No Bad Wrestling Today... For Once

Well, today, I'm packing up for a move. Again. This will be my second move this year (back to Baltimore if anyone cares), and my third move in 21 months. So that'll be my focus. So... no bad wrestling to make nice about today.

Ok, I lied. But I won't be making nice about it. I can't make nice about incompetent booking like this.

The above picture you see is the current Bound for Glory Series standings.

Rank	Wrestler	Points	Matches
1	Magnus	39	7
2	Bobby Roode	34	8
3	Christopher Daniels	33	6
4	Austin Aries	28	7
5	Samoa Joe	26	9
6	Jeff Hardy	24	7
	Mr. Anderson	24	9
8	AJ Styles	22	8
	Kazarian	22	7
10	Joseph Park	17	8
11	Hernandez	7	7
12	Jay Bradley	0	7

And thanks to that wonderful source known as Wikipedia, this is how they got there. Bound for Glory is in a month and a half. No Surrender, the next big Impact of significance, is in two weeks. Only two men have wrestled nine matches in the series. So guess what TNA is doing? According to Wrestling Observer Newsletter, they're essentially gonna end it:

The entire thing is a mess because time is running out and of the 11 matches that would be necessary for each guy in a 12 man round-robin tournament, the guys have ranged from four to six matches completed with time running out.

So they are essentially dropping everything, doing the four matches this coming Thursday, and ending it from there with the top four point getters going to the 9/12 final four show.

And as Cageside Seats pointed out yesterday, with just three "must win Thursday" matches scheduled for tonight, no math can help Joseph Park, Hernandez, and Jay Bradley (who went 0-fer in the tournament after having to win a qualifying match to get in against a since-released Sam Shaw) get in the "No Surrender" Final Four. Samoa Joe, Mr. Anderson, and Jeff Hardy (all within two points of each other and four points of #4 Austin Aries), are also benched for the night, and will have to hope for someone to lose points to break through.

Unlike last year where D'Angelo Dinero got injured and stuff had to be shuffled around, no one got hurt in this group. The tournament began on June 6. That means they had three months to get everyone twelve matches. New Japan Pro Wrestling gets this right every year, and they knock it out in two weeks. (It's called the G1 Climax, and you oughta watch it if you can find it.) Why can't TNA?