205 Live – December 17, 2021: That Was Horrible

205 Live
Date: December 17, 2021
Location: Capitol Wrestling Center, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: Nigel McGuinness, Vic Joseph

It’s almost the holiday season and the show continues to seem done with the cruiserweight theme. That doesn’t seem to mean much around here, but it means we’re stuck with some less than interesting matches from the NXT undercard. At least the main events tend to go well. Let’s get to it.

Here are last week’s results if you need a recap.

Lash Legend vs. Sarray

Legend runs her over to start but Sarray bridges out of a cover in a hurry. Back up and Sarry fires off some running forearms until a faceplant cuts her off. An awkward looking elbow gives Lash two and a powerslam is good for the same. Legend misses another elbow though and Sarray fires off more forearms.

They get back up and Sarray charges into….I think it was supposed to be a front facelock but Legend spun her over into what wound up being a bad powerslam instead. Sarray hits a middle rope dropkick for two of her own but misses a running clothesline. They trade rollups with Legend not being able to hook the trunks, allowing Sarray to get the pin at 3:45.

Rating: D-. So word on the street is that this was the worst televised match of the year and had to be heavily edited. That means we were left seeing some bad spots, but egads just how bad could Legend have been otherwise? Legend looked lost out there and probably shouldn’t be on TV, but since NXT doesn’t have live events anymore, this is about as good as it could have been.

Post match, Legend kicks her in the face and hits a faceplant, because the Legend experiment MUST CONTINUE! Legend blames Sarray for what happened to her for lashing out and getting lashed in.

Valentina Feroz/Yulisa Leon vs. Erica Yan/Fallon Henley

Yan headlocks Feroz to start but gets taken over into the same thing. They go into a standoff so Henley comes in for her debut. Leon tags herself in for an assisted hurricanrana and an early near fall, followed by a northern lights suplex for the same. Henley comes back with a clothesline so Yan can come back in. A backbreaker and double shoulder get two and it’s back to Henley for a backsplash. Feroz belly to back suplexes her way to freedom and the double tag brings in Leon to beat up Yan. Everything breaks down and an assisted crossbody finishes Yan at 6:09.

Rating: C-. Nothing much to see here but they made a bit of a deal out of Fallon Henley, who has some potential, but has the issue of being named Fallon Henley. Feroz and Leon are turning into a nice enough midcard team, though I’m not sure how far they are going to go when there isn’t exactly a women’s tag team division in the first place. That being said, this match was far easier to watch than the first so call it an upgrade.

The winners dance and respect is shown.

Legado del Fantasma vs. Ru Feng/Malik Blade

Elektra Lopez is here with Legado. Wilde shoves Blade into the ropes and dances a bit before taking him down by the arm. A hiptoss gets Blade out of trouble though and it’s Feng coming in for an armbar. The wristlock puts Wilde in more trouble but he pulls Feng over for the tag to Mendoza. Feng slams him down for one but gets his throat snapped across the rope.

Legado picks up the pace with the running clotheslines in the corner before a double suplex drops Feng again. The neck crank doesn’t last long so it’s a double basement dropkick to give Mendoza two. We hit the chinlock as the fans are rather behind Legado. Feng fights out of a cobra clutch and backdrops his way over to Blade. House is cleaned for what must be a good four seconds until Blade is rammed into Feng. The Russian legsweep/running big boot combination finishes Blade at 6:13.

Rating: C-. Completely watchable but also skippable tag match here with Legado never once feeling like they were in any jeopardy. That’s how the match should have gone, though Blade is turning into a rather nice hand to have around. Feng continues to just kind of be there, but it isn’t like he has had a chance to do much.

Overall Rating: D+. This was a pretty lame show and it got off to a terrible start with that Legend vs. Sarray match. Other than that, you had two ok at best tag matches and that isn’t much of a use of thirty minutes. The good thing is that this show means so little that it doesn’t exactly matter if the show is bad, but dang this was a pretty dull sit.

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