📺 live on FanDuel Sports Network Florida
📍 Quality Arena 💫 Parts Unknown, FL
The show kicked off with a Cruel Summer highlights video package. Stills of the International Players and “Explosive” Emily Bennett celebrating their wins on the preshow gave way to lengthier video clips of action from the main card –
🥵 The Undaunted fending off interference from “the Purifier” Caleb Gray to defeat his protegés the End Times 🥵
🥵🥵 Next was the four corners elimination match to fill the vacant National championship – the Orlando crowd being stunned by Omar Littlefield getting eliminated first by the rest of the field followed by his immediate revenge in laying all of them out with Face Erasers - Nancy Crowley using the threat of a Hysteria distraction to pin Keo Tevi and eliminate them - Tre Boyd looking like he was about to score his first piece of QCW gold only for Justine Danek and Bella Jolie to successfully interfere, causing his Say Hallelujah to crash and burn to set up Crowley pinning him too to win the belt, Bonnie Agrippa looking a little sheepish post match since her attempt at interference failed while Justine and Bella celebrated with Nancy 🥵🥵
🥵🥵🥵 Next was the match for the World Tag Team championships rematch with Science Fiction Double Feature trying to regain the belts from the Republic’s Caviar + Malice - the ladies of Collipark providing a sturdy challenge but the power of the Republic able to overcome their speed, Jane Doe eating a double chokeslam and the pinfall as the black hats retained 🥵🥵🥵
🥵🥵🥵🥵 Summer Rose and Diana Spare having a hard hitting brawl, as violent as a straight up one on one match could be without gimmicks or weapons, a back and forth affair that saw Summer land the last shots when she countered Nightfall with a massive avalanche Dark Days then hit the Crown of Thorns to pull out the win, Rose offering up a sick smile as she wiped blood from the corner of her mouth and got her hand raised by the referee 🥵🥵🥵🥵
🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵 The all star triple threat semi mained the PPV with turncoat Vengeance Davis now representing the Republic against Nazir el-Fadal and “Mason” Razorblade Savage, enmity cutting in every direction - Davis and Savage briefly teaming up like the old days to take Naz out of the picture with a Doomsday Device before going back to trying to destroy each other - Davis and Naz hitting a combination cobra clutch suplex and lariat on Razorblade, only for Naz to pull Davis off the cover into Nazquil and then have Razorblade break up that pin attempt - Naz and Razorblade both dodging Busiaku knees from Davis and then hitting him with a 3D - el-Fadal sending Razorblade into the ringpost before hitting him with an avalanche Hamrin Valley Driver into Vengeance to take him out and then pin Razorblade to get the win, a smirking Naz strutting to the back saying to the camera that after he got his hand raised at Anniversary, they’d have to put the World title back in the other one where it never should've left because he's the Greatest Man Alive 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵 The main event for the Fifteen Pounds of Gold, Autumn Powers defending the World championship against the legendary Jupiter Jones - both shaking hands as the bell rang, the crowd loud and split in their chants - as things get chippier between respectful rivals Autumn and Jupiter in the ring, so do things on the outside between Collipark and Mean Season - Jones surprising the crowd with a no hands plancha to Powers on the floor - as Jones started to gain the upper hand, “Sinister” Sarah Fowler and Summer Rose came out, engaging in barbs with both Collipark and Season - Autumn ducking the Bolt From Olympus and the ref getting dropped - Autumn hitting the Hazy Shade with the ref down and unable to make the count, things got more contentious at ringside.. and then Naz began creeping towards the ring - Rose & Fowler going after Science Fiction Double Feature and sending them into the stairs before Mean Season arrived on the scene to break it up and start fighting with Rose and Fowler themselves - Naz edging closer to the ring with his head cocked - Jupiter showing concern for SFDF on the outside and telling the International Players to help them out before a recovering Autumn hit him with a Hazy Shade that knocked him ass over teakettle - Powers looking at the chaos in the floor before seeing Jones start stirring - Powers putting a Hazy Shade in the back of Jupiter's head, making the cover - the ref crawling into position and making a slow but solid three count
Rose and Fowler taking off through the crowd after the three count - Collipark and Mean Season exchanging tense handshakes - Naz shrugging before turning around and heading to the back - and Jones, as usual, the classy vet, raising Autumn's hand and fastening the World title around her waist before leaving the ring, leaving Mean Season to celebrate in the ring with The Champ - the final images of the package show Autumn on the turnbuckles with the Fifteen Pounds of Gold, hands triumphantly overhead as she continues her reign 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
We're back in Quality Arena where nearly a thousand loud and proud Quality Controllers have packed the place on another Friday night for tonight's episode of Ruckus. As usual, Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen were on the call and hyped up that we’d hear from the Undaunted as well as have “the Purifier” Caleb Gray vs. the legendary Jupiter Jones in the main event before they threw things up to Duck Eko in the ring; the Voice of QCW then proceeded to do the ring introductions for tonight's opening contest…
1. Vengeance Davis (w/Ig de Catur, the Republic & Republic Enforcement) d. Kam Ellis (w/the Cooper Brothers) at 6:15 Davis didn't lose in the big triple threat match at Cruel Summer but clearly had a chip on his shoulders for this opener. The heavy hitter of Sky’s the Limit got in some early shots but in short order Davis cleared him from the ring and took him down with a cannonball off the apron. Davis dominated the match and hit Retribution four times down the stretch before shocking the crowd by being able to get the California King up on his shoulders to set up planting Ellis with the Silencer. Once it hit, the three count was a mere formality.
Davis was busy getting his hand raised by the referee when Omar Littlefield hit the ring and laid out Ellis with a Face Eraser. The Cooper Brothers hit the ring in order to make the save, but that caused the rest of the Republic to hit the ring and stomp Sky’s the Limit out. The referee tried to intervene only for Pyotr Caviar to take his head off with a Russian sickle. The crowd booed but Littlefield continued laying waste to the Coopers and Ellis, hitting all of them with more Face Erasers. Commissioner Holmes came out from the back, really verbally tearing Ig de Catur a new one and Ig firing back some verbal javelins of his own. It looked like the Republic was going to surround Holmes and maybe get physical with him as well, but Holmes headed to the back as Quality Force Security came out. The Republic ignored them entirely, with Ig leading the charge and saying that he wasn't done talking to that corrupt Commissioner (causing long time viewers’ irony meters to explode all around the world). The Republic stomped backstage with QFS right on their heels, leaving poor Kam and the Coopers trying to pull themselves off the mat after getting swarmed by the World Tag Team champions, Davis and Littlefield.
After a few weeks of teasers, Claudia Watson (aka “the Girl Next Door”) will make her QCW debut on next week's show. Done being underutilized on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, CW has made the jump to QCW and looks to take over Friday nights. Back to the ring, and if Claudia looks to succeed in her new spot she’ll do well to steer clear of the women heading to the ring…
2. Summer Rose & “Sinister” Sarah Fowler d. Christine Kent and Hilary Highnote at 5:48 A squash that got sadistic towards the end as Rose and Fowler ground the lawful good Christine and Hilary under their heels metaphorically and literally. Poor Kent ate the fall from Fowler after eating a nasty top rope double stomp into Dark Days.
After the match, Fowler got the mic from Duck Eko before handing it to Summer. Rose hissed that she’d taken down one Summer Rose knockoff at Cruel Summer (Diana Spare) but that meant there was one more to go - her old…friend…Autumn Powers and her little…sidekicks. They could play pretend all they wanted, but a real Mean Season had Summer Rose in it front and center, not two parasites desperate to stay relevant. Autumn needed to drop the dead weight and bring on the real personification of Mean Season in her and Sarah - because at this point, that might just be the only thing that kept her from burning this place to the ground. Summer tossed the mic over her shoulder and stared dead eyed at the camera while a cackling Fowler patted her on the back and massaged her shoulders. Garbage’s “Vow” took over the PA as they headed to the back and Ruckus headed towards tonight's first commercial break.
3. Bonnie Agrippa (w/Hysteria) d. “Explosive” Emily Bennett (w/”Cambodian Cool” Keo Tevi) at 7:09 This was a rematch from Cruel Summer’s preshow, where Bennett pulled off the upset win by cradling Agrippa as she was trying to complete her Eclipsing the Light finisher. Here, Emily came out the gates hot; she beat the High Priestess of Hysteria in the feeling out stages and put a second rope missile dropkick right in Bonnie's chin and chest that drove Bonnie from the ring. However, the match shifted dramatically when Emily followed up with a tope suicida that Bonnie sidestepped, leaving the Minnesotan to go flying headfirst into the retaining barrier.
Agrippa decided to add injury to injury with a falling reverse DDT on the floor before tossing Emily in the ring and working her over. The targeted attack on the back of Emily's head and neck continued to pay dividends as Agrippa laid Emily out with a tornado neckbreaker for a solid nearfall. Bennett tried to come out from under Agrippa’s arsenal only to eat clubbing blows to the back of her neck that sent her to the canvas just to get buried underneath a slew of flash elbows. Agrippa taunted the crowd about dominating Emily while Keo Tevi pounded the mat on the outside and tried to rally Emily. That just caused the always sadistic Agrippa to lay in harder stomps to Ms. Explosive while taunting Keo and saying she couldn't stop her from breaking her social justice Barbie buddy. After doing further damage with a Code Black that got a loud, cackling screech of approval from Nancy Crowley, Agrippa announced she was done playing with her food and pulled Emily off the mat by her hair - only to get surprised by a sudden Bennett brainbuster that left both women down on the canvas.
They were both down for most of the ten count, with Bonnie up at 8 and Emily staggering up a second later. Agrippa rushed Bennett, who caught her off guard with a jawbreaker, then stunned the High Priestess of Hysteria with a superkick before pulling her in and flattening Agrippa out with a cradle piledriver. Emily let out a war cry before bundling Bonnie up and going for her Time’s Up finisher, but before her slingshot elevated powerbomb could connect, Agrippa undercut her and swept Emily's feet out from under her to stack her on the mat. Crafty veteran Agrippa saw the referee go down for the count and quickly got her feet on the middle ropes, Crowley held them down by wrapping the National championship around them, and the zebra missed the cheating but not the three count.
Bennett complained about the cheating while Agrippa was getting her hand raised, and Keo hit the ring to support her best friend and say that she’d seen it from the floor. The referee seemed to be listening and reconsidering right before the rest of Hysteria hit the ring to jump Emily & Teo from behind. Emily & Teo damn sure weren't going to win from the short side of a four on two fight, and the fight ended when Nancy buried the title in first Emily then Teo’s heads. With the crowd booing and their opposition strewn around them, Hysteria demanded the mic and got it.
Bonnie said that she just proved that Cruel Summer was a fluke and that the new Emily Bennett would be in the exact same place the old one was: looking up at Hysteria. But this night wasn't about her victory - it was about the National championship coming home to where it never should've left - it was about her right hand woman, the deliciously feral Nancy Crowley! The crowd booed as Crowley took the mic from Bonnie with one hand and held up the National championship with her other. Crowley had an evil grin on her face as she brought the mic up and seemed to be ready to launch into a soliloquy – but instead dove onto the mat and drove the mic repeatedly into Keo’s head before jumping from body to body and doing the same to Emily. Agrippa and Crowley told Justine Danek and Bella Jolie to get them some chairs; once their subordinates did, they wrapped Bennett and Tevi’s heads with the chairs. Before any Pillmanizing could happen, Quality Force Security came streaming from the back and made a beeline for the ring.
Bonnie just shrugged, smirked and snapped her fingers. Lights out in Quality Arena…and when they came back on Hysteria had once again pulled their disappearing in the darkness trick. QFS worked to get the chairs off the heads of Emily and Keo while the medical staff hit the ring to check on them. Steve apologized for Hysteria's dark celebration and said they would restore order during the commercial break.
We came back to find out that During the Break, Commissioner Holmes (backed up by QFS and some babyface members of the roster) had ejected the Republic from the building after what they did to Sky’s the Limit and the referee in the opener. Ig railed against this, calling it overreach during the same week Holmes had the nerve to put Davis in a glorified handicap match against two Grand Slammers who couldn't even beat him. De Catur threatened to sue on behalf of his clientele and get QCW shut down if necessary, but that just triggered a red faced and multiple obscenity laden response from Holmes - causing Ig to quickly hustle his people into their fleet of Town Cars and leave the arena, but not before he swore to Holmes that this wasn't over and that he’d get justice for Vengeance. As the cars left the parking garage, Holmes turned to a pair of QFSers and told them to lock the gates before telling the rest of them that if they found Hysteria still lurking around, kick their asses out, too A fuming Holmes went back towards his office as we went back to the ring for some trios action…
4. Forbidden Book Club d. The Sound of Thunder & Veronica Vespa at 7:27 After Diana Spare narrowly lost to Summer Rose on Sunday night, FBC were looking for and got a bounce back win here to kick off action in the back half of the show. Diana may have been laying in the shots a little harder than usual but this trios match was here to show the Club’s cohesiveness and how well they function together as a unit. Vespa took the fall after some Finisher Bingo, Luz Cruz’s ¡MUERTE! setting up Diana’s Nightfall that paved the way for Shelley LaVey’s Fallen Angel splash that got the win.
As they got their hands raised by the ref and soaked in the cheers from the Quality Controllers, Carl hyped up that Shelley would be getting a shot next week at Nancy Crowley and the National championship thanks to her three way dance win last week. Given that their long standing friendship turned into this rivalry, you know Shelley is going to bring the house against Hysteria's absolutely Feral titleholder.
From there, we went TOTHEBACK ~!, where Naomi Lee was standing by to interview her guests: the Undaunted. Tim “the Only Hope” McMurray and “Unforgettable” Dave Mullin came on the set to a good pop. Nao said they might be the fastest rising team in QCW, so what was next up for them? Tim said that they'd beaten Manifest Destiny at their own game and ended the End Times ‘ winning streak at Cruel Summer, Dave said their Undaunted mentality came to the front after they lost to Hysteria a couple of Anniversaries ago and while they weren't champs anymore, he & his mate still wanted the belts and if they could pull it off at this year's Anniversary in a couple months’ time, all the better. Tim added that he knew the good people of Parts Unknown were as sick of the Republic acting like the tag titles were their property, and they were going to go forward taking straight aim at Ig’s goon squad. Dave said that they would remain Undaunted but what was next for them was capturing the QCW tag team championships just like they’d held the Catch Hell straps in the recent past. They were the only hope, they were unforgettable, and they were declaring it was Republic hunting season. They thanked Lee for the interview and confidently strode off set while Nao teed up our final commercial break on the night.
5. Tre Boyd d. “The Forsaken” Drake Tremble at 6:04 We came back from the break to a semi main showcase, as Boyd came into this one pissed off over being screwed out of the National championship by Hysteria on Sunday night and took it out on the hapless Tremble. Boyd fought without his usual sense of art before grappling and bloodied Tremble’s nose before hitting a stiff legged missile dropkick that set up Say Hallelujah for a decisive victory. A clearly seething Boyd didn't even stick around to get his hand raised by the ref and stormed off to the back, ignoring the cheers of the crowd.
Ahead of the main event, Steve conducted the hype train for 💫 next week's Ruckus 💫: we’ll hear from Nazir el-Fadal | Summer Rose and Sinister Sarah Fowler will go up against Science Fiction Double Feature | and Nancy Crowley will defend the National championship for the first time against her former friend and current Forbidden Book Club member Shelley LaVey
Our main event kicked off with “Shall We Gather At the River?” playing to bring out the Chosen. The bath of white light faded in Quality Arena as the End Times and Goody Gardner cleared the path for their leader “the Purifier” Caleb Gray to head to the ring. The white and gold clad believers got in the ring and formed a cross formation around Gray, who looked less like the beacon of Christianity he molds himself as and more an angry man itching for a fight he couldn't wait to start brawling in.
“B.O.B.” from Outkast replaced the hymn and got the Quality Controllers roaring as the College Park Family came out to support their leader, the legendary Jupiter Jones. His protegés the International Players and Science Fiction Double Feature surrounded Jones, who was the picture of calm as he slapped fans’ hands on his way to the ring.
Steve put over the fact that Jones had just main evented on Sunday night going after the World championship and had it not been for all the increasing chaos on the outside as the match continued he could've regained the World title he’d held most of the year. Carl pointed out that it would be a similar environment tonight - a borderline lumberjack match given that the rest of the Chosen and the Family would be on the outside rooting for their leaders; counting the referee, this match would have ten people involved in it and both Gray and Jones would have to rely on their experience to steward them through it if things broke down like they did on Sunday. The bell rang and we were underway…
6. Jupiter Jones (w/Collipark) d. “The Purifier” Caleb Gray (w/the Chosen) at 9:34 Gray and Jones fought to a stalemate early, but a rope running sequence saw Jones finally get a firm upper hand by flooring Caleb with a massive flying shoulderblock. Jones then went on offense and kept himself in the driver's seat by battering Caleb repeatedly with his meaty forearms until a running clothesline sent the former National champion flying out of the ring. Jones left the ring to follow up on his offense only for a desperate Gray to take his eyes. The Purifier tried to send the legendary Jones into the ring post but Jupiter managed to put on the brakes; when Gray came charging after him the two time former World champion gave him an overhead belly to belly suplex that nearly sent the leader of the Chosen into the dividing barrier.
Jupiter had grabbed Caleb by the hair and was coming up the stairs to get them both back in the ring when Gray suddenly undercut Jones and sent him crashing hard into the steel steps. Caleb leaned on the apron for support while Jupiter tried to pick himself off the floor, but once he began stirring Gray surged to shut him down before he could get started and moved into position. A nasty release German suplex sent the legendary Jones flying into the side of the ring, drawing cheers from his holy trinity of acolytes and boos from pretty much everyone else in Quality Arena. As the Purifier rolled into the ring and demanded the referee count Jones out, replays confirmed that must have sucked real bad for the leader of Collipark.
Jones managed to crawl back in the ring at 8 but all that got him was an un-Christian like stomping from the former Duquesne Classic winner, who went after the back of Jupiter's head with his boots and eventually his fists. Carl pointed out from behind the desk that this run of offense highlighted why Caleb had held the National championship for so long and why he was so dangerous - his willingness to leave the Gospels behind and get aggressive as needed. Shortly after that Jones looked like he was putting together a rally to get out from under, but Gray nimbly dodged a pair of lariats and dropped the stalwart Jones with Reap the Whirlwind; the cyclone kick got him a nearfall as well as a couple of replays afterwards for those of us at home.
Gray continued teeing off on Jones and continued showing off his surprising strength by chaining together a pair of German suplexes. But when he went for the trifecta, Jupiter countered with a standing switch and a release German suplex that was so massive Gray landed on his chest and stomach - exactly the break in his flow Jones needed to buy himself some recovery time.
As it turned out, that was the necessary spark for a Jupiter sized comeback: when both men got to their feet and Gray charged him, Jones countered with an overhead belly to belly suplex that sent Caleb flying upside down into the nearest corner and crumpling into the canvas. Down the stretch, Jupiter’s power came to bear down on Caleb again and again as the familiar “Ju-pit-er!” chants got louder and louder inside of QA. A desperate Gray tried to stem the tide with a kitchen sink knee but the wily Jones rolled through and hooked Gray into setup position for a double underhook powerbomb that rocked the ring. Jones fired up the faithful and the Chosen looked on helplessly as Jones floored Gray with a Bolt From Olympus that ended any chance Caleb had of pulling off the upset, JJ hooking a leg and securing the three count.
Jupiter got his hand raised by the referee as we got replays and the Chosen helped their aching leader to the back. When we came back to live action, Collipark was holding down the ring in celebration - and Jupiter was on a set of turnbuckles applauding the crowd before making A Very Familiar Gesture around his waist. Steve encouraged us not to count Jupiter out of the World title picture just yet after a showing like that. After some hype for next week's Crowley vs. LaVey National championship match, Ruckus went da
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