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.
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