Tag: Bound For Glory

Another year, another annual Bound For Glory PPV from the fine folks at Impact Wrestling, who were about to get a bit of a boost in viewership thanks to parent company Anthem purchasing AXS TV, which had been hosting weekly episodes of a New Japan highlight show. Earlier in the year, Impact had moved from PopTV to one of Anthem’s smaller channels that very few people had, but there was also a live stream on Twitch of the program, which was kind of nice of them. Impact would move to AXS following this PPV, so this would be something of a first chapter to a(nother) new era in TNA Impact Wrestling history.

I’ll say this much. This is not something you’re going to pass off as same old shit because the roster has seen a bit of a shuffling in between BFGs. Some folks are still there, while others are long gone and then you’ve got… stuff.

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Another week in our little lookback at these Bound For Glory PPVs, another year has passed in the timeline of Bound For Glory and we’re about a year and a half into this Impact Wrestling phase of the promotion, which have been bouncing around between shows in Canada and shows in the US.

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In 2017, TNA was acquired by Anthem Sports and one of the things they did was ditch the TNA name in favor of IMPACT Wrestling, which would be the company name until 2023 when the decision was made to revert back to the TNA name. Despite this change, some people continued to call the company by its older, more recognizable name. As much as I tried to call it IMPACT, TNA popped in and out it went. Therefore, for the sake of simplicity, I will continue to refer to the company as TNA for the rest of these musings.

And then there was Jeff Jarrett’s Global Force Wrestling endeavor… which may or may not still be a thing depending on what time of day you ask Jeff Jarrett these days. And while you’re at it, ask him if Global Force Gold is still a thing.

Shortly after the TNA name was ditched, there was allegedly some sort of deal that would see both Impact and Global Force merge into one major promotion and for a time, the company would be known as GFW. The banner that is gracing this post was done years ago when I had some consideration in giving the Bound For Glory show a watch. It ended up not happening and the banner was left unused. But eventually, things fell apart, all mention of Global Force was scrubbed, and the company was back to being Impact Wrestling, which would stick for the next few years until going back to TNA in 2024.

In any event, we’ve got another Bound For Glory show; the first one in the proper Anthem era that is surprisingly still going to this very day, though for how long is another story that won’t be told here because this is not about today. It’s about yesterday. And also, Jeff Jarrett and Global Force Gold is no longer with the company, but the banner stays the same because who really gives a shit at this point?

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Well… it’s something, I suppose.

Yeah, so whenever I prep these slots, I’ll leave a quick blurb in the intro before starting the musings proper. Once that’s done, I could try and cook up a proper intro for the post. As it turns out, this show gave me a whole bunch of nothing and thus, “It’s something, I suppose” is just about the best thing I could say about this show.

Anyway, let’s get it over with.

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Am I being an asshole for reusing the banner I whipped up for this show a decade ago when I did the musings for this thing shortly after watching it? Probably – especially considering both guys are in better states of mind nowadays than they were back then… but on the other hand, it’s pretty much the perfect picture for the state of TNA at the time of this particular piece of programming.

My original thoughts can be found here. A lot of this musings (especially for the early portion of the program where I really have nothing new to add) will just be copied-and-pasted from the original post, but there is enough new stuff towards the end that it’s not a complete cop-out… only a partial one.

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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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In a year that saw AJ Styles wrestle his final professional wrestling in front of a live television crowd – at least, as of this writing – it is only fitting that we finally get around to muse about the 2013 edition of TNA’s Bound For Glory PPV event, which featured the final PPV main event of a man that had truly been the marquee TNA star… even if he was never truly presented as such.

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Honestly flabbergasted…

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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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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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