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A video package recapping Pick Your Poison from last week opened the show, highlighting Orion's win over Lolo Vuitton as well as Malicía Fernandez fighting Luz Cruz to a time limit draw. Orion's win meant they got to pick the stipulation for their National championship rematch at Dia de los Muertos, and Orion revealed it will be a ladder match to end the show.
Standard open rolled from there before we zoomed live inside Quality Arena for the Dia de los Muertos go home edition of Ruckus. Steve Vandeblanche & Carl Christensen are your trusty announcers on this Friday night and Quality Arena is running hot with the PPV on the horizon. They hyped up an in depth look at Dia de los Muertos as well as a PPV preview 8 woman tag where Malicía Fernandez of the Republic would team up with the World Tag Team champions Bonnie Agrippa and Nancy Crowley of Hysteria and the Women's World champion Lolo Vuitton from Beast Mode to face another all star team in Orion, Science Fiction Double Feature from Collipark and “Night Sky” Diana Spare. They then threw things over to the ring, where the long-standing Voice of QCW Duck Eko made the introductions for tonight's opening bout…
1. Luz Cruz & Shelley LaVey d. The Sound of Thunder at 6:39 In ring action began with a showcase match for Cruz & LaVey ahead of their PPV bout against Justine & Bella from Hysteria. Cruz had the time limit draw against Malicía last week in the main event and Shelley got a dominant win on Unleashed two nights ago; they continued riding that momentum here as a team. Outside of maybe a 90 second stretch on the back end, this was white hats all the way with LaVey pinning “Shieldmaiden” Val Curry after they put the giant down with a ¡MUERTE! double jump poison rana + Fallen Angel splash two piece.
As Cruz and LaVey celebrated up the ramp we went to Steve at the desk, who said that while they wouldn't show the horrific attack Hysteria committed against Collipark’s Lucius Patton on last week’s show they did have an injury update on Sweet Lu. The news wasn't good - a broken ankle that would keep him out of action, probably for the rest of the year. Steve & Carl wished him a speedy recovery before action continued…
2. Serge Batroc d. “Tiki God” Al Buffett (w/Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo) at 8:04 in the 10,000 franc challenge The Game Changers won the main event of Unleashed two nights ago, but Al couldn't win Serge’s francs in the second iteration of the challenge. It didn't look that way early on as Al’s power advantage allowed him to survive the feeling out process and light Batroc up with a few suplexes. Al was ahead on points and even when Serge managed a brief rally Al cut it off and then hoisted him up in a delayed suplex that lasted nearly half a minute before Al dropped him. Batroc rolled to the outside to buy himself some time but the Tiki God wouldn't let him stall for long and came out to get the Frenchman back between the ropes. Al was bringing Serge back into the ring when Batroc pulled the rug out from under his fellow former World Tag Team champion: there was a massive echoing clang as the back of Al’s head and his upper back bounced off the top of the steel steps before he crumbled in a heap on the floor. Ashley went to check on him as Serge rolled back in the ring and demanded the zebra count Al out.
Al managed to get his bearings back enough to roll in the ring right after 8, but Serge was there to blast him with a pop up European uppercut before pinning Al and getting 2½. While it didn't win him the match, it opened up the door further for Serge to unleash some of his offensive arsenal on Al. Buffet's power meter went into the orange and possibly dipped into the red, especially after Batroc shot Al into the ropes and tossed him with an overhead belly to belly throw. The former Duquesne Classic winner went up top but when he flew off with a guillotine legdrop Al managed to roll out of the way of it at the last second. Buffett beat Serge in getting back to a vertical base and took the fight right back to Batroc, and countered another overhead belly to belly suplex by landing a Codebreaker out of nowhere. Al got Serge in position for Inner Strength but a desperate Batroc not only slipped the avalanche uranagi - he shoved Al face first into the ring post. Batroc stumbled back into the ring but a clearly wobbly Buffett fell back into the squared circle and into the arms of Serge’s trademark Arc de Triomphe. In his depleted state Al couldn't get his shoulders off the mat and Serge held onto his money with a couple of minutes to go. A beaming Serge tipped Duck Eko a couple hundy for announcing him as the winner while Ashley checked on Al.
Footage rolled of a sit-down interview between Carl Christensen and “the Proper Villain” Richard Windsor that was taped Earlier Today before Quality Arena opened up to the public. Carl asked Richard why he’d turned on his now former friend and partner “the Fury” Jim Jaspers and Windsor waved it off, saying he’d already explained why weeks ago. Why wasn't Jim being questioned on how unfit a partner he was? Say what you will about the man who thought himself a Prince but at least he’d figured out quicker than Richard had that any team with Jim would be doomed. At the moment Richard had needed him most, he was nowhere to be found and seemed perfectly fine with Richard being turned into a joke. It had pissed him off more than words could express, and come Sunday he was going to take it all out on an all too soft Jim And once he was done making an example of the wanker he used to think of as a friend, he’d be more than content to show the rest of QCW what real proper villainry looked like. Carl had a follow up question but Richard had no time for it, unhooking his audio hookup before throwing it on the table and striding off set. Carl shrugged at the camera before telling the crew to wrap it up, and Ruckus went to commercial break after Steve plugged a similar sit-down interview with Jaspers that would air later on during the show.
3. Jonathan Livingston Clipper Esq. d. “The Righteous” Justice Davis (w/the Chosen) at 10:17 The smooth sailing newcomer got another win, and the problems with the Chosen’s infighting seem to grow by the week. Despite or maybe because of being forced to join Caleb Gray’s band of merry zealots, this was less a blood feud and more of an all babyface exhibition match. After a feeling out period, Davis took advantage of a moment when Clipper ducked too soon to land a JDDDT and take control of the match. Davis maintained an upper hand for the next couple of minutes with Goody Gardner interestingly providing the bulk of encouragement while Caleb remained silent like the End Times & Drake Tremble seethed, still angry about Davis costing him a win last week. A textbook high angle dropkick sent JLCE bailing out to the floor, but when Davis went for a cannonball off the apron Clipper sidestepped it and Justice went splattering to the outside. It looked like Jon was going to toss Davis back into the ring but he instead spun and threw JD back first into the barrier now that he had a target.
Seeing the Chosen near, the newcomer got this year's Duquesne Cup winner in the ring and continued working him over, impressing the crowd by landing a few backbreakers and even a triple slingshot suplex for a long 2 count. But when he went for his finisher Davis blocked it by bull rushing him into a nearby corner, then pulling out a modified flying cross armbreaker out of his arsenal. It took a while for Clipper to make the ropes but once he did Justice immediately broke the hold. Caleb began protesting that Justice wasn't going at Clipper hard enough but Justice shut him up by landing the JDDDT on a clearly hurt JLCE. As the ref checked on Clipper, JD backed into the corner before looking to end things with his running Busiaku knee. Davis began running forward - but Drake Tremble swiped at his legs, causing him to pause temporarily to put the bad mouth on the Paragon before resuming his finisher attempt. But that handful of seconds was enough to cause JLCE to move out of the way of Justice Is Served before rolling Davis up for the upset 3.
Clipper rolled out of the ring before he could get jumped, but he needn't have worried, because the Chosen were too busy nearly coming to blows with each other. For the first time possibly ever, Caleb was in Tremble’s face and Drake was returning verbal fire, saying where was his support when JD had cost him his match last week? Davis rolled out of the ring and made a beeline for Tremble, and Goody Gardner had to get between them. She paused for a couple of beats after putting a hand on JD’s chest before wheeling around to unload on Tremble herself, saying things like this and more specifically Drake himself were the reasons they were failing at winning Justice over. Caleb began pushing back against that and began arguing with Gardner, Tremble was hot at them both, and eventually a disgusted Davis threw up his hands and went to the back. Goody noticed he was gone first and chased after him but by the time she did he was almost parting the Tron. A cut to the back showed John Arneson and the Glam Squad watching all this happen and alternating between laughing and shaking their heads, clearly feeling great about having to face the Chosen's Caleb dubbed Holy Trinity at the PPV. Back at ringside, Caleb followed Goody, Drake followed Caleb, and the End Times picked up their THE END IS NIGH signs up and silently joined the otherwise noisy processional heading backstage.
Ahead of the big Dia de los Muertos preview tag, we found out from the announce team that Tre Boyd would be joining them on commentary for the National championship ladder match at the PPV. You already know he's got eyes on that title; hopefully we can get some insights from him when Malicía Fernandez and Orion aren't busy killing each other.
Speaking of which, the eight woman PPV preview all star tag started with intros for the heels before commercials and the babyfaces after; the Republic came down to flank Malicía Fernandez - then the lights went out and when they came back on Hysteria was on the scene, Justine & Bella sitting on the apron while Bonnie Agrippa and Nancy Crowley held their World Tag Team championships high, then “Paint the Town Red” signaled the arrival of the Women's World champion Lolo Vuitton, flanked by the men of Beast Mode.
After the break, the faces came out as the heels were discussing strategy: out first was Orion, then Science Fiction Double Feature with Jupiter Jones and Benjamin Valentino (no Lucius Patton after Hysteria Pillmanized him last week), and then “Night Sky” Diana Spare, who took a look at her teammates before all four of them sprinted to the ring. The black hats met them on the floor, a Pier 8 took mere seconds to break out to the approval of the crowd, and after trying and failing to get their attention several times z the referee said “The hell with it” and called for the bell.
4. Orion, Science Fiction Double Feature & “Night Sky” Diana Spare (w/Jupiter Jones & Benjamin Valentino) d. Bonnie Agrippa, Nancy Crowley, Malicía Fernandez & Lolo Vuitton (w/Beast Mode, Justine Danek, Bella Jolie & the Republic) at 9:51 This was dubbed a PPV preview match but was actually closer to almost ten minutes of barely controlled chaos, especially given the fact that the brawls continued for nearly a minute after the bell. Once things “settled down” we got a preview of the Last Woman Standing match as Spare & Vuitton went at each other. They went at it hammer and tongs until Lolo cheap spotted Diana with a thumb to the eye to set up a Stun Gun. Vuitton looked over her options and tagged in Malicía, who didn't take long to play bully ball as she towered over Spare. Having found a 6’3” bully to get behind, the heels used Fernandez as a one woman human shield. The towering luchadora duffed up Jane Doe for a bit before lawn darting her into her own corner, then took a bit longer but eventually started raining right hands on former Women's World champion Cindy Monet before delivering a skyscraper of a MF5. Hysteria being Hysteria, they swooped in to compound the damage with Agrippa tagging in and burying a series of flash elbows into Cindy to drive her spirit meter further into the red. After some taunts about what they did to Patton, Bonnie tagged in Nancy and slingshot her bestie into the ring right into a Code Black that got Crowley a near fall.
Crowley continued working over Monet for the next couple of minutes, even pulling off a double stomp counter to Cindy's corner charge that flattened out the Collipark member. Nancy quickly pulled herself up to the second rope before flying off with a senton, but Monet got her knees up and Crowley screeched in pain before falling to the mat. Both women crawled for their respective corners and tagged out - putting us right back where we started as Diana and Lolo charged each other before another hockey fight broke out. Diana was winning it until Lolo cut her off with a knee to the breadbasket, then slammed Diana into her knee with a facebuster. Vuitton whipped Diana into the corner, but when she charged Spare stunned her with a superkick.
Diana flew out of the corner looking for a hurancanrana, but Vuitton powered up before pivoting and sending “Night Sky” into a neutral corner with a massive buckle bomb. Vuitton revved up and came looking for the Bloody Shoe only for Diana to see it coming and plant her into the canvas with a pop up Michinoku Driver. Diana leaned forward to hook a leg only to have both of her ex allies in Hysteria dive in to break up the fall. This sparked another Pier 6 between all the outside fighters that didn't take long to go to the floor, with Science Fiction Double Feature avoiding a Malicía attack by connecting a double back body drop that sent Fernandez bouncing off of the announce table before Hysteria blindsided them and sent them flying into the time keeper’s area. In the ring, Vuitton went for another buckle bomb but Spare countered this time by throwing Lolo shoulder first into the ring post. Spare tagged in Orion as Vuitton staggered back into the waiting arms of a Nightfall, followed by Orion picking her up off the recoil to hit Orion's Nebula. Spare sprinted out of the ring to hit a flip dive onto Hysteria while Orion secured the three count for all the number one contenders.
After replays, the white hats got their hands raised while the black hats swore revenge from various positions on the floor. Steve & Carl helpfully reminded us of the World Tag Team championship match, the ladder match for the vacant National championship and the Last Woman Standing match for the Women's World championship while chyrons of each draped across the bottom of the screen. As the heels licked their wounds, Carl teed up the next piece of business.
The second sit down interview that happened Earlier Today was with Julius Duquesne III talking to “the Fury” Jim Jaspers and we saw that here. JD3 asked Jim if he saw what happened at AnniVersary coming and Jim said he would’ve bet anything outside of his daughter's life that he & Richard (Windsor) would have been teaming for years to come, that blindsided, stunned…there wasn't a word for the type of betrayal he’d fallen victim to. Victim, funny word that, because the reason he hasn't been around to pull Richard’s sorry arse out of the fire was that Omar had injured him too and injured him first. He wasn't laughing at Richard like so many were, and he’d gotten the knife in his back anyways. So if it was Old Jim Master Dickhead really wanted, then it was Old Jim he’d get - but Old Jim would be the one having the last laugh. He was going to make him a victim yet again because after being betrayed in front of the world at QCW’s biggest show of all time he didn't owe Windsor a damn thing except a beating…the kind of beating only a best friend could deliver. Jules thanked a clearly frothing Jaspers, who ripped off his audio setup and hurled it at the wall before walking out of the room. A chyron hyped up the first ever Jaspers/Windsor fight to happen in Houston this Sunday night before Ruckus teed up a final round of commercials.
We came back to Steve in the ring, who brought out Nazir el-Fadal for an interview ahead of his big match Sunday night – but Naz popped up on the QualiTron with the nighttime Houston skyline behind him. The One Man Jihad began to talk about how he was going to have to beat Pyotr Caviar at his own game in a Russian chain match when suddenly the voice of Ig de Catur cut him off. The disgraced former Commissioner came back out with Caviar and Caviar alone, bragging for the second straight week about how this all could've been avoided if Naz had just played ball back in the summer but his ego was bigger than the lines these basics had to wedge themselves in on Black Friday. Ig and Pyotr entered the ring and said that screwing Naz out of the World title twice was only an appetizer and that Sunday would be the main course - the most decorated wrestler in QCW history was ready to fall, and not only would he fall, he would fall to a man who would just further cement his legacy as a QCW legend in the making: Pyotr Caviar. On the Tron, Naz said that Ig must not have heard him before when he said he’d have to beat Pyotr Caviar at his own game because introducing newbies to the rarefied air inhabited by Allah’s Anointed could mean all sorts of things. Since a Russian chain match was just a thin excuse for violence, maybe Naz would reintroduce Pyotr to Greetings From Hayt Corner like he did in LockUp. Since they were living in 2025 and there was such a thing as pretapes, maybe Naz wasn't in Houston at all..and el-Fadal reached behind him to push on the skyline until it fell over to reveal Naz sitting in a white room…maybe Naz was in Quality Arena right now. That revved up the crowd a bit before Naz continued that maybe it meant OH MY ALLAH HE’S GOING TO COME OUT FROM UNDER THE RING!!! Ig & Pyotr quickly whipped their heads around, but there was no Naz in sight. Pyotr yanked the mic out of Ig’s hand and said he was tired of the games, bro. Little insect had something to say to him, he could get within smashing range and say to Pyotr’s face. The Russian chain match was a point of family pride, and – and suddenly a cameraman leveled Caviar with an overhead shot with the tech equipment as the crowd buzzed in confusion and the pretaped Naz said maybe he’d dressed up like a cameraman just for this moment right here.
The pretaped Naz cackled a manly cackle while the Greatest Cameraman Alive laid in a few more shots to keep Caviar down. Ig frantically gestured for his backup as Naz opened up his camera to reveal a chain of his own. el-Fadal wrapped it around his wrist and spun Ig around before dotting his eyes with a chain enhanced punch that had de Catur counting the lights as Republic Enforcement ran down just a bit too late to save their sugar daddy. Naz got in a second and third shot on Ig before running away from the half dozen security guards and fleeing through the concourse, though not before jumping on a couple seats and holding the chain high to roars from his rabble. “So Be It” hit the PA as a chyron came up for the Russian chain match on the PPV; Steve hyped the fact that even in an environment built for Pyotr’s strengths, Naz’s craftiness and willingness to do anything to win were features and not bugs. el-Fadal strutted out of Quality Arena while an irate Caviar and the personal security helped a slightly bloodied Ig to the back to get checked on.
5. “Sinister” Sarah Fowler (w/Midsomar) d. Hilary Highnote at 5:57 Last week Fowler promised to spread her special brand of sickness to Friday nights and this was the week she made good on her words. Highnote was no match for Fowler, who took Hilary to the woodshed with a gleam in her eye and ended matters with an implant inverted DDT she calls Dark Days. Hilary also got stomped out a bit by Sarah post match and the ref had to pull Fowler off of her.
Ahead of the main event, Steve and Carl ran down the card for the Dia de los Muertos PPV.
💀🧡 Two rivalries will be featured on the preshow and both feature former partners seeking revenge on backstabbers: in one Luz Cruz and Shelley LaVey will team up to face Justine Danek and Bella Jolie of Hysteria. In the other, the Proper Villains explode when Jim Jaspers takes on Richard Windsor. 🧡💀
And the main card will have enough action to raise the dead: Unlikely allies John Arneson and the Glam Squad will face off against the Chosen’s Holy Trinity of “the Purifier” Caleb Gray, “the Righteous” Justice Davis and “the Paragon” Drake Tremble - can the newcomers keep their respective winning streaks going or can the Chosen put aside their recent differences and get back on the same page? 💀🧡 The Pyotr Caviar/Nazir el-Fadal rivalry continues to feature sneak attacks and escalating Violence, but there'll be no hiding when they go one on one in the first Russian chain match in QCW in nearly 40 years - a match Pyotr’s dad won. Can the One Man Jihad beat the Tracksuit Tsar at his own game? 🧡💀 Speaking of rivalries that have powered QCW through most of the year, Malicía Fernandez will take on Orion, this time in a ladder match for the vacant National championship. In addition to this possibly being the blowoff to their lengthy feud, Tre Boyd will be joining commentary for this one as if there needed to be another combustible element for the clash. Weeks of confusion and months of hatred will come to a head - it's Fernandez/Orion putting it all on the line in a ladder match to decide the vacant National Championship 💀🧡 The World Tag Team championships will be on the line when Bonnie Agrippa and Nancy Crowley of Hysteria defend the belts against the College Park Family’s suddenly resurgent Science Fiction Double Feature. SFDF caught a fire they hadn't shown all year when mentor Jupiter Jones came back on the QCW roster after AnniVersary and won a ten team battle royale to earn this shot; Hysteria’s response was a vicious attack on Collipark's Lucius Patton that broke his ankle and will probably have him out of action the rest of the year. The Era of Hysteria started at Mayday Payday when Agrippa & Crowley beat Collipark's International Players (Patton & Benjamin Valentino) to gain the gold - can the self proclaimed best tag team in the world complete the sweep or will the tag belts return to the Family and prove Collipark is all the way back? 🧡💀 For the first time in QCW history, there will be a Last Woman Standing match…and the Fifteen Pounds of Gold will be on the line. Lolo Vuitton cheated to win the belt at AnniVersary last month to become the first four time champion of any type in QCW history and she hasn't been shy to tell you about it while she revels in her new/old bad attitude. Spare had been defining the term fighting champion and was building a fine resume for Wrestler of the Year; she swore not only revenge but to be the last woman standing to avenge the shady loss of what she still considers her championship. It's Vuitton/Spare II, Last Woman Standing for the first time in history, with the Fifteen Pounds of Gold on the line 💀🧡 And of course, there's the Men’s World championship brawl, which for the second straight year will have Razorblade in a ¡lucha muerte! match. This time a year ago, he walked in as The Champ and he and Naz (almost literally) burned the house down in 2024’s Match of the Year. Razorblade’s reign would continue until Cruel Summer, where he would drop the belt to Naz in a best of 3 falls instant classic - only to be heading out of the building as Omar Littlefield revealed he’d thrown in his lot with shadow Commissioner Ig de Catur's Republic for an immediate title shot that would prove to succeed in short order to give Omar the title back he lost to Razorblade at AnnIVersary. Razorblade got the winning pinfall in LockUp to get this shot after Ig & the Republic screwed over Naz again in the World title rematch earlier this month at Ruckus' Fourth Anniversary Show to get us here; the two most celebrated, most violent, most destructive World champions butting heads where there are no countouts, no disqualifications, hell, no rules – just the innate drive not to fall so you can rise up and be recognized as the World champion at the end of the night. Will a Republic powered Littlefield be too much for the battle tested Mason Savage - or will Razorblade prove once again that he was the only one who has Omar's number?
Four title matches, a Russian chain match, grudge matches up and down the board - a sold out Toyota Center in Houston is going to get their money's worth when QCW brings them Dia de los Muertos!
We’ve got one last piece of business at Quality Arena before we get on the jet to H-Town, as Omar prepares for ¡lucha muerte! with a non-title hoss fight…
6. Omar Littlefield [c, w/the Republic] d. Kam Ellis {w/the Cooper Brothers) in a non-title match at 4:13 It turns out that Omar's preparation for his title fight was delivered promptly at Ass Whoop O’Clock. Ellis showed very brief flashes of the talented fighter he is but Omar was just too big, too strong, too mean and too damn good to be stopped on this Friday night. A Pounce sent Kam flying into a neutral corner and when he ricochetted off the buckles it was the last time he moved of his own volition in the fight. The Coopers could only look on helplessly as Omar ended things with a trifecta of Vader Bombs and the Face Eraser DDT to close out his tuneup match.
Not content with serving up a seasonal squash, Omar continued laying in right hands then headbutts to a weakened Ellis. The Cooper Brothers hit the ring, which caused Pyotr Caviar and Malicía Fernandez to do so as well. Similarly to Ellis, the Coopers fought back but couldn't fight off the onslaught from the land monsters and it wasn't long until the Republic were imposing their physical will on Sky’s the Limit. The beatdown could've continued until the PPV…if “Unscripted Violence” hadn't hit the PA. Quality Controllers popped from the front row to the back of the upper deck while Ig barked out orders to Republic Enforcement to fan out through the Arena and catch Razorblade coming down the steps per usual. But Razorblade wasn't coming down through the crowd, he was rolling out from under the ring – and he didn't come unarmed. With his trusty barbed wire baseball bat at his side and some help from Sky’s, a couple of swings got Pyotr and Malicía heading for higher ground only for them to get jumped by the Coopers & Ellis.
That left just Razorblade and Omar in the ring, with Littlefield telling Razorblade to put down the bat and fight him like a man. Razorblade shrugged and tossed the bat aside, then flew at Omar and the brawl began. Steve accurately predicted you were going to see all this and worse at the PPV as Quality Force Security began to try to break things up between the Coopers and Pyotr and Malicía on the ramp with the other half of QFS hitting the ring right after Republic Enforcement did. Then the security groups began fighting each other, causing Quality Arena to erupt in “QUEUE CEE DUB!” chants. Ruckus went off the air with all three types of brawls merrily rolling along with no end to them coming anytime soon.
