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📍 Quality Arena in Parts Unknown, FL
A video package opened the show recapping the big events from last week, most notably Ig crowing about having the World and National championships in his personal army and Naz landing a Greetings From Hayt Corner shot on Omar Littlefield before fleeing through the crowd. It ended with a voiceover asking what would happen next on the road to AnniVersary in September…
Standard open rolled from there, and once we were inside a rocking Quality Arena, Steve Vandeblanche hyped up the Omar vs. Ashok World championship match main eventing tonight's show before throwing things to Duck Eko in the ring. The Voice of QCW made the introductions for the opener.
1. “Her Excellency” Fiona Fogg d. Jane Doe (w/Cindy Monet) at 8:32 via submission Last week Fogg beat up Doe while she was at ringside, leading to a Monet loss. Even with her technical skills, Fogg couldn't solve the puzzle of Doe’s unorthodox offense in the opening moments of the bout and found herself on the outside cursing and cooling her heels. Doe sat on the middle rope to allow Fiona back into the ring, a mistake Her Excellency capitalized on with a cheap shot followed by a vicious neckbreaker across the apron that left the ATLien in a crumpled heap on the floor. With a target acquired, the increasingly haughty Fogg emptied her offensive clip to target Jane’s neck and hit her marks far more often than not. Doe managed a brief comeback but Fogg shut it down with a tornado reverse DDT. Shortly thereafter, Fogg landed her Crowning Achievement combination and Doe limply tapped out to the Koji Clutch.
But Fogg didn't let go of the hold after getting the win, which drew Monet into the ring to forcibly drag Fiona off of her tag partner. Fogg acted like she was cowed but it was a ruse as Sohla Patel slid into the ring and laid out Cindy from behind. The black hats stomped Science Fiction Double Feature down before Sohla demanded the mic from Duck. Patel proudly declared that after months of being forced to sit through losers like Cindy and Jane, the Sohla Search was over. She asked the crowd to raise their ugly faces up and gaze up on the newest face of International Lotus: “Her Excellency” Fiona Fogg! They raised each other's hands like they were running for office while the crowd jeered before leaving SFDF laid out in the ring.
Ahead of the night's first commercial break, Muse’s “New Born” brought out the perennially loved Game Changers to their usually good reaction - the Tiki God looks to put a W in aloha up next…
2. “the Righteous” Justice Davis (w/the Chosen) d. “Tiki God” Al Buffett (w/Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo) at 7:05 This is Davis’ first match since being forced to join up with the Chosen, and as they came out a picture in picture showed some of JD’s “rebirth ceremony” last week that looked closer to low level waterboarding than a baptism. It was little surprise then that Al would be the one to come out of the gates hot, using his surprising strength to throw JD across the ring several times with suplexes. A few minutes in, Al scored with a running Codebreaker that sent Davis through the middle and bottom ropes on the recoil. The Chosen swarmed around the new recruit, only for Goody to scream “Run!” a couple of seconds later; a second and a half after that Justice pulled a matador move and Al’s tope suicida met nothing but the dividing barrier much to the concern of Ashley from around the corner and relief from the current Duquesne Cup holder. The Chosen again closed ranks but as Ashley was coming around to that side of the ring Justice waved everybody down and got Al back in the ring. Justice didn't fight unfairly but a lot of his offense caught Al on the head or the neck, leading to applause and cheers from the Chosen. Al managed a brief rally, but when he went for Inner Strength a wild Goody Gardner appeared. That got Ashley up on the apron opposite and it looked like Drake Tremble was rolling into the ring…needless to say all these distractions distracted Al, and JD caught the Tiki God with an avalanche armdrag that sent him ¾ths of the way across the ring while Tremble rolled out. Al staggered to his feet only to eat a weapons grade Busiaku knee that put him down for three.
After replays, we saw Ashley protectively over a still laid out and barely moving Al. Davis started to go over to check on Buffett when the Chosen hit the ring and swarmed Davis in joy - Drake making sure Ashley heard it when he complimented Justice on knocking Al out. The End Times held the ropes open and after a few beats JD reluctantly left with the group; Goody Gardner was talking up Justice even more than Drake was all the way to the back. By that time a semi recovered Al was watching the proceedings while leaning on the top rope holding his jaw. The scowl on Ashley's face almost blinded someone in the seventeenth row.
Once the Game Changers cleared out “you should see me in a crown” by Billie Eilish brought out “Night Sky” Diana Spare to a big pop from the Quality Controllers. The Women's World champion was heading to the ring to cut a promo but she couldn't get off a word before she was jumped from behind by Beast Mode. Spare fought against “These Hands” Roy Fade and “Dashing” Pierce Moore but the numbers advantage held up especially after they lawn darted her into the retaining wall. Music kicked back on and this time it was “Paint the Town Red” by Doja Cat, allowing Lolo Vuitton to strut down the ramp like it was a runway before getting a running start and hitting a modified Bloody Shoe on Spare that sent The Champ flying into the stairs. After some smack talk Vuitton asked her squad to put her up on their manly shoulders and they headed to the back in that formation while the medical team came to check on Spare.
3. Bonnie Agrippa and Nancy Crowley of Hysteria (w/Justine Danek and Bella Jolie) d. “Swamp Pride” Ted Holland and Robert E. Moonshine at 5:10 in a non titles match The World Tag Team champions kept themselves in fighting shape by easily disposing of the wild eyed Southern boys. Justine and Bella didn't even need to interfere in the romp that ended after a spike brainbuster and Nancy pinning Moonshine. After the match, with Hysteria behind her Agtippa held up her title to a camera and had a very simple message for anyone listening: “Best. Tag team. In the world.” Agrippa snapped her fingers to kill the lights; when they came back on Hysteria had disappeared in the darkness as they love to do. Ruckus went to commercials after that.
We came back from the break to Steve at the desk, who mentioned he was being beamed live throughout Quality Arena given that he was about to do a split screen satellite interview with the One Man Jihad, Nazir el-Fadal! Big cheers accompanied Naz popping up on screen apparently live from Atlanta at his house, and a clearly seething el-Fadal sort of waved down the cheers before Steve started. Vandeblanche couldn't get a full question in before Naz went off, saying he was a former three-time World champion that’d somehow never clearly lost that belt once, and it took less and less time each time for some 6F (that's a swear) to steal it away from him. After two years of trying, he not only got back the World title but he beat the unbeatable Razorblade twice in one night in an instant classic that wasn't just going to win Match of the Year, it was going to go down in history as the best match QCW had ever or will ever see. And minutes later because he wouldn't tapdance for a douchelord nepo baby, it got stolen away from him by a man who - last time Naz had seen him - was getting driven off in an ambulance that Naz had put him in back in the spring. So if his prior acts of revenge were tossing the belt at AnIIversary the moment he got it back and living up to every promise he made by winning 2-1 at Cruel Summer, then the Republic didn't really get just how far he was willing to go to get his revenge on them. He’d find some way to get Ig kicked out of his ivory tower and once that happened he’d get his rematch and male history as the first ever four time QCW World champion. Ig may have been able to make him stay home tonight, but all he could do was keep his head on a swivel a while longer before Naz knocked it off his twerpy shoulders. He’d run Malicia back to Mexico if he had to - he’d get Omar locked up all over again if he had to - and Ig wouldn't just get run out of QCW, he’d be begging for pocket change on a street corner before this jihad season had come to an end. And then they would learn the hard way that time in QCW ran off of his Richard Mille because he wasn't some corporatized sellout or even above average, neh! He was Nazir el-Fadal, the Greatest Man Alive…and now he was out for even more blood. Naz’s part of the convo blipped off to cheers from the Quality Controllers that only died down when Duck Eko returned to the ring to make the intros for the next match.
4. Luz Cruz d. Bettie Rokker (w/Val Curry) at 6:11 A bounce back showcase win for Cruz after she narrowly lost in her bid to win the Women's World championship at Cruel Summer a couple of Sundays ago. Luz shut Bettie up with a dropkick you could hang in the Louvre and ended things with her double jump poison rana to get the duke.
At the desk afterwards, Steve said that thanks to another of Commissioner de Catur’s deals, QCW had received financial and promotional considerations to air the following; it turned out to be a decently sized sizzle reel of Catch Hell Wrestling League’s (QCW’s sister company based in the UK) tag team champions the Undaunted. Proud Irishmen Tim “the Only Hope” McMurray and “Unforgettable” Dave Mullin made friends in a Malahide grade school over their love of wrestling, started training together at age 15 and went from skinny jamokes to slightly heavier and more importantly tag team champions who’ve won Europe over with their high flying ways and regular bloke mentality on the mic. Some have even called Tim and Dave the best tag team in the world. They're not gonna call themselves that – but if the compliment fits - well, there's the rest of the pack. But some remain Undaunted.
5. Beast Mode (w/Lolo Vuitton) d. The International Players (w/Science Fiction Double Feature) at 8:25 This was a rematch from Cruel Summer’s preshow that got a few more chilies thrown in the pot last week when Mode jumped Collipark in the back last week after a Cindy Monet loss. But despite an auspicious beginning like Jane Doe enjoyed in the opener, things began to curdle when they got suckered into a Pier 4 on the floor and lost it decisively due to Mode’s willingness to fight dirty and “These Hands” Roy Fade’s Golden Glove level fists. Right before a commercial break, Benjamin Valentino ate a double flapjack that sent him bouncing off the facade of the announce table and Beast Mode spent the rest of the match isolating him and breaking him down. Lucius Patton couldn't make the save after Valentino ate a Dashing Decision that gave Mode another W that they celebrated post match, leaving an increasingly despondent Collipark trying to put the pieces together post match.
A cut to the Commissioner's skybox showed him sneering that Collipark was lucky that he didn't fire the rest of them too before telling Quality Force Security to go down to ringside and flank Omar so that there wasn't a repeat of last week's incident with Naz. He also made sure to remind them to check under the ring – you know, for “safety reasons” and put in an order to get champagne delivered to the skybox after Omar retained the Fifteen Pounds of Gold.
A vignette aired announcing that coming soon to QCW’s shores would be Jonathan Livingston Clipper Esq, a man who can handle a sailboat and doesn't think Sherlock Holmes when Baker Street comes up in conversation. JLCE will be seeing us oh so very soon.
Ahead of the World title defense in tonight's main event, Steve hyped up three big matches that'll happen on 💫 next week's Ruckus 💫: two heavyweights are going to be throwing bombs when Pyotr Caviar faces off against Jacques Krieger | longtime rivals “the Fury” Jim Jaspers and Prince Ootsuka will meet in another hard hitting fight | and Caleb Gray and Drake Tremble of the Chosen will face off against the Game Changers
But those are next week's bouts, and the one for the World title is happening now…
6. Omar Littlefield [c, w/Malicía Fernandez and Quality Force Security] d. Ashok Banjerjee (w/Jacques Krieger) to retain the QCW World championship at 9:54 Of note before the match: (1) Krieger was out in a neck brace after the beating Omar put on him at Cruel Summer and (2) despite being flanked by Malicía and QFS, Littlefield still had a decent sized bandage on his forehead from where Naz had buried Greetings From Hayt Corner at the end of last weeks show. After the introductions were made things got underway with Ashok playing David to Omar's Goliath, landing brief flurries of offense before quickly getting out of Omar's wingspan. Like most things in life, this worked until it didn't when The Champ caught Ashok springboarding off the middle rope at him and responded with a sit out two handed choke bomb that Steve said rattled his teeth at the desk. Omar showed off his power moves and sadism from there for a few minutes until a basement dropkick to his knee sent him flying face first into the middle turnbuckle and gave Ashok a little bit of daylight to operate in. Banjerjee emptied a barrage of European uppercuts until Omar wobbled, then hit a springboard one that out Littlefield down to a knee. Ashok hit the ropes and landed a Destroyer DDT – and Omar stood up, glared, and gave him a lariat that almost put poor Ashok’s head in Ig’s skybox. What little remained of the match was one way traffic for Omar, who deigned to end things after four straight Vader Bombs and his signature Face Eraser. As he did at Cruel Summer, Omar pinned his victim with his boot on their chest and demanded the ref count to five.
Replays of Omar splattering Ashok all over the joint played and when they were done, Omar dipped the Fifteen Pounds of Gold from the ref’s hands and held it aloft, barking that he would do the same to anybody fool enough to get in the ring with him. Malicía held up her National championship in kind while QFS surrounded the ring. Up in the skybox, we saw Ig applauding watching his pet monster retain the QCW World title, clapping that only stopped with a knock on the door and a voice saying “Champagne delivery!”. Ig turned and opened the door to let in the NPC, but when he swung it open he got greeted by main character energy and Mason Razorblade Savage with a bottle of Veuve Clicquot in his head. “HERE’S your champagne, (monkey farmer)!” Razorblade smashed de Catur right over the head with the bottle and Commissioner Ig went down in a heap, and to add insult to injury Savage grabbed de Catur by the lapels and threw him out of the skybox; de Catur was forced to hang on by both hands. Razorblade leaned over and menacingly hissed “The only reason you're leaving the Arena in one piece is because you owe me something, rich boy, and I’m damn sure going to collect. And unlike this lesson, you're not going to leave me hanging.” Razorblade turned away from Ig’s desperate cries for help and kicked the door of the skybox open on his way out so hard it came off its hinges. Ig’s cries for help only got drowned out by Steve gleefully saying “Sorry to end things on an Ighamger, but we’ll see you next Friday night when QCW continues to bring the Ruckus!”
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