10 Bizarre WWE Experiments You Totally Don't Remember

10. Cruiserweights On Raw

In 2016, 2 men weighing 205lbs and under from across the globe all competed in a single elimination tournament on the WWE Network.

This was the Cruiserweight Classic and it was glorious.

Names like Mustafa Ali, Johnny Gargano, Kota Ibushi, and Zach Sabre Jr. battled it out for victory, but the trophy was eventually cinched by TJ Perkins.

Perkins also became the first of a new lineage of the Cruiserweight Championship, which WWE was reviving after a 9-year absence. The action-packed division was later transferred to Raw, where they would die a slow, painful death.

As good as it was, not many causal fans watched the Cruiserweight Classic. This meant that, when the wrestlers arrived on Raw, nobody knew who they were. The matches were hideously quiet, with the audience interested in just about anything else other than what was going on in the ring.

The division showed flashes of life when men like Neville and Enzo Amore got the belt, but Amore's release in 2018 whilst still the champion pretty much snuffed out its fire for good.

WWE tried really hard with the cruiserweights, but in the eyes of their fans at the time, bigger was actually better.