BRUH......This Why The WWE Cruiserweight Division Is Dead On Arrival
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IT'S BERNIE SANDERS WITH A STEEL CHAIR!
BIG BOOT AND LEG DROP DREW MORE MONEY AND GUYS DIDN'T KICK OUT, BROTHER!
Striving For Greatness
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TheWhackMamba
The Coli's Drop Bear
Wasn't this Reys finisher around 97-98?
MenacingMonk
Tranquilo
Kind of disappointed. Expected some crazier shyt from Trill Ospreay. 
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Veteran
WWE got the dab tho 
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nikkas really tryna downplay a Springboard DragonranaWhoooo a fancy front flip.....
Out of all the things bogging down the cruiserweight division, the lack of athleticism ain't one of them.I'm sure most of them could pull that move off especially against another small flippy wrestler. The show is too long and fans have been conditioned to look for an out aka a piss break and what do you know? Characterless wrestlers who are in a directionless division who matches last 4 minutes tops. That's why the division is DOA.
The Great One
Swag Surfin
This is another terrible thread fron Silk.
Rey mysterio and juvie was doing this 20 years ago.
And if you want a link Watch every Monday Nitro from late 96 on lol
Rey mysterio and juvie was doing this 20 years ago.
And if you want a link Watch every Monday Nitro from late 96 on lol
The cruiserweight division was DOA because after years of showing that smaller guys were as talented or better than the big guys, they went back to sticking smaller guys in their own dimension where nothing has any stakes because being the cruiserweight champion means nothing to the rest of the company. Neville's great run as champion means nothing for him, because there is no upward mobility in being labeled as a cruiserweight and stuck in the phantom zone on a show where, at absolute most, 1/3rd of your audience can even watch.
Continuing with Neville, 2 years ago, he was competing in title matches against John Cena and Seth Rollins and nearly winning. Now, he's a cruiserweight, who can only fight cruiserweights. There's no upside to that. Back when WCW created the division, it was because the top of the cards were full of giant dudes and old guys who couldn't work, and the most talented guys were much smaller but who otherwise wouldn't get a shot. Today, guys like Finn Balor (smaller than many of the guys on 205 Live) has been Universal champion and at no point was he portrayed as some little guy overcoming the odds. The concept of a cruiserweight is completely outdated in 2017 and all it does is trap guys with a label WWE worked for a decade on getting rid of.
It certainly has nothing to do with the 205 Live matches not having enough flippy dippies, because those matches are full of the craziest shyt on any WWE show on a weekly basis, but no one cares because there is no reason to care and workrate shows for the sake of workrate shows don't work in the WWE system.
Continuing with Neville, 2 years ago, he was competing in title matches against John Cena and Seth Rollins and nearly winning. Now, he's a cruiserweight, who can only fight cruiserweights. There's no upside to that. Back when WCW created the division, it was because the top of the cards were full of giant dudes and old guys who couldn't work, and the most talented guys were much smaller but who otherwise wouldn't get a shot. Today, guys like Finn Balor (smaller than many of the guys on 205 Live) has been Universal champion and at no point was he portrayed as some little guy overcoming the odds. The concept of a cruiserweight is completely outdated in 2017 and all it does is trap guys with a label WWE worked for a decade on getting rid of.
It certainly has nothing to do with the 205 Live matches not having enough flippy dippies, because those matches are full of the craziest shyt on any WWE show on a weekly basis, but no one cares because there is no reason to care and workrate shows for the sake of workrate shows don't work in the WWE system.
This whole time I thought they had an hour dedicated to them on RAW and never questioned why SD was also called 205 Live. 
I knew I had a weird case of Deja vu watching that footage. Even though Rey did it and it's been done before.....the swiftness breh
. Folks been conditioned to WWE's limited movesets for years and flippy dippy shyt for a decade, it's a breath of fresh air to see a move like that executed with such precision.