacques
Krieger in a hellacious street fight
We got the usual open this week, ending with a red right hand holding the Unified World Heavyweight championship before we zoomed into Quality Arena. The Controllers were packing the place and plenty loud as pyro went off on and over the stage, and as Steve Vandeblanche starting making the introductions something weird happened – Nazir el-Fadal got up from the desk.
He walked over towards Duck and piefaced him before stealing the mic and walking up the stairs into the ring, and Steve was as clueless as the rest of us.
“Ladies and gentlemen!” started off the Grand Slam winner. The Controllers stopped buzzing and started cheering before Naz continued. “Oh, I almost forgot – we’re live from the Quality Arena!” More cheers greeted that, cheers that Naz met with a response.
“What I should have said was unemployed pimps and welfare mothers–” You knew what Naz was when he picked up the mic, what did you expect “--it’s not as if you deserve it, rabble, but as usual your favorite award winning commentator goes above and beyond to bring greatness to QCW that your tiny minds can’t comprehend and bring some joy to your sad little lives. I stand here between these ropes tonight to announce that after weeks of negotiations and another nice little pay bump, that next week will see the debut episode of the Nazir el-Fadal Show!”
This got the mostly negative reaction you’d expect; a cut to the announce desk showed a grim faced Steve shaking his head by contrast to the borderline Jokeresque grin across his partner's face in the ring.
“Now unfortunately as part of this deal I must also announce that my first guest will be [deep sigh] darkmirrorbeckettcarpenter.”
The crowd popped for the former tag and TV champion as Naz scowled before continuing.
“But rest assured, the Only Color Commentator That Matters will be sitting here across from them, asking them the only questions that matter, and if I don’t like the answers…” el-Fadal scratched his head and smiled a grin far too wide to be friendly. “...well, if I don’t like the answers, it’s a little bit more ratings gold for GRPL+. Besides, Mirror’s used to me cracking them a few by now.
Enjoy the show, rabble!” Naz tried to peg Duck with the mic by throwing it at him from the ring before giving a big wave with two hands flashing the peace sign on his way back down to the desk. Steve shook his head as Naz sat down and put on his headset, wondering how Naz had gotten this deal without him hearing anything about it, and el-Fadal said simply “Some of us keep the ship afloat, and some of us are luxury yachts, Steve-O.”
Fortunately for all of us, the Nazir el-Fadal Show wasn’t until next week even if he kicked off this one for a low level bombshell, and Ruckus began with a title match that could lead to a bombshell in its own right…
| • Autumn Powers [c] d. "These Hands" Roy Fade (w/"Dashing" Pierce Moore to retain the GRPL+ World Television championship 🔟 • | Fitting that Autumn hit her 10th defense (and can now cash in for a shot at the Unified title) against the man who’s held the World TV title more times than anyone else, and had his own legacy to protect in this one.
Fade fought like it, too, using his size advantage and Golden Gloves background to get the upper hand in the opening chunk of the match. These Hands took full advantage of the corners, teeing off on Powers with flurries of body shots; when Autumn tried to stymie those he used his reach to rake his forearms across the face and especially the bridge of the nose to the standing Final Woman. Fade broke when the referee made him but then absolutely blasted Powers with an uppercut that sent her spilling between the ropes and to the apron. Again, Roy was astute enough to talk to the ref and say that he wasn’t outright cheating, just hitting hard – but in the background you could see Pierce Moore undercut Autumn on the apron and send her face first to the apron, causing the Controllers to burst out into boos. Fade feigned innocence some more, then got a running start and slammed into Autumn to send her to the floor.
The crowd was getting increasingly salty as Fade waved on their boos and held up four fingers (in advance of his expecting to win the title here). Pierce Moore was clapping on the outside with his dirty hands but soon he wasn’t the only one clapping – the Quality Controllers started to pop as Gaia Green and Winter Wonderland came down the ramp and checked on Autumn, who was piecing herself together on the floor. They had a quick huddle, and Autumn got to her feet before saying something to her compatriots.
And just like that, Beauty & the Beast Mode had to deal with Mean Season.
Gaia and Winter went after Pierce for interfering, Autumn got in a Donnie Darko pose before marching back to the ring and up the steps as the crowd got louder and louder. Roy waved her on.
He would eventually regret it.
Pierce managed to scramble away from Gaia just to bump into Winter, and you didn’t need to glance at your phone to know it was Ass Whoop O’Clock for the Baron of Beverly Hills; as Gaia and Winter double teamed him on the floor (I’m pre-emptively BONKing you, I’m a wrestling fan and can smell my own), Autumn came into the ring and dared Roy to punch her in the face. Fade scoffed, swung and missed, then Autumn caught him with a flash Meteora and started laying in some punches from both sides of the plate to cheers.
Autumn rode the momentum from that for most of the rest of the match while Mean Season took care of Pierce Moore on the floor. It looked like Powers was going to put Fade away and went for the Hazy Shade, but Fade ducked it and hit her with the Stun Gun to send her sprawling. Fade got an evil grin on his face and lowered his kneepad to set up the Decision, but when he flew forward to deliver the kneelift Autumn spun away from what the moment of impact would’ve been to plant him into the canvas with a poisoned rana that made sure Fade wouldn’t walk out of the Arena a 4x TV champ – Powers went for and drilled the Hazy Shade so hard Fade’s limp body went flying into the corner and she had to pull him out of it to win the match and secure #10. ***
Mean Season joined Autumn in the ring as she got the belt and they all hugged while green and gold pyro exploded on the stage, the Qualitron announcing in words what the pyro did in explosions. As Autumn got lifted on the shoulders of her friends who wasted no time showing her off to all four sides of the ring, announce noted that the countdown was on as to when she’d cash in - and that the Revenant was in the Arena for his main event fight against Razorblade tonight. Curiouser and curiouser…
After we saw Autumn and Mean Season head to the back all smiles, we got a pretape from Commissioner Holmes, who apologized for the events that ended last week's show before saying that none of the women involved would be featured on this week's programming as a small form of recompense. But they all had pivotal roles to play once AnIIIversary came around.
For months, they've dominated the division and the biggest show on QCW's calendar needs something big and of course their women's division will deliver it. It was his honor to announce that the Women's World Championship would be a fatal four way between Lolo Vuitton, both Sohla Patel and Karyn Tisch-Warren of International Lotus, and the Women's World champ herself: "Night Sky" Diana Spare.
And it wasn't just going to be a fatal four way title match at QCW's biggest show – it's going to be a loser leaves town fatal four way title match at QCW's biggest show. The four of them have fought each other raw for months and it was all good when they kept things between the ropes. But once QCW fans started getting caught in the crossfire, that meant it fell on him to end it when they wouldn't. At the end of AnIIIversary we would have an undisputed Women's World Champion…and someone's time at QCW would come to a close. He thanked the fans for supporting Ruckus through its growing pains, got in a plug to buy AnIIIversary, and we went to commercial with the crowd still buzzing from the announcement Holmes made.
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| • Cindy Monet [c] d. Fiona Fogg to retain the Crush championship 9️⃣ • | We came back to in-ring action with another successful title defense from one of QCW’s best women wrestlers. Fogg came over earlier in the summer after a reign as Catch Hell Wrestling League’s Women’s champion, and while she has continued to grow and evolve successfully Cindy’s literally been unbeatable since making her return nearly three months ago and nothing about that changed tonight. Tightrope, pinfall, thanks for playing, Fiona. ** ½
Post match saw the two women shake hands before Fiona left Cindy to celebrate in the ring, as well as heard Naz (get this) stir the pot by noting that not only was Cindy another successful title defense away from a cash in, but that she was the last woman to pin Diana Spare in a one on one match. He's out of line but he's right, yunno?
From there we went TOTHEBACK~!, where Enya Face wasn’t sailing away or teleporting; she was welcoming her guests: Mean Season!
Gaia Green & Winter Wonderland came onto the set and exchanged pleasantries with Enya before Face asked them what it felt like to help Autumn retain the World TV title last week in that nutso street fight. As Mean Season started talking about being Autumn’s support system in and out of the ring, it looked like the monitor behind the ladies was flickering. It was difficult to focus on what Gaia & Winter were saying because the lights were flickering while they talked, and then suddenly the lights went out.
Darkness.
Darkness.
Lights on.
And once they were on, Enya wasn’t there anymore.
The Revenant was.
Mean Season stood there with their mouths open as the Rev started letting a sick grin spread on his face before noggin knocking them together. Steve was in shock and Naz almost dropped an anointed swear as the Revenant hoisted Winter up and lawn darted her into the monitor - Wonderland hit the floor and to add injury to injury, the monitor became unmoored from the force brought by the Unified World champion and it fell on her.
Gaia swarmed the Revenant and threw shots at him, which worked until it didn’t – the Rev snatched Gaia up in a goozle and then threw her into/through a vending machine in the hallway by the interview set before cracking the knuckles on his red right hand. Quality Force security arrived on the scene to try and lend some help, and Autumn was right on their heels wondering where the Rev had disappeared to so she could beat his sorry overfed ass. Gaia was bleeding a little bit and Winter was barely able to move as the medical staff came to check on Mean Season - Steve composed himself and said we hoped to get an update on Gaia and Winter before the show was over, but we had more in-ring action to get to.
| • Pyotr Caviar (w/Serge Batroc) d. Benjamin Valentino (w/Lucius Patton) • | Last week saw Patton beat Batroc in a tightly contested back-and-forth affair that lead to post match shenanigans with Team Batroc laying out the International Players ahead of their Unified World Tag Team titles fight at AnIIIversary.
Unfortunately for the Players, this week was not last week, and the returning Valentino really didn’t have an answer for the massive Russian and Tracksuit Tsar. Valentino rushed Pyotr at the bell and landed an absolute flurry of punches and strikes that backed up Caviar and had him covering up a bit before Benjamin ran for the ropes.
Caviar hit him with a Russian lariat so hard that he somersaulted through the air and splattered on his chest. The cameras cut to three things immediately: Caviar’s slowly creeping smile - Lucius on the outside in a full Surrender Cobra - and Serge giving his protege a golf clap with a smile on his face.
Valentino then got shoved into a proverbial locker, as Caviar bieled him from one side of the ring to the other multiple times before Caviar took him on a giant swing that went 10 revolutions before he hoisted up Valentino and planted him with a spinebuster. Even worse for Benjamin, Caviar still held onto his legs and gave him a second spinebuster, and a third before pinning him without even hooking a leg. Caviar got the duke so fast some people probably were in the bathroom for the entirety of the “fight”. I can’t go above ** for a squash, but it sure served the message that came across so bright even Ray Charles could see it.
Team Batroc left Lucius to pick up the scraps of his partner and didn’t even bother with a beatdown this week, as the announcers were incredulous over Caviar’s dominance and what it meant ahead of AnIIIversary. Pyotr’s dominant win evened the singles matches, and given that the Players have just suffered a pair of beatings in two weeks, Serge’s words about dominating the tag division for the rest of 2023 stop looking more and more like typical heel braggadocio and more like a warning to everyone else: get out of the way of me and my protege, or you could end up like poor Benji did tonight.
As the champs stomped off to the back with “Engel” blaring, Steve promised more great action on Ruckus after these commercial messages.
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We returned to Ruckus INTHEBACK~!, where Julius Duquesne III brought on his guests at this time: "These Hands" Roy Fade and "Dashing" Pierce Moore: Beauty and the Beast Mode.
The Quality Controllers booed as they arrived, both walking a little gingerly but still with defiant looks. JD3 asked them where their heads were – and Fade gave him a death glare to end that line of questioning. Suddenly you could hear a slow clap, and it was soon doubled; appropriately enough the camera panned over to see the Wonderful Ward Brothers slowly walking onto set.
Coincidentally, JD3 slowly started backing out of and then out of the frame as Jason the Great said he knew Autumn was going to whoop that ass, so he and his brother stayed in catering for and had a couple of Molsons and a laugh about it. But Autumn wasn't the only one who felt like kicking their ass up and down the squared circle; anyone who caught Unleashed a couple of weeks ago knows that the only thing that saved them was the time limit draw, and if they wanted to run it back…say next week…they could settle this once and for all.
Fade and Moore wasted little time getting in their faces and going nose to nose to nose to nose. Moore said that if they wanted the fight, they could have it, but that Mode was going to make them regret it, because they were the ones who were getting their hands raised…and once that happened they could run back to the Great White North and whine about it to the other mothercanuckers. A staredown went down before the teams went their separate ways and we went to Duck in the ring.
Hour 2 started off with some singles action that saw "Rumble" bring out Jacques Krieger and S. Mark Starr to boos. Krieger ignored the response and Starr looked disgusted that normies were within his eyesight; from the desk Steve noted that Krieger was clearly still hyper focused on regaining the World TV title no matter what went down earlier in the show. Krieger stood silently in the middle of the ring facing the Qualitron while Starr imparted his rare brand of wisdom to him.
Sade changed the tenor of the Arena for the better as "Superfine" Reggie Strong came out to a good pop from the Controllers. Naz noted that as much as Krieger might want next w/r/t the TV title, Strong has been putting together a decent win streak of his own and might use a win here to raise his power ranking and get ahead of Krieger for that title shot.
Once the bell rang, both men came to the center and locked up. While Krieger’s been noted as a powerhouse since his arrival, Strong lived up to his surname and started backing Krieger into the corner before One Eye took a shortcut and pulled his hair to reverse him into the corner. The ref admonished Krieger, who eventually broke clean and patted Reggie on the head - then he slapped him in the face and laughed while the crowd booed. Strong checked his jawline and nodded - then shoved Krieger’s face in the turnbuckle to cheers. Jacques shook that off only to get slapped himself, and while he was recovering from that Strong gave him some pats on the head as a receipt.
"Pleasantries" out of the way, both men started throwing hands like it was going out of style. The Controllers popped as a borderline hockey fight broke out between two of QCW's fastest rising stars, but the man from Atlantic City would stop that noise by stomping on Strong's boot when it looked like he was about to lose the fight. Reggie having the reaction to that anybody would have left him open for Krieger to dust off the heart punch, and the force of that sent the Face of QCW tumbling between the ropes out to the apron. Krieger checked his jaw and nose before getting a running start behind a big boot so king sized that Strong flew from the apron and bounced off of the announce table before hitting the floor.
Starr applauded this enthusiastically from ringside and he was probably the only one. But with the upper hand, his client put in more work, draping Strong over the ring apron so he could crack him with a knee lift that sent Reggie sprawling into the ring. Krieger got in the ring and made a cover; Strong got out from under a little bit after 2.
Reggie was still in the fight but the former World TV champ kept bringing the thunder, beating Strong down before working his neck over on the mat. Strong had to figure a way out of a neck vice and with the crowd rallying him, found an impressive way to do so: a sudden Flatliner into the middle turnbuckle followed by a double stomp to the back of Jacques' head that left both men sprawled out by the corner.
A tradeoff of punches when both men got back to their feet went Superfine's way, and Reggie even uncorked a little Flip, Flop and Fly action before subbing the big elbow out for a big boot receipt that gave him his first concrete advantage in the fight. Strong sent Krieger corner to corner and rocked him coming in with forearm shots, but when he tried a follow up suplex Krieger back elbowed him repeatedly to fend it off. Krieger went to follow up but Reggie sent him flying through the air with a backdrop; unfortunately for him he didn't see Krieger land behind him on his feet and when he turned around Krieger scrambled his brains with the Ace in the Hole. Steve was talking about how you could hear the impact off of the shotei before Krieger grabbed the disoriented Strong for the Roll of the Dice.
Krieger spun out to hit it – and Strong rolled him up, then bridged his body over it for maximum leverage to get the three count. Krieger looked shocked, Starr turned a little pale, and Reggie rolled out of the ring before he could get jumped.
***
| • "Superfine" Reggie Strong d. Jacques Krieger (w/S. Mark Starr) • |
Starr upbraided the official while Strong celebrated and slapped hands with some fans in the front row, completely ignoring the death stare Krieger was giving him from the ring. Replays showed the finish and Krieger kicking out at 3 ¾; when we went back to live action Starr was bowing up to Krieger, but he was getting completely ignored. Reggie let out his signature laugh and gave Krieger a "bye-bye, loser!" as he parted the Tron; if Krieger had been a cartoon character steam would have literally been coming out of his ears.
Whoever he is, he's Coming Soon, and this week he's up to MR. TEKNI. Club beats! Neon lights!
And now for something completely different – Danny Castle and Dr. Martin Williams walked from the concourse to the ring, the THE END IS NIGH signs over the shoulders of their jumper work suits while Summer Rose toted a sign of her own: BUT MY REVENGE FIRST. They entered the ring to boos as Steve hyped that QCW's resident doomsayers would go up against the former Unified World Tag Team champions the Wonderful Ward Brothers in our semi main event up next!
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We came back to Ruckus with the End Times sitting on a top turnbuckle dead-eyed next to each other while Summer Rose paced the apron by them. As “We Made It” brought out the Wonderful Ward Brothers to a good pop from the Quality Controllers, Steve used their walk down the ramp to refer back to the faceoff they had backstage earlier and hype up their match against Beauty & the Beast Mode on next week’s go home episode of Ruckus.
In the early moments of the fight it seemed to be a toss up as to who was going to win, no surprise considering that outside of Dr. Williams everyone in the match had been a tag team champion in the recent past (very recent in the cases of the Wards). But Jason the Great and Rich soon gained an upper hand on Castle, and punctuated it by spiking him into the mat with an old school double flapjack that sent him reeling and eventually caused him to roll out of the ring. Jason got the faithful fired up and the ladies screaming before he went for a tope – but before he could even dive out of the ring onto Castle, Dr. Williams made the save for his partner by superkicking Jason as he went to dive to the outside. Jason bounced off the mat and splattered onto the floor, and that was all the opening the End Times needed to take control.
Once Castle tagged in Dr. Williams, the Bad Doctor got even more aggressive by laying out Jason with a spinning suplex into the floor. From there, he rolled Jason back into the ring and began tying him up with a couple of submission holds before tagging Castle back in to crown him; the next few minutes of the match proceeded similarly with the End Times employing quick tags between beatings on Jason. Rich paced on the apron before getting the fans fired up, but then something else got the Quality Controllers psyched entirely as a blur suddenly vaulted into the eyeline of the camera and took down Summer Rose. Rose blocked a few punches with her face before divesting herself of the assailant – who turned out to be “Dark Mirror” Beckett Carpenter, who immediately stunned Summer by drilling her with her own Come Up. Dr. Williams came in for a save only for Beckett to not only swing Summer’s legs into his face but to continue their asswhooping by transitioning to a sleeper suplex and throwing Summer backwards right through the announce table. The Quality Controllers let loose with a cascade of “HOLY SHIT!” chants while Carpenter shot finger guns at Naz and said “See you next week!” before vaulting into the crowd and leaving through the concourse.
With literally no one around to help him, Danny Castle got carved up by the Brothers Ward and eventually took a deeply unfun ride on the Cutting Express that led to his defeat while the Wards got off the schneid. ** ½
| • the Wonderful Ward Brothers d. the End Times (w/Summer Rose) • |
We got replays of the chaos down the stretch before we went back to live time and the Wards celebration taking them up the rampway, Jason the Great saying to the camera that they just ended the Times and next week they’d go Beast Mode to beat Team Hollywood and wouldn’t stop until they got their tag titles back.
Before we hit the main event, Steve plugged some of what's to come next week on QCW programs standing up from behind the wreckage of the announce desk while out of all the flavors in the world Naz's face chose to be salty:
🖥️ Unleashed will have the debut of La Flor, a high flying luchador fresh from Lucha Salvaje as well as the Proper Villains vs. the End Times 🖥️
Next week's Ruckus is the last one before AnIIIversary, and we'll have some big matches:
🌟 If Cindy Monet retains the Crush championship next week she hits 10 🌟
🌟 The International Players will team up with "Superfine" Reggie Strong to face the Unified World Tag Team champions Team Batroc and Jacques Krieger 🌟
🌟 And Autumn Powers will make another defense of the World TV title 🌟
But first, we do have what promises to be a big fight, title or no title in
| • the main event • |
"Unscripted Violence" hit the PA for about four seconds before the roof came off the Arena; Mason "Razorblade" Savage walked out looking focused and borderline grim as he marched to the ring. As Savage stood on the turnbuckles and looked out over the crowd chanting his nickname Naz dismissively noted he must have a death wish, because after Naz dropped him at back to back PPVs last year he knew better than to try him a third time.
As the lights cut out in favor of a sole red spotlight on the stage, the Hellevator and Nick Cave brought out the ever imposing Unified World Heavyweight Champion - the Revenant. A cut back to the ring saw an angry Savage pacing in the ring before we cut back to the Rev holding the 15 Pounds of Gold high and cackling. Cameras picked up Razorblade now on the floor at the end of the ramp waving on his rival.
But the Rev continued his usual slow walk down the ramp, and Savage was done with waiting; he charged up the ramp and started throwing hands at the Rev. The lights came up as the brawl was on, both men throwing heavy leather as they hockey fought down to ringside. Naz pointed out that this was the one time he wouldn't pick Razorblade to win a brawl even as Savage rattled the champion with a massive right hand. The Revenant being the Revenant, he lashed back with a spinning back elbow that crumpled Mason.
The Rev hissed at the zebra to ring the bell before a sick grin spread on his face and went for the Red Right Hand as the bell rang. Savage stumbled around before he got goozled and the Revenant tried to plant him into the apron with the Hand - but Razorblade wriggled free before shoving the Rev into the ring post as the crowd roared. Savage took a couple of moments to cough and try to shake off the effects of the goozle before pivoting and throwing a running knee into the back of the Rev, sending him right back into the post.
Another sickening clang was heard in the Arena as Razorblade rolled into the ring before rolling back out on the other side, and cameras picked up the fact that the Rev was bleeding above the left eyebrow. Savage spotted it, too, and his eyes widened before he started laying in some piston rights on the wound.
The crowd cheered as the ref stepped between them to keep the closed fists from coming but a stare from Savage backed the zebra up a couple of paces. With the Rev bleeding a bit, Savage tossing him back inside the ring before following him in and going to work.
The Revenant actually spent the next few minutes of the match on his knees or laid out flat as Steve pointed out the game plan from Razorblade – cut down on the size and strength advantage to deliver death by a thousand paper cuts.
The former double champion fought with even more aggression than usual, having to get reprimanded a couple of times about using his five counts in the corner. Savage continued the offense and ran off both sides of the ropes before he delivered a clothesline that wobbled the Rev but didn’t take him off of his feet. Savage ran for the ropes and looked to go for another one but the Revenant not only ducked the second attempt but then absolutely w r e c k e d Razorblade with a blindside enzui lariat that got him his first two count of the fight.
The Rev spent the next few minutes breaking down the man who he took the Unified title off of piecemeal as the Arena gradually quieted, and once he had Savage all the way down he wiped some blood off of his forehead and threw it disdainfully down on his opponent. The Rev went for the cover, but Razorblade kicked out at 1 somehow.
That led to another beatdown from the Rev, who went for four rapid fire covers after delivering his signature red right hand upside the head of Razorblade multiple times – but they all got two counts and increasingly frustrated the champ. The Revenant yelled at the crowd to shut up and then cocked back another Hand, but Mason not only slipped out the back door but he stunned everybody watching by taking the Rev off his feet with a massive release German suplex.
The crowd clapped, hootered and hollered hoping to rally Savage, and on his home away from home turf Savage actually stopped a couple of right hands before clocking the Rev right in the wound with a headbutt. It sent Savage for a loop but made the Rev even loopier, and Razorblade drove him back with a series of headbutts that actually drove the Rev into the corner. Razorblade went up to the second rope, looked out over the crowd, and they counted along as Savage landed 10 consecutive punches upside the head – but he didn’t stop there, it was the Rev, and Savage continued landing shots until he’d landed 27 punches, and for a brief time the almighty Revenant looked all too mortal.
Savage checked his increasingly reddened right hand before using all his power and strength to pull the Rev up to the top rope and the crowd buzzed as they knew what was coming up next if the Chicagoan had his druthers. Savage started setting the Rev up for the Soul Crusher, but before he could deliver it the Revenant grabbed Savage by the head and bounced it off the ringpost behind him. The crowd deflated as the Rev reconfigured where and who he was before bouncing Savage off the ringpost a second time, and this time he didn’t waste time before snatching up Razorblade with a goozle that wouldn’t get broken or slipped out of this time.
The Rev got his footing underneath him as some Controllers chanted “Please don’t die!”; the Champ gave a crooked smile and said “Too laaate…” before nearly 600 pounds of championship athlete went flying through the air.
AVALANCHE
RED
RIGHT
HAND.
With both men down the “HOLY SHIT!” chants went up and got slightly bleeped as the Rev took a few beats to crawl over before flumping an arm over Savage’s chest and securing the three count. *** 1/2
| • the Revenant d. Mason "Razorblade" Savage in a non-title match • |
After replays of the PPV worthy match, the Rev barked for his belt and got it before he put a foot on the still downed Savage’s chest and lifted the Fifteen Pounds of Gold high in the air to end this week’s Ruckus.
To end it outside of him going down in a heap?!
Because as the Rev was staggering away from the center of the ring, Autumn Powers stood there with a recently swung steel chair in her hands and fury in her eyes. The Quality Controllers roared and chanted for Autumn even before she saw the Rev stagger towards the ropes, and then she Aaron Judged him one with a thunderous chair shot uppercut that put the suddenly vincible Unified champ on the outside of the ring semiconscious.
Autumn checked on Razorblade to make sure that he was all right (we couldn’t hear their brief convo) before pivoting and turning to the floor, where the Rev was working on a .4 Muta and glowering into the ring. As the credits box came up and Steve lost his mind, you could see Autumn use the hand with the chair in it to point to her other wrist. It’s entirely possible she had two words for the Rev, but there weren’t those.
Give you guys a hint while we wait for next week’s show: the first word’s tick…
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