Bound For Glory Series (2012)
On the June 14, 2012, episode of Impact Wrestling, TNA started the second Bound for Glory Series to determine the number one contender for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at October's Bound for Glory. Just like the previous year, the tournament included twelve men, who would be facing each other in matches on pay-per-view, television and at untelevised house show events and would be given points based on their performance, with a submission victory giving a wrestler 10 points, a pinfall victory 7, a countout victory 5, a disqualification victory 3 and a draw 2 points, while a disqualification loss will cost a wrestler 10 points. An opening gauntlet match on the June 14 episode of Impact Wrestling gave out 20 points to the winner. Similarly, two four-way matches and a three-way match contested between the participants at Hardcore Justice gave 20 points to the three winners, as well as a one off match for regular scoring between Robbie E,Rob Van Damm and AJ Styles as they were unable to wrestle Dinero due to his injury Originally, all matches in the tournament had a ten minute time limit, but on June 28 the limit was raised to fifteen minutes. However, on the August 16 episode of Impact Wrestling, the time limit was ignored without explanation for a match between A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels, which lasted 16 minutes and 50 seconds. Unlike the previous year, in the 2012 tournament wrestlers faced each other only once in singles matches (not counting special multi-wrestler matches). As Mr. Anderson challenged for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship instead of taking part in the opening gauntlet match, he finished the tournament with one match less than the other competitors. The round-robin portion of the tournament concluded on September 6, while the finals took place on September 9 at No Surrender.
- These wrestlers qualified for the final matches.
- These wrestlers withdrew from the tournament.
- This wrestler won the final match of the tournament.
| Rank | Wrestler | Points | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 !1 | Storm !James Storm | 73 !73 | 13 !13 |
| 02 !2 | Samoa !Samoa Joe | 68 !68 | 13 !13 |
| 03 !3 | Bully !Bully Ray | 62 !62 | 13 !13 |
| 04 !4 | Hardy !Jeff Hardy | 59 !59 | 13 !13 |
| 05 !5 | Van Dam !Rob Van Dam | 55 !55 | 13 !13 |
| 06 !6 | Styles !A.J. Styles | 50 !50 | 13 !13 |
| 07 !7 | Angle !Kurt Angle | 48 !48 | 13 !13 |
| 08 !8 | Anderson !Mr. Anderson | 47 !47 | 12 !12 |
| 09 !9 | Daniels !Christopher Daniels | 33 !33 | 13 !13 |
| 10 !10 | Magnus !Magnus | 28 !28 | 13 !13 |
| 11 !11 | Robbie !Robbie E | 12 !12 | 13 !13 |
| 12 !DNF | Dinero !D'Angelo Dinero | 07 !7 | 09 !91 |
1 Dinero was forced to pull out of the tournament on August 12, after suffering a shoulder injury.
| Semifinals | Final | |||||||
| 1 | James Storm | Pin | ||||||
| 3 | Bully Ray | 13:54 | ||||||
| Bully Ray | Pin | |||||||
| Jeff Hardy | 12:23 | |||||||
| 2 | Samoa Joe | Pin | ||||||
| 4 | Jeff Hardy | 12:34 | ||||||
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