Quality Arena | Parts Unknown, FL
Aired live on GRPL+ | June 21st, 2024
The usual open started rolling but it got interrupted by S. Mark Starr “breaking up the feed”. Starr said that tonight was going to be a very special episode of Ruckus because it was the night where his meal ti–client went down in the history books when he became a three time TV champ. This whole Ashok Banjerjee thing was a cute story and everything but by his clock it was well past midnight and at the hands of his client that smiling Cinderfella would get smashed like the rotten pumpkin he was. He could do all the flippy [that's a swear] he wanted because sooner or later Krieger would punch him down and he would stay down. At this point Jacques walked into the frame and nudged Starr aside so he took up most of the frame.
Krieger stared down the camera and only had one thing to say.
“Tonight…I get back what's mine.”
The screen went wonky for a few seconds before joining the pyro exploding already in progress. Steve and Carl hyped up the Krieger/Banjerjee fight for the World TV title and Bonnie Agrippa facing her ex partner Shelley LaVey with the Crush championship on the line as LaVey hopes to get her 10th straight win to earn a cash in opportunity for the Women's World championship…but action would begin with a former Unified World champion…
1. Nazir el-Fadal v. “the Proper King” Richard Windsor
Announce mentioned in the opening moments of the match that Windsor was on a bit of an island with Omar Littlefield having injured his regular partner “the Fury” Jim Jaspers, who should be back from his injuries in 4-6 weeks.
Despite usually being a tag specialist, Windsor took an early upper hand by outclassing Naz on the mat with his technical expertise. A pissed off Naz started throwing European uppercuts in response only to have the man from across the pond show him how they’re supposed to hit. But after getting Naz set up in a corner and laying in some shots, when he went for a corner to corner European uppercut Naz blocked it and converted it into a cobra clutch and then hopped up on the top turnbuckle; he leaned back to crank it in and milked the referee’s five count before letting go at 4.8. Windsor was already a little disoriented and the self-proclaimed Grand Slam winner wasn’t there to make things better - he was there to hip toss Windsor into a Michinoku Driver that was the turning point in the fight. el-Fadal dominated the rest of the way and ended up drilling Windsor with something like a buckle bomb version of the Outsider’s Edge, then followed that up with Nazquil before pulling Windsor away from the ropes and pinning him.
Nazir el-Fadal d. Richard Windsor at 9:26
Enya Face was standing by backstage, but only briefly as she stated that per the previous financial arrangement “Upper Class” Broderick Palmer II would merely talk on his own and she would leave so as to not distract from his message. Palmer II took the mic and waved Enya off camera. Once she left, Broderick said that as he lived and breathed he couldn't understand why he wasn't standing before us a tag champion but he supposed that was a matter for the courts. As he was plugging Hashtag JusticeForEvan All One Word, Justice Davis suddenly appeared out of nowhere and snatched the mic from Davis, saying the only reason Broderick was upright was that Davis was getting a match made where they'd fight next week because if anybody deserved to be a tag champion right now, it was him. But his law firm was Left and Right and since Broddy didn't remember what Mayday Payday should've taught him, he’d get taught a lesson all over again. Something told Justice a certain Ms. Face would be glad to see it.
Justice left, but not before bumping shoulders with Jacques Krieger heading towards the ring. Davis and Krieger started getting in each other's faces when S. Mark Starr got in between them, saying to Justice that if he wanted a shot at the TV title it’d have to wait a bit since Krieger was busy - he did have a title to win. “Hated” started playing in the Arena as Justice walked off shaking his head. Starr told Jacques to head to the ring right before handing Palmer II a business card and saying that it looked like Broderick wasn't the only one in the business of justice and thought he could lend a hand.
Krieger was halfway down the ramp before Starr ran down to catch up with him. By the time they were in the ring, S. Mark was talking to his client about how he was going to be the next World TV champion. After a commercial break we’ll get the Boundless champion out here - Banjerjee/Krieger for the GRPL+ World Television championship is coming up next!
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We came back to Starr and Krieger in the ring looking focused as “Galang” hit the PA to bring out the World Television champion. Orange pyro exploded as Ashok Banjerjee made his way down the aisle slapping hands and getting a good pop from the Quality Controllers. Duck made the introductions and after the referee put the belt up in the air we kicked off the first title match of the evening…
2. Ashok Banjerjee [c] v. Jacques Krieger (w/S. Mark Starr) for the GRPL+ World Television championship
The bell rang and Jacques bullrushed Ashok into a corner and started laying in some back elbows, Starr cheering on his client’s bullyball from the floor as Krieger started to fog the head of the champion with his power. Krieger then launched Ashok across the ring with a biel that almost had an in flight movie on it. The opening five minutes played out largely like that, as Krieger leveraged his power to make Ashok's second title defense hell. For a brief moment it looked like Ashok was making a rally, but when he up kicked Krieger after getting thrown into the ropes One Eye just laughed it off and blasted him with a lariat that nearly secured the man from Atlantic City his third World TV title reign.
Krieger kept pushing the pace and made Ashok kick out of some nearfalls. Ashok battled back and started returning fire, laying out Krieger with a couple of flying forearms. Krieger swung wildly and whiffed twice and it allowed Ashok the window to land a springboard forearm - but Jacques not only sidestepped it, he knocked Ashok loopy with a heart punch. Krieger let out a manly laugh and signaled for the end as Starr clapped it up for his client, who set up for the Jacqueshammer only for Banjerjee to reverse out into a sort of standing tornado DDT that dropped Krieger to the canvas hard. Both men were laid out for a few seconds, Starr yelling at Krieger to shake it off.
But he couldn't, because Ashok didn't let him. Banjerjee kicked away a punch attempt and took Jacques down in a crossface. Krieger scrambled around and started trying to power out but Banjerjee necked him into the middle rope with a head scissor takeover before catching him in the upper back with a dropkick. Ashok started chipping away at Krieger with his offense, building up speed and rallying the good people of Parts Unknown behind him with five minutes left to go in the time limit.
Jacques shoved off a tornado DDT attempt but Ashok landed on his feet and hit a step up enzuigiri to rattle the challenger before getting a running start and nailing him with a front flip DDT that spiked Krieger again before he slowly melted into the canvas. Jacques went from being a passenger in the fight to stuck in the backseat to locked up in the trunk as Ashok started rolling with more Boundless offense; the fight ended when Banjerjee up kicked One Eye to stop his Ace in the Hole shotei and landed a loud kick to his knee before hitting a Decolonizer Driver [brainbuster into his knee]. Ashok had to hook both legs, but a three count letter he’d put away a tough former champion to continue his reign.
Ashok Banjerjee d. Jacques Krieger at 12:51 to retain the GRPL+ World TV title 2️⃣
Ashok got his hand raised and his belt back as a forlorn looking Starr helped Krieger to the back. The announce put over Ashok bouncing back from getting sent to the hospital by Omar Littlefield at Mayday Payday to winning the Golden Gauntlet to get the belt and successfully defending the belt in consecutive weeks against wildly different opponents as he continues to up his 10 Count. A desert landscape suddenly popping up took us into a vignette.
It’s not a surprise if you walk into a dive bar and Iron Maiden is playing on an old school jukebox. As Maiden played in the background, a pan across this dive bar showed several surprises in the form of multiple burly looking cowboy types who had clearly gotten the wrong end of a shitkicking - bloodied men laid out over a pool table, one poor bastard shoved headfirst into a pocket, one wearing a barstool for a hat, a pair of similar looking guys knocked on their asses below a broken mirror behind the bar, someone on his side with a bottle of Jack shoved in his mouth and not in the fun “just got paid” way, and one poor bastard who was trying to crawl out of the bar.
He would leave the bar when a pair of muscular hands picked him up by his scuffed jeans and threw him through the window. Two men left the bar, one a big man with a mohawk and the other one picking a hockey mask off the end of a broken pool cue before putting it on. As they walked off leaving behind the destruction in the bar, the screen slowly turned black - and a couple of beats after it did, a chyron IDed the background Maiden music:
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3. Mr. Teknik v. Super Avión
Avión interrupted Mr. Teknik’s entrance by blindsiding him with a tope. Not content there, he managed to run the masked German into the dividing barrier a couple of times before the referee managed to get the former Unified World Tag champ off of his opponent and into the ring. As Avión cackled and took off his cape the referee checked on Teknik on the floor. Teknik waved off the referee's concern and took advantage of Avión taking off his chain with Crusazdo del Oro's mask on it to get in the ring and drop the luchadore from behind before laying in some stomps. Now the referee had to scramble into the ring and get Teknik off of Avión.
Once the bell rang, Teknik kept going after Avión and had things going his way right up until Avión hit a basement dropkick to his left knee that sent Mr. Teknik corkscrewing through the air. Teknik had barely gotten to his knees before Avión drilled him with a pair of basement superkicks and a Meteora to floor Teknik. From there a fired up and pissed off Avión showed off why he was Super, dominating with his lucha libre and not letting Teknik get any more daylight. After a run-up-the-ropes tornado DDT, Avión slammed the door shut on the masked German with his signature avalanche Spanish Fly, Air Superiority.
Super Avión d. Mr. Teknik at 6:48
Once he got his hand raised, Avión asked for the mic from Duck Eko and got it. He waved down the crowd's booing and brought the mic up to his lips…only to turn around and pop poor Teknik in the head with it. Avión stomped away on Teknik and shoved the ref down when he tried to stop him, then went after Teknik’s mask. But before he could unmask another QCW star, the last one he did that to suddenly hit the ring and sent him scurrying out to the floor. Avión grabbed his chain and headed out through the crowd as the man whose mask was at the end of that chain - Crusazdo del Oro - was standing on the turnbuckles yelling at Avión to come back to the ring and fight him like a man instead of running like a coward. But Avión had no interest in that, leaving the unmasked Oro (is that still even his name?) to help the referee up so that they could check on Mr. Teknik. The announce put over that the Avión/Oro rivalry showed no signs of slowing down before teeing up another block of ads.
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4. The International Players and the Wonderful Ward Brothers v. Team Batroc and A World of Pain
This eight man tag twinned together two matches that happened on last week’s show (the Wards beating AWOP and Pyo-uh, Team Batroc getting the best of the Players) as speculation runs wild on the fate of the Unified World Tag Team championships. During the feeling out period the announce said they hoped to get an official announcement on what would happen to them next before Ruckus went off the air.
Story of the match was the difference in teamwork between the competing sides; the Players and the Wards got along well together, all four men tagging and showing camaraderie but the heels never got along as the Europeans couldn't get along with the sadists, who were both sporting some bruises from Omar Littlefield laying them both out last week.
The breaking point came when Dom DeSade tagged himself into the fray when Serge Batroc was trying to tag in Pyotr Caviar, and this pissed off the former Unified tag champions so much that after Serge (presumably) cursed out Dom in French for a minute they walked out on the match. This turned into a handicap match, which turned into Finisher Bingo. Dom ate a missile dropkick/moonsault fallaway slam combo from Benjamin Valentino and Lucius Patton, who tagged in “the Wonderful” Rich Ward, who tagged in his brother. Jason the Great dropped Dom with the business end of the Cutting Express to put a bow on things.
The International Players and the Wonderful Ward Brothers d. Team Batroc and A World of Pain at 8:47
All four men took to a turnbuckle and celebrated, all making Very Familiar Gestures around their waist. Both teams doing that got the other team’s attention, and when they climbed down both sets of former tag champs had some (mostly) playful words with the men they’d just teamed with - though Carl pointed out they could be headed for a showdown with their old belts hanging in the balance.
From there we went TOTHEBACK~!, where Julius Duquesne III was standing by waiting to interview his guests: International Lotus. The crowd booed as Scott Warren-Tisch came on the set with his wife Karyn Tisch-Warren and Sohla Patel trailing a couple of steps behind him in an uncharacteristic formation. After having Scott brush off his initial questions with a series of “no comment”s, an exasperated JD3 asked if he did have a comment, to which Scott replied that he had just the one.
Last week's defeats happened because they were targeted by the Commissioner’s office and couldn't be there for each other. Two title matches, no gold. So instead of Julius asking the questions, Karyn had one for him. The notorious KTW shoved her husband towards the wall and hissed out the following: “Do you think that makes us less dangerous or more dangerous?”
JD3 looked like he was coming up with an answer, but Lotus walked out of the frame instead of sticking around to hear it.
5. Goody Gardner (w/Witchfinder General) v. Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo (w/”Tiki God” Al Buffett)
This has been bubbling up for a while, ever since Goody emerged during the Duquesne Classic final to help turn the tide and help Witchfinder General win the Cup and got the National Championship as a result; Witchfinder made his first successful defense of that belt a couple of weeks ago at Steel City Showdown over Al.
The moment the bell rang, Goody charged Ashley but THEE Influencer dodged her and Gardner ate a face full of middle turnbuckle. Szabo followed up with a hip attack and Gardner rolled out to the floor after eating it. Goody staggered to her feet just in time to see Ashley flying off the apron with a Thesz press to drop her again, and Ashley threw some right hands for good measure. Witchfinder came around the corner and had some words for Ashley but Al quickly had his partner’s back. The men exchanged words around the match as Ruckus hit its final commercial break of the evening.
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We came back from the break with Ashley having Goody up in a delayed suplex, even doing some squats before sending the acolyte to the canvas. As she had before the break, Ashley dominated Goody and showed off why she has been a two time tag champ, snuffing another attempt at a corner charge by getting her boots up to send GG staggering away from her. Ashley surprisingly followed this up with a goozle and a chokeslam that planted Goody for a long two count. Sending the end was near, a desperate Witchfinder shoved Duck Eko out of his chair and slid it into the ring; Ashley stepped on it before it could get to Goody, then picked it up and cracked it over Gardner’s back.
That's a no-no, at least in this case.
Goody Gardner d. Ashley Szabo at 9:57 by disqualification
Witchfinder applauded when Duck announced the decision and had some words for Ashley, but there was one little detail he overlooked — Ashley didn’t really give a frock, and with the crowd cheering her on she laid in a few more chair shots across Goody’s back until the seat of the chair bent. Witchfinder’s face went from joyous to stoic in a hurry as THEE Influencer used the edge of the chair to nudge Goody out of the ring until she landed in a heap at the feet of the General. Szabo threw aside the chair and pointed to the National Championship on his shoulder while WG tried to no sell it, scooping up Gardner over his shoulder and grabbing the Duquesne Cup on his way to the back. As Muse’s “New Born” hit the PA, Steve and Carl bounced some back and forth off each other as to whether or not Ashley would get her revenge for the Duquesne by taking the National Championship off of Witchfinder.
Before the main event, the announce walked us through some of the big matches coming up next week on QCW programming - Unleashed will have Luz Cruz and Explosive Emily Bennett facing off against Justine Danek and Bella Jolie of Hysteria, and Omar Littlefield has issued a non-title open challenge openly daring anybody on the roster to try and stop him.
Next week's Ruckus will feature Justice Davis vs. “Upper Class’ Broderick Palmer II, an announcement about the future of the Unified World Tag Team championships, and Ashok Banjerjee defending the World TV title.
The Crush championship will also get defended on next week's show - but who ends up doing the defending will get decided by tonight's main event with two former friends facing off with silver and blue on the line…
6. Shelley LaVey [c, w/the Culture] v. Bonnie Agrippa (w/Hysteria) for the Crush championship
As the newly named woman of Hysteria snapped their way into the ring, QCW Rewind Helpfully Reminded Us that last week their Justine Danek essentially used her title shot as bait to allow a group beating on the Culture with their numbers advantage, leader Bonnie alongside her, Nancy Crowley and Bella Jolie dubbing themselves Hysteria and setting up tonight's main event…a match dating back to Mayday Payday when they first reappeared to ruin the Crush championship match and a couple of years if you factor in the glory days of the Forbidden Book Club.
Two members of the FBC comprise Hysteria; a third came out to Prince and a good pop from the crowd - Ambassadors Trios champion and Crush champion Shelley LaVey with the rest of the Culture (her running buddies Beauty and the Beast Mode, “These Hands” Roy Fade and “Dashing” Pierce Moore). LaVey entered the ring staring down Agrippa the whole time, a staredown that continued through Duck’s introductions and past the bell ringing for the first few seconds of the match.
Then they ran to each other like attracted magnets and started swinging for the fence, the crowd erupting over the hockey fight that was going on in the middle of the ring. “It looks like Pig Pen but with fists!” enthused Carl as the brawl continued, one that Shelley brought to a halt with a sharp knee into Agrippa’s ribs, followed by some sharp elbows to the back of the head. LaVey threw some sharp body blows and then a roundhouse kick sent Bonnie falling back towards a corner where the champ - the double champ - laid in the stomps as the crowd cheered. The ref had to back Shelley up, but LaVey spun around and charged Bonnie only for the leader of Hysteria to get her boots up. Bonnie climbed up the turnbuckles to add height to her offense but LaVey pulled her legs out from under her to send the back of her ex partner’s head into the top turnbuckle before she took an awkward fall back into the ring. LaVey walked over to the side of the ring where the rest of Hysteria was and called them a “bunch of fake-ass wannabes” before pivoting to hit a running knee on a slumped down Agrippa.
Shelley continued working over Agrippa while Beauty and the Beast Mode cheered her on and kept an eye on Hysteria on the other side of the ring. LaVey looked like she was going for the endgame and leapt up to hit Bonnie with a Fresh To Death cutter but Agrippa shoved off the attempt; not done there, she dodged a forearm smash attempt of Shelley’s then a back elbow but LaVey dodged a couple of clotheslines Bonnie tried before both women went for flying crossbodies at the same time and crashed horribly into each other before falling limply to the mat. We got replays of the collision as Carl noted this was essentially a lumberperson match with all the people on the outside of the ring.
Both women got to their feet and Shelley immediately tried to floor Bonnie with a Pele kick, but Bonnie ducked and ran Shelley into a corner before rolling out of it and delivering on a Chaos Theory that had Nancy Crowley letting out a scream of delight from the floor. Bonnie made sure to dish out every stomp LaVey had dished out, and then followed up with a series of flash elbows before getting off a pin attempt. Shelley kicked out around 2.5 but the momentum of the match had shifted in favor of Agrippa. Hysteria got more amped on the floor as Nancy threw more waves of offense at LaVey. Agrippa countered an attempted whip by short arm reversing it into an Eat Defeat that almost had the double champion six feet under. Agrippa hit a suplex and rotated her hips looking to chain together a couple of friends to go with it, but Shelley hooked her in an inside cradle that got her 2 ¾.
Bonnie drilled Shelley with a hard forearm as Duck announced there was five minutes left in the time limit. Agrippa turned up her intensity, throwing hard knees into Shelley's bread basket before hitting a suplex and rolling over and up to hit a second suplex, but when she went for a third LaVey stopped the trifecta by kneeing her in the head. LaVey went for Fresh To Death but Bonnie shoved her off into a corner sternum first. Agrippa charged but Shelley absolutely cracked her in the mouth with a big back elbow and then a buzzsaw kick that caught Hysteria’s leader in the ribs, doubling her over. LaVey got out to the apron, watching Bonnie carefully before she slingshot into the ring with the Fresh To Death as the crowd popped and Carl lost his mind a little bit on commentary. Shelley pulled Bonnie into the drop zone and went up top, hitting her Fallen Angel splash…
…right into Bonnie's knees, and right into an inside cradle, and as it turned out right out of her title reign.
Just like that.
Bonnie Agrippa d. Shelley LaVey at 12:09 to win the Crush championship
We got replays of the match's big moments, but the money was watching the end, which showed Bonnie didn't cheat to win, and couldn't keep Shelley pinned for 4 seconds - but she did keep her down for something like 3.3 seconds, and that was enough for her first singles championship. Shelley was asking the ref if she'd really lost as Bella Jolie came into the ring with the Crush championship and handed it to Bonnie, who raised it over her head and let out a whoop. The rest of Hysteria hit the ring and celebrated as gold and white pyro exploded on the stage. While the pyro exploded on the stage, the lights went out; when the pyro was done the lights came back on Hysteria was gone just like the Crush championship. Shelley was clearly a little shellshocked as she sat up in the same spot she'd gotten pinned in. Pierce and Roy were standing over her and were offering their encouragement but as the credits box popped up to end Ruckus it was LaVey staring off into nowhere that brought Ruckus to a close.
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