Bound For Glory 2007 (2014 Redo): The Dumbest Idea I’ve Ever Seen

Bound For Glory 2007
Date: October 14, 2007
Location: Gwinnett Center, Duluth, Georgia
Attendance: 4,000
Commentators: Mike Tenay, Don West

The opening video talks about becoming an immortal icon. Like Hulk Hogan. Seriously.

LAX vs. XXX

This is an Ultimate X match and the winners get a Tag Team Title shot at some point in the future. XXX is Elix Skipper and Senshi who teamed together with Christopher Daniels and are the heels in this one. Homicide hammers on Skipper in the corner to start while the other two fight on the floor. Senshi dives back in to take down Hernandez and Skipper stops Homicide from pulling down the X.

Hernandez gets back up and starts throwing people around like only he can. An over the shoulder backbreaker drops Skipper and Homicide goes for the X again, only to have Senshi climb the ropes and kick Homicide down. Senshi cranks on a dragon sleeper to hold Hernandez against the ropes but the big guy just powers out of it. He shrugs off a bunch of strikes from Senshi and bull rushes him out to the floor. Homicide adds a big flip dive and LAX is in full control again.

We see Kurt Angle, Karen Angle and Kevin Nash arriving earlier today.

Fight For The Right Tournament Stage One: Reverse Battle Royal

Jimmy Rave, Lance Hoyt, Havok, Shark Boy, Petey Williams, Kaz, Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin, Sonjay Dutt, Kip James, BG James, James Storm, Eric Young, Robert Roode, Chris Harris, Junior Fatu

Oh sweet goodness this match. Let this one sink in for a minute. You have 16 people starting on the floor. The first 8 people to get inside the ring are going to have a battle royal, meaning the 8 that stay on the floor are all eliminated. Then the battle royal takes place and the order of elimination determines the seedings for a standard single elimination tournament with the first person out being the #8 seed. The final two people in the battle royal have a singles match for the #1 seed and the first person out being the #8 seed. The winner of THAT gets a World Title shot in about a month. You might want to read that one again.

The Angles argue some more.

Tag Team Titles: Team Pacman vs. AJ Styles/Tomko

Everything breaks down and Creed suplexes AJ into the corner. Creed and Tomko go to the floor so Killings dives on both of them. Styles busts out a HUGE springboard shooting star to take everyone out. Back in and Pacman gets on the apron with a handful of money but Killings grabs a rollup, sending the money flying (making it rain you see). Hebner grabs the money instead of counting, allowing Tomko to come back in for the Tornadoplex (spinning neckbreaker from Tomko and a side slam from AJ) for the pin and the titles.

We recap the X-Division Title match. Not much to say here. Lethal is champion, Daniels wants the belt.

X-Division Title: Jay Lethal vs. Christopher Daniels

Lethal is Black Machismo and defending. They trade shoulders to start with no one getting anywhere so Lethal tries another and runs into a shot to the face. The announcers are already ignoring this match to talk about Sting vs. Angle. Back up and a hurricanrana sends Daniels to the floor, followed by a big suicide dive to take him down again. Daniels is up first and Rock Bottoms Lethal onto the barricade before slamming him down onto it as well.

Team 3D vs. Steiner Brothers

There are five new Knockouts for the gauntlet match: ODB, Angel Williams (Angelina Love), Talia Madison (Velvet Sky), Shelley Martinez and Kong, who scares the other four off.

We get a quick slideshow of the girls in the gauntlet match.

Knockouts Title: Gauntlet Match

Christy Hemme (looking GREAT) is in at #7 and immediately gets put in a torture rack. Kong slams her down until Gail Kim comes in at #8 with a missile dropkick. Hemme is taken out by medics as the other three gang up on Kong. They finally dump Kong out (and break her top at the same time) as Talia Madison is in at #9. ODB and Gail Kim double team Williams out Roxxi Leveaux is in at #10 so we have a final grouping of Gail, Roxxi, ODB and Talia. Gail throws out Talia and Roxxi dumps ODB to get us to the one on one match.

We recap Christian vs. Joe, which is simply about respect. Matt Morgan is guest enforcer for no apparent reason.

Christian Cage vs. Samoa Joe

The suicide elbow sends Christian into the barricade and the Canadian is in big trouble. We get a badly contrived spot as Joe backdrops Christian up against the ropes so Christian can come down with a DDT on the floor. Back in and Christian nails his reverse DDT but misses the frog splash, leading to a slugout. Joe wins as you would expect him to and kicks Christian out of the air, sending the Canadian to the floor. He tries to walk out but gets blocked by Morgan, who finally does something in the match.

Abyss vs. Black Reign vs. Rhino vs. Raven

TNA World Title: Sting vs. Kurt Angle

Sting celebrates while he can, as he would lose the title at the next Impact.

Ratings Comparison

LAX vs. Triple X

Original: B-

Redo: B

Reverse Battle Royal

Original: F+

Redo: F

AJ Styles and Tomko vs. Team Pacman

Original: D

Redo: C

Christopher Daniels vs. Jay Lethal

Original: C-

Redo: C+

Team 3D vs. Steiner Brothers

Original: D+

Redo: D

Gauntlet Match

Original: C-

Redo: C-

Christian Cage vs. Samoa Joe

Original: B+

Redo: A-

Abyss vs. Raven vs. Rhino vs. Black Reign

Original: D

Redo: D+

Kurt Angle vs. Sting

Original: C+

Redo: C-

Overall Rating

Original: D+

Redo: C

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