List of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling tournaments

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Total Nonstop Action Wrestling has held a variety of professional wrestling tournaments competed for by wrestlers that are a part of their roster.

1 TNA Hard 10 Tournament
2 X Division Cup Tournaments
3 Chris Candido Memorial Tag Team Tournament
4 Fight for the Right Tournament
5 Paparazzi Championship Series
6 TNA Turkey Bowl
7 Deuces Wild Tournament
8 Notes

[edit] TNA Hard 10 Tournament

The TNA Hard 10 Tournament was a hardcore tournament for a trophy that would proclaim the winner the most hardcore wrestler in TNA. It featured eight wrestlers competing in matches where a point-scoring system was used to determine the winner. The only tournament was held in 2004, which was won by the Sandman. The tournament was promptly abandoned by TNA in light of fans complaining about the point system.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] X Division Cup Tournaments

The TNA X Cup Tournaments are X Division tournaments that feature various wrestlers and/or Teams from around the World. So far, there have been two Super X Cup Tournaments, one America's X Cup Tournament, and two (soon to be three) World X Cup Tournaments.

TNA X Cup Tournaments

[edit] Chris Candido Memorial Tag Team Tournament

The Chris Candido Memorial Tag Team Tournament was a tag team tournament held to commemorate the memory of Chris Candido. As per Candido's role in TNA (prior to his death) of being the veteran who mentored young rising stars, teams were composed of established veterans pairing up with young rising stars. The tournament was won by Sean Waltman and Alex Shelley in 2005, its only year of existence. In addition to winning the trophy cup, the team was entered into a four-way match with a shot at the NWA World Tag Team Championship.

[edit] Fight for the Right Tournament

The Fight for the Right Tournament was a tournament to determine the number one contender for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and later for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.

Fight for the Right Tournament

[edit] Paparazzi Championship Series

The Paparazzi Championship Series was a tournament that began at Turning Point 2006 and involved five X Division competitors competing in a variety of matches where points are awarded for victories. These matches included limbo, Texas Hold'em, musical chairs, and a push-up contest, among others. The tournament was created to give the wrestlers airtime while also continuing the Paparazzi Productions storyline surrounding Austin Starr, Alex Shelley and Kevin Nash. Throughout the competitions, Nash kept bringing up Bob Backlund, which led up to Backlund being a guest judge at Final Resolution 2007 during the finals of the competition. Shelley defeated Starr in the finals to win a bowling trophy presented by Nash at Final Resolution 2007. The other three participants in the tournament were Sonjay Dutt, Jay Lethal and Senshi

[edit] TNA Turkey Bowl

The TNA Turkey Bowl was a tournament held in 2007 that aired on the Thanksgiving night episode of TNA Impact! The tournament consisted of three preliminary three way matches. Each match featured a member of the Heavyweight Division, The X-Division, and The Tag-Team Division with the winner of the match going on to the finals. The winner of the finals, also a three way match, won $25,000. The wrestler who lost in the finals was forced to put on a turkey suit. Samoa Joe won the tournament, with A.J. Styles being forced into the turkey suit. Results

Semifinals

Finals

Chris Sabin

Samoa Joe

Samoa Joe

AJ Styles

Consolation match

[edit] Deuces Wild Tournament

On the April 24, 2008 edition of TNA Impact!, Management Director Jim Cornette created the Deuces Wild Tournament in order to crown new TNA World Tag Team Champions. Eight well-established tag teams would compete in four matches on Impact! for a place in the main tournament, which would be held at the Sacrifice pay-per-view on May 11. Four more teams were picked at random from an 'Egotistical Eight', two paired on May 1 and the other two paired at Sacrifice. The tournament then took a single elimination format at the pay-per-view.

[edit] Qualifying matches

Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray) defeated Black Reign and Relliʞ
Christian Cage and Rhino defeated The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley)

The Latin American Exchange (Hernandez and Homicide) defeated Kaz and Eric Young.
A.J. Styles and Super Eric defeated The Rock 'n Rave Infection (Lance Hoyt and Jimmy Rave)

[edit] 'Egotistical Eight' teams

[edit] Results

See also: TNA Sacrifice#2008

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

Sting/Storm