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Lockdown (2008)
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Lockdown was a professional wrestling
pay-per-view
(PPV) event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
(TNA), which took place on April 13, 2008 at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell, Massachusetts
. It was the fourth annual event under the Lockdown
chronology. Eight professional wrestling matches
were featured on the event's card
. In the tradition of Lockdown events, every match took place inside a steel structure with six sides, known as Six Sides of Steel.
The main event was a Six Sides of Steel cage match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship
, in which Samoa Joe
defeated the reigning champion, Kurt Angle
, to win the championship. Following another tradition of Lockdown events, TNA held the annual Lethal Lockdown match, which was contested inside a steel structure with a flat roof; in this match, Team Cage defeated Team Tomko. Two featured bouts were scheduled on the undercard. In an intergender tag team match, Booker T
and Sharmell defeated Robert Roode and Payton Banks. The other bout was an Xscape match for the TNA X Division Championship
, in which six competitors fought to eliminate each other by pinfall or submission until there were two left; the remaining two then fought to escape the steel structure. Jay Lethal
defeated five opponents in this match to retain the championship.
The event marked the fourth time the Lethal Lockdown format was used by TNA, and the first time a World Championship was contested in a Lockdown main event. When the event was released on DVD, it reached a peak position of number five on Billboard's
DVD Sales Chart. The professional wrestling section of the Canadian Online Explorer
website rated the entire event a 6.5 out of 10 stars, one star higher than the 2007 event
.
. Wrestlers were portrayed as either villains
or heroes
in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. In the tradition of Lockdown events, every match was contested inside a 16 foot (4.9 m) high steel structure with six sides known as Six Sides of Steel.
The main event at Lockdown featured TNA World Heavyweight Champion Kurt Angle
defending the title against Samoa Joe
in a Six Sides of Steel cage match. On the March 13 episode of TNA's primary television program, TNA Impact!
, authority figure Jim Cornette
announced the match for Lockdown. On the same episode, Joe was scripted to state that he would quit TNA forever if he did not win at Lockdown. He changed this statement on a later episode, saying he would quit professional wrestling forever. Afterwards, Joe did not appear on Impact! until the April 10 episode where he signed a contract, which made his retirement from professional wrestling official if he lost. During Joe's scripted absence, TNA reported that he was training for his match at Lockdown in California with mixed martial arts
fighter Marcus Davis
.
Continuing another tradition of Lockdown events, TNA held the fourth annual Lethal Lockdown match. In this match, one wrestler from each five-member team started in the ring; after five minutes, another wrestler entered, followed two minutes later by a member of the other team. Every two minutes, a new wrestler entered until all ten were in the ring; at this point a ceiling with weapons attached was lowered and pinfalls or submissions
were allowed. On the March 13 episode of Impact!, Cornette announced that Christian
and Tomko
were the team captains for the 2008 inception; their teams were referred to as Team Cage and Team Tomko. Team Cage consisted of Cage, Kevin Nash
, Rhino
, Sting, and Matt Morgan, while Team Tomko was made up of Tomko, A.J. Styles
, James Storm
, and the Team 3D
pairing of Brother Ray and Brother Devon. Before Lockdown, Cage and Tomko began a scripted rivalry at the company's February PPV event, Against All Odds, when Tomko betrayed Cage (who had befriended him at the time) by helping Kurt Angle retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship against Cage. On the March 13 and 20 episodes of Impact!, Tomko chose Styles and Team 3D, which filled the three spots remaining on his team, while Cage named two of his three team members: Rhino and Nash. Sting, who had not been seen on television since November 2007 at TNA's Genesis PPV event, was added to Team Cage on the March 27 episode of Impact!. On the April 3 episode of Impact!, Team Tomko and Team Cage were both allowed to add one more member to their teams; Team Tomko selected Storm, while Team Cage chose Morgan.
Heading into Lockdown, the team of Booker T
and Sharmell were in an on-screen rivalry with the team of Robert Roode and Payton Banks, culminating in an intergender tag team match, in which male wrestlers and female wrestlers could fight each other legally. At TNA's January PPV event, Final Resolution, Roode accidentally punched Booker T's legitimate wife, Sharmell, in the plot line, and as a result Sharmell was scripted as having a fractured jaw. Sharmell subsequently did not appear on Impact! for several weeks while in the narrative she was healing from the injury. Booker T and Roode competed in two encounters, one at Against All Odds, and the other at TNA's March PPV event, Destination X
. After their match at Destination X, Sharmell returned and assaulted Roode and Banks with a leather strap. On the March 20 episode of Impact!, Cornette promoted an intergender tag team match for Lockdown, in which Booker T and Sharmell would face Roode and Banks.
Another main match on the card was the annual X Division
Xscape match, in which TNA X Division Champion
Jay Lethal
defended the championship against Consequences Creed, Johnny Devine
, Shark Boy
, Curry Man
, and Sonjay Dutt
. In this match, six competitors fought until four were eliminated by pinfall or submission; the two remaining wrestlers fought to escape from the cage, and the first to do so was declared the winner. Each of the challengers fought in qualification matches to determine who would participate on Impact!. In the first qualification match, Curry Man defeated Petey Williams
on the March 13 episode of Impact!. Dutt defeated Homicide
on the March 20 episode of Impact! in the second. In the third match, Devine defeated Alex Shelley
on the March 27 episode of Impact!. Shark Boy defeated Elix Skipper
in the fourth qualification match on the April 3 episode of Impact!. On the April 10 episode of Impact!, Creed defeated Jimmy Rave
to become the last to qualify.
on PPV. The participants were Jay Lethal, Curry Man, Shark Boy, Johnny Devine, Sonjay Dutt, and Consequences Creed. Devine and Lethal were the last two participants in the match. Devine and Lethal fought back and forth for a few minutes, until Lethal escaped the cage with help from Dutt and Lethal's on-screen girlfriend, SoCal Val, to retain the championship.
The Queen of the Cage match
to become the number one contender to the TNA Women's Knockout Championship
followed, which involved Roxxi Laveaux
, Angelina Love, Velvet Sky
, Salinas
, Rhaka Khan
, Traci Brooks
, Christy Hemme
, and Jacqueline
. In this match, the participants fought to climb up the cage and into the ring, where the first two to do so had a standard wrestling match. The two women that entered the cage were Love and Laveaux. In the final minutes, Laveaux picked up Love, placed her arm over Love's head, and then fell to a seat position to execute what Laveaux dubbed as The Voodoo Drop; Laveaux then pinned Love to earn the opportunity to compete for the TNA Women's Knockout Title.
The third bout was a Six Sides of Steel cage match between B.G. James
and Kip James
. B.G. was victorious in the match when grabbed Kip's legs and achieved a position with his shoulders spread to win by pinfall in a pinning attempt called a roll-up.
The Cuffed in the Cage match for a future TNA World Tag Team Championship match against the tag team champions, A.J. Styles and Tomko
, involved the teams of Kaz
and Eric Young
, The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin
and Alex Shelley), Rellik
and Black Reign, The Latin American Xchange (Homicide and Hernandez
), Scott Steiner
and Petey Williams, and The Rock 'n Rave Infection (Lance Hoyt
and Jimmy Rave) (RNRI). In this match, six two-man teams were locked inside the Six Sides of Steel until eleven of the wrestlers were handcuffed to the cage, while the remaining competitor won the future championship match for his team. While the RNRI were making their way to the ring, Young was injured in a backstage assault by Rellik and Reign and, as a result, Kaz competed in the match alone until Young recovered from his scripted injuries. Rellik, Reign, and RNRI were the last competitors in the match, before Eric Young entered the arena in another persona
named "Super Eric". Super Eric then ran to the ring, climbed up to the top of the cage, and jumped off to perform a splash onto all of his opponents, who were standing together in a group. Afterwards he stood up and handcuffed all of the remaining participants to win Kaz and himself the future championship match.
Awesome Kong
and Raisha Saeed fought the team of Gail Kim
and ODB
in the next match. The match ended when Kong attempted to perform a spinning back fist on O.D.B., but she ducked, causing Kong to accidentally hit her partner Saeed. Kim then performed a dropkick from the top of a padded turnbuckle
on Kong, which allowed O.D.B. to climb to the center of the top rope and execute a splash on Saeed for the pinfall victory.
The Lethal Lockdown match between Team Cage (Christian Cage, Kevin Nash, Rhino, Sting, and Matt Morgan) and Team Tomko (Tomko, A.J. Styles, Team 3D [Brother Ray and Brother Devon], and James Storm, accompanied by Jacqueline) followed. The match was supposed to begin with the team captains (Cage and Tomko); it instead began with Cage and Styles, when Styles climbed up the cage wall behind Cage into the ring and jumped from the top of a padded turnbuckle to strike Cage in the back of the head with a flying forearm strike. Styles and Cage fought back and forth for five minutes. At this point, Ray entered from Team Tomko and members from each team followed at two-minute intervals until the final member, Sting, entered the match. A retractable ceiling was then lowered, covered in weapons including a ladder, a table, trash cans, and kendo sticks
, which the competitors immediately began to use. In the final minutes of the match, while Styles and Cage were on the roof standing on top of a ladder, Storm pushed the ladder over, causing them both to fall and crash through a table, which was set up on the roof by Cage earlier in the match. Storm then climbed down into the cage and hit Morgan over his head with a beer bottle, given to him by Jacqueline from outside the ring. After Storm turned around, Rhino performed a running shoulder block to Storm's stomach to gain the pinfall victory for Team Cage.
In the main event, Kurt Angle defended the TNA World Heavyweight Championship against Samoa Joe. Throughout the match, each man countered the other's submission holds
in an attempt to make them concede defeat. Late in the match, Joe placed Angle on the top of a padded turnbuckle, lifted Angle up, and slammed Angle's back and neck into his shoulder and the mat by using a maneuver dubbed the Muscle Buster. He then pinned Angle to win his first World Heavyweight Championship. Marcus Davis presented him with the championship belt, and Joe celebrated as the event came to a close.
On the episode of Impact! after Lockdown, Kurt Angle activated an on-screen rematch clause in his contract to fight Samoa Joe for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship on the April 24 episode of Impact!. The next week on Impact!, Angle lost the match after Scott Steiner, who was scheduled to have a TNA Championship match at TNA's next PPV event, Sacrifice, interfered and hit Angle with a lead pipe, allowing Joe to pin Angle. Due to Steiner's interference, Jim Cornette declared the TNA Championship match at Sacrifice would involve three competitors—titled a 3-Way Dance—between Joe, Steiner, and Angle on the same episode. Before Sacrifice, Angle sustained a legitimate neck injury, which did not allow him to compete in the match. At the event, Cornette announced that the winner of a match that took place inside a giant red steel structure—dubbed The TerrorDome—would take Angle's place in the 3-Way Dance. Kaz won The TerrorDome and took Angle's place. Joe won the match and retained the title.
On the April 17 episode of Impact!, World Tag Team Champions A.J. Styles and Tomko defended the championship against the teams of The Latin American Xchange (Homicide and Hernandez) (LAX) and Kaz and Eric Young. Young left midway through the match but later returned as Super Eric to pin Styles and win the match. Styles and Tomko later claimed that Young and Super Eric were two different people in the narrative. Young refused to agree that he was Super Eric, so Cornette vacated the title and set up The Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament to determine the new champions on the April 24 episode of Impact!. In the tournament, eight established tag teams fought against each other, with only four teams moving on to the next round. Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon), Christian Cage and Rhino, LAX, and Styles and Super Eric (Eric replaced Tomko, who had sustained a storyline injury in Japan) advanced to face the teams of Booker T and Robert Roode, Sting and James Storm, Kip James and Matt Morgan, and B.G. James and Awesome Kong at Sacrifice. LAX claimed victory in the tournament after defeating Team 3D in the final round.
Jay Lethal later lost the TNA X Division Championship to Petey Williams on the April 17 episode of Impact!, when Williams executed a contract clause allowing him a X Division Championship match whenever he wanted; Williams pinned Lethal to win the championship in the match. Williams won the contract clause at TNA's December 2007 PPV event, Turning Point.
writer Chris Sokol rated the entire event 6.5 out of 10 stars, which was higher than the 2007 event's
rating of 5.5 out of 10 stars. The Lethal Lockdown match was rated a 9 out of 10 stars, while the main event match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship was rated an 8 out of 10 stars; this match was later announced as TNA's World Heavyweight Championship Match of the Year on the January 1, 2009 episode of Impact!. Simon Rothstein, a journalist for the United Kingdom newspaper The Sun
, stated in his review of Lockdown that the main event was the "best match of the night, this was perfectly booked and executed". He said that as a result, it "should give TNA the impetus to quickly smash the records they set at Lockdown". The event was released on DVD on June 17, 2008 by TNA Home Video
.
Xscape match eliminations
Tag Team match eliminations
Lethal Lockdown entrances
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pay-per-view
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(PPV) event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
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(TNA), which took place on April 13, 2008 at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell, Massachusetts
Lowell, Massachusetts
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. It was the fourth annual event under the Lockdown
TNA Lockdown
Lockdown is a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced every April by the American professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action , is considered one of the flagship PPVs in the company, alongside Slammiversary and Bound for Glory...
chronology. Eight professional wrestling matches
Mock combat
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were featured on the event's card
Card (sports)
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. In the tradition of Lockdown events, every match took place inside a steel structure with six sides, known as Six Sides of Steel.
The main event was a Six Sides of Steel cage match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship
TNA World Heavyweight Championship
The TNA World Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling promotion. It is currently the highest ranked championship in TNA and is primarily defended in TNA's heavyweight division...
, in which Samoa Joe
Samoa Joe
Nuufolau Joel "Joe" Seanoa is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Samoa Joe. He is currently under contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling....
defeated the reigning champion, Kurt Angle
Kurt Angle
Kurt Steven Angle is an American professional wrestler, amateur wrestler, and 1996 Olympic gold medalist. He is currently under contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is recognized as a 15-time World Heavyweight Champion...
, to win the championship. Following another tradition of Lockdown events, TNA held the annual Lethal Lockdown match, which was contested inside a steel structure with a flat roof; in this match, Team Cage defeated Team Tomko. Two featured bouts were scheduled on the undercard. In an intergender tag team match, Booker T
Booker Huffman
Robert Booker Tio Huffman , better known by his ring name Booker T, is a semi-retired American professional wrestler and currently signed to WWE, on its SmackDown brand, as part of the announcing team. Booker is best known for his time in both the World Wrestling Entertainment and World...
and Sharmell defeated Robert Roode and Payton Banks. The other bout was an Xscape match for the TNA X Division Championship
TNA X Division Championship
The TNA X Division Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling promotion. It is primarily defended in TNA's X Division—a style based on a fast-paced, daredevil type of wrestling...
, in which six competitors fought to eliminate each other by pinfall or submission until there were two left; the remaining two then fought to escape the steel structure. Jay Lethal
Jay Lethal
Jamar "Jay" Shipman better known by his ring name Jay Lethal, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Ring of Honor , where he is the ROH World Television Champion...
defeated five opponents in this match to retain the championship.
The event marked the fourth time the Lethal Lockdown format was used by TNA, and the first time a World Championship was contested in a Lockdown main event. When the event was released on DVD, it reached a peak position of number five on Billboard's
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DVD Sales Chart. The professional wrestling section of the Canadian Online Explorer
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website rated the entire event a 6.5 out of 10 stars, one star higher than the 2007 event
Lockdown (2007)
Lockdown was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, which took place on April 15, 2007 at the Family Arena in Saint Charles, Missouri. This was the second monthly pay-per-view, after Bound for Glory , to be held outside Orlando, Florida. It was the...
.
Background
The event featured eight professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylinesNarrative thread
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. Wrestlers were portrayed as either villains
Heel (professional wrestling)
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or heroes
Face (professional wrestling)
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in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. In the tradition of Lockdown events, every match was contested inside a 16 foot (4.9 m) high steel structure with six sides known as Six Sides of Steel.
Kurt Angle
Kurt Steven Angle is an American professional wrestler, amateur wrestler, and 1996 Olympic gold medalist. He is currently under contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is recognized as a 15-time World Heavyweight Champion...
defending the title against Samoa Joe
Samoa Joe
Nuufolau Joel "Joe" Seanoa is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Samoa Joe. He is currently under contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling....
in a Six Sides of Steel cage match. On the March 13 episode of TNA's primary television program, TNA Impact!
TNA iMPACT!
Impact Wrestling is a professional wrestling television program for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling that currently airs in the United States and Canada on Spike...
, authority figure Jim Cornette
Jim Cornette
James Mark "Jim" Cornette is an American professional wrestling manager, commentator, promoter, and booker. As a manager, he has worked for Jim Crockett Promotions, World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Federation and from 1991 to 1995, was the owner of Smoky Mountain Wrestling...
announced the match for Lockdown. On the same episode, Joe was scripted to state that he would quit TNA forever if he did not win at Lockdown. He changed this statement on a later episode, saying he would quit professional wrestling forever. Afterwards, Joe did not appear on Impact! until the April 10 episode where he signed a contract, which made his retirement from professional wrestling official if he lost. During Joe's scripted absence, TNA reported that he was training for his match at Lockdown in California with mixed martial arts
Mixed martial arts
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fighter Marcus Davis
Marcus Davis
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.
Continuing another tradition of Lockdown events, TNA held the fourth annual Lethal Lockdown match. In this match, one wrestler from each five-member team started in the ring; after five minutes, another wrestler entered, followed two minutes later by a member of the other team. Every two minutes, a new wrestler entered until all ten were in the ring; at this point a ceiling with weapons attached was lowered and pinfalls or submissions
Submission wrestling
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were allowed. On the March 13 episode of Impact!, Cornette announced that Christian
Jason Reso
William Jason Reso is a Canadian professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring names Christian and Christian Cage...
and Tomko
Travis Tomko
Travis David Tomko is an American professional wrestler, known by his ring name Tomko, who most recently worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he previously was a member of Christian's Coalition and the Angle Alliance and often worked alongside A.J. Styles. He was also notable for his...
were the team captains for the 2008 inception; their teams were referred to as Team Cage and Team Tomko. Team Cage consisted of Cage, Kevin Nash
Kevin Nash
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, Rhino
Terry Gerin
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, Sting, and Matt Morgan, while Team Tomko was made up of Tomko, A.J. Styles
A.J. Styles
Allen Neal Jones , better known by his ring name A.J. Styles is an American professional wrestler currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling...
, James Storm
James Storm
James Allen Cox is an American professional wrestler who competes under the ring name "The Cowboy" James Storm. Since 2002, Storm has been employed by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he, along with A.J...
, and the Team 3D
Dudley Boyz
Team 3D was a professional wrestling tag team, consisting of Brother Ray and Brother Devon, formerly sporadically joined into a stable by Brother Runt on several intervals...
pairing of Brother Ray and Brother Devon. Before Lockdown, Cage and Tomko began a scripted rivalry at the company's February PPV event, Against All Odds, when Tomko betrayed Cage (who had befriended him at the time) by helping Kurt Angle retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship against Cage. On the March 13 and 20 episodes of Impact!, Tomko chose Styles and Team 3D, which filled the three spots remaining on his team, while Cage named two of his three team members: Rhino and Nash. Sting, who had not been seen on television since November 2007 at TNA's Genesis PPV event, was added to Team Cage on the March 27 episode of Impact!. On the April 3 episode of Impact!, Team Tomko and Team Cage were both allowed to add one more member to their teams; Team Tomko selected Storm, while Team Cage chose Morgan.
Booker Huffman
Robert Booker Tio Huffman , better known by his ring name Booker T, is a semi-retired American professional wrestler and currently signed to WWE, on its SmackDown brand, as part of the announcing team. Booker is best known for his time in both the World Wrestling Entertainment and World...
and Sharmell were in an on-screen rivalry with the team of Robert Roode and Payton Banks, culminating in an intergender tag team match, in which male wrestlers and female wrestlers could fight each other legally. At TNA's January PPV event, Final Resolution, Roode accidentally punched Booker T's legitimate wife, Sharmell, in the plot line, and as a result Sharmell was scripted as having a fractured jaw. Sharmell subsequently did not appear on Impact! for several weeks while in the narrative she was healing from the injury. Booker T and Roode competed in two encounters, one at Against All Odds, and the other at TNA's March PPV event, Destination X
Destination X (2008)
Destination X was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling promotion, which took place on March 9, 2008 at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia. It was the fourth event under the Destination X chronology and the third event in the 2008 TNA PPV...
. After their match at Destination X, Sharmell returned and assaulted Roode and Banks with a leather strap. On the March 20 episode of Impact!, Cornette promoted an intergender tag team match for Lockdown, in which Booker T and Sharmell would face Roode and Banks.
Another main match on the card was the annual X Division
X Division
The X Division is a high-flying, high-risk, fast-paced style of professional wrestling seen originally in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and since then in various NWA member promotions...
Xscape match, in which TNA X Division Champion
TNA X Division Championship
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Jay Lethal
Jay Lethal
Jamar "Jay" Shipman better known by his ring name Jay Lethal, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Ring of Honor , where he is the ROH World Television Champion...
defended the championship against Consequences Creed, Johnny Devine
Johnny Devine
John Peter "J.P." Parsonage is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name "Hot Shot" Johnny Devine...
, Shark Boy
Shark Boy
Dean Mathew Roll is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Shark Boy and his experience in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling .-Early career:...
, Curry Man
Christopher Daniels
Daniel Christopher Covell is an American professional wrestler, best known in the United States by his ring name "The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels. He is also known for performing under the ring name Curry Man. He is currently under contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , while also...
, and Sonjay Dutt
Sonjay Dutt
Retesh Bhalla is an American professional wrestler of Indian Punjabi descent, better known by his ring name, Sonjay Dutt. He is best known working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, and is also known for his stints with Combat Zone Wrestling, Major League Wrestling, and other various independent...
. In this match, six competitors fought until four were eliminated by pinfall or submission; the two remaining wrestlers fought to escape from the cage, and the first to do so was declared the winner. Each of the challengers fought in qualification matches to determine who would participate on Impact!. In the first qualification match, Curry Man defeated Petey Williams
Petey Williams
Peter "Petey" Williams III is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is a two time X Division Champion and a former captain of Team Canada. Williams Currently Wrestles for Lucha Libre USA...
on the March 13 episode of Impact!. Dutt defeated Homicide
Nelson Erazo
Nelson Rodriguez Erazo is an American professional wrestler of Puerto Rican descent, better known by his ring name, Homicide...
on the March 20 episode of Impact! in the second. In the third match, Devine defeated Alex Shelley
Alex Shelley
Patrick Martin , is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Alex Shelley. He wrestles for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he currently teams with Chris Sabin as The Motor City Machine Guns. He previously gained fame on the independent circuit, working most notably for...
on the March 27 episode of Impact!. Shark Boy defeated Elix Skipper
Elix Skipper
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in the fourth qualification match on the April 3 episode of Impact!. On the April 10 episode of Impact!, Creed defeated Jimmy Rave
Jimmy Rave
James Guffey is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Jimmy Rave. He is best known for working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling...
to become the last to qualify.
Preliminary matches
The Xscape match for the TNA X Division Championship was the first match at Lockdown to air liveLive television
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on PPV. The participants were Jay Lethal, Curry Man, Shark Boy, Johnny Devine, Sonjay Dutt, and Consequences Creed. Devine and Lethal were the last two participants in the match. Devine and Lethal fought back and forth for a few minutes, until Lethal escaped the cage with help from Dutt and Lethal's on-screen girlfriend, SoCal Val, to retain the championship.
Gauntlet for the Gold
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to become the number one contender to the TNA Women's Knockout Championship
TNA Women's Knockout Championship
The TNA Women's Knockout Championship, often referred to simply as the Knockouts Championship, is a professional wrestling women's world championship owned by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling promotion. It is primarily contested for in TNA's women's division...
followed, which involved Roxxi Laveaux
Nicole Raczynski
Nicole Raczynski is an American professional wrestler, best known for working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Roxxi...
, Angelina Love, Velvet Sky
Velvet Sky
Jamie Szantyr is an American professional wrestler currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Velvet Sky. She is a former TNA Women's Knockout Champion and TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion with her former Beautiful People partners Madison Rayne and Lacey Von Erich...
, Salinas
Shelly Martinez
Shelly Leonor Martinez is a Mexican American model, actress, professional wrestler and valet. She is known for her work with World Wrestling Entertainment on its ECW brand under the ring name Ariel and for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Salinas as valet to The Latin American...
, Rhaka Khan
Trenesha Biggers
Trenesha Biggers is a model and professional wrestler who worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Rhaka Khan. She was in the final top 25 in the 2005 WWE Diva Search.-Professional wrestling career:...
, Traci Brooks
Tracy Brookshaw
Tracy Brookshaw is a Canadian professional wrestler, professional wrestling valet and professional wrestling referee, better known by her ring name Traci Brooks. She is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where she has spent most of her career.-Early life:Brookshaw grew up on a...
, Christy Hemme
Christy Hemme
Christina Lee "Christy" Hemme is an American actress, singer, model, professional wrestling valet and former professional wrestler. Hemme is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, as a backstage interviewer and ring announcer.-Early life:Hemme was born in Poway, California, but she...
, and Jacqueline
Jacqueline Moore
Jacqueline DeLois Moore is an inactive American professional wrestler, who was most recently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling...
. In this match, the participants fought to climb up the cage and into the ring, where the first two to do so had a standard wrestling match. The two women that entered the cage were Love and Laveaux. In the final minutes, Laveaux picked up Love, placed her arm over Love's head, and then fell to a seat position to execute what Laveaux dubbed as The Voodoo Drop; Laveaux then pinned Love to earn the opportunity to compete for the TNA Women's Knockout Title.
The third bout was a Six Sides of Steel cage match between B.G. James
Brian Gerard James
Brian Gerard James is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE as an agent and producer. He is best known for his tenure with the World Wrestling Federation as "The Road Dogg" Jesse James or simply Road Dogg...
and Kip James
Monty Sopp
Monty Kip Sopp is an American professional wrestler, best known as Billy Gunn during his tenure for World Wrestling Entertainment. He is probably best known as one of the members of the New Age Outlaws. He also worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Kip James...
. B.G. was victorious in the match when grabbed Kip's legs and achieved a position with his shoulders spread to win by pinfall in a pinning attempt called a roll-up.
The Cuffed in the Cage match for a future TNA World Tag Team Championship match against the tag team champions, A.J. Styles and Tomko
A.J. Styles and Tomko
A.J. Styles and Tomko are former tag team partners in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling who were a part of two factions together, Christian's Coalition and the Angle Alliance....
, involved the teams of Kaz
Frankie Kazarian
Frank B. Gerdelman is an Armenian-American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Frankie Kazarian or simply Kazarian. He is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling...
and Eric Young
Eric Young (wrestler)
Jeremy Fritz is a Canadian professional wrestler, best known under his ring name Eric Young. He currently performs for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he has gained popularity using a variety of comic relief gimmicks....
, The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin
Chris Sabin
Joshua Harter is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Chris Sabin. He is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where he currently teams with Alex Shelley as The Motor City Machine Guns.After being trained by Scott D'Amore, Sabin debuted in 2000 for...
and Alex Shelley), Rellik
John Hugger
John Hugger is an American professional wrestler. He is perhaps best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling as Johnny the Bull, World Wrestling Entertainment as Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli...
and Black Reign, The Latin American Xchange (Homicide and Hernandez
Shawn Hernandez
Shawn Hernandez is an American professional wrestler of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent, better known by his ring names, "Hotstuff Hernandez" and "Hernandez"....
), Scott Steiner
Scott Steiner
Scott Carl Rechsteiner is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Scott Steiner. Steiner is perhaps best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling alongside his older brother Rick as the Steiner Brothers and as a member of the New World Order...
and Petey Williams, and The Rock 'n Rave Infection (Lance Hoyt
Lance Hoyt
Lance Hoyt is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling as Lance Archer. He is best known for his work in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is a two time NWA World Tag Team Champion with Kid Kash while the title was under the TNA banner...
and Jimmy Rave) (RNRI). In this match, six two-man teams were locked inside the Six Sides of Steel until eleven of the wrestlers were handcuffed to the cage, while the remaining competitor won the future championship match for his team. While the RNRI were making their way to the ring, Young was injured in a backstage assault by Rellik and Reign and, as a result, Kaz competed in the match alone until Young recovered from his scripted injuries. Rellik, Reign, and RNRI were the last competitors in the match, before Eric Young entered the arena in another persona
Persona
A persona, in the word's everyday usage, is a social role or a character played by an actor. The word is derived from Latin, where it originally referred to a theatrical mask. The Latin word probably derived from the Etruscan word "phersu", with the same meaning, and that from the Greek πρόσωπον...
named "Super Eric". Super Eric then ran to the ring, climbed up to the top of the cage, and jumped off to perform a splash onto all of his opponents, who were standing together in a group. Afterwards he stood up and handcuffed all of the remaining participants to win Kaz and himself the future championship match.
Awesome Kong
Kia Stevens
Kia Michelle Stevens , better known by her ring names Amazing Kong, Awesome Kong and Kharma. She is signed with WWE, but has been inactive since May 2011 due to pregnancy...
and Raisha Saeed fought the team of Gail Kim
Gail Kim
Gail Kim is a Canadian professional wrestler of Korean descent, who is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where she is the current TNA Women's Knockout Champion and one half of the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions with Madison Rayne...
and ODB
Jessica Kresa
Jessica Kresa is an American professional wrestler and actress better known as ODB , currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where she is a former three–time TNA Women's Knockout Champion....
in the next match. The match ended when Kong attempted to perform a spinning back fist on O.D.B., but she ducked, causing Kong to accidentally hit her partner Saeed. Kim then performed a dropkick from the top of a padded turnbuckle
Turnbuckle
A turnbuckle, stretching screw or bottlescrew is a device for adjusting the tension or length of ropes, cables, tie rods, and other tensioning systems. It normally consists of two threaded eyelets, one screwed into each end of a small metal frame, one with a left-hand thread and the other with a...
on Kong, which allowed O.D.B. to climb to the center of the top rope and execute a splash on Saeed for the pinfall victory.
Main event matches
The next match pitted Booker T and Sharmell against Robert Roode and Payton Banks in an intergender tag team match. Towards the end of the match, Roode held Sharmell for Banks to slap her; Sharmell kicked Roode in the groin and jumped out of the way, causing Banks to slap Roode by mistake. Sharmell followed up on this by rolling-up Banks of for the pinfall victory.Shinai
is a weapon used for practice and competition in kendo representing a Japanese sword. Shinai are also used in other martial arts, but may be styled differently from kendo shinai, and represented with different characters....
, which the competitors immediately began to use. In the final minutes of the match, while Styles and Cage were on the roof standing on top of a ladder, Storm pushed the ladder over, causing them both to fall and crash through a table, which was set up on the roof by Cage earlier in the match. Storm then climbed down into the cage and hit Morgan over his head with a beer bottle, given to him by Jacqueline from outside the ring. After Storm turned around, Rhino performed a running shoulder block to Storm's stomach to gain the pinfall victory for Team Cage.
In the main event, Kurt Angle defended the TNA World Heavyweight Championship against Samoa Joe. Throughout the match, each man countered the other's submission holds
Professional wrestling holds
Professional wrestling holds include a number of set moves and pins used by performers to immobilize their opponents or lead to a submission. This article covers the various pins, stretches and transition holds used in the ring...
in an attempt to make them concede defeat. Late in the match, Joe placed Angle on the top of a padded turnbuckle, lifted Angle up, and slammed Angle's back and neck into his shoulder and the mat by using a maneuver dubbed the Muscle Buster. He then pinned Angle to win his first World Heavyweight Championship. Marcus Davis presented him with the championship belt, and Joe celebrated as the event came to a close.
Aftermath
| Other on-screen talent | |
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| Commentator | Mike Tenay Mike Tenay Michael William "Mike" Tenay is a professional wrestling play-by-play announcer currently employed by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling . Prior to signing with TNA in 2002, he had a notable tenure with World Championship Wrestling from 1994-2001... |
| Don West Don West (sportscaster) Donald "Don" West is an American pitchman, television personality and wrestling broadcaster currently working as an on-screen talent for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, and also as a pitchman for WildWestDeals.com, an internet marketing website... |
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| Frank Trigg Frank Trigg Dewey Franklin Trigg III is an American mixed martial artist, color commentator, pro wrestler and co-host of MMAWeekly radio show and TAGG radio show... |
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| Hector Guerrero Hector Guerrero Héctor Manuel Guerrero Llanes is a Mexican-American professional wrestler, better known simply by his paternal name, Héctor Guerrero... |
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| Willie Urbina | |
| Ring announcer | Jeremy Borash Jeremy Borash Jeremy Borash , is an American professional wrestling play-by-play commentator, announcer, ring announcer, booker, interviewer, producer and website designer... |
| David Penzer David Penzer David Penzer is an American professional wrestling ring announcer, most recently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He is perhaps best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling between 1995 and 2001.... |
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| Referee | Earl Hebner Earl Hebner Earl William Hebner is a professional wrestling referee currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, and the twin brother of Dave Hebner... |
| Rudy Charles Rudy Charles Daniel Engler is an American professional wrestling referee, better known by his ring name, Rudy Charles, best known for his time as a referee in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where he was the promotion's senior referee... |
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| Mark "Slick" Johnson | |
| Andrew Thomas | |
| Interviewers | Jeremy Borash |
| Lauren Thompson Lauren Brooke (interviewer) Lauren Thompson or Lauren Brooke is a U.S. television personality, print and voiceover model who works for Golf Channel hosting "Top Ten" and "Golf Now" , as well the "College Sports Minute". She is also known for previously working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as a backstage interviewer... |
On the episode of Impact! after Lockdown, Kurt Angle activated an on-screen rematch clause in his contract to fight Samoa Joe for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship on the April 24 episode of Impact!. The next week on Impact!, Angle lost the match after Scott Steiner, who was scheduled to have a TNA Championship match at TNA's next PPV event, Sacrifice, interfered and hit Angle with a lead pipe, allowing Joe to pin Angle. Due to Steiner's interference, Jim Cornette declared the TNA Championship match at Sacrifice would involve three competitors—titled a 3-Way Dance—between Joe, Steiner, and Angle on the same episode. Before Sacrifice, Angle sustained a legitimate neck injury, which did not allow him to compete in the match. At the event, Cornette announced that the winner of a match that took place inside a giant red steel structure—dubbed The TerrorDome—would take Angle's place in the 3-Way Dance. Kaz won The TerrorDome and took Angle's place. Joe won the match and retained the title.
On the April 17 episode of Impact!, World Tag Team Champions A.J. Styles and Tomko defended the championship against the teams of The Latin American Xchange (Homicide and Hernandez) (LAX) and Kaz and Eric Young. Young left midway through the match but later returned as Super Eric to pin Styles and win the match. Styles and Tomko later claimed that Young and Super Eric were two different people in the narrative. Young refused to agree that he was Super Eric, so Cornette vacated the title and set up The Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament to determine the new champions on the April 24 episode of Impact!. In the tournament, eight established tag teams fought against each other, with only four teams moving on to the next round. Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon), Christian Cage and Rhino, LAX, and Styles and Super Eric (Eric replaced Tomko, who had sustained a storyline injury in Japan) advanced to face the teams of Booker T and Robert Roode, Sting and James Storm, Kip James and Matt Morgan, and B.G. James and Awesome Kong at Sacrifice. LAX claimed victory in the tournament after defeating Team 3D in the final round.
Jay Lethal later lost the TNA X Division Championship to Petey Williams on the April 17 episode of Impact!, when Williams executed a contract clause allowing him a X Division Championship match whenever he wanted; Williams pinned Lethal to win the championship in the match. Williams won the contract clause at TNA's December 2007 PPV event, Turning Point.
Reception
Canadian Online ExplorerCanadian Online Explorer
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writer Chris Sokol rated the entire event 6.5 out of 10 stars, which was higher than the 2007 event's
Lockdown (2007)
Lockdown was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, which took place on April 15, 2007 at the Family Arena in Saint Charles, Missouri. This was the second monthly pay-per-view, after Bound for Glory , to be held outside Orlando, Florida. It was the...
rating of 5.5 out of 10 stars. The Lethal Lockdown match was rated a 9 out of 10 stars, while the main event match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship was rated an 8 out of 10 stars; this match was later announced as TNA's World Heavyweight Championship Match of the Year on the January 1, 2009 episode of Impact!. Simon Rothstein, a journalist for the United Kingdom newspaper The Sun
The Sun (newspaper)
The Sun is a daily national tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and owned by News Corporation. Sister editions are published in Glasgow and Dublin...
, stated in his review of Lockdown that the main event was the "best match of the night, this was perfectly booked and executed". He said that as a result, it "should give TNA the impetus to quickly smash the records they set at Lockdown". The event was released on DVD on June 17, 2008 by TNA Home Video
TNA Home Video
TNA Home Video is a division of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling that releases TNA's PPV events & other TNA produced compilations on DVD. TNA Home Video was formed in 2005 to partner with Navarre Corporation to distribute and produce TNA's expanding video library...
.
Results
| # | Results | Stipulations | Times |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jay Lethal Jay Lethal Jamar "Jay" Shipman better known by his ring name Jay Lethal, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Ring of Honor , where he is the ROH World Television Champion... (c) defeated Johnny Devine Johnny Devine John Peter "J.P." Parsonage is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name "Hot Shot" Johnny Devine... , Shark Boy Shark Boy Dean Mathew Roll is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Shark Boy and his experience in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling .-Early career:... , Sonjay Dutt Sonjay Dutt Retesh Bhalla is an American professional wrestler of Indian Punjabi descent, better known by his ring name, Sonjay Dutt. He is best known working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, and is also known for his stints with Combat Zone Wrestling, Major League Wrestling, and other various independent... , Curry Man Christopher Daniels Daniel Christopher Covell is an American professional wrestler, best known in the United States by his ring name "The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels. He is also known for performing under the ring name Curry Man. He is currently under contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , while also... , and Consequences Creed |
Xscape match for the TNA X Division Championship TNA X Division Championship The TNA X Division Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling promotion. It is primarily defended in TNA's X Division—a style based on a fast-paced, daredevil type of wrestling... |
10:25 |
| 2 | Roxxi Laveaux Nicole Raczynski Nicole Raczynski is an American professional wrestler, best known for working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Roxxi... defeated Angelina Love, Velvet Sky Velvet Sky Jamie Szantyr is an American professional wrestler currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Velvet Sky. She is a former TNA Women's Knockout Champion and TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion with her former Beautiful People partners Madison Rayne and Lacey Von Erich... , Salinas Shelly Martinez Shelly Leonor Martinez is a Mexican American model, actress, professional wrestler and valet. She is known for her work with World Wrestling Entertainment on its ECW brand under the ring name Ariel and for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Salinas as valet to The Latin American... , Rhaka Khan Trenesha Biggers Trenesha Biggers is a model and professional wrestler who worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Rhaka Khan. She was in the final top 25 in the 2005 WWE Diva Search.-Professional wrestling career:... , Traci Brooks Tracy Brookshaw Tracy Brookshaw is a Canadian professional wrestler, professional wrestling valet and professional wrestling referee, better known by her ring name Traci Brooks. She is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where she has spent most of her career.-Early life:Brookshaw grew up on a... , Christy Hemme Christy Hemme Christina Lee "Christy" Hemme is an American actress, singer, model, professional wrestling valet and former professional wrestler. Hemme is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, as a backstage interviewer and ring announcer.-Early life:Hemme was born in Poway, California, but she... , and Jacqueline Jacqueline Moore Jacqueline DeLois Moore is an inactive American professional wrestler, who was most recently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling... |
Queen of Cage match Gauntlet for the Gold The Gauntlet match as defined by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, is a battle royal-style match. When it involves title implications, such as a title on the line or contendership for a title, it is called a Gauntlet for the Gold... for number one contendership to the TNA Women's Knockout Championship TNA Women's Knockout Championship The TNA Women's Knockout Championship, often referred to simply as the Knockouts Championship, is a professional wrestling women's world championship owned by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling promotion. It is primarily contested for in TNA's women's division... |
5:27 |
| 3 | B.G. James Brian Gerard James Brian Gerard James is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE as an agent and producer. He is best known for his tenure with the World Wrestling Federation as "The Road Dogg" Jesse James or simply Road Dogg... defeated Kip James Monty Sopp Monty Kip Sopp is an American professional wrestler, best known as Billy Gunn during his tenure for World Wrestling Entertainment. He is probably best known as one of the members of the New Age Outlaws. He also worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Kip James... |
Six Sides of Steel match | 6:45 |
| 4 | Super Eric Eric Young (wrestler) Jeremy Fritz is a Canadian professional wrestler, best known under his ring name Eric Young. He currently performs for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he has gained popularity using a variety of comic relief gimmicks.... and Kaz Frankie Kazarian Frank B. Gerdelman is an Armenian-American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Frankie Kazarian or simply Kazarian. He is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling... defeated The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin Chris Sabin Joshua Harter is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Chris Sabin. He is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where he currently teams with Alex Shelley as The Motor City Machine Guns.After being trained by Scott D'Amore, Sabin debuted in 2000 for... and Alex Shelley Alex Shelley Patrick Martin , is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Alex Shelley. He wrestles for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he currently teams with Chris Sabin as The Motor City Machine Guns. He previously gained fame on the independent circuit, working most notably for... ), The Latin American Xchange (Homicide Nelson Erazo Nelson Rodriguez Erazo is an American professional wrestler of Puerto Rican descent, better known by his ring name, Homicide... and Hernandez Shawn Hernandez Shawn Hernandez is an American professional wrestler of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent, better known by his ring names, "Hotstuff Hernandez" and "Hernandez".... ), Scott Steiner Scott Steiner Scott Carl Rechsteiner is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Scott Steiner. Steiner is perhaps best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling alongside his older brother Rick as the Steiner Brothers and as a member of the New World Order... and Petey Williams Petey Williams Peter "Petey" Williams III is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is a two time X Division Champion and a former captain of Team Canada. Williams Currently Wrestles for Lucha Libre USA... , The Rock 'n Rave Infection (Lance Hoyt Lance Hoyt Lance Hoyt is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling as Lance Archer. He is best known for his work in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is a two time NWA World Tag Team Champion with Kid Kash while the title was under the TNA banner... and Jimmy Rave Jimmy Rave James Guffey is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Jimmy Rave. He is best known for working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling... ), and Black Reign and Rellik John Hugger John Hugger is an American professional wrestler. He is perhaps best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling as Johnny the Bull, World Wrestling Entertainment as Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli... |
Elimination tag team match for a future TNA World Tag Team Championship TNA World Tag Team Championship The TNA World Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling world tag team championship owned by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling promotion. It is primarily contested within TNA's tag team division. It was created and debuted on May 14, 2007 at the taping of TNA's primary television program,... match |
10:41 |
| 5 | Gail Kim Gail Kim Gail Kim is a Canadian professional wrestler of Korean descent, who is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where she is the current TNA Women's Knockout Champion and one half of the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions with Madison Rayne... and O.D.B. Jessica Kresa Jessica Kresa is an American professional wrestler and actress better known as ODB , currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where she is a former three–time TNA Women's Knockout Champion.... defeated Awesome Kong Kia Stevens Kia Michelle Stevens , better known by her ring names Amazing Kong, Awesome Kong and Kharma. She is signed with WWE, but has been inactive since May 2011 due to pregnancy... and Raisha Saeed |
Tag Team match Tag team Tag team professional wrestling is a variation in which matches are contested between teams of multiple wrestlers. A tag team may comprise two wrestlers who normally wrestle in singles competition, but more commonly are made of established teams who wrestle regularly as a unit and have a team name... |
8:26 |
| 6 | Booker T Booker Huffman Robert Booker Tio Huffman , better known by his ring name Booker T, is a semi-retired American professional wrestler and currently signed to WWE, on its SmackDown brand, as part of the announcing team. Booker is best known for his time in both the World Wrestling Entertainment and World... and Sharmell defeated Robert Roode and Payton Banks |
Intergender Tag Team match | 7:35 |
| 7 | Team Cage (Christian Cage Jason Reso William Jason Reso is a Canadian professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring names Christian and Christian Cage... , Kevin Nash Kevin Nash Kevin Scott Nash is an American professional wrestler and actor. As of 2011, Nash is signed to a five year contract with WWE under their WWE Legends program and appears as part of their Raw brand roster... , Rhino Terry Gerin Terrance "Terry" Gerin is an American professional wrestler and actor, better known by the ring name Rhino . He is best known for his career in Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Federation / Entertainment and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling... , Sting, and Matt Morgan) defeated Team Tomko (Tomko Travis Tomko Travis David Tomko is an American professional wrestler, known by his ring name Tomko, who most recently worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he previously was a member of Christian's Coalition and the Angle Alliance and often worked alongside A.J. Styles. He was also notable for his... , A.J. Styles A.J. Styles Allen Neal Jones , better known by his ring name A.J. Styles is an American professional wrestler currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling... , Team 3D Dudley Boyz Team 3D was a professional wrestling tag team, consisting of Brother Ray and Brother Devon, formerly sporadically joined into a stable by Brother Runt on several intervals... James Storm James Allen Cox is an American professional wrestler who competes under the ring name "The Cowboy" James Storm. Since 2002, Storm has been employed by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he, along with A.J... ) (with Jacqueline Jacqueline Moore Jacqueline DeLois Moore is an inactive American professional wrestler, who was most recently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling... ) |
Lethal Lockdown | 26:27 |
| 8 | Samoa Joe Samoa Joe Nuufolau Joel "Joe" Seanoa is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Samoa Joe. He is currently under contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.... defeated Kurt Angle Kurt Angle Kurt Steven Angle is an American professional wrestler, amateur wrestler, and 1996 Olympic gold medalist. He is currently under contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he is recognized as a 15-time World Heavyweight Champion... (c) |
Six Sides of Steel match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship TNA World Heavyweight Championship The TNA World Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship owned by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling promotion. It is currently the highest ranked championship in TNA and is primarily defended in TNA's heavyweight division... . If Joe had lost, he would have had to retire from professional wrestling Professional wrestling Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport... forever. |
17:34 |
Xscape match eliminations
| Elimination # | Eliminated | Eliminator | Notes | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sonjay Dutt | Johnny Devine | Pinfall by a roll-up | 2:47 |
| 2 | Shark Boy | Consequences Creed | Pinfall after a Creed-DT | 4:30 |
| 3 | Consequences Creed | Curry Man | Pinfall after a Spice Rack | 7:12 |
| 4 | Curry Man | Johnny Devine | Pinfall after a Devine Intervention. | 8:32 |
| 5 | Johnny Devine | n/a | n/a | 10:40 |
| WINNER | Jay Lethal | n/a | Lethal escaped the cage with help from Dutt and SoCal Val | 10:40 |
Tag Team match eliminations
| Elimination # | Eliminated | Eliminator |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scott Steiner | Rellik, Black Reign, Lance Hoyt, and Kaz |
| 2 | Alex Shelley | Petey Williams |
| 3 | Chris Sabin | Kaz |
| 4 | Homicide | Rellik |
| 5 | Petey Williams | Reign |
| 6 | Hernandez | Reign |
| 7 | Kaz | Rellik |
| 8 | Jimmy Rave | Super Eric |
| 9 | Lance Hoyt | Super Eric |
| 10 | Rellik | Super Eric |
| 11 | Black Reign | Super Eric |
| Winner | Super Eric | N/A |
Lethal Lockdown entrances
| Entrance | Wrestler | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christian Cage | Team Cage | 00:00 |
| 2 | A.J. Styles | Team Tomko | 00:00 |
| 3 | Brother Ray | Team Tomko | 05:00 |
| 4 | Rhino | Team Cage | 07:00 |
| 5 | James Storm | Team Tomko | 09:00 |
| 6 | Kevin Nash | Team Cage | 11:00 |
| 7 | Brother Devon | Team Tomko | 13:00 |
| 8 | Matt Morgan | Team Cage | 15:00 |
| 9 | Tomko | Team Tomko | 17:00 |
| 10 | Sting | Team Cage | 19:00 |
See also
- List of TNA pay-per-view events
- TNA LockdownTNA LockdownLockdown is a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced every April by the American professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action , is considered one of the flagship PPVs in the company, alongside Slammiversary and Bound for Glory...