205 Live
By Scott Keith on 22 November 2016
Hey Scott.
I'm as excited as anyone to get an exclusive hour of the cruiserweights every week, but aren't they being sent out to die by scheduling it to record immediately after Smackdown?
The main problem with the division has been WWE's incorrect assumption that the RAW audience had all watched the tournament. But in reality most fans didn't know who the wrestlers were, so everyone took a bathroom break when they came on.
The Smackdown audience isn't going to be any different, and now they're expected to stay after the main event and watch them for an hour? Am I the only one who thinks a huge chunk of the audience is just going to get up and leave, and the ones who stay are going to be completely dead?
You are far from the only one. I think the 205 Live thing is a way to banish them from RAW without making it look like they're already killing off the entire division, as it were. The other issue is that they've given these poor geeks ZERO character development outside of Perkins and Kendrick. Everyone else is "smiling black guy" or "Guy from Scotland" in random six-man tags every week. It was a pretty major miscalculation on someone's part.