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Csonka’s WWE 205 Live Review 4.25.17

April 25, 2017 | Posted by Larry Csonka
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Csonka’s WWE 205 Live Review 4.25.17  

Csonka’s WWE 205 Live Review 4.25.17

OFFICIAL RESULTS
– Rich Swann & Akira Tozawa defeated Noam Dar & The Brian Kendrick @ 6:25 via pin [***]
– Tony Nese defeated Mustafa Ali @ 7:30 via DQ [**½]
Non-Title Match: Champion Neville defeated Jack Gallagher @ 10:30 via submission [***¼]


Rich Swann & Akira Tozawa vs. Noam Dar & The Brian Kendrick: The heels attacked before the bell, but Swann and Tozawa cleared the ring and followed with dives. They celebrated and then things settled down in the ring, with Swann controlling early and working over Kendrick. Swann up top and Dar tripped him up, allowing Kendrick to take control. tag to Dar, and they worked over Swann in the corner, and then Dar started to attack the arm. Tag back to Kendrick, who hits the snap suplex for 2. Kendrick grounds Swann, but Swann fired up and dives for a tag, but Kendrick cuts him off. Swann hits the enziguri but Kendrick sends Tozawa to the floor. Swann then takes out Dar, but Kendrick stops the tag again until Swann kicks him in the face and Tozawa takes out Dar and Swann gets the hot tag to Tozawa. He runs wild, hits the PK and senton for 2. Tozawa sends Kendrick to the floor, Saito suplex to Dar and heads up top but Dar run into Kendrick, Tozawa hits Dar with the shining wizard for the win. Rich Swann & Akira Tozawa defeated Noam Dar & The Brian Kendrick @ 6:25 via pin [***] This was a well done and overall good little sprint with great energy to kick off the show. I liked that they used the tag format to continue the feuds instead of burning another singles match.

– Tozawa says Kendrick chose a poor partner, “lesson #4, always choose wisely.”

– Neville is interviewed, and says Gallagher doesn’t belong in the same ring as he does. He hopes Aries is watching, because he will get the same treatment. No one, only Perkins, is even close to the Neville level. Everyone will be forced to kneel to him, the King of the Cruiserweights.

– Drew Gulak is put before the next match, he’s here to make 205 Live great, and says this is now a no fly zone. He joins commentary.

Mustafa Ali vs. Tony Nese: Nese takes time to pose before they get to action. Nese overpowers Ali to begin, but Ali quickly battles back and picks up the pace. They do some fun back and forth, with Ali mocking Nese with some posing of his own. Ali then lands a spin kick, and Nese bails to the floor. Ali follows and chases, back in and Nese levels him with a running back elbow. He then decapitates Ali with a lariat. They trade strikes; Nese catches the tornado DDT and hits a delayed suplex into the ropes. That gets 2. Nese then tosses Ali around, connects with knee strikes but Ali hits the bulldog to cut that off. Ali fires up with strikes, hits the dropkick and follows with the high cross for 2. Nese then slams Ali to the corner, but Ali hits the kick and rolling neck breaker. Nese rolls to the floor. Ali then hits an over the corner dive off the apron. Back in he hits the tornado DDT, Ali up top but Gulak pulls Nese to the floor and we get a DQ. Tony Nese defeated Mustafa Ali @ 7:30 via DQ [**½] This was a rock solid match, that played into the Ali/Gulak angle well. Ali feels like a major babyface for 205 live if they ever decide to let him cut loose and get behind him.

– Ali takes out Gulak with a dive off the top and Gulak bails.

Champion Neville vs. Jack Gallagher: They worked a good, aggressive back and forth to begin. Gallagher did his corner headstand, and dropkicked Neville to the floor. Neville then stole William III and tossed him up the ramp, this pissed off Gallagher, who then hit Neville with the suicide dive. Back in and Neville got in a cheap shot to the knee, and that allowed him to take control. Neville up top now, and connects with the missile dropkick for 2. Neville then grounded things, trying to maintain control and then hit a snap suplex. Neville is in a particularly surly mood tonight, slamming Gallagher to the buckles and then stands on his face. Neville then hit a dropkick to the back of the head of Gallagher, covering for 2. Gallagher then worked some slick counters and hit a dropkick to start his comeback; the XPLODER followed and then uppercuts by Gallagher. Another dropkick followed and that got a near fall. Neville then hit knee strikes and slammed Gallagher to the mat face first. Neville talked some shit, landed knees and Gallagher got pissed, hit a dropkick and Neville no sold it, only to eat a head butt for the near fall. Gallagher the pulled up Neville, looked for a butterfly suplex but Neville counters, leading to the butterfly suplex by Gallagher. Gallagher then cuts off Neville up top, follows him up and Neville hits a shot to the nose and then kills Gallagher with a running kick to the back of the head; the rings of Saturn finishes it. Champion Neville defeated Jack Gallagher @ 10:30 via submission [***¼] Good main event, these guys have good chemistry and play off of the clash of styles very well. Neville just comes off as so locked into his character, from his vicious work, his mannerisms and the complete disdain he shows the crowd and his opponents.

– Post match, Neville attacks Gallagher and drags him up the ramp, locking in the rings of Saturn once again. Aries makes the save and lays out Neville with the rolling forearm and locks in the last chancery.

– End scene.

– Thanks for reading.

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“Byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyye Felicia!”

7.0
The final score: review Good
The 411
Good show from 205 Live this week, it had some good energy in the ring, continued some of the undercard angles and after a good main event, gave us a short but effective go home segment for Aries vs. Neville.
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