QCW Unleashed [s1e25 • Quality Arena]

•  Science Fiction Double Feature d. Justine Danek & "Sinister" Sarah Fowler
• “Upper Class” Broderick Palmer (w/Evan O’Neill) d. Cliff Foster (w/Blockhead Ferguson)
• Lolo Vuitton d. Christine Kent
• the International Players d. The End Times (w/Summer Rose)

GRPL+ Presents QCW Ruckus [s3e11 • Febrnuary 9, 2023]

Quality Arena | Parts Unknown, FL

Aired live on GRPL+ | February 9, 2024

After the open rolled, we went to Quality Arena where the Controllers were loud and Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen were rolling out the welcome mat.  They hyped up Sohla Patel vs. Lolo Vuitton as well as the massive man event: Autumn Powers vs. Pyotr Caviar II for the Unified World championship.   Ahead of that massive title clash there are two other title fights to go down, and the first one would kick off the show.

1.. Omar Littlefield [c] v. “Swamp Pride” Ted Holland for tne GRPL+ Wprld Television Championship

Well, fight, beatdown; po-tay-tp, po-tay-to.  Omar swarmed Ted from the opening bell, and the closing bell rang barely a minute after.  Littlefield ended things with four Vader Bombs (maybe we should start calling them Littlefield bombs?) setting up the Face Eraser. 

Omar Littlefield d. “Swamp Pride” Ted Holland in 1:08 to retain the GRpL+ World Television championship 3️⃣

We got another sizzle reel of Ashok Banjerjee, leaning heavily on Catch Hell Wrestling League footage of him, having been their two time champion amongst other accolades.  From Banjerjee hitting highspots and holding up titles we went to footage from Earlier This Week at QCW offices, where Commissioner Holmes looked on proudly as Ashok put pen to paper and joined QCW.  

We got Holmes talking about how proud he was to add another international superstar to the roster and was looking forward to seeing what he would do.  When the camera crew asked Ashok what he was looking forward to now that he was QCW certified, Banjerjee smiled and said he was looking forward to making history and making sure people remembered his name as one of the best to ever do it no matter where he was.  “So bring it on, QCW.”

2. Nazir el-Fadal v. Mr. Teknik

The show continued on with a former World champion going up against one of QCW’s rising stars.  Mr. Teknik seemed to have maybe the upper hand when it came to technical wrestling early, so Naz reached into his bag of tricks.  He dipped between the ropes to force a breakz then he reached over the ref and turned Mr. Teknik 's mask around to blind him before locking on a cobra clutch.  As Not Mr. T tried to make the ropes Naz pulled him into a Lungblower before letting him crash into the canvas.

From there it was another episode of the Nazis el-Fadal Show and Mr. Teknik was stuck playing Sideshow Bob.  Even when Mr. Teknik made a rally, Naz caught him off the ropes with a tilt-a-whirl Michinoku Driver that ran a jolt of shock through the Arena.  el-Fadal again put an opponent away with a Lightning Spiral that the announce said he's calling Nazquil, and it put Mr. Teknik to sleep.

Nazir el-Fadal d. Mr. Teknik in 5:13

After replays, Naz was standing atop the announce desk with a mic in his hand.  He said that this was usually his favorite part of the evening, when he usually got to leave this dump and go to a real town.  But tonight was different - he was going to watch Pyotr Caviar beat Autumn Powers within an inch of her life, and no matter who won the main event he’d be calling next, because if it was a major QCW title even these Parts Unknown dirtbags knew it would sooner or later around the waist of Nazir el-Fadal – still the Greatest Man Alive.   

“Ready Or Not” hit the PA to escort a smiling (sneering?) Naz to the back before the second title match of the night took place…

3. “La Flor” Luz Cruz [c] v. Hilary Highnote for the Crush championship

Ever since coming back and regaining her old title, you have to have Cruz in the discussion for Wrestler of the Year.  Her roll continued here against the game but overmatched Highnote.  Cruz faked the rookie out before hitting a springboard tornado DDT to set up her triple jump moonsault that notched her yet another W.

Luz Cruz d. Hilary Highnote in 5:29 to retain the Crush championship 8️⃣

From Luz’s in ring celebrating we cut to the back where Sohla Patel was with the rest of International Lotus.  Patel shook her head and scowled before working on her strikes with Scott Warren-Tisch while the announce hyped her match against Lolo Vuitton coming later in the show.

From there, the announce gave us a Quality Arena arson update in which they divulged that working alongside PUPD they've been able to uae security footage from the aeeas surrounding Quality Arena and they’ve possibly narrowed down on a suspect.  As they clean up the footage, they're hoping to update us right after they get updated themselves and encouraged us to keep checking in on QCW.com for any sort of breaking news.

4.. The End Times & Evan O’Neill (w/”Upper Class” Broderick Palmer II and Summer Rose) v. Jupiter Jones & the International Players (w/Science Fiction Double Feature)

Going into the match QCW Rewind took us back to last week, where the End Times cheated to beat the International Players but got run off by Jupiter Jones when they tried to pile on post match.

The first chunk of the match went to the black hats, even though O’Neil hogged a lot of their early tags.  Benjamin Valentino took the beating and fought through the beating, even when the End Times laid him out with a double superplex.  Summer was directing traffic and instructed her charges - but while she did that, O’Neill tagged himself back in.  It looked like all hell was going to break loose amongst the heels but surprisingly Broderick Palmer II seemed to be calming down the tensions.

What he missed right before it happened was Benjamin using their bickering to crawl over and tag in Jupiter Jones.

By the time O’Neill realized what had happened he was getting dropkicked in the mush, and from there the man some people call Mr. QCW was serving up some righteous justice for his team.

Patton and Valentino ran interference and eventually the End Times to the back, leaving Jones to finish his handiwork with a textbook Bolt From Olympus that got him 3.

Jupiter Jones & the International Players d. The End Times & Evan O’Neill at 9:17

Jupiter humbly bowed to each side of the ring as the crowd roared and chanted his name.   The International Players came back out as Jupiter headed to the back and all of Collipark took a celebratory bow in front of the Tron.  

Steve and Carl set up a video package that announced the location for the Golden Rule PPV next month, and QCW is making another trip to the Great White North.  More specifically, it's coming live from Calgary –

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– Alberta, Canada!  The Saddledome will host another quality special event with title matches, feud enders and more.  For those close to Calgary or willing to make the trek, tickets go on sale tomorrow at noon Eastern and 10 Calgary x mountain time.  

5. Sohla Patel (w/International Lotus) v. Lolu Vuitton

As International Lotus came out in support Sohla, QCW Rewind took us back two weeks to.Lolo returning and facing Karyn Tisch-Warren for the Women's World championship - a belt she might have regained  had Sohla not saved Karyn's title reign and dove in.  But Sohla accidentally chaired Karyn and Lolo dropped Sohla, and that takes us to tonight.

Lolo rushed the ring and went right at Sohla even before the bell rang, and then once it did Vuitton stayed on a roll.  It looked like she was going to take it in under 3 minutes with the Bloody Shoe but as she came around the horn Karyn jumped up on the apron and diverted everyone's focus.

Lolo took a swing at her ex partner Karyn and missed, allowing current partner Sohla to jump Lolo from behind before Patel back suplexed Vuitton into the corner and took control of the match, however shady it may have been.

Sohla went to work on Lolo's head and being shady is a feature, not a bug for the Bollywood Diva.  Patel kept the upper hand mixing technical work with shadiness (a cravate with a top rope choke, for example) while Steve grumbled about all the dirty tricks she got from Karyn's learning tree.  Sohla was even willing to get in the ref’s face and argue a count before continuing to go to work –

– but Lolo hooked her into an inside cradle for 2.  Both women got up and Sohla smashed a back elbow into Vuitton’s face, but when she followed up and hooked Lolo up for something Lolo reversed it into a vicious rewind rana that popped the crowd and maybe Sohla 's neck.

It was Ass Whoop.O’Clock from there and Lolo was right on time, 

eventually putting Sohla down with a springboard dropkick to set up the Bloody Shoe for the dub.

Lolo Vuitton d. Sohla Patel at 10:38

Of course, since that couldn't stand Karyn Tisch-Warren hit the ring and in short order International Lotus was putting it to Lolo.  Sohla ended up holding Lolo so Karyn could slap her ex partner a couple of times and mock Vuitton.  But unbeknownst to Karyn, she was about to meet the business end of her own petard.

The crowd started cheering, and Sohla ended up throwing Lolo down to the mat.  She did that because the Tron was parting and Luz Cruz was flying down the ramp to even the score.  

Cruz dropped Karyn then went after Sohla, and when Karyn went after Luz it got Lolo up off the deck and started throwing hands herself.  In short order the white hats took over the ring and as Lotus were collecting themselves on the floor, both Lolo and Luz were smack talking them from the ring and encouraging them to try that crap again with the odds evened up.  We went to break with Lolo and Luz firing up the faithful, Lolo saying that the next time she saw Lotus she was going to whoop their asses again and beat them like piñatas.

After the night’s last break but before the main event Steve and Carl had to conduct the hype train for next week’s super sized episode of Ruckus with limited commercial interruptions dubbed St. Violence Day.

They got in a plug for Scoop Republic since they're sponsoring the big show (hi, Ig!) next week.  And it's a big show: 

Omar Littlefield is probably going to microwave some chump in a World TV title defense | “the Fury” Jim Jaspers and Prince Ootsuka will go one on one again, this time in a street fight | the Unified World Tag Team championships will be on the line when Savage Justice put the belts on the line against the End Times | And based off of what just went down, International Lotus will throw down against Crush champion Luz Cruz & Lolo Vuitton

But that's next week.  Right now, it's main event time…and main events get no bigger than when the Fifteen Pounds of Gold is up in the air.

6. Autumn Powers [c] v. Pyotr Caviar (w/Serge Batroc) for the Unified World championship

Cat and mouse game early, as you might expect.   Powers got off some strikes but Pyotr was shrugging them off before outright waving Autumn on.

The Champ changed up her offense and started throwing basement dropkicks to Pyotr's left knee, started to wobble him, and then she went for another one and Pyotr kicked her.  Powers went flying into the turnbuckle, and a hush fell over the crowd.

Replays showed Autumn flying into the corner then bouncing a couple of inches out of the corner.   Under Serge’s eye, Pyotr kept his foot on Autumn's throat for the rest of the match (sometimes literally).  

Going into a picture in picture commercial break, we saw Pyotr stave off a brief Autumn rally by sliding her under the bottom rope and sending her crashing to the outside of the ring.   As Pyotr went back and forth with the referee, Serge oozed from around the corner and leaped off the stairs with a European uppercuts to drop Autumn – but the referee caught him and ejected him much for the delight of the crowd and the anger of Pyotr.

Batroc's skullduggery meant that Powers had more time than usual to recover and she put it to use, swinging a wrecking ball dropkick right into Pyotr's mug.  Having successful finally rattled Caviar, Powers continued to bring the attack and looked like she was going for a tope but turned it into a DDT on the floor that finally took down Caviar.  

Autumn tried to get Pyotr back in the ring but it looked like the size difference was a bridge too far, and she rolled in at 7.  Pyotr dove in under the bottom rope at 9, but now Autumn seemed to have cracked the code and went to work with a flurry of basement dropkicks to dizzy Caviar.

At this point, Autumn started to turn the tide of the fight, and even though sometimes it looked like a desperate scramble Powers showed why she was The Champ, finally taking Pyotr off his feet with a chop block sort of clothesline to his heels that sent him on his ass.  

Without a mentor ringside to help him navigate choppier waters, Pyotr didn't seem to be able to withstand the deep waters Powers put him through down the stretch.  

After driving him to his knees, Autumn drilled Pyotr with a superkick.  With Caviar wobbly, Powers hit a second superkick, causing Caviar to roar before Autumn shut him up with a third basement superkick.  The Final Woman let out a Xenaesque war cry before dropping her kneepad.  Powers ran for the ropes and hit the back of Pyotr's neck with the Hazy Shade of Autumn.  Caviar 's head rolled around and you could see the wheels turning before Autumn ran for the ropes…only to be grabbed by a sudden Nazir el-Fadal and dismissively tossed into the barricade.

Autumn Powers d. Pyotr Caviar at 24:02 by disqualification to retain the Unified World championship

Naz began stomping Autumn out much to the disgusts of all decent food everywhere, and soon Serge Batroc was back out to join in even if it looked like he was having words with Naz a couple of times.  el-Fadal threw Autumn in the ring where Pyotr was waiting to level her with a Russian sickle.   

Autumn was on the wrong side of a three on one beatdown; fortunately for her it didn't last long.

Quality Controllers stood up and cheered as not only did both members of Mean Season make their returns to make the save, but they came armed with chairs.  Naz and Serge gave up the beatdown to head for higher ground, but that left Pyotr Caviar alone in the ring with a full strength Mean Season.  Gaia Green and Winter Wonderland exchanged a look before serving up a steel sandwich to the big Russian, and down into the canvas he went.

The show ended with Autumn holding the Fifteen Pounds of Gold - but as much as Autumn tried to smack talk Naz into it, he merely stood at the foot of the ramp staring deeply at the newest title he wanted to add to his already overstuffed trophy case.

QCW Unleashed [s1e24 • Quality Arena]

•  Evan O'Neill & "Upper Class" Broderick Palmer II d. Blockhead Ferguson & Cliff Foster
• Hilary Highnote d. "Sinister" Sarah Fowler
• "Swamp Pride" Ted Holland d. Super Avion
• Pyotr Caviar (w/Serge Batroc) d. "the Wonderful" Rich ward (w/Jason "the Great" Ward)

GRPL+ Presents QCW Ruckus [s3e10 • Febrnuary 2, 2023]

Quality Arena | Parts Unknown, FL

Aired live on GRPL+ | February 2, 2024

Standard open, but once it ended we saw Prince Ootsuka putting on designer sunglasses and welcomed viewers to a special episode of Ruckus: the last one they would have to see Jim Jaspers’ sorry face on.  As the Prince started to describe the beating he would inflict on his ex partner, Jaspers actually blindsided Ootsuka and they began to brawl through the backstage area.  Their fight went on for the first thirty to sixty seconds of the show until Quality Force security swarmed the scene to break them up.

The Quality Controllers didn't like that, loudly chanting “Let them fight!” as Jaspers tried to get his hands around Ootsuka's neck.  

We went from that chaos backstage to Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen at the announce, who hyped the impending Jaspers/Ootsuka match to come on tonight’s show as well as title defenses of the Crush championship and the GRPL+ World TV championship…but the night would begin with tag team action.

1.. the Wonderful Ward Brothers v. A World of Pain

Ruckus began with the former tag team champions making their way down to the ring as QCW Rewind showed the Wards stepping up their aggression to lay out the End Times and Summer Rose.  Here, the Wards used that new level of aggression against their larger opponents in a showcase while the announce put over the Wards finding a new level in their hunt to get their titles back.  Napalm Bob took a couple of cutters and a double cutter to go down, but go down he did.

The Wonderful Ward Brothers d. A World of Pain in 5:36

The Wards didn't celebrate post match but rather seemed to be scanning the concourse looking for the End Times; it turned out they missed them by a few minutes.  

Why would QCW air a sizzle reel for former multiple time Catch Hell Wrestling League champion Ashok Banjerjee?  Because the Internet rumors are true, which means that the Boundless One will be making QCW his home and is coming soon.

2. The End Times (w/Summer Rose) v. The International Players

As the End Times and Summer Rose came out through the concourse QCW Rewind showed them all taking some lumps at the hands of the Wonderful Ward Brothers in last week's no contest.

By contrast, the International Players came out with high, positive energy and fired up the faithful coming out.  

As it turned out, the match was dominated by the fresher former tag champs, as Lucius Patton and Benjamin Valentino used a borderline showcase to show off their double teams and keeping the pace quicker than the Times would have liked.  Things were rolling the Players’ way…right up until Summer Rose saw an opportunity and hit Benjamin Valentino with the butt end of a THE END IS NIGH sign while he had a pinfall.  Quickly, the End Times followed up with the Reckoning and snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.

The End Times d. The International Players in 11:00

With Valentino in disarray, the End Times started going after Patton at Summer’s direction but as they prepared to hit a home run with their signs the crowd started cheering loudly.

Jupiter Jones ran down the aisle and immediately saved his squad, laying out Dr. Martin Williams with a Bolt From Olympus and tried to land one on Danny Castle, but Summer got him out of the ring and tried to gather up Dr. Williams as Jupiter got the mic from Duck.

Jones said that they may have cheated the College Park Family tonight, but since that happened he was going to stand by his boys next week in a six man tag and help them get revenge.  It didn't matter who their third was, because it would be them who gods destroyed!  Jones tossed the mic aside and waved them on from the ring, but the End Times remained stoic as they headed through the concourse and out of sight.

3. “La Flor” Luz Cruz [c] v. Justine Danek for the Crush championship

Justine has been in QCW before (she may or may not be back), but adding her last name didn't help her lift the belt from the steamrolling Cruz.  Rewind rana set up the triple jump moonsault and that ended things.

Luz Cruz d. Justine Danek in 6:48 to retain the Crush championship 7️⃣

After replays and watching Luz celebrating a bit, we cut to a monologue from Earlier Today featuring The Champ, Autumn Powers l.  She mentioned that she’d heard what Naz had to say last week so she had a response:

Naz was The Champ - she IS The Champ.  Biiiiiig difference.

In fact, she’ll prove it next week when she defends the Fifteen Pounds of Gold against someone who posts a W tonight.  Holmes can figure out who, it doesn't matter, because whether it's next week, next month, or hell, next year, the Final Woman will still be here and still sitting atop QCW’s mountain as The Champ.   Autumn's logo flashed on the screen before we went back to the Arena for live action.

4.  Team Batroc v. The Game Changers

Match | GBB

A fun little TV match between two former sets of champions trying to climb their way back to the belts.  

Al and Ashley started off hot after some early problems, and it was clear that the GCs came in with a game plan to isolate Serge, male quick tags, and overcome the most recent belt holders by using a wrestling version of death by a thousand paper cuts.  

With their upper hand steadily increasing, the Changers went to slam the door on Serge with Face Reality, but Batroc slipped out the back door and shoved Al into Ashley; with the minor opening he got Serge quickly crawled over and tagged in Pyotr.

As you might expect, the entire tenor of the match shifted hard - talented as they are, the Tiki God and THEE Influencer couldn't match Pyotr's power, as has been the story in QCW since Serge recruited him and brought him in.  Down the stretch Al made a save to keep the match going, but as he was leaving the ring Serge leapt in and blasted him with a discus European uppercut that sent him between the ropes and to the floor.  Pyotr put the finishing touches on the fight shortly thereafter with Hit My Music to put another win on the Team Batroc banner.

Team Batroc d. the Game Changers in 14:33

As Serge raised Pyotr’s hand in the ring, a cut to backstage showed Savage Justice watching this all on a monitor with their tag belts over their shoulders.

Their faces were brick walls.

Before one last big commercial break we got the same weird sepia toned footage we’ve seen over the past few weeks; five different crosses flashed across the screen as a male and female voice in unison encouraged the QCW roster of false idols and their fans to repent before the CHOSEN.

5. “the Fury” Jim Jaspers v. Prince Ootsuka

Jaspers came out first but hung out by the Qualitron instead of heading towards the ring; when the newly monikered Prince started using the ramp for his runway walk Old Jim jumped him from behind and the fight was back on.

There was technically a match in here, but mostly the ex partners brawled around ringside with small stints inside the ring.   The match ended with even more chaos, as Ootsuka accidentally (?) pulled the ref in front of Jaspers’ Fury Road and took out the zebra.  A second ref came down to referee the rest of the match and get medical out for the first ref – but within a couple of minutes that ref got accidentally (?)) pulled in the line of fire of an Ootsuka thrust kick that dropped them in sections.  As Jim and the Prince continued throwing stiff strikes at each other, a third referee came out and briefly talked to Duck before we found out what the decision was.

“The Fury” Jim Jaspers and Prince Ootsuka fought to a no contest officially at 8:02

Crowd didn't like that, nope.

Jaspers and Ootsuka brawled again until Quality Force separated them yet again; you and the announce are right in suspecting that this is far from over.

Before the main event, Steve and Carl hyped up next week's big events: Luz Cruz and the Crush championship inching ever close to 10, Sohla Patel vs. Lolo Vuitton and in the main event, Autumn Powers/Pyotr Caviar II for the Unified World championship.

Main event time, kiddies…

6.  Omar Littlefield [c] v. Atum Pharoah for the GRPL+ World Television championship

Finally, Omar was up against someone bigger than he was.  It was hoss fight o’clock and there was enough beef to put a smile on a Midwesterner’s face.

Atum surprised the crowd and maybe even Omar by muscling him around the ring a few times to increasingly louder pops from the Quality Controllers.  Of course, some of that noise may have been from the Ootsuka/Jaspers fight that spilled into the concourse from the back.   It got Atum’s attention, and moreover gave Omar the opportunity to sneak up on Atum and lift him up before planting him with a ring-rattling rack bomb.

That drew some guttural groans from the crowd and a roar from Omar, who started to take over the proceedings - in fact, he even broke the Claw of Horus with his bare hands before planting Atum with a chokeslam.   That was the beginning of Pharoah’s end; the end came after four Vader Bombs and his signature Face Eraser.

Omar Littlefield d. Atum Pharoah in 6:32 to retain the GRPL+ World Television championship 2️⃣

After replays, Omar held the title over his head with a surly look on his face.  But his look changed to confusion as the Jaspers/Ootsuka fight started coming into the ring and continued on.  At one point, Ootsuka accidentally (?) sent Jaspers into Littlefield, and that was all it took for Omar to kick violence into another gear.

After tree slamming Jaspers to the canvas, Omar let FIVE Vader Bombs off before planting what was left of Old Jim with the Face Eraser.   Ootsuka smack talked his fallen ex partner before turning to Omar and offering up a high five.  Littlefield gave it to him, but when Ootsuka tried to walk away he couldn't; Omar didn't let go and started crushing  his hand.

Littlefield started to splatter Ootsuka around the ring as well, eventually dropping him with four Vader Bombs and a Face Eraser before grabbing poor Atum and giving him another Face Eraser onto Ootsuka.  Omar sent his scowl all over the ring before picking the World TV title off the canvas and throwing it over his shoulder.  As Carl Christensen freaked out on commentary, we saw Atum Pharoah, Prince Ootsuka and Jim Jaspers all laid out in the ring and Omar Littlefield stomping to the back with the TV title over his shoulder.  

The credit box came up with Steve Vandeblanche wondering if three men couldn't stop Omar Littlefield from acting as judge, jury and executioner, then who could?

QCW Unleashed [s1e23 • Quality Arena]

•  Lolo Vuitton d. Midsomar
• "Sinister" Sarah Fowler & Veronica Vespa d. Fiona Fogg & Christine Kent
• Atum Pharoah d. Hawk Carter
• Team Batroc d. The Game Changers

GRPL+ Presents QCW Ruckus [s3e9 • January 26, 2023]

Quality Arena | Parts Unknown, FL

Aired live on GRPL+ | January 26, 2024

Roll the open and let's hit up Parts Unknown to see how much Ruckus brings to you this Friday night.  Steve Vandeblanche and Carl Christensen hyped a big episode that would see Serge Batroc and Razorblade go one ion one as well as Karyn Tisch-Warren’s semi open challenge for the Women's World championship in the main event, but tonight would kick off with the first title match of the evening…

1.. “La Flor” Luz Cruz [c] v. Shelley LaVey for the Crush championship

Both women started off hot, running a pretty crisp rope running sequence before trading off on a series of rollips then throwing dropkicks at the same time.  More rope running occured, only this time it was cut off when Luz ducked her head too soon and Shelley spiked her into the canvas with a Rocker Dropper.

In the middle part of the time limit LaVey narrowly stayed a step ahead of the champion; even when Cruz put together some offense and knocked Shelley to the floor, LaVey cut off a tope attempt with a crackling right hand before delivering a neckbreaker between the ropes.  Shelley encouraged Luz to get up before drilling her with a Fresh To Death, and then she went to win the title with her Fallen Angel flying splash.

As she flew off, Luz rolled towards that corner and there was no water in the pool for Shelley.  LaVey had barely been on the canvas a moment before Cruz came crashing down with her signature triple jump moonsault, and that got La Flor another hard fought title defense.

Luz Cruz d. Shelley LaVey in 8:26 to retain the Crush championship 6️⃣

After replays Cruz was at the announce table, telling Steve that she had a short and sweet message for Karyn Tisch-Warren:  once she completed her Road to 10, Karyn would be seeing her.  Hell, with some time to rest and the semi open challenge headlining tonight?  Maybe she’d see Karyn sooner than she thought.  Luz then handed Steve back his headphones and headed to the back, slapping the hands of some front row Quality Controllers on her way to the back.

2. The End Times (w/Summer Rose) v. The Wonderful Ward Brothers

So this was pretty nuts.

The End Times made their usual entrance through the concourse with their THE END IS NIGH signs; what turned out to be unusual was the fact that the Wonderful Ward Brothers jumped them on their way to the ring causing a Pier 4 in row eight while Steve caught Carl up on the long time rivalry between these teams over the past few months.

The Wards used their surprise attack to their advantage, really going to town on Danny Castle and Dr. Martin Williams despite Summer Rose’s exhortations from the outside.  The Wards showed off a more aggressive side to themselves, something that Steve noted on commentary, but they didn't let it overwhelm them and were ready to button up the match when they hit the Cutting Express on Dr. Williams.

A frustrated Summer snuck Dr. Williams’ foot under the ropes and called the referee”s attention to it.  When the referee stopped the count, it seemed like something in the Wards just snapped. 

The match totally broke down from there and it wasn't too long before the referee called for the bell and threw out the match.

The End Times and the Wonderful Ward Brothers fought to a non contest at 9:26

The Wards continued getting their pound of flesh from the End Times, laying out both Castle and Dr. Williams with the Cutting Express.  When Summer tried to stick up for her not-a-cultists?  

The Wards laid her out with the Cutting Express, too, to a massive if mixed reaction.  Ruckus went to break with the Wards headed to the back with steely eyed determination on their faces having finally gotten one over on the End Times.

When the break ended, a highlight reel of Nazir el-Fadal in QCW’s modern era played after that chaos was over.  He won the first match - the Worldwide Leader tournament - beating Jupiter Jones for his first QCW title - elevating and winning titles from around the globe to make it the QCW World title - winning the TV title and becoming the first one to notch 10 wins - winning the World Tag Team titles with Super Avión to become a double champion alongside his World title - and then the footage sort of dissolved into a close up on Naz himself.

For a few seconds it was just Naz glaring at the screen before saying that Autumn was a good champion, but he was a great champion, and if she had the ovaries to face him one on one at Golden Rule he was going to prove that she's the Final Woman, but up against QCW’s Final Boss?  

el-Fadal let out a booming cackle before getting his breathing leveled out and said that Autumn would go to Jihad Finishing School and when she failed?  Well, the 15 Pounds of Gold would be his.  A gold onyx flashed on the screen before we went back to the Arena, the ring, and a televised murder.

3. Omar Littlefield [c] v. Il Postino for the GRPL+ World Television championship

Did you know Il Postino is Spanish for cannon fodder?  Corner splash, 3 Vader Bombs, Face Eraser, fin.

Omar Littlefield beat Il Postino in :29 GRPL+ World Television championship

They replayed the whole match.  That's what it was like.  

Enya Face was in the back and brought out “the Fury” Jim Jaspers, who appeared to have been stewing in his juices all week.  Jim, getting bleeped out constantly, got two major points across:

1)  Richard Windsor wasn't at 100% after last week but he’d be back soon

2)  After what he did in costing them the Ambassadors Trios championships and hurting Richard last week, Jaspers wanted Ootsuka's head on a platter and to face him next week so he could get some revenge for Richard, but mostly for himself

Actually three things:

3) If Ootsuka didn't show up to fight him next week, Jaspers would find him and make sure he ended up in the hospital much, much longer than Windsor’s overnight stay

Jaspers stormed off the set, leaving a wide eyed Face to throw things back to Duck in the ring for the next match on the show…

4. Evan O'Neill & “Upper Class” Broderick Palmer II v. Crusazdo del Oro & Super Avión 

A tale of two tag teams, even if they are starting to more closely resemble passing ships in the night due to the losing streak of the luchadors and the unlikely duo of the black hats starting to find their footing as a tag team.  

QCW Rewind helped remind us that last week BP2 helped O’Neill and Team Batroc best Mr. Teknik and Savage Justice.  This week in tag action they put another notch in their tag belt in a showcase, taking advantage of Crusazdo accidentally hitting Avión with a springboard enzuigiri to give them an advantage that they wouldn't give up.  They ended things after a Palmer powerbomb/O’Neill senton elbow drop polished off Avión.

Evan O'Neill and “Upper Class* Broderick Palmer II d. Crusazdo del Oro & Super Avión at 8:43

The heels celebrated on their way to the back while Avión blew off Crusazdo 's attempts to help him up, opting to roll out of the ring before heading to the back through the concourse.

5. Serge Batroc (w Pyotr Caviar) v. Mason “Razorblade” Savage (w/Justice Davis)

As Serge came down to the ring to “Engel”, QCW Rewind went back two weeks to show Pyotr Caviar eventually beating Justice Davis - this match closes the circle.  

This started off with a brawl, as Serge and Razorblade have never not hated each other's guys.  Unfortunately for Serge, like most of QCW was going to lose to Razorblade in a fight.  Savage had the Arena rocking just as much as he did Batroc, leaving his mark by eventually snuffing out a Serge rally with a spinebuster that lead to a nesrfall of Batroc getting his hand on the ropes at 2 ¾.  Serge ended up out of the ring after that, while Razorblade was barking at him from the ring.  

Serge ended up whispering something to Pyotr before getting back into the ring, but it only took a couple of minutes for Razorblade to once again sent Serge out of the ring with a clothesline.  Savage went to follow up, but Caviar acted as a human shield between Serge and Razorblade.  Justice came around to get in Pyotr's face despite the size difference, but the Caviar/Davis faceoff allowed Serge the opportunity to trip Savage into the apron.  Batroc grabbed Razorblade and put him over his shoulders before delivering a rolling fireman's carry slam into the floor.  While it clearly hurt Serge, he was the first man up and further out things on his side of the ledger by tossing Razorblade into the steps before rolling into the ring and telling the ref to count Savage out.

Razorblade got in the ring at 7 and Serge swarmed him with stomps for a bit before starting to diversify his offense with suplexes and European uppercuts.  Batroc began to get near falls, the longest coming after slipping a suplex or brainbuster attempt and pulled Savage into an elevated reverse DDT; Razorblade barely shouldered up at 2.9.  

Serge argued the count q bit but who really got their nose out of joint about it was Caviar, who actually it in the ring and argued the point with the referee.  Steve was explaining to Carl (and some of the viewers) that as long as Pyotr didn't physically touch the ref he wouldn't get DQed, but he was certainly flirting with the borderline.   That was the last thing we saw before Justice came flying in out of nowhere, sending he and Pyotr over the top rope and to the floor.  

Caviar and Davis renewed hostilities on the floor while the ref yelled at them to knock it off and Carl got the fear of God put into him just by being a few steps away from Pyotr.  

With Caviar trying to bench press Justice into the crowd only to eat a rear naked choke from Justice, Serge spotted the tag team belt Davis left behind and tried to make history repeat itself by swinging on Razorblade…but Savage kicked it away and then was hopping around on one foot due to having kicked the belt.

The French Assassin staggered forward towards Razorblade on his knees before giving him a low blow and pulling him into a small package; the referee, having missed the shadiness involved, surprised everyone by hitting a 3 count that gave Serge a shocking victory.

Serge Batroc d. Mason “Razorblade” Savage at 16:07

Announce after replays how Team Batroc was cheating to win for the first time ever since losing the Unified Tag belts and now it had worked three straight times ahead of their titles rematch.

From there we were TOTHEBACK ~! where Julius Duquesne III brought on his guests - the Wonderful Ward Brothers.  The crowd gave them a good response but surprisingly Rich was the Ward who took point on the promo; he said that when the End Times threw them off the stage months ago they started something that wasn't going to end until the Wards delivered the Armageddon they wanted so much. The Wards remembered getting screwed out of the UCC as well by the Times, losing the weapons match at the PPV to them, but the losing was going to end.  They were going to take care of and take out the Times, and then they were going to regain the Unified World Tag Team championships.  

We went to the announce from there, who told us that there was an update on the Black Friday fire at Quality Arena.  QCW, working with PUPD, now suspect arson instead of a fire and have suspicions for a person seen walking away from the Arena around the time of the fire in a wide brimmed black hat.  They promised updates on the situation as events warranted.

After commercials, Steve & Carl hyped up next week's Ruckus, which will feature Luz Cruz defending the Crush championship, Omar Littlefield defending the World TV title, and as a result of the past couple of shows “the Fury” Jim Jaspers will be going up against his former partner Prince Ootsuka 

6. Karyn Tisch-Warren’s semi open challenge for the Women's World championship

Karyn came out first as is the champion’s prerogative to re-establish the stakes: her putting up the Women's World championship against anyone who wasn't Cindy Monet after she beat her in the best of 3 falls match in the lead up to XXV.

Karyn waved on her mystery opponent – and then Cardi B hit the system and her jaw dropped.

Because who answered the challenge wasn't just a former two-time women's champion, but her ex-partner she had stabbed in the back to throw her lot in with International Lotus and cofound it.  Not to mention that said backstabbing had led to Karyn’s first title reign and came as a result of an open challenge.

So you can understand that the roof came off of the Arena when the Quality Controllers welcomed back Lolo Vuitton.

Duck announced her to a monster ovation, but Lolo was already sprinting down to ringside.  Karyn bailed from the ring and tried to flee into the concourse but Lolo caught her in the second row and beat her like a rented goalie.  The bell rang but it took Lolo a couple beats to seemingly remember she was in a match before she tossed Karyn over the barrier back to ringside.  Scott Warren-Tisch walked up to complain and Lolo dropped him with a kick; Sohla Patel followed Scott’s example and got Karyn thrown at her for her trouble.  Lolo pulled Karyn off by the hair and started dragging her up the stairs – but Karyn swept the leg and delivered a pendulum backbreaker into the middle part of the steps.

YEEOUCH.

Karyn stepped over Lolo before flopping between the middle and top rope and demanded the referee count Vuitton out.  Replays fired of Karyn turning Lolo into Homer and the steps into a fire hydrant with her backbreaker.  Lolo dove between the ropes at 9 before grabbing at her back and wincing.

Karyn got to her feet first and hit a running senton into Lolo’s back, and then she really started working over the L4, L5 and the rest.  The Notorious KTW kept on Lolo’s designer heels in close quarters and repeatedly shut down Lolo’s windows of opportunity with timely back breakers.  The last one was a picture perfect Spare Me that sent Vuitton flying halfway across the ring, and Karyn called for the end.

But when Karyn tried to lock down the Circuit Breaker Lolo started upkicking the champ,, and then a timely trip sent Karyn flying into the ring post shoulder first.  Vuitton got up walking gingerly, right until she snatched Karyn up and threw her right back into the ring post shoulder first.  

There's where she comeback began, even if Lolo was moving gingerly through the moves she was posting together.  She also turned defense into offense at the last moment by back dropping Karyn over the top rope at one point and having Karyn's face bounce off the top step on her way down.  Lolo moved as quick as she could to bundle KTW up and get her in the ring.  Sohla tried to pull Karyn out of the ring, but Lolo flew into Sohla with a wrecking ball dropkick to take Patel out of the frame.  

Lolo absolutely drilled Karyn with a roundhouse kick that sent the champ flying into the corner.  The crowd got loud and you could see a gleam in Lolo's eyes as she pointed at Karyn and pulled a trigger before she limped/ran around the horn and connected with her signature Bloody Shoe for the first time in months.

Lolo made a cover, the ref made the count – and Sohla dove onto Lolo to save Karyn's title and piss off all decent people.

Karyn Tisch-Warren beat Lolo Vuitton by disqualification in 16:19 tp retain the Women's World championship 

Sohla stomped away at Lolo while the announce had the reaction to International Lotus that you might expect.  Sohla helped Karyn to her feet and then they both stomped away at Lolo before Karyn bossed Sohla around a bit.  Sohla nodded and ended up ringside, reaching past Duck to grab a steel chair.  

Sohla slid the chair into the ring before following it in.  Patel grabbed it & swung for the fences – but Lolo matadored away and Sohla clobbered Karyn instead to the joy of the Controllers.  Sohla was in horrified shock over laying out her BFF, and then injury got added to insult when she turned around and ate a Bloody Show that sent the chair recoiling into her face.  The roar in the Arena came across great as Lolo made sure to smack talk both members of International Lotus while beating her chest.

The credit box came up as Lolo took the Women's World championship and dropped it on Karyn before posing on the turnbuckles and pointing behind her at the laid out Lotus to end Ruckus; the announce wondered what was going to be up next with Lolo Vuitton back in the women's division with eyes on her old belt.