WWE 205 Live results: Jack Gallagher vs. Tony Nese

The Big Takeaway —

Jack Gallagher continued his momentum by defeating Tony Nese in the main event. Brian Kendrick took the easy way out in securing a countout win over Akira Tozawa. Noam Dar defeated Mustafa Ali with Rich Swann on his mind, and Austin Aries introduced his own highlight package, apparently indicating he’ll make his in-ring debut soon.

Show Recap —

We started off with a recap of the Raw contract signing from last night. Neville called Jack Gallagher a caricature of what Americans view Englishmen as, but Gallagher said he was raised this way, this is who he is. Neville pie-faced him and it led to a brawl, with Neville being sent reeling.

The Brian Kendrick defeated Akira Tozawa by countout

This was fine while it lasted, but you knew this was going to lead to this kind of finish. Tozawa had the advantage early. Kendrick smacked Tozawa’s head against the ring post for heat. Tozawa came back with a great suicide dive to the floor.

Kendrick escaped under the ring. Tozawa tried to drag him out, but Kendrick smacked Tozawa’s head on the mat and tied up his feet for the countout. Tom Phillips asked if the win tonight was enough for him. Kendrick said no, Tozawa has been disrespecting him and tonight he learned a lesson.

Dasha Fuentes was with Noam Dar. She asked if he felt uncomfortable about what happened last week when Rich Swann dissed Alicia Fox. He said no, but Swann should be ashamed.

Noam Dar defeated Mustafa Ali

Solid match. It’s pretty disappointing they can’t do something more with Ali as I think he’s far more talented than his push would indicate, but that is the lay of the land.

Ali launched off with a big tope con hilo. Dar kicked Ali in the shin, falling flat on his face on the apron for heat. Dar honed in on the arm and worked it over. Ali tried for the imploding 450 splash but Dar escaped under the ropes. Ali lifted up Dar, but Dar instead kicked him from below, sending Ali face first into the turnbuckle. Dar followed with a knee strike for the win.

Austin Aries cut off Corey Graves and said there have been many impressive superstars on 205 Live, but nothing like this guy. And hey, in fact, it’s an Austin Aries highlight reel. If and when he decides to climb back in the ring, he says, he will be on top.

Jack Gallagher was exercising backstage with his umbrella when Dasha came up and asked how he’ll prepare for tonight’s match. He said consider tonight a preview of what will go down at Fastlane.

Jack Gallagher defeated Tony Nese

Pretty good match. The crowd was dead for a lot of it, but once Gallagher did the headbutt people got into it. Nese worked over Gallagher at the start of the match. Gallagher reversed Nese into a roll-up then headbutted him to a huge reaction.

They fought on the top rope as Nese fell in a tree of woe position, but he came back and landed a Spider German suplex. Gallagher came back and planted Nese with a big time superplex. Gallagher followed that with the running dropkick and scored the win.

Final Thoughts —

This was a by the numbers show. Nothing bad, but nothing memorable, either. The build to the Cruiserweight title match was pretty good on Raw, but no Neville the next night was pretty weird. Also, where was Gran Metalik, who made his debut last week? For a product that’s been labeled the most exciting show of the week, this episode really wasn’t.