205 Live airs every week after Smackdown Live and is a platform for the WWE Cruiserweight division to shine. The show premiered in late November of 2016 and the members of the show have put on some solid matches since the brands inception.

The problem is, it doesn’t seem like many fans are sticking around after Smackdown Live to watch the show.

According to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio (subscribe here), 205 Live has been performing very poorly on the WWE Network. The show is apparently being beaten (numbers wise) on a weekly basis by NXT, a show that is taped. It appears that a large chunk of fans aren’t changing the channel after Smackdown Live to follow along. This really is a shame considering the 205 Live roster is consistently putting on solid matches that are being missed by a large majority of WWE fans.

There have been some mixed responses regarding the Smackdown Live crowds in person and 205 Live. In some cases, we have heard that a solid chunk of the crowd sticks around to watch 205 Live after Smackdown. In other arenas, there are a ton of visible empty seats and a lot of fans leave. Meltzer noted that taping the show before Smackdown Live begins could help from a crowd reaction standpoint.

This doesn’t mean that the show is getting cancelled anytime soon, it just signifies that the show isn’t performing as well as expected.