Bound for Glory (2022)

Impact Wrestling. It took place on October 7, 2022, at the Albany Armory in Albany, New York. It was the 18th event under the Bound for Glory

Joe Hendry, Matt Cardona, Rhino, Taylor Wilde, and Tommy Dreamer

wrestlers competed in various professional wrestling match types in what was the culmination of many feuds and storylines that occurred during the calendar year.^[2] On August 4, 2022, Impact Wrestling announced that Bound for Glory would take place on October 7, 2022, at the Albany Armory in Albany, New York.^[3][4][5]

weekly television program.^[6]

Impact Plus's Outside The Ropes with Tom Hannifan, where he would say that his match at Bound for Glory is about who is the heart & soul of Impact Wrestling. Edwards would interrupt with security and Alisha Edwards clearing the room before any fighting happened. Alisha would tell Eddie that she is frustrated by this situation and his HNM obsession. She would give him an ultimatum that "either this ends or we end".^[18]

Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Champion Deonna Purrazzo in a Knockouts World Championship number one contender's match,^[21] earning a title match against Grace at Bound for Glory. After the match, Grace would come to the ring and present Slamovich with her own "death warrant".^[22] Both women were able to choose opponents for each other in Pick Your Poison matches. At Victory Road, Grace would defeat Max the Impaler (with Father James Mitchell) in a physical match.^[16] On the September 29 episode of Impact!, Slamovich would defeat Allie Katch in a brutal Monster's Ball match.^[17] A week later, Impact Executive Vice President Scott D'Amore would host a contract signing between Grace and Slamovich. Grace would insist that she is going to end Slamovich's undefeated streak while Slamovich would tell Grace in Russian "Masha's going to kill you". They would start brawling with Slamovich putting Grace through a table before posing over her with the Knockouts title.^[18]

six-man tag team match.^[16] On the September 29 episode of Impact!, the Motor City Machine Guns and The Kingdom would be involved in a brawl between Alexander, Edwards and their respective allies.^[17] A week later, Shelley (with Sabin) would defeat Taven (with Bennett and Maria).^[18]

Triple Threat Revolver to become the number one contender for the title, and will face Bailey at Bound for Glory.^[26][27] The next two episodes of Impact! would have promos where Bailey would speak about wanting to break the X Division Title defense record (Christopher Daniels-13) and Kazarian would speak about what a title win would mean to him. Kazarian would also defeat Kenny King on the October 6 episode of Impact!.^[17][18]

Career Threatening match at Victory Road,^[26] she would be greeted backstage by Mia Yim, who James congratulated on her performance earlier that night. As such, James challenged Yim to a match at Bound for Glory, which Yim accepted. James is currently on her last "Last Rodeo", where if she lost her next match, she would retire from in-ring competition.^[27] On the September 29 episode of Impact!, Yim would have an interview with Gia Miller where she would mention wanting to be the person to end James's career due to the history they share. Shaw would interrupt scoffing that Yim could do what she could not, which would lead to a match between them.^[17] That match would happen a week later with Yim defeating Shaw with James on commentary for the match. After the match, James and Yim would have a respectful faceoff.^[28]

Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Championship due to accidental interference by Jessicka, the former Havok who has now embraced a more outgoing side of her character after a loss to Masha Slamovich.^[29] Since then, Jessicka had tried to prove herself to Rosemary that she can be serious when the time called for it. On the August 25 episode of Impact!, Jessicka would defeat Alisha Edwards while VXT would defeat Jordynne Grace and Mia Yim.^[30] A week later, Purrazzo would lose to Slamovich in a contender's match while the Death Dollz had a promo where Rosemary continued to have doubts about Jessicka.^[12] On the September 8 episode of Impact!, Green (with Purrazzo) defeated Valkyrie (with Rosemary and Jessicka) after Jessicka's help backfired on her.^[13] The Death Dollz would have a promo a week later with Rosemary being upset about recent losses. Valkyrie would try to make peace by suggesting she has an idea to turn things around.^[31] At Victory Road, the Death Dollz approached Impact producer Gail Kim about a rematch with Jessicka taking Rosemary's spot, leading to a brawl with VXT that saw Jessicka easily handle the champions.^[26] As such, Jessicka and Valkyrie would challenge VXT for the titles at Bound for Glory.^[27] On the September 29 episode of Impact!, Valkyrie and Jessicka would have a tense encounter with the Swingerella's, John E. Bravo, Johnny Swinger and Zicky Dice. Later in the episode, Rosemary would talk to Father James Mitchell about her doubts of success with Jessicka. Valkyrie and Jessicka would overhear the discussion and the group would end up agreeing to come together as a team.^[17] A week later, Jessicka and Valkyrie (with Rosemary) would defeat the Swingerella's (with Swinger and Dice) with Jessicka being dominant in the match. VXT was shown watching from backstage, where they dismissed the idea they could lose.^[18]

Joe Hendry, Tasha Steelz, Savannah Evans, Killer Kelly and Johnny Swinger were participants in the Gauntlet match. This meant there would be five unknown participants going into the match.^[18]

Raj Singh and others about no one being good enough to beat him at Bound for Glory.^[18]

spear followed by the Roster Cut to retain the title.^[38]

Hall of Fame. After giving his speech, Raven hugged Dreamer, only to perform on him a DDT on the stage.^[38]

crossface chickenwing into a submission, winning the title for the fifth time in his career.^[38]

Mickie-DT to win the match.^[38]

Sick-ishi Driver while Valkyrie kicking Green to win the match and the title.^[38]

superkick Sabin, however, Sabin dodged, and Bennett accidentally kicked his wife, Maria, who was on the apron. Taven rolled up Sabin while putting his foot on the ropes to win the match and to retain the title for his team.^[38]

Bully Ray, Rich Swann and Steve Maclin. After Swann and Fish were respectively eliminated, Ray pinned Maclin after performing the Bully Bomb.^[38]