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WWE 205 LIVE REPORT: THE CRUISERWEIGHT TITLE PREVIEW SHOW

Vic Joseph is your host and he mentions that the Cruiserweight Title will be defended on Takeover on Sunday along with the other NXT title matches and KUSHIDA versus Velveteen Dream.

Vic mentions that this feud has been brewing all summer.

We take a look back at their match in the Cruiserweight Championship Tournament in April.

Match Number One:  Isaiah Scott (0-1) versus El Hijo Del Fantasma (1-0) in a Block B Match in the Interim Cruiserweight Championship Tournament

They lock up and Fantasma with a body scissors into a victory roll for a near fall.  Fantasma with a La Magistral for a near fall.   Fantasma and Scott get near falls.  Scott with a head scissors and a drop kick that sends Fantasma to the floor.  Scott goes for a moonsault off the apron but Fantasma moves and Scott lands on his feet.  Fantasma with an enzuigiri.  Fantasma returns Scott to the ring.  Fantasma kicks Scott and chops him.  Fantasma is put on the ropes and Scott with a chop.  Scott with a springboard rana for a near fall.  Scott with forearms.  Fantasma with an elbow and he floats over.  Fantasma with a head scissors take down.  Fantasma with a baseball slide but Scott returns to the ring and Scott with a kick from the apron.

We go to commercial.

We are back and Scott with an arm bar.  Fantasma gets to the ropes and sends Scott to the apron.  Scott goes up top and hits a sunset flip but Fantasma rolls through and hits a drop kick.  Fantasma puts Scott on the turnbuckles and connects with a forearm.  Fantasma with a Frankensteiner and then Fantasma goes back up top.  Fantasma with a splash for a near fall.  Scott wit a chop and Fantasma with a chop.  They go back and forth with forearms and chops.  Both men go down.  Scott with a waist lock and deadlift German suplex.  Scott with a Fosbury Flop but Fantasma is in the ring.  Fantasma with a suicide dive.  

Fantasma gets Scott on his shoulders but Scott escapes and he gets the three count.

Winner:  Isaiah Scott (1-1)

Vic mentions that was Escobar's first loss in NXT.  

We see footage of Escobar winning the title in the finals against Drake Maverick.

We take a look at Scott's next chance against Escober for the NXT Cruiserweight Championship.

Match Number Two:  Isaiah Scott versus Santos Escobar for the NXT Cruiserweight Championship

They lock up and Escobar with a wrist lock and Irish whip but Scott goes to the apron and Scott with a kick while in the wrist lock.  Scott with a springboard arm drag and Escobar goes to the floor.  Scott goes to the apron and Escobar backs up.  

We go to commercial.

We are back and Escobar with a side head lock.  Scott with a belly-to-back suplex for a near fall.  Escobar with a shoulder tackle and a snap mare but Scott avoids Escobar and connects with a head scissors.  Scott rolls through and gets Escobar up for a suplex and a near fall.  Scott get Escobar on his shoulders in a Gory Special and he gets a near fall on a backslide.  Escobar with a back heel kick and punches.  Scott with a leg lace take down but Escobar escapes.

Scott goes to the apron and Escobar tosses Scott into the plexiglass.  Escobar drops Scott on the ring steps.  Escobar gets a near fall.  Escobar stomps on the arm.  Escobar with a running double knee strike and Escobar gets a near fall.  Escobar with kicks to the thighs and Scott goes to the ropes and Escobar joins him.  Scott goes for a springboard rana but Escobar counters with a power bomb and he gets a near fall.  We go to commercial.

We are back and Escobar with a reverse atomic drop and a running knee.  Escobar with kicks to Scott and Scott blocks a kick and connects with punches.  The referee warns Scott.  Scott goes to the turnbuckles with a European uppercut to the back.  Scott with a kick on the apron and a Fosbury Flop onto Escobar.  Scott with a rolling flatliner for a near fall.  Joaquin Wilde gets on the apron and distracts the referee.  Mendoza hits Scott and Escobar with a kick for a near fall.  Breeze and Fandango come out to stop Wilde and Mendoza as they fight to the back.

Scott with a running knee for a near fall.  Scott with a German suplex for a near fall.  Scott with a kick to the back of the head for a near fall.  Scott gets Escobar on his shoulders but Escobar gets to his feet.  Scott with a JML Driver but Escobar gets his hand on the ropes to stop the count.  Escobar puts on a mask and appears to have loaded it.  Escobar with a head butt and he gets the three count.

Winner:  Santos Escobar (retains Championship)

We go to commercial.

We are back and Vic mentions that Escobar will win by any means necessary to keep the title.  He mentions how Escobar has talked about making the cruiserweight division in his image.

We take a look at the six man street fight that included the rest of Legado del Fantasma and Breezango.

Match Number Three:  Santos Escobar, Raul Mendoza, and Joaquin Wilde versus Fandango, Tyler Breeze, and Isaiah Scott in a Street Fight

Wilde is sent onto Breezango and Scott as the bell rings.  Mendoza with a kick to Breeze and Fandango.  Escobar stetches the arm in a ladder.  Mendoza with a splash onto Fandango.  Wilde punches Fandango and kicks him.  Escobar with forearms to Scott.  Breeze is Irish whipped into the plexiglass and Scott is sent into the plexiglass.  Fandango drops Escobar onto a ladder.  Mendoza puts a ladder into the turnbuckles and he chops Scott.  Soctt Irish whips Mendoza but Mendoza stops short.  Scott drop kicks Mendoza into the chair.  Breeze kicks Wilde and hits a rolling lungblower.  Escobar chops Fandango while Breeze hot shots Wilde.  Escobar is Irish whipped into a ladder.

Scott with a forearm to Mendoza.  Fandango with a Funk Copter ladder airplane spin to take care of Mendoza and Escobar.  Breeze sends Wilde into the apron.  Mendoza punches Breeze but Breeze with a kick.  Breeze goes for a sunset flip but Mendoza with a punch.  Fandango catapults Breeze face first into Mendoza's groinal region.  Scott gets a near fall on Mendoza.  Scott with boots to Escobar followed by a running knee.  Fandango has a fire extinguisher and he gives it to Breeze.  Breeze sprays Escobar, Wilde, and Mendoza.  They go to the floor and we go to commercial.

We are back with a look at what happened during the commercial break when they hit a triple drop kick to Fandango in a trash can and then Fandango was knocked off the apron through a table.  Scott with a forearm and he kicks Escobar.  Mendoza with a waist lock on Scott but Mendoza with a forearm.  Scott with a rolling flatliner.  Scott goes to the apron and he kicks Mendoza in the head.  Escobar knocks Scott off the apron.  Escobar with a suicide dive that sends Scott over the guardrails.  Mendoza and Wilde punch Breeze on the floor.  Marcel Barthel and Fabian Aichner attack Breeze and Barthel and Aichner look at Wilde and Mendoza.

All four attack Breeze and Breeze is sent into the ring.  All five men surround Breeze but Fandango and Scott get on a forklift and hit sentons to take care of everyone.  Fandango and Scott clear the ring.  Breeze punches and kicks Barthel.  Breeze goes up top and so does Fandango for cross bodies onto everyone but Escobar.  Scott with the JML Driver for the three count.

Winners;  Isaiah Scott, Fandango, and Tyler Breeze

Vic points out that Scott has pinned Escobar two times.  

We go to the sit down interview from NXT.

Santos Escobar and Isaiah Scott are in split screen for an interview.

Tom asks Scott about having Escobar's number.  Scott says he has had opportunities at the title, but he did not think they were fair.  He feels that he is the better competitor.  He is the only man in WWE to pin Santos Escobar.  When we step in the ring on Sunday, I will come out on top.

Escobar is asked if Scott is right about being able to win a fair fight.  Escobar calls Swerve a parasite.  You continue to linger no matter what I do.  I hate things that linger.  You are a loose end and I tie up loose ends.  If you want to talk about what is fair and unfair.  The match at Takeover will be fair.  

Scott says he does not believe that it will be a fair fight.  Something is always happening during your match.  It is either Legado del Fantasma or a loaded mask.  Escobar says he only hears excuses.  When it matters, you do not deliver.  Scott says what you call excuses are reality.  I have adapted to everything in this business and in my life.  I will take whatever you throw at me.  Scott says he is ready to showcase what he is truly capable of.  I will also show that Santos Escobar is a fraud.

Escobar says that is the difference between me and you.  You have made this all about yourself.  That is why you will fail.  Since I have won the title, I have built the entire division in my vision and infused it with lucha culture.  A culture that you have no respect for.  At Takeover, all of your showcasing will not be enough.  Your bag of tricks is what I call a century of tradition and I will bury you with it.

We go to credits.

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