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The Invincible open rollled to open the show with a few tweaks; Ashok Banerjee taking Jacques Krieger’s place a handful of times, more of both Manifest Destiny and the Undaunted as well as “Explosive” Emily Bennett and that turncoat Vengeance Davis. With no current National champion, that gave more time for the Republic and Autumn Powers to be shown in the Cavalcade over the Pat Benatar classic.
It's another raucous Friday night from the jewel of Parts Unknown, Quality Arena. We’ve got Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen behind the announce table to help shepherd us through another episode of Ruckus, and they hyped up Summer Rose vs. Ashley Szabo as well as a trios main event where Hysteria would take on the reunified QCW World champion Autumn Powers and Mean Season, but this Ruckus would begin with more traditional tag team action…
1. Manifest Destiny d. The Cooper Brothers (w/Kam Ellis) at 7:10 Two nights ago Unleashed ended with Richard Windsor pinning DeMarius Cooper; the Air Force twin alumni came together here looking for a measure of revenge but couldn't get it. The Coopers looked good early with their high flying offense and cleared Serge Batroc and Windsor from the ring with a flurry of double dropkicks. As the Coopers celebrated in the ring, INTLTS came out on the ramp to watch the match - at least Sohla Patel did, Fiona Fogg seemed more interested in whatever she was doing on her phone. Either way, Manifest Destiny composed themselves and returned to the ring with renewed fire and started to gain control of the bout when Windsor managed to cut off a DeMarcus top rope offensive attempt and hit a massive avalanche double underhook suplex That turned the tide for Destiny, who pounced all over the weakened Marc and halved the ring on him so he couldn't make a saving tag to his brother. The crowd spent the back end of the match hoping for a save that never came and the black hats used a springboard European uppercut from Serge into the Necessary Evil half and half suplex by Richard to get the win and put poor Marc out of his misery. You could see the frustration on Sky’s the Limit’s faces after the match, but it was of no concern to Manifest as they shook hands and then tried to catch up to Patel and Fogg as they headed to the back.
We went backstage, where Naomi Lee was chasing down Nazir el-Fadal. The One Man Jihad eventually slowed down and told Lee to get her Taylor Rooks on, because he had something important to disclose to his rabble and certain members of the roster. Nao asked if that was why she saw him come out of Commissioner Holmes’ office moments ago and el-Fadal said that a well-known rule of wrestling was that if you wanted something booked you went to the bookerman and if you were someone on Naz’s level…well, there were only one of those, but you generally got what you wanted even when you and certain Holmeses didn't exactly sing from the same hymn book.
Naomi then asked Naz what match he’d gotten the Commissioner to approve, and Naz said that in next week's main event it would be him and…Razorblade against two of the Republic’s finest cuts of grade A asshole in Pyotr Caviar and Mr. Vengabus. They'd screwed him out of the tag belts without beating him, then because he had no back up in last week's main event they’d cheated him out of victory there too. So if Davis wanted to see true vengeance and Pyotr was going to cash Ig’s checks, Naz was willing to beat their asses so bad no direct deposit would be enough to cover their hospital bills. But this was a referendum on Razorblade, too: the one who didn't show up until it was too late, the one who’d lost the titles…and the one who’d lost THE title last Cruel Summer because Naz had made sure of it TWICE. If Razorblade wasn't going to hold up his end of this tag team, then maybe the old Naz needed to come back and remind him and everyone else on the roster what cruelty came when Jihad Season was in the air.
el-Fadal started heading towards the exit when Naomi semi casually mentioned that he was handling Autumn Powers winning the World title well. Naz didn't break stride but rather let out a Razorbladian short bark of a laugh. When Nao followed up that Davis’ match was next and wondered out loud if he was going to stick around for it, Naz let out some machine gun cackling as he kicked the exit door open and (presumably) left Quality Arena. Lee let out a wry smile and shook her head watching him leave; “The Old Guard Is Dead” could be heard faintly in the background and got louder as we returned to the ring for…
2. Vengeance Davis (w/Ig de Catur, the Republic and Republic Enforcement) d. Atum Pharoah at 6:12 Showcase match for the Republic's newest acquisition, who wrestled more like he was being programmed than the Davis QCW fans had gotten accustomed to seeing the past few years. A trifecta of double arm DDTs got the power man from Egypt on the mat where Vengeance locked on multiple cross arm breakers to further deplete Atum. Unfortunately for Pharoah that set him up perfectly to eat the reverse fireman's carry into a sit out piledriver that took a couple of inches off of Pharoah’s height and got Davis the dub for the second week in a row. Steve said that move was called the Silencer and it’d lived up to its name once again. We went to commercial break (unfortunately) with Ig de Catur crowing that now that he had Vengeance in his back pocket, nothing could stop the Republic. He added “Two belts down and two to go!” before letting out a high, keening cackle like the jackal he is. Ruckus is just getting started and will keep rolling right after some ads.
A bath of white light welcomed us back to Ruckus before settling down into a vignette from the Chosen. As you might expect at this point, who did the talking was leader “the Purifier” Caleb Gray. As he addressed his acolytes he apologized for not winning the World championship but took credit for weakening Jupiter Jones ahead of his World title loss. After making sure to tell Goody Gardner he was right about Davis, he mentioned that what he thought was his window closing at Golden Rule was in reality a door opening at Mayday Payday. When Goody asked him what that meant, Gray elaborated; abhorrent though she was, Ms. Punk Rock Music had created an opening…an opening that had his name written all over it. All the pieces for his prophecy to be fulfilled were in place save one, and once he got the word from on high the future would be secured. It was the blessed name of Caleb that had to restore the honor in an honorless place, to infuse prestige that drowned out the ignominy suffocating the so called Quality Championship Wrestling - “simply put, Ms. Gardner…it is time for the greatest National champion of all time to take back what is his.” A discomforting smile crept over Gray's lips until his smile and the bath of white light were one and the same.
3. Glam Squad and the Undaunted d. The All Starr Stable and Glory Days (w/S. Mark Starr) at 8:07 When's the last time we got a ten man tag on Ruckus? Match was there to show off the skills for the babyfaces as they won going away, and their smarts as they used Glory Days’ overzealousness to run them into the Starrs a few times. Too Damn Glam finished off Cliff Foster to notch a win for the mismatched babyfaces, who celebrated on the floor while the Stable cheap shotted Glory Days and beat on them since the ex footballers caused them to lose without them losing. Carl noted the losing was clearly getting to the Starr men and Steve put over both babyface teams as potential challengers for the tag titles.
We went backstage, where Gaia Green and Winter Wonderland were getting in some light stretches ahead of the main event. The crowd’s joyful noise exploded into raucous cheers as Autumn Powers came onto the scene with the QCW World title on her shoulder. Gaia and Winter looked over at their former stablemate, who uncharacteristically was stumbling over her wards as she tried to apologize to her old friends about her being severed from them for the past couple of years while she was Orion.
Winter charitably waved off Autumn’s attempts and said that doing what she did kept Hysteria from holding the World title for more than a TikTok. Now it fell to her and Gaia to follow Autumn's example and rise up to the top of the tag ranks the same way their Punk Rock Queen had taken over the singles division; that would begin tonight when they beat Hysteria just like Autumn beat Nancy at Mayday Payday. Gaia looked at her childhood friend with a slightly harder glance but said that the band couldn't get back together if they’d never broken up in the first place. That put a smile on Autumn's face as she draped her World title over a bar in a locker behind them before getting to work on some push ups. Gaia and Winter took a brief look at the Fifteen Pounds of Gold before Gaia smirked and then sat on Autumn's back. Winter told Gaia to get off of Autumn but Gaia said this made them apology pushups. Autumn gritted her teeth (unless she was smiling) and continued her workout while Winter did some modified box jumps with the bench. A chyron hyped the main event of Hysteria v. Mean Season as Ruckus hit another commercial break.
4. Summer Rose (w/”Sinister” Sarah Fowler) d. Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo (w/”Tiki God” Al Buffett) at 8:41 We had a hard hitting affair to kick off the back end of the show that saw Summer pull out a come from behind victory. After a feeling out period Ashley got the upper hand with a series of arm drags before surprising Summer with a Codebreaker that got her a near fall. S-Tier Szabo held her own - as commentary pointed out, Ashley could match Summer in strength and had a championship pedigree of her own - and then continued moving onward and upward from there. Szabo hit the Game Changer and pulled Rose into the drop zone, but fell victim to Summer's veteran smarts and whiffed on the Smash That Subscribe Button avalanche fist drop. Rose immediately pounced by hitting Dark Days and as it turned out, landing the implant reverse DDT was exactly the momentum shifting move that sparked a Rose rally. Summer dominated the majority of the rest of the match and punctuated things with her Crown of Thorns basement rana driver to pick up a hard earned victory. Rose gave a sinister grin as she got her hand raised, blood trickling out of the corner of her mouth. Outside of getting herself intentionally DQed in the Duquesne Classic semis, Summer hasn't lost in singles competition since emerging as herself again and winning the contract match over Keo Tevi at Golden Rule’s preshow.
From there we went TOTHEBACK~!, where Julius Duquesne III brought on Manifest Destiny as his interview guests after their win to kick off the show. Serge Batroc and Richard Windsor strolled onto the set while the fans booed. The French Assassin and the Proper Villain turned up their noses even further to the sky if such a thing were possible as JD3 started to ask about Mayday Payday, but the ladies of INTLTS also came on the set and flanked JD3. The moment that Fiona Fogg and Sohla Patel showed up on the scene, Windsor grabbed the mic and lost his usual cool in verbally tearing down the Undaunted; they were floppy circus rejects instead of pure technical wrestlers, they stole that win over he and Serge by stealing a page from their playbook and worst of all, they were Irish. But if they had the potatoes to meet Manifest Destiny again - and not in just any match, but a pure rules match, in a specialty of both he and Serge's, real wrestling between the ropes and not flippy garbage off of them - they would grind them into the mat, wipe the smirks off their faces and show why Manifest Destiny was the future of the tag division. Sohla looked on admiringly while Fiona gave a quarter-assed golf clap with her phone in her hand. Serge clapped Richard on the back and all four of them left the set, which left Julius to throw things back to the ring…
5. The College Park Family (w/Jupiter Jones) d. Hellraisers and the Sound of Thunder at 6:24 A rare treat for the Quality Controllers, who got to see the International Players and Science Fiction Double Feature team up in eight person tag action while the legendary Jones watched from the floor and continued recovering from the arm injury inflicted on him by Nancy Crowley in his World title loss at Mayday Payday. His protegés didn't waste much time in overwhelming the opposition whether they were Player or Feature, and the cherry on the sundae came when SFDF hit their new finisher Down To Earth on the towering Shieldmaiden that allowed Cindy Monet to pin Val Curry after her and Jane Doe’s spinebuster x falling splash combination. Collipark celebrating their win by each posing on a turnbuckle while Jones applauded from the floor took Ruckus into our final commercial break on this Friday night
We went to Steve and Carl at the announce desk, but before we heard from them they got interrupted by a familiar voice. Cameras panned the arena until they found Tre Boyd leaning out of a skybox with a mic in his hand. The Austin native soaked up the loud and mostly positive reaction from the Quality Controllers before saying that whooping Roy Fade last week was no big deal for him: he’d done it in 2025, he’d done it in 2026 - hell, if Roy was still around in 2036 he’d whoop his behind then, too. But Commissioner Holmes? Now, that was a man who needed to quit playing with the Gospel. Forget what the psycho witch and the fake holy man were talkin’ ‘bout: he’d taken the World champion to the limit and beaten everybody in the Republic. You ask Tre, that sounded like someone with the resume to be the next National champion. So he was letting it be known: if Holmes Boy didn't want to see Tre walk out the door and take his talents to Jacksonville or New York, he damn sure better have Tre in the mix to be able to snatch the Natty up. Boyd tossed aside the mic and took a big swig of champagne as cameras panned down from the skybox to Steve and Carl at the desk.
Before we hit the big trios main event, it's time to let Steve conduct the hype train for 💫 next week's Ruckus 💫: we’ll hear from Commissioner Holmes about the future of the National championship 💫 “Sinister” Sarah Fowler will take on “Night Sky” Diana Spare from the Forbidden Book Club 💫 and in the main event, Pyotr Caviar and Vengeance Davis will represent the Republic against Nazir el-Fadal and Mason “Razorblade” Savage. But that's next week's big money tag match with years of hatred between both sides…and we have one of those on deck right now.
Lights off.
Lights on - and you know that meant Hysteria, who bathed in the boos from the Quality Controllers. Steve pointed out that Justine Danek was originally slated to be in this match but after her loss to Ashok Banerjee last week Nancy Crowley either was chosen or decided to take her place.
As QCW’s resident coven held down the ring, Armored Saint’s “Hit A Moonshot” hit the PA and brought out the mostly reunited Mean Season out to a massive pop that reverberated throughout Quality Arena. Winter Wonderland, Gaia Green and the QCW World champion Autumn Powers. Hysteria left the ring but glared at their opponents' as they hit the turnbuckles to fire up the faithful. Nancy seethed up at Autumn, who was too busy holding up the QCW World title to notice.
6. Hysteria (w/Justine Danek) d. Autumn Powers and Mean Season at 11:00 The main event made sure Ruckus lived up to its name, but in the end Hysteria took the wind out of the sails of the attendees by finding a way to pull out a hard earned victory. It was an inauspicious beginning for Hysteria as Bonnie and started things off for them against Gaia Green only to be put on the back foot by Green shutting down her attempts at a falling reverse DDT or hitting any flash elbow drops. Once she had Bonnie where she wanted her, Gaia tagged in Winter so they could not only team up on a double hiptoss but a basement double dropkick as well that put Winter in position to score the first near fall of the match. The Ice Queen began working over Bonnie but when she went for a Penalty Kick, Bonnie picked her ankle and sent her crashing into the canvas
Bonnie tagged in Bella, and they joined forces to hit a falling reverse DDT x frog splash combination that got Jolie a near fall. Bella continued working over Winter while we got a replay of Hysteria's successful double team, then back in live action we saw Bella send Winter heels over head with a perfectly placed kitchen sink shot to the gut. Winter tried to crawl for the Mean Season corner only to get tossed into Hysteria’s, and quick tags to Bonnie and then Nancy allowed all three women to beat down Wonderland with some clubberin’ in the corner. Nancy tagged in Bonnie and they took down Winter with a double roundhouse kick to officially put Winter in trouble. A cut to backstage showed Summer Rose and “Sinister” Sarah Fowler stone faced as they watched the main event play out on a monitor. As Bonnie kicked away at WW it allowed Steve and Carl to highlight the fact Hysteria was a dangerous, bonded together unit used to performing at the highest levels and used to winning World titles; the brief taste they’d gotten at Mayday Payday had pushed a group known for their psychotic styles even further past the point of no return and you (us at home) knew they weren't going to stop until the World title was back in their control.
Bonnie hit a snap powerslam and then followed it up with a PK to keep Winter down and under control. Nancy was screeching “GET HER!” from the apron, so Bonnie pointed at Winter and did the throat slash that suggested she was about to put this main event to bed. Agrippa hooked up Winter and started Eclipsing the Light – but after eating a pair of suplexes Wonderland rallied by cutting off an attempted brainbuster with a series of knees to Nancy's head to get free. W2 landed safely on the mat then snatched up Bonnie and dropped her with a Nuclear Winter implant DDT that left both women literally down for the count. Autumn and Gaia fired up the faithful while in the other corner Bella tried to make the tag while Nancy's eyes got colder and darker while she glared over at the opposition.
Bonnie managed to forward roll towards her corner and tag in Nancy, who’s ankle pick should've cut off the tag - but Winter suddenly blasted her with an enzuigiri from her free leg that sent Crowley down and gave Winter the opportunity she needed to tag in Autumn as the crowd went ballistic. Powers leapfrogged a Crowley charge before running to Hysteria's corner and sending both Agrippa and Jolie to the floor. Nancy tried to sneak up on Autumn and go for a Code Black but Powers slipped it and dumped Nancy with a German suplex. Bella ran in and ate one, then Bonnie did, too; when Crowley tried to surprise Autumn with a senton The Champ rolled out of the way before scrambling Nancy's brains with a release dragon suplex that had Quality Arena rocking and rolling. Autumn came firing out of the corner with a basement dropkick that sent Crowley onto her knees, then bounced off the ropes and plastered the Feral member of Hysteria with her vaunted Hazy Shade Of Autumn. Powers went for the cover but both Bonnie and Bella dove on Autumn to break it up and save the match.
That save drew Gaia and Winter in to return fire and before long a Pier 6 broke out to the joy of the crowd. Mean Season held their own but some quick thinking by Bonnie allowed her to low bridge Gaia out of the ring and then have Bella send Winter over the top onto Gaia. With them on the floor, Hysteria stepped things up a notch as Agrippa and Jolie hit a double superkick that sent a staggering Autumn right into the arms of Nancy's Devil's Wings. The Agrippa/Jolie tandem then went out to the apron before flying off with stereo triangle moonsaults that wiped out Green and Wonderland - and left the ring clear for Nancy to cinch up Autumn and drop her with her Bite Me finisher. No save came, Autumn tried but couldn't kick out, and when the zebra’s hand came down for three it seemed like it took all the air out of Quality Arena with it.
The referee tried to raise Nancy's hand but she ripped it away and went on a rant against Autumn, saying that's what would've happened at Mayday Payday if she’d seen Autumn coming ahead of time. Crowley went into a frothy tirade calling Autumn a fraud, a weak, worthless paper champion and more to the point that Bonnie and Bella hit the ring, both forcing Nancy into a corner to keep her from launching another attack. But all Nancy was launching was more madness out of her mouth, repeatedly declaring herself the World National champion and demanding Autumn give her her rematch so she could get back what Autumn had stolen from her. Gaia and Winter hit the ring to check on the recovering Powers, but as Steve wrapped things up and wished us good night from Parts Unknown, Ruckus went off the air with the crazed Crowley still running down Autumn to anyone who’d listen while the rest of the coven held her back with evil smirks on their faces.
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