Way to Fox 205 Live?

[Carl Bourque]

Good afternoon,

I wanted to start a thread on ways to make 205 Live a better show.

My proposal is to hold a Round Robin Tournament aired on 205 Live and even can have matches on Raw as they do now.

Pick your 16 best Cruiserweights excluding Neville, have them square off against each other in 4 groups, 2 or 3 matches per show.

Point for a win, nothing for a loss.

Top point getters to semi finals and then finals, winner is number one contender. Can add Neville non title matches to the mix every two weeks.

This likely needs to wait until after Women's tournament.

All matches mean something. Six matches in each group x 4 groups equals 24 matches.

Yes it will be a rip off of other companies tournaments, but if serious about keeping 205 Live alive, something needs to change.

Other options:
1. Move cruiserweights to NXT roster and blend them in. NXT roster feels thin. Plus Raw is too large a crowd for this style.
2. Give them time to work, 2 to 4 min not enough.
3. Three man team tournament. Group them up into trios. Again copying other companies perhaps.
4. Bring 205 Live experiment to an end.

These are only some thoughts.

[Carl Bourque]

Should have read Fix not Fox, too much Fox on the show already.

[deezy]

Fewer rematches and take out the hokey shit and let the boys go all out in front of a smaller audience instead of a drained crowd from Smackdown.

[rinaldo]

Give a bunch of money to Jushin Liger and just tell him to book as he pleases. Guy knows a thing or two about junior heavyweights.

[deezy]

A booker isn't going to fix something that was dead on arrival after people made their minds up over this division failing before they had ONE match on Raw.

[mrlo34]

Ways I would fix 205 Live
- Move Enzo Amore, Kalisto, Chad Gable and Hideo Itami to the roster. Needs more "names" on the roster to move it past just people who watched the CWC.
- Stop making it LIVE after Smackdown to tired crowds. Tape it like NXT in Orlando then air it on the Network after NXT or Smackdown. Have live matches on select SD or RAW TV shows and split the roster up for each brands house shows.
- Have wrestlers be a rotating 3rd mic. Maybe Enzo when he is not wrestling on an episode or Xavier Woods a few episodes with a plan later on to involve him in the cruiserweight division later down the road
- have the ring look different from the other 3 brands (NXT, SD, RAW) for TV Taping. Don't switch the ropes out though when they have a match on SD or RAW.
- Make it mandatory that they always have 1 match on all PPV Pre Shows including NXT. Title match would never be on the pre show. Only select PPVs and always on the Big 4. Don't make it exclusive to one brand.
- For Survivor Series this year I would have a traditional 5v5 with the best from 205 against the best from WWE UK.

Making it not live and taped in Orlando would be my #1 way to fix it if I was ranking them. The talent is there, a non tired crowd would give it more energy and a more watchable program.