TNA Bound For Glory 2014 has no real, viable purpose for existing. It is simply there.
Bound for Glory is essentially supposed to be the TNA equivalent of a Wrestlemania or a Starrcade, the biggest event in the promotion, as it were. While nowhere near the pedigree of the aforementioned granddads of them all, Bound For Glory is oftened touted as TNA’s biggest show, where things end and begin here and there… I guess. Diehard TNA fans would probably do a better job of giving Bound For Glory’s legacy that hard sell that I just can’t see myself. Whatever importance Bound For Glory had in the past was quickly exised for its 2014 iteration, which became less of a turning point in the TNA narrative and more of a “one night only” affair where TNA would team up with Japanese promotion Wrestle-1.
So instead of TNA’s biggest event showcasing the best they have to offer… they’re showing a Wrestle-One promotion with TNA guys in it… and on top of that, nothing that happens on this show has any baring on the TNA narrative going forward, as the episodes for Impact Wrestling set to air AFTER the event were already taped beforehand. What a way to spend fifty bucks… on a wrestling show that has no reason to exist.
So I haven’t seen this show when it was new – mostly due to the fact that I wasn’t following TNA beyond reading online taping results as well as following the company’s woes and their ill-conceived efforts in making people believe otherwise, but a friend of mine managed to tape a copy of the show and offered to lend me said copy for the sake of a musings on the blog. I didn’t really see the point since I had little to no familiarity with TNA beyond what I’ve read online and even less so with Wrestle-1, but eventually I caved and said, “Fine. As long as you get this year’s BFG event.”
So here we are. Looking at last year’s Bound For Glory event scant moments before this year’s iteration takes place. The write-up on THAT event will take place much later… but that’s another story.
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