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TNA Bound For Glory PPV Results (10/2): Lashley Vs. EC3, The Great War, Cody And Brandi Rhodes
- Updated: October 3, 2016
TNA BOUND FOR GLORY
LIVE AT THE IMPACT ZONE IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA
Bound for Glory kicks off with Broken Matt Hardy and his son Maxell playing piano together. Matt offers to read his son a bedtime story. The story is titled “The Great War”. As Matt is reading the story. Highlights are shown of the main matches on tonight’s show. The primary focus of Matt’s story is who will delete and be deleted tonight in The Great War.
Josh Mathews and The Pope are at ringside and intro the show. Mathews says the eyes of the wrestling world are on TNA tonight. They hype tomight’s show and cue to the ring for the opening match.
TNA X DIVISION TITLE MATCH
DJ Z vs. Trevor Lee
Collar and elbow lockup to start. Some early mat wrestling. It sees DJ Z earning the early favor over Lee. Lee takes a powder. Goes outside the ring but when he returns. Z continues to control the match on the air and through the ground. The Pope compares DJ Z to a young Ricky Steamboat. Trevor Lee uses the referee to his advantage to turn the match back in his favor. By pulling the ref in the way of a potential aerial move by Z. It’s worth noting that fellow Helms Dynasty member, Andrew Everett is not at ringside.
DJ Z hits a flapjack to battle back and then goes to the top rope. Lee follows him up there. Z hits a huracanrana on Lee. The pace picks up in the ring. It ends up with DJ Z leaping over the top rope onto Lee. This is followed quickly by Lee getting back in the ring and then doing a suicide dive on Z. Not to be out done, Z comes back in the ring and leaps out of it with a springboard dive off the ropes. Action back in the ring, DJ Z hits a reverse rana on Trevor Lee. He then goes for The ZDT but Lee counters. Lee then hits an impressive german suplex on Z for a near fall. Trevor Lee goes for his finisher, Z counters out. DJ goes for the ZDT again, Lee counters again this time hitting a double foot stomp in mid air. Nice move. Delay on the cover leads to only a 2 count. DJ Z and Trevor Lee go through counters in the center of the ring and it ends with Z finally hitting his finisher, The ZDT on Lee for the victory.
DJ Z defeats Trevor Lee by pinfall to retain The TNA X Division Championship
Video is shown from earlier in the day of Bobby Lashley and EC3 arriving to the arena…. We now go backstage and McKenzie Mitchell interviews Drew Galloway. Drew talks about his disappointment in reading the doctors report about his injury. How disappointed he is that TNA management wouldn’t let him compete tonight vs Aron Rex. Drew goes off on Billy Corgan’s history and says that the only reason, Corgan is buying the company is because TNA has Drew Galloway. Drew refuses to recognize The Impact Grand Champion because it won’t be him.
BOUND FOR GOLD GAUNTLET MATCH
The match starts off with Rockstar Spud and Jessie Godderz. The winner of this match gets a future TNA World Title match. As Spud gets the advantage on Jessie G, Braxton Sutter is the next entrant in this match. He goes right after his rival Spud. He tries to eliminate him over the top rope. Sutter and Jessie both team up and go to work on Spud. No visible clock on screen but the crowd counts down and out comes Eli Drake. Drake nearly gets eliminated as soon as he enters. Drake ends up eliminating Sutter over the top rope. Next countdown brings out Robbie E. Robbie comes in on fire taking down both Spud and Drake. The Bro-Mans team up temporarily. Robbie tries to eliminate Jessie. It doesn’t work. Countdown clock shown on the tron now and out comes Baron Dax. Dax hits a urinagi on Godderz and slams down Robbie. Next entrant in the match is Grado. Grado dances his way into the ring with his fanny pack and then gets eliminated by Spud immediately. The wrestlers in the ring mock Grado’s dancing routine. Grado continued dancing all the way back to the back area. Next entrant in the match is Basile Baraka. He helps out his Tribunal teammate, Baron Dax. Baraka is looking a little heavier since his last TNA appearance and Pope says that Basile told him that he gained weight for this match. So that he couldn’t be easily eliminated. That theory falls flat quickly as Robbie eliminates Baraka. Then eliminations happen off screen as Tyrus is being shown heading to the ring. Dax eliminated Robbie. Jessie eliminated Dax. So in the ring awaiting Tyrus is Eli Drake, Spud and Jessie Godderz. Tyrus over powers everyone and eliminates Spud. Shera is out next and goes toe to toe with Tyrus. They both go at it for awhile. Shera tries to slam Tyrus but Eli Drake intervenes. Drake eliminates Shera. Down to three men. Drake is almost eliminated by Jessie. Ends up hanging by his feet on the bottom rope while Tyrus and Godderz go at it. As Tyrus and Jessie try to eliminate each other over the top rope. Eli Drake is back in the ring and eliminates the both of them to win this match.
Eli Drake wins The Bound For Gold Gauntlet Match to earn a future TNA World Title match
TV Chef and Gail Kim’s husband, Robert Irvine is interviewed backstage by Jeremy Borash. He is interrupted by Maria and The Miracle. Maria insults Gail Kim. The Miracle says that after tonight, There will be no more “Moose” chants. Robert tells The Miracle that something very bad is going to happen to Maria and The Miracle tonight.
A video package is shown of The history between Moose and Mike Bennett. This is followed by the ring introductions. The West Orange High School football team comes on the stage to introduce Moose. They do the moose chant and Moose comes out with shoulder pads on.
“The Miracle” Mike Bennett vs. Moose
Bennett spits on Moose as their match begins. Moose shows off his athleticism early on with a nice looking dropkick. Bennett goes to air himself to take a brief advantage over Moose. Bennett tries to leap on Moose on the outside but gets caught in mid air and slammed into the steel steps. Moose then runs at Bennett and Bennett backdrops Moose over the steel steps. Action back in the ring. Some stiff shots between the two before Bennett takes out Moose’s knee and starts to target it for the next few minutes of the match. Bennett attempts to suplex Moose but he counters and suplexes Bennett into the corner. Moose starts using some heavy hitting on Bennett. He hits The Miracle with a power bomb and senton for a 2 count. Then gets a near fall after a stiff clothesline.
Bennett battles back in this match and hits a tornado DDT on Moose and then follows that with a spike piledriver. This leads to a close fall for Bennett. Both men are reeling and on their feet trading blows. Moose wins the exchange and hits a pump kick. Moose goes for a springboard and gets hit in mid air by a cutter from Bennett. Bennett then goes to the top rope. It backfires when Moose rises up and hits the “Go to Hell” on him and then follows that with The Gamebreaker to get the victory.
Moose defeats Mike Bennett
Aron Rex is interviewed backstage about The Impact Grand Championship Final match. Rex is disappointed that Drew is hurt but he is highly motivated to win tonight. He mentions how important tonight is to him. He also talks about his connection to his opponent, Eddie Edwards. They were both trained by Killer Kowalski.
IMPACT GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL MATCH
Aron Rex vs. Eddie Edwards
Rule change for a special event made by Billy Corgan. The rounds are 5 minutes rather than 3.
Round One
Evenly contested in the first minute. Both men using wrist locks. Nearly two minutes into the match. Edwards corners Rex and hits some hard chops. Rex battles back and takes Edwards down with a knee. Eddie battles back with a couple of stiff kicks and a huracanrana. Edwards gets Rex to the outside, tries a suicide dive but Rex counters with a forearm in mid air. Edwards and Rex end up in the opposite side of the ring. Edwards launches himself onto Rex and nearly lands into one of the nameless judges at ringside. Which gets a laugh from the crowd. Down to a minute left. Edwards tries a suicide dive into Rex but Rex throws him into the barricade at ringside. Both men end up hurt after that. Edwards gets to the rope with under 22 seconds left and hits a missile dropkick and gets a 2 count on Rex. Time runs out on round one.
Round One Scorecard- The 3 judges all score the round 10-9 for Eddie …