Quality Arena | Parts Unknown, FL
Aired live on GRPL+ | May 24th, 2024
Standard open this week, ending with the Cavalcade of Champions and Omar Littlefield staring down the camera with the chipped Unified World championship around his neck. Into the Arena we zoomed, another Friday night in Parts Unknown with the crowd amped and packed in the place. Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen welcomed us to the show, plugging Omar Littlefield’s first Unified World title defense against “the Fury” Jim Jaspers and the next stage of the Golden Gauntlet in a fatal four way; things would start off tonight, however, with some singles action…
1. Robert E. Moonshine (w/“Swamp Pride” Ted Holland) v. Jacques Krieger (w/S. Mark Starr)
QCW Rewind took us back a week to show Starr sucking up to “Upper Class” Broderick Palmer II and seemingly making overtures for BP2 to join him, lending out Krieger for a tag match against Holland and Moonshine where Jacques made the difference and pinned Ted leading to the one on one we have here.
Krieger ate some shots early at Robert's hands as Ted cheered him on from the floor. Krieger rolled out of the ring after getting victimized by a hangman's neck snap. Moonshine talked to Ted for a couple seconds before hitting the ropes and going for a suicide dive.
Jacques saw it coming and pulled out his Ace in the Hole, a shotei that sent Moonshine flipping through the air before landing at Krieger's feet. The crowd gasped and quieted down so much you could hear Starr whooping off camera. Starr wouldn't be as loud the rest of the match because he didn't need to be. A locked in Krieger played his traditional brand of bully ball after landing the shotei and took Moonshine down and apart from that point forward. Moonshine managed a brief rally late but Krieger ended that by catching Robert mid-leap and driving him into his knee with a STO backbreaker. A Jacqueshammer right after that ended poor Robert's night.
Jacques Krieger d. Robert E. Moonshine at 9:30
Krieger took his win after getting his hand raised and he and Starr headed up the ramp, a happy manager effusive about his winning client to the camera. A cut to backstage showed “Upper Class” Broderick Palmer II looking at the scene on a monitor clearly in thought about the deal that Starr had sent his way last week.
Last week also showed a main event where “Dark Mirror” Beckett Carpenter and Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo beat Witchfinder General and Goody Gardner in the main event despite recent Triple Crown earner Carpenter getting their butt kicked for most of the match and having Szabo come in for what turned out to be a winning save. Ruckus rolled the previously online exclusive footage of what happened after the show went dark a week ago.
Ashley got the mic from Duck Eko and thanked the crowd then tried to get Beckett out for a curtain call. She tried a couple of times but for whatever reason Mirror never came back out, so Ashley turned her promo’s attention to Witchfinder General. She said that he’d gotten the QCW National Championship by cheating to beat her in the Duquesne Classic but he hadn't defended that belt yet, so she was calling his Jesus freak ass out right here and now. If he could find the tablets, she’d be his first and last title defense. He saw what she just did to his little sidekick and if he stepped to her, soon they wouldn't be calling her THEE Influencer - they’d be calling her Champ.
That turned into some back and forth between Goody and Ashley on Quality Social, Women's World champion Lolo Vuitton threw her 22 cents in and it churned until Commissioner Holmes booked a trios match. In a mirror of last week, Holmes offered Team Jesus the opportunity to add a teammate of their choice to get us here–
2. Lolo Vuitton and the Game Changers v. Witchfinder General, Goody Gardner and a Mystery Partner
First out were the Game Changers to a good pop, both “Tiki God” Al Buffett and Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo firing up the faithful by going to both sides of the ramp and stoking even more cheers. The crowd stayed hype as Cardi B brought out the Women's World champion Lolo Vuitton, and the babyfaces matched down the ramp to take over the ring. Al, Ashley and Lolo looked light and confident as “Shall We Gather At the River?” brought out QCW National Champion Witchfinder General and his acolyte Goody Gardner. Gardner was holding the Duquesne Cup while talking to Witchfinder. She seemed happier about the prospect of their partner than the domineering National Champion as they stood to the side of the Qualitron and waited…apparently for “Roar” to hit the PA.
The Tron parted and out came former Women's World champion Sohla Patel, ignoring her partners to point at and smacktalk Lolo Vuitton as she (and then Witchfinder and Goody) came down the ramp. The referee had to step between both teams before the bell rang and separate them - once it did ring, Al offered to start things for his squad and called out Witchfinder but Sohla offered to start things out for the black hats. Witchfinder looked like he had to be talked into it but he eventually allowed Patel to start it off for their side. Sohla held up her end of the feeling out process and used her speed to counter Al's power, eventually getting the upper hand on a rope running sequence and hitting Buffett with a spinning heel kick. Patel worked Al over for a bit until he turned the tide by catching a Patel dropkick attempt and turning it into a catapult that sent Sohla flying over the top and to the outside. Goody and eventually Witchfinder made their way over to help Patel up only for the heel trio to all eat baseball slide dropkicks from the faces that sent them all splayed out next to each other on the floor. The Women's World champion and the multi time former Unified World Tag Team champions held down the ring as Ruckus hit its first commercial break.
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We came back from the break to see Sohla drop Al with a stiff legged missile dropkick that left her and TGAB laid out near the center of the ring. Both briefly tried to pick the other's ankle before getting kicked away and then they managed to tag out; Al to Ashley, and after Witchfinder refused, Goody tagged Sohla.
Goody showed no fear, diving on Ashley with a Thesz press before repeatedly driving the head of THEE Influencer into the mat. Gardner let out a cry of triumph before running for the ropes but when she went for a diving headbutt to the ribs Ashley booted her up and away. Gardner recovered and charged again but Ashley countered with a pop up powerslam that rocked the ring. Ashley didn't follow up but instead told Goody to tag in Witchfinder. Goody instead continued to bring the fight to Ashley, even though most of the time Ashley found ways to either overpower or counter Goody. Szabo kept the pressure on when she wasn't trying to goad Gardner into tagging in Witchfinder, and Ashley finally opted to focus on taking out Goody to hit her with a running Codebreaker. THEE Influencer put Gardner in the drop zone and went up top to Smash That Subscribe Button, but Sohla ran down the apron to get in Ashley's face. Szabo kicked Patel in the face to shut her up but that allowed Goody to take down Ashley from the top rope with a cross-armed slam that laid them both out.
Goody ended up tagging in Sohla but before Sohla could block Ashley, Szabo managed to dive towards her corner and tagged in Lolo Vuitton to a big pop. Sohla faked begging off before trying to kick Lolo in the gut but Vuitton leg swept her and sent Patel jaw first into the mat. Lolo spent the next few minutes putting a whooping on Sohla, as well as back dropping Goody out of the ring when she tried to make a save for her teammate. Lolo gave the smaller Bollywood Diva a chokeslam and after Patel staggered into a neutral corner wasted no time in putting a Bloody Shoe right between Sohla's eyes just like she did to win the belt back at Mayday Payday. Lolo followed up with a cover, but Witchfinder pulled her off of the cover at 2 ¾.
Lolo started to get in the face of Witchfinder right before the Game Changers decided to intervene on their teammate’s behalf, going after the first ever National champion of QCW. Their double team got broken up by a screeching Goody - tackling Ashley and sending them both between the ropes while Al countered Witchfinder's attempt at hitting his Repent by back dropping the General out to the floor. Both Ashley and Goody tried to get back in the ring as Al took out Witchfinder with a plancha. The referee tried to get the Ashley/Goody brawl out of the ring and missed the devious Patel walloping Lola with a shot from the Duquesne Cup Goody left at ringside. As the ref turned around, Sohla hit Lolo with the Ninth Incarnation; Goody and Witchfinder were roadblocks to the Game Changers breaking up Sohla’s pinfall attempt and the black hats stole a W.
Sohla Patel, Witchfinder General and Goody Gardner d. Lolo Vuitton and the Game Changers at 16:00
After replays, we saw Sohla hovering in front of the announce table, saying that she'd just gotten done beating Lolo down and she was going to exercise her rematch clause so that after next week's Ruckus she would be a two time World champion and Lolo would be yesterday's news just like she deserved to be. That belt was properly of International Lotus and next week it would be coming right back to her trophy case.
A dazed Vuitton shoved away the referee and rolled out of the ring but when she tried to go after Sohla, Patel ran her back first into the steps and dropped her to boos. Sohla stepped on Lolo’s head before using it to end up on the top step and made A Very Familiar Gesture around her waist.
We went to Enya Face who was in one of the skyboxes at the Arena. She was there to interview her guest - Nazir el-Fadal. Naz, dressed in a suit with gold accents stood up to bathe in the jeers from most of the crowd and cheers from the sickos. Naz said that he was a couple of days away from getting cleared by the medical staff but would be back in action next week. The same man who hadn't lost at Golden Rule…the same man who didn't go to sleep at Mayday Payday…you know, the Greatest Man Alive, the most decorated person in QCW history. Everything that's his comes due in time, and it's not if he's going to hold a title again, but when. Naz smiled evilly in the background, even wider when Enya threw things to Duck in the ring for the quarterfinals of the Golden Gauntlet.
3. Ashok Banjerjee v. Pyotr Caviar v. Justice Davis v. Karyn Tisch-Warren in a Golden Gauntlet fatal four way quarterfinal match
QCW Rewind showed off some highlights from last week's frantic five way where Justice Davis timed his spot perfectly to drop and eliminate “Tiki God” Al Buffett.
Justice stood in the middle of the ring after the bell rang and looked around at the competition while the World TV title sat on a pedestal at ringside. Karyn dropped off of the apron while Ashok started to get into the ring but it was Pyotr who entered the ring and got in Justice’s face. Justice's response was punching, and while he didn't knock Caviar down he did have him reeling a bit. After Caviar essentially shook off a couple of clotheslines, Justice dodged a couple of swipes and hit an inside to inside springboard lariat that finally got the Tracksuit Tsar off of his feet. Justice swung on Pyotr a bunch to keep him down, then tagged in Ashok once it looked like Caviar was going to come back around.
The babyfaces teamed up for a double suplex that popped the Quality Controllers, but Pyotr kicked out of Ashok's cover before the count could even get to 2. Ashok moved quickly to avoid Pyotr and keep the big man grounded for the next chunk of the match. Like most things in life, it worked until it didn't as Pyotr dodged a moonsault attempt and then followed it up by laying Banjerjee out with an enzui version of his Russian sickle. We got a few replays of the blindside lariat as Caviar started targeting the back of Ashok's head with hard European uppercuts. Justice and Karyn looked on from the apron as Pyotr worked over the former Catch Hell champion. Caviar set himself up nicely for success by hitting a delayed suplex that got him a solid 2 and nearly eliminated Ashok from the Gauntlet. Pyotr executed a cravate to keep Banjerjee grounded and even gave him a modified giant swing with it on before sitting on Banjerjee 's back to increase the pressure. Ashok started going limp and Caviar maneuvered him into position for his signature spinning sit out powerbomb only for Ashok to turn it into a Meteora variant. Both men were down on the canvas for a stretch but managed to get up before the ten count. Caviar went for a Russian sickle but Ashok drop kicked his arm before it could hit then bounced off the ropes and launched himself in an enzui double stomp that sent Caviar face first to the canvas. It took everything Banjerjee had to hit that crazy move, and he was laid out on the mat before trying to roll away from Pyotr.
Ashok's rolling put him by Justice Davis, who saw Caviar still laid out on the canvas and tagged in. JD ran over to Caviar and scooped up Pyotr to put him out with the Davis Driver but Caviar was too heavy and squashed Justice into the canvas ribs first. Pyotr hit the ropes and completely missed Karyn blind tagging herself in since he was focused on dropping Ashok with a Russian lariat, but Banjerjee pulled the top rope down as Justice tagged in, too, giving us some extended JD/KTW back and forth really for the first time all Gauntlet.
Justice ran down Karyn a couple times with shoulder blocks, causing Karyn to roll out to the apron. JD gave chase but walked right into a hangwoman that sent him back into the ring. KTW snuck up behind Davis and threw him shoulder first into the ringpost before moving quickly to set up a diagonal run so she could essentially Meteora him right in his exposed L4 and L5.
Karyn worked over Justice’s back while the announce put over that her arsenal of backbreakers would help her cut away at Justice's power advantage. At first, Karyn had to get in two or three shots to Justice's one but after a couple of minutes she managed to Electric Chair Davis into a neutral corner and even got out to the apron to apply a sort of bow and arrow with the corner buckles digging into the former Unified World Tag Team champion’s back. The notorious KTW added injury to injury by chop blocking Davis down to the canvas and trying to lock him up in her Circuit Breaker elevated Texas cloverleaf. Karyn tried to step over but Justice fought it off with his remaining strength. Karyn went flying into Pyotr, who tagged himself in while Justice was recovering and tagged Karyn with an enzui European uppercut.
Tisch-Warren stumbled into the arms of Davis, who scooped her up and delivered a Davis Driver to lay her out. He was going for a cover on her when the referee had to tell him something – but before he could tell him, Pyotr was flying off the top rope with a splash that splattered both Justice and Karyn at the same time. Pyotr pulled Justice closer to the middle of the ring and laughed a manly laugh as he bounced Justice out of the Gauntlet. (I wonder what reaction Al had to Justice getting eliminated like that given what happened to him last week at Davis’s hands.)
Pyotr Caviar d. Justice Davis at 12:03 to eliminate him from the Golden Gauntlet
We got replays of the big spots, and when we came back live we saw Karyn leaning against the barricade, holding her ribs while smirking a little bit before a pan over to Ashok saw him alternating glances between her and Pyotr, who was standing next to the pedestal admiring the championship belt with a smile far too wide to be friendly. Announce put over that one of the three would be World TV champion for the first time in two weeks’ time having successfully run the Gauntlet. Steve smiled and practically added italics as he said speaking of two weeks' time…
We got a bunch of shots of Pittsburgh landmarks intercut with footage of QCW’s biggest names in action before Steve announced that in two weeks on the 7th, the next supersized episode of Ruckus would present Steel City Showdown from the town that made black and yellow famous. Tickets will go on sale tomorrow for Steel City Showdown on QCW’s site for the big show live from the Peterson Events Center so if you're in or by western Pennsylvania and want to catch a big QCW show live, here's your chance.
After that announcement we cut backstage where the Culture were making their way to the ring to a big if mixed reaction from the crowd. Beauty and the Beast Mode were hyping up QCW’s only double champion while Steve put over their big win in the trios elimination match last week before saying that the sole survivor Shelley LaVey was continuing her march to 10 by defending the Crush championship – and that was coming up next.
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4. Shelley LaVey [c, w/the Culture] v. Gaia Green (w/Winter Wonderland) for the Crush championship
Interestingly enough, the crowd seemed to have plenty of love for Shelley in addition to giving a solid pop and respect for Gaia. There was an undercurrent of dueling chants as the title match got underway; during the early feeling out process Steve said that there was a real possibility that next week's Ruckus would have a Women's World championship match and hoped to provide an update on that before the show ended.
It was Shelley who got the upper hand early by hitting a textbook dropkick that floored Gaia and looked great on replays. LaVey went to work on Green, while the outside members of the match were all touching the apron and coaching up their teammate. Gaia tried to get out from under Shelley's attack but when she tried to escape LaVey’s clutches Shelley dropped her with a falling reverse DDT. LaVey continued working Gaia over and tagged the Mean Season member with a nice Pele kick but Green kicked out at an early 2.
A couple of minutes later Shelley laid out Gaia and went up top but Green cut her off with a top rope huracanrana that bought her some time and eventually opened up her arsenal. Gaia floored Shelley with a massive back body drop and followed up by sticking the disoriented champ with a basement spinning back elbow. Green took over and while she didn't get booed, the “Let's Go, Shelley!” chants got louder. Gaia fired off a series of armdrags and started punching away on Shelley in a corner. But before she could finish getting a 10 count’s worth, Shelley pushed her off and sent her flying into the top rope crotch first. Duck announced that there were five minutes left in the time limit but Shelley didn't even need one more to walk out victorious.
With Gaia hung up on the top rope, Shelley took advantage of the opening she made to lay Gaia out with a top rope hung version of the Fresh To Death cutter and followed up with a beautiful Fallen Angel splash to get the 3 and plenty of cheers with it.
Shelley LaVey d. Gaia Green at 10:27 to retain the Crush championship 7️⃣
LaVey got her hand raised by the ref before Beauty and the Beast Mode hit the ring to celebrate with her. As they did, the lights went out, all except for one in the other skybox next to the one Naz used earlier on the program. Four familiar looking women stood there with Bonnie Agrippa doing the “I see you” point at the ring. In recognition? In recognition as a threat? Either way after a few seconds even the light in the skybox went dim, and when the lights came back on Shelley was in the ring with her title in her hand and a pissed off look on her face.
From there we went TOTHEBACK~!, where Julius Duquesne III was standing by with his guest challenging for the Unified World championship in the main event - “the Fury” Jim Jaspers. He got a good pop as he came on set already in gear. JD3 asked him what his mindset was going against Omar Littlefield in the main event for the Unified World championship and Jaspers said that his fuel was pints and championships. He pointed out Omar issuing an open challenge last week and everyone on the roster seemingly running scared from it. But he knew what it was like to be the top of the food chain - he’d been there in Catch Hell a couple of times with their top prize and nice as it was, what it wasn't was Fifteen Pounds of Gold. Omar might've been a nasty looking bloke who struck fear into the hearts of normal people, but Old Jim was no normal person and his fearlessness even in the face of Omar's ugly mug would win him the day and the belt. And once he shocked the world, he’d only have one thing to say; Jaspers smirked and said “Cheers.” before walking off the set.
JD3 threw things to Duck to do introductions for the next match…
5. Crusazdo del Oro v. Serge Batroc
As Oro came out to face the former longtime Unified Tag champ, picture in picture showed some highlights of him beating his ex partner Super Avión in a street fight last week by putting him through a table with a phoenix splash. Despite some kinesio tape on his upper back he took the momentum from last week’s win and started well early on, stymying Serge’s early offense with counter armdrags and a high elevation dropkick. Serge rolled out of the ring to buy himself some time only to turn a corner and eat a diagonal tope from Oro that almost sent both men into the front row.
We got replays of the tope as Carl Christensen put over on commentary that you had to be behind the barrier to be safe from Crusazdo’s offense. Oro tried to get Serge back into the ring but Batroc quickly executed a go behind and German suplexed Oro into the steps before rolling back into the ring. Replays of the German showed as Serge tried to get his full range of bearings back between the ropes. Batroc cut off the count by rolling out of the ring, and when Oro got up Serge charged him and dropped him with a discus European uppercut that sent ripples of gasps through the crowd. Serge stood on the middle step and sneered at the crowd before grabbing Oro and throwing him back in the ring.
Batroc's power was the story for the next few minutes while Oro desperately tried to weather the storm and narrowly avoided getting pinned on a few occasions. Oro staple gunned a rally together after dodging a corner charge from the ‘22 Duquesne Classic winner and buying some time with a Code Red. Oro got in some offense and after countering Serge's attack with a satellite DDT he went up top for his phoenix splash – and whiffed it. Serge stalked him for the Arc de Triomphe but Oro countered it with a victory roll that kept Serge pinned down for 3.2 seconds.
Crusazdo del Oro d. Serge Batroc at 8:49
Oro immediately got out of punching range and on the ramp while an incensed Serge had to watch the referee raise Crusazdo’s hand on the ramp. Announce talked about Serge sort of flailing since losing the Unified World Tag titles while Oro kept plugging away and clearly just passed him in the pecking order.
We cut to backstage, where Omar Littlefield put the chipped Unified World championship around his neck before a slow, sadistic grin spread across his face. Littlefield/Jaspers for QCW’s crown is tonight's main event and it's up next.
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We came back from the break to a This Week In QCW History video package. Imagine it: America, May 19th, 2023. Gas was $5 a gallon, there was conflict in the Middle East, and coming off a grueling Best of 5 series against Dark Mirror, Autumn Powers defended the World Television championship against “These Hands” Roy Fade. A back and forth bout saw Fade pull off a narrow upset on the hurt Autumn to become the first ever three time TV champion.
Before the main event Steve hyped up some of the big matches coming up in the last week of May for QCW.
Unleashed will see Luz Cruz in action as well as a six man tag where Prince Ootsuka and Team Batroc will face Justice Davis and the Proper Villains; a stacked episode of RUCKUS will have the Game Changers against Witchfinder General and Goody Gardner in a weapons match - another defense of the Crush championship by Shelley LaVey - the triple threat semifinals of the Golden Gauntlet, Ashok v. Pyotr v. Karyn - and in a rematch from Mayday Payday the Women’s World championship will be on the line when Lolo Vuitton defends against Sohla Patel.
That world title is up for grabs next week; the Unified World championship and the Fifteen Pounds of Gold are up for grabs right now in the main event. Jaspers came out to a pop with Richard Windsor and Fiona Fogg but they only came out as far as the ramp before they wished him luck and headed to the back.
“King Kunta” brought out Omar to resounding jeers. The Unified World champion couldn't put a fuck on layaway, let alone give one. They killed all the lights at QA except for a lone spotlight focused on the ring. Duck Eko was in the middle of introducing Jim as the challenger when he suddenly sped past Duck and jumped Omar! The lights came up quick, the ref called for the bell, and it was main event time…
6. Omar Littlefield [c] v. “The Fury” Jim Jaspers for the Unified World Championship
Jim rained down clubbing blows across Omar's back and as it looked like The Champ was going to draw himself up to full height Jaspers started throwing tight European uppercuts in. Short range kicks found their mark as well, and Jim ran for the ropes. Unfortunately for him, so did Omar and the Pounce that followed sent Old Jim over the top rope. Jaspers bounced off the apron and crumbled to the floor while Littlefield let out a low, booming laugh that could best be translated as “But you tried it tho”. Omar calmly left the ring and got a running start before spearing “the Fury” through a section of the barricade and setting off a row of well earned “HOLY SHIT!” chants from the crowd.
The match continued as Omar dragged Jaspers' limp body from the wreckage and tossed it into the ring like a monger would a trout. Unfortunately for the Brit, Omar felt like playing with his food.
Vader Bomb.
Vader Bomb.
Vader Bomb.
And just for good measure, Face Eraser.
Face Eraser.
Omar went for a pin - pulled Jim up at 2 ¾ - then ignoring the ref’s cries, drilled Jim with another Face Eraser and stood on Jaspers' chest for the count.
WELP.
Omar Littlefield d. Jim Jaspers at 5:07 to retain the Unified World championship
Replays began rolling before we had to suddenly return to live action, as Omar dragged Jim outside the ring and drilled him with the belt to the dismay of Steve at the desk. Jim Jaspers was busted open, and things got worse when Omar took the chipped part of the belt to dig into Jim’s forehead. The referee tried to interject but Omar's piefacing almost turned him into a human shot put. Littlefield then placed the Fifteen Pounds of Gold on the steps before grabbing Jim’s limp, bloody body and giving him one more Face Eraser into the belt, atop the stairs - causing Old Jim to slide to the floor and not move while Omar smiled and showed off his handiwork to the camera.
Now there wasn't one chip in the Unified World title…there were two.
By this point the medical staff were on the scene with Quality Force security right on their heels but Omar just took his chipped and bloodied belt while security tried to stop the assault. After he collared the belt around his thick neck, he faked out security by lunging at them before laughing and making his way to the back without a second look.
And even after the credits box came up, Jim Jaspers still hadn't moved.
Steve quietly thanked us for tuning in as things faded to black and Omar kept his evil hold over QCW.
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