Peterson Events Center | Pittsburgh, PA
Aired live on GRPL+ | June 7th, 202
We saw a vignette to open the show that showed Commissioner Holmes in his makeshift office Earlier Today talking with Ambassadors Trios champions the Culture, and Shelley LaVey had her Crush championship with her as well. Handshakes happened all around and then Holmes asked them if they’d found a partner for the contract match tonight. They all seemed confident they could handle the situation when Luz Cruz walked in, saying that she hoped she was in time to join them for the eight person tag. She and Shelley had their match ruined at Mayday Payday, so if they weren't going to hide in the shadows she’d show them the spotlight and get just what she deserved.
She shut the door as “These Hands” Roy Fade jerked a thumb over his shoulder and said “Yeah, her.”
We got a modified version of the usual opening to Ruckus – panoramic shots of Pittsburgh landmarks were intertwined with the usual highlight reel while Dreamers’ metal cover of “Black and Yellow” played in the background. Things ended the way they have for about a month, with the Cavalcade of Champions and Omar Littlefield tugging at the chipped Unified World championship around his neck while breaking out into a slow, sadistic grin.
Fans go RUAHH~! and the red, yellow and blue pyro went off on stage as this supersized edition of Ruckus with limited commercial interruptions kicked off. The voice of QCW, Steve Vandeblanche was alongside analyst and former QCW champion Carl Christensen - they plugged the first ever contract match to come when “La Flor “ Luz Cruz teamed with the Culture against familiar faces Bonnie Agrippa, Nancy Crowley, Justine Danek and Bella Jolie as well as the main event where the Fifteen Pounds of Gold would be on the line between Littlefield and the person he took the Unified World championship off of, “Dark Mirror” Beckett Carpenter. But Steel City Showdown would kick off with the 2024 Duquesne Classic winner defending his other piece of hardware for the first time…
1. Witchfinder General [c, w/Goody Gardner] v. “Tiki God” Al Buffett (w/Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo) for the QCW National Championship
Once Duck Eko made the introductions under a sole spotlight, we were soon underway and Buffett came out of the gates hot. While WG was the bigger man, he definitely wasn’t the stronger one, and Al put him through his paces and out powered him early. No sooner did Al press WG overhead before he started doing some reps with the National Champion, then slammed him down to the mat. WG tried to roll away and get his bearings only to get clotheslined out of the ring once he did. General was quick to grab his title and make a move towards the back but got cut off by Ashley THEE Influencer. The Duquesne Classic finalists faced each other down, but that meant that the champion wasn't focused on the challenger; Al was able to sneak up on WG and throw him back into the ring to continue his offense.
Buffett continued chipping away at Witchfinder, who finally lashed out and raked Al’s eyes to get some breathing room. But when he charged to follow up, Al gave him a backdrop into the corner that sent WG bouncing off the buckles and falling awkwardly to the mat. Al followed up by dragging the General to his feet to blast him with a short arm lariat that got the Tiki God the first two count of the match. Even that was too much for Goody Gardner to bear, and she jumped up on the apron to argue with the referee. Ashley was coming to get Goody but Al nearly beat his tag partner to the punch and went after her. Goody dropped off of the apron - and Al turned around right into a cyclone kick that knocked him heels over head.
We got replays of Al Inheriting the Whirlwind as the General began stomping Al out to the boos of the crowd. The crowd wouldn't get any happier as Witchfinder got Al into position and laid him out with a piledriver. Goody excitedly pounded the mat as Al almost ended up in the fetal position after getting dropped. General sneered at the fans while gesturing at the fallen Buffett, asking them why wouldn't they repent? Did they want to end up like this charlatan? If you were in the crowd, it was hard to tell what was worse: the harangues or the beating.
Al could tell you which, especially as Witchfinder dished out everything he’d taken earlier and then some. It only took a couple of minutes before Witchfinder put Al in a sleeper and tried to sap his strength. Buffett looked to be going limp but it turned around as he countered with a jawjacker. Al got a running start and charged Witchfinder but the General kicked his leg out from under him and hit him with a couple of quick elbow drops so that he could maintain the upper hand.
“Ti-ki God!” chants fired up in Peterson but it didn't stop Witchfinder from continuing to beat Al down and preach at him when his fists or feet weren't flying. Witchfinder yelled at Ashley to watch what would happen and see if seemed familiar to her right before he got Al in position for his Repent finisher, but Al frantically kicked his legs to avoid the elevated crucifix neckbreaker, spun WG around and laid him out with a Codebreaker that left both men down. Ashley and Goody stared daggers at each other while pounding the apron in their sides of the ring, hoping to get their man to their feet.
Al was first up by a second and managed to block a couple of shots before firing back with a couple of right hands of his own; however, WG cut him off at the pass with a hard knee to the gut that left Buffett splayed out on the mat. General looked around the ring before grabbing Al and flinging him shoulder first into the ringpost, the dull echoing thud of the impact reverberating around the arena. With Al incapacitated and in position, General hoisted him up and got a running start before planting the Tiki God with Repent - a three count later, his first successful title defense was in the books.
Witchfinder General d. Al Buffett at 13:20 to retain the QCW National Championship
We got replays of some of the match's big moments but before we could see the end we went back to live action in the ring, where Goody Gardner was laying another stomping down on poor Al. Fortunately for him, Ashley quickly slid into the ring and launched herself at Goody to stop that noise. Szabo laid in a beating on Gardner right up until Witchfinder snatched up Ashley from behind and threw her shoulder first into the ringpost. WG followed up with a Repent on Szabo while Gardner had grabbed the Duquesne Cup and was driving the butt end of it repeatedly into Al's chest and stomach. The crowd booed the black hats’ walloping the Game Changers until Quality Force security came out and separated the pairs.
The end result was Al and Ashley laid out in the ring, Witchfinder and Goody sneering at them as they took both the Cup and the QCW National Championship to the back. Boos rang out as “Shall We Gather At the River?” played. Witchfinder and Goody sneered at the jeers while standing in front of a modified Qualitron 9004, and he held up the National Championship while she raised the Duquesne Cup.
We saw what looked like a desert expanse for a few seconds before we saw a hand reach down into the grains and pull out a gray hockey mask, letting sand slide through the holes. As that happened another hand reached into the sand and pulled out gray, bulky shoulder pads and you heard them being pulled over. A few beats went by and we saw two men walking up what appeared to be a dune before a road suddenly split the sand in two. They began to walk down it, though we could just see them walking down the road together into the sun that sort of Star Trekked the screen.for a few seconds before we saw the following:
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We came back to Steve and Carl at the desk, who were hyping up the other two title matches on the card when the lights went out in Peterson.
When they came back on, four familiar faces were standing in the ring and three were smiling while Bonnie Agrippa's face was a brick wall. “Pray For Me” brought out the Culture along with Luz Cruz to a decent pop from the Steel City branch of the Quality Controllers.
2. Bonnie Agrippa, Nancy Crowley, Justine Danek and Bella Jolie vs. the Culture and Luz Cruz in a contract match
It came as a small surprise when Cruz volunteered to start things off for her side, daring any of the four women in the opposition to take her on. Nancy Crowley broke away from the pack and had a crooked smile on her face while she tilted her head at La Flor. Cruz landed a punch but when she went for another Crowley bit her hand before following up with a series of clubbing blows across Cruz's upper back. Crowley brought in Justine Danek off a tag and the two of them teamed up for a double suplex. Justine took over on offense while the announce talked about all four women suddenly reemerging at Mayday Payday and causing havoc in the women's division since.
In fact, the bulk of the match was one of the black hats usually keeping an upper hand on an increasingly beleaguered Cruz - and even when Luz got a little piece of daylight something would happen like Bonnie Agrippa taking a swipe at Luz from the apron to help set up a Justine/Bella double gourdbuster. Justine went for a cover after that but Shelley LaVey pulled her off the cover at 2. Danek continued running point with occasional hard shots from Agrippa or Crowley but when she went to put Luz away the former Crush champion found the strength to counter with a sky high dropkick that flattened Danek where she stood. We got a couple replays of Cruz going borderline Rainmaker as both Justine and Luz crawled towards their respective corners. Danek got there first and tagged in Agrippa, who quickly got in the ring and picked Cruz's leg to try and fend her off. Luz went for an enzuigiri that Bonnie ducked, but what she couldn't duck was a snap rewind rana that dropped her to the canvas. Cruz made the crawl to her corner and tagged in the Crush champion.
Shelley LaVey came in the ring and immediately greeted her ex partner with a flurry of fists as the crowd popped. LaVey sent Agrippa flying multiple times, causing Bella Jolie to get in the ring and try to save her partner. Shelley managed to sidestep the attack and hit Bonnie with a bulldog while clotheslining Bella down. LaVey continued her dominant roll, and pointed at Pierce before turning it into a finger gun that she shot at Agrippa. When Bonnie turned around, Shelley leapt at her and went for her Fresh To Death cutter but Agrippa shoved it off. Fortunately for Shelley the shove sent her flying towards her corner, where Luz reached past “Dashing” Pierce Moore and tagged herself back into the fray. Cruz launched herself at Agrippa, who quickly adjusted and turned it into a small package.
And that somehow got Bonnie Agrippa and her group back into QCW.
No, seriously.
Bonnie Agrippa, Nancy Crowley, Justine Danek and Bella Jolie d. The Culture and Luz Cruz at 11:19 to be reinstated on the QCW roster
Agrippa quickly rolled out of the ring as the win played out like a needle scratch throughout Peterson. Cruz sat up in the ring looking absolutely shocked, turning to the ref and holding up three fingers. The announce expressed similar shock at the finish while the Culture checked on Luz. While Danek, Jolie and Crowley exchanged joyous high fives and hugs, Agrippa looked in the ring and smirked before snapping her fingers. The lights went out and when they came back on the Culture looked bummed out while a frustrated Cruz kicked the bottom turnbuckle repeatedly. Bonnie and the rest of her cove–uh, group were nowhere to be seen.
We got replays of the finish before a highlight package aired of a remarkable stretch of last year's Cruel Summer PPV that saw three different world titles in three straight matches change hands when
1st) Team Batroc won the Unified Tag belts
2nd) “Night Sky” Diana Spare won the Women's World championship off of Karyn Tisch-Warren; this is the first time Spare has been on the show in any way since heading for the Mouse House last year
And 3rd) Autumn Powers bested “Dark Mirror” Beckett Carpenter to end their best of 5 series with the upper hand and win the World TV title
As Thievery Corporation’s “33 Degree” played in the background, we found out that this year will see Cruel Summer return as a Quality PPV. Next month on July 7th, the Capital One Arena in Washington DC will play host to a signature QCW PPV with tickets going on sale Monday at noon Eastern. Nothing says Cruel Summer like DC in an election year, I suppose.
Right before we hit commercials we saw minority owner Ig de Catur coming down the ramp with the GRPL+ World Television championship under his arm. He came around and shook hands with Steve and Carl then headed into the ring to hand off the belt to the referee. The crowd gave him a decent reaction as the Scoop Republic boss waved. Ig is here to officially hand off the title to whoever wins the Golden Gauntlet in the next match; one of them will hold the World TV title for the first time. The former multiple time Catch Hell champion faces the former multiple time Women's World champion when Banjerjee vs. Tisch-Warren goes down next!
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“Galang” brought out Ashok Banjerjee to a big pop from the crowd, but he was on a match to the ring without his usual smile or slapping the hands of the fans. Once in the ring, Ashok hit the turnbuckles and nodded at the crowd who was changing his name.
As he made A Very Familiar Gesture around his waist, the insipid “Roar” brought out Karyn Tisch-Warren. While the notorious KTW walked down the ramp, a picture in picture QCW Rewind showed her teaming up with Ashok at points in last week's triple threat semifinal to eliminate Pyotr Caviar from the Golden Gauntlet.
Once they were in the ring, Duck made the title match intros under the lone spotlight in the Events Center and then we were underway.
3. Ashok Banjerjee v. Karyn Tisch-Warren in the finals of the Golden Gauntlet for the vacant GRPL+ World Television championship
As they fought to a standstill in the opening minutes of the fight, Steve noted that per Commissioner Holmes’ edict at the start of the Gauntlet, the rest of International Lotus was banned from ringside and Karyn was going to have to win the World TV title on her own. Carl also noted he was hearing that there was some kind of disturbance going on in the back and he hoped that if it turned out to be something pivotal that they could get into it after the new champ was crowned.
After some counters and counters to counters, Karyn landed the match's first big blow by dodging a couple of Banjerjee attacks and landing a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker to stop him in his tracks. Tisch-Warren used her quickness to keep Ashok relatively grounded and when he rolled onto his side to avoid a pin the First Lady of Fitness fired off a basement dropkick that caught him between the L3 and L4. Ashok continued to eat Karyn's offense and screamed out as she controlled him on the mat with a bow and arrow hold that caused him to reach out for (and eventually get to) the ropes.
Banjerjee rolled out to the floor and was crawling around on his hands and knees, using the apron to pull himself up. Once she saw that, Tisch-Warren was on the move. Karyn bounced off the ropes and flew to the outside with a tope suicida that unfortunately for her lived up to its name as Ashok dove out of the way and she flew right into the retaining barrier to gasps and groans from the Quality Controllers. We got a couple of replays as Ashok got himself back in the ring. The referee started to count Karyn out but Ashok waved him off. Banjerjee got a running start and springboarded off the middle rope and flew to the outside with a tope con hilo that wiped out Karyn on the floor.
The crowd popped big for that, and after a few seconds Ashok got himself vertical before tossing Karyn into the ring and following her in. Ashok showed off some speed of his own but mostly took the rare opportunity he had of a power advantage over an opponent to drive Karyn's health meter further into the red. Ashok's roll came to a halt when he charged Karyn in a corner and she got her cross trainers up to stop him. Tisch-Warren went to the top rope but Ashok undercut her to plant her on the top turnbuckle. Banjerjee went up and not only hit a superplex but rolled through it; he looked to chain together another move - maybe a Decolonizer Driver to end things - but Karyn turned the tables and planted Ashok with a spinning version of the Falcon Arrow that left both of them down and the Pittsburgh crowd clapping.
A “this is awesome” chant got cut off by the Qualitron suddenly coming to life with live footage of the disturbance in the back – Lolo Vuitton whooping Sohla Patel’s ass after International Lotus tried to take her out after the main event between Lolo and Sohla last week ended by DQ at Karyn's head. A furious Vuitton launched Patel into a production crate like a lawn dart before spotting something out of our eyeline at home. Lolo grabbed Sohla by the head and spat at Sohla that she knew what payback was before grabbing her by the hair and launching her through some office’s plate glass window.
That got even bigger gasps and “Holy shit!” chants from the crowd. Quality Force security arrived after the horse was already out of the barn, pulling a cackling Lolo away as she screamed that now that biotch knew how it felt. QFS took Lolo away as the camera panned over to see Patel in a bloody heap amidst the broken glass. A recovering Karyn saw her partner laid out and then she got laid out at the hands of Banjerjee when he launched her with a German suplex that had her kissing the mat with force.
Ashok pulled himself up and controlled the rest of the match, snuffing out a small Tisch-Warren rally with a beautiful satellite DDT to set up the Decolonizer Driver (a brainbuster into the knee). A three count later, Karyn was still unmoving on the mat and Ashok let out a wordless cry of joy.
Ashok Banjerjee d. Karyn Tisch-Warren at 12:52 to win the GRPL+ World Television championship
Pyro! Confetti!
Ig came into the ring with the belt while the referee tended to Karyn and helped her to the back. De Catur shook hands with a psyched Banjerjee before putting the G+ World TV title around his waist. Ig moved towards a corner and joined the crowd in applauding Ashok, who got bleeped on the broadcast for letting a joyful F bomb off before he hit the turnbuckles to continue celebrating. The “You deserve it!” chants got drowned out by a barrage of golden and white pyro exploding from and on front of the Qualitron while confetti with the same colors started falling from the ceiling. Ashok played to the other side of the crowd before laying down on the canvas and making confetti angels. Steve put over that after months of trying, Ashok Banjerjee had finally earned the GRPL+ World Television championship. Carl noted as hard as he fought to become champion, the next question was if he could navigate his way to 10 and get to cash it in for a shot at the Unified World championship.
Backstage, Enya Face sent congratulations to Ashok Banjerjee for winning the GRPL+ World TV championship before bringing out her guest who requested and paid for this television time so that he could address all involved and viewing along. Here now, “Upper Class” Broderick Palmer II.
Face held out the mic for Palmer II to take, then walked off as he walked on while the Quality Controllers booed. Broderick agreed with the crowd, saying that's what he felt in his heart in this narrowly disguised zoo masquerading as a workplace environment. In the hallowed walls of Quality Championship Wrestling there was apparently no room for justice, let alone the Hashtag Justice For Evan All One Word (he said it, not me) that was deserved. He should be here as not only half of a tag team but half of the Unified World Tag Team champions. Yet here he was, no belt fashioned around his waist or in his grasp. He assured us he was seeking legal restitution from Commissioner Holmes with regards to the titles no matter how rudely he had been rebuffed. Whether between the ropes or in the courts, the result would be the first of what would be many championships under the name Broderick Palmer II.
But until that time came he would make his name in the singles division just as he had when he ‘ll provide pro wrestling par excellence when he beat Autumn Powers tonight the same way he beat Razorblade a few weeks ago (the term you're looking for is chester) to further showcase his championship mettle. Perhaps he might set his sights next on the championship in television but first he'd prove he deserved a shot at even more glory by proving where Autumn's place was: beneath him.
From there we went back to Duck in the ring, who announced that the next match had a 30 minute time limit and would be a mask vs. mask match!
4. Crusazdo del Oro v. Super Avión in a mask vs. mask match
Iron Maiden hit the PA and down the ramp swaggered Super Avión. The crowd already didn't like the former Unified World Tag Team champion and he sure as hell didn't endear himself to the crowd when he yanked a Terrible Towel off a fan in the front row and used it to blow his nose. The crowd wanted swift justice for this local misdemeanor and got it in the form of Crusazdo del Oro, who ran down the ramp and jumped his ex partner from behind (Avión turned heel on Oro and beat him in a street fight a few weeks ago). Oro went on the attack with wild swings before the referee ran down the ramp and separated them. The zebra focused on Oro and getting him into the ring before checking on Avión, who angrily demanded that they ring the bell. Avión's attempt to get in the ring was cut off by a flying Oro, who dropped him with a springboard spinning plancha that had cell phones up in the air and the crowd cheering loudly.
Replays of the tornillo showed as Oro snatched up Avión and threw him into the ring. Avión staggered into a corner and Oro quickly met him, jumping up to the second rope so he could lay in not just 10, not 20, not even 30 but 33 punches before the ref could get Crusazdo to come down. Avión flopped into a seated position but it didn't stop Oro from running to the opposite corner and coming back to drill Avión with a Meteora. Avión started to slide out of the ring but Oro helped him with an inside-out slingshot leg drop that drove his leg into Avión’s neck. Oro rolled back into the ring and grabbed Avión's legs to pull him towards the center of the ring. Oro got a decent two count out of it even though the time spent pulling Avión away from the ropes may have saved the match for Avión.
But nothing could save Avión from the wrath of his ex partner, who spent the majority of the match kicking his ass with some uncharacteristic anger behind every blow. Avión got in a little offense and cheated a couple times but couldn't sustain any offense long term - and that was before Crusazdo hit him with a springboard rewind rana that put El Super in the drop zone. Oro signaled he was going to finish it and went up top for his phoenix splash, but suddenly found himself crotched on the top turnbuckle as the referee suddenly went flying into the top rope. Avión pleaded innocence as he scooted out of the ring while a couple of replays – well, Avión had plausible deniability but he might have been (probably was?) guilty.
He was definitely guilty of grabbing a steel chair and bringing it into the ring. Avión picked it up and swung it on a rising Crusazdo only to get it yanked out of his hands by the referee. The referee yelled at Avión before getting the chair out of the ring - all the opening Avión needed to kick a field goal with Oro’s testicles. The crowd booed as Avión quickly wrapped Oro up with a La Magistral cradle…
Super Avión d. Crusazdo del Oro at 16:13 to unmask Oro
…this fucking guy!
Avión let out a cackle while holding the back of his neck, but barely got his hand raised before he got to his knees and started unmasking Crusazdo. The announce weren't booing like the crowd was, but they didn't like the underhanded way he hung onto his identity. A few beats later, Avión ripped off Oro's mask and held it up to the lights before spitting at his ex partner. As Avión headed to the back, Oro rolled over onto his back and gingerly sat up. He looked familiar, and Steve seemed to initially think that it was former QCW star Roberto Villalobos but then saw the long jagged scar that almost encircled the man’s left eye and took up the most real estate above his eyebrow.
He waved off the referee’s offer of help and started limping gingerly to the back, Steve again decrying the miscarriage of justice that this man, Crusazdo del Oro had suffered. Carl provided a pivot point right before the night’s last set of ads, hyping up the Powers/Palmer II match up next.
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5. “Upper Class” Broderick Palmer II v. Autumn Powers
Hot start to this one as Autumn couldn't even get in the ring before Palmer II blindsided her with a low tope. The referee went to the outside to separate Broderick from Autumn, causing Palmer II to get in the ref’s face. While that was going on, Autumn got time to recover and launched herself off of the steps with a flying lariat that took BP2 down. The ref now was keeping Autumn from going after Palmer II and tried to get things started.
Once the bell rang, Autumn saw that “Upper Class” was still down and hit the ropes to fire off a baseball slide dropkick but Palmer caught her by the legs and swung her like a baseball bat into the dividing wall. Autumn went down in a heap before we saw replays of how she ended up crumpled. Broderick followed up by draping Powers over the apron and drilling her with a million dollar kneelift before smiling at his successful offense. His success continued for the next couple of minutes as he used his power advantage to keep Autumn down; as the announce noted that Palmer II’s offense was also taking the crowd out of the match just like he probably wanted.
Palmer II continued to work over Autumn but when he looked to powerbomb her, Powers reversed into a facebuster to drop Broderick near the center of the ring. Both were down for the better part of the count before getting up within half a second of each other though once they were up it was Autumn who struck first when she jacked his jaw with a textbook rolling elbow.
Palmer II started getting his comeuppance as the Pittsburghians (?) rallied behind Autumn and maybe played a 12th man in her comeback. Autumn's speed killed any chance that Broderick had of coming back, and the former Unified World champion closed out the fight with a vicious 1-2 combo, flattening him with a borderline backdrop driver before putting a button on things with the Hazy Shade. Good showing from BP2, but in the end the universe continued unfolding the way it should.
Autumn Powers d. Broderick Palmer II at 12:46
After replays, we saw the referee checking on Broderick while Autumn made her way up the aisle. Julius Duquesne III was in front of the Qualitron and congratulated Autumn on her win and hoped to get a word with her. Julius asked Autumn how she felt after putting another big win on the board. Autumn looked at Julius and seemed to think about what she was going to say, but instead shook her head and headed to the back. After realizing he’d gotten snubbed out of an interview, Julius shook his head and followed her back there.
Before the main event, Steve hyped up next week's Ruckus and while they weren't returning to Quality Arena with a supershow like tonight, there would be not one, not two, but three title matches come next Friday.
Shelley LaVey will defend the Crush championship against one of the women in the group that just got reinstated earlier in the night in Justine Danek. And we’ll get two title rematches: Ashok Banjerjee will make his first title defense against the woman he narrowly defeated to win the belt tonight, Karyn Tisch-Warren. And the Women's World championship will be on the line again when Lolo Vuitton goes against Sohla Patel as that rivalry shows no signs of abating. Note that in both the World TV title and Women's World championship matches that the rest of International Lotus is barred from ringside.
Lolo Vuitton made history when she recaptured the Women's World championship at Mayday Payday and it might have been the biggest news from the last PPV…you know, if the main event hadn't seen a pillar of the modern era win the Fifteen Pounds of Gold and the Unified World championship…for all of a few minutes before a rookie monster cashed in his World TV title and leveled up by running through the spent champion to take the top title for himself.
And now there's no cash in, just a former champion trying to take back what’s theirs and a newly minted champion looking to send another message….and maybe another opponent to the hospital.
6. Omar Littlefield [c] v. “Dark Mirror” Beckett Carpenter for the Unified World championship
After Duck made the introductions, the lights came back up and the ref called for the bell. The crowd chanted for Mirror as Omar confidently strode to the middle of the ring and stuck his chin out in a dare to hit him right on the button. Carpenter bolted out of the corner with a shotgun dropkick that staggered the Detroit native backwards a few steps. Carpenter started teeing off with buzzsaw kicks and put some knots on his head. Omar didn't fall to both knees and was clearly rattled but had enough strength to shove Mirror away. Carpenter bounced off the ropes and hit Omar with a modified step up enzuigiri. Omar still didn't go down so Mirror hit the ropes again.
Littlefield saw it coming and blocked an attempt at another enzuigiri by tossing the Triple Crown winner up like pizza dough and letting them go splat into the mat. Carpenter started staggering up and Littlefield ran for the ropes, running past Carpenter in two different directions before slamming into them with a Pounce that sent them flying into the corner. Carpenter was barely moving and Omar wanted to make sure things stayed that way. Littlefield backed into a corner before charging Carpenter and delivering a cannonball that sandwiched Mirror into the bottom buckles. Carpenter went limp before Omar stepped on them and up to the middle rope, staring blankly at the booing crowd. Littlefield pointed out at them and you could hear him say “This next part…this is on y’all.”
What was the next part?
Vader Bomb.
Vader Bomb.
Vader Bomb.
Vader Bomb.
Carpenter wasn't moving. Omar cared.
Littlefield grabbed Mirror by the mask before getting them into position and drilling them with his signature Face Eraser. Omar dismissively put a foot on Beckett's chest for the 3 count.
Omar Littlefield d. Beckett Carpenter at 6:13 to retain the Unified World championship
The referee started to call for the bell but the champion barked at him to make it five. The ref hesitated, but did it. Peterson was almost in a stunned silence as Beckett had just gotten obliterated. Unfortunately for Carpenter, the beating was just beginning.
Littlefield got his hand raised and then lariated the poor referee damn near into the fourth row. Omar chuckled, then grabbed Mirror and planted them with another Face Eraser. Littlefield rolled out of the ring and grabbed a limp Mirror by the ankles before tossing them to the floor hard. Littlefield ripped the facade off the announce table, which sent poor Steve and Carl scurrying for the hills. Omar threw Carpenter on the table and got up there himself before setting up and delivering another Face Eraser that imploded the table and sent Beckett nearly into the fetal position.
Littlefield got up from the wreckage and let out a roar amidst the boos coming down on him in waves. Omar shoved Duck Eko down and grabbed his belt as Quality Force security came onto the scene (busy night for them). Omar threatened a few of them before yelling at them to get out of his way. As he stomped off to the back he ignored the medical staff coming down the ramp with a stretcher. Without commentators, we saw some reaction shots of concerned and/or pissed fans watching the scene of devastation The Champ left behind.
QFS headed to the back as Mirror was loaded onto the stretcher and strapped in. The med squad took the stretcher around the ring as the credits box came up.
But.
But as the Qualitron opened up to allow them to head to the back, Omar Littlefield was standing there with a smile on his face blocking the path. The medical crew tried to get him out of the way so he scared them all by running at them, sending them fleeing all over Peterson. That left him alone with the stretcher…
…which he promptly grabbed and dismissively pushed off the stage to the shock and horror of the crowd. Security came back out and the medical team joined them as they all got close to Mirror’s body that had just been essentially thrown off the stage while they were held down. Ig de Catur came out and Commissioner Holmes did too, Littlefield blowing off the Commissioner and moving like he had another appointment that he just wasn't going to miss. De Catur was screaming for an ambulance, which took a minute to arrive. Carpenter was loaded into the ambulance shortly thereafter, and Peterson was so quiet you could hear some of the Quality Controllers crying. The ambulance went out of Peterson en route to the hospital and ten plus minutes into the overrun Ruckus faded to black.
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