Quality Arena | Parts Unknown, FL
Aired live on GRPL+ | July 5th, 2024
Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen on commentary, the Voice of QCW Duck Eko handled the ring announcing
1. Justice Davis d. Jacques Krieger (w/S. Mark Starr) at 12:15 This springboarded from last week's show, as online Starr blamed his client bumping into and having words with Davis before his loss in the World TV title match until Davis made a rare online appearance and said he’d have fun punching his meal ticket. We got the hard hitting opener you’d expect here, a 50/50 match Davis surprised the bigger Krieger with a Davis Driver out of nowhere but got laid out by “Upper Class” Broderick Palmer II who had beaten him thanks to Krieger showing up last week. A post match promo saw a giddy Starr reveal that he’d added Palmer II to join his stable of Al Starr's. Starr pressed that he would find some way to honor his new client's wishes and serve Hashtag JusticeForEvan All One Word. Palmer II held JD up so the former World TV champion could blast him with a heart punch; the heels celebrated jumping Justice as the crowd booed the new trio.
2. Beauty and the Beast Mode v. Team Batroc v. The Wonderful Ward Brothers in a triple threat ended in a no contest at 11:47 Both babyfaces teams have had prior beef with Team Batroc (the Wards were once aligned with then split from Team Batroc and turned babyfaces) and while they don't hate each other only one team can walk away with the Unified World Tag Team straps at Cruel Summer. Good action and it seemed like the ex champion Wards were going to win but the End Times jumped the guardrail and started laying into the brothers with their THE END IS NIGH signs. The went after and laid out both other teams as well before Quality Force security arrived on the scene but they grabbed their signs and wandered through the concourse towards the exits.
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Sizzle reel to again prime the pump for the arrival of luchadora El Vengador de Gente Jr. from Lucha Salvaje. In a subtitled promo Vengador said that as the conscience of lucha libre it was his responsibility to come administer justice (not him), reintroduced himself, and said his word was the law. Speaking of new luchadors…
3. Ashok Banjerjee [c] d. El Loto Negro by disqualification at 6:59 to retain the GRPL+ World Television championship 4️⃣ Pretty good, if short TV match. Coming off a win on Unleashed, Loto hung early with Ashok until he didn't, and then suddenly low blowed Banjerjee for the DQ. Loto wailed away on Ashok before revealing Nazir el-Fadal, who revealed his plan - win the World TV title back and cash it in to get the Unified World title after what's happened to him the past 2 PPVs. Crowd was its usual 70/30 split during the promo.
We got a few replays of the match's big moments and Naz’s treachery before Commissioner Holmes came to the ring to officiate the Omar Littlefield/Autumn Powers contract signing making the Cruel Summer main event official. They exchanged a few barbs, and signed on the dotted line for the 14th. Things ended with Autumn putting over her bona fides before Omar laughed them off and threatened to end her career like he did Mirror's. Powers leapt over the table and went after Omar to some success before eating a Face Eraser through the table. We went to commercial break with Omar blowing off the Commissioner as he headed to the back while Autumn slowly got herself out of the wreckage.
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4. Roberto Villalobos d. Ricardo Villalobos in a contract match at 2:45 Short and frankly bizarre match as Ricardo (the former Crusazdo del Oro) didn't want to fight his brother even after Roberto jumped him last week. Ricardo seemed to be pleading with his brother to not do this to him, but Roberto said something to his brother that caused the proud Ricardo to almost burst into tears before he laid down and Roberto pinned him to win and get a contract to put him back on the QCW roster.
There was another interview where Julius Duquesne III’s guests were the Game Changers. They brought up the fact that Ashley's challenge for the National Championship had gone unanswered and maybe they were too busy hiding behind their Bibles or the Duquesne Cup they stole from Szabo, but the Game Changers were right here and they weren't hard to find. This proved to be their downfall, as Witchfinder General and Goody Gardner jumped then from behind to kick off a backstage brawl for the next couple of minutes that ended up with both Ashley THEE Influencer and the Tiki God laid out before Quality Force security came on the scene. Goody held up Ashley's head and hissed at her “we accept” before shoving it back down hard to the concrete.
5. Lolo Vuitton and Luz Cruz d. International Lotus at 14:36
This match was scheduled to happen last week but got short circuited by a Lotus sneak attack, then they beat unlikely teammates Cruz and Shelley LaVey when LaVey stepped in to take Lolo’s place. This time around, it was the white hats who had the hot start and cleared Lotus from the ring going into the night's last commercial break before smirking down at Lotus.
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Unfortunately for The Champ and Luz, they couldn't maintain the advantage for long after the break. Scott Warren-Tisch provided a distraction, allowing Lotus to hit a double team behind the ref’s back on Cruz, who they proceeded to whale on for the next few minutes while halving the ring. Cruz eventually fought out of the Bad Part of Town and landed a DDT and neckbreaker combo on both to force an opportunity for her to tag out. The Champ ran wild on both members of Lotus, and eventually Sohla ate a Bloody Shoe and the pin. Lolo let Karyn know about it as Tisch-Warren collected Sohla and the announce hyped Lolo/Karyn for the Women's World championship at Cruel Summer.
A vignette played of the WELCOME TO PARTS UNKNOWN sign on the edge of town for a few seconds before the two men from the desert wandering and dive bar destroyers vignettes of the past few weeks passed it. The sign suddenly went from green to midnight black, and the welcome got replaced by this:
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Next week's go home Ruckus will spotlight a trios match as Nazir el-Fadal and International Lotus will team up against Ashok Banjerjee, Luz Cruz and Lolo Vuitton - we’ll have a rundown of the Cruel Summer card - and we'll hear from “Dark Mirror” Beckett Carpenter for the first time since the events of Steel City Showdown.
The main event was a title rematch from two weeks ago except this time the roles of champion and challenger were reversed…
6. Bonnie Agrippa [c, w/Hysteria] d. Shelley LaVey (w/Beauty and the Beast Mode) at 9:07 to retain the Crush championship 2️⃣
Bonnie beat her ex partner clean a couple weeks ago to win the belt, getting her knees up on Shelley's Fallen Angel splash and cradling her for the pin. LaVey went for the Fresh To Death cutter early on, but Bonnie swatted away one attempt and reversed the other into a German suplex to gain the early lead in the fight.
Agrippa expanded her lead by putting Shelley in a Tree of Woe before running to the other side of the ring and coming back with a head of steam before spearing the ex champ in the ribs; Agrippa continued to work over LaVey's ribs as the announce put over Bonnie using her familiarity with Shelley to try and remove the Fallen Angel splash from the equation. Bonnie continued to work over Shelley, and put her in the Tree of Woe again - but this time Shelley pulled herself up when Agrippa charged and Bonnie went flying shoulder first into the ringpost as a result. LaVey got herself situated on the top rope and hit almost a trust fall avalanche version of the Fresh To Death, which saw both women laid out on the canvas for most of a 10 count before Shelley managed to start putting together a comeback in earnest.
LaVey emptied the tank trying to regain the championship, including dropping Agrippa with two Pele kicks before going up to the top rope. It was at this point that the rest of Hysteria went after Beauty and the Beast Mode, using their 3-2 advantage to beat down Beauty and the Beast Mode on the floor. Shelley spotted this and had a choice to make and after a couple of beats she made it - she flew off the top with a tope con hilo into the fight on the floor and wiped everybody out. Shelley eventually got up from the aftermath of the dive only for Bonnie to run up on her from behind and fling her into the ring post. LaVey went down in a heap and Agrippa tossed her back in the ring before laying her out with a brainbuster to retain the championship.
Agrippa cackled over a crumpled Shelley's body as she got the title back and was joined in the rest of the ring by Hysteria. Beauty and the Beast Mode hit the ring just in time for the lights to go out…and when they came back on it was evident all four women had disappeared in the darkness, as is their wont. B&BM and the ref checked on a still recovering Shelley as Ruckus faded to black with one more show before the Cruel Summer PPV.
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