205 Live – May 19, 2020: What Is With This Show
IMG Credit: WWE
205 Live
Date: May 15, 2020
Location: WWE Performance Center, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: Corey Graves, Byron Saxton
After those weeks of not having this as the least interesting show WWE offers, it’s back to the same formula that turned the show into a joke. This week is back to the two matches with little story to them and telling us to watch NXT if we want the cruiserweight matches that actually matter. Let’s get to it.
Opening sequence.
Tyler Breeze vs. Tehuti Miles
Miles looks impressed with his own looks and throws a towel at Breeze to start. A spinebuster cuts Miles down so he heads to the ropes, where the referee has to pull him off. That lets Miles get in a shot to the face and he poses a bit while Breeze staggers around on the floor. Back in and the slow stomping ensues, followed by the chinlock. Breeze fights up and hits a quick Supermodel Kick for two but Miles hits a spinning Dominator for the same. Miles loads up a neckbreaker but Breeze reverses into the Unprettier for the pin at 6:00.
Rating: D+. Miles comes off as a cross between Breeze and Velveteen Dream, which isn’t quite the most interesting thing in the world. The bigger problem here is getting back to how 205 Live matches tend to feel: no emotion, no energy and nothing worth watching. You had two guys doing moves to each other and that isn’t the best way to fill in a few minutes when the moves aren’t all that great in the first place.
We look at the ten man tag from two months ago, with Jack Gallagher causing Tony Nese to be interrupted. Nese attacked him a few weeks ago and then jumped Isaiah Scott in the Cruiserweight Title tournament, allowing Gallagher to win. How that makes them hate each other is beyond me but it’s better than nothing. I think.
Tony Nese vs. Jack Gallagher
Feeling out process to start with Gallagher working on the arm but getting taken down into a leglock. Gallagher gets up and kicks him outside but Nese comes right back in to knock him down. The chinlock goes on, followed by a headlock to keep Gallagher in trouble. Nese switches to the bodyscissors and then a Boston crab, with Gallagher fighting up without much damage done.
They head outside with Gallagher sending him into the barricade for two back inside. The slugout it on until Nese snaps him throat first across the top. A Lionsault gets two and the Sunset Driver connects for the same. The Running Nese is countered with a headbutt and Gallagher’s sunset flip gets two. Nese can’t hit a pumphandle slam so Gallagher nails the rolling elbow for the pin at 8:38.
Rating: C+. Much better match than the first though you can feel how low level the whole thing is. This feels like the kind of a match that we have seen in some form several times now, which is the problem with so much around here. These matches run together and while this one was pretty good, it wasn’t the kind of match that I’m going to remember in about five minutes.
Post match Gallagher says this isn’t over.
Overall Rating: C-. I know I’ve harped on this but you can really feel how little this show matters. During the middle of the show, they were talking about how the tournament stuff is on the other show while pointing out that the main event was a match between people already eliminated. They go out of their way to make it clear that this show is the bottom of the barrel and I just don’t get it. If WWE cares so little about the show, why bother running the thing? This one was fine, though don’t expect to see WWE act like it matters.
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