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!
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