TNA Bound For Glory 2016: Ranking Every Match From Worst To Best
What an anti-climax.
What a crazy week it's been for TNA fans. With massive uncertainty in the days before Bound for Glory if the company's flagship PPV would even go ahead, not to mention the impending sale of TNA to a currently undisclosed buyer (who oddly wasn't revealed at the show), there was an air of strange intrigue surrounding the event.
With so many more eyes on the product than normal, this was TNA's golden opportunity to deliver a showcase of the very best they have to offer...and that's sadly not what fans got.
"Aggressively mediocre" is probably the best descriptor for the majority of the PPV's fights, save for just one truly memorable match, and with the company's future still hanging in the balance, they really needed to come up with something stronger and more consistent than this.
Above all else, the way the show was booked and the general production exemplified so many of the problems TNA has had for many years, while the night's best match was further proof of who the brand's biggest assets really are.
Here is every TNA Bound for Glory 2016 match ranked from worst to best...
7. Knockouts Title: Maria (c) Vs. Gail Kim
Result: Gail nails Eat Defeat to win the title (5:19).
Rating: Maria's pre-match heel shtick was absolutely terrible, and the match never really found much of a rhythm, wrapping up in around five minutes because time was running out for the main event.
It's a shame Kim had to follow up her Hall of Fame induction with such a deflating match, and this was one of those depressing bouts where either result would've been disappointing: giving Kim the belt doesn't elevate the career of anyone, but Maria's bad in the ring so keeping it on her makes no sense either.
At least we got to see Cody (Rhodes) show up to kick Bennett's a** afterwards, though.
4/10