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📍 Quality Arena in Parts Unknown, FL
A video package opened up the show recapping Interim Commissioner Ig de Catur getting booed out of the Arena and threatening to get his own personal army together as well as Nazir el-Fadal taking down Drake Tremble in the main event and Ig clapping for him from a skybox to end last week's show.
A Town Car pulled up to the Arena and a driver moved to let out his passenger: Nazir el-Fadal, who got a big pop from the crowd as he slipped the driver a Jackson and got his rolling suitcase. As the driver left, Quality Force Security showed up on the scene and Naz immediately got defensive, pointing out that he hadn't been in the Arena long enough to do anything to get in trouble for. One of the guards then told the One Man Jihad that they were to escort him to his own private dressing room, which shifted el-Fadal’s attitude 180° and they moved through the back corridors to a door that had a large gold plate with Naz’s name written on it in bold black cursive. The former multi time World champion stepped in a room draped with gold that had a large plush chair with lions for armrests and a note in it, which Naz read: “Here to put the respect on your name the last administration didn't. Great showing last week and I made sure you'll have another one tonight. Enjoy your new locker room, Ig.” The crowd booed at the name as Naz Steph Curryed the card off screen, shrugged, and gave a loud groan of pleasure as he sank down into the chair. Naz looked around the room and had only one thing to say: “FINALLY!”
Standard open, loud crowd, Steve/Car–uh Craig/Duck in the front and JDIII and Naomi in the back. After some hype for tonight's main event where the reunited Savage Justice will face off against longtime rivals “the Purifier” Caleb Gray and “the Paragon” Drake Tremble of the Chosen, we kicked things off for the last Ruckus in May with action from the women's division….
1. Luz Cruz d. Justine Danek (w/Hysteria) at 10:52 The Cruz/Hysteria story is a year in and rolling on merrilly, all the way from Cruz turning heel at AnnIVersary and ruling the coven as Women's World champion for months to being kicked out after losing the belt at Golden Rule and trying to find her way back to the light. Last week she lost a tag match to Justine and when she tried to save her partner Emily Bennett from a post match beating Hysteria tuned up their old boss, too, as we saw on a picture in picture after Hysteria materialized in the ring. Luz sprinted to the ring and attacked Justine with a double leg takedown before following up with hands. The former Women's World champion had the upper hand early on but ran into a Stun Gun by Danek, who followed up with a diving leg lariat and got down to the business of working over her old associate. The rest of Hysteria continuously circled the ring on the outside as Justine proved her submissive days were over by laying in the shots to the former multi time champion Cruz. Justine's run of dominance saw her look to hit the Lash a few minutes later but before she could connect on the Buckshot lariat Cruz got a running start and hit an S-tier dropkick that sent the Floridian flying into the dividing barrier that whiplashed Justine to the floor in a heap. Hysteria went to Danek’s side but scattered as Luz and the referee came towards Justine - except for Bonnie Agrippa, the woman who took Luz’s spot as leader and held up her share of the World Tag Team championships with an evil smirk on her face. Cruz pointed at Agrippa, then wheeled around and threw Justine into the steps before picking her up and tossing her into the ringpost face first; Steve noted how personal this clearly was for Luz as she threw Justine's limp body back into the ring and went up to the top rope. With the referee having them in the line of eyesight, Hysteria tried to give Justine verbal warnings but nothing stopped Luz from uncorking ¡MUERTE! and pinning Danek after the double jump poison rana.
Cruz rolled out as the rest of Hysteria came into the ring but then chased Luz around ringside. Luz went for a chair in the timekeeper's area but that allowed Hysteria to swarm her and stomp her down – right until “Explosive” Emily Bennett grabbed the ring bell and started ringing Hysteria's bell. Bella Jolie took a shot right between the ribs but she came out better than Nancy Crowley, who blocked the bell with her jaw via a thunderous uppercut. Luz and Emily went to get a measure of revenge on Bonnie but a recovering Justine pulled her away from the scene. As QCW’s resident witches stumbled their way to the back, Steve chided them for wanting no part of a fair fight while Bennett shook then raised Cruz's hand and Bad Bunny blasted over the PA.
The Chosen were backstage against a white backdrop ready to preach their faith over fear evangel. Goody Gardner was in the middle of describing how sinners Justice Davis and Mason Savage would fall to their knees before them when behind Goody, the End Times went down at the hands of a sneak attack courtesy of JD swinging a chair and the Double Champ swinging a trash can. Gardner screamed as we got a taste of the main event early with a Pier 4 breaking out in the back and down the hallway. Caleb Gray and Drake Tremble were losing the fight even before one of the doors to Naz’s locker room opened up and dropped Gray. Naz came out and managed a few cheap shots on both standing members of the Chosen before retreating to his luxurious locker room as Quality Force Security arrived on the scene to break things up as Ruckus made room for a few commercials.
2. Omar Littlefield d. “The Fury” Jim Jaspers (w/”The Proper King” Richard Windsor) at 3:37 It was Littlefield’s first official match back since losing the ambulance match to Naz at Golden Rule and he took his bad attitude out on poor Old Jim, who got absolutely destroyed by the irate Littlefield in a rarity for the Brit. Jim landed some hard shots, but the writing was on the wall when Omar literally laughed off a Jaspers headbutt and dropped him with one in response. The former World champion ended things with four Vader bombs and his signature Face Eraser crucifix powerbomb DDT; for checking on his partner post match Windsor took some huge body blows from the massive Littlefield before getting gorilla pressed and Lawn Darted into the announce table’s facade from the ring. Omar stomped off through the concourse while Craig said he should be locked up somewhere (he’s new here).
From there we went TOTHEBACK~!, where new backstage interviewer Naomi Lee was standing by to bring on her guests - Savage Justice! Mason and Davis came on the set and gave Naomi nods but she couldn't even get a full question out before screaming - because the Chosen jumped them from behind as revenge for what happened right before the break. Quality Force (busy night for them) were back on the scene but not before the End Times double DDTed Razorblade on an equipment case. It's the Purifier and the Paragon who’ll face both halves of the Mayday Payday main event that they tried to interfere in for tonight's main event.
3. Tre Boyd (w/Sky's the Limit) d. Evan O'Neill (w/the All Starr Stable) at 10:07 A pretty decent sized upset here saw Boyd cleanly best the former tag champ in only his second QCW singles match. Tre started things off with a quick pace that maybe no one else in QCW can match, successfully executing some hit and run attacks that peppered O’Neill with forearms, dropkicks and short range knee strikes. But the ever opportunistic Evan hung up the head of Sky’s the Limit by trapping him in the corner buckles before landing a superkick right on the button and taking over from there. The Oracle of Off Book maintained an upper hand most of the rest of the bout and looked to wrap things up after laying the smaller Texan out with a slingshot spear - but when he flew off the top to end things with his patented One Last Chance Boyd pulled out one of his own by getting his knees up at the last possible moment. Both men were slow to get up but unfortunately for Evan he had his back to Tre, who snapped off a poison rana prettier than a sunset before going up top himself. Boyd’s ridiculously athletic Spiral Tap he calls Say Hallelujah succeeded where O’Neill failed and made a believer out of the crown jewel of the Stable the hard way once the three came down. Starr’s men fumed over another loss while Kam Ellis and the Cooper Brothers swarmed Tre, who treated the win as just another Friday night before and after the ref raised his hand. We headed to break with Boyd gleefully informing the crowd they were gonna be running things around here soon enough and to get used to it before telling his friends and teammates that that was why they needed to follow the Truth so he could take them to the Promised Land.
After ads, we heard from Ashok Banjerjee and Jacques Krieger, with Ashok having the reaction to one of his annoying rivals losing moments ago that you might expect. Jacques quieted Ashok by staring him down before saying that the only thing better than getting to spank the Prince's metrosexual behind would be to whoop the ass of everybody in the Fallen Star Stable, so he and Ashok were issuing a challenge for next week where they’d find a third, win like they won at Mayday Payday and further prove they made their own luck without any weaselly managers stealing money off their tables. Ashok seemed a little worried about getting a partner but Jacques noted everybody hated the Stable so the real problem would be just getting one. Ashok said next week would be another win for Team BanjerKriegs and Jacques shook his head and walked away, with Ashok following a couple beats afterwards saying that he's still working out the name.
4. Nazir el-Fadal d. Dom DeSade (w/Bob Osterberg…and Team Batroc) at 6:58 A couple interesting things happened before the bell even rang - perennial jobber Dom came out not only with his partner but Team Batroc, obviously keeping an eye on Naz given all the short and long term problems they’ve had with him. Naz came out to “Hero”, pyro for miles and the Quality Controllers chanting his name - but as he hit the ring, Quality Force Security came down the ramp and positioned themselves all around ringside (presumably to counter and neutralize any shenanigans from the three men in Dom’s corner). Once all that was out of the way, things proceeded as you’d expect with Naz barely sweating on his way to a W after his Night Night hiptoss Michinoku Driver. Post match QFS escorted Naz to the back while Team Batroc stared daggers at him; the self proclaimed Greatest Man Alive didn't care, as he was telling Quality Controllers lining the ramp to buy his shirt. A cut to backstage showed Ig watching the proceedings with a devious grin while nodding.
We got a highlight reel of “Night Sky” Diana Spare and the dominant roll she has been on this year, including her winning the Women's World championship at Golden Rule and keeping it at Mayday Payday. A voiceover from Spare herself said that just as she promised QCW would belong to the night, the women's division and the Fifteen Pounds of Gold would belong to her for as long as she had breath in her to fight. And nothing or nobody would take that away from her or end her dark reign anytime soon.
A split screen showed both Shelley LaVey and Lolo Vuitton - two women who Diana knows pretty well - headed down different corridors towards the ring. After the break, they face off in a weapons match live on FDSNF!
5. Lolo Vuitton d. Shelley LaVey in a weapons match at 11:48 Beast Mode came out with Lolo on the ramp but didn't hang around for the violence. Lolo dropped to the floor, Shelley came out and ran down; seconds later, they were brawling in the aisle. Shelley got in a few shots in a row but Lolo managed to backdrop her into the ring. It didn't stop Shelley from firing off a step up enzuigiri before seizing full control and eventually knocking Vuitton out of the ring to get a little revenge. But when Shelley went for a tope suicida Lolo blasted her out of the sky by waffling her with a trash can. Vuitton threw in a few more shots to keep Shelley down. Lolo upped the stakes with more weapons beginning by tuning up LaVey with a kendo stick and softened up the ribs before introducing a few chairs and a black duffel bag into the fray. Shelley took advantage of Lolo trying to figure out where to position the bag and tossed her shoulder first into the ringpost; when Lolo slumped off the apron and hit the floor, LaVey followed and bounced Lolo's head off the retaining barrier repeatedly while the referee looked on helplessly. Shelley eventually got Lolo back in the ring and gave back all the shots she’d suffered with the kendo stick but when she tried minutes later to go for her Fallen Angel splash, Vuitton had recovered enough to smash a glass light tube from the duffel over LaVey's head. The first shot dazed Shelley but a relentless Lolo brought down several more over her rival’s head and gouged her with a piece of the last one she broke, drawing blood from a helpless LaVey. Lolo cleared some room and came around the horn for the Bloody Shoe but LaVey dove off with a Meteora that left both women laid out. Vuitton got to her feet first and charged LaVey, who stopped her in her tracks by sandwiching her temples with glass light tube shots. Lolo went down like a redwood in the forest and Shelley headed back up too to fly off with the Fallen Angel splash - but Lolo put up a chair vertically to block, stabbing Shelley’s ribs so violently it looked like the former member of the Culture was going to vomit when she staggered up clutching her rib cage. Lolo got a sick grin on her face as she used that chair to pull herself off of the canvas, then absolutely walloped LaVey over the head with it so hard you could see people in the first six rows turn away from the moment of impact. An already bloody LaVey was busted further open and staggered back into the corner to keep from falling down, but she couldn't see due to the chair wrapped around her head and even worse Lolo was coming around the horn to Bloody Shoe the chair up into her face. Lolo flopped on top and got the three count while Steve was just thankful it was over.
After replays, Beast Mode were all united, the Quality Controllers booing as Lolo cackled at the still out of it LaVey from her perch on the shoulders of “These Hands” Roy Fade and “Dashing” Pierce Moore. They walked Lolo to the back while in the ring refs and the medical staff checked on Shelley. After a few scary moments, LaVey was able to communicate with the staff and sit up, and a couple of brief talks later she was helped to the back by a couple of the zebras as the medical staff were right on their heels. Shelley got plenty of applause on her own way to the back for putting up a valiant if losing effort.
As usual, the countdown to 💫 next week's Ruckus 💫 is already on and will feature the following; the All Starr Stable against Ashok Banjerjee, Jacques Krieger and a mystery partner of their choosing | Justine Danek and Bella Jolie of Hysteria will face off against Women's World champion “Night Sky Diana Spare and, interestingly, Luz Cruz | and Razorblade defends the Fifteen Pounds of Gold…but against who?
6. Savage Justice d. “The Purifier” Caleb Gray and “the Paragon” Drake Tremble of the Chosen (w/the End Times and Goody Gardner) at 12:35 After both sides getting in shots on the other earlier in the show, this rivalry came to a head in the main event with the Chosen's attempted recruiting and/or mind games with/against Justice Davis coming to a head in the Mayday Payday PPV main event where he stood by his mentor figure despite the fact they were facing off for the World and National titles. Despite the reconciliation, once the match got underway it was the Chosen's teamwork that got them the early advantage. The Double Champ always relished a good fight, but the quick tags and halving up of the ring must’ve made it feel like a handicap match for a couple of minutes no matter if it was Gray or Tremble dishing out the lumps. But with their problems behind them, it was JD who would prove to be the difference: first, diving in to make a save after the born again brigade dropped Razorblade with a tandem discus back elbow and cyclone kick, then being ready for the hot tag after Razorblade wiped out the Paragon with a Godzilla lariat and then gave the Purifier an Andersonesque spinebuster right onto his supplicant. Having finally dropped both members of the opposition, Mason tagged in Justice and the fresher Davis hit the ring putting meesters on keisters. JD took additional pleasure in duffing up Caleb as their individual rivalry has been going on all year. Davis avoided Repent and fought back by stuffing the Chosen's patriarch with the JDDDT. Justice moved to a neutral corner, poised to strike - and Caleb was only on his feet for a couple of seconds before Davis flattened him out with a Busiaku knee. Davis covered but Tremble came to Caleb's rescue then Razorblade hit the ring and the Pier 4 was on in earnest. The antiheros cleared Tremble from the ring and then hit Caleb with the Doomsday Device, which was the beginning of the end for Team Jesus. Razorblade tagged Justice in for the finish, which saw him hit a familiar looking running Air Raid Crash before Davis delivered another Busiaku knee and got the pinfall over Gray.
But things didn't end there, as losing the match meant the outside members of the Chosen came in for revenge, which quickly put Mason and Justice on the business end of a 4 on 2 beatdown while Goody Gardner directed traffic. The End Times started to get JD into position for the Reckoning when Goody’s screaming alerted the Chosen to the four men running down the ramp to make an unlikely save - the young men of Sky’s the Limit. Gray and Tremble threw Razorblade down but were no match for the Cooper Brothers; similarly it didn't take long for Tre Boyd and Kam Ellis to send the Times out of the ring. The Quality Controllers cheered as the Coopers pulled Davis up while Razorblade got a mic from Duck; however, Tre grabbed that mic from the Double Champ to oohs from the crowd. Boyd said that he wasn't just saying they’d be taking over soon enough just to hear himself talk, he was saying it because it was the truth in all caps just like him. Razorblade got another mic and said he didn't know much slang that the younger ones used but he liked the phrase say less, and Tre should say less and get in the hardest week of training he’d ever done because next week – well, next week he was getting his first shot at the QCW World championship. The crowd popped as Razorblade raised up the Fifteen Pounds of Gold while Tre nodded with a big grin on his face then said he didn't come to Queue Cee Dub for anything less. Both men threw down their mics as Sky’s the Limit freaked out around their leader and there was a quick but notable look of disappointment on Justice's face. Tre and Mason did some friendly barking back and forth and it looked like Ruckus was going to go off the air, but Boyd made A Very Familiar Gesture around his waist before touching the World title, which caused Razorblade to shove him. The credits box came up a couple of beats after Boyd shoved the Champ Champ back, and Ruckus faded to black with both Justice and the rest of Sky's the Limit separating and playing peacemakers to both the men who'll be main eventing next week's show with QCW’s crown jewel on the line.
