WWE 205 Live 4/2/2021

WWE 205 Live 4/2/2021

Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2021/03/wwe-205-live-3262021.html 

Which combination of The Bollywood Boyz, August Grey or Tony Nese will fight this week? Stay tuned to find out!

August Grey vs  Mansoor

Mansoor is now 44-0 and Nigel mentioned Mansoor's win over Angel Garza this week, which is probably the first time Main Event has been mentioned in a long long time. How all of these wins have not amounted to title shots or bigger matches is the question.

This is the first meeting between these two. Grey takes Mansoor early and gets tripped coming off the ropes. Grey goes for an armdrag, but Mansoor holds the ropes then hits some armdrags of his own. Grey goes back to the headlock though at the end of it. Mansoor standing moonsaults him for 2.

Mansoor goes for the up and over but Grey just watches him do it and flips him from the backdrop position. They said Jordan Devlin is now the longest reigning cruiserweight champ ever. Mansoor hits a nice lariat for 2. Mansoor hit a suplex and a nice lariat. Mansoor tries some lariats but can't get any and goes out then Grey topes him. Grey does his rope walk twisting crossbody and neckbreakers him.

They trade pin attempts then Grey takes a face kick and a german on his head. Grey gets his tornado ddt blocked and they do a 2nd rope russian legsweep which I had not seen before. Mansoor flipped backwards off that hard bump in a nice sell. Mansoor hit a very weird pop-up flatliner type of move. He tried for a moonsault but Grey moved, superkicked him and hit an unusual driver for 2. Grey then hit a so much prettier but Mansoor rolled out. Grey tried to hold him from falling out but couldn't. The ref was counting him out and Grey stopped the count, saying he didn't want to win that way.

Grey was then rolled up as soon as he went in like an idiot. They did too much here but they did put some seriousness and value behind Mansoor possibly losing his streak and the end was actually exciting. They shook hands after but Grey wasn't happy. 

They talked about Escobar vs Devlin's title for title ladder match this week.

Bolly-Rise (Chase Parker and Sunil Singh) vs Tony Nese and Ariya Daivari

Nigel said that if Bolly-Rise doesn't win here, they will split up. Samir and Martel are out here for B-R. Ariya pounds on Sunil to start. Sunil hits a japanese armdrag on Nese then Chase hits Nese with an armdrag. Bolly-Rise double teams Nese. Ariya pulls on Sunil's foot then Tony nails Sunil on the outside.

Ariya ties up Sunil in the ropes and punches him. He then throws Sunil hard into the buckles. Ariya puts the sleeper on Sunil and after a Chase distraction, Sunil hit a nice superkick on Ariya. Both tagged out and Parker did a slingshot elbow to Ariya's back. Sunil hit the elbow from the top on Nese for 2, which Ariya broke up.

Nese hit his outside to inside slingshot springboard moonsault on Sunil for 2. Samir's got something in his hand and is looking at Nese on the outside. Nese plancha's Parker. Samir throws in the object to Ariya and while Ariya argues with the ref about it, Ariya gets rolled up for the Bolly-Rise win! The finish worked and made sense. They might as well have cheated since they couldn't win otherwise and this team was never a pure babyface team so it works. I iked this one because again, it had something on the line and the result mattered.

Overall thoughts: Probably the best episode I have seen of 205 Live since I started covering it. The matches weren't the greatest but they had storylines involved and the results actually mattered. Well done by the 205 Live crew to  make chicken salad out of the chicken crap they are given to work with.