205 Live – August 7, 2020: When This Show Makes Me Mad
IMG Credit: WWE
205 Live
Date: August 7, 2020
Location: WWE Performance Center, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: Drew Gulak, Vic Joseph
We’re back to the cruiserweights and for the first time in a good while, that doesn’t sound like a complete waste of time. Things have been getting a little interesting around here, or at least as interesting as a show regularly featuring Tony Nese and Ever Rise is going to be. Let’s get to it.
Here are last week’s results if you need a recap.
Opening sequence.
Ever Rise vs. Mikey Spandex/Marquis Carter
Let’s get these goofs out of the way early. Parker armbars Spandex (what a name) to start as Gulak talks about proper fish tank maintenance. Parker misses a charge, allowing Spandex to slam him for one. It’s off to Parker to knock Spandex down and stomp away but he gets in a dropkick for a breather.
Carter comes in for some running forearms and a springboard elbow gets one on Martel. That’s about it for Carter, who gets taken down into a backbreaker/running knee combination as the fans seem to be cheering for Ever Rise. I know these people are paid but is it really worth that much? Anyway the elevated Codebreaker finishes Spandex at 4:15.
Rating: D+. Well that happened, as I guess we are supposed to care about Ever Rise now? I mean, I can’t imagine many people do, but you do need to give them a win every now and then to make sure the important teams beating them gets a little something. The team isn’t so much bad as they are lame, and in a lot of ways that’s a lot worse, as has been the case with them so far.
We see Legado del Fantasma kidnapping Fandango on NXT, and what happened later that night.
Here is Legado del Fantasma for a chat and they carry Fandango out with him. Escobar talks about how they come out here every week and try to explain that they are just better because lucha libre is not a gimmick. Fandango is thrown over the barricade and then inside, with Escobar talking about Breezango playing dress up. They spit in the face of Escobar and the disrespect stops right now. The rest of the team goes after Fandango and cut off an invading Tyler Breeze as well. Escobar says anyone who speaks his name again will face the same future.
Tony Nese vs. Danny Burch
Oney Lorcan is here with Nese. They lock up to start with neither getting anywhere. The threat of the half crab sends Nese bailing to the ropes so Lorcan takes him to the mat and works on the arm instead. Nese’s waistlock is countered into a headlock so Nese rolls over to the ropes again. Back up and Nese starts the dodging, setting up an elbow to the face for two.
The chinlock goes on but Burch fights up and grabs a headlock takeover. That’s broken up with a belly to back suplex for two and it’s off to the front facelock. Burch’s throat is snapped across the top rope and the Lionsault connects, but Burch is already in the ropes. At least he didn’t waste time. Nese stays on the ribs with a bodyscissors before throwing a chinlock in for a bonus.
That’s broken up as well and Burch clotheslines him into the corner. A suplex gives Burch two and Nese pretty easily loses a slugout. Nese kicks him in the face for two of his own, followed by a second to keep Burch down. The 450 misses but here’s Ariya Daivari to rake Lorcan’s eyes. Lorcan is sent into the Plexiglas and seems to bang up his knee, but he sends Burch back to the ring anyway. Burch sends Nese into a variety of things and grabs a hanging DDT for the pin at 10:53.
Rating: C. WHY DOES DAIVARI HAVE TO KEEP COMING BACK TO THIS FREAKING SHOW??? He isn’t interesting now, he wasn’t interesting before and he is never going to be interesting, but for some reason he has one of those job for life deals and keeps coming back despite never being anything that matters in the slightest. Is ANYONE going to be upset if he isn’t on the show and someone else can get his spot? I actually groaned when I saw him show up and that’s one of the worst reactions you can have for any wrestler. WWE seems to need one on every show though, and I guess Daivari is this show’s version.
Overall Rating: D+. Daivari’s appearance alone sucked the life out of this show for me, which is saying a lot on a show featuring Ever Rise in one of the two matches. I’m not big on Nese but somehow he was the second best thing about the show. This was a major downward spiral for the show and I’m almost scared to see where it is going. Just because someone is on the roster doesn’t mean you have to use them, and that is where 205 Live gets confused. Someone pay Daivari to sit at home already and let the show go somewhere. That isn’t going to happen though, as the 205 Live cycle continues.
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