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1. Fiona Fogg d. Lolo Vuitton at 9:14 Ruckus not only started off with in ring action, it started off with a pretty decently sized upset with Fogg getting the biggest win of her career over the multiple time former Women's World champion. Fogg frustrated Lolo early by hiding behind the ref and rolling out to the floor a couple of times, then used the referee keeping Lolo away to snap the top rope into Vuitton’s neck and take control. Fiona worked over Lolo's neck for the next couple of minutes and had Miss Thang locked in a cravate before Vuitton managed to power up and break it by hitting a falling back suplex. Vuitton dodged a corner charge from Fiona and started firing back, connecting with a couple flying forearm smashes before starting to level up her offense. Vuitton went on the attack, even shrugging off a Fogg clothesline to drill the Brit with a pump knee that spun her around and set up a bridging German suplex for a nearfall. Lolo maintained the upper hand and looked to have Fogg a step away from the end when she hit a buckle bomb - but when Vuitton came around the horn for the Bloody Shoe Fogg dodged it and alley ooped the Floridian head first into the ringpost. It drew a little blood from Vuitton’s forehead but more importantly left a dazed Lolo to get surprised from behind with a roll-up that secured the victory for Fiona.
After replays we saw the match’s referee helping Lolo to the back while Fiona demanded the microphone from Duck Eko and got it. Fogg talked about how she'd had to wait for too long for Hysteria to implode and had to hold some blonde cupcake’s hand while she waited her turn. But now she saw a path to get what she had in Catch Hell: the respect she deserved and the championship that came along with it. So now that she’d blown up the Next Big Thing on the runway before the fake Ace could take off and beaten a former champion she was going to bring the Night Sky down and take the championship that she should rightfully have as a crown. Fiona said that she was done waiting and was taking all the turns before referring to herself as Her Excellency the next Women's World champion and leaving the ring.
Lights off.
Lights on.
2. Hysteria (Bonnie Agrippa and Nancy Crowley w/Justine Danek and Bella Jolie) d. “Explosive” Emily Bennett and Shelley LaVey (w/Beauty and the Beast Mode) at 8:01 After Hysteria materialized in the ring we got a replay of what happened last week when Bonnie used her Dealer’s Choice to enter into the Duquesne Classic and Hysteria shockingly turned on Luz Cruz for losing the Women's World championship and stomped her out of the group at the behest of Bonnie.
Her and longtime partner Nancy started things off with the upper hand after jumping Emily and Shelley right after the bell, and in short order had Emily splayed out on the canvas after a double flapjack. But Bennett found a way to fight out from under and dropped both opponents with a diving clothesline/bulldog combination before tagging Shelley in. Shelley of course relished the opportunity to beat on her former stablemates and laid them out with Pele kicks before going up for the Fallen Angel splash. Justine and Bella both tried to interfere but Emily handled the former and Shelley kicked away the latter. LaVey flew off but Bonnie dodged out of the way to save the fight for Hysteria and soon thereafter got help from Crowley to plant Shelley with a spike brainbuster to put a button on things. Beauty and the Beast Mode kept the rest of Hysteria from putting a further beating on either Emily or Shelley but the newly constructed foursome celebrated their victory on the ramp. Steve noted it was Hysteria’s revenge on Bennett and LaVey for beating Justine and Bella on Unleashed two days prior.
We got a video package recapping last week's Duquesne Classic qualifying matches and showing us a bracket as each winner was highlighted, with several of them showing love towards the Duquesne Cup after their wins. Bonnie Agrippa ended up with a bye into next week's semifinals after the double countout between Malicía Fernandez and Orion; the quarterfinals start up next and we’ll work our way from the bottom of the bracket up.
3. Nazir el-Fadal d. “The Purifier” Caleb Gray (w/the Chosen) at 13:15 in a 2025 Duquesne Classic quarterfinal match Last week Naz put down former Classic winner Serge Batroc in a qualifying match while Caleb rebounded from his title loss at Golden Rule by once again beating Jupiter Jones. Gray tried to start off the match with a handshake, only for Naz to fake one and run his hand through his hair while scoffing as the crowd popped. Weird as it still is seeing the One Man Jihad on the receiving end of Quality Arena cheers, Caleb didn't let it get to him and got the upper hand by putting hands on el-Fadal with a double open handed chop that left Naz reeling. Gray spent the next couple of minutes roughing up Naz while occasionally looking over at the Cup, then snuffed out an attempted Naz rally by countering with a Stun Gun. A reeling “Greatest Man Alive” walked right into a Gray cyclone kick and once he ate Reap the Whirlwind Naz fell out to the floor. Caleb started to go after Naz, but the referee began backing him away as the Chosen started to approach and el-Fadal looked at them before looking into the ring. Naz held out his hands in surrender - then kicked the top section of the stairs and went down like he’d been shot. The referee turned from Caleb to the Chosen, who a splayed out Naz was pointing at. All of Gray's followers pleaded innocence but the ref ignored their protests and ejected them from ringside. The crowd roared as Caleb went ballistic, and he only stopped complaining when Naz clobbered him with a leg lariat that sent him flying into the corner. Naz then took over from there, using his craftiness to up his offense before ending any hopes Caleb had of going back to back by using the Heat Check to set up Nazquil and his win. The One Man Jihad had a Cheshire cat’s grin as he got his hand raised, and he made sure to celebrate the win on the turnbuckles closest to the Cup at ringside while loudly talking about how he was two more wins away. The announce noted that Naz’s lengthy resume was only missing holding the Cup on it, and his beating last year's winner definitely made him the favorite to win this year's Classic…which would put him back in position for a rematch with Razorblade, this time for two titles.
Speaking of two titles, after that Duck Eko introduced the new double champion “Night Sky” Diana Spare and “you should see me in a crown” brought her out to a massive pop from the Quality Controllers. Spare held up the Crush and Women's World championships before gathering the mic from Duck. Diana offered a crooked smile at the “You deserve it!” chants filling the Arena before Diana said that she didn't give a damn about deserve, she went out and earned it. After the pop from that died off, she said that she'd been relentless since coming back just to get to this moment - and sometimes she was the one getting stomped on - but most of the time she was doing the stomping - and now she was right where she belonged in Quality Arena still the Crush champion and the new and once again Women's World champion!
Diana began to pivot and talk about how she'd beaten Hysteria at their own game and now they were falling apart when a semi familiar voice cut her off mid sentence. Interim Commissioner Ig de Catur came out without music but with a mic, asking the crowd to give it up for Diana. de Catur talked about Spare making history in Dublin and how she made a new high water mark for the women's division. She was such a defining champion, in fact, that she didn't have to bear the burden of being a double champion anymore. Ig pressed on through the audience and Diana's confusion, saying that the last regime had left him with some overhead to cut and used some corporate legalese before saying that in order to keep their promised international television deals going, he regretfully was here to announce Diana as the last Crush champion and decommission the belt immediately. The crowd didn't like this at all and Diana got bleeped a couple of times before she shoved the title into Ig’s chest and stomped off through the concourse with the Women's World championship slung over her shoulder. Ig said that as unpopular as it was, more reforms would be coming to make QCW sleeker and more efficient. He hyped up the other two Classic quarterfinal matches before leaving to boos. At the desk, former champion Carl Christensen was a little salty about a championship being disappeared after years of tradition before Steve pivoted to a Tale of the Tape for the next match…
4. Pyotr Caviar (w/Serge Batroc) d. Ashok Banjerjee at 10:12 in a 2025 Duquesne Classic quarterfinal match Last week Ashok beat Prince Ootsuka for this spot; Pyotr put Jacques Krieger down to advance. This was a David/Goliath matchup with a different ending, but Banjerjee made Pyotr work for it. Deploying stick and move offense early eventually tilted the match in his favor, and rattled Caviar a bit while Serge pounded the apron on the floor. Things took a big shift when Pyotr caught Ashok flying off the top rope and almost put him through the canvas with his counter running crossbody. It didn't end the match but it ended Banjerjee’s best chance of winning as from there Caviar used his size advantage to control the rest of the fight. A nasty Russian sickle and Hit My Music closed things out and sent the Tracksuit Tsar to the semifinals…but before he and Serge could do too much celebrating in the ring, Naz came out onto the ramp and gave them a few golf claps. Pyotr swore revenge for Serge, Naz smirked before returning to the back, and we have one of our semifinals set for next week's supershow.
The announce sent their love and congratulations to backstage interviewer Enya Face, who's out on maternity leave and hopefully staying healthy in her pregnancy on the way to giving birth to her first child. Out of nowhere, Duck was on the mic and introducing us to This Week In QCW History, which is usually pretaped.
But this wasn't any ordinary edition of TWIQH as the Qualitron and FanDuel showed, because on this day in 1991, a certain Carl Christensen had the greatest night of his career at the King Berger Tribute Show. First he survived a battle royal and then that earned him a shot against QCW Champion Neil Everhardt, who was nearing a thousand days with the belt. But despite taking a beating, Carl hooked him in a small package for the win and the belt in the biggest upset in company history (he may* have brought this up on commentary once or twice). We went back to the Arena where a clearly touched Christensen took a bow and waved to the crowd; he turned around just in time to see Steve and Duck hand him a replica belt of the QCW title circa 1991, which brought him to tears. Quality Arena rocked with “Carl!” chants while Steve smiled big and gave him a couple of manly pants on the back. To be fair, it got a little dusty in Chez Recapper. Of course, things could be worse - I could be making my QCW debut right after that tearjerking scene.
5. Sky's the Limit (the Cooper Brothers w/Tre Boyd and Kam Ellis) d. A World of Pain at 9:00 The debut from half of the Air Force buddies turned QCW newcomers got bumped from last week to this one and while the high flying Coopers looked a little rough around the edges eventually they prevailed over the floor of the tag division. DeMarcus and DeMarius got the win after going to opposite corners and coming off with a 450° splash and guillotine legdrop that hit almost simultaneously.
We went backstage, where Julius Duquesne III brought on the All Starr Stable to boos. S. Mark Starr said that he and his men weren't in the mood to hear it from anybody, not Jules, not the idiots in the cheap seats, and not the International Players running around bragging about beating rookies at Golden Rule. Starr went on not only to challenge the Players to give a rematch to A Cut Above next week, but he was so confident that the reigning unanimous Tag Team of the Year would get their belts back that he was willing to make it a Last Stand match. Evan O'Neill and “Upper Class” Broderick Palmer II looked surprised for a couple seconds but quickly looked confident as Starr said that if they couldn't beat paper champions they deserved to be downvoted away from the titles forever. But that wouldn't happen - what would happen is that A Cut Above would show everyone that not only were they 2024’s Tag Team of the Year, they were 2025’s, 2026’s, and for years to come. Prince Ootsuka yelled out of nowhere “Make the match, Ig!” and stomped off, probably still mad about getting bounced from the Duquesne last week. The rest of the Stable followed suit and we went back to Steve and Carl at the announce table.
💫 Next week's Ruckus 💫 is going to be a supershow called Coronation with limited commercial interruptions from Charlotte, North Carolina. On that show we’ll hear from the Double Champ, Razorblade 💫 A Cut Above either will regain the World Tag Team championships from the International Players or never be able to go after the belts again in a Last Stand match 💫 And we’ll get the semifinals and finals of the 2025 Duquesne Classic; the semis are set with Pyotr vs. Naz and Bonnie Agrippa against whoever wins our main event…
6. Justice Davis d. Ashley “Thee Influencer” Szabo (w/”Tiki God” Al Buffett) at 9:28 in a 2025 Duquesne Classic quarterfinal match Last week's qualifying matches saw Justice best longtime rival Drake Tremble and Ashley send Sohla Patel packing; here Davis won his quarterfinal the fastest to punch his semifinal ticket. Szabo matched Justice's power early and fought him 50/50 before catching the blank faced Davis with a monkey flip after a cartwheel. Szabo was narrowly ahead on points in the deeper waters of the match and dropped Davis with a Codebreaker before getting him into position and starting to throw hammer and anvil elbows. After absorbing the first few, Davis’ blank stare got matched by narrowing eyes and he went from eating them to slowly getting up during them. He stood up and faced Ashley, who was shocked as anybody else in the building. Davis stared down Ashley, then gave her a buzzsaw kick to the ribs before planting her with a JDDDT. But he wasn't done there, and similar to his victory over Tremble he made her eat three more JDDDTs before picking her up and planting last year's runner up with the Davis Driver. Justice hooked a leg and stared down the hard camera with the same blank stare as the three count came down to a loud, mixed reaction.
After replays we saw the updated bracket with Bonnie/Justice and Pyotr/Naz set for the semifinals at Coronation’s supershow next week, which will also host the final. Back live we saw Davis standing between the announce table and the Cup, blank faced as ever looking vaguely in the Cup’s direction. The credits box came up and we faded to black, and just as Naz was looking at the Cup lecherously last week Davis' blank look took us off the air this week.
