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A video package recapped the crazy events of last week's main event, which saw Razorblade retain the QCW National championship over “the Purifier” Caleb Gray before catching a beatdown from the Chosen. Even though Justice Davis was on the scene he did nothing to intervene and to the surprise of everyone watching Razorblade's eternal rival Nazir el-Fadal came to the rescue, helping to clear the ring in incredible scenes that left Quality Arena stunned, Davis furious, Naz smirking, and the Double Champ understandably confused.
Business as usual inside the crown jewel of Parts Unknown on a Friday night, with one notable exception: Julius Duquesne III is now at the announce (at least for this week) on color, replacing Carl Christensen after his anti-Ig shoot promo last week got him fired by the Interim Commissioner.
1. Fiona Fogg d. Luz Cruz at 10:53 via submission At the outset of the year this would've been a Women's World championship match between a happy go lucky Fogg and the leader of Hysteria, but things change fast in QCW. Cruz has had a rough few weeks while the recently turned Fogg finds herself quickly climbing the women's division ladder. Fiona, now demanding to be known as Her Excellency, fought Luz to a standstill in the opening couple of minutes and countered a corner charge from Cruz with a big double stomp to take over. Fogg wore down Cruz and hit a gourdbuster over the top rope before snatching the splayed out Cruz and landing a delayed gourdbuster mid ring for a nearfall. Shortly thereafter a confident Fogg tried to maneuver Cruz into position for her increasingly signature Koji Clutch, but the proud Puerto Rican fended it off and landed a rolling fireman’s carry slam. La Reina of the Ropes started reaching into her lucha libre bag, coming back with a string of offense; a second rope seated senton set up a high elevation shotgun dropkick off the ropes that sent Fiona over the top and out to the floor, but she wasn't safe there as Luz flew over the top and wiped Fogg out with a step up tope con hilo that got the faithful fired up. Cruz dished out everything she ate and then some, going around the horn to counter a Flatliner attempt with a Gory especial neckbreaker. With Fogg down, Luz went up for the move that won her the Women's World championship last fall but the Brit dodged away from the double jump moonsault and slammed a slightly limping Cruz down to the canvas with a snap swinging Flatliner before floating over into the Koji Clutch. Cruz struggled in the hold and managed to pull towards the ropes, but Fogg viciously torqued Cruz's neck back and forth while maintaining the hold until Cruz tapped out to Fogg’s Crowning Achievement.
After replays and getting her hand raised, Fogg sidled up to Duck Eko and handed him an index card that he grudgingly read saying that with three wins over two former World champions that the next one to fall would be that street trash Diana Spare at Mayday Payday and that whole these commoners didn't deserve it, they would finally get a Women's World champion they could hold in high esteem. “But until the next, Your Excellency is done blessing you with her presence.”
Pyotr Caviar (w/Serge Batroc) and Justice Davis fought to a no contest This match technically never happened; Davis came out first to a big mixed reaction but when Team Batroc came out they got laid out before they could even make it halfway down the ramp. Nazir el-Fadal used a surfboard to pummel Serge but saved his hardest shots for Pyotr and didn't stop swinging until Justice left the ring and headed up the ramp to get in Naz’s face. JD gestured towards the fallen Pyotr, which drew some off mic smack talking from the One Man Jihad. Justice didn't respond until Naz poked him in the chest a few times, then Davis took him down with a double leg and started throwing hands. el-Fadal soon responded in kind, and both men fought on the ramp until Quality Force Security came out and broke them up. The Qualitron whirred to sudden life with an appearance from Interim Commissioner Ig de Catur, who got booed right until he announced a new main event for tonight: Justice vs. Naz. We went to break with Naz threatening to add Justice to his list of ass whoopings on the evening and Davis staring back angrily as QFS led Naz backstage.
After the break we got an emotional promo from Collipark, who were clearly shaken by the loss of their mentor. Cindy Monet mentioned that while they couldn't bring back Jupiter themselves, they could fight for him. The International Players lit into Hysteria for making fun of his firing and not respecting the man who made modern day QCW possible. So if they wanted to be disrespectful, they’d beat some respect into them at Mayday Payday and even put the World Tag Team championships on the line to make sure they showed up. It would be Hysteria who Collipark destroyed in Minneapolis.
As Sky’s the Limit hit the ring we got replays of what happened last week when their partners of Beauty and the Beast Mode turned on them in an eight man tag and left all the QCW newbies laid out, as well as Lolo Vuitton taking out months of frustration on their then partner in the Culture, Shelley LaVey. Kam Ellis, the hard nosed brawler of StL looked to get a measure of revenge here.
2. “Dashing” Pierce Moore (w/”These Hands” Roy Fade and Lolo Vuitton) d. Kam Ellis (w/Sky’s the Limit) at 9:52 But in his QCW singles debut, he fell to the Baron of Beverly Hills. Moore came out with his usual partner Fade and Vuitton instead of LaVey but the bigger Ellis took it to Moore early on and kept his foot on the gas, clearly ahead on points most of the way. After dropping Moore with a Blue Thunder bomb, Ellis headed to the top rope to put some finishing touches on the fight but Lolo hopped up on the apron to provide her unique set of distractions. Sky’s Cooper Brothers were able to talk her down from the apron while Tre Boyd yelled at all three of his friends to tighten up. Ellis nodded and flew off the top rope with a Shooting Star Press only for Moore to roll out of the way and let him crash land into the canvas, then Pierce planted him with back to back Fresh To Death cutters to pick up the win.
After replays we saw a disappointed Kam heading up the ramp with Boyd coming down on him hard while the Coopers tried to get Tre to ease up on him a bit. In ring, Lolo said that she had something to say: all 3 of them were tired of the disrespect and people trying to push them aside for what they thought the new hotness was when they brought the heat 26/8/372. The Culture never did anything for them so as far as they were concerned, the Culture was dead; it was just Beast Mode now, and silly ass Jane Doe would find out how much later when Lolo used her face to clean off the bottom of her designer shoes. The newly named Beast Mode walked off to boos while Ruckus headed into commercials.
3. Evan O'Neill and Prince Ootsuka (w/“Upper Class” Broderick Palmer II and S. Mark Starr) d. “Swamp Pride” Ted Holland and Robert E. Moonshine at 6:19 With A Cut Above unable to challenge again for the World Tag Team championships, Starr put together ACA’s O’Neill with his muscle Ootsuka as a new team that’d possibly challenge for the belts after some Ws under their belts down the line. Ted and Robert didn't go down without a fight, but go down they did after an Ootsuka cobra clutch slam set up O’Neill’s One Last Chance off the top. Evan pinned Moonshine after he hit it and post match all seemed right with the Stable as Broderick enthusiastically gave his partners their verbal flowers.
Without JD3 to temper him, Nazir el-Fadal cut a scathing promo that got him bleeped a couple of times, calling Pyotr a no-hit wonder that'd had everything handed to him while Naz had to surf his way to recognition just to get signed to QCW. French Gollum had opened every door and the scared little fish roe wouldn't walk through them so Naz would kick them all down like he had all decade to eat him alive In Minneapolis and put him on the same side of the milk carton he’d put Omar Littlefield on. As for tonight's main event against Mutey McGee? Well, Naz knew just like his rabble did that had HE made the finals of the Duquesne he would've beaten Davis and won the Cup but beating Justice's ass tonight would not only send a message to Pyotr but remind everyone else on the roster that Jihad Season Had Returned courtesy of Nazir el-Fadal - the Greatest Man Alive. Naz walked off to cheers, bizarre as that still is.
4. Orion d. Bella Jolie (w/Hysteria) at 9:50 A bit of a side quest for the Queen of the Cosmos, who’s still hoping to get a match versus Malicía Fernandez at Mayday Payday for revenge over what happened at Golden Rule. Bella hung tough with Orion the whole way but as noted by Julius on commentary the rest of Hysteria weren't helping Bella survive the rough waters and spent more time looking over their shoulders for retribution from Collipark than lending their usual assists. Orion didn't cruise to victory but was a step ahead the whole way, finishing off Jolie after a satellite DDT and Orion's Nebula. Orion slid out of the ring as the rest of Hysteria slid in, celebrating up the ramp into the last commercial break.
Shelley LaVey cut a short promo taped in an empty Quality Arena Earlier Today, saying that while she was pissed off at Beauty and the Beast Mode for backstabbing her last week she knew they weren't smart enough to come up with a plan like that on their own, so she was coming for the trick who was probably behind the whole thing. Lolo Vuitton liked bloody shoes? Well, Shelley liked getting her hands dirty - and they'd be plenty bloody soon because once she saw Lolo again she was going to show that so-called Miss Thang just how low a Fallen Angel could really get and Lolo wouldn't see it coming.
5. Lolo Vuitton (w/Beast Mode) d. Jane Doe (w/Collipark) at 7:12 If Lolo heard Shelley's words in that pretape they didn't shake her, as she overcame a rough start to post a win here. Jane’s unorthodox offense put the ATLien ahead early, and she used it to throw off Lolo’s rhythm earlier. Jane even used the Lady of the Lake hold to confuse Lolo, luring the three times former Women's World champion over before pulling her in and pulling her into the same hold. Unfortunately, Jane found out in short order that Lolo is the sort of woman who fights better pissed off as Vuitton sort of rolled herself into the corner and used the ropes to untangle herself. Then Vuitton beat Jane like a rented goalie the rest of the way in front of an increasingly psyched Beast Mode and increasingly down Collipark. Lolo hit a cutter to set up the Decision and followed it up with the Bloody Shoe to get the win.
But the moment Lolo started to get her hand raised the lights went out. When they came back on – nothing happened, allowing the International Players and Cindy Monet time to get into the ring and check on Jane - just in time for Hysteria to emerge from under the ring and stomp out Collipark again. Hysteria stood tall as Justine and Bella handed the World Tag Team championships over to Bonnie and Nancy, who cackled as they held up the belts over the fallen and adrift Family.
💫 Next week's Ruckus 💫 is the final stop before Mayday Payday. On deck? Malicía Fernandez and Fiona Fogg face off against Orion and Women's World champion “Night Sky Diana Spare in a PPV preview tag bout | ¾ths of Hysteria will be in trios action against Science Fiction Double Feature and Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo | and there’ll be a preview of the whole PPV card
6. Justice Davis and Nazir el-Fadal fought to a double countout at 11:05 Fitting that a match that was essentially a coin flip the entire time ended without a winner. These things happen. Early back and forth action saw both men get three two counts in the opening ninety seconds, causing QA to erupt in applause. As they stared at each other down, Naz took in the crowd’s reaction and offered up a golf claps before offering a handshake. Davis thought about it for a few beats before going for it, but Naz suddenly went for an eye poke only for JD to do the 3 Stooges block and forearm him down to the mat. Justice got a bit of momentum going right until he ran into a springboard European uppercut from Naz, who took over the next couple of minutes of the fight. Naz continued his streak of offense and had Davis set up for an Iconoclasm, but the #1 contender fended Naz off and used an off-kilter hurancanrana to send the One Man Jihad out to the floor. JD followed up with a cannonball off the apron to flatten Naz on the floor as the announcers noted the dueling chants bouncing off each other in the Arena. Davis got el-Fadal back into the ring and after failing to keep Naz down for three continued on the offensive with palpable malice behind his forearms to Naz’s upper back and neck, while a cut to backstage showed the Double Champ Razorblade watching the match on a monitor with an unreadable expression on his face. Davis seemed to finally break the stalemate of the match after pinballing Naz around for a couple of minutes but when he went for the Davis Driver, the self proclaimed Greatest Man Alive countered with a vicious Saito suplex and followed that up by hitting his Heat Check cobra clutch Lungblower to swing the seesaw back in his direction. Both men were down, then charged at each other and clotheslined each other down. But driven by spite, both men nipped up at the count of 5, shook off clotheslines twice, then traded hard forearm shots which led to dueling rolling forearm smashes before Naz stomped Davis’ foot and finally won the battle with a Hamrin Valley Driver. After staggering up at 7, Naz called for the end and went for Nazquil, only for Davis to quickly spin almost on instinct and lay him out with a JDDDT. Naz managed to break JD’s grip but a massive knee to the breadbasket left him wide open for a second JDDDT that sent him bouncing off the mat and spilling out to the floor.
Naz tried to get his bearings about him, and when Davis tried to grab him from behind el-Fadal pivoted and tried to shove him into the ringpost - but JD managed to pull up, pivot, and plant Naz with a third JDDDT, this time on the floor. Clearly irate, Davis began clearing off the announce table; as Steve and Julius made sure they were out of the line of fire, Razorblade made his way from the back with both titles in tow and got to the bottom of the ramp right when the zebra’s count hit 10.
But it was clear in short order Justice didn't care about that given how his evening had gone thanks to Naz scuttling his first match and giving him such a battle in the second; what he wanted to do was use yet another JDDDT to drive el-Fadal through the announce table. Instead, what he got was a dose of Nazquil that left both men unmoving in the table’s wreckage and the good people of Parts Unknown uncorking a “HOLY SHIT!” chant that got bleeped out on FDSN. Amidst the carnage, a voice made themselves heard: Interim Commissioner Ig de Catur, who was on the Qualitron 9000 and talked over the sea of boos by saying that he had something that would make even the whiners in the cheap seats cheer: an announcement of next week's Ruckus main event where in six man action “the Purifier” Caleb Gray and Team Batroc would face – well, once they recovered – Nazir el-Fadal…and a reunited Savage Justice. Ig flashed a smirk before the Tron blipped out, and Razorblade went from glaring at the Tron to looking across the Arena where Naz was blowing snot rockets into the fallen Davis to a 60 v. 40 positive reaction from the Quality Controllers. Catch you back here in 166 hours for the Mayday Payday go home edition of Ruckus!
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