Category: Wrestling PPV Musings

TNA Bound For Glory 2011

It is the year 2011 and Hulk Hogan is headlining a goddamned PPV main event… or rather the co-main event, as we also have TNA World Champion Kurt Angle defending his title against Robert Roode or something, but let’s be real. Which match would TNA rather focus on? The usual World Title offering that will be all kinds of awesome or another HULK HOGAN match long past the man’s prime years?

This is another show that I’ve not watched before, but I had to remind myself about a couple controversies that took place on this show. We’ll dive in as the show progresses, but I found myself with more to say on this show and the surroundings than I would have thought, which might make for  a more interesting read

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TNA Bound For Glory 2010 (repost)

For the sake of full disclosure, today’s Bound For Glory musings is a repost of the same musings I did back in 2024, which you can read here. Unlike the 2006 repost where I redid a lot of the text, this post is more or less intact because my thoughts on the dog shit that came out of this show still hold up and I have nothing to add to the mix. And given that I’m watching this after the passing of Hulk Hogan last year, the fact that I’m keeping the text as is should be seen as some sort of mercy.

In any event, it’s the notorious 10-10-10 edition of Bound For Glory. Otherwise known as Vincent “Big Vinny V” Verhei’s birthday… yeah, not quite a happy birthday for him, I’m sure.

For those who have followed this blog for who knows how long… first off, my condolences. But secondly, you’re no doubt aware of how much I don’t care for 2010-era TNA. This was the time when Hulk Hogan was signed with the company and we were trying to recreate the glory days of WCW, except with the guy responsible for writing the shitty days of WCW. Coincidentally, this guy also had a hand in the WWF Attitude Era train, but that train also had stars that people cared about and were more than willing to forgive a few bad ideas. Take that aspect away and you get WCW 2000… or TNA 2006-2012.

Anyway, this show is a thing that happened for some reason and I can’t even explain why anyone would want to watch this show. It’s dreadful. The whole thing was based on crowning a new TNA World Champion after the title was declared vacant due to bullshit I’d rather not revisit and also surrounding the identities of the mysterious “THEY” that Abyss had teased were coming… and then the world found out and was like…

WHAT?

So naturally, I didn’t watch the PPV back in the day because I wasn’t a total lost cause back in the day… except for whenever WWE programming was involved, which wasn’t any better at that time, either. But at the very least, WWE had a hot thing going in this fresh new Nexus faction before they completely shit the bed with those guys. TNA didn’t even have that much.

And so, here we are… fourteen SIXTEEN years later and I’m watching this show to see what I missed out on and then wonder why I didn’t choose to dedicate this space to a TNA show that I actually DID enjoy. Anyway, my misery is your misery, so let’s get this shitshow over with.

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TNA Bound For Glory 2009

Another year, another Bound For Glory PPV event, another title shot for the ICON known as Sting. Is AJ Styles the one to break the curse? Tune in and find out (or not… I really don’t care.)

I will say this right off the bat… I kinda regret watching this show for reasons that I will get into at the end of the musings.

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TNA Bound For Glory 2008

Another year, another Bound For Glory PPV event, another Bound For Glory main event featuring Sting challenging for the World title… again. I’ve got little to say about this edition, as I was largely ignoring TNA for the most part, so we’ll see if this is at least better than last year’s show that I sampled last week.

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TNA Bound For Glory 2006 (redo)

For the sake of full disclosure, today’s post is just a repost of the original Bound For Glory 2006 musings that I did back in 2018, which you can view by clicking here. I wasn’t really intending on redoing this, but I gave the show another watch, and while I felt the original post still had merit, hindsight and perspective did make me re-evaluate things and I ended up with more things to say on the matter.

This was one of the few TNA DVDs that I managed to snag back when those were still a thing. The DVD itself is nothing special – they split the show into 2 discs and you had a couple extras at most. Nowhere near the spectacle of WWE’s sets whenever they used to put one out for Wrestlemania, but for watching the show, it wasn’t a bad deal. This was also notable for being the TNA PPV debut of Kurt Angle, after his signing was announced at the last one and after he made his formal TNA debut on the go-home edition of IMPACT that planted the seeds for the monster feud he’d have with Samoa Joe.

Anyway, here we go again, kids. It’s Bound For Glory 2006, circa 2018, reposted in 2026. Will wonders ever cease? Sure, they will… but that’s besides the point and I digress…

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TNA Bound For Glory 2005

So we’re going to spend the rest of the year (pretty much) going through all xx Bound For Glory events, from the very first event in 2005 to (possibly) this year’s event. There’s a couple that we’ll probably skip since I’ve already done those and I think those musings hold up… but that leaves us with a bunch more to look at.

And who knows? Maybe I’ll give you all a break and give you something else to watch.

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AEW Double Or Nothing 2026

Yes, I saw Double Or Nothing… and yes, I also saw last night’s Dynamite. The latter gets musings tomorrow while the former… is what you’re reading right now. A bunch of folks had a get together on Monday that included a repeat viewing of Double Or Nothing, which is how I got to watch the show. Admittedly, there were moments where I had to step out for a bit, so I didn’t catch the whole show, but I did catch enough of it to say that I enjoyed most of what I saw. And also, it wasn’t as much of a drag as I’ve heard Wrestlemania was, which confirmed my decision to avoid that show.

Yes, there are the usual problems. Egregriously long runtimes and too many wrestling matches to remember – though in fairness, if TOO MUCH WRESTLING on your WRESTLING SHOW ends up being your biggest problem, that’s not necessarily a bad thing, now is it?

So, here we are… the eighth annual Double Or Nothing PPV event now airing from Queens, New York rather than Jacksonville or Las Vegas or some other rich place. Honestly, I appreciate AEW going to other places for their PPVs rather than sticking with the old standbys of diminishing returns. They need to get it through their skulls that they are not New Japan, they are never booking WrestleKingdom, and they can never do what that show does in making the Tokyo Dome a permanent home for any one event. Hopefully next year, we can stop making Wembley a thing and book next year’s All In someplace else… perhaps Saud… wait, never mind, bad idea.

Anyway, on witht the show.

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TNA Rebellion 2026

This PPV musings is brought to you by Pat MacAfee… who is unrelated to the AntiVirus Software brand… which is also quite dreadful, if I’m being honest.

So for those who missed the AEW Dynasty musings this past Thursday, I mentioned that my buddy supplied me with DVD recordings of last weekend’s PPV offerings for me to watch and possibly do musings on. I dug Dynasty quite a bit, enough that I planned on watching Dynamite and actually have it playing in the background as I’m typing this Rebellion musings.

I’ve heard horrid things about this TNA show, though to be honest with you, with the exception of one or two matches, I didn’t think this was all that bad… but let’s dive in for a bit.

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AEW Dynasty 2026

Note: Right, so this was written before last night’s Dynamite aired and stuff happened on that show that won’t be touched on here, but will be touched on this Sunday. So if this seems a tad out of date, that’s why and please, no spoilers. Thanks.

Right, so it’s more or less expected of me to produce some semblance of wrestling material on this blog to take advantage of the Road To Wrestlemania… which is full of potholes that would put all of Montreal Island and neighboring municipalities to shame. That, and my lack of interest in the current wrestling product also plays a bit of a role. However, my buddy who usually supplies me with DVD recordings of PPVs for the purposes of these PPV musings, decided to give me DVD-Rs of last weekend’s PPV offerings, Saturday’s TNA Rebellion show and Sunday’s AEW Dynasty show.

Having heard horror stories about the TNA show, I opted for the AEW show. Hey, if nothing else, I can expect that the MJF/Kenny Omega match is going to be a nice, clean affair that doesn’t involve a whole bunch of skewers sticking out of someone’s skull, which is all I need to go “No buys.” That, and if the show turns out to be good, I might give AEW another shot. Anything to keep my mind off the disaster plex that is WWE right now.

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