It quickly became clear that WWE hadn't been handling 205 Live the best way and it's no wonder that wrestling fans chose to leave immediately after SmackDown Live rather than stick around to watch it.
However, the quality of the show has increased massively in recent months and that's seemingly down to Triple H taking charge creatively from Vince McMahon. As a result, the focus has once again been put back on wrestling (instead of goofy storylines) and now The Game has talked about his hopes for the brand and the work which he's putting into changing the way Cruiserweights are perceived.
"It’s a work in progress for sure. Every single show we do is a work in progress, at all times. If you think, hey this is what it is, you’re done. That’s across the board for WWE. People’s tastes change. Time changes. You do the same thing for two long, that gets boring. You constantly have to evolve. It’s one of the great things about our industry, I think. It’s constantly evolving. You constantly have to be in front of it. The day you stop thinking I have something to learn about this, you’re done. So, to me, all of it, is a work in progress. 205 Live is a work in progress.
"Look, it went in a direction after the Cruiserweight Classic, it went in a direction that was believed to be the right direction, and then fans told us it wasn’t the right direction. So, we’ve changed course. They told us they didn’t like vanilla, so we went to chocolate. They told us, ‘we’re digging the chocolate right now’, so we’re going to stick with it and I think that’s the exciting part of, you know…the great thing is we can turn on a dime and we can deliver to people the things they want to see.
"Sometimes, it may take a little bit to get rolling. Sometimes, it might happen immediately. It just depends. I feel like we are heading in a good direction for 205 Live right now, NXT is firing on all cylinders. I think we’re gearing up to head into Wrestlemania season with a lot of guns blazing and it’s an exciting time."
The Cruiserweight division has been absent from RAW for a while now, so it will be interesting seeing if it ultimately returns to that brand or if it's going to remain its own thing moving forward. Either way, it definitely feels like WWE is now taking these Superstars in the right direction and that should go a long way in changing how these wrestlers and the show itself is perceived among wrestling fans.