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Post by Bandalero on May 16, 2017 14:47:11 GMT -5
They have purposely separated these guys from the rest of the roster even though their matches usually fall smack-dab in the middle of the show. We've got 170 lbs of Finn Balor in the RAW main event, yet we're led to believe that A double and Neville can't run with the bigger guys? Everything is just dis-jointed with this division.
The poster above me is right, the novelty of a "cruiserweight" is gone, everyone dives through the ropes now. What they should have done was make the CWC an annual tournament with prestige, have the finals of the tourney play out at WrestleMania or something, call it a wash.
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Post by Supreme Cross on May 16, 2017 16:42:09 GMT -5
i was excited when the cruiserweight division was coming back. but it got staled pretty fast. the reason for me is because it seems they face the same people over and over again. it gets pretty boring
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Post by A-Rob on May 16, 2017 17:14:29 GMT -5
205 Live is a failure so far, The crowds are dead and the storylines are horrible. If it was taped before Smackdown then the crowd will be more lively and it will help the show a bit.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 17:19:35 GMT -5
There's no such thing as "Cruiserweights" anymore. I'm watching guys like Finn, AJ, Seth, Sami, Crews, etc. perform the same high-flying style that the 205 Live roster does.
These guys need to either be brought into the main roster, released, or (my pick) moved down to NXT to develop their characters. Personally, this is how I'd move the 205 Live roster...
To the main roster: Austin Aries, The Brian Kendrick, Neville and Rich Swann
To NXT: Akira Tozawa, Cedric Alexander, Drew Gulak, Mustafa Ali, TJ Perkins and Tony Nese
To U.K. Championship Exclusive show: Jack Gallagher and Noam Dar
Released: Ariya Daivari, HoHo Lun, Gran Metalik and Lince Dorado
... maybe even give the "release" guys a chance in NXT. Although some just seem too bland and is Metalik even on the active roster?
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Post by DeadHeadKing on May 16, 2017 18:00:29 GMT -5
I'm a huge fan of the cruiserweight division, I want it to succeed.
This is what I think should happen to help them.
205 should be recorded before Smackdown and air on a different a different night, having two live shows in the same night I feel is overkill.
Or
Get rid of 205 live, and feature the division on RAW and Smackdown.
And maybe establish an NXT cruiserweight division. That way guys like Dorado, Metalik can get more exposure and guys in NXT that are cruiserweight can build up their names to be called up to the main roster. Guys like Oney Lorcan, Hoho Lun, Almas, DIY, and even Strong. But that's just wishful thinking, and a reason to establish a new NXT title to give Strong. He need to be Champion. Hopefully they give him an NXT title run.
But I'm getting off point. I don't know if they have time to save the division but I hope they do.
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Post by Nivro™ on May 16, 2017 18:17:49 GMT -5
This board has been going on and on about cruiserweights for years. Ive said it over and over, once Rey Mystero won the World Title, the point of cruiserweights was moot. Austin Aries is an amazing talent but why should I care if he's chasing a stupid purple title when he could be in the IC-US or even a World Title picture? Cruiserweight Classic was a great idea. Get X amount of cruiserweights, have a tourney, give the winner a trophy...It should have ended right then and there. The aura of cruiserweights died when we started seeing "full size" guys and bigger doing the same moves. Watching a guy 180lbs do a flippy-do-dunk-a-roo isnt impressive to me when Ive seen Brock  ing Lesnar do a shooting star press. With that said, they could have used 205 as a secondary developmental territory but you might as well just stick the handful of guys they do use in NXT. 205 should have never left Full Sail because "flippy guys" are now part of a niche fan base which perfectly fits into Full Sail crowd. |
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Post by J12 on May 16, 2017 18:26:53 GMT -5
When all the best cruiserweights on the roster are Heavyweight title contenders, what's the point of having a cruiserweight division? And I don't mean that to sound like I wish guys like AJ Styles and Finn Balor were in the Cruiserweight division, because I don't want that all. They're where they belong.
The division has been treading water for months. The Aries/Neville angle was interesting leading into Mania, and both performers have been rock solid, but it's just not enough. Everything other than that has been more or less a failure. They lost all of the gravitas they had from the Cruiserweight Classic and turned it into a homogenized, cookie cutter, corporate WWE side-show with gimmicky ropes and a bunch of characters no one had ever heard about and gave absolutely no reasons to care about any of them. The matches mean nothing, and 205 Live is largely just a string of pointless segments thrown together to fill TV time (much like their presence on Raw.)
Vince McMahon will pull the plug eventually, I just don't think he's willing to admit it's an abject failure yet. Not to mention, they like advertising live content for the Network, even if the content sucks.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 18:39:30 GMT -5
These 2 guys get it.
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Post by Lego Customs! on May 17, 2017 12:05:59 GMT -5
1997 Light-Heavyweight division > 205 Live
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