Sting vs. Magnus
What Will Happen: Sting looks utterly blown up ten minutes in. Magnus goes over, but the match isn’t good enough to elevate him to the level it’s designed to.
This match was alright through the tempered lens of “I know I’m not going to get anything better than alright from Sting.” Magnus, however, looked like he was carrying more than his weight throughout this one, ultimately presenting a match that was just as good as any other match Sting’s had in his TNA run. Magnus carries himself in a convincing, top-wrestler manner and has come a long way in figuring out how to have a convincing, top-wrestler match.
It was a bit of a puzzler that Magnus didn’t explicitly turn heel during the match (although his imitation of some of Sting’s signature moves could be construed as heelish in a Smackdown vs. Raw 2011 kind of way), but rather turned after the match by gloating and laughing off Sting’s offer of a handshake. Bound For Glory is supposed to be the culmination of feuds, not the second chapter in an extended feud between a legend and a new guy. Frustrating booking.
Match: + .1|PPV: 1.1
