Impact Wrestling Bound For Glory Recap: The Good Face of Impact

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Eddie Edwards def. Moose… twice, kind of.

This match had the potential to be a lot before the bell even rang, and then after it did, it became a lot. Edwards gets the technical win about two minutes into the match on a disqualification when Moose’s Aries Crew teammate Killer Kross gets involved. Not to be outdone, out comes Eddie’s old friend and mentor (maybe still his friend and mentor, cannot confirm) Tommy Dreamer to the rescue, and we’ve got ourselves an official tag match.

It’s always good to see my favorite wrestler Tommy Dreamer on TV, and booking-wise it was a smart move to get Killer Kross involved; why he was left out of the card in the first place, after being so heavily involved in the story leading up to this match, is unbeknownst to me.

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Sami Callihan and OVE def. Cage, Fenix, and Pentagon

This was the match of the nigh based on shock-factor alone. After he’d been undefeated since his debut on Impact, Brian cage took the pin from Sami Callihan to lose the match. He took the pin… in a match where he didn’t even have to take the pin.

The booking on this perplexes me. You have to understand that Brian Cage had to lose eventually, as all good things eventually end, but it makes no sense to book him to take a clean pin in a meaningless tag match after he’d been built up so strongly for months leading into this.

It’s got nothing to do with the fact it was Sami Callihan either; in fact, Sami Callihan probably would have been an ideal candidate end Cage’s streak, if it would have been in a match coming off a feud with more meaning. It really just read as a wasted moment.