Figure Four Weekly: Looking at 205 Live two years after Cruiserweight Classic

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While this month marks the two-year anniversary of the premiere of the Cruiserweight Classic, the division that the tournament spawned is still one of the most puzzling parts of WWE programming.

From a rough start, to it becoming the Enzo Amore show, to it being rebooted when Paul “Triple H” Levesque took over as showrunner, 205 Live has been constantly changing and never able to fully find its footing since it debuted in November 2016. And though the new direction has made 205 Live better than it’s ever been, it’s still hard to say that it has realized its complete potential.

That hasn’t been due to the quality of the matches. On the first episode of this month, Mustafa Ali and Buddy Murphy put on a no DQ match that may end up being one of WWE’s five best main roster matches of the year.

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