GRPL+ Presents QCW Ruckus [s3e40 • September 27, 2024]

Quality Arena 🤼 Parts Unknown, FL 

Aired live on GRPL+ 📺 September 27th, 2024

The usual open went to black halfway through it for a few beats before we opened on Hysteria in the ring.  Luz Cruz cut the group’s promo, saying that Hysteria chose her to lead because she was just like them.  Sohla Patel got to bully her out of QCW last year and got rewarded by holding her beloved Crush championship and cheating her out of the Women's World championship.  So tonight if Sohla tried to stab her in the back when they teamed, Hysteria would show her how crazed they could be when they beat her into the hospital.  As for “Night Sky” Diana Spare and Shelley LaVey, they could expect that there would be nothing but misery tonight just like there were would be for them every week until they stopped trying to fight the inevitable and accepted that the division and the titles in it belonged to Hysteria.

Luz began talking about winning the #1 contenders fatal four way next week when the lights went out.

When they came back on, Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo was in the ring shutting up Luz with her fists looking for retribution after last week.  Hysteria started beating Ashley down when Shelley LaVey ran down the ramp and got the odds down to five against two.  Shelley and Ashley got in some shots before the lights went out again; back on, both Crush champion “Night Sky” Diana Spare and Women's World champion Lolo Vuitton were flying off the top to kick some Hysteria ass to a big pop from the crowd.  However, they still were up against it until “Explosive” Emily Bennett ran down the ramp with her Ace in the Hole and started swinging for the fences to help the other babyfaces clear Hysteria from the ring.  Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen hyped up Lolo v. Bella Jolie in a non-title match as well as Diana and Shelley teaming up to face Luz and Sohla in the main event…and a cut to backstage saw Sohla watching the fight with a happy smirk plastered all over her face.

Duck Eko did the introductions for the opening contest…

1. “Explosive” Emily Bennett d. “Sinister” Sarah Fowler at 8:27 Longtime Unleashed rivals dueled on Friday night for a change and while Fowler's beaten Bennett before, she couldn't stop the winner of the Ace in the Hole tournament on this night.  Bennett blew up Sarah's chances of winning with a slingshot elevated powerbomb.  

From there we went TOTHEBACK~!, where Diana Spare and Shelley LaVey were getting ready ahead of the main event. They took a walk down Memory Lane together that seemed to be going awkwardly but mostly positively until Spare caught LaVey looking at the Crush championship (Shelley having had it until recently where she lost it to Hysteria's Bonnie Agrippa who then lost it to Spare, all 3 and Nancy Crowley having formerly been the Forbidden Book Club a couple years back).  Spare said if Shelley wanted to go they’d go, but first they had a main event to win.  They agreed if the #1 contendership fatal four way next week made them they’d fight but promised to put forth a united front tonight.  Shelley shook hands and said once the fatal four way happened, may the best woman win.  Diana's response was that the best champion would, causing Shelley to leave but shoulder bump Night Sky on her way out before telling her she'd watch Diana's back tonight…and especially next week.

the All Starr Stable came out ahead of their heavy hitter Jacques Krieger facing The Champ, Mason “Razorblade” Savage in a non-title match.

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2. Mason “Razorblade” Savage d. Jacques Krieger (w/the All Starr Stable) by disqualification in a non-title match at 12:09 Big brawling in this one, with both men roughly sharing the same stature and liking the same kind of smash mouth offense.  Krieger bled from the nose after taking a big forearm shot, and Razorblade barely beat a 10 count back into the ring after a fight on the floor resulted in him getting backdropped onto the announce table (which didn't give).  Krieger hung with The Champ until he didn't, eating a double arm DDT that looked to set up the Soul Crusher until A Cut Above jumped their old rival Savage to cause the DQ.

The entire Stable started stomping out Razorblade until Justice Davis hit the ring to save his partner.  Savage Justice was actually winning despite the numbers being against them until Nazir el-Fadal suddenly appeared out of nowhere and dropped the Champ with Nazquil.  Krieger heart punched JD down, A Cut Above hit Razorblade with their finisher…and Nazir el-Fadal produced an envelope before handing it to long time hater Starr, the announce explaining the Bank of Naz was open and he’d set this up to weaken Razorblade ahead of their match at Dia de los Muertes.  A smirking Naz backed up the ramp and applauded the All Starrs who were standing above the laid out Savage Justice in the ring.

3. “The Fury” Jim Jaspers d. Avión III by countout at 11:42 This was Jaspers’ return to QCW after Omar Littlefield put him on the shelf back in the spring.  The early going saw Avión use his quickness and lucha libre background to show up Jaspers; Carl talked about how gnarly it was to come back from injury and said that ring rust might have been getting the best of Old Jim here.  A little while after that, Avión caught Jaspers with a springboard dropkick that sent the Brit out to the floor.  Avión went out to the apron and ran down it before hitting a beautiful 450° splash on the prone former trios champion.  Avión got up and stood on the steps and riled up the crowd before rolling back in the ring.  Avión preened some more before getting a running start and flying over the top rope with a handless plancha - but Jaspers took a step back from where Avión would have hit it then planted a huge headbutt that dotted Avión’s eyes and popped the Quality Controllers.  Jaspers got up on the apron and waited for Avión so that he could blast him with a stiff Penalty Kick that sounded closer to a knife edged chop.  Jaspers stood on the turnbuckle and posed as the crowd cheered.  We got a couple of replays of the PK and when we went back to live action Jaspers was sitting on the middle rope facing the aisle and waving El Super into the ring.

But Avión was taking a walk up the ramp, complaining that Jaspers had ruined his beautiful face enough and he’d proved his point anyways.  The referee got to 10, leaving the crowd and Jaspers alike a little bit salty about how his comeback win went down, but Old Jim got his hand raised.  Richard Windsor met Jim in the aisle and raised his partner’s hand while the Kaiser Chiefs played over the PA.  Announce sold Avión’s vanity and the return of not just Jaspers but the former Ambassadors of QCW, the Proper Villains.

Backstage, the Chosen were in a prayer circle - “the Paragon” Drake Tremble, Goody Gardner and the End Times with their heads bowed while the National Champion “the Purifier” Caleb Grey preached the evangel.  When he said “Amen” his white clad followers followed suit and then headed towards the ring, Gardner making sure to grab the Duquesne Cup and Grey the last one to leave the frame while toting the QCW National Championship like a Bible.  Announce hyped the End Times vs. Ashok Banjerjee and Justice Davis match coming up next.

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We came back to our trusty announce team who teed up a video package.  As we got a couple brief replays of him whaling on Ashok Banjerjee and ruining a match on last week's program, Carl informed us that due to those actions former World champion Omar Littlefield was suspended this week.

4. Ashok Banjerjee and Justice Davis d. The End Times (w/the Chosen) at 10:33 Despite the recent beatings they’ve taken, the good guys managed to secure a win here over the Times.  Turning point came late in the match as Ashok and Justice were staple gunning together a rally, causing Drake Tremble to get on the apron and distract the ref.  Ashok went after Tremble, dazing him with a kick before sunset flip bombing him to the floor to the shock of the announce and joy of the Quality Controllers.  This caused Caleb and Goody to check on Drake before getting in Ashok’s face while in the ring JD got cheapshotted from behind and the End Times went to deliver the Reckoning onto him.  But Banjerjee slid in the ring and short circuited it by superkicking Dr. Williams off the top rope to send him to the floor, and Davis countered Castle’s electric chair into a victory roll for the win.  The faces high fived on the floor while the Chosen (outside of a still pretty out of it Tremble) fumed between the ropes.

We got another sizzle reel for newly signed space loving luchadore Orion, who in addition to saying with the end of autumn we had to look to the skies for the future let us know they’d be landing on Ruckus for their debut next week.  

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5. Lolo Vuitton d. Bella Jolie (w/Hysteria) in a non-title match at 9:26 As Hysteria materialized in the ring QCW Rewind took us a back a week where not only did Justine Danek and Bella beat Lolo and Shelley LaVey in a tag but Bella laid out The Champ post match as part of a Hysteria beatdown.  More sniping on Quality Social got us to this match, made non-title by Commissioner Holmes Thursday afternoon.

Bella went after Lolo right as the bell rang and took it to The Champ in the opening couple of minutes, eventually landing a dragon whip kick that sent Lolo rolling out of the ring to recover.  The rest of Hysteria hovered nearby on the floor but the referee made sure to keep eyes on them while Bella got on the move.  Bella flew at Lolo with a suicide dive but The Champ caught it and launched Bella with an overhead belly to belly suplex that almost caused a 7-10 split of our buddies at the announce desk.

Bella managed to barely beat the 10 count back into the ring and then ate a modified version of the Bloody Shoe from Lolo Vuitton.  Jolie might have been done for there but Lolo let her inner 305 out and spent the next few minutes punishing Bella.  Lolo capped the fight by blowing a mocking kiss in Hysteria’s direction before planting Jolie with a brainbuster that had Bonnie Agrippa fuming on the floor.  Vuitton hit the Bloody Shoe after that and won it, then rolled out of the ring as Hysteria hit it.  Justine Danek and Nancy Crowley checked on Bella while Luz Cruz and Bonnie Agrippa exchanged smacktalk with The Champ as she cried mockingly in their direction before holding up the Women's World championship and cackling.  

The Scoop on next week's QCW TV action will see the Game Changers resume hostilities with “the Purifier” Caleb Grey and Goody Gardner of the Chosen as well as the Chosen’s “Paragon” Drake Tremble against Ashok Banjerjee based on what happened a couple of matches ago.

Next week's Ruckus will not only have the debut of Orion, but a massive eight man tag when Beauty and the Beast Mode team with Savage Justice to go up against the All Starr Stable and Nazir el-Fadal.  

We’ll also get the fatal four way to get the #1 contender for the Women's World championship when it's Luz Cruz v. Shelley LaVey v. Sohla Patel vs. Crush champion “Night Sky” Diana Spare - we’ve been priming the pump for the uneasy partnerships in our main event tag match since Ruckus began, and it was time to see who had the momentum going into next week's Ruckus.

6. Crush champion “Night Sky” Diana Spare and Shelley LaVey (w/the Culture) d. Luz Cruz and Sohla Patel (w/Hysteria) at 12:20 Ruckus was bookended by the continuing attempted hostile takeover of the women's division by Hysteria, but after running the table last week they took a loss in the semi main followed by what happened here in the main event.

Both sides were testy with their opponents and partners from the beginning, but it was the LaVey and Spare team that got on the same page faster to take the early lead in the match.  It looked like they were about to have things won when Sohla broke up a Fresh To Death cutter by Shelley on Luz, drawing Spare into the ring and setting off a Pier 4 brawl.  In the chaos, Diana backed into Shelley, who instinctively spun around and went for a cutter only to pull up when she realized she'd be taking out her partner.  LaVey didn't, but that seemed to fray the barely held together team just long enough for Cruz to fly in with a springboard poison rana that took them both down.   

Hysteria’s leader went to follow up on Shelley only to be put at bay by the ref, who ended being the one to tell her that Sohla had blind tagged herself back into the fray when Cruz went for the springboard poison rana.   Cruz berated Sohla, who just dismissed her with a wave of her hand and went to work on LaVey herself.  Sohla maintained the advantage for a couple of minutes and started getting cocky, mocking LaVey and telling Luz that this was how you put the basics in their place.  Cruz’s face was a brick wall in response.  Patel landed some stomps and was in the middle of telling Luz something else when Shelley suddenly surged off the mat with a Pele kick that dropped Sohla before she herself went down in a heap again.

Both women shook the cobwebs off and briefly grabbed an ankle of the other before getting kicked away, which actually got Shelley and Sohla closer to their partners.

But as they got closer, the lights went out in the Arena again.

When they came on to start the show, Hysteria appeared - but when they came on one more time here, Hysteria was was gone - even Luz Cruz.

This left Shelley LaVey in position to tag in Diana Spare and Luz Cruz what old-timers used to call SOL.  Spare hit the ring and wasted no time in avalanching Cruz in her now empty corner before alley ooping her into the air and planting her with a Michinoku Driver.  Sohla was probably done for after that but Diana made sure to nail that coffin shut by hitting Nightfall and delivering the victory.

After replays, both Diana and Shelley went to the turnbuckles to celebrate but when they spotted each other making A Very Familiar Gesture around their waists both celebrations stopped.  They both climbed down and started exchanging words, with a confused ref and “Dashing” Pierce Moore trying to keep the peace while “These Hands” Roy Fade egged on the “Let them fight!” chants from the Quality Controllers.  As they bickered, Steve got in one more plug for the Women's World title #1 contendership fatal four way main eventing next week before Ruckus went off the air.

QCW Unleashed [s2e11 • Quality Arena]

• Hysteria (w/Bonnie Agrippa and Nancy Crowley) d. Mean Season and Hilary Highnote

• “the Paragon” Drake Tremble (w/the Chosen) d. Justice Davis 

• “Swamp Pride” Ted Holland and Robert E. Moonshine d. A World of Pain

• Sohla Patel dco. Shelley LaVey

GRPL+ Presents QCW Ruckus [s3e39 • September 20, 2024]

Slight tweaks to the show opening (more Hysteria led by Luz Cruz, the now unmasked Avión III, Naz cackling after beating Autumn at AnnIVersary) before it wrapped with the Cavalcade of Champions and RazorbladQe holding up the QCW World championship last week.

The Arena is packed and psyched per usual, with Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen on commentary and Duck Eko handling the ring announcing.  Steve and Carl hyped up that they’d reveal the location of next month’s PPV after the opening match, a rematch in a rivalry we’ve seen on PPV a couple times in 2024…

1. Ashok Banjerjee d. Omar Littlefield by reverse decision at 10:43 The good news for Ashok is that he got the win over Omar; the bad news for him is how he got it.  

Banjerjee fought smartly in the early going, employing the five Ds and peppering the former World champ with quick shots before falling back and getting outside of Omar’s swiping range.  Ashok landed some thigh kicks and a couple of basement dropkicks but Omar caught him and threw him across the ring.  Littlefield had a follow up charge but a basement dropkick sent him face first into the top turnbuckle.  Banjerjee ran for the opposite corner and came back with a dropkick but Omar not only dodged it, he ran/limped across the ring and added injury to injury by hitting the Boundless One with a Pounce that sent Ashok flying into the corner he’d briefly put Omar in.

From there it was pretty much Ass Whoop O’Clock, and Omar was right on time.  Littlefield punished Ashok for the next couple of minutes while the announce sold that this was Littlefield’s first match since losing the Fifteen Pounds of Gold at AnnIVersary, so he was in an even fouler mood than usual. Ashok managed some offense after getting his knees up on a Vader Bomb attempt and threw the tank at Omar up to and including a Destroyer DDT that was the beginning of the end – for the Boundless One, as Omar essentially no sold it and planted Banjerjee with a one armed spinebuster that put Ashok down.  When Banjerjee managed to kick out at 2.8, Omar turned the sadism up another notch beginning with another Pounce once Ashok got to his feet.

Omar hit him with a series of Vader Bombs, with the referee trying to get Omar to stop after three and getting loud enough to be heard off mic after four.  Omar seemed to agree with the zebra before hitting a Face Eraser to end Ashok's night.  

We went to replays but they didn’t get to finish; we had to go back to the ring where Omar was trying to bust Ashok down to the white meat.  After throwing some stiff forearms Littlefield snatched up Banjerjee and drilled him with an even nastier Face Eraser than the one that ended the match.  Omar was getting set for another Face Eraser when the referee got in Omar’s face telling him the match was over and he didn't need to be doing this.  Littlefield slowly set Ashok back down on the mat as the zebra’s words seemed to get through to him. Omar nodded along for a couple beats and then choke bombed the hapless official so hard they ended up out of their shoes after they hit the canvas.  Quality Force security started streaming from the back but it didn't stop Omar from picking up Ashok and delivering a Face Eraser of Ashok onto the ref, which drew some loud if censored “Holy shit!” chants.  Quality Force hit the ring and Omar punched out the first couple of guys while Steve went ballistic on commentary, saying that Omar was going to get fined for his actions if not suspended.  

The other security guards corralled Omar while Ashok used the ropes to pull himself up in a corner.  Littlefield dropped a couple and sped past the rest, cannonballing Ashok in the corner.  Omar roared as QFS got their bearings about him while on the floor the referee was almost being held up by Duck Eko.   The Voice of QCW announced the reverse decision making Ashok the winner to some cheers, though the usually quiet Littlefield let out a roar and seemingly melted down to another level and threw one security guard into another before the rest were able to corral Omar and get him down to the canvas.  Commissioner Holmes came out as they got Omar out of the ring and started leading him up the ramp.  Holmes got in Omar’s face and got a couple sentences in before Omar spit at his feet.  Holmes got red faced and demanded GFS stay with Omar and lead him to his office.  There were a recovering Banjerjee and referee who would probably recommend Holmes put him behind bars.

Steve switched gears, noting that teasers had gone up on Quality Social over the week but now they could show the full official announcement about next month’s PPV; a video package played that started with various sizes of legs, almost all in black.  As we heard familiar music with a Latin tinge to it (salsa?  rumba?  cumbia?)  we saw these legs literally dancing in a graveyard past some tombstones that had things on them like like ICHI-GO, PARTY ANIMAL and EINHERJAR.  As the camera panned up you could see a dead man's party full of alive people in mostly black but sporadic splashes of color dancing to the cover of “Ghost Town” playing in the background, literally grooving in the graveyard.  Between shots of people dancing (most of them had one side if not all of their faces painted - plenty of sombreros, cowboy hats and flower crowns peppered throughout the party) and QCW superstars at their best, we saw two more tombstones.  One read DEVIL'S NIGHT and the one next to it read MISCHIEF NIGHT before a lightning strike hit it and it disentigrated, causing the music to stop and for the screen to briefly go to black before we saw…

🎃CTUBRE 20th

ARENA COL⚡SEO

MEXIC🪦 CITY 

Then finally

D🥀A DE L💀S MUERT💀S

When the video ended, Steve was standing in the ring and there were cheers from the crowd who must’ve been watching the ad in the Arena.  He excitedly hyped the fact that for the first time, QCW would be doing a PPV live from Mexico and the world famous Arena Coliseo would be their hosts for Dia de los Muertos.  Not only that, but the main event was going to be Razorblade defending the QCW World Championship against Nazir el-Fadal.  With history and the Fifteen Pounds of Gold in the air you could expect QCW’s best on PPV a month from now.  After the crowd cheered Steve brought Duck Eko into the ring to make the introductions for the next match while he made his way back to ringside and the announce table.

Prince hit the PA and brought out the Culture to cheers from the Quality Controllers.  Beauty and the Beast Mode seconded Shelley LaVey for the upcoming tag match but they waited halfway down the aisle for Shelley’s partner.  

“Bodak Yellow” took over the PA and out strutted the Women's World champion Lolo Vuitton to a big pop.  Her and Shelley traded a five step handshake as they linked up and headed towards the ring.  They hit different sets of turnbuckles and revved up the packed house while Steve hyped them teaming up to face Justine and Bella from Hysteria coming up next after the ad break.

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2. Justine Danek & Bella Jolie (w/Hysteria) d. Lolo Vuitton & Shelley LaVey (w/the Culture) at 15:32 Hysteria needed a bounce back win after dropping the contendership main event last week and got it from their signature tag team.  The Women's World champion started things off for her side and took down both Justine and Bella but some attempted interference from Luz Cruz turned the tide and distracted Lolo long enough for Justine to sneak attack her.  An Electric Chair drop got the drop on Vuitton and allowed her to tag Bella; the black pointy hats spent the next few minutes halving the ring, employing quick tags and doing double teams to wear Vuitton down.  

The ladies fka Pleasure and Pain kept up the pressure and systematically drained Lolo's power meter while their stablemates, Luz especially, rooted them on from the floor.  Danek and Jolie got marching orders from Luz to put Lolo away and went to put her away with Twelve Feet Under but Lolo managed to pull Bella into the path of Justine's Buckshot lariat.  Justine put on the brakes and she and Bella hugged but they weren't safe for long as Vuitton gave Bella a German suplex that made her inadvertently give an overhead belly to belly suplex to Justine.  Lolo’s ingenuity bought her enough time to make the tag, and a fresh Shelley hit the ring and started recalibrating the match in her favor.

LaVey leaped off a groggy Justine's back and hit a shotgun dropkick that sent Bella flying; Jolie almost hit the ropes before rolling out of the ring.  Justine tried to sneak up on Shelley but LaVey dodged her and clotheslined her out of the ring.   Bella and Justine pulled each other up just in time to get wiped out by a LaVey tope suicida that popped the Quality Controllers and had them chanting Shelley's name.

Shelley bundled up Justine and got her back in the ring, breaking her down over the next few minutes while the Culture cheered her on.  Danek got in a brief flurry but got wobbled by a Pele kick then dropped when Shelley springboarded off the ropes and hit a flawless Fresh To Death cutter.  Shelley went into the cover and hooked the near leg but Justine managed to get her other foot under the bottom rope just in time for the zebra to stop their three count and wave it off to the visible relief of the rest of Hysteria.  Given how close the pin happened to them, Shelley blew off the ref trying to explain the situation and spit in Bonnie Agrippa’s face before trash talking the rest of the group.  Some bleeps happened on the broadcast before Shelley went out to the floor and started going after them.  Bonnie got thrown into the barricade and Nancy Crowley got stopped by a Pele kick but that gave Bella the opportunity to sneak up on Shelley and throw her into the ringpost and then the stairs.  Lolo came down the apron to make a save but a running spear by Justine sent them both through the ropes and to the outside with the Women's World champion getting the worst of it.  Justine threw Shelley back into the ring, where Bella was waiting and they put the white hats’ chances of winning Twelve Feet Under with their signature finisher to win the fight.

After the match Justine and Bella celebrated by putting the boots to Shelley, eventually getting joined by the rest of Hysteria.  Lolo tried to make a save but got intercepted by Bella, who hit her with her finisher to put The Champ Six Feet Under.  Beauty and the Beast Mode hit the ring to pull Hysteria off of Shelley, but then they got swarmed by the black pointy hats as well.  Other referees came out to try and stop the beatdown but Hysteria didn't stop until Muse's “New Born” hit the PA.

Out ran the Game Changers, Tiki God in his trademark Hawaiian shirt and Ashley more than ready to start her qualifying match against Cruz the moment she hit the ring.  THEE Influencer delivered a double leg takedown and some piston rights.  The fights continued until Commissioner Holmes came out with Quality Force security to finally put an end to the melee.  Holmes then said that because of the brawl EVERYBODY was going to be banned from ringside to ensure a fair winner for Cruz v. Szabo up next; Ashley seemed nonplussed while Luz was screaming at him from the ring.  QFS took away Hysteria, then with some help from some refs Vuitton and the Culture were guided to the back a few beats after Hysteria disappeared behind the Qualitron 9004.

The Commish followed the parade, leaving three people in the ring…

3. Luz Cruz d. Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo at 13:02 in a Women's World championship #1 contendership qualifying match This one started with a hockey fight that ended with Ashley dropping Luz via a rolling elbow.  Szabo took over the match from there while the announce talked about Luz turning on the rest of the babyfaces at AnnIVersary to join and maybe lead Hysteria.  In the ring, the one who was doing the leading was Ashley; the Duquesne Classic runner up caught a flying crossbody attempt and turned it into a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker that sent Cruz scurrying to the floor after eating it.  Luz used the steel steps to help get her to her feet but a sky high Szabo flew down on her with a springboard crossbody that sent a wave of cheers throughout Quality Arena and got the replay machine rolling.

Once she got to her feet, Ashley got Luz back in the ring to keep the train rolling.  Szabo dropped Cruz a few more times but when she went for a trademark Codebreaker Luz countered into a big time buckle bomb that left Ashley discombobulated in the corner and barely able to stand.  Cruz went from corner to corner and planted a high elevation dropkick right in Ashley's teeth to send her flying to the floor as the crowd booed the woman formerly known as La Flor.  We got replays of the dropkick as Luz hectored the ref to count Ashley out faster.  THEE Influencer tried to get back into the ring at 8 but Cruz charged her; the resulting shoulderblock sent Ashley flying from the apron and into the barricade before she crumpled on the floor in a heap.  

Ashley managed to crawl back into the ring at 9 but Luz immediately swarmed her, first with stomps and then with springboard stomps.  Getting the upper hand made Cruz cockier and cockier, and once she laid out Ashley with a press drop she started paintbrushing the back of Szabo's head with hard slaps to the dismay of the Quality Controllers.  Cruz spit in her hand and slapped Ashley in the face before pulling her up by the hair off the mat; Szabo responded with a Codebreaker that left both women on the mat for the better part of a 10 count.

Both women were on their knees throwing hands at 8 and continued doing so at what would've been 10.  Ashley went for another rolling elbow but Luz blocked it and spun her around before going for one of her own that Ashley blocked, spinning Cruz around.  THEE Influencer went for a springboard crossbody but Cruz ducked it and Ashley ate canvas.  Cruz hit a blindside rolling elbow that put Ashley on her knees and went for a springboard crossbody of her own, but Ashley ducked that.  Szabo slowly got up and ran past the groggy Cruz and bounced off the ropes before smashing Luz with an enzui Meteora.   The Game Changer waited on Luz to get up and hit another one that sent Cruz front first into a set of turnbuckles.  Szabo pulled Cruz into position and headed up top to deliver the Smash That Subscribe Button avalanche fist drop, but Luz rolled away at the last possible second to leave Ashley howling in pain.  Cruz hit a kneeling Szabo with a superkick that connected flush and let out a triumphant cackle.  Ashley was down and seeing her stir, Luz ran for the corner to bypass her before she did some impressive rope work that resulted in a double jump poison rana, and that put Ashley down for the three count with the crowd clearly too taken aback to boo deeply.

After replays of the match and several of the double jump poison rana, Luz was standing over Ashley with the mic in her hand.  She practically hissed out “One down, two to go” before saying she would turn out the lights on Lolo’s title reign just like this; she snapped her fingers and Quality Arena went dark - and when the lights came back up a couple of beats later, Cruz wasn't anywhere in sight.

We got a stinger for what appeared to be a space themed luchador - lots of blue, black, white stars and galaxial themes as the high flyer hitting high spots with those as a backdrop. Makes sense with Dia de los Muertos coming up soon.

Their name is Orion, and they're 🌠 coming soon 🌠 to QCW.

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4. “Night Sky” Diana Spare d. Goody Gardner (w/the Chosen) at 13:02 in a non-title Women's World championship #1 contendership qualifying match Spare’s Crush championship wasn't on the line here, but she managed to crush the acolyte’s chance at holding the Women's World championship anytime soon.  Gardner got the jump on Spare not even two seconds after the bell rang and threw a bevy of forearms that staggered Diana.  But it didn't take long for Spare to return fire, and when she did her shots tended to drop Gardner more often than not.

Gardner was on her heels for most of the match but didn't go quietly into that food night.  A ring rocking spinebuster?  Goody kicked out.  A press power slam? Goody kicked out of that too but rolled out of the ring after the kick out, waving away help from Caleb Grey and Drake Tremble alike.  Spare tried to continue her roll with a baseball slide but GG trapped her in the apron and blasted her with a sort of enzuigiri before getting on the apron.  Gardner ran down and blasted Spare in the face with a Penalty Kick to gain the upper hand in the bout.

Goody fought like a banshee from there, at one point sitting on Spare and swinging down open handed palm strikes with both hands.  But Spare eventually adapted and countered with a triangle hold that had Goody howling in pain, and Spare leveraged that to get Goody down into a crossface.  It took Gardner nearly half a minute to get a foot on the bottom rope but the lengthy submissions did the work they were supposed to do and doused the fiery offense from GG.  Spare took things home with a slingshot DDT and her trusty Nightfall to join Luz Cruz, Shelley LaVey and Sohla Patel in the fatal four way to get a #1 contender to the Women's World championship.   After replays the announce team debated if she would become the first woman to hold both the Crush and Women's World championships at the same time – and a cut to backstage showed the Women's World champion Lolo Vuitton watching Crush champion Spare on a monitor with interest.  

From there we went TOTHEBACK~!, where Julius Duquesne III was standing by and brought on the Proper Villains.  The returning “the Fury” Jim Jaspers and “the Proper King” Richard Windsor came on set and exchanged greetings with Julius, who congratulated them on being back together and Jim returning from injury.  Jim gave JD3 a quick thanks but said he wasn't here for welcome backs, he was back to put people on their backs.  And after what Avión did to Richie Boy last week, Old Jim was gunning for him first and challenging him to go one on one next week.  Jaspers said he had a Fury Road with his name on it and left the set before Richard followed him out; Julius threw things to Duck Eko in the ring.

5. “Swamp Pride” Ted Holland and Robert E. Moonshine fought A World of Pain to a no contest at 7:03 There was a match, but it took a big backseat to how it ended - Omar Littlefield came back out and ate everybody's lunch.  Holland, Moonshine, Dom DeSade, Bob Osterberg all ate Face Erasers and even a couple of Quality Force security members again got dropped at Omar’s hands.  The remaining QFS members and some road agents managed to lead Omar to the back while all the carnage was bodies deep in the ring.  The announce put over the former World champion being pissed off over suffering his first real loss at AnnIVersary and these sorts of things being a result of that loss.  You could see Commissioner Holmes having some words with Omar and Littlefield no selling them as we went into the last commercial break of the night.

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Back from the break and TOTHEBACK~! where Enya Face had an interview with a special guest: the winner of the Ace in the Hole tournament, “Explosive” Emily Bennett!

Bennett and her giant ace (not a euphemism) came onto the set and waved at the camera before straightening up and facing Enya.  Face congratulated her on winning the tournament and after thanking Enya, Emily said she was thisclose to getting fired but instead she thrived and now she had a cash in she could hold onto for a while.  Emily said she'd been working hard to be Ms. Wednesday Night but now she had to take the next step and prove her win was no fluke.  But a warning to anyone who would take her on - their plans would blow up - and then she pointed at Enya and walked off the set, again waving to the camera on the way out.  In the middle of Enya throwing things to Steve and Carl you could hear Emily almost shouting “I’m acing this!”

Before the main event, Steve and Carl had The Scoop on what's to come next in QCW TV.

Unleashed next Wednesday has two big singles matches highlighting it as Justice Davis takes on “the Paragon” Drake Tremble from the Chosen and former Crush champions Shelley LaVey and Sohla Patel will face off as well.

Next week's Ruckus has more Quality wrestling coming our way.  We’ll see if Avión III will accept the challenge from “the Fury” Jim Jaspers, but there's some matches already set up:

🤼 Razorblade vs. Jacques Krieger in a non-title match 🤼

🤼 Lolo Vuitton will face Hysteria’s Bella Jolie in another non-title match 🤼

🤼 And the contenders to Lolo’s title will be in a tag match with unlikely partners: Luz Cruz and Sohla Patel will bring together (?) Hysteria and International Lotus against the Crush champion “Night Sky” Diana Spare and Shelley LaVey from the Culture ahead of the fatal four way to name a #1 contender in two weeks 🤼

But that's next week and the main event is right now…

6. Nazir el-Fadal d. Justice Davis at 11:46 Naz spent the past week on Quality Social stirring the pot, mocking Davis as Razorblade’s sidekick and inferring that Razorblade was in league with the Commissioner to make this match and soften him up before his title shot.  JD had the reaction to that you might expect, and that got us to this.  

Davis charged Naz at the bell but el-Fadal dodged him a couple of times before springboarding off the ropes and hitting a European uppercut that got him a 2 count early.  A cocky #1 contender did a bit of a Fargo strut around the ring, which gave Davis the opportunity to bull rush Naz into a corner.  JD buried some shoulders into Naz's guys until the ref had to get him out of the corner.  JD relented but when he tried to go back on the attack Naz viciously raked his eyes for a few seconds before launching him into the corner with a fallaway slam.  Davis went down in a heap and The self proclaimed Greatest Man Alive added injury to injury with some boot rakes then a face wash kick that almost knocked Justice out of the ring.

With things rolling his way Naz was at his preening, arrogant best; if JD wasn't getting rocked by European uppercuts then it was stiff forearms and since cheating isn't a bug but an el-Fadal feature he shut down some comeback attempts with eye pokes and boot rakes.  A suddenly chatty Naz started taunting the crowd, yelling such niceties* like “This is your boy?!” and “Get me a real contender!” when he wasn't paintbrushing Davis or laying in some mocking kicks.  el-Fadal barked at Justice to get up and hip tossed Davis but JD managed to corkscrew and land on a knee.  Naz tried to grab the former World Tag champ but Davis quickly crawled through his legs; when Mr. Grand Slam turned around Justice landed a leaping enzuigiri and planted a stunned Naz with a JD (double arm) DDT.  The crowd clapped to rally JD while both men were down on the mat and we at home got replays of Naz getting planted.

Naz was barely the first one to his feet, and tried to hit a European uppercut but Davis blocked it and landed a huge knife edge chop that knocked Naz back a couple of steps and got some noise rippling through the crowd.  That noise got replaced with a second bigger and even louder chop that fully staggered Naz and sent him back into a corner.  Davis literally slugged his way back into the contest by alternating big rights and hard chops, then did some machine gun chops until Naz was all the way on his ass and the Quality Controllers were roaring.  Davis ran for the opposite corner at full speed before coming back on a diagonal and planting a basement dropkick right in Naz's mug.

Naz was now the one crawling on his hands and knees – Justice was the one who was going up to the top rope.  Naz couldn't find JD until he was getting blasted with a flying lariat.  JD got a two and a half then kept the pressure on and showed Naz that he was more than enough competition.  A desperate Naz went for Nazquil but JD hit a running bulldog into the corner that sent Naz into the middle turnbuckle.  Now Davis was the one waiting on Naz to get up, and once he did JD quickly sprinted to Naz and buried a headbutt right in his cheekbones before landing another JDDDT; el-Fadal bounced off the canvas with such impact that he ended up sluicing between the middle and bottom rope before landing face first on the floor.  Quality Arena was rocking as Carl noted JD had to stay on Naz to bring home a win here.  

You could see JD measuring a woozy Naz from the ring and as the One Man Jihad slowly got up Davis got a running start.  Davis flew over the top with a tope con hilo…that Naz caught. 

Then he swung JD into the barrier before turning and swinging him into the steps.

Then Naz pivoted and swung JD into the barrier again, and he swung JD into the steps again but this time so hard the top half of them fell off and to the side.   Naz almost disgustedly flung Justice to the floor and stood over him atop of the remaining stairs.  After soaking in the boos, Naz tossed JD back in the ring and began the end by picking apart Davis for a couple of painfully long minutes.  el-Fadal hit him with a tidal wave of moves as he ratcheted things up; to put a bow on things he chained together a Salto suplex and an Olympic Slam (no, seriously) before putting Justice’s hopes out for the night with a dose of Nazquil.  

Naz got his hand raised then booted Justice in the face and mounted him to land a few rapid fire right hands.  el-Fadal rolled out of the ring and shoved Duck Eko out of the ring to grab a steel chair.  Naz slid back in the ring and swung the chair at the ref to make them scurry to the outside, then wrapped the chair around Justice’s neck to presumably set up a Pillmanizing.

Naz started climbing up the turnbuckles when a blur came down the ramp.  el-Fadal dropped down and snatched the chair before rolling out of the ring, just barely dodging a pissed off Razorblade in the process.  Savage briefly checked on the recovering Davis before saving some cross words (and some bleeped out curse words) for Naz, who was standing on the announce table pointing the chair at Razorblade and having words with him as well.  The credits box came up with the war of words still continuing on with Razorblade pointing at Naz from the ring and el-Fadal waving him on with the chair saying he had a present for his ass.  

Catch you next Friday when QCW continues to bring the Ruckus!

QCW Unleashed [s2e10 • Quality Arena]

 

• Ashok Banjerjee d. Hawk Carter 

• Bonnie Agrippa and Nancy Crowley (w/Hysteria) d. Mean Season

• “Swamp Pride” Ted Holland & Robert E Moonshine and The Wonderful Ward Brothers d. Ian Cook, Gerry Greene and A World of Pain

• CRUSH CHAMPIONSHIP “Night Sky” Diana Spare d. “Sinister” Sarah Fowler 2️⃣

 

GRPL+ Presents QCW Ruckus [s3e38 • September 13, 2024]

Quality Arena 🤼 Parts Unknown, FL 

Aired live on GRPL+ 📺 September 13th, 2024

A video recapping AnnIVersary started Ruckus off with “Short Change Hero” by the Heavy as the background music.  Stills of Bobby Bash losing and “Explosive” Emily Bennett winning the Ace in the Hole tournament that marked his exit from QCW and her winning a cash in title shot attempt were followed by one of “the Paragon” Drake Tremble celebrating his victory over “Tiki God” Al Buffett alongside Goody Gardner and the End Times.  

The video then showed longer video highlights from the main card:

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Commissioner Holmes kicking off the show by announcing new World titles and Ruckus moving to Fox Sports Southeast starting in 2025 🌟🌟🌟🌟

🌟🌟🌟🌟 A Cut Above using a few well timed shortcuts to retain the QCW World Tag Team championships over Beauty and the Beast Mode before the International Players came out and stared down the champions 🌟🌟🌟🌟

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Witchfinder General using help from his newly found acolytes the End Times to beat Ashok Banjerjee to retire the World TV title and keep his QCW National Championship in a unification match 🌟🌟🌟🌟

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Nazir el-Fadal and Autumn Powers throwing bombs at each other before Naz played dead then cheated to pin Autumn, making Autumn leave QCW while he got the #1 contendership to the World title 🌟🌟🌟🌟

🌟🌟🌟🌟 Super Avión collecting another mask, this time El Vengador de Gente Jr.’s but causing the end of Asesinos Aereos in the process with the Villalobos brothers reuniting to unmask rudo Avión 🌟🌟🌟🌟

🌟🌟🌟🌟 In the eight woman tag Luz Cruz revealed herself to be the leader of Hysteria, stabbing Women's World champion Lolo Vuitton in the back along with Crush champion “Night Sky” Diana Spare and Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo leading to a five deep Hysteria winning the match🌟🌟🌟🌟

🌟🌟🌟🌟 The main event saw Razorblade hit a Soul Crusher into thumbtacks to become the first person to pin Omar Littlefield and end his reign of terror to regain the QCW World championship. 

Afterwards, Commissioner Holmes gave him a new title and babyfaces streamed from the back to put Savage on their shoulders and celebrate his historic win…but Naz came back out to sarcastically clap in front of the Tron.  Razorblade ended up getting in his face and the longtime rivals had a staredown to end the show

🎶 This ain't no place for no hero

This ain't no place for no better man

This ain't no place for no hero to call home 🎶 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Instead of the usual open, things started off inside Quality Arena where it hadn't been that raucous in...days.

We could see another sold out crowd already making noise even before Duck Eko said "Please welcome...the NEW QCW World Champion, MASON "RAZORBLADE" SAVAGE!"

The roof came off the joint so big you could barely hear "Unscripted Violence" as Razorblade came down the stairs with the neo-retro QCW World title over his shoulder, a shoulder that was getting plenty of pats as he shuffled down the stairs.  The crowd chanted "Razorblade" as he hopped over the barrier and leapt into the ring, thrusting the title sky high and setting off a barrage of gold and white pyro on the stage.  Razorblade took the mic and a two handed handshake from Duck.  

Mason looked out over the Arena chanting his name and nodded, before bringing the mic up and saying that he heard them loud and clear, and he had a message for them: thank you.  The crowd cheered before breaking out in "YOU DE SERVE IT!" chants.   Savage smiled briefly before starting to speak again but he couldn't even get a sentence out before "Ready Or Not" by the Fugees hit the PA to cut him off and piss off pretty much everybody in Quality Arena.

Everybody wasn't who was parting the Qualitron to bask in the jeers raining down on him.  Nazir el-Fadal looked on from the top of the ramp with a microphone of his own.  He said that after what went down at AnnIVersary, congratulations were certainly in order...for him.   After all, he was the one who rid QCW of Autumn Powers once and for all.

The boos hit a fever pitch as Naz smiled even wider and said since she wanted to see Japan so badly, he wrote her a one way ticket.  So it was sayanora Autumn and konnichiwa Razorblade.  Naz was about to say something else when Razorblade sarcastically asked him if he was going to play Rosetta Stone or if he wanted to renew their rivalry right now!

The Quality Controllers popped, but Naz...laughed.  And laughed a little more.  He composed himself and said that they were rivals the way Serena and Sharapova were rivals, or the Globetrotters and the Generals were.   It was cute, really: they pop a little pyro, drop some confetti, these mouth breathers got to yell something besides Florida Georgia Line lyrics, but truth be told he knew what the truth was.  So did Razorblade.  

Because the last time they stood in this Arena and the QCW World title was on the line was two Anniversary shows ago, and Naz owned him so hard QCW TV *still* wouldn't show the footage.  The last time they had a ONE ON ONE World Title match?  Well, Naz debased his technical expertise and his religion, but it was all worth it when he walked out still champion.  Razorblade had his cute little saying - everybody bleeds.  Well, Naz didn't have anything to say to get slathered on a shirt for the rabble to lap up.  But he was going to make a promise: as #1 contender, he was going to end Razorblade's title reign just like he ended Autumn's QCW career.  It'd be all in a day's work for Nazir el-Fadal...

"The Greatest Asshole Alive!"

Naz scowled as the crowd cheered the newly minted World champion interrupting his longtime rival.  Razorblade said he was bringing up two years ago because he'd spent the whole year trying AND FAILING to become World champion, because when he wasn't cheating to screw over Autumn he was getting dog walked by Ashok.  Meanwhile, Razorblade had one shot at the World championship and not only had he won it, he'd beaten the unbeatable.  So if Naz wanted to live in the here and now, he wasn't going to be doing it from the ramp.  Razorblade got in his face Sunday night and he was inviting Naz to do the same.  Come on down to the ring and Razorblade would prove everybody bleeds - but not everybody has a set big enough to hold the Fifteen Pounds of Gold.

Naz sneered while Razorblade waved him on, then brought the mic up before tossing it aside.  el-Fadal got halfway down the ramp before Razorblade went down in the ring, thanks to a sneak attack from Omar Littlefield.  Omar and Savage brawled for a bit before Razorblade started getting the upper hand.  Shortly after that, Naz hit Razorblade with a Flair uppercut that doubled The (new) Champ over and Omar took advantage by hitting him with the Face Eraser.  Naz applauded Savage being sent to the canvas right before Omar doubled him over with a kitchen sink right in the ribs.  Littlefield set up another Face Eraser on Naz and maybe onto Razorblade, but el-Fadal kicked furiously in his loafers until he'd slipped out onto the apron and wasted little time fleeing to the back.  Omar stalked him up the ramp while Razorblade slowly got to his feet and grabbed the belt, yelling for both Omar and Naz to come fight him so that he could bleed them slow. 

Announce hyped up the fact that Razorblade had just won back the QCW World Championship and challengers were coming out of the woodwork.  But while Naz used his usual shady tactics to secure the #1 contendership at AnnIVersary, the Women's World championship didn't have a #1 contender - at least not yet. 

Starting tonight with the opening match up next, there would be four qualifying matches in the next couple of weeks to find a new #1 contender for Lolo Vuitton and the Women’s World championship - all four qualifying match winners would face off in a fatal four way shortly after that and whichever woman wins that gets the shot at Lolo.

Fiona Fogg came out to a decent pop from the Quality Controllers; as she stood on the steps and fired up the faithful.  The Gadabout looks to get a step closer to a Women's World championship shot next!

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1. Sohla Patel (w/International Lotus) d. Fiona Fogg at 9:10 in a Women's World championship #1 contendership qualifying match Former Catch Hell women’s champion Fogg came out of the gates strong, staying one step ahead of Patel in the early going and landing some hard strikes to match her high impact offense when she leveled the former Crush and Women’s World champion with a delayed gourdbuster.  Fogg looked to continue pushing the pace but a swipe from Scott Warren-Tisch behind the ref’s back was enough to distract her long enough for Sohla to recover and drop Fiona with an admittedly impressive spin heel kick when she turned around.  Patel aggressively followed up with a flurry of stomps on a downed Fogg before catching her with a basement dropkick to the temple, and that gave Sohla a leg up in the match that she wouldn’t step down from.  Patel finished off Fogg with a sunset flip buckle bomb she’s calling the Sohla Flare and followed it up with the Ninth Incarnation, pinning Fogg after she landed her signature Falcon Arrow.

After replays International Lotus stood as a unit in the middle of the ring, Sohla wasting little time promising that she would take back the Women's World championship that Lolo had stolen from her.  Karyn Tisch-Warren congratulated Sohla on her win and said that it was Sohla's duty to bring that gold back to International Lotus, and that brought her to her announcement.

Sohla took Karyn's place in the qualifying match because for the first time Karyn had found something more important than International Lotus.  Karyn said that it would be months before she would be able to wrestle again…because she was pregnant.  The crowd, usually loud and proud in their disdain of Karyn cheered the announcement while Karyn smiled and patted her stomach.  She said that while she was off to have a little Tisch-Warren or Warren-Tisch, it was going to fall on Sohla to keep the International Lotus brand alive and well in QCW.  Since she wasn't going to sleep well anytime soon, she’d be watching.  Karyn and Scott left the ring while Sohla said ciao for now.

2. The Chosen (w/”the Purifier” Caleb Grey and Goody Gardner) d. Ashok Banjerjee and the Game Changers at 11:15 Big night for Team Jesus at AnnIVersary: the End Times joined the flock alongside “the Paragon” Drake Tremble and Goody Gardner; Caleb is the former Witchfinder General using his Christian name after eradicating the former World TV championship by beating Ashok, then revealed he was behind the fire at the Arena last year but would turn this place into Quality Christian Wrestling with the help of the rest of the Chosen.  Banjerjee was looking for revenge, and the Chosen have had beef with the Game Changers all year so after some sniping on Quality Social, Commissioner Holmes made this trios match earlier in the week.  

Tremble and the Times rushed the white hats at the bell to put a beating on them while Goody and Caleb polished the Duquesne Cup (not a euphemism).  It became apparent after a couple minutes that their game plan was to isolate Banjerjee and put him firmly in the rearview.  Tremble did the bulk of the damage and every time it looked like Ashok was going to get out from under either Tremble was there with a shortcut or the End Times ran interference to cheap shot Banjerjee or even the Game Changers on a couple of occasions.  Ashok battled back and went up top but when he flew off, Tremble dropped Ashok with a spinning back elbow.

It looked like the counter was going to put a win in effect for the Chosen but before the ref could get to 3 Ashley and Al hit the ring to break up the count, which drew the End Times between the ropes.  A Pier 6 broke out that saw the Game Changers finally get the upper hand and clear the ring before both THEE Influencer and the Tiki God wiped out the Times with stereo dives.  Tremble went to put Ashok away with Repentance but Banjerjee got loose long enough to fire back with a Destroyer DDT that had both men laid out on the canvas.  Both went for tags but the Paragon picked Ashok's leg only to eat a Boundless enzuigiri that dropped him.  

Ashok managed to make a tag to Al and Buffett ran wild putting meesters on keesters.  Danny Castle ran in illegally in an attempt to destroy Al's momentum; Al duffed him up with some strikes and planted him with an uranagi.  Dr. Martin Williams tried a blindside attack and got to eat a Codebreaker for his trouble, and Al managed to backdrop a charging Tremble into the Times which sent all 3 heels over the top rope and out to the floor.  Caleb and Goody went over to coach them up but then quickly dodged out of the way as all three of the white hats came flying in to wipe out their opponents - Al’s suicide dive wiped out Castle, Ashley's wrecking ball dropkick dropped Dr. Williams, and Ashok's triangle moonsault cut down Tremble.  Familiar Queue Cee Dub! chants rocked the Arena as we got replays of the stereo dives and Al got Tremble back into the ring.  

Al tossed the bigger Tremble into the ropes and hit him with a pop up Codebreaker, but he missed Castle blind tagging in and then tagging Dr. Williams immediately after.   Buffett turned around and found himself on the wrong end of an enzuigiri/Flatliner combo from the Times, and then Dr. Williams tagged Castle in so they could hit Al with the Reckoning.  Castle rushed into the cover, Danny and Drake both kept Ashley and Ashok from making the save, and the Chosen had managed to eke out a win; everyone posed behind Caleb, who had his arms outstretched with the Duquesne Cup in one hand and the QCW National Championship in the other.

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Back from the break and TOTHEBACK~! where Enya Face was standing by and ready to bring on Super Avión ahead of his match.  The chain with the Crusazdo del Oro mask had added El Vengador de Gente Junior’s mask to it after what happened at AnnIVersary.  

But as the camera panned up we saw Super Avión without his mask, revealing long black hair and a sneer wide enough to be a freeway lane.  Avión said that after his win at the biggest show in QCW history he wasn't just the biggest name in lucha libre; he’d earned his birthright.  He was no longer Super Avión - he was Avión III.  He didn't need a weak Villalobos weighing him down and he sent Vengador running back across the border.  So now QCW was going to learn what 21st century lucha was because pendejo partners and the mask were vestiges of the old world - he was going to take lucha to heights it’d never seen before in QCW and remake the league in his beautiful (ehhhhhhh) visage starting tonight.  And no title was safe.

Avión III stalked off the set and Enya threw things over to Duck Eko, who made the introductions for tonight's title match…

3. “Night Sky” Diana Spare [c] d. Veronica Vespa at 8:11 to retain the Crush championship 1️⃣ Before the match, QCW Rewind showed highlights from last week's Ruckus where Diana bested Bonnie Agrippa to win the Crush championship and stop the Hysteria member from hitting her cash in 10 Count.  Former and newly minted champion Spare got to establish her new title reign with a showcase win over Vespa; QCW’s Bee Plus Player was a tougher out than you might’ve guessed and put together a couple of decent rallies but Night Sky cut off the last one with an overhead powerbomb then hit Nightfall on Vespa to secure the W.

As Diana got her hand raised, the lights went out in the Arena - when they came back on Hysteria was in the ring, now rolling five deep after Luz Cruz turned heel to join them at AnnIVersary.

But Diana wasn't - she was in front of the Qualitron with a small smirk on her face holding the belt up high before she headed to the back.  Hysteria scowled to a woman then laid in some stomps on Vespa before Justine and Bella pounced on the Queen of the Colony and eventually dropped her with their signature double team Twelve Feet Under.  Lights off again and when they came back on Hysteria had vanished in the darkness.

Steve and Carl talked about Luz Cruz joining Hysteria on Sunday night and how the group seemed to have her as their leader before Nonpoint's “Bullet With A Name” started playing throughout the Arena to bring out the All Starr Stable.  Jacques Krieger scowled his way out first, followed by the World Tag Team champions A Cut Above and the mastermind in back but in front of it all, S. Mark Starr.  Once they all hit the ring, you can understand why they (well, not Krieger) were in a gloating mood.  

The crowd booed the whole way but couldn't keep Evan O'Neill from being in full smarm.  QCW went from firing him to buying him a new house in 90 days thanks to Starr, and after AnnIVersary they still were the best tag team in QCW.  No, you know what, forget QCW - they were the best tag team in the world.   They had the brains with Starr, the muscle with Jacques, and the QCW World Tag Team championships.  Broderick added that anyone who didn't like AnnIVersary’s turn of events could kiss their well moisturized derrieres before Starr took the promo home, saying that these men were smart enough to join him and give him 15%, and the results spoke for themselves.   So you could either do the smart thing like the collection of all Starr talent in the ring, or you could end up like those losers Beauty and the Beast Mode.  They could lose for the culture all they wanted, because he would be counting money and championships.  O’Neill hit a “Are you not entertained?” which drew boos from the crowd, as did his response of “Who cares?  I'm RICH, you bunch of (that's a swear) off duty Dollar General cashiers!” Nonpoint played after that and the Stable smugly headed to the back while the announce debated what was up next for the World Tag champs.  

4. Avión III d. “the Proper King” Richard Windsor at 10:11 After a brief feeling out process, Windsor used his technical proficiency to keep Avión grounded and almost entirely on the mat.  But Avión fought out from under then turned the fight his way when he backdropped Windsor over the top rope; the Brit’s ribs slammed into the apron on his way to the floor and Avión followed up with a running handless plancha to wipe him out.  The luchador rolled back in the ring and exhorted the ref to count Windsor out, but when Richard started making moves to get back in the ring at 7 Avión caught him with another handless plancha.  The Latest Model Aircraft dominated the rest of the way and dusted the King with Air Superiority, getting the 3 via his signature avalanche Spanish Fly.

Avión being Avión, he continued going after a fallen Windsor post match…right until the Kaiser Chiefs hit the PA.  

“The Fury” Jim Jaspers made his return to QCW after Omar Littlefield put him on the shelf a few months ago, and he ran down the ramp to a pop to help his Proper Villains tag partner.  He hit the ring and went after Avión, both men throwing hands before Avión got desperate and raked Old Jim’s eyes.  Avión ran for the ropes to launch another attack but Jim flew at him and hit a beautiful pump knee strike that sent Avión flying over the top rope to the floor.   Avión swore at Jaspers from the floor before stomping backstage; back in the ring, Jim pulled Richard up and checked on him.  “I Predict A Riot” came back on and Richard hugged Jim, who seemed a little surprised that he was getting hugged.  The Proper Villains are back and they took to the turnbuckles to celebrate as we went to commercial.

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5. w @ s t e l a n d e r s d. The Wonderful Ward Brothers at 5:04 A bit of a shocker here as the former tag team champion Wards looked to make something of a triumphant return here but found themselves on the wrong end of an asskicking from the newcomers.  The Canadians didn't go down without a fight but the fight didn't last too long and ended with a trip to the Thunderdome with a lariat and leg sweep combo.  As Carl put it during replays, “The w @ s t e l a n d e r s have arrived.”

Steve and Carl called back to the top of the show and the Razorblade/Naz promo battle as a launchpad for Omar Littlefield to attack The Champ and run off the #1 contender before Carl hit upon the fact that Naz was here because he cheated to beat Autumn Powers at AnnIVersary and win the #1 contendership.  That shady win made Autumn leave town and Steve said that while the ref’s decision was final, QCW put together something to show Autumn how much she meant to the modern era.

A three or four minutes long video package played from there, reeling through highlights of Autumn's QCW career: the steel cage collapse, winning the Women's World championship, beating Summer Rose in another Loser Leaves Town match, the Best of 5 series against Dark Mirror over the old World TV title and her winning the Unified World championship and earning the Triple Crown at last year's Devil's Night.  A really nice piece and you should swing by Quality Social or QTube to check it out.

Before the main event, Steve and Carl hyped up Justine and Bella from Hysteria facing off against Mean Season as well as “Night Sky” Diana Spare defending the Crush championship on Unleashed before they ran down the card for next week's Ruckus, which is more loaded than me on my birthday:

⚡We’ll get a location announcement for next month’s PPV ⚡

⚡#1 World title contender Nazir el-Fadal faces off against Justice Davis in a match that no doubt World Champion Razorblade (Davis's tag partner) will be watching closely  ⚡

⚡And we’ll get two more qualifiers to get us closer to a #1 contender for the Women's World championship as in a non-title match Crush champion “Night Sky” Diana Spare goes up against Goody Gardner of the Chosen and turncoat Luz Cruz faces off with one of the women she stabbed in the back at AnnIVersary, Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo ⚡

Replays played of the show opener where Sohla Patel won her way into the fatal four way that’ll decide the #1c; whoever won between former Crush champions here would join the field as ex partners shed a little more bad blood.

6. Shelley LaVey (w/the Culture) d. Bonnie Agrippa (w/Hysteria) at 10:32 in a Women's World championship #1 contendership qualifying match No feeling out process here - Bonnie slapped Shelley right after the bell rang but couldn't even get out a full sentence of smacktalk before Shelley cut her off with a double leg takedown and a flurry of punches.  Bonnie ate a few shots before reversing and dishing it right back out in kind.   Both women rolled around and fought on the mat until it spilled to the floor and Bonnie got the advantage by jamming her thumbs into Shelley’s eyes for multiple seconds.  Agrippa bieled Shelley across the announce table (that didn't give) and LaVey bounced off of it before sliding down to the floor.  Bonnie was yelling at Steve and Carl to get out of her way before she stood up on the announce table to the Quality Controllers’ jeers.  As LaVey tried to get to her feet Agrippa ran across the table before leaping off with a shotgun dropkick that sent Shelley flying into the barricade.

As Bonnie pulled herself up and got Shelley in the ring to continue the beatdown, announce put over the sadistic glee Bonnie got out of whaling away on her ex friend - something she was doing with hammer blows across the back.  Bonnie beat Shelley down to the mat and made sure to get in the recovering LaVey’s face after she did.  Agrippa was swarming Shelley at this point: when she wasn't stomping she was choking out LaVey with her boot and the referee’s count got to 4 two or three times.  Steve pointed out the possibility that Hysteria could have two of its members in the fatal four way for the #1 contendership the way things were going, and they only got worse for Shelley as she ate a series of flash elbow drops from her former friend.

Bonnie went for a cover and Shelley wriggled loose at 2 ½.  Agrippa continued putting the bad mouth on LaVey, saying that Shelley had been holding her back and that she would never let Shelley be World champion as long as she was back in QCW.  Bonnie brought more darkness than light and added injury to the insults with a series of mocking kicks while saying she was going to make it a clean sweep.  But Shelley started firing up, getting to a knee and then standing up as the crowd got louder - and Bonnie hit her with a running boot that sent her back down to the mat.

To the shock of the Arena, Shelley nipped up before backhanding Bonnie so hard she spun around, then drilled Agrippa with a rewind rana that left both women down.  We got replays of Shelley’s 1-2 combo while both women pulled themselves off the mat and barely beat the 10 count before going back and forth with punches; it was a battle that Bonnie was winning, then Shelley, then Agrippa cut her off with a knee to the breadbasket that sent Shelley crashing to the canvas.  Bonnie was back to talking smack as she pulled Shelley up by the hair - but Shelley shut her up with a sudden Fresh To Death that cut through the chatter and popped the Quality Controllers big.  

It took Shelley a couple beats before she could cover Bonnie and hook a leg, allowing Agrippa to kick out at 2 ½.  While Bonnie avoided getting pinned by the cutter, the momentum went all Shelley’s way after that.  Shelley went on a tear, duffing up her ex partner with hard forearms before kicking her leg out from under her and landing a short range knee.  Bonnie staggered towards a corner and Shelley charged at her - but Agrippa matadored out of the way.  Bonnie was thinking fast but Shelley was even faster, as she ran up the turnbuckles and flattened Agrippa with a moonsault press.  A fired up Shelley got to her feet first and pulled up the Hysteria member by the hair.  Whatever Shelley said got bleeped, but the subsequent brainbuster she drilled Bonnie with got the message across loud and clear.  LaVey went up top before flying off and connecting with her Fallen Angel splash.

That should have put a bow on things, but between 2 and 3 Luz Cruz reached in and put Bonnie's foot on the bottom rope to get the zebra to break up the count.  Everybody in the building who wasn't Hysteria was good and pissed about that, most notably Steve at the desk and Beauty and the Beast Mode on the floor (in retrospect it’s entirely possible Shelley missed the cheating).   Beauty and the Beast Mode turned the corner to have words with Hysteria while Carl pointed out that while Mode had the size advantage they were outnumbered 4 to 2.  

Hysteria and Mode started woofing at each other when the noise in the crowd went from mostly negative to a positive buzz.  Everyone on the outside turned towards the ramp, where Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo was marching down it with vengeance in her eyes, causing Carl to hype her qualifying match with Cruz next week.  Steve noted things looked a little better for the white hats but they still were at a disadvantage while in the ring Bonnie surprised a distracted Shelley and rolled her up with LaVey kicking out late.  As Bonnie and Shelley continued to throw shots in the ring, the crowd’s noise jumped up a level as Crush champion “Night Sky” Diana Spare started heading towards the ring to stand with the Culture and Szabo against Hysteria, who were still talking their shit but lowered a couple of decibels with the odds getting evened up.  

Bonnie walloped Shelley from behind, then drove her sternum first into the corner.  Agrippa hooked Shelley up and suplexed her, then rolled through and hit another, but when she went for a third or a brainbuster LaVey rocked her with two knees to the jaw that caused Agrippa to lose her grip.  LaVey pulled herself off the mat and hit a Pele kick as Roy Fade and then Pierce Moore started pulling chairs and tables out from under the ring to give the white hats some backup.  Spare joined the party and pulled out a couple of kendo sticks and threw one to Ashley, then immediately charged Hysteria and more specifically Luz with Judgeian swings.  This reminded Cruz that she left the oven unlocked and the door on, as she and the rest of Hysteria started backing away from the now armed babyfaces and started backing up the ramp – only for Cardi B to hit the PA and Lolo Vuitton strut out pushing a garbage can full of weapons (trash cans, stop signs, more kendo sticks, and some baking sheets and who knows what else).

Hysteria made the executive decision to get out of the Arena before they could eat any shots and leapt the barrier before fleeing the concourse, speeding past the End Times on the way out of the building.  Bonnie was caught up in watching her coven getting run off and Shelley recovered and snuck up on Agrippa before throwing her shoulder first into the ringpost.  Bonnie staggered backwards and right into another throw into the ringpost, and LaVey went out to the apron as Agrippa fell into the ring.  Shelley measured Bonnie before slingshotting into the ring and dropping her with another Fresh To Death.  Shelley let out a whoop as she stepped over Bonnie, went up to the top rope and launched another Fallen Angel splash.

This time when she pinned Bonnie’s shoulders to the canvas, they stayed down for 3.

Shelley got in her face after the bell and the ref had to back her off Bonnie, but the Quality Controllers gave her some well deserved flowers after the victory.  We got replays of the big moments in the fight before we went back live to the ring.  You could see Shelley celebrating on the turnbuckles and making A Very Familiar Gesture around her waist.  The crowd, the rest of the Culture and Ashley Szabo were applauding.  

But Crush champion Spare and Women's World champion Vuitton weren't.  

As Ruckus went off the air a chyron showed Sohla Patel and Shelley now making half the field of the #1 contendership fatal four way to get the next shot at Lolo, then the credits box came up to close out the Ruckus after AnnIVersary.