TNA Bound For Glory
2010
TNA World Heavyweight Championship - Ladder Match
AJ Styles (c) v Jeff Hardy
Career v Title
Kurt Angle v TNA World X Division Champion Jay Lethal(w/Ric Flair)
Rob Van Dam and Sabu v Frankie Kazarian and Christopher Daniels
Texas Death Match
Robert Roode v James Storm
TNA Knockouts Championship
Angelina Love (c) v Tara
Samoa Joe v Jeff Jarrett
Monsters Ball
Homicide v Sting (w/Hulk Hogan)
TNA World Tag Team Championships - Tournament Final
The Motor City Machine Guns v The Young Bucks
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So AJ beat Kurt Angle for the strap on the January 4th Live! edition of Impact in real life and I'd keep this as such. Going forward, Styles runs through the roster until we get to Slammiversary, where he narrowly wins the King of the Mountain match to retain the title, escaping the penalty box and pipping Hardy who was about the hand the belt on the hook. The next edition of Impact, Hardy asks for a title shot, but AJ declines him, leading to the thought that Styles is ducking Hardy. Hardy has to leap through hoops to get the AJ, with Styles consistantly denying him of his shot, leading the the Bound For Glory series, where Hardy faces Matt Morgan in the finals. AJ attempts to screw Hardy, swinging a chair, only for Jeff to duck and AJ to hit the Blueprint, costing him the match and leading to the big showdown at Bound For Glory. Hardy to go over here, with AJ to move into a fued with Matt Morgan, playing a bitter heel character.
After dropping the belt to Styles on the January 4th Live! edition of Impact, and losing the subsequent rematch at Genesis, Kurt Angle went on a hiatus which was explained as much needed time off due to a lingering knee injury. He went on to return in July, announcing his retirement from the ring. In subsequent weeks, trailers began airing hyping the announcement of a new initiative to grow the X Division. Angle was revealed as the mastermind, saying there would be a worldwide 64-man tournament to crown the Super X Cup championship. This drew the ire of X Division champion Jay Lethal, who after recently aligning himself with the Nature Boy Ric Flair, claimed the tournament was a waste of time as he was already champion. Lethal, over the coming months would wage war on the SuperX Cup competitors, taking out participants backstage, in the ring, beating participants who had advance in the earlier stages and then claiming they werent worthy of the X Division roster etc. It all came to ahead at No Surrender, where after winning the Super X Cup, Doug Williams challenged X Division champion Jay Lethal to an impromptu match for the belt. Lethal initially refused, but a heated exchange with Angle questioning his manhood led him to accept much to the disgust of Flair. Williams would force Lethal to submit and Angle performed a belly-to-belly suplex on Ric Flair who was attempting to get involved. The following Impact saw Lethal regain the belt due to interference from Flair, leading to a challenge from Kurt Angle, out of retirement. Lethal only agreed to put his belt up if Angle agreed to put his career up, for good. In the match, Lethal defeats Angle and begins working a Legend Killer gimmick. Angle is out indefinitely.
Kazarian and Daniels have been doing the bitter TNA veteran schtick, complaining about the influx of talent and the amount of opportunities they get. They cost Sabu and RVD a title shot by interfering in their tournament match, and then begin ducking their challenge. Eventually they are forced to accept, after Sabu and RVD get ahold of Kaz, threatening to hit a Van Terminator unless Daniels accepts the challenge for Bound For Glory. Daniel begrudingly accepts only for RVD to scale the turnbuckle anyway. Kaz narrowly escapes, but the match still stands. At Bound For Glory, the match has an impromptu beginning during the Texas Death Match between Roode and Storm as the two teams begin brawling backstage. Split-screen occurs as the two seperate brawls intertwine backstage, including moments where Van Dam and Roode actually brawl, and where Kaz and Daniels hit double superkicks on James Storm sending him through a vending machine. Security eventually break it up to allow the TDM to occur. the actual tag match begins normally, ends up on the floor, cheap tactics from the heels, hot comeback from the faces, a ref bump, a Van Terminator and a win for the faces to send the crowd home happy.
Simple format for the Texas Death Match. The champs decide to "go out on top" and retire Beer Money, opting to go their seperate ways. During a retirement ceremony, some light hearted banter descends into questions of who is the better member of the team. Think partners ---> friends ---> friendly rivalry --->rivalry ---> blood fued. The match itself goes all over the arena, even crossing over with a brawl between RVD/Sabu/Kazarian/Daniels. Bobby Roode goes over here and moves into title contention, with Storm not too far behind him.
Your typical knockouts title match with champ Angelina Love, along with the Beautiful People, on a mission to cleanse TNA of ugliness. They run through Roxie Levoux, Awesome Kong, ODB amongst other talent, before eventually Tara dares defy the BP and stand up for the roster. Tara to go over here in a good match and feel good ending to the story.
Samoa Joe and Jeff Jarrett have been going at it ever since Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff joined TNA management and sent Jarrett to the back of the queue. Both he and Joe found themselves on the outer and initially had some success working as a team (similar to real life). However, after losing a tag team tournament qualifier, Joe subsequently turned on Jarrett, choking him out and blaming him for his whole career (or lack there of) in TNA, be it losing here, getting lost in the shuffle due to Hogan's despising Double J, or the holding down of younger talent during his reign as boss some years ago. Jarrett accused Joe of being bitter, and suggested that he may have been given opportunities if he was so focussed on maximising his opportunities elsewhere and was dedicated to the TNA cause. At the match at BFG, Samoa Joe goes over in a match given 25minutes. After the match the two slowly rise to their feet and after a brief staredown shake hands, showing mutual respect.
Homicide was fired in the Feast or Fired match on the January 4th live edition of Impact, despite winning a shot at the world title as Hulk Hogan believed he wasnt up to World Title standards. This led to calls for Homicde to be reinstated by fans, online and also by fans at live events, TV and pay per view matches. Hogan at first ignored chants and cries from fans before publicly addressing the matter calling Homicide a B-minus player and the reason for TNA not growing like it should be. Eventually, during a world title match where Hogan's "Bandmate" Kevin Nash was about to win the World Title against AJ Styles, a hooded individual lept the barricade and struck himwith a chair, costing him the match. He quickly removed his hood revealing himself to be Homicide. A fuming Hogan banned Homicide from all TNA events, and despite added security and a tresspass order, Homicide would continue to find his way into buildings all over the country, even ruining Hogan's daughter's "wedding" on a later live episode of Impact. Hogan eventually challenged Homicide to show up at the Hardcore justice pay per view, where Homicide was jumped and thrown in the garbage by the Band. Later, Eric Bischoff scolded Hogan saying thats not the way business was done these days and said that as executive producer, he had given Homicide one more opportunity in TNA, at Bound For Glory against an opponent of Hogan's choosing. Hogan brings in his arch nemesis Sting. The match itself is a quick but brutal affair, where Homicde goes over despite Hogan's involvement. After the match, Sting hits Hogan with the baseball bat. homicide is officially reinstated into TNA and builds toward a main event spot. Hogan eventually is ousted from his storyline position in TNA.
The opening match is a 20 minute X Division style epic between two red hot teams. The Young Bucks go over the Guns, which leads to a rivalry for the ages. Both teams are faces, but the Bucks eventually become the heels we know them to be now.