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📍 Quality Arena in Parts Unknown, FL
A recap package opened the show that focused on last week's show where Nazir el-Fadal stopping the Pyotr Caviar vs. Justice Davis match before it could even get started, leading to a JD/Naz brawl and Interim Commissioner Ig making a match between them the new main event - it ended in a double countout with Nazquil through the announce table and Ig making this week's main event a trios match with Team Batroc and Caleb Gray against a reunited Savage Justice and Naz.
Standard open with the Parts Unknown streets running hot tonight 48 hours ahead of Mayday Payday. Steve was joined by new color commentator Craig Jacobs, who said he was looking forward to seeing who wins and who loses and seems like if the color beige had a pulse. Steve hyped a special look at the Mayday Payday card and the main event six man tag before throwing things up to Duck Eko and the introductions for the night’s opener…
1. “These Hands” Roy Fade (w/Beast Mode) d. “The Truth” Tre Boyd (w/Sky’s the Limit) by disqualification at 9:05 This has turned into a heated rivalry between both sides quickly after seeming mentors Beast Mode turned on Sky's the Limit either due to feeling that the newcomers were after their spot or jealousy (maybe both). Last week saw StL’s Kam Ellis lose to Mode’s Pierce Moore and led to leader Boyd calling out multiple time champion Fade to fight him here tonight. Boyd showed no fear in going right after the former Golden Gloves winner, using his quickness to swarm Fade early on. After Tre connected with a handspring enzuigiri, Fade tried bailing out to the floor only to be on the business end of a step up Shooting Star plancha that’ll probably go in the show open before we get to the summer. Boyd stayed in control until he went for a Blue Thunder bomb, which Fade countered with a series of rabbit punches until Tre was down on the canvas and he could stomp away on him. These Hands had an advantage for a bit but the explosive Tre was too tough and too fast to be kept down for long, as Boyd took Fade’s knees out from under him with a basement dropkick to avoid the Decision and regain control. Boyd pinballed around the ring and hit a Spanish Fly off the ropes before calling for the end, that caused a desperate Lolo Vuitton to jump on the apron while Moore slid a pair of brass knuckles into the ring. But Boyd stepped on them right before they could get to Roy, then put them on before walloping Fade with them…about two seconds after the ref turned around.
Obviously, this got Boyd DQed and had both Mode and StL freaking out in different ways but Tre blocked out all that noise to make some of his own as he repeatedly and loudly chirped “But you tried it, tho!” before leaving the ring. The Cooper Brothers and Kam Ellis questioned their friend and leader but Boyd waved them all off as they left ringside, leaving a furious Beast Mode in the ring as Fade slowly returned to the land of the conscious.
A run through what’s been trending on Quality Social in the past week focused on Ashok Banjerjee challenging anybody from the All Starr Stable to meet him one on one tonight. S. Mark Starr said that worked out fine by him, which drew a rare post from Jacques Krieger saying he’d make sure the Stable didn't ruin things. An overjoyed Ashok recreated the Shooting Stars meme dance by way of response, which drew a big round of mocking not only from the Stable but some other heels who saw some low hanging fruit in making fun of Ashok’s goofy earnestness.
2. Ashok Banjerjee (w/Jacques Krieger) d. “Upper Class” Broderick Palmer II (w/the All Starr Stable) at 7:10 Ashok was all smiles at the end of this one, as he was early on after getting Palmer II off balance with a trifecta of Japanese arm drags. But Palmer II moved out of the way of a tope suicida after heeding his manager’s warning and Banjerjee took a nonstop flight into the retaining barrier. Palmer II used that opportunity to gain the upper hand and even stuck Ashok with a crisp powerbomb for a nearfall, but when it looked like he was about to have the bout in hand Banjerjee shockingly countered a corner charge with a second rope Destroyer DDT and followed it up with an Orange Crush bomb to notch the win. The Stable swore revenge from the ring while at the bottom of the ramp Krieger had a man’s laugh at the expense of his ex teammates and Ashok thanked Krieger profusely for having his back as Ruckus headed to commercial.
Back from the break a highlight package aired recapping last year's Mayday Payday. It was a busy show: the first time we saw Caleb Gray and Goody Gardner team in a win ▶️ the first emergence of whom we’d come to know as Hysteria ▶️ Omar Littlefield winning a cage match and sending Ashok Banjerjee to the hospital ▶️ Lolo Vuitton winning the Women's World championship from Sohla Patel ▶️ the A Cut Above/Savage Justice fiasco literally got a TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES chyron ▶️ And “Dark Mirror” Beckett Carpenter won the main event triple threat for the World title - only to get cashed in on by Omar Littlefield, who took them apart in a few short minutes to take the belt himself.
3. Malicía Fernandez & Fiona Fogg d. Orion & “Night Sky” Diana Spare at 10:39 This was essentially a Mayday Payday preview tag match, with Spare/Fogg for the Women's World championship and Fernandez/Orion both happening on Sunday's PPV. Despite neither side teaming before, both sides showed some rough chemistry - first as Fogg used some brief cheapshot flurries before tagging in and essentially hiding behind Fernandez, then Orion and Spare being able to land a few quick tags and double team moves to chop Fernandez down to size a bit and press their advantage. But Malicía had too much beef for them to stay consistently cooking and eventually completely took over the match. A blindside cheap shot Yakuza kick sent Spare flying off the apron into the announce table and left Orion easy pickings to eat Malicía’s Death Warrant finisher. Fogg asked for the tag and after some staring, Fernandez tagged her in and Fiona got the cheap win much to Steve’s disgust on commentary. Fernandez stomped off to the back while the pin happened, leaving Fogg to stand on the announce table and gloat over the body of the recovering Spare two nights ahead of their World title clash.
We headed into the break with a This Week In QCW History segment going back two years ago on May 5th where we saw “Dark Mirror” Beckett Carpenter again as they cheated to beat Jacques Krieger and win the Duquesne Classic.
4. Shelley LaVey d. Sohla Patel at 9:30 Hour 2 started off with Shelley LaVey’s first match since being betrayed by Beauty and the Beast Mode and jumped again by Lolo Vuitton a couple weeks ago. But Shelley showed steely focus as she took the fight to the former Women's World champion from the bell, and it took a sudden Patel spinning heel kick followed by a Blockbuster for Sohla to get any sort of higher ground in the fight. The head of International Lotus used that combo for an advantage she held for a couple of minutes until Shelley kneed away an attempt at Patel’s Ninth Incarnation and used a Pele kick that sent Sohla spiraling into the corner. LaVey followed up with a draping cutter from the top rope and Sohla was a dead woman walking after that as LaVey bounced her around before putting the match to bed with her trademark Fallen Angel splash. After the win, Shelley spoke to a corner camera told Lolo she’d better be ready to squabble up in Minny. Parking lot, concession stand, the ring, didn't matter to her - but she’d just ripped the rose petals off Sohla and she’d been waiting months to beat the breaks off Lolo. LaVey left the ring to cheers but ignored them all.
A cut to backstage got Quality Arena popping big as the Double Champ Razorblade was shown taping up his fists ahead of the main event. As he heard footsteps come in he said he was looking forward to finally talking, but as he stood up and was suddenly face to face with Nazir el-Fadal (who also got a big pop) it was clear that the One Man Jihad wasn't who he was expecting.
Naz said he wasn't looking forward to whatever BS this was going to be, especially when he had Pyotr to deal with on Sunday on the way to getting back HIS 15 Pounds of Gold. Razorblade shook his head and slowly stood up, and got face to face with Naz - before laughing in his face. Razorblade said that if Naz ever got the #1 contendership he'd absolutely _love_ to give him another shot; you know, like the shot he gave him in January, or the shot in October. The crowd oohed as Razorblade said that he was getting called the greatest champion in QCW history not because he was running around sucking up to people or telling them that they should, but because HE WAS. So if Naz wanted to lose to him again...Razorblade started cackling, saying he appreciated the laugh before the six man before laughing a little bit more.
Razorblade's sarcastic laughs quickly got drowned out by Naz's loud fake ones, before el-Fadal said that there were some things White Blade couldn't laugh off: the help he got from Omar in January, or the month he spent in the hospital after their war in October. He'd literally dogwalked Razorblade before - sweet Allah, he'd punked him out on QCW's biggest stage - so if we were here to have a larf about somebody's past failures, then he would laugh alllllmost as hard as he did watching a one legged Razorblade crawl around for the World title he just lost.
Both men were somehow both sarcastically and aggressively laughing at each other when a voice suddenly asked what was so funny. Both Razorblade and Naz spun around to see a suddenly vocal and clearly salty Justice Davis, who's face pinched up even more before asking again what was so funny. Razorblade started to say something to his estranged tag team partner but Naz talked over him, saying he was interrupting a meeting of the Grand Slam Club so the only purpose JD could serve was maybe fetching the elite of QCW some champagne. The sober living Davis responded by shoving Naz into a locker, the former World champion responded with a slap that got him slapped right back, and Razorblade stepped between them and broke up the beginnings of a fight while Naz let out a sinister, booming actual cackle that would've been right at home in Hysteria. Davis was now yelling at Naz what was so funny, and Naz said the fact that people loved to try to paint him as some sort of hypocrite when really he was just the only man in QCW honest enough to tell the rabble that everything began and ended with a World championship he brought into the world that, with any luck, would outlive them all.
Naz was laughing because in 48 hours Justice was going to main event for the first time and he and Razorblade had done it so many times together and separately he had lost count. Razorblade - someone else QCW had gotten on the cheap 5 years ago who Holmes took a chance on. Who was seen as just the other guy in a tag team. Who showed how sharp a blade could cut when he shoved it into his partner's back and took the spotlight, the glory, and the Fifteen Pounds for himself. And if Naz remembered correctly - and of course he did - Razorblade never apologized, never looked back, just left his ex high and dry on the side of the road for Naz to run out of town while he stepped up all the way to being a double champion. At least for now. Justice had a Cup Naz should've had and a shot he should've had, but there was a reason why Naz went looking for Savage and not him: because for Justice to reign after Mayday Payday he'd have to cause a little mayhem and ditch his tag partner, hell, his hero and take the gold off him. And up here in the rarefied air of the Grand Slam Club, if you couldn't get membership...well...it wouldn't be like getting driven through the announce table. It would be like falling off of K2. "And now we're supposed to get along and fight Les Religious Connards with the two of us carrying his other side piece. HIL. ARIOUS." el-Fadal stomped off, leaving Justice and Razorblade behind.
Razorblade told Justice to not worry about it; that's just how Naz is. Justice, now talking for the first time in months, said that Naz was always going to be an asshole but he was right. Razorblade struck out on his own and became the biggest name in QCW with two titles while he'd won the Duquesne Classic and somehow he still couldn't get out of Razorblade's shadow. But come Sunday, that would all change when he became the double champion and shook off the shadow to become the top star in QCW. His first match in QCW, sure, he'd lost to Razorblade...but his next match he was going to bring the same focus he'd brought in the Classic and silence Naz and anybody else who thought like him. But tonight was his last night as the sidekick and maybe the last night of Savage Justice; it all depended on how well Razorblade handled things after Sunday.
Davis started to walk away but Razorblade stepped in front of him. Savage started to explain that he didn't see him as a sidekick but JD just shook his head and went around Savage to exit himself. An exasperated Savage called after him to no avail, then looked over into his locker where the World and National championships were hanging. Razorblade put a belt over each shoulder, muttered "okay" a few times in a way that meant things clearly weren't before he had one thing to say to the empty room on his own way out the door:
"Time to shut up and fight."
Back to the ring, suddenly covered with lilies, black bunting around it and black candles next to two differently sized caskets, one much larger than the other.
Lights on.
Lights off.
The women of Hysteria stood in the ring cackling. Nancy Crowley mocked the crowd's booing while Bonnie Agrippa “kindly” explained that to save time, they were going to have a funeral for the death of the College Park Family, in pace requiescat. As she pointed to the smaller casket she said that on Sunday her and Nancy were going to put the title reign of the International Players six feet under - then she said pointing to the larger casket that Jupiter Jones might as well be dead. That got the biggest boos of the night as Justine Danek grabbed a mic from Nancy and said that Jupiter's career had been dead for years before this spring. With his plucky gang of misfits in disarray, there was no better time for Hysteria to deliver the last rights to the entirety of Collipark. Bonnie said that soon Hysteria would dominate the World Tag Team championships just as they had the women's division. It's entirely possible Agrippa would've continued her dark monologue had Science Fiction Double Feature of Collipark jumped out the caskets and started throwing hands like rice at a wedding, and they got some help as the Game Changers ran down the aisle to make it a fair four on four fight that soon sent Hysteria out to the floor. Quality Force Security and the referee corps came down once Cindy Monet started throwing wreaths and black candles at Hysteria while Steve hyped the six woman tag coming up after the break.
5. Hysteria (w/Bella Jolie) d. Science Fiction Double Feature and Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo (w/”Tiki God” Al Buffett) at 10:41 Monet, Jane Doe and Szabo kept that energy up when the break was over and the match began. The referee had a hard time controlling things as Cindy and even Jane were more than willing to punch away and hit double teams well into five counts. SFDF hit a combo powerbomb neckbreaker on Crowley and Cindy tried to end it but Bonnie and Justine came in for a save that triggered a Pier 6. The women were all brawling when Bella Jolie proved to be the difference maker on the floor, blinding Al with a spray of blue mist that quickly put him to sleep like four plates of Thanksgiving dinner. Hysteria managed to get and keep the upper hand after that distracted Ashley, sending her and Jane from the ring before executing a brilliant gambit to win: Justine blind tagging Bonnie before Nancy tagged Justine, leaving Justine to shove Bonnie out of the way of Cindy's Tightrope lariat. The legal Nancy ran to Hysteria's corner where Justine tagged back in and they took Cindy out with a combination Chaos Theory from Crowley and Buckshot lariat from Danek while Bonnie brainbustered Jane into the ring apron. Justine flopped on top of Cindy for the three count and another notch in Hysteria's winning streak. After the match the International Players came out and slid in the ring as Hysteria rolled out, the champs checking on their laid out friends while Hysteria cackled and said there would be a black celebration once the World Tag Team titles belonged to them.
Sunday night is the Mayday Payday PPV from Minneapolis and Steve ran down the card: on the preshow, Shelley LaVey vs. Lolo Vuitton and Ashok Banjerjee tags with Jacques Krieger to face the All Starr Stable’s A Cut Above.
On the main card: the Cooper Brothers from Sky's the Limit make their PPV debut against Beast Mode 🟪 Malicía Fernandez will go one on one with Orion 🟩 In a rematch from the Duquesne Classic semifinal, Pyotr Caviar looks to notch back to back wins against Nazir el-Fadal 🟪 the International Players defend the World Tag Team championships against Bonnie Agrippa and Nancy Crowley of Hysteria 🟩 “Night Sky” Diana Spare puts the Women's World championship on the line against Fiona Fogg 🟪 And in the main event, Duquesne Classic winner Justice Davis goes for the World and National championships against former and/or current partner, the Double Champ himself, Razorblade
6. Team Batroc and “the Purifier” Caleb Gray (w/the Chosen) fought Nazir el-Fadal and Savage Justice to a double countout at 9:40 It's entirely possible that had this been three singles matches, Team Antihero (for lack of a better term) might’ve run the table and gone 3-0. Despite tension throughout the six man tag they got out to an early lead. But as the match went on, the backbiting between them picked up where things backstage left off. Blind tags and backtalk started happening, leading to Naz running into a brick wall disguised as a Pyotr Caviar running crossbody. Caviar landed a couple of overhead belly to belly suplexes before turning things over to Serge who would eventually turn things over to Caleb as both men got a measure of revenge on el-Fadal for eliminating him from the Duquesne. Naz tried to fight his way out of trouble but the Chosen distracted the referee, allowing Drake Tremble a cheapshot that set up Team Batroc to land the Arc de Triomphe on the One Man Jihad. Goody Gardner dropped down from the apron as Serge went for the cover but Razorblade and then Justice hit the ring to break up the count. That triggered a Pier 6 but unlike the women's trios match, things never really settled back down. Razorblade fought Serge around ringside while Justice chased Caleb to the back in hot pursuit, and Naz rolled to the outside only to get put through the dividing barrier by another Caviar crossbody. With Naz down and Serge still brawling with Razorblade now in the concourse, the ref called for the bell, leaving fans temporarily disappointed until Justice re-emerged – flying off the balcony with a cannonball that took out Batroc and Savage both. The fans were chanting “Queue Cee Dub!” as we got a shot of the laid out Justice, Mason and Serge to end the show. See you in Minneapolis Sunday night for the Mayday Payday PPV!
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