Well, kids… here we are… again.
I wrote about this show back in 2015, which was a year after this show took place and I opened the post with the words, “TNA Bound For Glory 2014 has no real, viable purpose for existing. It is simply there.”
TNA was in a real, precarious state at this point. xxx The end result was sending a number of TNA second-stringers to a Wrestle-1 show in Japan, tape the show, and then package it as a Bound For Glory so they can charge their loyalist TNA fans premium PPV prices to watch. Now for those who don’t know what Wrestle-1 was, it was a promotion in Japan that was founded by legendary Japanese wrestler The Great Muta in 2013. Yes, the promotion that was hold TNA’s equivalent of Wrestlemania was a little over a year old.
Imagine WWE holding a Wrestlemania in Japan, but rather than staging it in the Tokyo Dome with all the pageant, pyro, and ballyhoo one typically associates with the event, they held it in a shitbox theater hall barely holding 400 people… AND it’s a co-production with another minor league Japanese promotion… AND none of the matches have any relevance on the WWE product because they already taped episodes of RAW and Smackdown to air for the next three months. It’d be pretty embarrassing… and yet that’s what happened with TNA.
One would presume to compare this to the eventual empty arena shows that the various promotions would hold during 2020, except you had prevailing circumstances that made those shows what they were. TNA was just in a bad state of affairs and whatever show they had intended to book on this Bound For Glory show would play out on free TV via episodes of Impact that very few people were watching… which is probably for the best that they had a taped show fill in for what was supposed to be their big premiere cornerstone event that even fewer people knew existed, let alone fork down actual money to watch.
So I had already seen this show and did a musings on this ages ago. A buddy of mine had sent a DVD recording of this thing and wanted me to share some thoughts on the show. I told him I’d do it on the condition that he would order that year’s BFG and we could watch it together. Something I’m sure he would have done anyway since he was still watching TNA… the poor bastard. But regardless, I wrote some thoughts and… well, those thoughts can be read here if you wish.
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