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00:00What up, nerds? This is Graptops. I've already broken my streak of doing weekly AEW rankings

00:08videos. Why did I do that this week? Well, other than loving to miss my own deadlines,

00:13instead of sitting here editing, I watched TNA Bound for Glory. Why did I do this? I really

00:22don't know other than a love of procrastination. I mean, yes, I wanted to watch Santana win it,

00:27but come on, we wanted to watch him win it back in May. But yeah, I still wanted to see it happen,

00:32so I did tune in. How did the show go? It was interesting. Chapter timestamps will exist,

00:42but I can say now that at the end of the video, I will lay out my reasoning why TNA Wrestling is

00:47indeed the number two professional wrestling company in the United States. I know. It's

00:54very compelling evidence I'm going to present, ma'am. But yeah, I'll admit I did not watch the

01:01whole show. I thought it started at eight, not at seven, so the Tessa-Gia Miller match is where I

01:08started. I'm what's not the biggest Gia fan overall going into this year, we'll say, but between the

01:16performances in Wrestling Revolver and this match, I am more impressed. Tessa is somebody I would still

01:24rather not see on my screen, but that's just how it goes. I know, right? The match was fine, I guess,

01:34in that it wasn't a disaster, but I came in the middle, so I am not going to rank it.

01:40Next up was the Call Your Shot gauntlet. I have no problem with the premise of the match. I have no

01:48problem with the execution of the prize. They have their own cash-in thing. I'll raise my issues with

01:56it when we discuss the main event. But realistically, I... The match was good enough. There were surprises,

02:08there were surprises, slash unknowns, and who was there. It was fine. It was, again, just like the

02:16Tessa-Gia match, it was not embarrassing. It was fine. The double winner... I do appreciate the neat,

02:26the 1v1 match at the end of the Call Your Shot gauntlet, but at the same time, I...

02:32I don't know what they were going for. I saw the WhatCulture thumbnail that called it a botch,

02:39and... No, no, no. That's not a... The only botch was in the head of whoever wrote that creative plan.

02:46I don't know... I mean, we saw what they think they're going for, but I don't know what they

02:52think they're actually going to get out of this. It's... I want to like... I do like Kazarian, but they make it

03:00hard to believe in him, honestly. They... Yeah, he was a champion going into tonight, that night, but...

03:12I... Something... I can't put my finger on it. No, I'm not watching every week, only intermittents.

03:19But, uh... He just didn't... It feels like he should be more than he is.

03:25I almost wore an SCU shirt for recording this, but instead... Nah, Kid Bandit.

03:31Hmm. The double with Nick Nemeth for the... Finish.

03:34It... In good execution, for all four shoulders being down... It, uh...

03:45It's just odd. We go from the Call Your Shot gauntlet to the Knockouts title match. Kalani

03:50Jordan defending against Indie Hartwell. NXT actual versus NXT former... Indie wrestling.

04:00The whole thing... I... I did think that they were going to give her the title, but, uh...

04:09This match was not good. This match, uh... This gets a two and a half, to be generous. It just was...

04:17The execution was lacking. The storytelling was lacking. The...

04:30As uncertain as she is in setting down is how uncertain some of the moves were in the match.

04:36It just did not compel me on either side, and I was just glad when it was over and that nobody got hurt.

04:46Next, the hardcore war. The system. And... Mustafa Ali's Order 4.

04:54I wanted to like this match. When I live posted through TNA a few weeks ago, Order 4 in the main event,

05:01I said, make me believe. And... They gave me some hope. But... The stable just...

05:08Doesn't feel... Enough. They're going against the system, which... I don't know how meta they're going for,

05:17because the group has... Transitioned to space? Superface now? I'm not quite sure. I know they were bad.

05:26Very bad at one point. Order 4 is clearly bad. But... The cheers and things at the end of this match felt like a...

05:37Turn? Recognition? For the system? The puzzlement in my voice, because it's...

05:45A bunch of people who... Again, I go back to the description of not compelling. It's...

05:54People who... Years ago, at this point, you could have got me interested in them, but at this point, just...

06:00No. No. You are not compelling villains. You're definitely not compelling faces.

06:10I'm not going to be cheering for any of you.

06:13I want to see... I wanted to give...

06:16Agent Zero, and... The tag team... Whose name I'm... Escapes me, but I'm not re-recording this,

06:26because I'm busy petting her, and this show was just not that good. I...

06:32Yeah, I wanted to give up, too. It...

06:35It... Three stars for being basically confident, but I...

06:42The ending just did not deliver for me.

06:45Speaking of endings that did not deliver, the X Division Title Max match, Javon and Leon Slater,

06:54everyone knew going in it was going to be the match of the night, and yes, it was.

06:58There was great spots throughout it, but at the same time, we...

07:05Okay, the draw... We have shown on other companies that time limit draws can be a thing, and it can be respected.

07:17To do the five more... Honestly, when they called the five more minutes, I expected shenanigans,

07:22and Javon was just going to get it through trickery because LOL NXT, they would get another belt.

07:30I did not expect Antifa Group version 3 to come out, rec stuff, and just be a thorn in everyone's side.

07:42For the heat. I can just hear it in my head, and...

07:48I guess... They... No. No. No. It's just... Again, they are not compelling.

08:00Speaking of also not compelling, in this case, Laughable, the double table elimination match,

08:08double title match, that ended up being, I hope, a retirement match for the Dudleys.

08:16I remember the last TNA taping that we went to when they kept playing Bully's music through his match,

08:25so the Please Retire chants wouldn't be heard, because Tommy Dreamer got a bunch of them that night beforehand.

08:33Matt and Jeff, they did their things. They waddled around the ring.

08:37I want them to have healthy lives, what can still be of them, so these matches, we just don't really need them.

08:48Hit the convention circuit and just make money there. Please retire.

08:54Uh... Or at least go write things, be an agent, something. It still burns, obviously, but other things burn too, and you get those treated.

09:05The... The... I mean, we... I knew watching it, it was gonna be Matt and Bully, the last two.

09:14They are definitely the more... attention hungry of each team.

09:22I know Jeff has his things, but he's also content to just go play his music.

09:26Matt wants the attention. We know that. Bully, we know, wants the attention.

09:32That punch-drunk ending that I saw him...

09:37The one idiot called it like the Michael's Flair finish, and I'm glad that they corrected that

09:43that that was not the energy they were going for. Uh, the energy that they did deliver was a toddler

09:50who pooped their pants and had to be put down for nap time. I am sick of watching these people

09:58waddle around on the screens with... and listen to their bad ideas. Good riddance, be gone. You were good enough,

10:06but no, we are past the time for you. Speaking past the time, no, that transition doesn't work at all, but

10:18I don't care, because that's the level of the effort they put into the booking of this show.

10:23The world title match. Mike Santana conquers Trick Williams, finally. Not in New York like it could have been.

10:29It was fine. It was about five to ten minutes too long. You definitely could have trimmed it down. We

10:40didn't need that many... At one point, I said they were going through the MJF checklist of bullshittery.

10:48It just felt over the top. It felt contrived, but then again, that's the style that those people want,

10:55being NXT and TNA. It's just... Good for Mike Santana getting the win, finally, but...

11:07What are we doing here? The mall stand hat on the president... Can't just wear... Is it... I'm assuming

11:16it's on purpose to look more pathetic that you're not wearing a merch hat when you're doing this,

11:21Mr. Silva. But yeah, it's ridiculous, it's silly, and I hope you enjoy whatever check you're getting

11:30to look like a stooge. So yeah, that's the end of the show. When you can have your paying... Well,

11:39I was going to say paying audience, but a lot of them weren't. As we saw pictures of the complimentary

11:44tickets, we know this show was heavily papered. So yeah, I don't care very much about hearing that this

11:50outdrew WrestleDream, whether it ends up doing so or not. In my video about prices, I did talk about

12:00you have to be able to get people to show up. And yeah, let's look as I display the closing shot from

12:06the pay-per-view with all those empty seats. Yeah, it doesn't look like it did so hot, did it?

12:11It's... So yeah, what is... I have my two theories that I said I would give you about TNA Wrestling

12:21being the number two professional wrestling company in the United States. Number one,

12:29WWE is sports entertainment. So they do not count. AW takes the number one slot. No MLW,

12:38you do not get it yet. So there, TNA gets number two behind the other professional wrestling company.

12:46If we were talking North America, no, CMLL gets the spot.

12:52So that's one theory. What's the other theory about how they're the number two company?

12:57Look, yeah, it's just a long drawn-out poop joke. You saw the thumbnail, you know it was going to be

13:03there at some point. They are the number two company because they are poop out of a butt.

13:09Like I said, just said a moment ago, when you can get your crowd to chant

13:13bolt at a finish twice in one night, I mean, you gotta be doing something right.

13:18That's sure to get the people to turn in and buy tickets next time, isn't it?

13:21I know, right? But yeah, so this was my review of TNA Bound for Glory.

13:32Doing this mostly just because I realized I watched the thing, I'm doing this, I might as well do

13:38something about it, since it was kind of the reason that I procrastinated and didn't do the

13:43thing I said I was going to do. WrestleDream preview coming after Dynamite tonight. I'm going to aim to

13:50have it out Thursday morning, Friday morning at the latest, because it's a Saturday show,

13:54and I would prefer to have a few people watch it. But I will have new rankings after the pay-per-view

14:02on Monday, now that we've had plot developments. And honestly, I'll talk about it there, but there

14:08was only one real development, because there wasn't plot development over the last week of AEW.

14:14But that's not what we're talking about here. This was TNA, how they are floundering,

14:19if that's what you want, good for you. But yeah, no, that's not what I want at all.

14:26And anybody who does want that, I genuinely think less of you.

14:36That's it.

14:36I'm not going to answer.

14:37I really don't know how to say to them.

14:38I am going to answer that one.

14:39I guess, that's what we'll do here.

14:40That's what I want to say.

14:40I have to go to the list.

14:41You have to go to the list.

14:43That's what, I am going to say.

14:43That's what you want to say.

14:43That's what I want to say.

14:44My list is that you want to tell me to hold a little bit of things.

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