This year's Golden Rule has the potential to go down in history as the biggest PPV in company history, history that's already being made before the first bell on the show even rings from Dublin. Let's take a deeper dive into the card.
Preshow | "Explosive" Emily Bennett v. Fiona Fogg
Former friends and tag partners were torn apart when Fogg ended their losing streak by turning on 2024's Ace in the Hole tournament winner; Bennett is out for revenge and Fogg is out to prove she's more dangerous than ever with her bad new attitude.
Preshow | Pyotr Caviar (w/Serge Batroc) v. Jupiter Jones (w/Collipark)
Team Batroc lost a non-titles match by disqualification to the International Players and piled on post match after an attack from the w @ s t 3 l a n d e r s - when the legendary Jupiter Jones defended his protegès and ran Team Batroc off, the massive Caviar ("the future of QCW" according to Serge) challenged Jones in response. If Caviar IS the future, can he beat one of the greatest champions from QCW's past?
💫 MAIN CARD 💫
A Cut Above and Hellraisers (w/S. Mark Starr and Prince Ootsuka) v. Catch Hell Tag Team champions The Undaunted (Tim "the Only Hope" McMurray and "Unforgettable" Dave Mullin) and the Proper Villains
A long-standing feud between countrymen the Villains and Hellraisers seemed over after Ian Cook and Gerry Greene won last month's Proper Pub Brawl but they put further salt in the wound by costing the Villains a match against A Cut Above - when S. Mark Starr's men went back to bragging about being the best tag team in the world they were interrupted via satellite in a surprise appearance on the Qualitron by the proud Irish tag team champions who noted that they had titles and ACA were such (can't say it on American airwaves) that they would rather team with Brits then let either Cut or Hellraisers keep preening about with their shady victories.
QCW's first European PPV features the special attraction of having the Catch Hell Tag Team champions in their house in this eight man tag - the Villains look for some vindication - and you know both heel teams are looking to get into the titles hunt thanks to a win here.
Dealer's Choice six pack ladder match
Bonnie Agrippa v. Malicía Fernandez v. Cindy Monet v. Orion v. Sohla Patel v. Ashley "THEE Influencer" Szabo
Put together by Ig de Catur before he took the Interim Commissioner position, this match is a QCW first. And a match this high risk comes with a high reward - the Dealer's Choice that goes to the winner means they pick between
Automatic entry into the upcoming 2025 Duquesne Classic
OR
A shot at the National Championship.
After they won qualifying matches to punch their PPV tickets, these six women look to take the next step literally and figuratively in their careers by putting it all on the line in Dublin. In a match filled with former champions, it's the uncertain future of what the winner will opt to do with their Choice that underlines everything here.
*QCW WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS*
International Players [c] v. w @ s t 3 l a n d e r s
The ravagers that don't speak and don't lose started their march towards the championships last year and put the Players in their sights after last month's Pure Massacre supershow. The men from Collipark fought for years to regain the belts and have no intention of their reign ending anytime soon, leading us to the titles vs. the undefeated streak in Dublin come Sunday night.
ambulance match
Nazir el-Fadal v. Omar Littlefield
In both their quests to try and regain the World championship off of Razorblade, QCW's two most hated men have kept each other from gaining the title back. In November, Omar won the Black and Blue Friday battle royale and earned a rematch against Razorblade - but Naz (eliminated last by Omar even though replays showed both men landing on their feet at nearly or at the same time) ruined the match and Omar's attempt to regain the title.
As a result, a three way dance was made for Cold As Hell where Naz was so desperate to stop the threat of Littlefield that he teamed up with eternal rival Razorblade to bounce Omar from the match first - but Naz was so weakened Razorblade was able to win and then to add injury to injury Omar savaged Naz with el-Fadal's favorite weapon to put him on the injured list.
But Omar's rage didn't stop there - at Pure Massacre he got another shot at Razorblade and the Fifteen Pounds of Gold but he was unable to beat Mason Savage. Believing he was screwed over by a fast count by then Commissioner Holmes who was acting as special guest referee, Omar not only put his longtime antagonist Holmes through the announce table but launched him off of the stage and put him in the hospital.
Interim Commissioner de Catur was going to announce a lengthy suspension for Omar but a returning el-Fadal stopped it from happening by demanding a chance at revenge against Omar. IC Ig gave Naz the opportunity and after Omar intentionally threw Pick Your Poison to bloody up the One Man Jihad it meant that Naz got to pick the stipulation for this match. On Ruckus two nights ago, Naz revealed that he owed Omar a trip to the ICU after what happened to him at Cold As Hell and stunned everyone by picking an ambulance match. Omar is coming off of the most dominant rookie year in QCW history, Naz is the most decorated man in QCW history, and the two most hated men in QCW are set to collide in what should be a violent brawl for the ages.
Is Naz way in over his head against Littlefield? Is Omar underestimating how low el-Fadal will go in an environment without rules? Neither? Both? We find out on Sunday night.
TITLE FOR TITLE
QCW WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPION Luz Cruz vs. CRUSH CHAMPION "Night Sky" Diana Spare
Cruz's heel turn at AnnIVersary to reveal herself as Hysteria's leader resulted in her winning the title last October at Dia de los Muertos and she's kept it ever since. A consistent thorn in her side has been Spare, who's taken on all of Hysteria while taking/dishing out beatings in a record setting reign as Crush champion.
But as she's always had her eye on her former World title, Luz has had her eyes on having Hysteria hold the Crush championship she's held on four occasions so that her coven can control the women's division by holding both belts. Yet all of Hysteria's attempts to beat Diana have failed, as has a (possibly...hell, probably shady) attempt to recruit Diana, and in response Spare challenged her to this match. Luz accepted on the caveat that she also got a shot to become the first five time Crush champion in the 20+ year history of the belt, and the first half of the double main event and this nearly year long rivalry culminates in this: the rebellious lone wolf vs. the leader of Hysteria...Night Sky vs. La Reina of the Ropes...
Cruz vs. Spare - title for title.
TITLE FOR TITLE
QCW WORLD CHAMPION Mason "Razorblade" Savage vs. QCW NATIONAL CHAMPION "The Purifier" Caleb Gray (w/the Chosen)
You all know Razorblade by now - the signature scowling face of QCW's modern era, one of the elite members of the Triple Crown Club, The Champ yet again as he has been for half a year.
But he isn't the longest reigning champion QCW has - Gray is, and has been since winning the Duquesne Classic last spring and being crowned the inaugural and so far only QCW National Champion. Along the way he's revealed himself as the man behind the Quality Arena arson, picked up a flock of believers that formed the Chosen, and used his platform to preach the gospel as he saw it and saw fit in the hopes of remaking QCW into Quality Christian Wrestling with he and his on the top.
After taking out Razorblade's tag partner Justice Davis in a title defense at Cold As Hell, Gray vowed to purify the notion of a false champion from QCW by taking the Fifteen Pounds of Gold from Razorblade's grasp. Razorblade returned fire by saying that if he was going to accept his challenge then Caleb would have to answer the challenge to put up HIS belt as well since it's one belt he's yet to hold. The challenge was accepted on Friday's show and resulted first in a beatdown followed by Razorblade's retribution of beating up all three of Gray's acolytes while Caleb watched on horrified before fleeing the scene, missing Savage saying that in Dublin he was going to bleed Caleb dry and take him to the deepest waters in QCW history before drowning him - a fate no God could save him from.
It's the reformed vs. the fallen - the main of faith vs. the man of the people - the Purifier vs. Razorblade.
Savage vs. Gray - title for title.
That's the lineup for the first European PPV in QCW history that puts the gold in Golden Rule: the company crossover 8 man tag, the debut of the Dealer's Choice ladder match, the World Tag Team titles vs. the undefeated streak, what promises to be an insane ambulance match, and a historic double main event that will see the winners walk out of Dublin with the whole pot of gold as double champions.
Who wouldn't order Golden Rule? What shambolic rube dare show their face?
Golden Rule: Pot of Gold has sold out Ireland's biggest indoor arena so you'll have to order it on pay-per-view this Sunday SUNDAY SUNDAY!
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