I enjoyed this week’s edition of 205. Don’t care much for crowd reactions.

Would cutting it save a lot of money for the company? They've already got the cameras up and the talent probably don't get paid much. But I feel like scrapping it would be a huge load off the company's back.

I'm hoping Rapstar Potato comes in as GM.

Would you actually watch? Genuine question. Is there a General Manager that would actually make people tune in? I just feel like 205 Live is dead, and the fun speculation is really nice, but it's not going to make a difference who it is. Make it Cesaro and give him practice talking when no one else is around.

I can see it being Laughing Matt Hardy though.

Or Goldust

I said that in another thread. Not out of this world, but I'm leaning towards Matt, because I can see Goldust still wrestling and beating them in 3-on-1 Handicap Matches. :y:

Matt Hardy making Gulak champion and trying to cure the rest of them from their adeektions would be fun for a week.

General Manager Chet Rico would also make me giggle for a week

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A lot legendary Cruiserweights have been discussed to be 205Live's first ever GM. This chap gets my vote. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/205GM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#205GM</a> <a href="https://t.co/TSQerhjWON">pic.twitter.com/TSQerhjWON</a></p>&mdash; Jack A. Gallagher (@GentlemanJackG) <a href="https://twitter.com/GentlemanJackG/status/956160599985197056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 24, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Lock Jaw for anonymous 205 Live General Manager

Waiting by my phone for the call

Who's the guy in the Jack Gallagher tweet?

205 Live Superstar the Scottish Supernova Noam Dar

I'm surprised Gallagher didn't pitch for Kendrick to get the job. I actually could see that given that he's pushing 40 and seems to be someone they'd value keeping around.

This week's Mixed Match Challenge has 171k views so far, way down from last week's 1 million + by this point.

Probably would reconsider now.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUUgKyqVAAAPIi-.jpg:large

Probably a mix of last week's novelty shine and star power being better overall than this week.

Now if next week declines or doesn't do as well considering the stars appearing, then there should be some concerns.

Would anyone be opposed to starting a thread solely for the Mixed Match Challenge separate from the Smackdown thread? I imagine some people are watching on delay on the Network and not on Facebook. Maybe not a new thread every week, but an ongoing MMC thread like there was for the CWC and the MYC.

:y::y:

Holy shite Shelton Benjamin been workin out with Billy Gunn.

Chad Gable has IT

His charisma reminds of Eddie Guerrero.

I've always been high on Gable, but he's REALLY been showing something as of late.

Gable's rolling German is just perfect

I was just watching him in his match with one of the Uso's. Looking forward to the tag.

That was me in this very thread watching the same match.

Oh my god... I just Nakamarua's promo with Renee and Corbin... it was really bad. It's a shame that WWE doesn't take use of talent and have certain superstars have managers. He's never going to really "get over" doing this weird Miyagi shit.

This week's show ended up being the 3rd week in a row Smackdown was down in terms of numbers. Also the rare time it didn't take the #1 spot when not competing with sports.

Probably a bad sign as well that the huge audience from Monday didn't carry over.

How could Monday's viewers have carried over? Raw was absolute trash.

Wow Randy Orton came in super hot with those RKO's. The crow popped big. He's such a huge star but WWE has done him bad. They haven't protected him, and pushed him, he's been shoved to the side. It's unfortunate. Also wow, he looks really weird with so much hair on his head. It's like going back in time.

That was a pretty slick RKO on Nakamura. Really felt like it came "outta nowhere".

Wouldn't if be dope if WWE did some real shocking shit and New Day ended up dominating at the Rumble and Big E ended up winning by tossing Roman over and then going on to challenge Lesnar at WM.

I'd be down with that.

RAW being trash is one factor but typically whenever RAW gets a big spike, Smackdown gets their own spike as a carry over.

Smackdown getting none of RAW's spike to carry over and actually going down compared to last week is pretty bad for them. They've been really good the majority of the time of getting around 80-95% of whatever RAW gets for the week regardless of how good or bad RAW was.

Maltzer says the idea of 205 Live getting a GM goes back months and it is planned to be a serious GM, not a joke character or a big part of the show. One of the names thrown around months ago was Summer Rae, but they decided not to use her because she was too tall and would make the wrestlers look bad.

Hahahahaha