FDSN Florida Presents QCW Ruckus [s4e14 • January 31st, 2025]

1•31•25 from Parts Unknown, FL inside Quality Arena

Broadcast live on FanDuel Sports Network Florida

A video package recapping “Night Sky” Diana Spare retaining the Crush championship over Sohla Patel in last week's main event opened the show; the win completed Spare's 10 Count, but her celebration was short lived as it got interrupted.  Hysteria came on the scene, then while Luz Cruz held up the Women's World championship in Spare’s face hot new free agent signing Malicía Fernandez popped up out of nowhere to stare down at both women and championships.  

We swung from there to the FDSN standard open that ended with the Cavalcade of Champions before we zoomed into Quality Arena to kick off another episode of Ruckus.  The Razorblade/Drake Tremble non-title match and the title match for the Crush championship were hyped before we kicked off with tag action that featured two stars of the women's division facing off against two of the women in Hysteria as the war for control continues…

1. Hysteria (w/Luz Cruz, Justina Danek and Bella Jolie) d. Shelley LaVey and Lolo Vuitton (w/Beauty and the Beast Mode) at 10:54 Bonnie Agrippa and Nancy Crowley had to rally to win this one, but they eventually did.  It took them more than a little bit of time to do it.  Despite other occurrences of babyfaces having problems amongst themselves when they faced Hysteria in the recent past, LaVey and Vuitton formed a pretty cohesive unit from the start and quickly put Hysteria's women on the back foot.  Momentum firmly got in their hands when Lolo dodged a Crowley dive that sent Nancy spilling to the floor; when Bonnie charged in for the save the former Women's World champion backdropped her over the top rope and onto her partner.  Vuitton tagged LaVey and they both hit stereo tope suicidas that popped the crowd while the rest of Hysteria scowled at the babyfaces’ offense from a few steps away.  

As Lolo high fived “These Hands” Roy Fade on the floor, LaVey got former rival Agrippa back in the ring and went at her like the Crush championship was on the line as it had been between them last fall and winter.  Shelley had the advantage but a timely swipe by Bonnie behind the referee's back got LaVey’s attention just long enough for Bonnie to capitalize – and a massive German suplex from Agrippa literally flipped her onto her stomach for maximum impact.  With Shelley down, Bonnie tagged in Nancy and the black hats teamed up for a pendulum backbreaker and second rope flying senton combo.  That got Crowley 2, but Shelley's kick out just made Nancy even more feral as she went on the attack with haymaker swings and multiple bites while the rest of Hysteria cheered it on from the floor.  Crowley's all out assault made uphill sledding for Shelley in the next couple of minutes and even when LaVey could get a little daylight Nancy shut her down with a cross chop to the throat then a Code Black for another near fall.  

But things shifted again when Crowley flew off the top rope with a senton only to eat a pair of knees in the back courtesy of the former Crush champion.  Nancy managed to tag Bonnie back in and picked her former friend’s ankle only to get clipped by an enzuigiri from the other side.  LaVey tagged in Lolo, who immediately ran into the ring and ran past Bonnie to drill Crowley on the apron with a modified Bloody Shoe.  Lolo turned her offense to Bonnie and hit Agrippa the way bills hit paychecks.  Agrippa eventually ended up rolling out to the floor and got consolation from the members of Hysteria on the outside but Lolo broke up the coven with a note perfect tope con hilo that dropped all four women and fired up some (censored) “Holy shit!” chants throughout Quality Arena.  Lolo was rolling as she got Bonnie back into the ring and lit her up some more; even cheating didn't work, as Lolo snuffed out an attempt to take her eyes and facebustered Agrippa into her knee.  Vuitton followed up with a buckle bomb and geared up to hit a Bloody Shoe, only for Crowley to dive in the way of the Yakuza kick and eat a second one herself.  The kick caught Crowley flush and she went over the top rope, clipping LaVey and knocking her off the apron on the way down.  Vuitton was in the middle of smack talking Nancy about not having learned the first time when Agrippa rolled her up from behind and put her body weight over Lolo’s legs just long enough to secure the 3 count.  Bonnie rolled out of the ring as a clearly stunned then pissed Lolo questioned the count with the referee.  Replays showed, however, that Bonnie had taken advantage of her taking her eye off the ball and managed to pin her down for something like 3.4 seconds.  

Back live, a cut of the Culture trying to console Lolo in the ring panned out to show Hysteria (well, not Nancy so much) in formation on the ramp before Luz Cruz let out a cackle as she slowly held up the Women's World championship.  Cruz cradled her Fifteen Pounds of Gold then snapped her fingers.

Lights off - lights on - Hysteria out.

We got a pretape from minority owner Ig de Catur from in front of Spoon Republic headquarters (as if the giant bronzed double cone statue didn't give it away).  de Catur put over the success of Cold As Hell and said that with it marked off the QCW calendar that the next big PPV stop would be Golden Rule - and he said that once all the i’s were dotted and the t’s were crossed QCW would make history in 2025 just like it had for the entire 2020s.  

He then pivoted to hyping the women's division, saying that when it came to North American indie wrestling they had no equals, and that they were going to step even further into the spotlight with the invention of a Dealer’s Choice match that would be taking place at Golden Rule.  The next few weeks would see six qualifying matches on Ruckus, with the winners facing off in a six pack ladder match.  Whoever won the Dealer’s Choice match would then pick from one of two options: get a shot at the QCW National Championship - or an automatic slot in the 2025 Duquesne Classic coming this spring.  Ig talked a bit about how he instituted the NatChamp last year after Caleb Gray won last year's Classic and got in a plug for his empire of desserts before thanking everyone for their time.

2. w @ s t 3 l a n d e r s d. Hawk Carter and Atum Pharaoh at 6:17 Since debuting last fall, the men known as f a l l 0 u t and m 3 l t d 0 w n haven't said a word.  They also haven't taken an L yet, and that didn't change after this showcase as their snarling aggression was too much for their larger opponents.  Pharaoh ate the pinfall after being hit with Wasted, then had the additional bad luck of being lariated by a frustrated Carter postmatch.

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Back from the break, we got an International Lotus infomercial styled promo from Sohla Patel, who wanted to give an update on the Sohla Search to all her little lotus blossoms watching her on screens around the world.  

She regretted to inform us that due to being too emo and her actions last week, Diana Spare would not and could never be the new face of International Lotus.  However, one sad monkey didn't stop the show and once Sohla found someone worthy of the multi million rupee franchise to build it even higher she would be more than happy to celebrate her new flunki–erm, associate.  

And now that this Dealer’s Choice opportunity was on the scene, well she just had to be the five star face of it.  National Champion Sohla Patel…2025 Duquesne Classic winner Sohla Patel…well, they both sounded great to her, and once she took the Choice home she would have her name in lights bigger and brighter than ever before.  But that was her future, and unfortunately for the common folk hanging on her every word it was ciao for now.  

We went back to the ring and Duck Eko made the introductions for the next match, which was a title tilt…

3. “Night Sky” Diana Spare [c] d. “Sinister” Sarah Fowler to retain the Crush championship at 8:16 1️⃣1️⃣  …and here we saw Spare right after the Patel promo, and as the champ made her entrance we got picture in picture of her beating Sohla to hit her 10 Count to close out last week's show.  She added to her string of title defenses in a hard hitting match against resident spooky girl Fowler here.  Spare got off to a strong start while the announce put over that even though she's had fewer reigns than Luz Cruz with the Crush championship, she had a longer tenure with them - something the Women's World champion and leader of Hysteria couldn't be psyched about.  In the ring, Sarah got her boots up on a Spare charge to the corner before flying off the middle turnbuckle - but Diana plucked her out of midair and hit her with a modified Bossman Slam that popped the crowd.  Spare followed up by trying to end things with her trusty Nightfall but Fowler wriggled free and drove a knee into Spare's back to send her to the floor.  

Sarah followed up with a Stun Gun that sent Spare flying neck first into the dividing barrier and added injury to injury with a swinging neckbreaker on the floor.  Both women got hurt by that but Spare took the worst of it which allowed Fowler to toss her back into the ring once she'd recovered and keep working over the champ's neck.  Fowler got in a few nearfalls before crashing and burning on another flying attack.  Spare took advantage of the opening and drilled Sarah with an especially wicked looking Nightfall to secure the three count and continue another lengthy reign as the Crush champion - but things didn't end when the match did.

As Spare celebrated another W, Fowler stopped arguing the count with the ref and waylaid Diana.  Fowler picked up Spare only to put her back down with a implant reverse DDT.  The referee tried to stop Fowler only to get shoved down, and Sarah only continued to live up to her Sinister side by stomping away on the fallen Diana.  

Then something weird happened.

The lights went out in Quality Arena and when they came back on, Luz Cruz was on the floor looking at the rest of Hysteria in the ring.  Fowler gestured to the fallen Spare with a sick smile on her face - and Hysteria jumped Fowler of all people, to the surprise of those at home and the building alike.  Spare was pulling herself up in the corner while Luz looked on smiling and nodding, but snapped her fingers seeing Diana get up; that caused Hysteria to stop the beatdown on Sarah.  Spare grabbed her title off the canvas and looked from woman to woman across the ring from her.  

The Crush champion draped her belt across the top rope and squared up against the four of them, but then Cruz snapped her fingers and the lights went back out on a Friday night.  When they came back on, all of Hysteria was gone.  Diana started looking confused but then started just looking pissed off while the announcers sold the confusion of the situation considering Spare was a longtime thorn in Hysteria's side.  Spare looked salty when she eventually left the ring, looking over her shoulder while holding onto her belt as she headed to the back.

From there we went TOTHEBACK~!, where Julius Duquesne III was standing by to interview the All Starr Stable.  The Quality Controllers booed as A Cut Above and Jacques Krieger came onto the scene with their manager S. Mark Starr, who wasted little time crowing about how ACA had destroyed (sure, Jan) the Wonderful Ward Brothers last week and once they got their rightful rematch soon 2024’s unanimous Tag Team of the Year would get their belts back from the thieves calling themselves the International Players.  Then Starr informed us that with Cut back to their winning ways it didn't mean that he’d forgotten about One Eye, and he was in negotiations with the Commissioner's office to get him a showcase match on next week's Ruckus so that he could get exactly what he deserved.  The Stable would not only return to their former glory but surpass it, and if you haters got sick of them dominating 2024 - here Starr let out a braying, nasally cackle - well, you were going to be absolutely nauseous over what he and his men were going to do in 2025.  The Stable exited the frame and Julius threw us to commercials.

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4. Hellraisers d. The Proper Villains at 8:17 This was a rematch from the Cold As Hell preshow where the Villains beat their fellow countrymen Ian Cook and Gerry Greene,  who were chirping on Quality Social that they got robbed (they didn't) until Commissioner Holmes finally caved in and gave them this rematch.  While the Hellraisers did better this time around, the Villains eventually got Cook with A Proper Ending - however, this time Greene was able to dive in to break up the cover and save the match.  A Pier 4 broke out to the surprise of no one, and while the ref had little difficulty breaking it up things eventually turned into one fight inside the ring and one outside.  The power men of their stables - Cook and Jaspers - fought on the floor until a Cook back body drop splattered Jaspers across the middle of the steps to the shock and disgust of Steve, Carl and the rest of the crowd.  That got the ref to lean between the ropes to check Jaspers and attempt to warn off Cook…but that opened a window of opportunity for Greene to low blow Richard Windsor and roll him up with a schoolboy.  Cook barked at the ref to make the count, then once that started happening he grabbed Greene’s feet and put them on the middle rope before holding them down by the ankles.  All the skullduggery worked and the Hellraisers stole one to the chagrin of the audience and the Quality Controllers.  The Villains were left in shambles while Gerry and Ian celebrated their win all the way up the ramp.

Getting a pretape on Ruckus isn't a surprise; getting one from Omar Littlefield (possibly for the first time ever) is.  Omar seemed to be in the parking lot of Quality Arena and kept his message brief: he was going to keep (bleep)ing (bleep) up until he got a rematch with Razorblade one on one for his belt without Naz in there to help his ass out.  He said if Holmes didn't give it to him he’d put the Commissioner in the hospital too, so quit hiding his golden boy and give him his (this was a series of bleeps) rematch!

A cut to backstage showed that Omar’s request would take a while to go through the proper channels, because the Commissioner was busy in the parking lot directing Quality Force Security to escort most of the Chosen out of the building. Goody Gardner was repeatedly screaming “Faith over fear!” as she, the End Times and QCW National Champion Caleb Gray were loaded into a dark blue SUV.  “The Paragon” Drake Tremble begged and pleaded for the Commissioner to change his mind but all these prayers fell on deaf ears as the SUV drove off into the night.  The Commissioner walked away down the hall and Tremble rounded a corner – only to come face to face with his main event opponent: The Champ himself, Mason “Razorblade” Savage.  

Tremble stammered and the World champion smiled - then he grabbed Tremble and threw him into a wall as hard as he could.  Drake went down in sections and Razorblade started stomping away on Tremble before QFS came running back into the frame and pulled him off.  Holmes again had to direct traffic, ordering the titleholder into a private locker room while Savage could be heard as he was getting dragged out that he’d given Drake a taste and he was coming for the rest of it later on.  A chyron came up for the Savage/Tremble main event while we panned to Tremble on his back on the ground, moaning and clutching his head.  He was still down going into the last commercial break of the night.

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5. Pyotr Caviar (w/Serge Batroc) d. Anton Stahl (w/the Wonderful Ward Brothers) at 8:48 We began the final stretch of Ruckus with this singles match between former stablemates.  Despite the size disadvantage, Stahl seemingly had the Tracksuit Tsar’s number early by combining a hit and run attack with his technical skills.  Stahl started to go after and wear down the left leg of Caviar with thigh kicks; it only took a couple of minutes to send Pyotr down to a knee.  Anton stuck Pyotr with a basement DDT and fired up the faithful by calling for the end - but when he went for his trademark Tik Tok hammerlock DDT Caviar powered up and tossed Stahl across the ring, sending the German technician splattering across his chest and ribs.  Caviar was clearly hobbled while Stahl was clearly wobbled, but got to his feet first and charged Pyotr.

It was the beginning of the end…for Stahl, who ended up charging into a pop up European uppercut that sent him heels over head and nearly knocked his boots off.  Caviar dominated the remaining couple of minutes and put the hopes of Stahl winning to bed after delivering Hit My Music.  After replays, Serge crowed proudly to the camera that this would be the year his protege took the next step while the Wards and the ref helped up a battered Anton.

Before we got to the main event, Steve conducted the hype train for next week's episode of Ruckus:

• We’ll see Justice Davis in action for the first time since Cold As Hell 

• In the first of six Dealer’s Choice qualifying matches, Fiona Fogg will face off against Sohla Patel

• And “the Purifier” Caleb Gray will be let back into the building to defend the QCW National Championship against the head of Collipark, the legendary Jupiter Jones

6. Mason “Razorblade” Savage d. “the Paragon” Drake Tremble by disqualification in a non-title match at 12:46 Tremble got retribution for The Champ's backstage attack by jumping him before the bell and taking things to the floor so he could toss Razorblade into the steel steps.  Tremble rolled in and out of the ring to break the count before hitting a diving clothesline that knocked off the top section of the steps and left Razorblade in a heap on the floor.   Drake got Razorblade back into the ring and covered him but Savage barely stayed down for 1.  The early kickout visibly rattled Tremble, yet he weaseled his way over the next 90 seconds or so to maintain his advantage.

But Razorblade wouldn't be stopped - he countered a Tremble attack by converting it into a Stun Gun and proceeded to add injury to injury by running down the former QCW championship holder with a wicked lariat.  That opened the door to what mostly ended up being a one sided beatdown courtesy of Savage with the crowd and announce rocking along as the World champ rocked the Paragon of the Chosen.  Tremble hung tough, managing kickouts after a spinebuster and familiar looking double arm DDT - but eventually the wave of Razorblade offense drowned him as he fell victim to a cannonball in the corner that set up Mason's trusty Soul Crusher.

Tremble was out and down for the count – but Savage pulled him up at 2 ¾ with an evil grin on his face.  The announce pointed out that with the rest of the Chosen escorted out of the Arena, Razorblade could continue beating Tremble up without anybody being able to do boo about it.  Savage spent a couple more minutes unloading on Tremble and even hit him with Drake's own Halo Effect before dragging a limp Paragon to the corner and connecting on another Soul Crusher.

The match ended a few seconds later, but not in the way that anyone expected…as Omar Littlefield appeared from out of nowhere and pulled Razorblade to the floor for a DQ, causing the ref to call for the bell.

Littlefield sent Razorblade into the steps as the crowd booed as the announce sold that they’d been feuding over the World title for the better part of a year but still going hard.  Omar barked at Savage that he wanted his title back and tried to send The Champ into the ringpost, only for the tables to turn as Razorblade reversed and sent Omar into the post instead.  Savage snarled at Omar that if he hadn't heard him the first time he'd repeat himself then flung Omar right back into the post.  Littlefield staggered back towards the ringside area while Razorblade pivoted and started cleaning off the announce table while Quality Arena roared in the background.  Savage grabbed Littlefield by the back of the head only to get uppercutted by the Fifteen Pounds of Gold Omar had snatched up while Razorblade set up the table.  

Savage almost went down before Omar grabbed him in a double goozle and gave him a choke bomb onto the announce table.  Razorblade was down as Omar got a sneer on his face and scrambled up onto the announce desk, sending Steve and Carl fleeing into the front row and leaving us without commentary.  Littlefield looked over Razorblade before pulling him into position, then powered the man who beat him at AnnIVersary up and drove them both through the announce table with a king sized Face Eraser.  

Both men lay in the wreckage of the table while partially bleeped out “Holy shit!” chants rang out over the airwaves.  Omar slowly pulled himself to his feet and picked the World title up off the floor before raising it overhead and letting out a deep roar of triumph as the credits box popped up on the screen.  Right before we faded to black, Omar held up the belt to the camera closest to him and closed out Ruckus with 3 words:

Your move, Holmes.

QCW Unleashed [s2e24 • Quality Arena]

 

• Hellraisers d. “Swamp Pride” Ted Holland and Robert E. Moonshine 

• “Sinister” Sarah Fowler d. Fiona Fogg 

• Anton Stahl d. Hawk Carter

• Hysteria (Bonnie/Nancy w/Luz, Justine and Bella) d. Mean Season

FDSN Florida Presents QCW Ruckus [s4e13 • January 24th, 2025]

1•24•25 from Parts Unknown, FL inside Quality Arena

Broadcast live on FanDuel Sports Network Florida

Ruckus opened up with a video package recapping Sunday's Cold As Hell PPV.  Stills of the Proper Villains and Hysteria's Bonnie Agrippa, Justine Danek and Bella Jolie after their preshow victories gave way to longer highlight video clips from the main card:

☃️ Newcomer Orion battling back to eventually beat former Duquesne Classic winner Serge Batroc ☃️

☃️ w @ s t e l a n d e r s beating Beauty and the Beast Mode to keep their undefeated streak going ☃️

☃️ The College Park Family beating the All Starr Stable in a trios match with Jupiter Jones pinning Jacques Krieger, S. Mark Starr berating Krieger after another loss ☃️

☃️ “The Purifier" Caleb Gray retaining the QCW National Championship over Justice Davis in a hard hitting affair, then the Chosen putting such a postmatch beating on JD that he had to be helped to the back by the medical staff ☃️

☃️Luz Cruz defending the QCW Women's World championship against “Explosive” Emily Bennett, who was playing the Ace in the Hole she earned at AnnIVersary - Hysteria got ejected from ringside but Cruz weathered Bennett’s offensive storm to retain - Cruz celebrated another title retention up the ramp, leaving Bennett to take in big applause from the Madison fans for pushing The Champ to her limit ☃️

☃️ The three way dance between Nazir el-Fadal, Omar Littlefield and The Champ Razorblade for the Fifteen Pounds of Gold saw Naz shockingly team with years long rival Razorblade to help try and stop the Omar threat only for them to go back to their feuding ways.  Against all odds, Razorblade would not just survive but thrive, first pinning Omar after an underhook brainbuster and then taking advantage of an awkward landing from a Naz sunset flip bomb to pin him and retain the QCW World championship ☃️

☃️ But the PPV ended on two shocking notes: 1) the QualiTron showing Goody Gardner of the Chosen hovering over a stretchered Justice Davis, causing Razorblade to run to the back and try to save his tag partner from whatever Caleb Gray’s zealots had planned and 2) with Naz on the mat clutching at his neck, Omar reappeared and took out his elimination on the Grand Slam winner by carving into el-Fadal with his own weapon: Greetings From Hayt Corner, the bunch of barbed wire kendo sticks he’d used against Omar during the match. ☃️

The standard open rolled from there, with no changes to the Cavalcade of Champions after Sunday's show.  Quality Arena was ready for all the Cold As Hell fallout, the Controllers made themselves heard after the blue and white pyro died down.  Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen welcomed us aboard the good ship Ruckus, saying that we would get injury updates on Naz and Justice Davis as well as Diana Spare looking to complete her 10 Count in the main event by defending the Crush championship against former Crush and Women's World champion Sohla Patel – but tonight would start off with the long awaited debut of the newest member of QCW’s roster and possibly the finest luchadora on the face of the planet…

1) Malicía Fernandez d. Midsomar at :40 This wasn't a match, it was a highlight reel.  The towering Fernandez tossed around Midsomar a couple of times before hitting a somersault axe kick, whipping Midsomar to the ropes and goozling her into a spinning chokeslam for the win after that in less time than it takes you to reheat leftovers.  After the match, Malicía grabbed Midsomar’s head like a basketball before ripping off most of their mask - who knows what would've happened if more of the referee corps hadn't come out.  The former Lucha Salvaje Campeona de Campeones (their World title) tossed Midsomar aside and left over the top rope to a mixed reaction while the announcers put over her dominance.

From there we went to the announce table and Steve walked us through the two biggest names on the IR.  Naz suffered a stinger and multiple gashes in the main event three way dance; doctors say it’ll be until March before the One Man Jihad can return to the ring.  As Naz’s socials have gone uncharacteristically quiet, the news is even worse on the Justice Davis front – there isn't any.  No one has seen him since Sunday night, and the Chosen are probably guilty no matter what damage he took going after the National championship.  A chyron hyped “The Paragon” Drake Tremble and the End Times from said Chosen going up against the legendary Jupiter Jones and the QCW World Tag Team champions the International Players from the College Park Family in trios action later in the show before we went into the next match.

2) A Cut Above (w/Jacques Krieger and S. Mark Starr) d. The Wonderful Ward Brothers at 9:33 A matchup with former championship teams facing off, possibly in the hopes of getting another crack at regaining the belts.  After a stalemate in the opening few minutes, the Wards hit a Hart Attack on Evan O'Neill and took over control of the bout.  O’Neill ate more offense from the Canadians but when it looked like they were setting up finishing things off with the Wonder Cutter S. Mark Starr jumped up on the apron to distract the ref, allowing Jacques Krieger to slide in the ring and floor Jason the Great with a heart punch.  While Rich went after him only to get blindsided by “Upper Class” Broderick Palmer II and thrown into the steps, O’Neill flew off the top rope with a One Last Chance that found the mark and won ACA a match they were losing on points before they got outside help.  The Stable (well, not Krieger) celebrated their way to the back while Starr crowed that 2024’s unanimous Tag Team of the Year were going to get their titles back real soon.  We went to break seeing Palmer II smiling beatifically while O’Neill smacktalked the fans.

We came back from the break and we saw the Chosen in their usual alignment, with “the Purifier" Caleb Gray and Goody Gardner in the front, though Goody would end up cutting most of the promo.  She said that they took no joy in doing what had to be done on Sunday, but the blasphemy was enough.  Unbelievers proclaiming false justice trying to end the longest championship reign in Quality Christian Wrestling on an event named after Hades was beyond the pale, and if cameras saw them delivering thoughts and prayers over his fallen body at the end of the show…well, all the better.

Because he had been purified by the grace of Caleb, the truest champion QCW could ever hope to have.  All that had stood against him had fallen for nearly a year straight, and if the choices were between him and that shiftless hobo who certainly lived up to his Savage name – well, that wasn't really a difficult choice for any God fearing man or woman to make.  They would keep making their point tonight as the Paragon (Drake Tremble behind Caleb) and the End Times (flanked behind Goody on either side) would preach the evangel and stop the insipid party all the time dance antics of the College Park Family.  What they had wasn't a family, it was a rap video; what the Chosen were was a real family united under His grace.  She and Caleb would be ringside watching as they were torn asunder, and after their loss not only would they have to face reality –

– Caleb held his hand up, silencing Goody as he lifted the QCW National Championship higher on his shoulder.  He had only one thing to say, to echo Miss Gardner's comments: tonight, QCW’s fraud of a family would either fall to their knees or like Davis and Banjerjee before them they would repent.  

We went back to Duck Eko in the ring, as he made the announcements for the women's division match up next…

3) “Explosive” Emily Bennett and Fiona Fogg d. The Sound of Thunder at 8:40 Bennett bounced back from her loss on Sunday with this tag win showcasing the perpetually optimistic Emily.  She and Fogg had no problem standing on the lowest rung of the women's division, Bennett getting the pin on Bettie Rokker after Time’s Up.  Announce speculated that maybe Bennett and Fogg might be able to build the trust to form a lasting team and go after Hysteria.

After that, Steve teed up footage from Earlier Today.  In short order, we were transported to the roof of Quality Arena where The Champ was pacing back and forth.  He was borderline frothing at the mouth as he called out the Chosen for the   pack of two faced cowards they were.

They went after his friend to send him a message when they knew he couldn't do anything about it, and the moment he went after them they disappeared in the night.  More importantly to him, JD did too, and he hasn't seen or heard from him since.  The Bible thumpers wanted his attention!? Well, congratueffinglations, they got it.  But they might want to think twice about what it is they find themselves against now that they have.

Because the last two people that got his attention were Nazir el-Fadal and Omar Littlefield.  He'd delivered justice to one by putting him through a flaming table down Mexico way, and before that he'd taken back his World title from the other to be the only man in QCW history to pin that land monster, then he’d beaten both of them in the same match.  So if the Chosen wanted to be next up on his hit list he was going to knock them off, too.  They would DROWN in his attention until they learned something their precious Bibles couldn't preach -- everyone bleeds, and in *his* QCW not even God could save them from him.  Razorblade stormed out of frame once he'd dropped that threat; we went to commercial shortly after that.

4) College Park Family (w/Science Fiction Double Feature) d. The Chosen (w/QCW National Champion Caleb Gray and Goody Gardner) at 11:59 Jones and the International Players racked up their second win of the week, thanks to some unexpected backup.  

“The Paragon” Drake Tremble seemed to get the first big upper hand in the match, but when he put boots up to stop a charging Benjamin Valentino and then flew off the second rope with a clothesline attempt, the younger and more athletic Benjamin knocked him out of the sky with a perfectly placed dropkick.  With Tremble reeling, Valentino snatched him up and took him to his corner so he could tag in Lucius Patton.  The Players laid out Tremble with a double flapjack and started quick tagging to further wear down the Paragon of the Chosen.  After a few moves and the crowd increasingly making themselves heard, Jupiter Jones got the tag to a big pop and started going against longtime rival Tremble like no time had passed at all instead of 10 years.  It didn't take long for the legendary Jones to get the upper hand on Tremble and prepare the Bolt From Olympus, but two blind tags in two seconds from the End Times allowed Drake to jump Jones from behind and dump him over the top rope.

The Times then hit Jupiter with a double gourdbuster over the dividing barrier and hung him out to dry.  When things got back in the ring, the Chosen put things firmly in their favor with the End Times dishing out punishment to the future Hall of Famer just a little more than the Players had for Tremble.  Steve theorized on commentary that the Times were looking for revenge and maybe a shot at the titles after losing the #1 contendership to the Players in the lead up to Cold As Hell.  After a Mt. Everest sized German, Danny Castle called for the end but Jones managed to shove off his attempt at connecting with Carnage then ducked a shot - giving him just the window of opportunity he needed to lay Castle out with the Bolt From Olympus before going down in a heap from the effort of it.  SFDF got the crowd clapping to rally Jupiter as both men crawled towards their respective corners, with Castle able to tag Tremble back in right before Valentino made the tag on the other side of the ring.

It was right after that that a figure vaulted the retaining barrier and shoved Caleb Gray into the ringpost, sending the National Champion to the floor hard.  The crowd popped huge as Razorblade laid into him with rapid fire rights, and when Goody Gardner jumped on his back to try and stop the assault Savage got a hold of her and tossed her into the barrier before resuming beating the holy hell out of the Purifier.  The End Times dropped down to the floor to go after Razorblade only to catch hands from Jones and Patton, and in the chaos happening on the floor Valentino rolled up a distracted Tremble with a sunset flip and scored the three count to the cheers of the Parts Unknown faithful.  

Quality Force Security came out and dragged Razorblade off of Caleb to boos; mics picked up The Champ swearing (literally in a couple of bleeped out instances) that he was going to take everything away from Caleb and make him pay.  The men of the Chosen helped up a dazed and slightly bleeding Gray while Gardner read them and QFS the riot act about not coming to Gray’s defense.  This left Collipark to celebrate in the ring with the announce putting over the winning streak that the Family has been on in recent weeks.

A This Week In QCW History segment took us to the last commercial break of the night; January 20th, 2014 saw (appropriately enough) Jupiter Jones defeat Drake Tremble to win the QCW championship for the first time and on January 22nd two years ago at that year's Cold As Hell Razorblade retained the World title over Jones, who shook and raised The Champ’s hand post match to the joy of the crowd to close the show.  More Ruckus after this.

5. Omar Littlefield d. “Tiki God” Al Buffett (w/Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo) at 5:14 Littlefield’s rampage through the roster continued on against a familiar foe in Al, who put up a bit of a fight and even managed to slam Omar to get the Quality Controllers popping.  But that turned out to be the beginning of the end as Omar shook it off, let out a roar and planted Buffett with a choke bomb.  It was all one way traffic from there, as the former World champion deigned to put a button on the beatdown after four Vader Bombs and his signature Face Eraser.  Ashley slid in the ring with a chair after the three count, causing Omar to roll out of the ring and cackle his way up the ramp while Ashley checked on her long time tag partner.

Next week's Ruckus will have Bonnie Agrippa and Nancy Crowley of Hysteria facing off against Shelley LaVey and Lolo Vuitton.  We’ll also get Razorblade vs. Drake Tremble in an emotionally charged non-title match.  And we’ll see another defense of the Crush championship…but who will hold it after tonight's main event?

6. “Night Sky” Diana Spare [c] d. Sohla Patel at 9:39 to retain the Crush championship 🔟🎉  For the second time, Spare completed a successful 10 Count and now can cash in the Crush championship for a shot at Luz Cruz anywhere and any time she wants to potentially regain the Women's World championship next.  

The main event kicked off with Patel bailing from the ring a couple of times to jeers, only getting back in when Spare put her hands behind her back and offered Sohla a free shot.  The money behind International Lotus slid back in the ring and tagged Diana with a slap before playing a cat and mouse game with the pissed off Spare.  As with most things in life, it worked until it didn't - Spare catching her by the leg on a spinning heel kick attempt before practically shot putting Sohla into the corner on the throw.  Spare followed that up with not 10 and not even 20 but 22 punches as the Quality Controllers countered along, letting out a war cry after Sohla sluiced down to the canvas.  

Spare spent the next couple of minutes using her size advantage to power Sohla around the ring, eventually planting Patel dead center to the canvas with a big Bossman Slam.  Spare called for the end and cinched Sohla up for Nightfall, but the International Lotus figurehead slipped loose and threw Spare shoulder first into the ringpost.  The champ staggered away but ended up on the receiving end of a Blockbuster from the Bollywood Diva, who started to take control from there.

Patel wore down Spare with shots interspersed with smacktalking Diana saying that she was going to win her title back.  Spare put a brief rally together after a few of these taunts but Patel put her down with a spinning heel kick then followed it up with the Sohla Flare sunset flip buckle bomb for 2 ½.  Patel got a couple more nearfalls and even tried to steal the belt by putting her feet on the middle ropes after a roll-up.  The Quality Controllers were losing their minds but quickly pivoted to cheers when the ref stopped their count at 2 ¾ spotting Patel's cheating.  Sohla threw a tantrum and then got in the referee's face over daring to legislate her.

Sohla focusing on the ref meant that she wasn't focusing on Spare and of course that left her to get spun around by the champion and eat a one armed Michinoku Driver from Diana to pop the crowd even further.  We got replays of Spare hitting the move that turned into a split screen as we saw in real time that Patel was using the ropes to pull herself up while in a corner Spare was jamming her shoulder into the turnbuckles repeatedly at high velocity (possibly trying to set her shoulder back into place) and making gutteral noises.  Patel recovered and charged Diana, but she sidestepped it and Patel hit the buckles full speed then almost got KTFOed by the force of the Northern lariat Spare hit with her good arm to the back of her neck.  Spare fired up the faithful and called for the end, then let out a war cry as she powered up and hit Patel with a buckle bomb, causing Sohla to fall limply towards Diana off of the recoil.  Spare cinched up Sohla and hit another buckle bomb but didn't let go - instead pivoting before hitting a running Nightfall that got her the three count.

After replays, we saw the ref raise Diana's good arm and Spare let out a swear (probably a “Fuck yeah!” given how it got bleeped out) in celebration.  Spare raised the Crush championship slowly and gold and white pyro exploded while a graphic on the Qualitron showed that Diana had become the first woman to hit the 10 Count with the Crush championship twice – and then the lights went out in Quality Arena.

When they came back on the referee was gone, but Hysteria was in the ring and Luz Cruz was holding up the Women's World championship right in Diana's face.  Even with four women backing Cruz up, Spare glared at Cruz for a few seconds before her eyes went over to the Women's World championship.  Hysteria looked like they were ready to attack but Cruz stuck her arm out to block them - and then the lights went out in Quality Arena again.

When they came up this time, Malicía Fernandez was standing in the middle of the ring towering slightly over both Diana and Luz.  The rest of Hysteria was still behind Luz’s arm, but Diana, Luz and Malicía were locked in a three way staredown that seemed unbreakable.  After a few seconds, Steve hyped up the depth of the women's division and plugged the Razorblade/Tremble match next week before Ruckus went off the air.  

And the newest international big name signed to the roster, the Crush champion and the Women's World champion didn't have a thing to say about it.  

Cold As Hell PPV (Kohl Center • Madison, WI)

 Preshow

1. the Proper Villains d. Hellraisers (A Proper Goodbye -> Windsor pinfall Greene)

2. Hysteria (Bonnie Agrippa, Justine Danek and Bella Jolie w/Nancy Crowley) d. "Night Sky" Diana Spare, Ashley "THEE Influencer" Szabo [w/"Tiki God" Al Buffett] (Twelve Feet Under -> Danek pinfall Szabo)

MAIN CARD

Orion d. Serge Batroc(Orion's Nebula -> pinfall)

w @ s t 3 l a n d e r s d. Beauty & the Beast Mode (W @ s t 3 d -> m 3 l t d 0 w n pinfall Moore)

The College Park Family (w/Science Fiction Double Feature) d. The All Starr Stable [w/S. Mark Starr] (Bolt From Above -> Jones pinfall Krieger)

QCW NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP "the Purifier" Caleb Grey [c, w/the Chosen] d. Justice Davis(2 Reoents -> pinfall

QCW WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Luz Cruz [c, w/Hysteria] d. "Explosive" Emily Bennett (two ¡MUERTE!s -> pinfall)

three way dance QCW WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Mason “Razorblade” Savage [c] d. Nazir el-Fadal and Omar Littlefield (1st fall: Savge d. Littlefield, 2nd fall: Savage d. el-Fadal)

Cold As Hell pre-per-view

Cold As Hell kicks off 2025's PPV calendar on Sunday, so let's take a deeper dive into the card.

Preshow | the Hellraisers vs. the Proper Villains 

The Catch Hell alums have never seen eye to eye and their cross countries rivalry only got further sparked by the return of "the Fury" Jim Jaspers and them throwing hands at the #1 contendership tag team battle royale in late November; they'll meet in Madison.

Preshow | “Night Sky” Diana Spare, Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo and Lolo Vuitton (w/"Tiki God" Al Buffett) v. Hysteria (Bonnie Agrippa, Justine Danek and Bella Jolie w/Nancy Crowley)

Hysteria has taken over the women's division since late last spring; this is the latest battle for control with former Women's World champions Spare and Vuitton having no love for each other despite both currently being babyfaces and Szabo caught in the middle - who'll come out on top in this 6 woman tag?

💫 MAIN CARD 💫

Beauty and the Beast Mode (w/Shelley LaVey) v. w @ s t e l a n d e r s

Another fight stemming from the tag team battle royale; the still undefeated newcomers have targeted the Culture ever since and the proud Angelenos look for some payback here.

The All Starr Stable (w/S. Mark Starr) v. The College Park Family (w/Science Fiction Double Feature)

A Cut Above earned the Quality Award for Tag Team of the Year in 2024 but the International Players beat them for the QCW World Tag Team championships at Season's Beatings after winning the #1 contendership - add in the legendary Jupiter Jones and heavy hitting Jacques Krieger to the mix and you have a highly anticipated six man tag for the PPV.

Serge Batroc v. Orion

High flying newcomer Orion faces off against former Duquesne Cup winner Batroc, with both trying to angle their way into 2025's title pictures after a win here.

QCW NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP | "the Purifier" Caleb Gray [c, w/the Chosen] v. Justice Davis 

Winning the Duquesne Cup last year earned Gray the honor of being crowned the first ever National Champion, a title he's held onto since (however shadily at times) with help from his like minded disciples - but former World Tag Team champion Davis has beaten all of them over the past few weeks and looks to make Cold As Hell a night of Savage Justice triumph by joining his partner as an elite singles champion in QCW.

QCW  WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP | Luz Cruz [c, w/Hysteria] v. "Explosive" Emily Bennett 

Rookie Bennett put herself on the radar last summer by winning the Ace in the Hole tournament last fall to earn a title shot she could cash in at any time, and chose to call her shot here against Cruz - who's shocking heel turn at AnnIVersary led her to not only join but lead Hysteria as well as springboard her into winning the WWC over Vuitton at Dia de los Muertes in October.  Bennett looks for the biggest win of her career and the belt; Cruz looks to retain and keep Hysteria running the division.

QCW WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP • three way dance | Razorblade [c] v. Nazir el-Fadal v. Omar Littlefield

WELL!

We don't have enough time for full-on Razorblade/Nazir el-Fadal lore.  Their rivalry has gone on for years and may go down in QCW history as THE signature rivalry of all time, goosed even further by Razorblade retaining the QCW World title in a death match at Dia de los Muertes that put him on the shelf for around a month.  

It came on the heels of another epic at AnnIVersary where Razorblade bested Omar to win the World title, ending the then rookie monster's reign of terror that began last Mayday Payday when he cashed in and celebrated his win by smashing the belt and chipping it--something he'd continue doing during his reign.

Omar injured several roster members in the winter, but managed to win the Black and Blue Friday battle royale to earn a rematch against Razorblade that night...but it was thrown out when el-Fadal interfered against, pissed off against the returning Razorblade for putting him through a flaming table at Dia and Omar for eliminating him last at the battle royale (both men landed on the floor a second apart by Omar landing on el-Fadal, though it was close enough for Naz to think he'd won it).

This led to Commissioner Holmes announcing the three way dance and Omar/Naz and a non-title match between Omar and Razorblade a couple of weeks ago, both of which ended unsatisfactorily.  After Cold As Hell whoever the QCW World champion is, they will have cemented themselves as the elite World champion of all time.  If former World champ Naz wins, he'll successfully end a year long quest to regain the title he once publicly mocked and tossed - just as Omar similarly did into the steps with the title last year except with more defacing and scarring.  Now that Littlefield has lost the belt, he wants to regain it to possiby destroy it again and get revenge on Holmes for delaying his rematch.  And Razorblade, the fightingest World champion in a decade plus looks to end all QCW GOAT talk by beating two former World champions and longtime rivals to retain the 15 Pounds of Gold.

It's a red hot card for Cold As Hell, coming to PPV live this Sunday SUNDAY SUNDAY!