After the opening stinger rolled, we zoomed into Quality Arena in front of a sellout crowd yet again. Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen (huzzah!) are on commentary, and Steve hyped the main event of Pyotr Caviar and the Republic against Nazir el-Fadal and the Game Changers. After that, “the Voice of QCW” Duck Eko was in the ring to announce the opener - a big match in its own right with title implications…
1. Orion d. Tre Boyd & Mason “Razorblade” Savage in a triple threat match to become #1 contender to the National championship at 18:07 What the kids call a banger kicked off this episode of Ruckus and it ended with Orion getting their hand raised to get another title shot at Malicía, but not without some controversy. A lot of moving parts in this one: newcomer Boyd looking to avenge his narrow loss to Razorblade in the spring, Orion looking to get revenge on Malicía for Cruel Summer, and Razorblade looking to get revenge on Malicía for stealing the National championship away from him with Ig’s help at Extreme Never Dies back in June. As expected given pedigrees heading into this, it didn't take long for Razorblade to establish himself as the favorite early; he was able to fend off attacks from the smaller Boyd and Orion and when they briefly teamed up to drop him with a double clothesline he was quick to recover and lay out Orion and then Boyd with massive lariats. Razorblade surveyed the ring before tossing Tre and going to work on QCW’s Cosmic Superstar, Carl pointing out the former champion's “rad brainstorm” to turn things into more of a one on one match. Orion ate some offense before beginning to get some separation, but that came to a halt when Razorblade caught them dropping down too early and hit a floatover DDT. Savage was going for a cover when he saw Boyd springboarding back into the ring, but Mason picked him off out of the air and gave him a spinebuster onto Orion before getting a nearfall on them.
Razorblade had temporarily stopped that threat before Boyd reasserted his presence with a backflip kick on the former World champion that set up a step up enzuigiri. Quick as Orion was, young Tre began to show off why he might be the fastest person on the roster and prove the old adage true of “you can't hit what you can't catch”. Boyd zipped around the ring, his stick and run attack coming from all angles. At one point Orion and Razorblade began teaming up to try and slow him down but he rebounded to somehow hit a double Spanish Fly that sent them both rolling out to the floor. They would soon find out they weren't safe out there, with Boyd hitting a step up Shooting Star plancha that had Quality Arena understandably going nuts. As FDSNF bleeped out a portion of their “HS!” chants, we got multiple replies while Steve and Carl raved about his athleticism.
Boyd grabbed Razorblade and tossed him into the ring before dropping him with a stiff legged missile dropkick that got him 2½. Tre employed Razorblade's strategy of trying to lessen the numbers, making sure to keep Orion from getting back in the ring when he wasn't focused on beating Razorblade down. And Boyd showed he was learning over the course of the match, roundhouse kicking away another attempt at a spinebuster by Razorblade. That set up a rewind rana then a running Shooting Star press that got him another nearfall. Razorblade literally fought his way back into the match, delivering his notoriously heavy right hands but when he tried to wipe Tre out with another lariat, Boyd floated over and cinched up Savage before delivering a backflip Styles Clash he’s dubbed Heaven Sent – but at 2¾ Orion came flying in with a double foot stomp that broke up the count and left all three of them out on the canvas trying to recover. The Quality Controllers were chanting “This is awesome!” as we got a couple replays of Orion's last second save.
It was a fine time for a quick picture in picture commercial for Scoop Republic (🙄) as live all three competitors were in different parts of the ring using the ropes to help get themselves vertical. Tre beat his opponents to his feet by a half step then wasted no time in throwing hands against Razorblade; we all know Mason wasn't going to hesitate to return fire. Orion came off the ropes and targeted Boyd, who threw them off only to see Orion grab Razorblade and deliver a tornado DDT. Orion and Boyd then delivered a rope running sequence where neither could contain the other until Orion turned a tiejaras into a satellite DDT and flattened Tre out. The recoil sent Tre staggering back up into the waiting arm of a Razorblade Cactus clothesline, but with Boyd now on the floor and Savage on the apron Orion hit the ropes and hit Mason with a baseball slide dropkick that deposited him on the floor as well. Orion kept the momentum rolling and hit the ropes again looking for a tope and Tre pulled Razorblade in front of him so the Chicago born bruiser ate the brunt of the blow - but when Tre tried to take advantage and snatched Orion up they snapped off a huracanrana that sent the Gospel head first into the steps.
Orion tossed Tre back into the ring before climbing back to the apron. Checking behind them to make sure that Savage was still down, Orion refocused on the ring and when Tre came up he ate a springboard Meteora but kicked out at 2½. Orion made the hand gesture of “That's IT!” before cinching Boyd up and looking for Orion's Nebula - but Tre pushed them off and this led to another rope running sequence before Tre stopped Orion in their tracks with a superkick and followed it up with a massive Blue Thunder bomb. Boyd got to his feet and smack talked Orion before he turned around and nearly got speared out of his boots by Razorblade. The Champ let out a mighty bellow before howling in pain as Orion gave him a basement superkick to the leg before blasting him with a Shining Wizard. Orion went for the cover and seemingly had Razorblade dead to rights…but a woozy Boyd crawled over and put Razorblade’s foot on the bottom rope at 2¾ to save himself and keep the fight rolling on to a partial standing ovation from the Quality Controllers while Carl raved this was only the opener.
Orion asked the ref about the count, which gave Boyd the opportunity to land a blindside shot and set up another poison rana. The Cosmic Superstar showed some power in muscling Boyd almost up and over to prevent going down to it, then Razorblade showed even more power by walloping Orion with a spear that sent Boyd flying through the air then crotching himself on the top rope. With Orion temporarily out of the picture, Razorblade tugged on the top rope a few times to add injury to injury before pulling Boyd into position in a neutral corner. The former double champion got Tre set up and flew off with his trusty Soul Crusher, but Boyd somehow had the wherewithal to reverse it at the death and convert it into an avalanche crucifix bomb that had everybody in the building counting to three - everybody but the referee, who’d gotten wiped out by the nearly 500 pound avalanche that had tumbled off the top rope. And with the zebra face down on the mat, all hell broke loose.
Firstly, Beast Mode appeared out of the crowd and jumped the railing before going after Sky’s the Limit; Lolo Vuitton shoved Kam Ellis into the ringpost while “These Hands” Roy Fade and “Dashing” Pierce Moore went blow for blow with the Cooper Brothers on the floor. Tre looked like he was wondering whether or not to get involved when Ghaiz Guevara's “The Old Guard Is Dead” began blaring over the PA. Out came Ig de Catur, flanked by some members of his private security that had been Quality Force Security until recently. Ig’s appearance drew a fleet of boos but he just smiled and pointed behind Tre - who turned around and ate a double chokeslam from Ig’s hired goons Omar Littlefield and Malicía Fernandez. The World and National champions weren't finished yet, as they easily fended off an attack from Orion and gave them a double chokeslam as well.
Razorblade came around and spared no time in actually succeeding in one on one attacks but soon found his testicles kicked up into his esophagus by Malicía, and the man she and Ig stole the National championship from in June understandably folded like a Q-4 off suit. The hired goons of the Republic saved their worst for last and dragged Savage to the floor before hitting him with a double chokeslam into the top of the stairs! Razorblade twitched as commentary freaked out and the Republic left the scene looking like a multi car pileup on the freeway at rush hour. The crowd jeered as Omar and Malicía took their leave, Ig applauding the whole way as he barked at the crowd they were just getting started tonight. With Razorblade wiped out this turned it into essentially a one on one match, and once the referee recovered they called for the rest of the zebras to break up the Mode v. Sky’s fight on the floor as Orion and Tre regained their bearings as well. When they caught each other's eyes, they went hell for leather: Tre went to attack Orion but missed, Orion gave his knee a basement superkick and went for a Shining Wizard that Boyd ducked before snatching Orion and planting them with a Blue Thunder bomb. Boyd climbed up to the top rope as the other refs began leading Beast Mode to the back and made sure to give them a few taunts as they were ushered up the ramp; Tre then made the sign of the cross before flying off with the Spiral Tap he calls Say Hallelujah. But when he flew Orion rolled away and his prayers went unanswered as he splattered against the canvas. Orion dove on him with a La Magistral cradle that pinned him down to the mat and got the three count, if only by a beat or two as Razorblade tried to get in the ring but fell back down to the floor too weakened to make it back in to try and break it up.
Orion was getting their hand raised by the ref before Tre spun them around and got in their face, clearly believing he’d kicked out a second sooner and the match should still be rolling on. Boyd started poking at the ref’s chest not only pissed since he thought he’d won but that they’d missed him having Razorblade bested and the rest of Sky’s the Limit tried to play peacemaker while we cut back to Orion slapping hands of fans in the front row. A chyron showed that Malicía/Orion III for the National championship will take place in two weeks, and Carl also hyped up Beast Mode v. Ashok Banjerjee and Jacques Krieger as well as the Republic and Pyotr Caviar against Nazir el-Fadal and the Game Changers in the main event…but in the ring, Boyd had turned his fury on the rest of Sky's the Limit for backing up the referee instead of him and eventually stomped up the ramp. A departing Tre was yelling at the rest of them that they were going to get clowned without him, and he was going to find out who could see he got screwed over and give him his title shot away from crooked refs and alleged friends.
Another nautically themed vignette rolled after the stellar opener to hype up Johnathan Livingston Clipper Esq. (I don't think he's a yacht rock lawyer but maybe he's a yacht rock lawyer?) Anyway, some smooth sailing is coming soon to QCW.
2. Prince Ootsuka (w/the All Starr Stable) d. Kam Ellis (w/the Cooper Brothers) by technical knockout at 10:06 The controversial nature of the opening bout fed into this one, as Tre Boyd wasn't out in support of his injured friend Ellis while the entire Stable flanked their Prince as he came out to the ring. Despite Tre’s absence, Ellis acquitted himself well in the early going by using his blend of speed and power to confound Ootsuka, who bailed to the floor and looked for advice from the Stable after eating a ring rocking Blue Thunder bomb. But the turning point in the match came when Ellis whiffed on a missile dropkick attempt and Ootsuka followed it up with a vicious snap cobra clutch suplex that looked closer to a backdrop driver. A clearly rocked Ellis was easy pickings for Ootsuka the rest of the way as he laid into the California King with multiple buzzsaw kicks and a missile dropkick of his own before putting Ellis down and out with his Bow Down bodyscissored cobra clutch. Hard night to be in Sky’s the Limit, but the Stable obviously didn't care about that as Starr needled his ex partner Steve to put over how dominant and sexy Ootsuka was before the Stable took their leave. Ruckus hit its first commercial break after that.
Back from the break, we took a trip around Quality Social where we saw the Chosen’s protest march outside of the Arena during Wednesday night's Unleashed with “the Purifier” Caleb Gray disallowing Justice Davis to sign autographs for fans, the Kents (Chris and Christine) being the Grand Marshals in their hometown's Labor Day Parade, and “the Fury” Jim Jaspers trying and failing to get answers from “the Proper King” Richard Windsor about why he abandoned the trios match they were in last week.
3. Hellraisers d. The International Players at 6:51 Biggest win ever for Ian Cook and Gerry Greene as the losing streak continues to put Ls in Collipark. Without Science Fiction Double Feature out with them as usual, it didn't stop the former World Tag Team champions from coming out of the gates strong, but Cook out powered and then overmatched both Players with relative ease while Greene was more than willing to chip in with some cheap shots and cheating. Lucius Patton went under after the brash Brits teamed up: Cook’s deadlift German suplex set up a flying lariat from Greene. As the Catch Hell alums celebrated their way to the back, Steve quietly wondered if we were seeing the beginning of the end of the College Park Family after suffering yet another loss.
Before commercials, previously unaired footage rolled from last week's episode of Naomi Lee catching up to the Catch Hell Wrestling League tag team champions the Undaunted after they helped distract Hysteria with their presence and cost them a match against Women's World champion “Night Sky” Diana Spare and Luz Cruz. Lee caught up to them in the parking lot and asked if anything was ever going to happen besides guest appearances and smack talk, causing Tim McMurray to say that they weren't the ones running scared or, for that matter, losing. Dave Mullin said he didn't know who was running QCW these days, but they were easy men to find so if the powers that be could see to it, the next time you saw the Undaunted in Quality Arena they would be showing their fans on this side of the pond why they were the best tag team in the world in a QCW ring. Some got lost in their own heads - some took a hit and crumbled, but some – well, yunno, some remained Undaunted.
It looked like there were technical issues when Ruckus returned in darkness, but soon the Cure's “Warsong” could be heard and a little while after that, the lights snapped on and Hysteria was in the ring. They cut a pre match promo as Bonnie Agrippa bragged about their reign with the World Tag Team championships with those belts proving they were the best tag team in the world before Nancy Crowley took over and complained about “Night Sky” Diana Spare being unwilling to give her a title shot after everything she and Bonnie had done for her - why was she stuck in a non-title match?
She got off another couple digs at Diana before “you should see me in a crown” brought Diana out to a roar from the crowd. She paused at the top of the ramp with a mic, letting her fans fire up “Diana!” chants before she returned fire, saying that she heard Nancy's complaining and that…she actually agreed with her. This match should be for the Fifteen Pounds of Gold, and she was willing to put the Women's World championship on the line right here right now inside Quality Arena (cheap pop, whaddya gonna do) but when she beat Nancy - when she beat Nancy - then next week the World Tag Team championships would be on the line, and the people who would end Hysteria's ego parade would be Diana and a partner of her choosing. Bonnie and Nancy quickly snapped up that deal, causing a rare smile from Diana, who then said they were going to be reminded real quick about two things: QCW belonged to the night…and Hysteria ass whoopings belonged to her. Spare sprinted down the ramp and slid in the ring before she and her old tag partner Crowley started throwing hands, causing the referee to ring the bell and send the rest of Hysteria down to ringside.
4. “Night Sky” Diana Spare [c] d. Nancy Crowley (w/Hysteria) to retain the QCW Women's World championship at 12:22 The hockey fight that kicked off the match lasted for nearly half a minute, only slowing down when both women connected with slaps that sent the other to her knees. They then exchanged short range headbutts, then took turns slapping the crap out of each other a few more times while they regained their vertical bases, then resumed their hockey fight while the crowd popped. Nancy brought it to an end with a sharp knee to the gut, but when she hit the ropes Diana followed suit. Crowley came to the middle of the ring but couldn't find Diana to launch her attack on because Spare was coming off the ropes to drill her with a lariat that sent the Feral member of Hysteria spinning through the air before crash landing on the canvas. Bonnie encouraged Nancy to get out of the ring and a frustrated Crowley rolled out to the rest of Hysteria. They checked on Nancy and tried to buck up her spirits but Bonnie was the only one to get out of the way as Spare flew through the night sky with a twisting handless Asai moonsault over the top rope that took out ¾ths of Hysteria; to add insult to most of Hysteria's possible injuries Diana landed on her feet somehow before whipping her head at Bonnie and causing the decibels in QA to go up another few notches. Agrippa and Spare jaw jacked each other before Spare slid into the ring to break up the count, then rolled out and started setting up the announce table while Steve and Carl went scurrying out of harm’s way.
Spare pointed at Bonnie before turning her attention to Nancy, who responded by biting Diana in the face and giving The Champ a German suplex into the corner of the table. Spare went down in a heap and Crowley didn't waste a second in stomping away at Diana while Bonnie got up on the apron to complain to the ref while keeping them occupied. Crowley ran up the stairs, then let out a keening yelp before flying off the apron with a running senton that smashed Spare right in the breadbasket. Nancy bundled up Diana and started going to work wearing down the titleholder. Crowley took over for the next couple of minutes and put an end to a brief Diana rally with a big kitchen sink off of the ropes and a follow up Code Black for 2 1⁄2. Nancy continued her assault and shortly thereafter went to end it with Bite Me but Diana cocooned her arms into the ropes and flung Nancy off.
Looking for revenge after last week's loss, Justine Danek took a swipe at Diana from the floor. Unfortunately for her, the ref caught her with her hand in the cookie jar and ejected the rest of Hysteria from ringside to a huge pop. Crowley read the riot act to the referee, and this would prove to be her undoing as when she pivoted to charge Diana, Spare picked her off in mid air and delivered a Black Hole Slam into the turnbuckles before stacking her offense with a pop up Michinoku Driver. Spare rolled the rest of the way and got a measure of revenge by planting Nancy with a rolling trifecta of buckle bombs before finally ending things via her trusty Nightfall. Post match, Diana put the Fifteen Pounds of Gold over her shoulder and said that next week, she and *Luz Cruz* were going to be the ones who left Quality Arena with the World Tag Team championships - and then they’d be the best tag team in the world. Spare held up her title on the ramp as she headed to the back, both members of the announce team putting over that Diana at the very least had to be in the conversation for QCW’s 2025 Wrestler of the Year.
We got a video package flashback to the Anniversary PPV in 2021, where Naz won a title defense in 9 seconds and promised to go international with the title, searching around the world for elite competition; he'd end up four titles from four different countries deep and bumping the QCW title to World status weeks later as a result.
5. Beast Mode (w/Lolo Vuitton) d. Ashok Banjerjee and Jacques Krieger at 7:01 Beyond being a good tag match, our semi main also featured Lolo grabbing a third headset to join commentary, and she has plenty of smack talk for the guys at the desk, the guys against her guys, and even Diana Spare caught a few potshots as the match unfolded. Ashok led he and Jacques out to a good start but a timely distraction from Lolo getting up on the announce table and flirting with Banjerjee allowed “Dashing” Pierce Moore to pull Banjerjee’s leg off from the top rope and send the back of his head crashing into the top turnbuckle. Beast Mode then successfully isolated Ashok the rest of the match and when Krieger tried to intervene on his partner’s behalf he was backdropped over the top rope and bounced face first off the steps on his way down. Essentially stuck in a handicap match, it wasn't much longer until Ashok fell victim to the Dashing Decision and got pinned by Fade. Lolo cackled on commentary before joining her crew in the ring to celebrate another win, Steve pointing out all of Beast Mode was putting up a decent winning streak both by their lonesomes and as a unit before Ruckus teed up the evening’s final commercials.
Ahead of the six person trios main event, Steve and Carl conducted the hype train for 💫 next week's Ruckus 💫, which is going to be massive: we’ll take a look back at AnIIversary from 2022 | Bonnie Agrippa and Nancy Crowley of Hysteria will defend the World Tag Team championships against Women's World champion “Night Sky” Diana Spare and Luz Cruz | And Omar Littlefield will be defending the World championship against…”Swamp Pride” Ted Holland in a match that surely doesn't* have Ig de Catur's shady ass fingerprints all over it or anything. Main event, ho!
6. Pyotr Caviar and the Republic (w/Ig de Catur and Republic Enforcement) d. Nazir el-Fadal and the Game Changers at 13:09 The trios match started before the bell even rang, as Naz jumped Pyotr from behind while he was making his entrance as retribution for Pyotr beating him down after losing last week's main event to the One Man Jihad. Naz and Pyotr brawled their way to the ring but as el-Fadal began to get the upper hand here came the Republic to back up their newest recruit, both the World and National champions stomping out the outspoken Naz until the Game Changers hit the ring; to the shock of no one a Pier 6 broke out in and around the ring. After several pleas fell on deaf ears, the ref gave up and called for the bell.
Keeping in line with how it got underway, the main event was the meat in a chaos sandwich. After a half minute of brawling, Pyotr, Malicía and the Game Changers begrudgingly made their way to the apron, leaving Naz and Omar going heads up for the first time since Cruel Summer came to a title changing close. Naz threw a barrage of European uppercuts at the man who’d stolen the World title from him but could only wobble Littlefield; when he bounced off the ropes to boost his offense, Littlefield sent him flying upside down and almost all the way into his corner with a vicious Pounce. Naz sat on the mat a, little rattled but glaring at Omar until the Tiki God tagged himself into the fray. Naz was incredulous that the smallest member of his team had blind tagged in, and el-Fadal's mood didn't improve when Omar sent Al head over heels with a simple shoulder block. Littlefield grabbed Buffett by the scruff of the neck and walked over to his corner, hesitating before tagging in Pyotr. Omar pinned Al’s arms behind him to leave him wide open for a big pump kick from the burly Russian, and the World champion.clapped Pyotr on the back on his way to the apron.
The black hats then took sadistic glee in picking Al apart, Steve noting on commentary while it happened that while there was surprisingly no dissension between Caviar and the Republic on the other side of the ring Naz and the GCs had never seen eye to eye and it was playing out even while Al was catching a beating. Ashley “THEE Influencer” Szabo and Naz were exchanging words in their corner and they were not life affirming IG captions. All three heels took turns beating on Al, but Buffett is as plucky as he is swole, and he managed to slip out of an attempted Death Warrant from Fernandez before surprising her with a Codebreaker. Caviar ran into the ring and gave chase after the Tiki God only for Al to surprise him and everyone else in Quality Arena by planting the Tracksuit Tsar with a textbook uranagi. Omar gave chase but Al wisely backpedaled until he could get by the ropes, pulling the top one down and low bridging the World champion out to the floor. Al staggered towards his corner for some relief and a hot tag - and THEE Influencer made sure it was her hand Al slapped instead of Naz's.
Despite el-Fadal’s sniping from the apron, a fresh Szabo hit the ring and Fernandez hard with some strikes that set up a springboard flying crossbody that took down the National champion. Fernandez staggered into a corner only to find herself mounted by Szabo (phrasing!) and S-Tier giving the fans a reason to count not just to 10 but 20 as she battered away at the luchadora with perfectly manicured right hands. It took a Malicía headbutt to slow Ashley down, but when she went for a MF5 Ashley slipped out and shoved her face first into a corner; Szabo connecting on a Meteora to the upper back that slumped Fernandez and put her in place to eat a Game Changer that sent her from slumped to counting the lights. Ashley covered but both Omar and Pyotr broke it up before the three could come down, causing Al to hit the ring in support of his longtime tag partner. Ashley alley ooped Al into the behemoths, all three men hitting the floor but with Caviar and Littlefield cradling Al and looking to fling him over the announce table. But because Al’s body was blocking their view of the ring they didn't see Naz finally and literally leap into action, hitting the ropes and using the recovering Malicía as a footstool for a tope suicida that sent the Republic’s side back first into the announce table; exactly what Naz would stand on and loudly proclaim that QCW was the house that HE built to a pop while looking pretty unconcerned about Al.
el-Fadal leapt over Al and got on the apron so he could smack talk Fernandez and when she missed a couple of swipes at him he necked her with a hangman that sent her spinning into an Ashley Codebreaker that got Szabo 2½. Ash kept her foot on the gas and delivered a trifecta of lightning legdropa to Malicía before pointing to the corner and signaling for her Smash That Subscribe Button to end things, but when she got up there Pyotr grabbed her by the ankle until she won their struggle and kicked him off to the floor. But that was all the opening Malicía needed to goozle Ashley and rattle the ring with an avalanche chokeslam that saw Szabo bounce nearly a foot in the air after eating the impact. It was Malicía's turn to try to end things but at 2¾ Naz springboarded in with a legdrop of his own to save the day for he and the Changers. Thinking on his feet, Naz began to pull Szabo towards their corner and when Pyotr and Omar tried to run interference, Naz picked up Ashley and swung her into dropkicks on the black hats before depositing Ash in their corner, hitting the apron and tagging himself in legally as Carl put over that one thing that made Naz a valuable partner when he could be bothered was that he knew where he was in the ring at all times.
Naz came in and immediately lit into Malicía with European uppercuts before pivoting to deliver a cross chop to Omar's throat and dropkicking the middle rope when Pyotr tried to hit the ring. That allowed the National champion to wallop Na from behind and hoist him up for the MF5 - but el-Fadal not only landed safely on his feet when she tried to connect with it, he hiptosses her into a Michinoku driver to give her idea an emphatic Night Night. Naz leaned forward and hooked a leg but before he could get the three count Pyotr dive into the ring and wiped him out with a running crossbody to put paid to his winning plan.. That drew the Game Changers into the ring for some get back, as they fought with Pyotr and Omar; it didn't take long for their Pier 4 to hit the floor. Naz paid it no mind and lined up Malicía for a dose of Nazquil, but she powered through enough to reverse and connect with her MF5. On the floor, the Republic took out the Game Changers: a devastating running crossbody from Pyotr put Ashley through the retaining barrier while Omar tossed Al over the announce table and then turned it over onto the Tiki God while Steve and Carl hid out in the third row (what jury would convict?). Malicía called for the end and went for her Death Warrant, only to scream out in pain as the One Man Jihad again slipped out the back door and followed up with a chop block that crumpled her. Naz was too busy pulling Malicía into position for Nazquil to see that Pyotr Caviar had tagged her back and then had tagged in Omar, so Naz threw a hissy fit after he connected with Nazquil but the zebra wouldn't count Malicía since she wasn't the legal one in the match. Pyotr wasn't going to be for much longer, but there was enough time for him to level Naz out with a wicked discus Russian sickle before tossing the limp One Man Jihad into Omar’s waiting arms with a nod before taking his place back out on the apron. Ig celebrated like a kid getting a Switch 2 for their birthday as Omar let out a guttural growl before hoisting el-Fadal up and splattering him with the Face Eraser crucifix bomb DDT; it’d stolen the World title off of Naz at Cruel Summer and it did its job to make Naz do the job again here.
After replays we saw the black hats not only get their hands raised but If leap into Pyotr's arms like a pile of laundry fresh out of the dryer. Caviar set him down and opted to shake hands instead. Ig was loud enough to be heard without a mic, repeating to his champions “Didn't I tell you??” Malicía gave a couple of slow nods before offering a handshake to Pyotr who took a couple of beats before deciding he was in and shaking the head of the National champion. Omar's low rumble of a voice could be heard saying “Good job out there. You in with us and big money now, you ain't gotta sweat nobody around here now” before delivering a massive fist bump and a clap on the back. *We gotchu.”. Ig cackled as the three land mobsters raised their hands in triumph, Steve bemoaning at the desk that the online rumors were true - Pyotr Caviar has sold out and joined the Republic, which was now three deep with control over two belts and enough of Ig’s money to possibly buy anybody else he felt like in addition to the three brutal monsters he already secured the services of. The newly expanded Republic growled and the champions held up their titles and Carl wondered if anybody in QCW would have an answer for this kind of power.
If Carl had waited a couple of seconds, he would've found a potential answer as Orion rolled out from under the ring with a kendo stick in hand and waffled Malicía over the back of the head with it. The new #1 contender for the National championship landed a couple more shots on the fallen Fernandez before Pyotr and Omar swarmed the Cosmic Superstar. Littlefield and Caviar were putting the boots to Orion when “Unscripted Violence” hit the PA and Razorblade ran from the back to even up the odds with a baseball bat in hand. Razorblade landed a couple of mighty swings on Omar and Pyotr's backs before a Malicía uppercut in the little Savages stopped him in his tracks. The Republic now had the numbers on their side again and went back to stomping out the opposition - but they”d forgotten about Naz, who emerged from under the apron with his trusty Greetings From Hayt Corner, because the only thing better than a kendo stick is a bundle of barbed wire wrapped ones. Naz hit the ring and missed shots on Omar and Pyotr, but he caught Malicía under the chin with his third one and sent her flying over the top rope to a big pop. The Republic surrounded Fernandez, who was bleeding from the chin as Naz, Razorblade, Orion and their weapons stood tall in the ring and invited Ig and his crew to get back in the ring because it was Ass Whoop O’Clock and they were right on time. Ruckus went off the air with both sides chirping at each other and Steve wondering just how personal things were going to get between these all star trios teams as the road to AnniVersary continued. See you guys next week, same Ruckus time, same FDSN Florida channel.
