Kayfabe Wrestling Predictions: Bound for Glory 2011

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Kayfabe Wrestling Predictions: Bound for Glory 2011

TNA World Tag Team Championship Match
-Mexican America (c) v. Ink, Inc.
This match might be an example of the least tested tag team to ever be featured in a Bound for Glory tag team championship match. Mexican America has been together for less than a year and Ink, Inc. has only been together for about a year and a half. When dealing with two teams that are so inexperienced, you have to look into the individual players within the match. You especially need to look into the individual wrestlers when it comes to two teams that are so equal as far as wrestling skills. When looking at it from this perspective Hernandez becomes the key to this match.

Hernandez is a tag team ace who is now holding the championship with his third tag team partner. Hernandez is also the man who is head and shoulders better than every other participant in the matchup. Anarquia and Jesse Neal are both essentially rookies and Shannon Moore’s career has been shaky at best. In fact if Shannon Moore were to win the championship on Sunday, along with Jesse Neal, it would be the first time he had won a championship in a major wrestling organization since February of 2000 when he along with his two partners in three count won the WCW Hardcore Championship.

It is really put up or shut up time for the Prince of Punk if he doesn’t take this title now he may never do so. This will provide significant motivation for Moore, but he and Jesse Neal are facing a dominant force in Hernandez and an adequate competitor in Anarquia. Ink, Inc. has seemed to come up with a solution to the Saritia and Rosita problem, but they still haven’t come up with a solution to the Mexican America problem. Ink, Inc. has been pulling out all the stops to get these championships, but Mexican America is just too good for Ink, Inc. to beat so the won’t.
Winner: Mexican America


Four Way Match for the TNA Knockouts Championship
-Winter (c) v. Madison Rayne v. Mickie James v. Velvet Sky
Anytime there is a match where more than two people wrestling for themselves figuring out a winner is less a matter of analysis and more a matter of pure dumb luck. That may be a bit of hyperbole on my part but if you’ve seen the history of three ways or four ways you’ll see that the more talented wrestler more often than not doesn’t come away for the victory. When it comes to such a random match result I try to cling on to any criteria in which to choose a winner. So allow me to say a few words about each participant. First we have Velvet Sky, the best asset she brings into this match his her tenacity and the fact that she has been improving her skills be leaps and bounds since she has been separated from her old Beautiful People tag partner Angelina love. Velvet also has a tremendous will to be champion, she has been talking about the championship non-stop for 8 months and she really wants it bad. She is the only one of these participants that has never held the title before and she is determined to take it.

Mickie James, on the other hand, has had more success in wrestling than her three opponents. She is a fantastic wrestler and much like Velvet Sky also has the fans on her side. Madison Rayne is also a great wrestler and though at times she seems a bit unhinged, she is also a very intelligent cagey competitor. She is a multiple time champion and has the type of supreme confidence in herself that is a tremendous asset to any competitor. Finally, we have Winter, the current Knockouts Champion. Winter is also a fine competitor and more than just a little bit unhinged. Her greatest asset is her “relationship” with Angelina Love who is herself a cagey very competent wrestler.

So we have to look at the biggest asset each woman possesses, Velvet is determined, Mickie has experience, Madison is cagey and Winter has Angelina Love. Which asset is the greatest advantage in such a match? Determination is good but in the randomness of a four way it had little bearing for victory. Experience is also good but most of her experience is in one on one matches. Angelina Love is a great asset but four ways are chaotic and even with a second person you’re still taking on 3 and you’re still outnumbered. Cageyness is a tremendous asset that allows you to not only take advantage of opportunities but to stop others from doing so.
Winner: Madison Rayne