History YMMV / WWECruiserweightClassic

* ShockingMoments: Brian Kendrick decides that he'll use a '''BURNING HAMMER''' against Kota Ibushi, making it one of the only times that move has ever been performed in a WWE show. The shocking part comes from how Ibushi ''kicks out of it'', because it's the type of move that is used to end a match.

** After the initial surge of interest, ''205 Live'' and the Cruiserweight division would slowly become an irrelevant afterthought in WWE, with almost all the division's wrestlers being released in the 2020-21 mass releases until there were barely any wrestlers at all left on it, and the Cruiserweight Championship belt that Triple H had revealed before the grand final of the CWC was retired at the start of 2022 when the final champion, Roderick Strong, lost a title unification match against the NXT North American champion, Carmelo Hayes.

* HarsherInHindsight: The [[Wrestling/JohnnyGargano Gargano]]/[[Wrestling/TommasoCiampa Ciampa]] match, especially the end, is harder to watch knowing it would eventually lead to Ciampa turning on Gargano.

** Ho Ho Lun from Hong Kong, an exception to the "SIGN EVERYBODY!" mentality. He didn't impress during his first round match, as it was obvious he was very green and unpolished. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the fact that pro wrestling is still relatively new in China (in fact, Ho Ho started its first major promotion), so he's partially self-taught, and possibly the fact that his name is easy to make fun of. It also doesn't help Ho Ho that Jason Lee (also from China) put on a better performance despite being eliminated in the first round.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Due to their impressive pedigrees and being by far the most popular wrestlers on the tournament, a match between Wrestling/KotaIbushi and Wrestling/ZackSabreJr was highly anticipated, but never pushed through due to both men being eliminated by eventual finalists TJ Perkins and Gran Metalik - a result of neither man agreeing to sign full-time with the WWE. Their loss was the gain of Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, who proceeded to book both men to face each other in the following year's G1 Climax; to rub it in even further, Ibushi and Sabre - both of whom were subsequently classified as ''heavyweights'' as opposed to cruiserweights/junior heavyweights - would proceed to wrestle each other multiple times, almost exclusively in tournament settings.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: While not every cruiserweight fits the stereotypical High Flyer mold, this is inevitable when you gather enough cruiserweights together and they pull off unthinkable feats. But nothing has elicited it moreso than [[Wrestling/LondonAndKendrick Brian Kendrick]] unleashing a [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique goddamn]] '''[[Wrestling/KentaKobashi BURNING HAMMER]]''', a move that the ''man who made it famous'' has used ''less than ten times in his career,'' in his match against Kota Ibushi. ''And it still wasn't enough to win the match''.

* HarsherInHindsight: The Gargano/Ciampa match, especially the end, is harder to watch knowing it would eventually lead to Ciampa turning on Gargano.

* TheProducerThinksOfEverything: One isolated instance revolving around Wrestling/JohnnyGargano. [[spoiler: The second round matches of the tournament were taped a month before NXT Takeover: Brooklyn II, where Gargano would hurt his knee after being targeted by Wrestling/TheRevival. The '''actual''' CWC episode broadcast just days later would show Gargano's knee bandaged up, allowing his second-round opponent TJ Perkins to attack said weakness and advance to the quarterfinals]]. In short, [[DramaPreservingHandicap Gargano was selling a knee injury]] [[MindScrew weeks before it actually happened.]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Due to their impressive pedigrees and being by far the most popular wrestlers on the tournament, a match between Wrestling/KotaIbushi and Wrestling/ZackSabreJr was highly anticipated, but never pushed through due to both men being eliminated by eventual finalists TJ Perkins and Gran Metalik - a result of neither man agreeing to sign full-time with the WWE. Their loss was the gain of Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling, who proceeded to book both men to face each other in the following year's G1 Climax; to rub it in even further, Ibushi and Sabre's matches have all been in tournament settings.

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Gargano vs Ciampa and Ibushi vs Alexander were both discussed as match of the year contenders pretty much the moment they finished, as were Kendrick vs Ibushi, Perkins vs Swann, both semi-finals and the final.
* ShockingMoments: While not every cruiserweight fits the stereotypical High Flyer mold, this is inevitable when you gather enough cruiserweights together and they pull off unthinkable feats. But nothing has elicited it moreso than [[Wrestling/LondonAndKendrick Brian Kendrick]] unleashing a [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique goddamn]] '''[[Wrestling/KentaKobashi BURNING HAMMER]]''', a move that the ''man who made it famous'' has used ''less than ten times in his career,'' in his match against Kota Ibushi. ''And it still wasn't enough to win the match''.

* HolyShitQuotient: While not every cruiserweight fits the stereotypical High Flyer mold, this is inevitable when you gather enough cruiserweights together and they pull off unthinkable feats. But nothing has elicited it moreso than [[Wrestling/LondonAndKendrick Brian Kendrick]] unleashing a [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique goddamn]] '''[[Wrestling/KentaKobashi BURNING HAMMER]]''', a move that the ''man who made it famous'' has used ''less than ten times in his career,'' in his match against Kota Ibushi. ''And it still wasn't enough to win the match''.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Due to their impressive pedigrees and being by far the most popular wrestlers on the tournament, a match between Kota Ibushi and Zack Sabre Jr. was highly anticipated, but never pushed through due to both men being eliminated by eventual finalists TJ Perkins and Gran Metalik - a result of neither man agreeing to sign full-time with the WWE. Their loss was the gain of New Japan Pro Wrestling, who proceeded to book both men to face each other in the following year's G1 Climax; to rub it in even further, Ibushi and Sabre's matches have all been in tournament settings.

* HypeBacklash: Zack Sabre Jr., touted as one of the early favorites to win the tournament, got this response from viewers unfamiliar with his BoringButPractical submission-based style. He quickly won people over with his second round match with Drew Gulak.

** Ho Ho Lun from Hong Kong, an exception to the "SIGN EVERYBODY!" mentality. He didn't impress during his first round match, as it was obvious he was very green and unpolished. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the fact that pro wrestling is still relatively new in China (in fact, Ho Ho started its first major promotion), so he's partially self-taught, and possibly the fact that his name is easy to make fun of. It also doesn't help Ho Ho that Jason Lee (also from China) put on a better preformance despite being eliminated in the first round.

* BrokenBase: Brian Kendrick's use of a [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Burning Hammer]] for merely a near fall, considering that it's probably the second most dangerous move behind the Vertabreaker, and Kota Ibushi has already had neck issues before.

* TheProducerThinksOfEverything: One isolated instance revolving around Wrestling/JohnnyGargano. [[spoiler: The second round matches of the tournament were taped a month before NXT Takeover: Brooklyn II, where Gargano would hurt his knee after being targeted by The Revival. The '''actual''' CWC episode broadcast just days later would show Gargano's knee bandaged up, allowing his second-round opponent TJ Perkins to attack said weakness and advance to the quarterfinals]]. In short, [[DramaPreservingHandicap Gargano was selling a knee injury]] [[MindScrew weeks before it actually happened.]]