Quality Arena | Parts Unknown, FL
Aired live on GRPL+ | June 28th, 2024
Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen on commentary, the Voice of QCW Duck Eko handled the ring announcing
1. Ricardo Villalobos d. Hawk Carter at 7:33 Villalobos is the slightly scarred former Crusazdo del Oro, who got a showcase win over QCW’s resident cowboy with a Phoenix splash. After the match, Super Avión came out to the ring but before he got there Villalobos got jumped from behind by QCW alumni and his brother Roberto, who managed to lay in a few good shots before Quality Force security came out and took him out of the Arena. As that was happening, Avión suddenly rushed to the ring and hit Ricardo with his own phoenix splash to add insulting injury to injury.
Julius Duquesne III interviewed the Game Changers backstage, though it was mostly Ashley THEE Influencer who cut a promo on Goody Gardner and Witchfinder General. She said she had no remorse about what she did to Goody last week and challenged Witchfinder to face her with the National Championship on the line at Cruel Summer.
2. “Upper Class” Broderick Palmer II d. Justice Davis at 9:49 These guys have been feuded in singles and tag matches for a few months now; Palmer II spent the first couple of minutes in chicken shit mode before luring Davis out to the floor and throwing him into the steps. JD managed to fight back a couple of minutes later, receipting a thumb to the eye to set up a double arm DDT to even things up. Davis was building momentum when Jacques Krieger and S. Mark Starr came out on the ramp to watch the match. Davis had words with/for them from the ring, allowing Broderick to land a running knee into Davis's back before dropping him with an Unprettier to win the match.
Krieger and Starr left while Palmer II was getting his hand raised.
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Enya Face was backstage with Lolo Vuitton, who was in the middle of cutting a celebratory promo before she got jumped by the women of International Lotus, who roughed up the Women's World champion through the backstage area and pushed a production crate on her to pin her to the floor. As Quality Force dragged them away you could hear Karyn Tisch-Warren hiss at her ex partner that they weren't done with Lolo just yet and wouldn't be until they got their title back. Luz Cruz came on the scene with security to check on Lolo before saying that if they had the ovaries, she'd find someone to partner with her and take on International Lotus tonight.
3. Bonnie Agrippa [c, w/Hysteria] d. “Explosive” Emily Bennett at 6:59 to retain the Crush championship 1️⃣
Bennett still has yet to get that first Ruckus win but again showed some good fighting spirit before going down to the new Crush champion, who showed off her bona fides in this showcase and put Emily down for good with a couple of rolling suplexes and a brainbuster to retain.
In a pretape from his office, Commissioner Holmes announced that the currently held up Unified World Tag Team championships would be decided at Cruel Summer in an eight team unification tag team turmoil match where the winners would walk out the new champions. As recompense for being the current and now last set of Ambassadors Trios champions, Beauty and the Beast Mode would come into the tag turmoil last. Announce hyped up the fact that Cruel Summer would see who in QCW’s deep tag team division would walk out with the gold.
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4. Beauty and the Beast Mode d. Team Batroc at 10:48 Speaking of Beauty and the Beast Mode, they were in action against Team Batroc, two of the inaugural holders of the Ambassadors Trios championships. With the tag title turmoil just announced, that was in the air as these teams faced off. Serge took the opening part of the match against Pierce Moore but got put on his heels by “These Hands” Roy Fade getting tagged in and out brawling him.
Fortunately for Serge, he managed to reverse a Fresh To Death into a half and half suplex and tag in the imposing Pyotr Caviar. Pyotr dominated both members of Mode until Fade put Caviar in a rear naked choke and nearly put Caviar out before the big Russian managed to fall back to the mat twice and get free of the hold before crawling over and tagging in Serge. But Batroc uncharacteristically stumbled on the middle rope and tumbled into the ring. He got up but didn't stay up as Fade blasted him with the Decision to absolutely make him regret the stumble and get the three count. Announce noted that Pyotr was probably not going to take this well but that the win was good news for B&BM.
Luz Cruz was in the back talking someone into partnering with her to take on International Lotus, and was eventually successful in winning this woman over to teaming up…
5. International Lotus d. Luz Cruz and Shelley LaVey at 11;07
Crowd was firmly behind the babyfaces early on and cleared Lotus from the ring within the first few minutes of the match.
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Control of the match ping ponged from Lotus to the babyfaces and back again. It looked like Luz and Shelley were going to rally back and pull out a win but as two separate fights were going on in the ring, Cruz backed into LaVey, who spun around and hit an accidental almost instinctive Fresh To Death cutter on Cruz thinking that she was dropping Karyn Tisch-Warren instead of suffering a sneak attack. Lotus put away LaVey after a combination Falcon Arrow and powerbomb backbreaker. Hard times for Shelley right now.
Earlier Today while the Arena was empty, Nazir el-Fadal cut a promo from the concourse. He noted that he hadn't lost his shots at the Unified World title at Golden Rule or Mayday Payday, but Commissioner Holmes would rather let someone desecrate the Fifteen Pounds of Gold than let its rightful owner hold it. If this was the part where Holmes has his fun by keeping him away from the belt, then history had shown that the next part was going to be Naz’s favorite part - the part where he became the first wrestler ever in nearly 70 years of QCW history to hold the QCW championship and the QCW World championship and the Unified World championship. Allah would hasten the day for his greatest creation, Nazir el-Fadal - the Greatest Man Alive.
Hype for next week's action included International Lotus in action and a non-title Lolo Vuitton match on Unleashed as well as a World TV title defense, the Agrippa/LaVey rematch for the Crush championship and a brother vs brother contract match between Ricardo and the trying to return Roberto Villalobos on next week's Ruckus.
6. Ashok Banjerjee [c] d. Super Avión at 8:23 to retain the GRPL+ World Television championship 3️⃣
The reason Ricardo is no longer Crusazdo del Oro is Avión, as when the former partners met at Steel City Showdown in a mask v. mask to start off the month it was Avión who cheated to win the mask he currently wears on a chain to the ring. As that rivalry has played out, Ashok Banjerjee won the Golden Gauntlet and the G+ World TV title a couple of weeks ago and came into this defense with impressive wins over Karyn Tisch-Warren and Jacques Krieger.
Given the champ’s Boundlessness and Avión's lucha libre bonafides, this main event was a high octane back and forth that had the Arena rocking from bell to bell. The opening minute or so was a stalemate before Ashok took the first advantage by landing a rebound huracanrana that had Avión rolling to the floor afterwards. It didn't make him safe from the champ, who followed up with a step up tope con hilo over the ringpost that's probably going into the Ruckus open sooner rather than later. Ashok continued to have the upper hand for the next couple of minutes until Avión turned a whip attempt into a springboard poison rana that flattened Banjerjee and gave Avión the breathing room he needed to mount a comeback. Avión flooded Ashok with his offense and the announce put over that this might be the second week in a row that Ruckus ended with a title changing hands. Avión hit a Meteora and set up for the win with Air Superiority but when he went for the avalanche Spanish Fly Ashok shoved him off instead of going down to the mat. Avión got crotched on the top rope, then his boots tangled between the top and middle rope, which left him open to a 450° splash from Banjerjee. Ashok dominated the rest of the way and ended Avión's title hopes with the Decolonizer Driver.
It looked like the show was going to end the show with Ashok getting his belt back and celebrating up the ramp but as he did that, Ricardo Villalobos sprinted last him and started beating the crap out of Avión to increasing cheers from the crowd. The biggest pop came when he laid out Avión on the announce table and put him through it with a phoenix splash. Ruckus' last bit of audio was the crowd cheering Ricardo while Villalobos was holding his ribs and staring down his former partner in the table’s wreckage promising that Avión had only just begun to feel his wrath.
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