So is there any hope for the Cruiserweight Division?

[reigun]

Enzo is done. Neville and Aries are gone. Ratings for 205 Live are in the toilet. Most of the former Cruiserweight champions are coming out to crickets at best, flat out anger from the crowd at worst. The division is a complete joke among fans; so much so, people chanted “205 Live" at Ricochet to taunt him a few weeks ago. They had to add Matt Hardy And Bray Wyatt to their house shows just to sell a few more tickets.

I really don't see what could possibly salvage the division at this point. Only way I see 205 Live lasting the year is if they're really desperate for network content and can't come up with a good replacement.

 

[WMG the 2nd]

Bring back Rey Mysterio and Chaco Guerrero and have them build programs with ricochet

 

[trick]

They need to separate it from traditional WWE story-telling and to not film it in the arenas for SD. They should've been a standalone brand from the beginning, like NXT.

Maybe they just need to send the entire 205 Live roster down to NXT and tape 205 Live along with NXT, instead of taping it after SD, when crowds are already tired and they've already endured 2 hours of shytty TV before.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Send it to Fail Sail and let them be the Cruiserweights that were in the CWC. Once you've watched the same 5 hours of slow ass wrestling, you need something with more tempo.

 

[Silkk]

Strap a rocket to Ricochet and let him go.

Put in Finn Balor, Pete Dunne, Tyler Bate, and convince Neville to come back.

Run that shyt at full sail or smaller intimate venues.

 

[richaveli83]

Retire the division and have the cruiserweights compete for the IC title. The WWE has never been able to use the cruiserweights/lightweight wrestlers properly.

 

[Freestyle Phantom3.0]

They need to separate it from traditional WWE story-telling and to not film it in the arenas for SD. They should've been a standalone brand from the beginning, like NXT.

Maybe they just need to send the entire 205 Live roster down to NXT and tape 205 Live along with NXT, instead of taping it after SD, when crowds are already tired and they've already endured 2 hours of shytty TV before.

Came to say this exact thing. I went to Smackdown in Providence back in August and it was a chore to be there. I’ve been to mania, a dozen or so raw/smackdowns and countless House shows, but for some reason that show was it for me. The commercial breaks, the backstage segments, take you out of the show experience. I didn’t think about staying for 205 live for one second, even though I’ve been a big fan of the majority of the roster for years (metalik, Cedric, rich Swann, gulak etc)

They need to do their show from full sail, no frills, great matches, ONE ON ONE storylines, keep it simple and it will present itself much better on the network.

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

Ricochet could save it if they book him properly, but if he's just another guy like everyone else in the division is, then no. Hopefully they stop wasting everyone's time (wrestlers and fans) either way -- save it or kill it.

 

[Cartier Murphy]

I mean, they could give it its own distinct look and feel, run it like they did the CWC where it felt legitimate and high stakes. Or go in with some cinematic fukkery ala Lucha Underground. But I don’t expect either of those things to happen so nah, it’ll keep trudging along till they pull the plug

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Just move it to Full Sail.

You can still shoot it live, the crowd would be way more into it, and the reduced travel time means we might actually get the high- flying action we were promised, rather than "regular WWE matches with vanilla midgets. "

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Retire the division and have the cruiserweights compete for the IC title. The WWE has never been able to use the cruiserweights/lightweight wrestlers properly.

 

[NYChase718]

Stop pushing vanilla midgets as heavyweights

And let them be what they really are

Cruiserweights



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