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WWE 205 Live results: Mansoor vs. Jake Atlas

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Mansoor defeated Jake Atlas 

Atlas and Mansoor grappled as the match opened. Mansoor secured a single-leg crab. Atlas kicked Mansoor away, causing an awkward crash into the turnbuckles. A neckbreaker to a prone Mansoor and a forearm left Atlas with a pair of near falls. 

Mansoor fought his way free from a headlock and landed a chop block. Mansoor landed two dragon screws and a spinebuster before locking in the scorpion deathlock. Atlas crawled into the bottom rope to break the hold. A surprise neckbreaker from Atlas gave him control. 

Atlas tried for a suplex, but his leg gave way, allowing a quick pin attempt from Mansoor. Atlas powered through and landed a brainbuster before climbing to the top rope. Mansoor met Atlas with a dragon screw from the top rope to the mat. Mansoor maintained control of the leg and pinned Atlas.

This was a new side of Mansoor. This had some awkward moments but was well-executed.

Curt Stallion, Chase Parker, and Matt Martel defeated Sunil Singh, Samir Singh, and Ariya Daivari 

Daivari gained the advantage for his team in the early going. He then taunted his tag partners, allowing Stallion to create some separation. Sunil stole a tag from Daivari. Stallion, with aid from Ever-Rise, maintained control. 

Martel tried his hand at taking on all three of his competitors but fell short. After being overwhelmed by the numbers, Martel found himself on the receiving end of a double suplex. Martel then began his role as the punching bag.  

A forced tag from Daivari stopped the Bollywood domination. Daivari immediately lost control of the match, allowing Stallion to tag in. Stallion unloaded on the now legal Samir; a gargantuan DDT left Stallion with a near fall. Stallion and Ever-Rise traded tags, taking out all three members of the opposition. 

Daivari tagged back into the match, connecting with multiple strikes on Stallion. Daivari set Stallion up for a Samir dive, but Stallion missed, hitting Daivari instead. An enraged Daivari then announced he was leaving; the Singhs tried to console him. Stallion, not missing a beat, landed a beautiful dive, connecting with all three opponents. Stallion threw Samir back into the ring in time for Ever-Rise to connect with a double flapjack. On the rebound, Stallion connected with a leaping headbutt. Parker pinned Samir for the win. 

This was fine enough, considering no one on Earth wants more Bollywood/Ever-Rise matches. Stallion has star potential.

WWE airing Singh Brothers ‘Matches That Made Me’ 205 Live episode

Posted on by Joseph Currier

The Singh Brothers are set to be featured on tonight’s “The Matches That Made Me” episode of 205 Live.

Sunil and Samir Singh will “take a deep dive into the match that inspired them to become WWE Superstars, as well as the most memorable match of their careers.” This will be the third week in a row that 205 Live has used this format. The episode will include comments from The Singh Brothers introducing the matches.

On the Brian Kendrick episode of “The Matches That Made Me,” Hulk Hogan vs. The Ultimate Warrior from WrestleMania VI and Kendrick’s Cruiserweight Classic match against Kota Ibushi aired. Ariya Daivari’s choices were Steve Austin vs. Bret Hart from Survivor Series 1996 and Daivari’s anything goes match against Oney Lorcan from 205 Live last year.

It was announced on the Kendrick episode that 205 Live would be taking a look at some members of the cruiserweight division while NXT’s interim Cruiserweight title tournament is taking place.

The round-robin interim Cruiserweight title tournament has Kushida (1-0), Jake Atlas (1-0), Drake Maverick (1-1), and Tony Nese (0-2) in Group A. Akira Tozawa (1-0), Isaiah “Swerve” Scott (1-1), El Hijo del Fantasma (1-1), and Jack Gallagher (0-1) are in Group B.

Jinder Mahal & The Singh Brothers join WWE SmackDown roster

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A week after the Superstar Shake-up, WWE continued to add to the SmackDown roster.

Jinder Mahal and The Singh Brothers (Sunil & Samir Singh) joined SmackDown on this week’s episode. A match between Mahal and Chad Gable on the show never got started due to an angle where Lars Sullivan attacked Gable during his entrance.

Mahal bailed from the ring to avoid being attacked by Sullivan, and Sullivan laid out both Singh Brothers. R-Truth came out to fight with Sullivan but was laid out as well.

Mahal was WWE Champion for nearly six months when he was on SmackDown in 2017. He moved to Raw in last year’s Shake-up and has been making appearances on Raw and Main Event in recent months.

United States Champion Samoa Joe and Cesaro were added to the Raw roster on Monday night. Andrade & Zelina Vega and Aleister Black were initially announced as joining Raw in the Shake-up but have been moved to SmackDown.

WWE Main Event results: Six-man tag, Rezar vs. No Way Jose

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The Big Takeaway: Two fairly bland matches this week with Rezar beating No Way Jose in the opener and The B-Team & Tyler Breeze notching up another win over Jinder Mahal & The Singhs in a rematch of last week’s main event.

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Rezar (w/ Drake Maverick) defeated No Way Jose (4:26)

On the surface, this match didn’t feel all that different from something that would have appeared on the old WWF Superstars: you had the heavyset villain complete with a milquetoast manager and the babyface trying to pull off a short-sighted gimmick in whacky colored tights. 

What was different, though, was the length. This ought to have been a squash match that showed off Rezar’s strength and potential for dominance. Instead, he beat up Jose, who only got some brief hope and spent more than half the match using rest holds.

After making much more of this than they needed to, Rezar ended this with a big boot and a chokeslam in the middle of the ring. The win leaves Rezar undefeated as a main roster singles competitor.

The B-Team & Tyler Breeze defeated Jinder Mahal & The Singh Brothers (4:34)

This was a rematch of last week’s Main Event match and was almost move for move the same with exactly the same outcome. Breeze, who was the standout again here, is so undervalued at this point that it would do him no harm to hit the reboot button.

Mahal was once again notable by his lack of in-ring presence. He was in and out quickly — and the babyfaces made short work of him in order to clear their path to beat down the Singh Brothers. It’s clear that Sunil and Samir are improving, slowly but surely.

At the finish, the ring was empty with Sunil looking like he was going to finish off a prone Breeze. But Breeze was playing possum and, just as he did last week, sprung up as Sunil was running the ropes and nailed him with The Beauty Shot for the win.

WWE Main Event results: Lucha House Party vs. Mahal & The Singhs

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The Big Takeaway: The babyfaces won both matches this week. The Lucha House Party combined to defeat Jinder Mahal & The Singh Brothers, and The B-Team then took out The Ascension in under two minutes.

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Byron Saxton and Renee Young led the announce team again this week alongside Percy Watson. This seems to be the permanent setup now. 

Lucha House Party (Kalisto, Lince Dorado & Gran Metalik) defeated Jinder Mahal & The Singh Brothers (5:35)

It’s not been much of a start to 2019 for Mahal. The loss here left him without a win since the end of December, and his Royal Rumble performance saw him with one of the five shortest survival times.

This was a rematch of their Raw bout from the Royal Rumble go-home show. In that one, Metalik won with a backbreaker — and the finish might’ve been a botch when Sunil didn’t break up the pin in time and the announcers seemed caught off guard.

Here, Lucha House Party took out Mahal and used a combination of their finishing moves to see off the Singh Brothers. 

Samir broke up a cover by Kalisto on Sunil. Dorado hit him with the Golden Rewind, then Kalisto sprung up and nailed Sunil with the Salida Del Sol. Dorado came off the top rope with a Shooting Star Press on Sunil for the win.

This was okay, but the Singh Brothers were a little sloppy and struggled to take some of the moves towards the end.

The B-Team defeated The Ascension (1:50)

Curtis Axel took to Twitter this week commenting on a fairly glaring issue with WWE’s booking. With Nia Jax taking out R-Truth so that he didn’t enter the Royal Rumble, Truth was gifted a United States Championship title match. Axel never got the same treatment and has a point, but his stock is pretty low these days.

There was nothing to this match and they went quickly with it, despite it even going through a WrestleMania commercial. These two teams have been facing off against each other over the last few months on Main Event and Raw. The B-Team have generally been taking the spoils, but this was their first win of the year.

They went to the finish after Konnor broke up a pin attempt by Axel on Viktor. Konnor ran towards Bo Dallas, but Dallas pulled the top rope down and sent him to the matting outside.

Dallas tagged in and they teamed up to hit their as yet unnamed belly-to-back suplex/neckbreaker combo on Viktor for the win.