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Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:56 am

TNA Bound for Glory 2009 was an incredible show!

The Ultimate X Match, Full Metal Mayhem, MCMGs/LC, Morgan/Angle, and Sting/Styles matches were to great matches.

The Knockouts Tag Team Title, Legends Titles and Monster's Ball matches were decent

The ODB/Kong/Tara and Joe/Lashley matches were the weakest due to Tara getting into a fight Kim Coulture during the match which just zapped all the energy out that match. Joe/Lashely were decent until the piss-poor ending.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Oct 20, 2009 2:36 am

Jesus Christ, words cannot express what I feel about Bound For Glory.

Sting and AJ was just wow...can't even think of a word for it. I am still crying. Sting has been my favorite wrestler since I was 2 and he still can go out there and put on a great match.

Only matches I didn't really care for were Knockout Tag Title and the Knockout Title match. Lashley and Joe was pretty good, didn't like the finish. Could have at least done the arm raising thing to indicate Joe was out...

Ultimate X was awesome as it usually is. Red is really living up to the Amazing part of his name. Daniels and Suicide took one of the sickest falls ever.

British Invasion=TNA World Tag Team Champions= :grin:

Angle vs Morgan was AWESOME. Morgan is either going to be HUGE in TNA or WWE is going to lure him away with a wad of cash.

The Legend's Title match was pretty freaking awesome. I'm still not sold on Hernandez being a huge singles star, but I'm starting to really back Eric Young. I wonder how many people realize that Eric Young only needs a World Title run to be a grand slam champion. Joe and Angle need Legend's titles to be grand slam winners.

TNA out did themselves with this show.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:40 am

Desmond Wolfe(Nigel Mcguiness)in TNA?

AWESOME!

His first story line is with Kurt?

EVEN BETTER!!

I definitely got mega excited when he did the Tower of London to Kurt Angle.

I miss the spikey hair though

News Credits: 1 · Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:27 pm

Bragging Rights predictions
First prediction is that its going to be boring

Michelle McCool, Natalya, Beth Phoenix vs Melina, Kelly, and Gail Kim
-At least on the Raw side all three are competent in the ring. Michelle McCool is terrible. I hope Nattie and Beth win though, but I predict that the Raw divas win.

The Miz vs John Morrison
-I'll be honest, I kind of want Miz to win. I'm a huge fan of both me, but Miz needs the win more then Morrison. If Morrison does win, Miz will really end up being Mizzy Janetty. I predict Morrison winning though.

Undertaker vs CM Punk vs Batista vs Rey Mysterio
-God I hope Punk wins. Punk is the most entertaining man in the company hands down. Whether its on the mic or in the ring.

Jericho, Kane, Truth, Matt Hardy, Tyson Kidd, David Hart Smith, and Finlay vs HBK, HHH, Big Show, Cody Rhodes, Swagger, Kofi Kingston, and Mark Henry
-Probably going to be the best match of the night or a total disaster. I'd prefer Team Smackdown to win since I love every member, but Raw will win...

Orton vs Cena
-This is going to be a train wreck! I don't see how anyone thought this was a good idea. Putting two boring as hell guys in the ring for an hour? WTF. Orton wins, Cena goes to Smackdown and lowers its entertainment value by knocking Punk out of the title picture. Unless Punk wins, then Cena will take the belt from Punk.

News Credits: 22 · Sun Oct 25, 2009 1:47 pm

original sin wrote:Michelle McCool, Natalya, Beth Phoenix vs Melina, Kelly, and Gail Kim
-At least on the Raw side all three are competent in the ring. Michelle McCool is terrible. I hope Nattie and Beth win though, but I predict that the Raw divas win.

Yeah, I hope Natalya and Beth win as well. I don't care about Michelle McCool one way or another, but I dislike the Raw divas because of their lack of talent, compared to Beth and Natalya, anyway.

The Miz vs John Morrison
-I'll be honest, I kind of want Miz to win. I'm a huge fan of both me, but Miz needs the win more then Morrison. If Morrison does win, Miz will really end up being Mizzy Janetty. I predict Morrison winning though.

Yeah, I agree, I think The Miz is too good of a talent on the mic and in the ring to waste right away. I mean. Morrison is a hell of an athlete, and he should be a main eventer, but he shouldn't use The Miz as a stepping stone to get there. Morrison wins nonetheless.

Undertaker vs CM Punk vs Batista vs Rey Mysterio
-God I hope Punk wins. Punk is the most entertaining man in the company hands down. Whether its on the mic or in the ring.

Untertaker FTW, seriously. Though I do laugh at Punk a lot when he is on the mic. Rey? Hell no. Batista? Good in the ring, sucks on the mic. And Taker is awesome in the ring, and doesn't need the mic.

Jericho, Kane, Truth, Matt Hardy, Tyson Kidd, David Hart Smith, and Finlay vs HBK, HHH, Big Show, Cody Rhodes, Swagger, Kofi Kingston, and Mark Henry
-Probably going to be the best match of the night or a total disaster. I'd prefer Team Smackdown to win since I love every member, but Raw will win...

As long as Kane goes crazy and kicks ass all over, that's all that matters. He's like the biggest, highest profile jobber.

Wasted.

Orton vs Cena
-This is going to be a train wreck! I don't see how anyone thought this was a good idea. Putting two boring as hell guys in the ring for an hour? WTF. Orton wins, Cena goes to Smackdown and lowers its entertainment value by knocking Punk out of the title picture. Unless Punk wins, then Cena will take the belt from Punk.

Well, I hope Orton wins. I am so sick and tired of John Cena. But, I actually watch SmackDown! more than Raw, so maybe I wouldn't want Cena on SD! afterall. But yeah, a hardcore iron man match? I can't believe Shawn didn't object to it, with the influence he has backstage. And Bret is crying somewhere in Calgary. Or Italy. Wherever the hell he is.

News Credits: 1 · Sun Oct 25, 2009 4:07 pm

Whenever Undertaker wins a title...or match for that matter, its so anticlimatic. His career should be winding down, while Punk's should be getting pushed by getting victories over veterans like Rey and Taker...and guys that are popular for no reason like Batista.

Bragging Rights will probably be lame.

I'm more excited TNA Turning Point. Christopher Daniels vs AJ Styles vs Samoa Joe for the World Heavyweight Championship? I think I might just die of excitement. If you haven't seen their match from Unbreakable 2005, click the link and prepare to be blown away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X64B7SK4-XQ

Sun Oct 25, 2009 7:11 pm

If that match is half as good as the last one it still would be one hell of a match. I hope that Daniels wins.

Sun Oct 25, 2009 9:58 pm

Bragging Rights was quite possibly the worst (read: most boring) ppv i have ever watched...

News Credits: 1 · Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:41 pm

Didn't order the PPV but Cena won??? How long is the WWE gonna ride Cena as a face? He needed to turn heel like 4 years ago.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Oct 26, 2009 3:23 am

Bragging Rights= I-)

That Iron Man match nearly put me to sleep so many times. I ended up playing Fire Pro Wrestling Returns while watching just to stay awake...

Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:32 am

How many PPVs have the WWE done this year?

News Credits: 7 · Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:05 pm

I didn't order the pay per view and from what I read I'm glad I didn't. I had more fun last night playing smackdown vs raw 2010 were I'm sure I could have designed a better lead up to a pay per view and the pay per view itself with new create a story mode.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:13 pm

1. Royal Rumble
2. No Way Out
3. Wrestlemania
4. Backlash
5. Judgment Day
6. Extreme Rules
7. The Bash
8. Night of Champions
9. Summerslam
10. Breaking Point
11. Hell in a Cell
12. Bragging Rights

Twelve boring shows...two more to go this year.

By comparison however, TNA has had ten PPVs. For the most part each one of those have been pretty good or great.

WWE really needs to step it up and do something to be exciting again. They haven't in awhile.

I was just thinking about something. In the 90s Vince claimed WCW was going to over saturate the market by having Nitro, Thunder, and Saturday Night...flash forward to now, WWE has Raw(2 hours), Smackdown(2 hours), ECW(hour), and Superstars(hour). All original programming. Well, if you count repeated story lines as original, but anyway...Talk about irony :lol:

Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:29 pm

I just finished watching the start of hopefully will become Kofi v. Orton--rofl! The writers have got to develop this feud(sp) there's so many possibilities it'd be better than Ciena v. Orton.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:37 pm

and hopefully Kofi comes out on top and goes on to the main event. At least we'd have a new main eventer on raw. Then again, MVP should already be in that spot...

The only good match so far has been Kofi and Jericho.

Don't really have high hopes for Show and HHH...

News Credits: 11 · Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:15 pm

Supposedly Hogan and Bischoff are joining TNA

News Credits: 22 · Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:27 pm

Damn. Just when TNA was getting really good.

Anyway, yeah, MVP should be a main eventer, instead he's carrying Mark Henry's fat ass around.

As for Orton, he is probably half babyface anyway, just because of Cena. Why don't the WWE read the writing on the wall and flip Orton and Cena? I would actually watch.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:30 pm

Robinson wrote:Supposedly Hogan and Bischoff are joining TNA

TNA posted a video on Facebook announcing Hogan. As long Hogan isn't a full time wrestler, I think he could help TNA. Hogan is a huge name, always will be.

I love Bischoff though. Greatest heel authority figure EVER.

News Credits: 11 · Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:37 pm

But with good ol Vinny Russo running the booking and hogan and bish coming in, I foresee some backstage tension coming to the forefront and it failing harder than the wwe nwo.

Hogan is too big of a name to not want the attention surrounding him. That and the man is at least 58-60 years old, good shape but his body is broken so any matches he does try to do are gonna be brutal.

News Credits: 7 · Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:41 pm

Well the show ended like I thought it would with writers getting ready breakup dx again and either strap the belt on shawn michaels or triple h and have them feud with cena wow like we didn't see that coming.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Oct 27, 2009 9:45 pm

Christian vs Yoshi ^.^

I hate Yoshi's music, but I do love him :lol:

News Credits: 7 · Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:13 pm

I now know what ecw is used for a proving ground for the new talent when they first start on t.v. then there either transfered to smackdown or raw. Christian is a glorified trainer I feel so sorry for him he deserve better than that.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:23 pm

That's been ECW's role for quite awhile. But if the WWE is going to do that, why build someone up, then bury them by moving them to a different show? Evan Bourne was quickly becoming the most exciting person in the company and then BOOM! screeching halt on his momentum.

Yoshi vs Christian was the second good WWE match of the week(the first Jericho vs Kofi from Raw). Shelton vs Sheamus wasn't to bad either.

The new ECW announcer is pretty good. Him and Josh were a decent team up. Matt Striker and Todd are on smackdown this week together. I'm pretty pumped about that honestly. They were a great commentating team.

Yes, I am more looking forward to an announce team then the "mega exciting" split up of Snoretista and Rey Mysterio

Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:18 am

Lol, TNA signing The Hulkster and Bischoff WHILE KEEPING Russo has killed this thread, I guess. (Ok, nothing against Bischoff, this is a guy who at least seems like he learns from his mistakes, has heart for the business and is very savvy)

Meanwhile, JeriShow (Big Show entertaining and relevant, love it), heel Batista, Kofi Johnson (sic) and a great midcard on both shows make WWE the best its been in a long while. Good ruck, TNA, to not just wither and die in 1-2 years' time this I gotta see.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:52 am

Batista as a heel is a good thing?
*deep breath*
Rey...
*deep breathing for 10 minutes*
*more deep breathing...*
I'm...
*deep breathing*
gonna...
*deep breathing yet again*
rip...
*deep breaths again*
your head...
*deep breathing*
off

That was beyond pathetic, the match was short and he could barely breathe. ANYTHING Batista does is terrible, heel or face, he sucks ass.

I don't see TNA "withering" away anytime soon. Dixie has to much passion for TNA to let it go down without a fight. Hogan is a HUGE deal. Even people who don't watch wrestling know who Hogan is. If they're flipping through channels and see his face they might stop to see what he's doing and might get sucked into TNA.

Plus, the amount of mainstream publicity they've gotten because of it is pretty damn good.