📺 live on FanDuel Sports Network Florida
📍 Quality Arena 💫 Parts Unknown, FL
A video package opened the show with highlights from last week's Pure Massacre supershow, focused primarily on the Chicago crowd enjoying Orion taking Genesis King to the woodshed in a no holds barred match to retain the National championship and QCW World champion Jupiter Jones teaming with Savage Justice to narrowly defeat the Republic in a High Quality trios main event.
For the first time in about a month Ruckus is coming live from Quality Arena and you know the Quality Controllers are psyched to have QCW back home after their impromptu polar vortex tour. Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen are on the call for another Friday night, and they hyped up a Malicía Fernandez handicap match and a main event of “the Purifier” Caleb Gray against Jacques Krieger before things got thrown to Duck Eko in the ring. The Voice of QCW made the introductions of our first match, and the crowd took their cheers up another notch when Lil’ Uzi Vert on the PA brought out the man many consider to be QCW’s fastest rising star in “the Gospel”...
1. Tre Boyd d. “The Proper Villain” Richard Windsor (w/Serge Batroc) by disqualification at 4:08 Unusually quick opener on Ruckus, one almost completely dominated by Boyd. After landing a stiff legged missile dropkick Tre went for Say Hallelujah, but Batroc shoved him off the top rope to draw the DQ. Post match, Batroc and Windsor put the boots to Boyd. A cut to backstage showed the Cooper Brothers watching it happen on a monitor backstage and clearly conflicted about whether or not to save their old friend but Kam Ellis pointed out that Tre had ditched them. The Coopers shook their heads and watched Tre be on the receiving end of a tilt a whirl backbreaker from the Villain that set up a guillotine legdrop from the Assassin. The referee corps came out and shooed the Batroc/Windsor partnership to the back but they were more than pleased with their dirty deeds.
From there, we went to the back where Naomi Lee was standing by to interview her special guests: the Forbidden Book Club. The crowd cheered as Luz Cruz, Shelley LaVey and “Night Sky” Diana Spare arrived on the scene. Nao asked the Club how they were feeling after their tag match against Hysteria last week ended in a double countout. Spare said they were still standing, but so were Hysteria which meant the war between them wasn't over yet. Cruz spoke up, saying that since Golden Rule was announced last week they’d be more than fine facing them in a trios match at the PPV. Diana said that why just challenge them to a match when they could challenge them to an elimination match instead? Luz and Shelley were quick to agree, with LaVey saying that if Hysteria could find the ovaries to accept that there’d be nowhere to run and nowhere to hide - and the FBC wouldn't stop until they’d taken out every single one of them and turned out their lights. With a sick grin, Diana turned to Nao and said they would make them fall one by one by one. Nothing Forbidden could die, but if they got the chance at Golden Rule the Era of Hysteria would end up six feet under. The Club laughed and laughed before walking off, leaving Lee to throw things to Duck Eko in the ring so that the Voice of QCW could do the ring introductions for the next match…
2. The End Times (w/Goody Gardner) d. The Cooper Brothers (w/Kam Ellis) at 4:09 The Coopers have been adrift since Tre separated himself from the rest of Sky’s the Limit, and getting dissected in short order won't help that at all. Steve took note during the showcase match that “the Purifier” Caleb Gray wasn't at ringside like usual for this one and said he was probably somewhere getting ready for his main event against the heavy hitting Jacques Krieger. Danny Castle and Dr. Martin Williams took the young Coopers to the learning tree and put a bow on things after Castle spiked poor DeMarcus into the mat with the Reckoning. As Carl said after their textbook tornado DDT Doomsday Device, the next person to kick out of that will be the first one. Goody Gardner escorted her fellow acolytes to the back in pouty silence herself, and we hit our first ad break tonight.
We came back from the break with a This Week In QCW History twofer: on February 18th, 1978, Curtis Jones made history and became the first Black QCW champion (he was one of the first in any promotion) by pinning Billy “Mad Stomper” Porter in front of a packed Qualitorium. On a more tragic note, the legendary “King” Berger was on his way to the Qualitorium on this date in 1991 when he was fatally struck in a car accident, passing away at the scene.
3. Malicía Fernandez (w/the Republic) d. Mean Season in a handicap match at 5:33 This match was of Ig de Catur's desire to punish Fernandez after she dropped the fall at Pure Massacre’s main event last week. But Malicía came into the match with crisp focus and fought angry throughout. Despite Gaia Green and Winter Wonderland having the numbers advantage, they were no match for the tag champion’s size and fury. Fernandez took apart Winter then allowed her to crawl over and tag Gaia, who couldn't even muster Wonderland's relatively meager run of offense. The end saw Malicía hit the MF5 on Wonderland, then the MF5 on Green onto Wonderland before Fernandez laid out Green with the Death Warrant to win from the short end of decent odds. Post match saw a grinning Pyotr hand Malicía her half of the tag belts while Ig talked up last week being a fluke and his tag team of choice was the one that held the belts and ruled the division.
A cut to the back showed Ashok Banerjee taping up the hands of his tag partner, Jacques Krieger and talking to him in a discussion we couldn't hear before it became a split screen. The other side showed the underlings in a prayer triangle around “the Purifier” Caleb Gray, who was probably preaching some twisted gospel to his followers. Gray vs. Krieger will headline tonight's Ruckus, which went to a commercial break.
Back from commercials, Julius Duquesne III welcomed us back to Ruckus before bringing on the Game Changers for a backstage interview. Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo wasted no time in calling out Serge Batroc & “the Proper Villain” Richard Windsor for their shadiness in their singles matches last week with her and her Tiki God (Al Buffett, clearly fuming behind her). The blonde bombshell challenged them to a tag match next week and said the tag division demands sacrifice, so next week those two pieces of Euroteash would end up in the garbage courtesy of the Game Changers.
In the distance you could hear the Cambodian Space Project’s version of “the Passenger” and we went to Duck Eko in the ring so the Voice of QCW could make the introductions for our next match…
4. “Cambodian Cool” Keo Tevi d. Justine Danek (w/Bonnie Agrippa and Nancy Crowley) at 7:36 Biggest win of Tevi’s nascent QCW career - one that came with a bit of unexpected help from the Forbidden Book Club, who appeared after the bell rang and hit ringside. Despite the protests of Hysteria, they were allowed to stay on the floor provided they didn't go after Danek. Justine kept looking over at FBC as their appearance clearly three her off her game and Tevi took advantage. Keo used their unique offense to surprisingly dominate Danek (not like that) throughout the fight. Even when a desperate Justine sent Teo to the floor, the Club formed a human wall to protect the Cambodian from Nancy & Bonnie. Danek tried to follow up but took too long on a dive attempt and got picked off by a Teo catch that set up an oshigoroshi; Danek was yelping in pain while clutching her head on the mats. That was the beginning of the end before Teo laid out Justine with the Psychedelic Shock and secured the victory.
Post match, Bonnie and Nancy got in the ring, but if they were going to attack Tevi they opted out of it after seeing the Club pop up on three different sides of the ring apron. Seething the whole time, Bonnie and Nancy scooped up Justine before leaving the ring and helping her to the back. Neither Agrippa or Crowley responded to the challenge FBC was throwing out from the ring now to take them on in an elimination match come Golden Rule.
After Keo’s win, a robotic but still familiar voice rang out throughout Quality Arena. Spotlights scanned the building until they found Orion in one of the skyboxes. The crowd cheered the QCW National champion while the title gleamed on their shoulder. Orion brought up their talk box and said that they had a biased opinion, but Pure Massacre last week had peaked early when they’d kicked Genesis King’s ass so hard the silver spoon fell out. But Orion was something more than some run of the mill boy, they were…they were the Cosmic Champion, and they would be between the ropes next week. And with the King made a pawn, Orion was opening up the floodgates - next week they would have an open challenge for their belt. Anybody could come, but any body would fall. Because Orion was heaven sent and hellbent on completing their 10 Count; once they did that, it would only be a matter of time before the Fifteen Pounds of Gold was in their hands. This would be the Year of Orion. Mastodon hit the PA and Orion held up the Natty to another pop before the last commercial break of the evening.
5. The Undaunted d. Hellraisers at 8:39 A rivalry born overseas in the Catch Hell Wrestling League came to Parts Unknown this Friday night, Britain v. Ireland style. But this wasn't just a clash of nations, it was a clash of techniques that played out in the bout: the faster the better for the Undaunted, who managed to clear both Ian Cook and Gerry Greene from the ring in the opening couple minutes of the match before wiping them out with stereo Asai moonsaults that found the mark. But moments later when things got grimier and slowed down after a Greene cheap shot allowed Cook to turn the tide with a pump release German suplex, it was the Hellraisers in control with Tim McMurray and Dave Mullin looking out of sorts. Yet the high flying lads recovered, using Cook accidentally wiping out Greene to take over and eventually put down the massive Ian with their Shamrock Air Doomsday Meteora to the cheers of the crowd. Greene was very disappointed when he came to and the ref had to tell him that they’d lost.
Ahead of the main event, Steve hyped up 💫 next week's Ruckus 💫, which’ll be headlined by two title tilts: earlier in the show we heard Orion issue an open challenge and put the National championship on the line, but there also will be a World Tag Team championships match as Malicía Fernandez and Pyotr Caviar of the Republic put their newly won belts in the line against the former champions, Collipark's Science Fiction Double Feature - looking to win back the World Tag Team championships. All that and more on next week's show, but we have a main event up right now…
6. “The Purifier” Caleb Gray (w/the Chosen) d. Jacques Krieger (w/Ashok Banerjee) at 8:14 A couple weeks back, Gray ended the undefeated streak of Jonathan Livingston Clipper Esq; here, he was narrowly ahead on points throughout and closed the show with a win. Krieger tried to surprise Caleb by going for a pump knee right after the bell, but Caleb dove between the ropes and out to the floor to avoid it. The rest of the match played out in similarly frustrating fashion for Krieger; as Gray had clearly scouted his reputation for being a heavy hitter and fought accordingly with far more of a cat and mouse offensive game plan than usual. The turning point in the match came when Krieger tried to surprise Gray by busting out his old heart punch but Caleb sidestepped it and threw the New Jerseyite shoulder first into the ring post. With Jacques hung out to dry and nearly halfway out of the ring, the Purifier slid out to the floor and delivered his Reap the Whirlwind cyclone kick into the injured shoulder - and to add injury to injury, it went flying into the ring post after impact, obviously throwing a wrench in Krieger's usual power game. The one armed man in the ass kicking contest tried to power through but Gray relentlessly targeted the arm and did things like use a Fujiwara armbar to set up a crossface. Krieger couldn't land any of his signature offense while the 2024 Duquesne Classic winner drove his arm’s health meter into the red and eventually put him away with back to back Repents.
After replays, we saw the Chosen in the ring together spread out in a cross alignment with Caleb at the center of it in a Jesus Christ pose. The announcer team begrudgingly put Gray over and wondered what he and the Chosen would cast their gaze to next as Ruckus went off the air.
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