7 Reasons WWE's Cruiserweight Division Is Failing

3. Fan Apathy

There are many reasons for fans not to care about the cruiserweight product, many of which we have already covered. Yet, it is their apathy for the wrestlers, the matches and the stories that has done more to adversely affect the cruiserweight division than anything.

No matter how strong a match between Drew Gulak and Lince Dorado may be, a complete and utter lack of excitement limits its ability to reach its full potential. Working the match in front of a half-empty arena because fans have decided that beating traffic is more important than showing respect to the workers is another unfair condition the competitors have found themselves forced to work under.

With 205 Live failing to capture the attention of the audience and drive in more eyes to the cruiserweight product, it is fair to say that the audience's unwavering apathy for the division is both a telling sign of the deficiencies within WWE Creative and the unwillingness by audiences to accept a division with the "cruiserweight" label when the action unfolding every week is nowhere near that of the revolutionary work put in by Rey Mysterio, Juventud Guerrera, Dean Malenko, Chris Jericho and Eddie Guerrero during the 1990s.