So a few months back I did an article on 10 Rematches that were better than the previous encounter which took place at Slammiversary; Well do to popular demand, I’m doing another one of these list but this time will be focusing on Bound For Glory.

SIDENOTE: This list was made a few weeks before Masha Slamovich and Jordynne Grace faced off for the second time at Bound For Glory 2024, so for the sake of time, think of that match as the eleventh entry on this list.

#10. Kurt Angle vs. Bobby Roode (Bound For Glory 2013)

The main event for Bound For Glory 2011, saw Kurt Angle defending his TNA World Heavyweight Championship against the winner of the first ever Bound For Glory series, Bobby Roode.

Infamously, the match ended with Kurt hitting the Angle Slam and covering Roode whilst having his hand on the ropes to retain the gold; It was easily one of the most disappointing conclusions to a main event match in TNA history, especially at one of their major pay-per-views…Though Roode would end up getting the belt and a new heelish attitude several weeks later.

About two years after their bout at BFG 2011, both men were set to face off again at the 2013 edition of Bound For Glory except the roles would be reversed with Roode as the bad guy and Angle being the fan favorite good guy and there would be no titles at stake.

For nearly 21 minutes, neither man held anything back as they attempted to counter each others submission holds while Roode also implemented a few dastardly heel tactics in order to get the upper hand.

The finish saw Angle hitting a big Angle Slam from the top rope but being unable to make the pin leading to a dazed Roode to land on top of Kurt to pick up the win.

#9. Generation Me vs. Motor City Machine Guns (Final Resolution 2010)

For as much as the Young Buck’s run in TNA has been criticized by the IWC and the Young Bucks themselves, looking back their time in the company from an onscreen perspective wasn’t all that bad…Sure they didn’t win the tag team titles and did jobs in tag matches against Eric Bischoff and Sharkboy, they did go on to have one of the best feuds for the promotion in 2010 against the Motor City Machine Guns.

Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin were no strangers to having fantastic matches in TNA’s Tag Division in 2010 as their bouts with Beer Money and Team 3D were a prime example of that, however it’s their series of matches with Generation Me that were truly special as they fought in regular matches, Ultimate X tag bouts and even in empty arena matches.

The opening contest for BFG 2010 saw the Guns retain their titles against Max and Jeremy Buck (yup, that was their names back then) in a great match, but it wasn’t the end of the feud…That came in December when Shelley and Sabin again defended their belts against the Bucks in a Full Metal Mayhem match at that year’s Final Resolution PPV.

Both teams were impressive enough in standard tag matches so adding weapons like tables, ladders and chairs to the mix only made things all the more exciting; The Guns prevailed once more thus ending the feud until it resurfaced in Ring of Honor some years later.

#8. Eddie Edwards vs. Moose (Homecoming 2019)

The last two entries saw the wrestlers in question have good to great matches at Bound For Glory only to have even better ones the next time they fought…This next match however saw an underwelming bout take place at BFG only for the sequel to be a million times better.

At Bound For Glory 2018, Moose was set to take on Eddie Edwards after the former football star turned on his friend and aligning himself with the likes of Austin Aries and Killer Kross (aka Karrion Kross in the WWE).

The match only lasted two minutes, before Kross interfered leading to Edwards winning via disqualification; Then out came Tommy Dreamer who decided that a No DQ tag team match needed to take place involving himself and Eddie against Kross and Moose with the good guys winning…Tommy might be a big name in his homestate of New York, but absolutely nobody wanted to see this bait and switch tag bout in favor of the much advertised feud between former friends.

Both Moose and Eddie would get the chance to face off again on PPV at the 2019 Homecoming event in a Falls Count Anywhere match which was both brutal and thrilling in equal measure.

The moment most tend to remember is Alisha Edwards going to town on Moose with a Kendo Stick thus earning her nickname ‘The Hardcore Knockout’ before her husband hit his finisher to put away the big man.

#7. oVe vs. LAX (Twitch/IMPACT! 2018)

Before he returned to TNA in April of 2024, Mike Santana was a member of LAX alongside Homicide, Konnan, Diamante and Santana’s former tag partner Ortiz with the pairing becoming four time IMPACT World Tag Team Champions and one time GFW Tag Team Champions.

In 2017, LAX was feuding with Jake and Dave Crist also known as Ohio Versus Everything not long after the latter debuted in the company and beat LAX for the tag straps at that year’s Victory Road event. This gave way to a rematch in a 5150 Street Fight at Bound For Glory and the bout itself is perhaps one of the few saving graces in a rather terrible PPV.

Thanks to the interference of Sami Callihan (who was making his debut in the company BTW), oVe retained their tag team titles and turned heel in the process.

LAX and oVe would face each other one final time on the January 18th 2018 edition of IMPACT…Well actually on the company’s then Twitch account as the barbed wire massacre was deemed as too violent to air on TV and needless to say it was with both teams throwing caution into the wind as every wrestler in the match is either bleeding or sent into the sharp razor wire; By the end of it, LAX would overcome their rivals and even win back the tag team titles as well.

#6. Jeff Hardy vs. Austin Aries (Turning Point 2012)

Bound For Glory 2012 concluded with Jeff Hardy becoming a three time TNA World Champion after defeating Austin Aries in the main event; While the idea of these two talented wrestlers putting on a great performance in the final match should be a slam dunk, the match didn’t feel that way.

For starters, Aries sudden heel turn on Hardy on the go-home episode of IMPACT! felt so out of left field and the reasoning behind the turn was supposedly do to Aries being jealous of Jeff’s popularity (even though fans could be heard cheering for Austin throughout much of the match. Secondly the flow of the match just felt wonky in places…but that’s not to say the match wasn’t good because it was, but it just falls short of expectations.

Thankfully by the time TNA got to it’s Turning Point PPV the following month, Aries had once again gotten into the groove of being a heel and Hardy a beloved babyface with the two squaring off in a ladder match for the world title with the match having a ‘big time feel’ compared to their first encounter.

As you probably expected, the match was great with the bout easily up there as one of the best matches of 2012.

#5. Brian Cage vs. Sami Callihan (IMPACT! 2019)

The late 2010’s was certainly the highpoint of Sami Callihan’s career as the former WWE star was not only working for companies like MLW and IMPACT, but also had one of the biggest feuds in recent years with Eddie Edwards before transitioning into a rivalry with then IMPACT World Champion Brian Cage at Bound For Glory 2019.

Both Cage and Callihan worked well together, but the match didn’t feel as high profile as the hype package made it out to be, plus the moment when Cage kicks out of Sami’s piledriver almost instantly towards the end kinda hampered Sami’s momentum and buried one of the most infamous finishers in wrestling history.

That would all changed come the very first episode of IMPACT Wrestling on AXS TV, with the main event of that show seeing Callihan and Cage battling in a steel cage match for the title with the intensity turned up compared to BFG.

By the end, Callihan became the new IMPACT World Champion and ending the first IMPACT episode on AXS, on a high note.

#4. Su Yung vs. Deonna Purrazzo (Turning Point 2020)

The tale of Su Yung in IMPACT is certainly one of the strangest and that’s before you even mention her multiple personalities throughout her run; From the Lucha Underground inspired ‘Undead Realm Storyline’ to all the times she was “taken out” by her fellow wrestlers to the previously mentioned personalities in her latter years in the company…It’s truly bizarre yet so pro wrestling at the same time.

Anyway, one of the less stranger things to occur during Su’s time in the promotion would have to be her last minute match at Bound For Glory 2020 with Deonna Purrazzo for the Knockouts Championship.

Now I won’t go into the details about what was originally set to happen on this night as I’ve done a recent article talking about that, but I can say is that the match with Su and Deonna at BFG was a surprisingly good match which tends to be forgotten since it happened during pro wrestling’s pandemic era.

Similar to their first encounter, the Su vs. Purrazzo rematch at Turning Point also doesn’t get much coverage because…Global Pandemic. That said, this match was a more than worthy follow up to their first match with the “controversy” of a last minute change nowhere near this bout and the contest easily being one of the best in both ladies careers.

#3. Mickie James vs. Deonna Purrazzo (Hard To Kill 2022)

Sticking with the Virtuosa, we go one year later into our next entry as Purrazzo once again is defending and losing the Knockouts Championship at Bound For Glory, but this time it’s in front of fans and she’s battling wrestling legend and former champion, Mickie James.

Again like the previous entry this match between Mickie and Deonna was good, in fact some could argue it was one of the best matches of the night with the two women bringing out the best of each other with the veteran James coming out on top.

However as good as their BFG match was, it would be their bout at Hard To Kill 2022 that would blow their previous match out of the water as they battled for the belt in a Texas Death Match which saw Purrazzo going hardcore on numerous occasions while James was more than comfortable in this contest which saw the feud end with Mickie emerging victorious once again.

#2. Jeff Jarrett vs. Kurt Angle (Genesis 2009)

Kurt Angle’s run in TNA from 2006-2016 helped to give the promotion a sense of legitimacy but also cemented Angle as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time thanks to numerous battles with some of wrestling’s finest competitors including company founder, Jeff Jarrett.

Going into the semi main event of Bound For Glory 2008, the animosity between Angle and Jarrett was building quite nicely especially when you consider this would be Jarrett’s first pay-per-view match in years and some wondered if Double J could hang with the Olympic Gold Medalist in the ring…Long story short, he certainly did.

While the inclusion of Mick Foley as the special enforcer might be a hinderance to some when watching this match, no such third parties were involved in Angle and Jarrett’s next PPV encounter at Genesis 2009.

Angle proved why his called ‘The Wrestling Machine’ as he went the distance whilst picking apart Double J leaving him a bloody mess in final strech; Jarrett Meanwhile put one of his best in-ring performances on this night as he endured almost everything that Angle to throw at him, but it just wasn’t enough as Kurt picked up the win and added another fantastic bout to his already impressive collection.

#1. Moose vs. Josh Alexander (Rebellion 2022)

Although his bout with Christian Cage in the main event of Bound For Glory 2021 was anti-climatic, the image of Josh Alexander winning his first IMPACT World Championship was one of the best from a rather lackluster BFG…But the show didn’t end like that.

Earlier in the night, Moose won the Call Your Shot Gauntlet match to get a shot at any championship when’ve he wanted and he choose the final moments of the PPV to strike with the impromptu bout only lasting seven seconds with Alexander trying to rush his family out of the ring before getting speared by Moose for the three count and ending the show with Moose as the new world champion.

Considering all of this, it wouldn’t take much for their rematch to outperform what happened at BFG, but nobody expected it to be as great as it was.

Alexander and Moose delivered a match filled with drama, action, call backs to previous moves from TNA’s past and a white hot crowd eating up everything they did both in and out of the ring, before the logical conclusion came with ‘The Walking Weapon’ becoming a two time World Champion and kicking off his record breaking 335 day title reign from 2022-2023.

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