The Rise & Fall Of TNA | Wrestling Timelines

22. October 22, 2006 | Bound For Glory

Sting Jeff Jarrett
IMPACT Wrestling

TNA presents Bound For Glory, its biggest show on the calendar. The promotion ventures outside of the iMPACT Zone, drawing a very respectable and very vocal 3,600 fans to Compuware Sports Arena in Plymouth, Michigan. A company-record buy number, said to be in the 55,000-60,000 range, is yet more good news. 

The show is damn good, too, highlighted by Chris Sabin’s pulsating win over Senshi and LAX’s excellent victory at the expense of AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels. There’s the usual sh*t through which to wade, but Larry Zbysko actually loses in 2006, at least. Installing Kurt Angle as the special guest referee for a main event in which Sting is set to win the World title is an alarming and unnecessary reminder of WCW Starrcade 1997, and Sting, incredibly, enters another poor individual performance when the pressure is on - but the finish is emphatic, and the fans go along with it. TNA, demonstrably, is growing. Angle is yet to make his in-ring debut. TNA might yet cross the line into success!

Or perhaps not. 

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