Isaiah Scott, Tony Nese added to 205 Live Captain's Challenge match

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By Joseph Currier | @josephcurrier | Aug 18, 2019 12:53 pm


All 10 participants have now been revealed for the Captain's Challenge match on this Tuesday's 205 Live.

It will be Drew Gulak, Ariya Daivari, Mike Kanellis, Angel Garza & Tony Nese vs. Oney Lorcan, Jack Gallagher, Akira Tozawa, Humberto Carrillo & Isaiah "Swerve" Scott (Shane Strickland). In storyline, Gulak and Lorcan got to pick their partners for the match.

Scott will be making his second appearance on 205 Live. Gulak defeated him on the July 23 episode of the show, with that match being the explanation given for why Lorcan chose Scott.

In April, it was confirmed that Scott had signed with WWE and joined NXT. He lost to Cameron Grimes in the first round of NXT's Breakout Tournament.

Before he confirmed Nese as his final partner, Gulak posted a video where he said that he didn't know who he was going to pick. Gulak said he doesn't know who is worthy of the spot and he doesn't know anyone who has made the same sacrifices that he has. Gulak challenged someone to convince him.

Nese responded by saying that Gulak was making excuses because he ran out of allies. Nese suggested that he and Gulak put their petty hatred for each other aside for one day and called himself the best option if Gulak wants to defeat Lorcan.

The Captain's Challenge match comes after Gulak retained his Cruiserweight Championship against Lorcan on the SummerSlam pre-show and last week's 205 Live.

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This has been better built in less than a week than any Survivor Series match since Team Authority vs Team Cena in 2014.

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This has been better built in less than a week than any Survivor Series match since Team Authority vs Team Cena in 2014.

And the majority of the Survivor Series matches from 2006 until Authority vs. Team Cena. It's amazing how taking the time ot build a story around a match and have an actual reason for people to be teaming together makes these sorts of matches feel important and not just like we're having an ten-man tag because the calendar says so.

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And the majority of the Survivor Series matches from 2006 until Authority vs. Team Cena.

I think Survivor Series 2004 was the last great year for builds (Team Guerrero vs Team Angle worked in Guerrero vs Angle as well as Carlito vs Cena, the latter of who hadn't been seen since he was kayfabe stabbed) and Team Orton vs Team HHH (working in a ton o storyline, also set up the next month of TV with the winning team taking turns running Raw). 2005 picked up the Raw vs Smackdown storyline, which imo is preferable to the "Random Survivor Series teams with no build" we got for the rest of the Ruthless Aggression Era)

It's amazing how taking the time ot build a story around a match and have an actual reason for people to be teaming together makes these sorts of matches feel important and not just like we're having an ten-man tag because the calendar says so.

This. As I said in my 1987 Survivor Series review, 5 man elimination tag matches only works with specific feuds. This is one of them. And I wouldn't be surprised if we got spinoff storylines that set up a month of 205 Live.