Niners Fan in CT Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 This might be a discussion for the 205 Live thread but I'll post it here first I guess. There's word around the net that WWE will introduce cruiserweight tag titles following WM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Well that should at least give guys something to do when they aren't going for the main belt. I assume the Lucha Party or whatever are the first champs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 2 minutes ago, Niners Fan in CT said: This might be a discussion for the 205 Live thread but I'll post it here first I guess. There's word around the net that WWE will introduce cruiserweight tag titles following WM. ... why? They barely care about the singles belt. If it wasn't for the brand split I'd be in favor of women's tag belts. Or a six man title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 I don't have a PW Insider account but that's supposedly who wrote the story. Anyway, I think this works, they have an hour long show. If Hunter is behind 205 Live I wouldn't mind seeing it tied more closely to NXT. They can tour together and maybe NXT/205 Live can have joint Takeover PPVs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanChessgame Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 I don't always pay that close attention to Raw so I might not be off base here, but have the cruiserweights been on there less lately? I don't recall them being on tonight at all, nor in the past few weeks. While I'm a big supporter of 205 Live they just need to figure out what they're doing with it. According to the WWE Wiki, there are only 16 people on the 205 Live roster, and that includes Neville who may or may not still be employed and a revolving door of UK (another division that barely exists) and NXT people who aren't doing anything else. If they're going to make a 4th brand out of it then they need to expand the roster a bit and move it from the dead spot after Smackdown to taping it the same way they do NXT. Either that or just combine it with NXT and have the CW belt as a midcard title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 I think cruiserweights are done on RAW. I think it's been about a month since they've appeared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 I think not since the week before the Rumble. Maybe two weeks before. They are still touring with the RAW crew though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurningBeard Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 7 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said: So if it was "Fuck Coach" before... how do we feel now? *adds 'asking women I work with what music they're into by txt' onto my list of things not to do in 2018* 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 There's an excellent article about Cody Rhodes on The Ringer. I do warn you in advance that it goes into great detail about Dusty's death. 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Man, that was a goddamn fantastic article. Thanks for the link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Green Meanie Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 1 hour ago, Ace said: I do warn you in advance that it goes into great detail about Dusty's death. Well it was just technical medial jargon, nothing vulgar was written. Good article, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Yeah I read that about an hour ago. Compelling as hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 This is the PWI story about the new belts Quote By Mike Johnson on 2018-03-05 23:36:00 WWE will be instituting a new championship belt after Wrestlemania season ends, PWInsider.com has confirmed with multiple sources. While Wrestlemania 34 will feature the tournament final crowning a new Cruiserweight champion, there are already plans in the works to create a Cruiserweight Tag Team championship for the 205 Live brand. The belts would give WWE a third set of Tag Team champions and bring forth the first Cruiserweight Tag Team championship seen nationally in the United States since the demise of WCW in 2001. There is no word yet on the timetable as to when the belts will be rolled out, but several championship designs have been worked on internally and we are told that the company recently finalized plans for the look of the championships. The addition of the belts are a sign that the company intends to continue to build the 205 Live brand, which has seen a remarkable turnaround last month when Triple H took the reigns of the brand over, focusing more on the athleticism and in-ring action of the company's Cruiserweight division. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 6 hours ago, Brian Fowler said: ... why? They barely care about the singles belt. If it wasn't for the brand split I'd be in favor of women's tag belts. Or a six man title. If they're going to do tag belts, they should just make them trios titles to do something to set them apart from the other tag titles. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 6 hours ago, Ace said: There's an excellent article about Cody Rhodes on The Ringer. I do warn you in advance that it goes into great detail about Dusty's death. Yeah, it's a great article, but that section seemed overlong and a little exploitative to me. At a certain point, I just had to skip to the next section, because I really didn't need a front row seat to Dusty's deathbed and it wasn't advancing the narrative anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Coach responds https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/jonathan-coachman-fires-back-espn-sexual-harassment-claims-252946?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter (I am not posting all this tweets so there they are all are) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 I really hope ESPN re-runs the 30 for 30 on the XFL where they show Coach basically bragging out how he was able to fuck the cheerleaders cause that was what Vince wanted. That would be funny now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Okay, maybe I'm an easy laugh in the morning, but this was hilarious to me. Rocky Romero is SO gonna get another run out of this. And because it's 2018, probably make more money than he ever did as himself. "I never saw my father without the mask. He died in the mask, he was buried in the mask. He even left the mask to me in his will...which I wish I had known ahead of time." *cut to Chico digging up his father's grave* 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 18 minutes ago, hammerva said: I really hope ESPN re-runs the 30 for 30 on the XFL where they show Coach basically bragging out how he was able to fuck the cheerleaders cause that was what Vince wanted. That would be funny now. LOl, ESPN2 is showing it at 1:30 AM Wednesday morning. it's also available on ESPN on Demand (at least on my cable service). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Jemele Hill is calling her role in it bullshit too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 I was worried when it was the Ringer, I thought Shoemaker wrote it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyLaw Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 9 hours ago, Brian Fowler said: ... why? They barely care about the singles belt. If it wasn't for the brand split I'd be in favor of women's tag belts. Or a six man title. The improvement in 205Live is because the show has had a focus with the tournament. This gives them another tournament and eventually a second title to focus on. 9 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said: I think cruiserweights are done on RAW. I think it's been about a month since they've appeared. They have their own authority figure now, which means they are pretty much their own brand now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 3 hours ago, odessasteps said: I was worried when it was the Ringer, I thought Shoemaker wrote it. Yes, I was thrilled it wasn't him. The Ringer needs more of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 Tag matches would allow the 205 guys to do more crazy stuff to stand out. I do wish the Universal and WWE titles were unified in addition to the extra tag and womens belts. A 205 tag belt would have a reason to exist. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 That Cody article is fantastic, but I don't remember the tag match at Battleground having a listless crowd reaction before Dusty's bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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