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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?
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