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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.
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