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Yeah, we’re doing this show.

So, I will be confess a bit here. I had a lot of this written down back in October when this show was taking place and I was mostly enjoying it until the main event finish that left me… well… so I canned this, held it off for later, and then something magical happened. Joe Hendry won the TNA World title at Genesis 2025 and then got the biggest pop of his career at the Royal Rumble. You know what? Good for Joe. He’s got a future in WWE once his TNA run is done.

So now we’re going back to this show when TNA had just one job and they bungled it. They eventually course-corrected because… well, let’s be honest. TNA World Champion DOLPH ZIGGLER wasn’t getting that big a pop. But we’re revisiting this show and we’re going to pretend that this show is still fresh in my mind… mostly because I’ve had emotion penned in and I don’t want to ruin that emotion just yet.

Anyhoo… here we go.

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Quick note before we begin today’s scheduled musings… so, for the month of October, we are foregoing the weekly PPV Musings and when we return in November, it’ll be covering this year’s Bound For Glory PPV. Bound For Glory is TNA’s flagship PPV event, similar to a Wrestlemania or Starrcade… okay, that might be stretching it nowadays, but you get the general idea. Anyway, this’ll be the first Bound For Glory show that I’ve watched live since… ages. And given how good the TNA product has been this year, I’m sure they’ll be delivering a fine enough show for the ages… which is more than what I can say for today’s subject matter.

As a matter of fact, I had gone ahead and watched the TNA Victory Road show from a couple weeks ago and that was a great show, probably one of the better TNA outputs I’ve seen in this new era. The smart side of my brain suggests that I talk about this show before taking the break from musings to focus on the October marathon of reviews… but sadly, I’m not listening to the smart side of the brain today because soon afterwards, I jumped into the TNA archives to watch the Bound For Glory show from October 10, 2010.

Yes, the 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.

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With the Bound for Glory PPV from TNA Impact Wrestling around the corner, I’d figure it would be a good opportunity to shoot out a few TNA PPV musings for old times sake. Some of these, such as today’s subject matter, I have on DVD while others I was able to watch through the Global Wrestling Network thing. We’re getting a headstart by covering the 2006 iteration of the Bound For Glory PPV today, but for the month of October, it’ll be all TNA, all the time, and whether that amounts to good shows or not… is an entirely different story.

So let’s go with Bound for Glory 2006… since it’s the only BFG show I have on DVD. We might look at one more along the way, but for now…

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“Hey! Look, kids!
Marty Jannetty FINALLY won a World Title!”
– My buddy after last night’s TNA PPV

Whatever you want to say about this year’s Bound For Glory event, it is bound to be better than last year’s edition of what was once TNA’s flagship PPV.

For those who missed it, Bound For Glory 2014 was essentially a cross-promotional vehicle with Japanese promotion Wrestle-1, featuring a bunch of Japanese wrestlers that no one in their right mind would give two shits about unless they were extremely well-versed in Japanese wrestling or Wrestle-1 in particular. It was a telling sign of TNA’s woes when their flagship PPV event – something that’s supposed to be on par with a Wrestlemania or a Starrcade or other major event that’s touted as the promotion’s biggest show ever – is treated with about as much pomp and circumstance as an episode of Sunday Night Heat. It became something that you didn’t need to see because it wouldn’t affect the narrative taking place on the Impact Wrestling show.

So the good news is that a little more effort was put in making this year’s edition a far stronger showing in that, hey, something is bound to happen here that will affect the promotion… at least in terms of the narrative and not necessarily in terms of the state of the company. For example, we actually have a World Title match, something last year’s edition lacked completely and utterly. The bad news is that, in light of TNA’s latest woes and impending cancellation from Destination America, Bound for Glory 2015 was treated as something of an afterthought with only two weeks worth of build.

Certainly doesn’t paint a pretty picture when the main event had a last-minute change from a one-on-one World title match between champion Ethan Carter III and challenger Drew Galloway to a triple threat match also featuring Matt Hardy. And when I say last minute, I literally mean last minute as the stipulation was added in the closing minutes to the go-home edition of Impact Wrestling.

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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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