Whole TNA BFG Series Situation!

The Bound for Glory series turned into a mess this week. Here’s the situation. In a 12-man round robin tournament, where everyone wrestles each other (like G-1, for example), you need to have 11 matches. Well, since they announced the final four would be on the 9/12 show in St. Louis, they had 37 different matches still needed to do with one television taping on 8/29 in Cleveland, and four house shows, before 9/12. So they’re out of time. So they’ve announced that the series will end after the first of the two shows taped on 8/29, called Must Win Thursday, with Hernandez vs. Frankie Kazarian, Christopher Daniels vs. Austin Aries, A.J. Styles vs. Bobby Roode and Jeff Hardy vs. Magnus. When those matches are over, the top four point-getters will be announced for St. Louis. So in the end, Magnus will have done 5 matches, Roode will have done 6, Aries will have done 6, Samoa Joe will have done 6, Hardy will have done 6, Ken Anderson will have done 6, Daniels will have done 5, Styles will have done 6, Kazarian will have done 5, Joseph Park will have done 5, Hernandez will have done 5 and Jay Bradley will have done 4. It’s things like this that show just how little time is actually spent in planning because you could have done blocks like in Japan to and just laid it all out to get to the end result instead of all of a sudden you can’t see it’s done on the fly like the first year under Vince Russo and it’s a complete mess. 

The claim now is that it was never a round-robin tournament, and on TV they never used those terms, but it was used to me on more tan one occasion and it was last year, which was the only year the tournament made any sense. They had all those house shows all summer where they could have done the matches, but didn’t plan it out to any level, and they had time to do all those gimmick matches without doing the core matches. The “It’s all fake so who cares” misses the point, because in a sports movie, which is all fake, when they book fake tournaments, they have at least the respect for their own product to have it make sense as if it was real. And there’s a reason G-1 had the interest it had in its culture and guaranteed, nobody would give a rats ass about it if it was done in this manner.