improper wrote:safi wrote:improper wrote:
I don't want Enzo anywhere near 205 Live. The show already has enough guys like Dar who can't wrestle a cruiserweight style and drag down matches every week. Enzo is like Dar, except he can't work at all. Dar just works the WWE heavyweight style, which is a poor fit for a division that should strive to put on fast-paced, exciting matches to hook the crowd.
Enzo and Titus are probably the two worst wrestlers on the roster so I'm not disagreeing with you about his in-ring ability. But that shows needs more personalities. And Enzo as this pest heel whose hiding behind this woman is something that I think can have some legs.
I tend to think the problem with 205 Live is less the lack of personalities on the roster and more the lack of compelling wrestling on a week to week basis. When you watch an episode of Lucha Underground, you're pretty much guaranteed to get at least one great match every week. That's just not the case on 205 Live, and so it's struggling. They need to focus more on the actual in-ring wrestling and less on the "sports entertainment." You want to hook the crowd, and you'll do it by giving them fantastic matches. Once they start buying in to these guys as performers (they've already bought in to a couple, like Aries, Neville, and Gallagher), they'll start buying into them as characters.
But they need to get the wrestling aspect down first. The in-ring product should be the most important part of a cruiserweight division. And right now, outside of PPV matches it's just not.
On both main rosters, but especially Smackdown because that's who they follow, you have a lot of really high level performers and a number of guys that can do 99% of what these guys can do with much more fleshed-out characters. And so I don't think a good wrestling match is enough when you have a half-empty arena with the remainder being tired and they don't care about the guys wrestling.
