[Bound For Glory] Robert Roode v. Kurt Angle (C) [TNA World Heavyweight Championship]

[The_Reptile_]

After watching this, all I can say "What". And in all honesty, I'm not really that pissed off that Roode lost.

I'm pissed off that the winner of the first BFG Series lost and in a screw job finish. It could have been anyone else and I'd still be raging. So much for this concept being taken seriously.

 

[morrisonfan]

This reminds me alot of when they went to all the trouble of having The Pope D'Angelo Dinero win the tournament at Against All Odds 2010, only to have him go on to Lockdown and lose the title match.

I'm not saying I wanted The Pope as TNA Champ, but if winning a huge tournament doesn't get you the gold at the end, it's a waste of f***ing time.

TNA has a great history of doing things like this. They had a major tournament where Pope won, only to lose the title. Steiner won the first feast or fired, getting the World Title Shot and lost it. And Hernandez won the other World Title, feast or fired case, only to lose that aswell after building all these guys up.

I am very upset Roode lost, although it did not shock me as they have done this multiple times before. Like others said, it makes the BFG Series seem like a waste of time.

 

[Trill Co$by]

Okay first off, I don't see how Roode losing to a "screw job finish" could take away the legitimacy of the BFG Series. For starters, the series was put in place so that the winner would get a SHOT at the title... not the title. Then there's the fact that his hand under the rope has been done in wrestling SO many times and has always gotten way better pay-offs in the end. Why would you want to have a lame duck finish and give Roode the title now, when you can wait until they have a big blow off match to have Roode go over big time?

Not only that, but with the rest of Immortal losing tonight with the exception of Mexican America who is only loosely affiliated, did you REALLY think that they'd not have Angle win? Did you really think that now that Dixie has the company back in her hands that they wouldn't have it so that Angle would keep the title and have something to use as power against Dixie?

If you didn't see that coming, then you need to go back and brush up on your history. TNA's booking tonight was an excellent decision and only boosts Roode up the line, giving him an even BIGGER pay off in the end.

When people start to see that, then maybe they'll see that tonight's been TNA's greatest PPV this year.

TNA has a great history of doing things like this. They had a major tournament where Pope won, only to lose the title. Steiner won the first feast or fired, getting the World Title Shot and lost it. And Hernandez won the other World Title, feast or fired case, only to lose that aswell after building all these guys up.

Yeah because had they gone that route, how much do you want to bet that people would have an even bigger reason to call that a MITB rip off? TNA's not stupid... I admit that like all promotions they have their ups and downs, but at the end of the day, TNA does great booking that MAKES SENSE.

 

[Jack-Hammer]

I'm not at all surprised by this. Truth is, I expected it. Roode was heavily hyped and built up with practically half the locker room saying he was gonna win the title at BFG, so he was perfectly set up to lose. It's booking 101.

I did enjoy the match in and of itself. I'm glad there wasn't tons of interference and all that, but it didn't feel like anything special. It didn't feel like the main event of what's supposed to be the biggest TNA show of the year. I'm disappointed in how this came about as far as the ending, but I'm hoping that this turns out to be something that could ultimately wind up making Robert Roode into a bigger star a little later on down the line.

That being said, personally, I think TNA dropped the ball here and could have made a statement by giving Robert Roode the title. Giving him the strap after an epic match, it was a good 14 minute match but it wasn't an epic by any stretch, on the biggest show of the year would've made for a very special moment. Also, TNA practically invalidated the BFG Series in and of itself. It was an interesting concept that TNA could have used in 2012 to keep interest high in the title picture but whatever momentum that could have carried over is pretty much gone at this point.

 

[Rasha]

Also, TNA practically invalidated the BFG Series in and of itself. It was an interesting concept that TNA could have used in 2012 to keep interest high in the title picture but whatever momentum that could have carried over is pretty much gone at this point.

I have to disagree with this "invalidation" point so many of you are making. So unless the BFG Series winner wins the title at BFG, the tournament was a waste of time? I said this in another thread; how many times has the Royal Rumble winner NOT won his title match at Wrestlemania? If Roode winning last night was the only way anyone was going to be happy about that match, then that's no good. You don't want to trap yourself into the predictable outcome.

I look at it this way; coming out of BFG we know Roode is still a main event factor who now has video proof that he got screwed in his match. You don't think it's coming up this Thursday? I see Dixie Carter, fresh off Sting winning the company back for her, walking out to reintroduce herself and start to right some of the wrongs of the Immortal Era. You really think a Angle/Roode rematch, perhaps even that night, won't be part of the plan?

When you think about it, last night's show really had the right mix of "feelgood" and "disappointing" outcomes. Hogan's face turn and Dixie getting the company back were big. Anderson beating Ray and Velvet winning her first KO Title were happy endings. Aries keeping the X-Division title, while technically the bad outcome, probably made a lot of people happy. So really the only negatives were Daniels getting the upper hand on Styles and Roode's loss. It's tough to look at it objectively because Roode ended the show and it carried more weight, but that's more about our perception.

 

[Clem]

The thing about the BFG series being invalidated is that this was the first one. It needed to set the precedent. Roode needed to win the title, so all future contenders can point to him and say "winning the BFG series catapulted him into the mainevent and i'll be next".

It could've been TNA's version of Money in the Bank and you sure as hell don't see WWE letting their winners lose at the big show.

 

[Rasha]

Roode needed to win the title, so all future contenders can point to him and say "winning the BFG series catapulted him into the mainevent and i'll be next".

Roode is a Main Eventer! Being the World Champion and a Main Eventer are two different things. This is where I think many of you are going overboard.

To put it in perspective, it was TWO YEARS between the time that Steve Austin won the KOTR and then won his first WWE Championship. Remember how we used to let guys become main eventer naturally, back when wrestling was so awesome?