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Ruckus kicked off with the Invincible open before we went inside Quality Arena, which was packed and just as rowdy as any other Friday night. Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen are back for another Ruckus full of quality championship wrestling, and they hyped “Sinister” Sarah Fowler vs. “Night Sky’ Diana Spare as well as a big tag team main event of former tag champs Nazir el-Fadal and Mason “Razorblade” Savage going up against Pyotr Caviar and Vengeance Davis of the Republic. As it turned out, tonight's show would be bookended with tag team action…
1. The End Times (w/the Chosen) d. “Swamp Pride” Ted Holland and Robert E. Moonshine at 8:36 The Times mostly rolled here, allowing “the Purifier” Caleb Gray to crow to the cameras and the announcers about his divine plan to regain the National championship. Robert and Ted threw a scare into the flock late - even getting a couple of near falls about a minute apart - but the Times recovered quickly from the scare. A Lawn Dart into a cutter shut down the dreams of an upset and set up the Reckoning that got Donny Castle and Dr. Martin Williams the duke.
We saw a vignette from Earlier Today where the members of Sky’s the Limit interrupted Tre Boyd signing autographs in the parking lot as he came into QA. The Cooper Brothers and Kam Ellis tried to talk their former friend Tre into rejoining their unit and stop playin’ with them. Tre turned away from the signing and said they had to stop stalkin,’. Win Serge’s money, check - beat Naz Almighty on PPV, check - beat all of the Republic’s land monsters - check. The best thing he ever did was leave them behind and get after his. They needed to get theirs. When Kam Ellis sarcastically asked if they could get one of the many title shots Tre had gotten and failed at, Boyd whipped off his designer sunglasses and did a triple take at the beefy California King. When Ellis folded his arms and stared down Boyd, Tre marched off screen. A few seconds later a rental car peeled out of the parking lot while the Cooper Brothers asked big Kam why he’d do that when they're trying to get Tre back with all of them. Ellis remained staring off where Boyd had sped off. “Tre make it sound like he don't need us. Maybe it's the other way round, tho.” That sentence landed hard on DeMarcus and DeMarius; you could see them mulling it over as Ellis walked off. We returned to live action and “B.o.B” as the crowd got to their feet out of respect for a legend –
2. Jupiter Jones (w/Collipark) d. Hawk Carter at 5:00 Jones’ first match since dropping the World title at Cruel Summer. QCW’s resident shit kicking cowboy got in a few shots, but one of these men is going to end up a unanimous Hall of Famer and the other one’s Carter. A double underhook powerbomb set up the Bolt From Olympus in the showcase win for Jupiter, and Collipark's night is just beginning - Science Fiction Double Feature will try to make things 2-0 on the other side of the evening’s first commercial break.
We came back from the break to Naomi Lee backstage, right before she brought on the Undaunted as her interview guests. She asked them about Manifest Destiny challenging them to a pure rules match on the heels of their rivalry intensifying over the past few months. Tim “the Only Hope” McMurray was quick to accept, saying that they were willing to fight on their terms if Manifest Destiny was willing to lose with them in place. “Unforgettable” Dave Mullin began to add to Tim’s comments…right until they got jumped from behind by Manifest Destiny. Serge Batroc and Richard Windsor went after the former Catch Hell Wrestling League tag team champions with a vengeance, bouncing them off the walls, vending machines and production crates before Quality Force Security came on the scene to break things up.
As they were being led away from the scene of their crimes, Serge was laughing about it all; he mentioned that while the match was going to be under pure rules…well, this wasn't a match, was it? Naomi checked on the disoriented Undaunted while we went back to the ring for more traditional tag team battling.
3. Science Fiction Double Feature (w/Collipark) d. A Cut Above (w/S. Mark Starr & Prince Ootsuka) at 6:21 You know things are going bad when the announcers were openly referring to the Starr Slump while the match was still in progress. But in this battle of former tag champs it was almost wholly one way traffic from the Family, who used their speed to deal Starr’s men another L. Another win delivered by their new Down To Earth finisher, Cindy pinning O’Neill. Starr wandered by the announce and asked Carl if he could have his old job back; your mileage may vary as to if he was kidding or not.
Moments later, the lights cut off briefly before coming back on and revealing Hysteria in the ring. They commandeered some mics from Duck Eko and wasted no time in demanding that the troglodytes in the truck remind these people of what happened last week. Footage on the Qualitron played and ran on air of Hysteria beating Mean Season and the rest of Hysteria having to pull Nancy Crowley off of Autumn Powers after she’d pinned her to win the match. Crowley went on one of her “World National champion” rants, saying that Autumn was a fraud who’d stolen her Fifteen Pounds of Gold. She couldn't beat her in the Duquesne and the only way she could beat her was to put on a mask and show up after Nancy had already beaten a legend and these horrible, ugly sheep that hung on Autumn's word no matter what had the nerve to call her crazy?! What was crazy was that Autumn was too scared to give Crowley her rematch…so until she got it, Hysteria was going to hurt some people.
Starting with Ashok Banerjee, again. He didn't learn like Autumn didn't learn and if they were two peas from the same idiot pod then they would fit fine inside Hysteria's cauldron. For all the obvious reasons, Bella Jolie would take care of him. He would get orange crushed by the beauty and the beast of Hysteria, they’d put him right back in the hospital ..and it would be all Autumn's fault. Bella dared Ashok to look into the Face of Death and know his future was doomed to be a short one. Bonnie Agrippa seemed like she was about to chime in when Steve hurriedly said that we had to go to a commercial break but that tape machines were rolling; Ashok vs. Bella was next!
We came back from commercial break with the rest of Hysteria circling the ring while Bella stayed in the ring and waited for Ashok to come out. As Banjerjee fist bumped some fans on his way down the ramp a picture in picture showed highlights of him winning over Justine Danek two weeks ago. Banerjee took a good look at all of Hysteria before focusing on Jolie as the bell rang.
4. Ashok Banerjee d. Bella Jolie (w/Hysteria) by disqualification at 8:09 Frustrated by Ashok early on, Bella decided to take shortcuts to get the upper hand; using Ashok’s hair against him to throw him down to the mat, eye rakes with her boots and fingers and more plays out of the cheating playbook while her sisters rooted her on. Jolie hit a diving leg lariat a la her tag partner Justine and went up top for her Death From Above signature frog splash. But Ashok managed to roll away and avoid it, leaving Bella to eat a rough looking crash landing into the canvas. Ashok began coming back, and began putting together high flying Boundless offense before hitting a pair of Destroyer DDTs to further deplete Bella's chances of a comeback. However, when Ashok went for the Decolonizer Driver to end things the rest of Hysteria came in to beat him down, save Bella and draw the DQ.
Ashok was left on the wrong side of a four on one beating (as Carl reminded us, Ashok's usual tag partner Jacques Krieger has been AWOL since catching an Omar sized beating weeks ago). Hysteria ignored the bell repeatedly ringing and played Finisher Bingo: first Justine and Bella connected on Twelve Feet Under, then Nancy hit him with Code Black before Bonnie picked up his limp body and spiked him with a brainbuster. Quality Force Security hit the ring but Nancy snapped her fingers to do the lights off/lights on/Hysteria disappears in the darkness tradition. Some of QFS helped Ashok to the back.
The announcers teed up a live announcement from the Commish but when cameras went back to his office he was in a heated argument with Ig de Catur about the National championship. de Catur said there wouldn't even be a National championship without him, so that meant it would be coming home to the Republic come hell or high water. He had the finest wrestlers from around the world under his roof so any one of them could carry that belt - and he'll, if Malicía was healthy she'd be the one taking back her belt. If she couldn't, someone else from his roster would. Holmes seethed but said that if he wanted one or more of his people to get a shot at the belt then he needed another week to move things around and figure out a different approach to what was going to happen next for the National championship. Ig said Holmes could do as he wanted, but his people were going to be able to get shots at it or his lawyers would come down on Scott like a Biblical plague.
Holmes said that he didn't need to see Ig around until he main event, and the duplicitous former Commissioner laughed and pointed out the words main event. It's what Ig did - and what the Republic would do once they regained the National title. He walked away laughing with his group trailing behind him as Holmes threw up his hands and swiped some papers off his desk. The announcers noted that Holmes had better come up with a solution fast because the National title was on the minds of most of the roster. After some speculation over how Holmes could solve the problem, “Change (In the House of Flies)” began playing as the bell rang for our semi main event and out came “Sinister” Sarah Fowler with mentor Summer Rose to booing and weirded out fans…
5. “Night Sky” Diana Spare (w/Forbidden Book Club) d. “Sinister” Sarah Fowler (w/Summer Rose) at 11:52 The semi main turned out to be more of a hockey fight than a wrestling match; somehow, the crowd, Fowler and Spare didn't seem to mind. The opening minute of the match saw them exchanging fists until they’d driven each other to their knees, then both slapped their opponent repeatedly with shots that echoed to the fifth row of the upper deck, then slowly rising while punching each other before the second hockey fight in 75 seconds broke out to the roars of the crowd. It appeared Diana had won the fight when she landed several consecutive rights and a headbutt, but when Diana tried to whip Sarah into the ropes Fowler reversed into a straightjacket neckbreaker before getting in the mount position and throwing some headbutts of her own to take control.
As Fowler worked Spare over and wore her down, commentary gave begrudging praise to Summer’s tutelage of Sarah over the past couple of years. Diana landed some hard back elbows to get free of Sarah's cravate then whipped her into the ropes, but Fowler narrowly dodged a Black Hole Slam and hit a jumping neckbreaker for a nearfall. Sarah kept rolling as Summer urged her on, and in short order went for the kill with her finishing basement rana driver - but Spare shocked her by powering up and delivered a pop up Michinoku Driver to save her bacon. As Luz, Shelley and Summer pounded the apron to rally their stable mate both Fowler and Spare began to come up off the canvas. Fowler went for a larist that missed but Diana’s spear off the ropes was right on target.
The championship experience of Spare came to the forefront as she began making her rally with a couple of leg lariats and then ran Sarah down by hitting a big boot off the ropes. Spare kept her momentum rolling from there and even gave a shout-out to Shelley LaVey when she hit her teammate’s Heartbreaker draping cutter to stick Sarah. Spare followed up with her trusty Nightfall and it hit so hard it looked like Ms. Sinister was out on her feet while almost standing diagonally…so Diana snatched her up and hit a second Nightfall to make the subsequent pinfall academic. The announcers put over Sarah putting Diana to the test as “Night Sky” got her hand raised and Luz and Shelley joined her in the ring. When we came back from replays, the Club was on the floor as Cruz and LaVey continued to pump up Spare. They weren't the only ones looking Diana's way, as from the ring Summer was staring a hole into the woman who'd just beaten her protegê. It was on that unsettling note that Ruckus threw to the last commercial break tonight.
We came back from the break to Julius Duquesne III, who brought out his Explosively Cool guests Emily Bennett and Keo Tevi. JD3 congratulated Emily on her win over Fiona Fogg on Unleashed before asking what was next for her and Keo. Emily said she wouldn't presume to speak for Keo but said that with plenty of jerkoffs in QCW, there were plenty of opportunities for her to keep fighting the good fight. Keo.added that as far as they were concerned, what they wanted to get accomplished next in QCW was two fold: (1) wear down Emily until she became her best friend in the world (Bennett seemed slightly annoyed but also smiled a little) and (2) go after the National championship. She’d been a champion multiple times Down Under, and the National championship here was very cool. Autumn had set the standard and shown the blueprint, and she confessed to Jules seeing so many people throw their rings in that hat made them want it for themselves. And the more they said “National champion Keo Tevi” in their head the more it made their heart sing. So add their name to the list, Holmsy! Keo thanked JD3 for his time, Emily gave a small nod in his direction, and he threw it back to Steve and Carl.
Per usual before the main event, Steve conducted the hype train for 💫 next week's Ruckus:💫: we’ll get two major announcements from Commissioner Holmes (gotta assume one of those will be about the National championship) 💫 Justine Danek and Bella Jolie of Hysteria will face Mean Season’s Gaia Green and Winter Wonderland 💫 and the pure rules tag between Manifest Destiny and the Undaunted will take place
Speaking of tag team clashes, it was time for our main event!
Clipse’s “So Be It ‘ brought out Nazir el-Fadal to a big pop, and he came down to the ring looking focused. And once he got in the ring he warmed up in a corner Instead of doing his usual posing. “Unscripted Violence” took over on the PA And brought out Mason “Razorblade” Savage to a huge pop of his own. Fans patted him on the back as he came down the steps and hit the ring. Once he stepped between the ropes he had a frosty staredown with Naz, but the glaring came to an end when “The Old Guard Is Dead” brought out the Republic en masse They had barely begun coming to the ring before Razorblade broke his staredown with Naz to roll out of the ring and charge up the ramp. Multiple Republic Enforcement guys couldn't stop Savage from going after his former protégé Vengeance Davis, and they threw hands like rice at a wedding. Razorblade getting the upper hand drew Pyotr Caviar in to defend his new stablemate, and the bad guys quickly got the upper hand to deliver a two on one beatdown of Savage down the ramp. They were so focused on pummelling Razorblade that they didn't see Nazir el-Fadal building up speed off the ropes before diving on all three of them with a springboard plancha that had the Quality Controllers and Naz alike fired up. el-Fadal pointed at Ig before giving him a crotch chop, then got Davis in the ring to get the main event officially started…
6. Pyotr Caviar and Vengeance Davis (w/Ig de Catur, the Republic and Republic Enforcement) d. Nazir el-Fadal and Mason “Razorblade” Savage at 15:33 …a main event that wouldn't end without controversy.
It didn't take long for the tides to turn the Republic’s way, as Pyotr provided a distraction that set up a Davis modified cannonball off the ropes that gave control over to the Republic. Vengeance worked over Naz for a couple minutes before tagging in Pyotr so that they could team up on a Russian sickle x side Russian leg sweep combo. But Pyotr didn't go for a cover; instead he gestured for Naz to tag out to Razorblade. Savage stared into the ring and extended his hand, but Naz pivoted and came up from the canvas with a European uppercut to stagger Pyotr. Four more sent Pyotr into the corner, but when Naz charged him Caviar shut him down with a running high knee. Pyotr turned el-Fadal over to Davis for more punishment.
With Davis in the ring, the beating continued. Carl noted the fact that Ju–uh, Vengeance and Naz had had it out for each other for the better part of a year and they still tried to destroy each other every time they fought. Truth be told, it reminded him of how Naz and Razorblade had gone after each other in the past. After he said that, the One Man Jihad missed a corner charge and went flying shoulder first into the ringpost. Vengeance took advantage and grabbed Naz as he staggered out to spin him around into a double arm DDT. Not only that, but he maintained his hand lock after it hit and dragged Naz up to hit again and for good measure drilled Naz with a third to literally hit a trifecta while Ig screamed about retribution. But Vengeance didn't make a cover and also gestured to a now slightly bleeding Naz to tag out of the match so that he could fight his mentor. Naz’s response was to laugh as he rolled onto his backside then spit in Davis’ face. The crowd cheered Naz’s insolence as an enraged Vengeance pulled.Naz up by the hair - only to eat a dose of Nazquil that dropped him to the canvas.
Both men were down for a spell but it was Davis who recovered first, rolling to the Republic corner to tag Pyotr back in. Caviar hit the ring only to walk into a Hamrin Valley Driver that made him hit the canvas. Naz hesitated once he got to the corner, but while he was deliberating Razorblade just tagged himself in and quickly covered Pyotr. Caviar managed a kick out but he was still reeling from the HVD and Razorblade was quick to take advantage by pummelling him with a barrage of rights. It took an inverted atomic drop for Pyotr to even slow down Razorblade a little bit but the now three time tag team champion missed a Russian sickle of lf the ropes, then stumbled into a massive spinebuster that got Savage 2¾. Savage went for a bulldog choke but Pyotr powered his way out of it and threw Razorblade down to the canvas with a borderline judo throw. Caviar hit the ropes but got hit by a cheap shot from the apron by Naz, who dropped to the floor when Pyotr swung at him. That series of distractions set up another Razorblade spinebuster, and this time Vengeance had to dive into the ring to save his current partner from his former one.
Naz came in and a Pier 4 broke out, but just when it seemed like he and Razorblade had the Republic on their heels things went awry. el-Fadal tried to stagger Vengeance with a cross chop to the throat but Davis slipped it and it ended up connecting with Razorblade instead. Caviar spun Naz around before spinning himself into a discus Russian sickle that hit so hard the One Man Jihad flipped off the impact and landed on his stomach. Razorblade recovered enough to get after Pyotr with some blindside rights but when he whipped Pyotr into the ropes it got reversed into a 3D by the black hats just like the one NaZorblade had hit on Pyotr in Philly at Mayday Payday. Vengeance bundled Naz up and tossed him out of the ring while Pyotr picked Razorblade’s bones and grabbed him for a spinning sit out powerbomb. The Quality Controllers groaned when it connected - but gasped a three count later when it got the win.
Ig was jubilant on the floor as his men got their hand raised in the ring. Steve noted the bitter irony of a team called Caviar and Vengeance paying dividends as they joined their boss on the floor, who was in the middle of letting every fan within hearing range know that the Republic had proved once again that they were better than QCW’s best. The Republic began to head to the back as Ig put the tag titles on his shoulders and promised them the finest champagne and lobster tails on his yacht while at ringside, Naz crawled in under the bottom rope.
Naz pulled himself up - and began berating Razorblade for dropping the fall again, wondering why he was trying so hard to make a team work when he wasn't the reason it was failing. Razorblade was slow to get up, but once he did he pointed to his neck and gave Naz an earful in return. Savage punctuated his end of the argument by shoving Naz down, which got a loud reaction from the crowd that leaned positive. Naz shook his head and sneered before getting up and shoving Razorblade down, asking him if he wanted to go, because if so he’d just lose again. Razorblade got to his feet but before the long time rivals could throw down, Quality Force Security hit the ring to loud boos with Commissioner Holmes right on their heels. Holmes directed his men to keep them in opposite corners, first approaching Naz but it not being a fruitful conversation before going to Razorblade’s corner - and whatever Savage said had the censors repeatedly hitting the button like a kid in an elevator. Naz and Razorblade couldn't get free of the half dozen security members they each had on them, and Ruckus went off the air with some Grand Slam level tension in the air while the Quality Controllers changed the same three words: “LET THEM FIGHT! LET THEM FIGHT!"
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