Previously on 205 Live, Noam Dar proved to be the weak link in the Zo Train, Gallagher and Kendrick gave a post match beat down to Kalisto, and Team Power Point looked like a cohesive unit going into the Fatal 4-Way on Raw.
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And now, the best and worst of WWE 205 Live for December 5, 2017.
Best: The Express Train To Drewtopia
Oh Drew Gulak. Be still my heart. On Raw, Drew won the four way match and will face Rich Swann next week for a shot at Enzo’s Cruiserweight title. With Enzo going on the international tour, Drew is in charge of the Train this week, even going so far as wielding the microphone of leadership. Drew is electric on the mic as a leader, which is not surprising, considering that he is a great conductor.
The match changes to Cedric Alexander vs Noam Dar, which gets to further the “Noam is the weak link of the Zo Train” story, while also giving us the joy of Gulak on commentary. I like Drew constantly changing the subject whenever the topic of potentially facing Enzo comes up, although I do take umbrage at Drew disparaging the air quality of Los Angeles vs. San Diego. He’s right of course, but, dude, half of Los Angeles is on fire right now. As I write this my house is in a fire warning zone, and I had to spend the morning putting together a quick bag of essentials in case they make us evacuate. So cut us some slack, Gabba Gulak.
Dar has a chance to win, but he ignores the advice from his glorious leader and tries to go to the top rope. When will they learn?
Best: Just Lucha Things
Kalisto is on that same international tour with Enzo, so Grand Metalik takes his place this week. All luchadors look the same, I guess. Metalik got a pre-match promo, where again he explained that Kalisto gets knocked down, but he gets up again, and we’re never going to keep him down. Is Chumbawamba still inexplicably popular in Mexico, and I’m just not aware?
This was a short match, but good enough for what it was. Metalik hit a great spot with a running jump over the barricade into a head scissors, but all in all it really just seemed like a placeholder match until Kalisto gets back. The finish was a bit weird, though. I don’t know if Metalik actually got knocked out on his feet when his head struck the post, but not reacting at all to the Captain’s Hook was a bit weird.
Best: The Drew Train Gets Derailed
A Best for Drew’s pre-match pep talk to the rest of the squad. He claimed that he was a woke man before his street fight with Akira Tozawa, and he proved he was woke when he compared Daivari to Wonder Woman because he is a fierce warrior, and he has a great sense of fashion. There’s no shame in being compared to the only character to get a halfway-decent movie in the DCEU.
It’s also great to see the return of Gulak’s megaphone. I’m liking Tony Nese more and more. The goal here was for Nese to soften up Rich Swann before the number one contender’s match on Monday, but that didn’t work out so well. This was fun little match, though, with Nese showing more than we’ve seen in a while. Post-match is what’s important, though. The rest of the Zo Train surround Swann and Alexander ringside, but the post-match beatdown is thwarted when Tozawa and Ali show up to even the damned numbers game. (Good thing Mustafa Ali and Cedric Alexander completely forgot about all the tension they had last week. But, you know, faces help faces even if it doesn’t make sense.)
This makes it interesting to see what happens next Monday. Enzo gave Drew the ball, and he definitely dropped it. All the members of the team pretty much looked like chumps, and that’s not good for Enzo’s brand. If Enzo comes back and lays into Drew, and Drew ends up winning the match, do we get the full face turn right away? My prediction is that Enzo interferes to give Gulak the victory, hoping he’ll just lay down for him when they have the title match, but this causes Kurt Angle to make it a triple threat match. Or, you know, they always have the “Hideo Itami shows up and murders everyone to death” card to play. Either way, I’m looking forward to it.
I’ll be back next week, unless my house does actually burn down, in which case I’ll probably take the week off.
