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the 2017 TWB 100 Slow Release: 51-75

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Trevor Lee giving MJF the what-for here kicks off today's TWB 100 entry Photo Credit: Scott Finkelstein Today, the TWB 100 will power on through to the halfway point. Enough yammering in introduction, the time has come to get to the actual wrestlers! 75. Trevor Lee Points: 477 Number of Ballots: 7 Highest Vote: 2nd Place (Brock Jahnke) Last Year�s Ranking: 48th Place Chris Gibbons: Lee is a wrestler who makes the most of every context he�s in. He�s one of the few TNA/IMPACT/whatever it�s called now wrestlers I tried to keep up with in the ring because he�s the X Division�s most consistent presence. He�s a great heel in places like AAW and PWG, and his impressive long title reign in CWF Mid-Atlantic keeps delivering. Lee probably doesn�t get enough due for the work he puts in. Photo Credit: WWE.com 74. Drew Galloway/McIntyre Points: 482 Number of Ballots: 11 Highest Vote: 39th Place (Bryan Heaton) Last Year�s Ranking: 76th Place Photo Credit: WWE.com 73. Scott Dawson Points...

205 Live Is Going on the Road

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Coming to an arena in the Northeast near you, Swann and the gang! Photo Credit: WWE.com WWE has four distinct touring entities: RAW, Smackdown, NXT National, and NXT Florida loop. It will soon have a fifth, at least in a limited capacity. Monday, WWE announced via Dot Com that  205 Live will go on the road in January , the weekend before the Royal Rumble. The cruiserweights will hit up the Northeast in three moderate-sized locales: Kingston, RI, Lowell, MA, and Poughkeepsie, NY. Tickets go on sale this Friday. Right now, the tour is being framed as a limited-run of special events. My guess is if it's popular, then, 205 Live will be a touring brand on its own. I have mixed feelings about this news, as the stratification of weight classes in wrestling is one of my most passionate bugaboos. I was hoping that WWE was winding down on the cruiserweight experiment and allowing guys like Cedric Alexander, Akira Tozawa, and Rich Swann to transcend weight limits and compete in the main narra...