TNA Bound for Glory feedback
Thumbs up.
Best match: Ultimate X.
Worst Match: Bobby Lashley.. Just Lashley.
1. Amazing Red vs Suicide vs Daniels vs Homicide vs Shelly vs Sabin.
The match of the night! Red's simply amazing, as was Suicide, Daniels and the rest of the guys. This is something you will NEVER see in a sucky WWE ppv event. These guys work their asses off. Daniels seemed really hurt, but apparently on his Twitter he tweeted hes just sore, so Allright, moving on, 9/10.
2. Taylor & Sarita vs The Beautiful People.
Okay match, this was more of an Diva's match, nothing special. But seeing Velvet Sky maade my day, so.. 9.5/10.
3. Eric Young v Kevin Nash v Hernandez.
Good match, Kevin's still got it. I give it a 8/10, I never expected Eric winning the match tbh. Surprised.
4. British vs 3D vs MEM vs BM.
Very good match, and loved every second of it. 8.5/10
5. ODB vs Tara vs Kong.
Good match, and the ending was very good. Three ladies could wrestle. 8/10.
6. Bobby vs Joe.
Worst match, making Joe lose to an MMA'er? What the hell, Lashley sucks, and everyone booed him. 4/10.
7. Abyss vs Mick Foley.
Good match, but the ref clearly counted 3 for Foley, that's gotta be at Botchamania 103. 8.5/10.
8. Kurt Angle vs Matt Morgan.
Very awesome match, loved it. Kurt putted Morgan over. Loved the ending. 9/10.
9. Sting vs AJ.
Quite dissapointed, seemed very fast paced. 8/10.
OVERALL: 8/10.
Austin Castillo
TNA's Wrestlemania was WWE's Superstars...
most people know about it, but nobody cared enough to watch it.. and in the end they didn't miss enough for it to matter...
first TNA ppv i have watched live in a long time, also the last one I will watch in a long time...
props to Steiner and Nash for trying... and the X Division guys for going out there and putting on a show... the Angle v Morgan and Styles v Sting matches were both good... but nothing that I will remember when the year ends... and the Daniels bump in the opener I will remember for a long time...
Thumbs in the middle show...
Best Match: Ultimate X ( if not the best, definitely the most memorable)
Worst Match: Monster's Ball, and keep in mind the Beautiful People and Nash were all on this card... and its not even a close one to see what match was the worst of the night...
Fivos Scholarios
Thumbs Down
Best match: Angle vs. Morgan
Worst match: I don't even remember half of them
TNA's version of Wrestlemania was bad. Really bad.
The matches themselves were ok. Some were good, one was really good, and the rest were so forgettable that they didn't even need to be on the show. The interviews were fine, the video packages were fine, and even the announcing was fine. Everything was fine.
The problem came from the idea that this was the big one for TNA.
See, WWE doesn't need to tell you that Wrestlemania is special. Wrestlemania was organic; it started as a make-or-break one-off, succeeded, and went on to become an annual supershow. People don't need to be told Wrestlemania is a big show because we know it is. It feels like one, looks like one and is one. TNA come along and say "well WWE have Wrestlemania so we need one too" so they pick one event of the year and say "ok, this is gonna be our Wrestlemania" even though the event has no reason to be at all (if anything, Slammiversary deserves that moniker being the ANNIVERSARY show). So TNA make Bound For Glory and assign it as their big show in a month that means nothing to TNA and they bring in Zakk Wylde who means nothing, and guys from N Sync and New Kids On The Block who mean nothing, and Mike Tenay reiterates every half hour that "this is our premiere show; this is the big show atmosphere of our super bowl, Bound For Glory" and it isn't. Just because you say it is, doesn't make it so, especially when the show has absolutely nothing that seperates it from, say, Turning Point or Victory Road.
It just screamed of a desperate plea for TNA to try and manufacture something that WWE does purely because WWE does it, not understanding what WWE did that made it such a success in the first place. Were this any other show, I may have enjoyed it more. Actually, I wouldn't have, but I'd have at least saved myself from the douchechills of listening to TNA try to peddle a B-list PPV as something that should be built towards every single year as the culmination of the calendar. If this was their Wrestlemania, TNA should hang their heads because it wasn't even close.
Mitchell Jones
TNA Bound for Glory
Thumbs Up
Best Match: Styles v Sting
Worst Match: Nash v Young v Hernandez
Very good card. Some weak spots, but even the women had their working shoes on.
Whether or not Styles can carry a promotion is yet to be seen, but at least they are trying to build some new contenders.
Jeff Cohen
Flushing, NY
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