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TNA’s highest point of the year is Bound for Glory and all wrestling fans wanted to see it. The potential was huge due to the impressive card. TNA is currently criticized by its fans. Let us only talk about the pay per view though.

We did get to see a nice pay per view but it could have been more entertaining. First of, the asylum match was not really great. We did see Jay Lethal win it and this means he becomes the number one contender for a title that he did wear prowd. Now the X division championship match was the one that offered the least in TNA Bound for Glory 2008 (except for maybe the match with the Beautiful People). It was the champion that retained the title and the heel has it. That is highly overrated and should not be a part of a wrestling ring.

Next on our Bound for Glory 2008 review list stands the Monster’s Ball wrestling match for the tag team titles. Thanks to how LAX performed we do think they should get a title shot. We saw the huge highlight of the match when Abyss went through 1 flaming table thanks to Team 3D. Matt Morgan did perform well as well. Beer Money Inc. eventually retained but thanks to a move done by Team 3D on Hernandez. We can say it was a huge ending to the match. Congratulations to everyone involved in that match.

Jeff Jarrett versus Angle was the one wrestling match that probably stole the show. Both wrestlers performed very well and we saw Jeff coming back to the ring with quite a bang. If it hadn’t been for Mick Foley Angle would have won. Then we also got to see icon wrestler Sting taking on Samoa Joe for the title. This was again a match that was better than expected and Sting won again at Bound for Glory. We got to see one unexpected interference in Kevin Nash. Sting is noe the champ and although he will probably lose the title soon, on the whole the TNA Bound for Glory 2008 pay per view was better than expected but not as high as it should have been.

Big John is a pro wrestler that people forgot about, not to mention that young people do not even know him. The real name of Studd was John William Minton. He was trained by one of the greatest in all time in Killer Kowalski. Both of them started working together and Big John's first ever major title was the WWWF Tag Team title won in tag team with Kowalski. We loved this team, named Masked Executioners, as both wore masks.

Big John Studd left the WWWF and eventually wrestled under different names like The Masked Superstar II, Captain USA and Chuck O'Connor. A lot of wrestlers had feuds with him at the time and one that is worth mentioning is the American Dream, Dusty Rhodes. The wrestler's heel gimmick was special and innovative and older wrestling fans will surely remember it. We also saw Big John in a feud against Ric Flair in 1982. That was when he started a huge feud with the WWF World Champion of the time, Hulk Hogan. During the period we saw Studd being managed by Bobby Heenan and we will always remember the huge feud against one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, Andre the Giant. There was a huge tag team match that showed Andre the Giant's hair being shaved after the match and the end of the feud was huge. The professional wrestler was offering $15,000 to any person that could body slam him. This led to a huge feud with legend Andre the Giant and a conclusion at Wrestlemania 1. John Studd was eventually slammed by Andre the Giant, which basically won the match and the money. The feud with Andre the Giant was probably the best feud that Big John Studd had in his wrestling career, at a time when the wrestler Sting was not even known to the public (so that you understand how long ago this was).

We also saw Big John wrestle in the Over the top wrestling Battle Royal held at Wrestlemania 2. Even if Andre the Giant also participated in the Battle Royal, Studd was set on William Perry, only leading to him being eliminated. In the end the Battle Royal saw Andre the Giant as the winner. After this match and a tag team run with King Kong Bundy, Studd did not appear in the WWF for around 3 years. After Studd returned we saw him in feuds against Heenan's family and he did win the 1989 Royal Rumble. We saw this as the highlight of the professional wrestler's career. After a while we saw Studd as special referee in a wrestling match that took place at Wrestlemania V and saw Andre the Giant versus Jake The Snake, we started to see less of John. This is because growth hormones he had taken took its tow on him and he had to eventually retire. It was to be liver cancer combined with Hodgkin's disease that killed Studd in 1995. Please remember that if it wasn’t for wrestlers like Big John Studd, working hard, there will be no popular wrestlers of the day, like John Cena or Rey Mysterio or Dave Batista.