TNA Bound For Glory
10/23/05
By Kevin Peel
Bound for Glory is built up by this promotion
as one of their biggest shows of the year. The lineup
included a 30 minute ironman match between A.J. Styles
and Chris Daniels for the X-Division title, an appearance
from international star Jushin Thunder Liger as he takes
on Samoa Joe, AMW defending the tag titles against the
naturals, and an Ultimate X match between Matt Bentley,
Chris Sabin and Petey Williams. Earlier today it was
announced on tnawrestling.com that Kevin Nash is in
the hospital and won't be able to wrestle tonight in
the original announced main event against Jeff Jarrett
for the NWA title. We go into the show knowing Jarrett
will defend the title, but we have no idea who his challenger
will be.
The thirty minute preshow opens up with
Jeff Jarrett, AMW and Gail Kim. Jarrett says that someone
is going home in a casket tonight.
(1) Sonjay Dutt defeated Roderick
Strong, Alex Shelly and Austin Aries when Dutt pinned
Strong off a dragon hurricanrana.
Every TNA pay per view, they do the "highspot"
match to showcase some of the X-Division guys to get
them all on the show ans this match was it. Crowd was
really hot chanting "TNA." The big spot was
when all four wrestlers were in the ring and all had
submission holds on each other at the same time. Late
in the match, Aries hit his brainbuster on Roderick
Strong and climbed to the top for his 450, but Dutt
knocked him to the floor. Dutt climbed up top but got
caught by Roderick who then went to the top either for
a superplex or one of his crazy shit backbreakers. Dutt
shoved him off and hit an amazing looking dragon hurricanrana
for the pin. Great match to start off the show. Probably
the best pre-match show they've ever had.
Backstage, Shane Douglas interviews AMW
about winning the tag belts on impact last night. Chris
Harris proclaimed that the NWA tag team titles are back
where they belong. Douglas brought up their match with
the naturals tonight and alluded to Team 3D. Harris
said they left the naturals in a pool of their own blood
last night and said they already killed off Team 3D.
Storm said something but it wasn't coherent.
Raven came out to the ring with Cassidy
Riley and complained about Larry Zbysko not naming him
the number one contender. Raven called out Zbysko and
demanded to know yes or no whether he would get to challenge
Jarrett tonight. Larry went to the "how dare you...."
card, so Raven started choking him. Security held him
back. Rhino came out and interrupted this and said Raven
isn't the same person he was five years ago. He said
the Raven he knew would have beat the shit out of the
eveyone in the ring. He made a couple ECW references
to cruicifying people and kidnapping families. He called
Raven pathetic and asked if a woman had gotten in his
ear. He said Raven didn't deserve the title shot, he
did. Raven finally attacked Rhino, but security pulled
him off and escorted him to the back. When Cassidy Riley
was doing the Raven pose, he turned around and got hit
with the gore from Rhino.
Backstage, Douglas interviewed A.J. Styles
and said in all sports there seems to be teams that
always have another team in their shadow that they can't
quite get rid of. He asked if Chris Daniels was that
for him. Styles, a Georgia fan, made a comparision to
their rivalry with Florida. Styles said we'd find out
later if Daniels is "simply phenomenal."
They show Justin Liger walking the aisle
as they go close to go to the pay per view.
The pay per view starts with the darth
vader sounding dude and a great video package.
(2) Samoa Joe defeated Jushin
"Thunder" Liger with the muscle buster/choke
out combination
Joe enters to a ceremonial entrance with
two other samoans that did a dance routine with him
while drum music played in the background. Simon Inoki
from New Japan was at ringside. Fans threw streamers
at Liger when he was introduced. Kind of a disappointing
match. I remember how good Liger used to be and he seemed
so slow here. It seemed like it was over before it really
got going. Anyway, late in the match Liger hits a fisherman's
suplex and follows with a frog splash for a two count.
Liger went back up top, but Joe caught him and turned
it into a muscle buster. He followed with the choke
and the ref dropped Liger's arms three times for the
submission win. Decent , but not the match people were
expecting it to be.
They showed clips from the TNA fanfast
that put over TNA as a fan friendly company.
(3) The Diamonds in the Rough
defeated Shark Boy, Apollo and Sonny Siaki when David
Young pinned Sonny Siaki with a spinebuster.
This is the kind of match they usually
have on the pre-show and looking back at it, that's
probably where it should have been. Not a horrible match,
but a match with six guys that people don't really care
much about. Apollo and Siaki are still terrible. Diamond,
Skipper and Young are all decent but they've been job
boys for so long that its hard to take them seriously.
Remember when Shark Boy used to do all those entertaining
skits with New Jack? Now he's just kinda there. David
Young hit a spinebuster on Siaki for the shocking clean
win. Yes David Young actually won a match. Young and
Skipper now have these matching outfits so maybe there
are plans for that team.
Backstage, Douglas interviewed NWA Champion
Jeff Jarrett. Jeff said he didn't really care who his
opponent was tonight. Jeff rattled off a list of contenders
inserting "screw you" after each one. Monty
Brown interupted him and said "I dare you to say
it. Say Screw Monty Brown." Jarrett went to his
usual I'd love to give you a shot, but you have to prove
yourself Monty routine. Jarrett said he should worry
about his upcoming match with Lance Hoyt because a loss
would be very costly.
(4) Monty Brown defeated Lance
Hoyt with the Poooooooooooooooooooounce
Pretty short match here. Crowd still likes
Hoyt. Late in the match, Hoyt hit his moonsault for
a two count. Hoyt climbed to the top and went for a
bodypress, but Brown caught him and turned it into an
alpha bomb for a two count. Hoyt hit a uranage for a
two count of his own. Brown hit the pounce and scored
the pin. About what you'd expect from these two.
Backstage, Douglas interviewed 3 Live
Kru. Kip James entered the picture and offered to watch
their back since Team Canada always plays the numbers
game. This sounded like a great idea to BG James and
Killings, but Konnan didn't trust him. Kip said okay,
I offered.
(5) Team Canada defeated 3 Live
Kru after Bobby Roode hit BG James with a hockey stick
Just your typical Team Canada match here.
Pretty short with Team Canada winning their usual way
with the hockey stick. This one was more about the postmatch
angle. Kip James had sat at the top of the ramp to watch
the match and postmatch when Team Canada was giving
3 Live Kru a beatdown, Kip James came down and pulled
out BG James. He then went in the ring with a chair
and Team Canada held Konnan so Kip could have a clean
shot at Konnan, but he turned babyface by attacking
the Canadians. BG and Ron patted Kip on the back as
he and Konnan had a staredown.
(6) Petey Williams defeated Matt
Bentley and Chris Sabin in an Ultimate X match by catching
the falling X
Good highspot match with a lousy finish.
The Ultimate X gimmick is one that has been overdone
in this company, but it has been a while since they
did one, so it was a nice change. Good work by the wrestlers.
Not much story to why this match was happening, but
it was for the number one contendership to the X title.
In this match there are two wire wire cables crossing
in an X and a giant X is hung in the center which you
must grab to win. Basically, its a ladder match without
a ladder. Late in the match, Sabin was about to grab
the X, but Bentley speared him knocking him off, but
unfortunately also knocked off the X to the mat below.
Williams tried to go in the ring to grab it, but the
ref stopped him and told him he couldn't win that way.
If you remember the first ultimate X match, they had
that problem then when the belt kept falling to the
mat and haven't had that problem since till now. They
brought a ladder in the ring and rehung the X. After
it was rehung, both Bentley and Sabin climbed the cables
again and knocked each other off. Petey could see the
X dangling again and waited under it and caught it as
it fell this time. The announcers said you couldn't
win that way but the ref called for the bell and awarded
Petey Williams the match. Just a terrible finish. Good
highspot match otherwise, until the falling X junk but
the finish really ruined it. Sabin and Bentley stormed
off really pissed after the match.
(7) America's Most Wanted defeated
The Naturals after Harris pinned Stevens following The
Death Sentence to retain the NWA tag team titles
Naturals stormed the ring to start the
match and took the offense to the champs. Chris Harris
tried to use powder of all things, but got it kicked
back in his face. This led to a funny spot with Harris
giving his own partner the catatonic. Naturals gave
Storm the death sentence, but he kicked out on two.
They went for the natural disaster, but Gail Kim interfered.
Douglas chased Gail Kim outside the ring, but Harris
caught him and handcuffed him to the railing. Apparantly,
this is legal because the ref let the match continue.
Storm hit Stevens with a beer bottle then AMW hit the
death sentence for the pin to retain their titles. After
the match they attacked Douglas with a chair as he was
still handcuffed to the railing. Decent match as AMW
and the naturals always work well together. It seems
kinda silly for the ref to allow someone to be handcuffed
in the middle of a match.
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(8) Rhino defeated Abyss, Jeff
Hardy and Sabu in a monster's ball 2 match after a Rhinodriver
on Jeff Hardy
This was the hardcore match of the night.
They broke out everything in this one. The funny thing
was in the video they said all four guys were locked
up for 24 hours but, we saw Rhino earlier so it sorta
killed that. In the big spot of the night, Jeff Hardy
put Abyss on a stack of tables and climbed up the set
by the entranceway jumping off and hit a senton on Abyss.
Absolutely incredible spot. Abyss would return to the
ring to throw Sabu chest first through a table at ringside.
The finish came when Rhino hit a Rhinodriver (top rope
piledriver) on Jeff Hardy to score the pin.
Backstage, Larry Zbysko announced that
there would be a ten man gauntlet for the gold to determine
the challenger for Jeff Jarrett's NWA title. Jarrett
got in Zbysko's face saying this was unfair and asked
if this was Larry's decision or TNA Management's decision.
(9) AJ Styles defeated Chris Daniels
in a thirty minute ironman match winning 1-0.
This was a great match with 30 minutes
of fantastic back and forth action. Styles scored the
only fall at 29:58 with a Styles Clash. For some reason,
this one didn't have the emotion that the first ironman
match they had did but was still a good match in its
own right.
(10) Rhino won a ten man Gauntlet
for the gold eliminating Abyss to earn the NWA title
shot.
Order of entry was Samoa Joe, Ron Killings,
Sabu, Lance Hoyt, Abyss, Jeff Hardy, Monty Brown, Rhino,
Kip James and AJ Styles. The announcers made a big deal
about Raven getting shut out of the match. The final
four were Joe, Styles, Abyss and Rhino. Joe put Styles
in the choke, but Abyss knocked them both out of the
ring. Then, Rhino gored Abyss and threw him out to win
the gauntlet. Not a great match, but did feature a big
man encounter with Joe and Abyss that was good.
(11) Rhino defeated Jeff Jarrett
with the gore to become the new NWA World Champion.
Guest referee in this one is still Tito
Otiz. Jarrett had a casket rolled to the ring. Jarrett
took the advantage early, but eventually Rhino got on
the offense and set up for the gore, but Jarrett moved
out of the way. Gail Kim tried to jump off the top onto
Rhino, but Tito Ortiz caught her and ordered her to
the back. While this was going on, Jeff Jarrett blasted
Rhyno with the dreaded guitar shot. Ortiz came back
and counted two before Rhino kicked out. AMW came down
and handed Jarrett another guitar. Before Jarrett could
use it, Rhino hit the gore and scored a shocking pin
to become the new NWA champion. After the match, Jarrett
and AMW beat down Rhino and stuck him in the casket.
Jarrett stood on top of the casket. 3 Live Kru came
down and came down to break up the party, but Team Canada
gave the heels the advantage once again. Then, Team
3D came down and cleared the ring. Rhino holds the belt
and celebrates with the babyfaces as the show goes off
the air.
OVERALL
Overall I would say it was a good that
had something for everybody. Great match on the preshow.
A couple dull matches early on in the ppv but some really
good wrestling to be seen here. My only knock would
be that I thought there were too many matches and because
of it you had some short ones that were no better than
a tv match and served no purpose. I would rather see
less matches where every match has more meaning. Still
good show considering the change to their main event
at the last minute.
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