📺 live on FanDuel Sports Network Florida
📍 Huntington Place 💫 Detroit, MI
The show opened with a Cold As Hell recap video package - stills taken after Ashok Banerjee and “Cambodian Cool” Keo Tevi won their preshow matches gave way to longer videos of main card action…
❄️ The show kicked off with Orion defending the National championship against newcomer Genesis King, the champion way ahead on points until King went after her mask which got him kicked in the balls and them DQed; Orion angrily stomped to the back with their belt while King laughed at them from the mat ❄️
❄️❄️ Justice Davis and “the Purifier” Caleb Gray fighting with title level intensity as JD tried to get out from under Gray’s control over his contract while the leader of the Chosen looked to extend it for the rest of the year. Gray tried to use his acolytes to run interference but they got caught and ejected from ringside; Davis wasted little time in bloodying Gray and making him pay before winning the match and gaining his freedom ❄️❄️
❄️❄️❄️ The Forbidden Book Club going up against Justine Danek and Bella Jolie of Hysteria, with Danek and Jolie controlling early but Shelley LaVey managing to make them collide when they tried to finish her off. Down the stretch, Luz Cruz pulled Bella Jolie in front of an attempted black misting from Nancy Crowley, and won the match with her double jump poison rana. Cruz and LaVey celebrated to the back, medical staff helped Justine and Bella to the back after they left, leaving Boñnie and a visibly off kilter Crowley to try and regain the World Tag Team championships in the next match ❄️❄️❄️
❄️❄️❄️❄️ They were one of the teams in the fatal four way for the belts, alongside Cole Grant and Freddie Valsada from the Glam Squad, Pyotr Caviar and Malicía Fernandez of the Republic, and the defending champions from Collipark in Science Fiction Double Feature. The newly emergent Squad proved that they could hang at a championship level, and in fits and spurts the Hysteria/SFDF rivalry shone. But Pyotr and Malicía were too big to fail, mowing down all opposition with a series of double chokeslams and Malicía pinning Agrippa to win the belts to the glee of Ig de Catur ❄️❄️❄️❄️
❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ Nazir el-Fadal’s open challenge followed suit and it was answered…by Tre Boyd. We saw Tre use his speed to get the upper hand and plant Naz with a Blue Thunder bomb and continuing to dominate the Grand Slam winner to the shock of the crowd, planting a Spanish Fly on the One Man Jihad but missing Say Hallelujah off the top, allowing Naz to take control. Naz with a barrage of European uppercuts, hitting an Iconoclasm and a Hamrin Valley Driver into the apron - but when he went to end things with Nazquil, Tre countered with a backslide for 3 and the upset win, leaving the Gospel celebrating with the crowd and a stunned, rattled Naz sitting in the middle of the ring with a blank thousand yard stare ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ Then it was time for the main event, a triple threat for the QCW World championship between the Republic’s Omar Littlefield, Mason “Razorblade” Savage and the defending champion, the legendary Jupiter Jones representing Collipark. Things started off as a borderline handicap match, Jupiter & Razorblade teaming up to take down Omar before throwing hands against each other. They fought each over to a standstill until Omar Pounced Razorblade into Jupiter. Things got more intense and weird from there - Omar & Mason actually teamed up on the champ to hit Jones with a double spinebuster - but later, Jupiter and Mason dropped Littlefield with a double superkick. A wild sequence saw Jupiter Face Eraser Razorblade , then Omar muscle Jones into a Soul Crusher from Omar, who walked into a Razorblade Bolt From Olympus that left all three men splayed out and Detroit going crazy. Towards the end Razorblade hit Jupiter with a Soul Crusher but inadvertently took out the ref in the process; this allowed Ig to slide a chair to Omar, but as he swung to turn off Jupiter's lights Razorblade shoved Jones down to take the bullet himself. Omar was confused but then ate a chair assisted Bolt From Olympus that wiped him out, allowing Jupiter to flop on top of Omar and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
💫 Jupiter didn't even have time to celebrate before the new World Tag Team champions jumped him from behind. Once he peeled himself off the mat, Omar joined in the attack and once he peeled himself off the mat a few beats later, Razorblade again came to Jones’ aid. But the Republic had the numbers until Justine Davis sprinted to the ring and lived up to his name, evening the odds with the chair and blasting Pyotr with a shot that sent him to the floor. The PPV ended with the Republic on the floor talking smack and holding up the World Tag Team championships while in the ring the reunited Savage Justice stood next to the man holding up the Fifteen Pounds of Gold, the legendary Jones 💫
The “Invincible” open rolled after that with some tweaks made to it (more Keo Tevi, as well as more Justice Davis and Forbidden Book Club). The Cavalcade of Champions adjusted as well, giving shine to the new Ig endorsed champions and ending the way Cold As Hell did with the clip of Jupiter holding up the title. We’ve got pyro and screaming fans, but as our longtime announcers Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen explained, the polar vortex has kept QCW in town past the PPV, so Commissioner Holmes had moved Friday night Ruckus to a place that knew a little bit about pro wrestling in the Motor City - the refurbished one revitalizes Huntington Place. They hyped “Night Sky” Diana Spare vs. Bonnie Agrippa in a battle of longtime rivals and former tag partners as well as Beast Mode v. the International Players in Lucius Patton’s return to action before starting off the night’s action with the brash newcomer all over Quality Social all week long proclaiming that he was the real National champion…
1. Genesis King d. “The Fury” Jim Jaspers at 8:15 King came to the ring and cut a promo to the camera on his way down the ramp stating that he was the real National champion, for the reasons you saw in the CAH recap package. That focus on Orion and the Natty led him to get in early trouble against the hard hitting Jaspers, who duffed him up repeatedly. An increasingly desperate King began to hide behind the ref or duck between the ropes to force timeouts but he couldn't stop Jaspers’ offensive flow; after getting his bell rung by a pump knee strike, Genesis fell out between the middle and bottom ropes and hit the floor. But this turned out to be a bit of a Rope-A-Dope from King, as when Old Jim went to the outside to gather him up Genesis suddenly lashed out with a drop toe hold that sent Jim into the ring apron neck first. Jaspers gagged and staggered away only to stumble into a crucifix driver that sent the brawling Brit headfirst into the steps and cut the back of his head open. King made sure to take advantage from there and proceeded to beat Jim bloody before hitting his Crowned finisher on Jaspers to score the three count. After winning with his electric chair Michinoku Driver, Genesis cut another promo to the hard camera to threaten that the next time he saw Orion he’d drop that masked freak on their head and prove that the price for laying hands on a King were to pay in blood or relinquish all ill gotten gains to the one they bowed to. That was his belt Orion was walking around with, but it was only a matter of time before he had the physical belt to hold up all right of his abs.
As he was preening for the camera, “The Old Guard Is Dead” hit the PA and out marched the Republic: a dozen guards, followed by a scowling Omar Littlefield, then an unctuous Ig de Catur and lastly the new World Tag Team champions in Pyotr Caviar and Malicía Fernandez. King looked around awkwardly as he moved to the side, but Ig merely shook hands with Genesis and made the hand sign for “call me”. The gang all hit the ring, Pyotr and Malicía raising up their belts to trigger a bunch of white and gold pyro both up from and down on the stage behind them.
Once the music and boos died down, Ig plugged his company by saying they were proud to present the best tag team in QCW and made Duck announce them as the new World Tag Team champions. de Catur crowed that it only took him a matter of weeks to turn the Pyotr/Malicía unit into the class of the tag team division and it’d taken an illegal chair in a virtual handicap match to temporarily stop Omar from regaining the World championship that should really be his. But that minor setback wouldn't detract from a night of celebration, for what these mouth breathers were looking at was not only the measuring stick for tag team excellence but for excellence in QCW, period. Ig still had eyes on that shady thief Orion and his National championship (de Catur having introduced the title a couple of years ago) and once Omar got a rightful one on one match he’d send Old Man Jones to the retirement home and bring the World championship back where it belonged. All the belts in QCW were the rightful property of the Republic, and they’d prove it by becoming the first faction to ever hold every championship in QCW at the same time - the first ever Triple Crown faction in QCW history. Collipark had stolen a World title from them, so they took two World titles in response.
Ig let out a wheezing cackle and was in the middle of further hyping up his goon squad before “All My Life” hit the PA. Ig’s head whipped up the ramp just in time to see Justice Davis part the Qualitron and bask in big cheers from the Quality Controllers. He began by saying that it felt great to walk out in front of them a free man in QCW again, and what he wanted to do with that freedom was punch Ig in the face. The crowd loved that but JD allowed that since Ig had the habit of hiding behind a gang of other people, he’d punch any of them in the face tonight here in the Motor City. Ig began to have a comeback when Littlefield ripped the mic out of his hands and said that Davis didn't get to say things like that in his hometown and think he was going to walk out alive; hell, after Omar got done flossing with him he wouldn't be walking at all. Justice said after having Caleb poison his career for six months that he wasn't shook by Omar’s threats. He’d go to Commissioner Holmes and go one-on-one with Omar…then Omar could go crying to his sugar daddy when he lost another main event. The crowd oohed as Justice left without another word while Omar shoved aside a couple of members of Republic Enforcement before Pyotr and Malicía had to hold him back (at least for the time being). Ruckus went to commercial break with Ig trying to talk a furious Littlefield back from the brink.
2. Ashok Banerjee (w/Jacques Krieger) d. Gerry Greene (w/Ian Cook) at 5:09 Ashok has been fighting his way up the ladder since returning from the Hysteria blinding and has now strung together a few consecutive wins. Here in this match of former Catch Hell champions Banjerjee overcame a cheap shot right after the bell from Greene and Gerry’s early offense while Carl ended up confirming that Justice Davis vs. Omar Littlefield would be tonight's main event. The Boundless Banjerjee shifted the match with his Destroyer DDT and rolled from there, winning with the Decolonizer Driver to go 2-0 in Detroit this week. A usually stoic Krieger had a sly smile on his face as they headed to the back after the win.
What rolled after Ashok’s win was a previously online only video that was filmed at Cold As Hell, where an off screen interviewer (JD3) asked the leader of the Chosen, “the Purifier” Caleb Gray what was next after losing to Justice Davis and losing control over his contract as a result. Gray was clearly upset but soon composed himself and said that now that the weak and the unbelievers had been cast out, it was time to leave behind internecine squabbles and focus on what he came back to QCW to do - preach the evangel and do so from the highest heights possible without a quaver in his voice. To put it simply for the heathens - in a Godless place such as QCW, he whomst carries the gold makes the rules. JD3 tried to ask Goody Gardner a follow up question about Justice gaining his freedom, but Caleb directed the End Times to intimidate Jules and the cameraman before squiring Goody away.
3. “Sinister” Sarah Fowler & Midsomar d. Mean Season at 4:21 Domination from the black hats here, who came into this salty after Fowler's narrow loss to “Cambodian Cool” Keo Tevi on Sunday's preshow. Poor Gaia Green and Winter Wonderland were grist for the mill as they got stomped out especially by a pissed off Fowler. A basement rana driver on Wonderland by Sarah closed the deal. We went to commercial break with Fowler & Midsomar stomping their way to the back, Fowler hissing at some booing fans lining the ramp way.
We came back to a sizzle reel for the Undaunted, the former Catch Hell Wrestling League tag champions and proud Irishmen who's self confidence and high flying offense have made them international superstars. Tim “the Only Hope” McMurray and “Unforgettable” Dave Mullin begin to show off their championship pedigree as full time members of the QCW roster next Friday night. Speaking of action coming from the tag team division…
4. The International Players (w/Collipark) d. Beast Mode (w/Lolo Vuitton) at 8:24 The return of the Players was punctuated with a hard fought victory over the brash Mode. The representatives from Collipark stayed even through a feeling out process, then took the upper hand after a double flapjack laid out “Dashing” Pierce Moore. Lucius Patton and Benjamin Valentino showed why they were former tag champions over the next couple of minutes as they took it to Moore, causing Lolo Vuitton to hop up on the apron to distract the referee. While she did that, Roy Fade slipped into the ring and delivered a hangman that necked Patton against the top rope before pulling Pierce to their corner then tagged himself in. Fade came in and worked over Patton with body shots before tossing him with a belly to belly suplex. Fade continued to work over Lucius and went for the Decision once he’d driven Patton to his knees but as he came in Patton came over the top with a flying forearm that left both men out on the mat. They both managed to beat the 10 count and tag out, which led to Benjamin Valentino whupping up on Pierce Moore. This eventually prompted Fade to come in for another save that triggered a Pier 4.
But Valentino managed to rake the eyes of Moore, who staggered around the ring. Patton shoved Fade into his path, and a blinded Moore accidentally laid out his partner with his Fresh To Death cutter. That was the beginning of the end for Mode, and Pierce got double teamed - hit with the Playa Hata in short order - and ate the L. The Players hit their trademark pose on the floor while the announce team debated how long it would be before the Players got a shot at their old belts. Vuitton made sure to curse out her running buddies as Collipark left.
Before our last commercial break tonight, we took a brief scroll through Quality Social. We saw Serge Batroc and “the Proper Villain” Richard Windsor doing some in ring training but shaking hands after a drill - we then saw some video of Tre Boyd in a Texas recording studio with Paul Wall (the People's Champ!), and “Explosive” Emily Bennett at a protest in Minneapolis with an ICE OUT button on. The piece ended with Carl noting that the usually - let's be kind and say verbose - Nazir el-Fadal hadn't been heard from since losing to Tre on Sunday night, and not only that, he’d deleted all his social media accounts as of Monday morning. More Ruckus after the break.
5. “Night Sky” Diana Spare (w/Forbidden Book Club) d. Bonnie Agrippa (w/Hysteria) at 9:40 The night’s hardest hitting match probably came in the semi main event between these celebrated former tag partners turned bitter, years long rivals. Notably for this one, Spare had backup from the FBC’s Luz Cruz and Shelley LaVey, who served as counterparts to Bonnie having backup from Nancy Crowley and Bella Jolie; noticeable by her absence was Justine Danek after Crowley accidentally blinded her Sunday night.
Smack talk right before and after the bell turned into a pair of slaps and then a straight up hockey fight that Bonnie decided to win with a lengthy rake of Spare’s right eye. Detroiters booed this lustily but they nor Diana could stop Bonnie from hitting a slingshot facebuster to take control early or following it up with alternating stomps and flash elbow drops. After the fourth, Bonnie got to her feet with a sneer on her face and a glob of spit that almost hit LaVey and caused them to exchange “pleasantries”. Bonnie refocused on the match, dropping Spare with a falling reverse DDT - but when it looked like she was about to launch into her Eclipsing the Light finishing sequence, Diana shoved her off and a Foleyesque clothesline sent both women tumbling to the floor. Buoyed by a surge of energy and change in environment, Spare grabbed Agrippa by the hair and bounced the leader of Hysteria’s head off the announce table eight times before tossing her roughly into the steps as the crowd became unglued. Diana rolled into the ring briefly to break the referee’s ten count before rolling back out and throwing Agrippa into the ring post driving Bonnie to her knees before she went limp on the floor. Nancy and eventually Bella came around the corner to advance on Spare but got stopped in their tracks by the advancing FBCers, allowing Diana to trash talk Bonnie for being a “joke of a leader”, amongst other jibes. A revitalized Night Sky got Bonnie back in the ring and emptied the offensive tanks, only to find Bonnie a tougher out than she might've wanted to give credit for. Agrippa ate a double revolution Black Hole Slam that rattled the ring but managed to kick out at 2.9 - similarly, moments later Spare wiped her out with a pop up Michinoku Driver that saw Bonnie kick out at the death. Spare seethed over the count for a couple of beats before cinching up the High Priestess of Hysteria and looking for Nightfall…only for Agrippa to reverse with a Crowley styled Code Black that flattened Diana out. Bonnie staggered up to her feet first with a little help from the middle rope and snatched Diana up, beginning to end it with Eclipsing the Light – but when she went to cap the rolling suplexes with a brainbuster, Spare hooked her with an inside cradle and kept her shoulders down for the three count.
Diana rolled out of the ring as Nancy and Bella slid in, both fuming over Diana having pulled out the sneaky W. Luz and Shelley helped Spare get to her feet so she could get her hand raised by the ref and made sure to razz the upset Crowley and clearly stewing Jolie, who alternated glaring at the babyfaces on the floor and looking down at the recovering Agrippa.
Ahead of the main event, Steve and Carl hyped up some of what's to come on 💫 next week's Ruckus 💫: the Undaunted will return to QCW’s tag team division, now as full time members of the roster 💫 the main event of the Pure Massacre supershow in two weeks ago will be announced 💫 and in a non-titles match, the International Players will face Pyotr Caviar and Malicía Fernandez of the Republic; you gotta assume the former tag champions can get a shot at their old belts with a win over the new champs
And with the hype train pulled into the station, it was main event time.
6. Justice Davis (w/Jupiter Jones & Mason “Razorblade” Savage) d. Omar Littlefield (w/the Republic) by disqualification at 8:26 OJ,Ruckus ended with a bit of chaos yet again in the latest battle between the Republic and the pro QCW forces. Steve noted as JD came out that this was probably his biggest match ever against a two time former World champion; Justice didn't let that or the size disparity get to him early as he opted to employ a hit and run attack that alternated quick flurries of forearms with some thigh kicks in the Hope of knotting up Omar’s quad to undermine his base. A series of clotheslines backed Omar towards the ropes and a textbook running dropkick sent him over the top. Justice tried to follow up with a cannonball off the apron, only for Omar to catch him and swing him into the retaining barrier - then the ring post - then into the barrier again - then the post again. Davis lay in almost the fetal position on the floor while Omar got bleeped while he reminded the crowd just who ran things still in Detroit and QCW.
Omar bundled up Justice and tossed him in the ring, targeting the ribs and back with clubbing forearms to wear out the former World Tag Team champion. Littlefield showed why he was one of QCW’s best as he repeatedly tossed Davis around the ring like he was a balled up piece of paper and the canvas was a trash can. Even when JD managed to land kicks that would fell a lesser opponent, Omar essentially shrugged them off before planting Justice with a two handed choke bomb that rattled the ring. After a couple of high distance biels Littlefield put Davis in the drop zone before further injuring Davis’ ribs by hitting a Vader bomb. Omar signaled for the end and hoisted his opponent up for the Face Eraser but JD used his proximity to the corner and hooked his boots into the top rope before turning to sit safely on the turnbuckle. Omar turned and charged once he realized he’d failed to drop Justice but charged right into a massive JD cannonball from the high rent district. Both men were down for a spell, but it was Justice who got to his feet while Omar was still on his knees; JD took advantage of the situation by planting Omar with a basement version of the JDDDT. It left Omar groggy but still trying to regain verticality, so Justice repeated the move two more times to leave the massive Littlefield face down and barely moving. The crowd sounded primed for the upset as JD went to the opposite corner and slapped his knee a few times to signal he was going to put a capstone on the fight with Justice Is Served. Davis came flying out of the corner looking for his trademark Busiaku knee – but instead what he got was picked off out of the air by a Russian sickle from Pyotr Caviar, causing the red to call for the bell and give David the win via disqualification.
The Republic didn't care about that, as Pyotr, Omar and the incoming Malicía Fernandez began to stomp Justice out as the Detroit Quality Controllers jeered the 3 on 1 attack. The beating went on for a bit before “Unscripted Violence” hit the PA to the roars of the crowd. Razorblade was in the building, and he wasted no time vaulting the barrier and having his partner’s back. The Grand Slam winner threw his meat hook rights and put some dents in the hired goons of the Republic, but they still had the numbers advantage.
Then “B.O.B.” hit the PA, the College Park Family hit the scene, and all five of them made a beeline for the ring. Ig de Catur ordered his troops to get out of the ring before Collipark could get in it, and the black hats beat a hasty retreat. The International Players helped Savage Justice to their respective feet while Jupiter Jones and Science Fiction Double Feature barked down to the Republic on the floor that this wasn't over just yet. As the Republic took their leave through the crowd, Ig said his associates weren't going to stop until they’d gotten rid of Collipark and Omar had his World championship back. As Steve urged us to tune in for next week's Ruckus, both sides continued talking smack until we faded to black.
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