Live From The 205 (7/11/17): Finally, Some Honor In Quitting By Romeo Moran Friday, July 14, 2017 So remember when I explicitly mentioned last week that 205 Live needs to start promoting their main event matches, especially when they have heavy storyline implications? For the second straight week in a row, the show sprung up a relatively huge bout from out of nowhere, ignoring my caring advice—Cedric Alexander and Noam Dar had an I Quit match in this week's episode to finally seal the coffin on their long-standing rivalry over Alicia FOOOOOOOX. (More on that later.)

Yep, with no warning whatsoever, the two men had to beat each other into concession in the main event. To be fair, however, unlike the RKO the match was not completely out of nowhere. Cedric and Noam always interact one way or another every week, and everyone already knows what their deal is over Alicia Fox. It just would've helped the show's viewership if the match—a stipulation we don't even see often—was made on even RAW the night before, when both men had a quick singles match.

That said, however, it was not only a fun match, but a match (and post-match) that sorely needed to happen. It wasn't your usual high-flying, energetic Cedric Alexander match; instead he turned in a performance worthy of a look beyond the purple ropes. Cedric turned on a killer instinct that we haven't really seen before, not even in his landmark Cruiserweight Classic outing, and kept it up from the beginning to the very end.

Cedric winning and ending the feud is the icing on the cake, because the real treat was Noam suddenly turning on Alicia FOOOOOOX Fox. That was something I never expected to see coming in this episode, but it was right about time for it to happen, as I'd been mentioning. Even though Noam was right in that Alicia got him the attention he wouldn't have gotten normally in a sea of more exciting wrestlers, she was beginning to drag him down. That leaves an open slate for both Cedric, Noam, and Alicia, which makes me excited for what's next for the three. Especially Cedric and Noam.

205 Live 7/11/17 Grade: Issues about promotion and marketing aside, the show seems to be hustling, perhaps toward building and wrapping things up in time for SummerSlam next month. All other active storylines were advanced and touched on this week, which is enough for me to consider this episode a TJP Heel Turn, or A-.

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