8 Great Ideas TNA Gave Up On

4. The Bound For Glory Series

There was a Bound for Glory Series tournament in 2016, but it was vastly different from the one they ran in 2013, and the versions they ran in the two years before that.

For WrestleMania, the WWE establishes their No. 1 contender for WrestleMania to be the winner of a gigantic battle royal, which is really kind of silly if you think about it. Being able to win that match could all come down to luck, whereas winning a tournament means you have to have at least some skills. However, TNA never quite got their Bound for Glory series down right, and they made things a bit too difficult to follow.

In 2013, A.J. Styles won the tournament with 63 points, Magnus came in second with 46. Poor Jay Bradley and Hernandez finished with 7 points. That's kind of a lot of numbers to take in, and not everyone competed in the same amount of matches, some were in 8, some were in 9 and one was in 7. That doesn’t exactly seem fair, and it should have been easy to plan ahead of time. Did TNA not own a copy of Excel at the time? The prior year, the talent either had 12 or 13 matches, which seems way too long for a tournament. There had to be a happy medium.

Instead, TNA gave up with the concept entirely and instead of tweaking it to make things more consistent, they just went with a plain old eight man tournament. In prior years it was cool to see some surprising faces gain entry in the tournament, giving the sense that there could be a Cinderella story, but in 2016 they just gave us everyone you’d expect and then ran with it.

If the company is still around for 2017, hopefully they’ll re-tweak this idea once again. Don't give up TNA!