Bang For Your Buck PPV Review: Bound For Glory (2013)

Kurt Angle vs. Bobby Roode

Best Case Scenario: A show-stealing match that highlights why they are considered two of the best workers in any company. Angle looks strong and sure-footed in his return and Roode is at his big-bumping heel best. The finish is rendered almost completely unimportant by how good the match is.

The first sixteen or seventeen minutes of this match were really, really good. The story was simple: returning, exciting top dog face takes on petty, unlikable heel. Roode and Angle worked a masterfully old-school match, with the heel using his time on offense to slow things down and work holds between the babyface’s exciting flurries of offense. In that respect, this was as fundamentally sound match as either company has recently presented, and one I would gladly show an outsider who wanted to understand how wrestling works.

In literally the last minute of the match, though, things fell apart a little, as they portrayed Bobby Roode as tripping and falling into a win when Angle knocked himself out/broke his own neck/whatever it was supposed to be. Angle didn’t even sell the stretcher job, which was just icing on the cake. All in all, though, as I said in the preview, I believe this was a good enough match that the finish didn’t hurt as bad as it could have.

Match: +.8 | PPV: 1.4

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