Mean Season d. Midsomar & Veronica Vespa
“Sinister” Sarah Fowler d. Shelley LaVey
“The Proper King” Richard Windsor (w/”the Fury” Jim Jaspers) d. Hawk Carter
Team Batroc and Hellraisers d. The Proper Villains and the Wonderful Ward Brothers
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
QCW Unleashed [s2e38 • Quality Arena]
Friday, April 25, 2025
FDSN Florida Presents QCW Ruckus [s4e24 • April 25th, 2025]
📺 live on FanDuel Sports Network Florida
📍Quality Arena in Parts Unknown, FL
We got the usual open to Patti B’s “Invincible” and the Cavalcade of Champions to kick off our Friday night before we said hello to the raucous Quality Controllers. The big 3 were at their usual spots inside sold out Quality Arena, Steve Vandeblanche hyped up Nazir el-Fadal vs. Drake Tremble and the Golden Rule rematch in the main event between Razorblade and Caleb Gray with the National championship on the before in ring action kicked off from Parts Unknown…
1. Pyotr Caviar (w/Serge Batroc) d. “The Fury” Jim Jaspers (w/”the Proper King” Richard Windsor) at 11:14 …hard hitting action at that, as long time rivals reignited with the Duquesne Classic runner up eventually pulling out a victory. Old Jim made him work hard for it by starting off hot, surprising Steve by being willing to stand tough while eating and throwing European uppercuts back and forth with Caviar before finally knocking him off his feet with a flying headbutt off of the ropes. Jaspers sat on Caviar and landed a few open handed palm strikes before Caviar was able to knock him off, but the Fury got the massive Caviar off his feet again with a half and half suplex. Serge jumped on the apron and narrowly dodged a Jaspers swing, only to find himself jumping off into a faceoff with Windsor on the outside. Windsor smiled at his old boss as he slipped on brass knuckles while in the ring Jaspers stopped a Russian sickle attempt with a headbutt. It left Jim woozy but he shook it off and went for a pump knee only to get wiped out by a Russian sickle. Caviar followed it up with a second one that sent Jaspers over the top rope to the floor, then followed him out and launched him with an overhead belly to belly suplex. The Brit used the dividing wall to pull himself up then got driven through it with a gigantic Caviar running crossbody. Once he got free of the wreckage, Pyotr tossed Jim back into the ring and took a couple more minutes to wipe the canvas with the weakened Jaspers before bringing things to an end with Hit My Music.
With Serge behind him smiling to beat the band, Caviar had a simple message for one of the corner camera people: “Naz, I am windshield, and you little insect, bro. I come smash him just because - so what make you think next time against me end up any different?”
As Duck Eko started to get up to make the introductions for the next match, Carl Christensen suddenly got up from the table, whipped off his headphones and grabbed the mic from Duck. They briefly exchanged words that made Eko blanch a little bit as Carl got into the ring and made sure the mic worked, then things went upside down, inside out and backwards. Carl was pissed off because he felt like Interim Commissioner Ig de Catur tried to bribe him with a replica title while he was decommissioning other ones, then after firing a legend in Jupiter Jones he and Steve got called on the carpet and told to shut up about it, to not do their jobs, and he’d had to sit down and stew last week and act like everything was fine (behind him we saw a couple of fans in the front row take off Razorblade shirts and reveal ones that said BRING BACK JUPITER) when someone who was like a nephew to him got fired. Maybe Ig was doing this because the Scoop Republic stock was nose diving, but that had nothing to do with – and suddenly Quality Force Security was on the scene, four of them surrounding the front row fans and leading them out through the concourse while the other 8 surrounded Carl at ringside and a furious Ig popped up on the Qualitron 9004 yelling to cut Carl’s mic now. A furious Ig said he was here to make things more efficient, not to just let people live off of names they made two of three decades ago. Dropping the Crush championship was for the greater good, losing the dead weight of Mr. Jones’ contract - and the crowd booed that for nearly a minute straight, some even audibly breaking out into “[EFF] YOU, IG!” chants which put another couple of stress lines on de Catur’s forehead. Ig said that all these were QCW problems he was fixing, and he wished Carl good luck on his upcoming clickbait-y podcast, because no washed up has been was going to hijack his show. He then fired Carl to boos and blipped off the Tron while Steve sputtered and tripped over his words at the desk. The Quality Controllers booed this loudly but Carl shrugged and tossed Duck the mic. The former QCW champion waved goodbye to the crowd and while QFS flanked him and escorted him up the ramp he didn't even look too pissed off about it. A light “Thank you, Carl!” chant lasted for a bit before a bigger “BRING BACK JUPITER!” one took it's place.
A visibly shaken Steve threw to a video package, which highlighted moments from last week’s show where Hysteria made fun of the College Park Family over Jupiter Jones’ sudden firing by Interim Commissioner Ig a couple of weeks ago like the one he just gave Carl. That led to a singles match between Collipark’s Cindy Monet and Hysteria's Nancy Crowley that started off hostile and degenerated from there, with Monet getting intentionally DQed after a wicked chair shot and Hysteria responding by laying out her and the other remaining members of the Family (Cindy's partner Jane Doe and the World Tag Team champions the International Players).
2. Bonnie Agrippa and Nancy Crowley of Hysteria (w/Justine Danek and Bella Jolie) d. Science Fiction Double Feature (w/Collipark) at 9:47 No literal blood in this one, but they fought at blood feud intensity throughout a match that was just a hair shy of being a Pier 4. The no longer Forbidden Agrippa and Crowley made sure to focus the bulk of their fury on Cindy Monet in the early going, both cackling after they sandwiched her with rolling elbows and dropped her. The Hysterians halved the ring and used quick tags to wear her down for a couple of minutes but got surprised when Cindy turned defense into offense off a double Irish whip and hit Crowley with a handspring enzuigiri that sent Nancy into a heads first collision with Bonnie. That gave Monet the opening she needed to tag in Jane Doe, and the ATLien wasted no time hitting the ring and making the odds a little bit more even. Doe fired off hard back elbows, big knife edge chops and even fired off a noggin knocker that dropped B&N before turning to Cindy and giving her a thumbs up. Doe started rolling until Justine and Bella on the floor started stalking the World Tag Team champion International Players. That got Jane's attention and that caused her to miss a blind tag on the Hysteria side and after a tandem cheap shot to knock Cindy off the apron they isolated Jane and laid her out with a spike brainbuster. Bonnie made the cover while Nancy stopped any chance of a Cindy save by wiping her out with a tope suicida, and Hysteria picked up the win. It looked like Hysteria was going to celebrate the win with another post match beatdown of the Family but the Players slid into the ring with chairs to protect SFDF and caused Hysteria to bail from the ring. The new age coven all cackled, with Bonnie and Nancy both pointing at the Players and making a Very Familiar Gesture around their waists. Then Agrippa snapped her fingers as she is wont to do.
Lights off.
Lights on.
No Hysteria; just a recovering College Park Family for the second week in a row.
From there we went TOTHEBACK~!, where Julius Duquesne III brought out his special guest Orion to a good pop from the crowd. Through a robotized voice app, Orion said that the only reason that Malicía Fernandez was still undefeated was that she didn't have the ovaries to face them one on one. Malicía was the reason they didn't get the Dealer's Choice as Golden Rule, so maybe with another PPV on the horizon she'd find a little more courage. Orion then dared Malicía to go one-on-one at Mayday Payday, promising that if Fernandez accepted she'd learn the hard way that the fastest rising star wasn't the skyscraper from south of the border - it was the Queen of the Cosmos. Orion thanked Jules for his time and Duquesne III threw things to Duck Eko in the ring to make intros for the next match...
3. Women's World champion “Night Sky” Diana Spare d. “Explosive” Emily Bennett in a non-title match at 6:27 As Bennett came to the ring we saw highlights of her winning a main event fatal four way on Unleashed, and Emily started off well against Spare. A springboard lariat got Bennett a two count and she continued rolling until she hit a brick wall disguised as a Bosswoman Slam from The Champ. Spare used her power to grind down Bennett until she put her away with a buckle bomb that set up her trusty Nightfall.
After replays, Spare cut a brief promo that had some brief complaints about Ig decommissioning the Crush championship but said that if she was down to one championship she'd have to be twice as dangerous. Spare said she’d frayed Hysteria at the seams and spent all year running the women's division, so if Luz Cruz, Fiona Fogg, the witch bitches (she said it tho) or anyone else wanted a crack at her she wasn't the type to go down without a fight. She liked fights - especially because she usually won them. Spare dropped the mic and walked out with the Fifteen Pounds of Gold while the announce wondered what was up next for the reigning champion.
4. Nazir el-Fadal d. “The Paragon” Drake Tremble (w/the Chosen) by disqualification at 8:38 Two former three time champions kicked off the second hour by throwing hands. For both men cheating is a feature, not a bug, so it took a while for the first big move in the match to come courtesy of Naz's Heat Check even though Tremble kicked out of the cobra clutch Lungblower at an early 2. el-Fadal continued rolling until Tremble slipped a Nazquil attempt a few minutes later and drilled a Halo Effect that sent Naz spilling to the outside. Tremble had to be kept from going after Naz - which, of course allowed Caleb Gray to cheapshot the man who bounced him from the Duquesne Classic this year by giving him a Stun Gun that bounced the One Man Jihad off the announce table. The Paragon got Naz back into the ring and worked him over, even snuffing out a brief Naz rally by clocking him with another Halo Effect for a deep two count. Tremble continued beating down and got Naz in position to finish him off with Repentance but el-Fadal kicked his legs until he slipped out the back then quickly pounced with a surprise Nazquil to make Drake kiss canvas. Naz hooked a leg but before the 3 could come down the End Times yanked him out of the ring and started pummelling him on the floor, causing a DQ.
But the Chosen didn't care about that, they cared about sending a message and with a 5 on 1 advantage they did exactly that. After the End Times got done with the double team on the outside, they tossed Naz into the ring for Tremble to lay him out with Repentance. Goody Gardner even got in some slaps to the fallen Naz while the End Times and Tremble bowed as Caleb Gray entered the ring to scoop up Naz and lay him out with Repent. The Chosen stood in formation behind the slowly rising Gray as el-Fadal lay motionless on the canvas; Steve noted from the desk that The Purifier got his revenge on Naz for eliminating him from the Duquesne Classic and that despite all the love from crowds for the past few weeks, given his history with most of the locker room it wasn't surprising to see no one come to Naz’s aid.
We saw a recap of the Jacques Krieger/Prince Ootsuka match and Ashok Banjerjee’s attempted post match save from last week followed by some Quality Social posts and video featuring the Stable in full on gloat ahead of their eight man tag (coming up next), Banjerjee saying that he wasn't done going after the Stable and making several apologies to Krieger, and Krieger making a rare post saying that he didn't need a rando sidekick in his tries to get revenge on the Stable.
5. The All Starr Stable & Hawk Carter (w/S. Mark Starr) fought Beauty and the Beast Mode & Sky’s the Limit’s Cooper Brothers (w/Tre Boyd, Kam Ellis and Shelley LaVey) to a no contest at 9:38 While the Stable looked good early, it didn't take long for the babyfaces to get the upper hand. B&BM got the upper hand, then the Coopers got in and did their thing. “These Hands” Roy Fade looked pissed and tagged himself in, but after some offense DeMarius Cooper tagged himself in and the game of “Can you top this?” was on. But the friendly competition took a turn when Fade and “Dashing” Pierce Moore exchanged a look before suddenly laying out the Coopers.
The heels looked confused while Starr told them to get out of the possible line of fire just in time for the Coopers to return fire on Fade and Moore. The Coopers were beginning to win the Pier 4 when Fade went low on DeMarius and Moore hit a sudden Fresh To Death on DeMarcus, causing Tre Boyd and Kam Ellis to hit the ring and back up their boys.
Shelley LaVey had gotten up on the apron to plead with them all to stop fighting but she got yanked off and thrown into the retaining barrier by Lolo Vuitton, who followed up by landing a Bloody Shoe that sent Shelley up and over it into the front row. Moore low blowed Boyd and hit another Fresh To Death while Vuitton tossed Fade brass knuckles that he used to drop Boyd like a stone in a lake. Having laid out the entirety of Sky’s the Limit, Mode left the ring to boos and were followed up the ramp in short order by Lolo, and the three of them walked up the ramp together before stopping at the top of the ramp to glare out at the jeers. Fade talked some smack at the crowd while Steve wondered why the hell the three of them had done what they did: Roy Fade, Pierce Moore and Lolo Vuitton had all turned back to the dark side and thrown both Sky’s the Limit and Shelley LaVey under the bus in the process.
We got a This Week In QCW History segment, highlighting the opening of the original Quality Arena on April 22nd, 1960 and Caleb Gray being crowned the inaugural National champion last April 24th by a certain Ig de Catur after winning the Duquesne Classic last year.
On 💫 next week's Ruckus💫, the penultimate one before Mayday Payday has some big matches set as Bella Jolie from Hysteria will take on Orion | Luz Cruz goes one on one with Fiona Fogg | and in a rematch of the Duquesne Classic final, Pyotr Caviar will get another chance at the #1 contender Justice Davis.
6. Mason “Razorblade” Savage d. “The Purifier” Caleb Gray (w/the Chosen) to retain the QCW National championship at 10:51 This feud has been going on for months between two different men who plan don't like each other, evidenced immediately when Gray charged The Double Champ at the bell and walked right into a spinebuster that got Razorblade 2½ and almost ended things 10 seconds into the fight. True to form, a fight is what Savage made things as he threw his trademark heavy right hands early and often. Razorblade was ahead on points when he went for a big boot, only to get surprised and dropped by a cyclone kick from Gray. Once Reap the Whirlwind connected, The Purifier tried to toss Mason from the ring but a grotesque accident saw Razorblade get his head stuck between the top and middle ropes on the way down to leave him in a hangman position as he tried to kick himself free. Gray’s idea of Christianity meant that he was right there to take advantage; first he fired off some right hands on the suffocating Savage until he had knocked him to the floor, then he followed him out and threw him head and shoulder first into the steps before leaping on the announce table and posing with his arms outstretched. His loyal followers chanted “Faith over fear!” while he got Razorblade back in the ring for a nearfall. Gray worked over the man who’d beaten him at Golden Rule with shots to the back of the neck and short range knee strikes, and even planted Razorblade with a spinebuster receipt that got a 2¾ count that had Steve holding his breath just as much as anyone else inside Quality Arena. Gray landed a couple of follow up suplexes and went in to end it with Repent, but Razorblade slipped out the back before grabbing Gray and launching him shoulder first into the ringpost – then doing it again into another ringpost - and again into a third - and finally completing the cycle with a fourth ringpost toss. A limp Gray was easy pickings for The Double Champ to muscle into position for the Soul Crusher, which landed clean and gave Razorblade another successful defense of the QCW National Championship.
The Chosen had the reaction to this that you’d expect, hitting the ring to go after The Champ. Razorblade landed some good shots before getting the business end of a 4 on 1 beatdown with Goody Gardner screeching at her crew to make him (Razorblade) believe from the floor. The crowd's reaction shifted to cheers as Justice Davis walked out from the back – then quickly soured as Davis stood on the ramp and watched. Steve joined most of us at home wondering why JD wasn't doing anything and then wondered if Justice wasn't going to help try to save Razorblade, who would?
Even if I gave you a dozen guesses, you probably would have never come up with Nazir el-Fadal, who shoved Davis out of his way and sped down to the ring. He stopped at the ring apron and lifted up the curtain, rooting around until he found…a jug of water. You know, that legendary weapon. Naz came in the ring and tossed the water on the Chosen, who were more aghast then anything else. While they were sputtering, Naz pulled a taser out from his boot and planted it squarely into Drake Tremble's chest; the Paragon's screams at being shocked got drowned out by the crowd's joyous shock at seeing Tremble flop to then on the canvas like a fish out of water. That was all Caleb and Goody needed to see to bail from the ring and halfway up the ramp, but that left the End Times between the ropes with a pissed off Champ and an armed Naz. The Times told Naz to drop the taser, which el-Fadal slowly did. Danny Castle and Dr. Martin Williams squared up, charged – and got. Their shit. ROCKED. Razorblade and Naz - let me reiterate - RAZORBLADE AND NAZ - swung on the acolytes like they were Aaron Judge and Mike Trout in the Home Run Derby. Steve broke nearly 30 straight seconds of silence with a booming “WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!” and even that got lost quickly in the tidal wave of “HOLY SHIT!” chants that rolled through Quality Arena. Dr. Williams ate a dose of Nazquil while Castle ate a king sized lariat from The Champ. The End Times were cleared from the ring and joined the rest of the Chosen on the floor…leaving Razorblade in the ring, so stunned he didn't even pick up the Fifteen Pounds of Gold off the canvas. All he could do was stare at Naz as if he'd never seen his biggest rival of the past four years before. Naz smiled and shrugged at Mason before both men looked up the ramp where Justice was still in the exact same spot he’d been for the past five chaotic minutes. But for the first time in weeks, maybe months, there wasn't a blank look on JD’s face - just anger. After a lingering look at the furious #1 contender the credits box came up; Ruckus faded to black after we saw a smirk creeping over the face of the One Man Jihad while Razorblade’s expression clearly wondered how a simple title defense had opened up the portal to Earth-2. Hell, maybe Earth-3?
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
QCW Unleashed [s2e36 • Quality Arena]
The Wonderful Ward Brothers (w/Anton Stahl) d. A World of Pain
Sohla Patel d. Veronica Vespa
Hawk Carter d. “Tiki God” Al Buffett (w/Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo)
- fatal four way “Explosive” Emily Bennett d. Goody Gardner (w/the Chosen), “Sinister” Sarah Fowler, Shelley LaVey (w/Beauty and the Beast Mode)
Friday, April 18, 2025
FDSN Florida Presents QCW Ruckus [s4e23 • April 18th, 2025]
Broadcast live on FanDuel Sports Network Florida
We opened with a video package recapping last week's Coronation supershow that ended with Justice Davis winning the Duquesne Classic to earn a shot at his (current? former?) partner Razorblade’s World title at Mayday Payday, and possibly the National championship as well should Mason Savage still have that, too. Razorblade tried to smooth things over but as he has for the past couple of months Davis moved in silence - leaving with the Cup and leaving Razorblade about ready to tear out his hair in frustration. We still don't know if JD is under the Chosen's control…and now he's the #1 contender.
The sizzle reel to open the show had some more Justice highlights in it than it did last week but otherwise was the same as it's been in the FanDuel era. As “Invincible” faded out we went live to Quality Arena and saw Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen for the first time since they walked out on last week's show after Interim Commissioner Ig de Catur shockingly fired QCW demigod Jupiter Jones. That magically didn't come up, but Steve still managed to plug the Mayday Payday announcement and Razorblade’s open challenge for the QCW National championship in the main event even if he didn't have the usual oomph to it. Carl looked furious at the desk as Duck Eko made the introductions for the first match of the evening…
1. Malicía Fernandez d. Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo (w/”Tiki God” Al Buffett at 8:42 Ashley came out of the gates hot and in the opening moments it looked like she was going to be the one to end Fernandez’s undefeated streak after staggering her with a flying lariat and hitting her with a Codebreaker. But La Monstrua from Mérida essentially shook it off and turned the tide with a big spinebuster and somersault axe kick. Malicía showed her force the rest of the way and hit the Black Hole Chokeslam Steve called the Death Warrant for the win. Announce put over Malicía’s dominance and noted the only person who has given her a run for her money one on one in QCW has been Orion.
Flanked by the rest of Hysteria, Bonnie Agrippa (with occasional jumping in and snarling from Nancy Crowley) cut a promo backstage where she talked about one of the greatest injustices in the history of QCW happening last week at Coronation: her not being here as the winner of the Duquesne Classic. After all, it wasn't like she was some Jupiter Jones who lost so much they got fired - she’d won the Dealer's Choice at Golden Rule and the only thing standing between her and championship gold was another opportunity. Bonnie was in the middle of continuing the promo when Shelley LaVey went all Will Smith on her for having Jupiter's name in her mouth, her partner Jane Doe came to aid in the fight, and in short order Science Fiction Double Feature was winning - then losing - a four on two fight against Hysteria. The International Players arrived on the scene with Quality Force Security and broke things up, with Cindy yelling and almost screeching that she’d whoop anybody's ass from Hysteria tonight and she didn't give AF who it was. We went from that chaos backstage to more in ring action from the women's division…
2. Fiona Fogg d. Lolo Vuitton by submission at 9:59 We got a rematch from a fortnight ago when Fiona pulled an upset over the former Women's World champion; Lolo was all over Quality Social stumping for a rematch and got it here though arguably the result turned out worse. Reveling in her newfound heel swagger, Fiona got off to a hot start and landed a textbook high elevation dropkick that sent Vuitton rolling out to the floor. Fogg celebrated by posing on the turnbuckles, then arrogantly sat on the middle rope and waved Lolo back into the ring “to further conference with Your Excellency”. Vuitton's response was to grab Fogg by the leg and fling her to the floor before firing down some right hands. Lolo took over and got Fiona back in the ring before turning her up in the ring for a couple of minutes. Sohla Patel came out with a tablet and seemed to be taking notes on the match, no doubt in service of her ongoing Sohla Search. Vuitton ducked a rolling forearm attempt and countered an attempted suplex by powering the Brit down then hitting a powerbomb. Lolo followed up with a buckle bomb and started coming around the horn for the Bloody Shoe but Fogg pulled the referee in front of her and Lolo had to pull up short. She turned around and Fiona took her down to the canvas with a snap spinning Flatliner before positioning herself on the fallen Vuitton and locking on the Koji Clutch. Lolo tried to pry Fogg’s arms apart but couldn't, then started using the lower half of her body to try and get towards the ropes - but Fogg kept control of Lolo and sort of used the Clutch as a mechanism to deliver a string of facebusters before pulling Vuitton away from the ropes and clamping down on the Clutch further. Fiona cranked back hard and Lolo’s body was left flailing for a few seconds before she weakly tapped out. Patel made a couple more notes on her tablet and left while Fogg back kicked some canvas dust onto the gasping Vuitton. We saw a shot from backstage of Shelley LaVey trying and failing not to laugh at the result while behind her Beauty and the Beast Mode got ready for their match later on tonight. As Fogg headed back up the ramp queen waving at the booing crowd, Duck Eko announced her as the winner and let the Quality Controllers know that “Your Excellency is done blessing you with her presence.”
A This Week In QCW History segment highlighted Serge Batroc winning the ‘22 Duquesne Classic (April 15th) and Caleb Gray winning it last year (April 19th). Uhh…is there…is there a Cup Curse? Should Justice worry?
3. Nancy Crowley (w/Hysteria) d. Cindy Monet (w/Collipark) by disqualification at 7:28 After Hysteria's lights off/lights on entrance, Cindy sprinted to the ring and tackled Crowley and fired off some right hands. The women continued brawling for the opening couple of minutes in a back and forth that didn't stop until Crowley backdropped a charging Monet over the top rope to the floor. Cindy was laid out on the floor and to add injury to injury Nancy got a running start from the apron and flew off with a senton. Crowley got Cindy back into the ring and attacked Nancy with some right hands of her own and a couple of bites, coming close to having the ref DQ her a couple of times for coming right up against five counts. After some boot chokes, Crowley hit a face wash that sent Cindy between the ropes and crawling in front of the announce table. Nancy let out a cackle before catching up to Cindy over by the timekeeper’s table but the former Women's World champion got her revenge by laying out Nancy with a chair shot that sounded like a gunshot. Duck Eko barely had time to announce Nancy as the winner by DQ before the rest of Hysteria swarmed Shelley and sent him running for cover. Even with a chair Cindy was no match for the numbers, when Jane Doe strode confidentiality to her partner’s aid she was only able to slightly even the odds for a bit before Nancy used that same chair to wallop her in the back. The World Tag Team champions the International Players temporarily got Hysteria off their stablemates but they, too, took a beating for their troubles until a scoreboard would've read Hysteria 4, Collipark 0 with Doe, Monet, Patton and Valentino all laid out at the hands of QCW’s resident coven. Hysteria celebrated their win by cackling before disappearing into the darkness; when the lights came back on in Parts Unknown the Family were barely beginning to stir.
We got a promo from the Chosen, uncharacteristically cut by “the Purifier” Caleb Gray who was livid that Razorblade was putting up “his” National Championship in an open challenge to close the night. He said that despite the Interim Commissioner’s absence tonight he’d gotten assurances that he could use his rematch clause next week - which meant that he was a week away from becoming the first two time National champion. He didn't need the Cup; he needed whoever posed as a fake National champion to fall to their knees and repent, which they would next week.
4. Prince Ootsuka (w/the All Starr Stable) d. Jacques Krieger by technical knockout at 11:04 This one’s been in the making for a couple of months since the Stable turned on Krieger the last time he faced the Prince, turfing him out in favor of Ootsuka. Since then, Krieger's been getting revenge on his old partners whenever he could including jumping Ootsuka last week during A Cut Above’s Last Stand match for the World Tag Team titles and in the Stable’s eyes causing them to lose that must win. Tense would be a good way to describe things, further highlighted by the fact that this was a street fight without the stipulation being in place from jump. Krieger got the upper hand, barely, when he suplexed Ootsuka from the apron to the floor. Jacques threw his longtime rival back first into the announce table before getting him back into the ring and continuing to work him over. Krieger put pressure on Ootsuka and laid him out with a noisy shotei that caused Ootsuka to bleed from the mouth, but the Stable's new heavy kicked out at 2 ½. It looked like a couple of minutes later that Krieger was set to end things with his Jacqueshammer, but Ootsuka turned defense into offense by countering with a big standing tornado DDT. Krieger rolled out to the floor to recover, but as he was getting up from his stumbles Ootsuka let out a yelp before spearing Krieger through part of the retaining barrier and almost bowling over poor Duck Eko in the process. That got a bunch of “Holy shit!” chants from the crowd and replays for us at home. Ootsuka managed to recover and toss Krieger back into the ring at 9, then slid in before measuring and connecting with a buzzsaw kick. Krieger somehow managed to kick out, but Ootsuka quickly clamped down with his Bow Down cobra clutch with body scissors; while Krieger didn't give up, his arms went limp and after checking the referee called for the bell.
The Stable celebrated by hitting the ring and stomping out the defenseless Krieger, Starr getting in the ref’s way while his squad did the actual dirty work. The three on one beatdown got interrupted as Ashok Banjerjee came out with a cricket bat to make a save and clear the ring, but as he was checking on Krieger the Stable came back in the ring and wiped him out, too. “Bullet With A Name” hit the PA to cut through the boos as O’Neill, Ootsuka and Palmer II stood triumphantly over the fallen Ashok and Krieger.
From there we went TOTHEBACK~!, where Julius Duquesne III brought on his guest: Pyotr Caviar. JD3 congratulated Caviar for his great showing in the Duquesne Classic before Caviar boomed that it was all worthless since he didn't win it, and he blamed one man squarely for his loss in the final last week – Nazir el-Fadal. He’d beaten him in the semifinals and for revenge he’d taken out his mentor Serge, a man who was a Classic winner - and gotten CHEERED for it?! That two faced liar who’d say whatever he needed to say to anyone anywhere to cling to relevance? Mr. Big Kahuna himself, bro?! Caviar held up pictures of Naz from the late 2010s when he was doing his surfer gimmick in Europe (hence Naz’s love in Dublin at the PPV). He held them up the camera, he held them up uncomfortably close to Julius and said that this joke, this fraud, was a gnat that was buzzing around QCW feasting on the blood of stronger, better men for too long. And after last week, he was going to {as he ripped up one picture} SQUASH {two pictures at once} this insignificant LITTLE INSECT! Caviar ripped up the dozen or so pictures left in one move and had a simple parting message: “Naz? You not going to surf away from this one, bro. You earned this trouble. Now you pay.” Caviar stormed off leaving Julius a little rattled.
Playing on both the Qualitron and for us at home was a sizzle reel with highlights from the big names of the fed. Purple and green were sprinkled liberally throughout to hype QCW’s annual springtime slamfest Mayday Payday. It's happening in just over three weeks on the 11th, live from the historic Williams Arena in Minneapolis.
5. The End Times (w/the Chosen) d. Beauty and the Beast Mode (w/Shelley LaVey) at 12:05 Last week's show featured an eight man tag match where these teams were on opposite sides but not involved in the decision so they decided to throw hands again here. Unlike last week Mode got to shine as a tag team and dominated 70, maybe 75% of the match up until the point Goody Gardner jumped Shelley on the floor and sent her flying into the ringpost. Roy Fade and Pierce Moore focused on making the save for Shelley but that allowed the Times to turn the tide culminating in Danny Castle dropping Moore with a Roll of the Dice on the floor. Mode couldn't overcome the odds, and after Dr. Martin Williams tapped Moore out to a straightjacket crossface Fade had words with both Pierce and Shelley. Eventually the Culture left together but they were still having words as they headed backstage, where we saw Lolo was watching from the trainer’s room and laughed until she winced. Vuitton groaned and reapplied an ice pack to her neck and jaw.
On 💫 next week's Ruckus 💫: Bonnie Agrippa and Nancy Crowley from Hysteria will take on Cindy Monet and Jane Doe of Science Fiction Double Feature from Collipark 💫 Nazir el-Fadal goes heads up against the Paragon of the Chosen, Drake Tremble 💫 and the Chosen’s leader Caleb Gray anxiously awaits the winner of the main event to get a shot at regaining the National championship against…
6. Mason “Razorblade” Savage [c] d. Luz Cruz at 13:42 in an open challenge to retain the QCW National Championship Cruz made her return to the ring for the first time in weeks after getting stomped out and turned out by Hysteria for losing the Women's World championship at Golden Rule; also recall, Razorblade made the National championship officially intergender last week and opened it up to competition from anyone on the roster after Ig decommissioned the Crush championship a couple of episodes ago. Cruz got a bit of light booing as the match began but ignored it to go to work. Luz dodged Savage's early offensive attempts and landed some hard open chops. As usual, Razorblade landed some hard forearm smashes but Cruz hit him with a high elevation dropkick that you could hang in the Louvre and it sent The Double Champ to the floor. Razorblade scrambled to get his wits about him on the floor and two seconds after he did, Cruz wiped him out with a step up tope con hilo that got a good pop from the Quality Controllers. Cruz bundled him up and got Savage back into the ring where she continued her run of offense…right up until Razorblade caught her flying off the top rope and planted La Reina of the Ropes with a big tilt-a-whirl slam. Savage kept Cruz grounded for the next couple of minutes and planted her with a spinebuster to get a nearfall, but Cruz weathered the storm and shocked everybody when she countered the Soul Crusher into a sunset flip bomb that left them both wiped out on the canvas for the better part of a ten count. Cruz dipped further into her lucha libre bag, getting a string of nearfalls with a quebrada, a springboard hurancanrana and Meteora off the top rope. But when Cruz went for ¡MUERTE! Savage dodged the double jump poison rana and turned around to obliterate Cruz with a fat lariat that sent the former champion spinning through the air. Razorblade hit a Stun Gun then powered Cruz into the Soul Crusher and connected with it this time for his first successful defense of the National championship.
But the show didn't end there.
After replays we saw Cruz struggle to get to her feet, but once she did Razorblade offered up a handshake in respect of the effort. Cruz left the ring and headed to the back, getting to the top of the ramp just as Justice Davis came out holding the Duquesne Cup. Razorblade set down his championships and waved (current? former?) partner Davis down to the ring. Davis sent another ripple through the crowd as he came down the ramp. The #1 contender to the World title got in the ring and set the Duquesne Cup down across from the National and World titles before locking eyes with Savage. Razorblade pointed at the Cup and said something quick before extending his hand as he had to Luz moments ago. Justice slowly looked down at the hand but after not giving a handshake for a bit Razorblade got in his face about it and asked him again to say something if he had a problem with him. A still blank faced Davis then turned around and started to leave the ring, as Razorblade threw his hands up and turned around, Davis suddenly pivoted and spun Razorblade around. Savage cocked a fist back - but Davis extended his hand for a handshake. Razorblade shook his head as the announcer team again wondered at what mind games Davis was playing ahead of Mayday Payday. The Davis/Savage silent staredown continued as the credits box came up and Steve hyped the Razorblade/Caleb National championship rematch for next week's show. A pan down from Justice and Mason down to the Duquesne Cup, the National championship and the Fifteen Pounds of Gold wrapped things up from Parts Unknown for this week.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
QCW Unleashed [s2e35 • Quality Arena]
Goody Gardner and “the Paragon” Drake Tremble (w/the Chosen) d. The Game Changers
Anton Stahl d. Hawk Carter
A Cut Above (w/S. Mark Starr and Prince Ootsuka) d. The Wonderful Ward Brothers
“Night Sky” Diana Spare and “Explosive” Emily Bennett ddq. Hysteria (Justine/Bella w/Bonnie and Nancy)
Friday, April 11, 2025
FDSN Florida and Ruckus presents Coronation [s5RP4]
Broadcast live on FanDuel Sports Network Florida
The show opened with a video package that took up the first couple of minutes that showed some Duquesne Classic history before focusing on this year's final four: Bonnie Agrippa, Hysteria's new leader looking to leverage her Dealer's Choice into joining the Triple Crown Club - Pyotr Caviar, the bruising Russian under former Classic winner Serge Batroc’s tutelage looking for his first taste of singles gold - Justice Davis, the suddenly inscrutable powder keg who's clearly been changed by his failed attempts to thwart the Chosen - and Nazir el-Fadal, possibly the most decorated superstar in QCW history who’s resume is only missing being a Classic winner on it. At the end of tonight, one of them will be holding the Duquesne Cup and looking forward to the main event at Mayday Payday. Tonight..is the Coronation.
Purple and teal pyro exploded on the stage as a sold out Bojangles Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina raised up and got loud. The big 3 of Steve, Carl and Duck were in their usual spots as Carl hyped the Last Stand match for the World Tag Team championships before Steve said that even on a supershow with limited commercial interruptions, there was no time to waste and that we’d kick things off with the semifinals of the Duquesne…
1. Pyotr Caviar (w/Serge Batroc) d. Nazir el-Fadal at 21:02 in a Duquesne Classic semifinal match Gotta assume matches like this are why FDSN Florida paid for Ruckus, as the Tracksuit Tsar and the Greatest Man Alive essentially had an AnniVersary level match with Caviar eventually notching the biggest win of his career so far (and he might be a couple hours away from the new biggest win at that). As expected, Naz played a cat and mouse game with Caviar early given the fact that he was outweighed by nearly 80 pounds. Having problems lifting Pyotr, Naz went a different route and tried a sleeper which was easily tossed off but opened the door to option C: cheating. Foot stomps, eye rakes, closed fists, whatever it takes - and since it was against Caviar the crowd actually got behind Naz’s shortcuts. But all that came to a halt when Naz tried to get Caviar up for a Saito suplex and ended up eating a jawbreaker of a Russian lariat that sent the former World champion between the middle and bottom rope to the floor. Caviar asked the ref to check on his injured eye and rightfully complained about Naz’s shady ways - but on the floor Serge got revenge on Naz eliminating him from the Classic by grabbing el-Fadal by the back of the neck and head and throwing it into the steps before hiding under the ring.
The One Man Jihad was already in a bad way and to add injury to injury Caviar flew in out of nowhere and smashed Naz into the steps with a high octane running crossbody. Pyotr was content to win by countout but Naz managed to flop back into the ring just after 9. Pyotr then spent the next few minutes beating el-Fadal down but Naz didn't stay down for 3 no matter what the Tracksuit Tsar threw at him. Naz fought back and actually rattled Caviar with a flurry of European uppercuts but Pyotr shook off a cross chop to the throat and hit another running crossbody for 2¾. Pyotr continued pummelling Naz for a bit and hit a pop up European uppercut - but Naz kicked out at 2.9. The crowd began chanting for Naz (still weird), while Serge yelled from the floor for Pyotr to end it. Caviar had a sick grin as Naz staggered to his feet and turned around, then he flattened Naz out with a discus version of the Russian sickle. The referee's hand came down two more times and as it went down for the third, Naz’s right hand shot out and grabbed the bottom rope. Caviar had thought he won the match and was incensed when the ref informed him that he hadn't, to the point that the berating essentially led to Pyotr cornering the zebra. If he’d been listening to Serge, he would've heard Naz coming up from behind him and leaping on his back to apply a sleeper. It took a few seconds to get Naz off his back but when he missed another sickle Naz put the sleeper back on. Caviar struggled more and ran backwards into the corner, but Naz didn't shake loose. Caviar ran to another corner and repeated it; it loosened Naz’s grip but el-Fadal quickly moved hands into a cobra clutch. Serge pounded the apron to keep Pyotr alert but the crowd started chanting NAZ! over it, and when Pyotr started to power out Naz hit a Lungblower to complete his Heat Check. Caviar staggered away only for Naz to spin him around so he could drop him with the Hamrin Valley Driver to a big pop. Caviar slowly got to his feet and Naz greeted him with another Hamrin Valley Driver and made a cover but it was Pyotr’s turn to kick out at 2¾. Serge got on the apron but Naz blasted him with a leg lariat that sent Batroc flying into and off of the announce table. el-Fadal turned around to blast Pyotr with one only to fall victim to the first ever pop up Russian sickle. Even if that hadn't been enough to finish Naz off the following Hit My Music was, and it was Pyotr's trusty finisher that punched his ticket to the final that’ll close the show tonight. No celebration for Caviar, who focused on helping Serge to the back and that left Naz in the ring to get a pretty sizeable ovation from the Bojangles crowd. el-Fadal looked a little pissed and a lot in pain, but gave the crowd a small wave in recognition before gingerly making his way to the back. Babyface Naz is weird as hell, but what isn't this year?
2. Justice Davis d. Bonnie Agrippa (w/Hysteria) at 11:29 in a Duquesne Classic semifinal match Agrippa is shockingly a one and done after losing to Davis, who's behaving more like a mechanical animal since his…whatever happened with the Chosen back in January. Davis used his power to get the upper hand, and even used the fact that Hysteria was reluctant to interfere for a change to go after them out of nowhere and eventually wipe them all out with a cannonball from the top rope into the coven on the floor. That did allow an opening for Bonnie to grab Justice and toss him into the dividing barrier a couple of times to gain control. Bonnie got Justice back in the ring but within a couple of minutes Justice launched Hysteria's new leader across the ring with an overhead belly to belly suplex. That was the beginning of the end for Bonnie, who ate a chain of 3 JDDDTs before the Davis Driver sent Justice into the final and tonight's main event. Crowd seemed to be more into this win than the one he notched over Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo last week even though you could see some fans feeling uneasy about it; as he has for the past few weeks Davis didn't even stick around to get his hand raised and walked silently to the back after getting the win.
We went to Steve Vandeblanche in the ring, who brought out Mason “Razorblade” Savage to a massive pop. Dressed in street clothes, the World and National champion made his way down the stairs and through the concourse through the crowd who were busy losing their minds. Razorblade joined Steve in the ring and shook his hand, made slightly hardér by the fact he had a belt draped over each shoulder. Steve welcomed Razorblade and was in the middle of asking a question when the crowd’s “Champ Champ!” chants got too loud to ignore. Razorblade waved them down and mentioned that he knew Charlotte was rowdy, but he had something important to say. The crowd quieted and Razorblade said that as the new National champion he got to do with the belt what he wanted. So not only would he be defending the National championship next week in an open challenge, not only was he opening up competition for the title to both genders, neither gender, whoever the hell wanted to come after the belt, sure…but if Ig was going to disappear the Crush championship then he was going to put the 10 Count on the National championship as well. But before someone could even go cash in the National title after 10 wins he was going to hold onto it as long as he could; whoever came after it next week was going to leave disappointed and he was going to leave still double champion.
He then pivoted, saying that while that covered the National championship in the future, he was going to focus on the World championship tonight. Whoever was about to win the Duquesne, whether it was that human tank Pyotr or…Justice…he would be waiting for them at Mayday Payday and if he still had both belts, they could get a shot at both belts. But he'd beaten Omar, Naz, and both of them at the same time so whoever won the Duquesne better realize they were in the ring with the gold standard of QCW and he was going to walk out with all the gold just like he did in Dublin. In fact, he was going to be joining Steve on commentary for the main event to see who won the Duquesne and who he would bleed at Mayday Payday. Steve then brought up Caviar being seen by Serge Batroc and others as the future of QCW, but obviously his…well…well, actually, nobody knew what his relationship with Justice Davis even was anymore. Could The Double Champ provide any insight on what was going on there? Razorblade fixed Steve with a state that cut off the questioning and things got awkward for a few seconds before Razorblade said that he'd see Steve and Carl later. “Unscripted Violence” played as Razorblade headed to the back, while Carl wondered on commentary if Razorblade didn't know what the relationship with his former (?) partner was or if he just didn't want to say.
3. Orion d. Sohla Patel at 6:11 Sohla cut a prematch promo and said that nobody who covered their face could ever become the face of International Lotus or complete her Sohla Search; Orion showed they could give a rat’s ass and beat Sohla like a rented goalie in an extended squash. A beautiful satellite DDT set up Orion’s Nebula for the win. After replays we saw QCW’s cosmic superstar holding up a fan’s MALICÍA FEARS ORION sign while announce hyped the fact that rematch might be coming, hopefully sooner rather than later.
We went from there TOTHEBACK~!, where the newcomers Sky’s the Limit were hyped about the eight man tag coming up, especially Tre Boyd who said that after his boys showed up and showed out last week it would be his turn to light QCW up and show them they would be the ones running things soon enough. A female voice asked sarcastically “Y’ALL gone run things, huh?” and the newbies turned to see Shelley LaVey with a smirk on her face. LaVey said her boys were on the way and said she knew a bit about Kam Ellis so she was looking forward to seeing Tre fly high tonight. Shelley was cut off by an entering Lolo Vuitton, who blamed Shelley for their loss against Hysteria on Unleashed and said that if Ig hadn't just given her a rematch against Fiona Fogg next week she’d be whooping Shelley again right now. Shelley took that as you might expect, and Sky’s the Limit looked on #respectfully but before things could break out into a brawl Beauty and the Beast Mode came on the scene and broke things up.
Lolo told LaVey to watch her back and told the men to watch her back before she left (Tre didn't need to be told twice). Shelley shook off the confrontation and said that she’d settle things with Lolo down the line - this was about them going out, and who knows: maybe the Culture had room to grow. Sky's the Limit looked split on the idea and Beauty and the Beast Mode didn't seem too enthused about the idea but “Dashing” Pierce Moore broke the tension by saying they had a match to win so let's go do it. “Pray For Me” hit the PA and they all went out as a unit with Sky's Cooper twins bringing up the rear and playfully arguing between themselves if Lolo or Shelley had checked them out.
4. Beauty and the Beast Mode and Sky's the Limit (Tre Boyd and Kam Ellis (w/the Cooper Brothers and Shelley LaVey) d. the End Times and A World of Pain (w/the Chosen) at 8:16 A lot of moving parts in this eight man tag, highlighted by the fact that both sides had the obvious friction with their opponents but a bit with their partners as well. For obvious reasons the punk rockers didn't get along well with the reformed, but after AWOP hit a combination wheelbarrow suplex/diving lariat on Moore then let the End Times go to work that eased the heel tension. From the floor Goody Gardner and Drake Tremble preached the evangel to the Pain dyad while their acolytes went to work. Things were going swimmingly for the heels until a sudden Fresh To Death on Danny Castle hit a reset button on the bout. Both Castle and Moore crawled for their respective corners and Castle tagged in the bruising DeSade - but when Moore tried to tag in his partner “These Hands” Roy Fade, Tre Boyd from STL reached past and tagged himself in.
Then something unusual happened: for the last few minutes of the match, Tre Boyd essentially became the mayor of Charlotte. He flew around the ring and had no problem repeatedly dropping DeSade and when Bob Osterberg tried to come to his partner's defense he got roughed up, too. The End Times tried to save the day but Boyd laid them out, too, and when no heel could catch him Boyd zipped around the ring until he ran up the turnbuckles before turning around and laying them all out with a ropewalk Shooting Star Press style crossbody that had Charlotte going nuts. The rest of the babyfaces cleared the heels from the ring while Boyd cinched up DeSade and hit him with a backflip Styles Clash (Carl’s “WHO IS THIS GUY?!” response spoke for a lot of us). Boyd went up top and made the sign of the cross while rolling his eyes, then hit a picture perfect Spiral Tap that had announce and crowd alike counting the 3. All the babyfaces raised hands midring after the win, with Beauty and the Beast giving a bit of side-eye while Sky's the Limit were clearly pumped…except for Tre, who had a “Of course I did that” look all over his face. Steve raved about him on commentary, saying that as good as the Cooper twins were last week it looked like young Mr. Boyd might be even better.
5. The International Players [c, w/Collipark] d. A Cut Above (w/the All Starr Stable) to retain the QCW World Tag Team championships at 14:25 in a Last Stand match This ends a rivalry that goes back to last fall, one in which the Players went from challengers to champions again right before last Christmas. That put Cut in chase mode, leading to Starr asking for one more chance at the belts last week with the Last Stand meaning they’d either become 2x champs like the Players did or they’d never be able to challenge for the belts again. They fought with a sense of urgency from the outset and took control with a double flapjack on Lucius Patton. 2024’s Tag Team of the Year showed why they were the only unanimous Quality Award winners last year by cutting the ring in half and employing quick tags. It looked like they were going to regain the belts with the same Final Cut that won them the championships but Patton countered with a hurancanrana to leave Broderick Palmer II to accidentally get splattered by Evan O'Neill. With them down, that left Benjamin Valentino to get a hot tag and start putting meesters on keisters, but a distraction from Starr allowed Prince Ootsuka to land a cheapshot kick on Benjamin, who staggered into a flapjack DDT from ACA.
It looked like they were on their way to regaining the tag titles when the crowd's boos turned to cheers as Jacques Krieger ran down to get revenge on his former Stable and specifically the man who replaced him in the Prince. Longtime rivals Ootsuka and Prince brawled on the floor and on the ramp while in the ring the Players used Jacques’ appearance to lay out Palmer II with a double Stun Gun. The Players rallied, using O’Neill as an unwitting third man to use their offense on him to further debilitate “Upper Class” before taking Broderick down with the Playa Hata to continue their titles reign.
After replays, Collipark was celebrating in the ring when Quality Force Security came out, followed by Interim Commissioner Ig de Catur. Ig first congratulated the Players on another successful title defense, which got some boos and drew a deep sigh from him. He noted the response and chalked it up to him decommissioning the Crush championship last week, which got more boos. de Catur looked around Bojangles and shook his head, saying that it was a necessary move to get out the waste and cut down on the company's overhead, especially given how crazy the stock market had been lately. Unfortunately - and he knew this was going to piss off a lot of people - that's why he was out here now. Roster cuts were going to come and in order to make QCW’s bottom line better he had to start with the fattest and honestly most unnecessary deals.
And that brought him to Jupiter Jones.
Ig said a couple of nice things about what Jupiter meant to QCW before whinily explaining that the old administration had given Jones free reign. But the reality is he’d gotten three shots at the National championship and lost them all, then when Ig tried to give him a soft landing on the Golden Rule preshow he lost again to Pyotr Caviar. So between the contract and the losing streak, Ig regretfully…regretfully…had to come out here to inform Jupiter that he was fired.
Bojangles was shocked into silence for a couple of seconds before a voice from the crowd yelled out “What the FUCK?!??!” - something that was quickly repeated by both Steve and Carl at the announce desk that got by the censors live - and chaos ensued from there. Collipark lost their minds in the ring while Jupiter's head slumped into his chest and he shook it sadly - Steve, of all people, got bleeped a couple of times - the deafening boos for Ig’s announcement quickly turned into people throwing things at Ig on the stage, and after someone nearly connected with a wadded up program half of Quality Force quickly formed a circular barrier around de Catur so the lot of them could make tracks for the back and possibly a private jet back to Parts Unknown. That left the other six security members to dodge incoming trash as they came to the ring to lead Jupiter out of it, despite the rest of Collipark reading them the riot act and Duck Eko playing an uneasy peacekeeper while Steve and Carl actually stood side by side with Collipark and angrily demanded answers. The censored “BULLSHIT!” chants took over FDSN for almost two minutes straight, and it took Jupiter himself to try and calm things down in the ring. Science Fiction Double Feature hugged him tight after what he said to them, Steve was crying after they talked, Carl looked like he was ready to fight like it was 1991 and the World Tag Team champions kept shaking their heads like it would wake them up from the nightmare. Jupiter left the ring peacefully and began to make the long walk out of Charlotte, the booing and crying mostly giving way to thunderous “THANK YOU, JUPITER!” chants. We saw Duck trying to talk Carl back from the ledge and try to recruit Steve to help him at the bottom of the ramp while at the top of it, Quality Force was getting an earful from Shelley LaVey and Benjamin Valentino; a couple of them clearly had their shoulders shrugged in a nod to the what-do-you-want-US-to-do-about-it? nature of the depressing and volatile nature of the situation. But despite the chaos all around him, Jupiter remained calm. He walked to one end of the ramp and bowed, clearly saying “Thank you. I love you guys.” As he walked to the other end of the ramp to do it for that side of Bojangles, you could see multiple fans crying, some begging and pleading him not to leave. Jones stood on the top of the ramp and took a long last look before pounding his fist to his heart and pointing all around at the crowd, then he took a deep sigh and went through the curtains with QFS and Collipark in tow.
With the announce leaving things in radio silence for a bit, chyrons for things to come on 💫 next week's Ruckus 💫 played: Malicía Fernandez will take on Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo • we’ll find out where and when the next QCW PPV Mayday Payday is happening • and Razorblade will defend the QCW National Championship in an open challenge.
We came back to see Steve and Carl on the ramp while a “WE WANT JUPITER!” chant drowned out whatever they - mostly Carl - were saying. The crowd’s chant got drowned out by “Unscripted Violence” hitting the PA, and Mason “Razorblade” Savage coming out to call the main event. He looked pissed, but then calmed down as he got to the announcers, only to get met by an incensed Carl, who pointed at the World title before pointing to the back and sputtering angrily some more. Razorblade have a couple of slow nods while Carl shook his head and then stormed to the back, drawing a pop from the Charlotte crowd. Steve looked back at the ring, then up the ramp and shook his head sadly. He said something quickly to Razorblade, who's eyes went a little wide as Steve threw off his sport coat with the QCW logo on it and followed Carl through the curtains. Razorblade looked back at him before heading down the ramp and sitting down at the empty announce table and putting a headset on. After all, there was the small matter of finding out who would win the Duquesne Classic this year (though who'd blame you if you’d forgotten about it given what just happened to Jupiter)...
6. Justice Davis d. Pyotr Caviar (w/Serge Batroc) at 11:45 to win the final of the 2025 Duquesne Classic Razorblade was at the announce by himself for a few beats before Julius Duquesne III came out with the Cup in tow and put it on a pedestal at ringside. JDIII sat down at the table and they both expressed shock over Jupiter’s firing before Pyotr then Justice came out. Davis took the fight to Caviar right from the start and wobbled Pyotr, even knocking him down to a knee pretty early on. Just as Razorblade was complimenting his fighting spirit Caviar dodged an attack ond then ran through JD with a sick Russian lariat to the back of the head. Pyotr threw Justice around the ring a few times and inched closer to the Cup by nearly eclipsing Davis with a running crossbody for the match's first nearfall. Pyotr continued the beating and started to dominate Davis – right up until Nazir el-Fadal popped up out of nowhere and clobbered Serge in the back with a chair. Both Razorblade and Duquesne expressed shock at Naz's reappearance as el-Fadal continued beating Serge down with the chair. Caviar shoved Davis down and left the ring, chasing Naz off and then chasing Naz, period. The One Man Jihad sprinted to the back while things got worse for Caviar when he rounded a corner and Davis flew at him to take him down with a cannonball from off the apron.
Davis wasted no time and followed up with a tope suicida that drove Caviar's back into the retaining barrier. Davis set up and hit a JDDDT that sent Caviar into the ramp before getting back in the ring to break up the count, then looked around at the crowd before going back out and planting Caviar with a second JDDDT on the ramp. He got Caviar back in the ring at 8 before following in at 9 and covering for 2¾. Caviar got up bleeding while Justice's gaze never wavered, he just went to the top rope. He got his balance and threw caution to the wind, flying off with another cannonball that had the crowd roaring. JD slowly pulled himself up with some of Pyotr’s blood on his back and looked in the direction of the Cup (or maybe Razorblade) before making almost a military turn and, seeing Pyotr on his knees, hit him with a basement JDDDT and another. Davis didn't look like he felt how hard the arena was rocking, but Razorblade and Duquesne did as the battle of former tag champions ended when Justice hit the Davis Driver – rolled through – and won this year's Classic with a second Davis Driver dead center in the middle of the ring.
Razorblade took a deep breath and told JD3 they had a job to do, so replays of the match’s big moments played on FDSN without commentary. We went back to the ring live, where Duck Eko made the announcement that the winner of the match and the winner of the 2025 Duquesne Classic was Justice Davis, which got a loud, mostly positive if mixed reaction. JD3 handed Davis the Cup, which Davis slowly accepted with a blank look on his face as if he’d forgotten he was even in the tournament. Julius gave Justice congratulations and a couple of claps on the back before he left the ring.
Savage Justice ruled the ring, Davis the new owner of the Duquesne Cup and, well, you know Razorblade already. The Mayday Payday opponents faced off but Mason Savage gave Davis applause before offering a handshake. Justice didn't look at it, or at Razorblade at all. Instead he looked down on the canvas where Razorblade had set down the National and World championships and eyeballed them for a bit before turning around and leaving the ring with the Cup to a loud and now slightly negative reaction. Razorblade watched Davis go up the ramp incredulously and we heard him go “Really? REALLY!?” before gold and white pyro exploded on the stage and the Qualitron showed a chyron announcing JD as the Classic winner. But Davis no sold everything and walked to the back holding the Cup like it was just a boring Friday night, leaving a clearly pissed off Razorblade shaking his head and grabbing his belts as Coronation came to a close.
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