Destination X

Destination X was an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event held by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in the month of March and more currently in the month of July. The event primarily revolves around the X-Division, the 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2010 events had Ultimate X matches.^[1] It was announced on TNA Wrestling's official website in January 2011 that Destination X was moving from March to July, switching places with TNA's traditional July PPV, Victory Road.^[2] On the June 21, 2012 edition of Impact, it was announced that every year the current X Division Champion will have an opportunity to give up their title for a shot at the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at Destination X. On January 11, 2013, TNA announced that in 2013 there would be only four PPVs, not including Destination X, although Destination X would be featured as a special episode of Impact Wrestling on July 18, 2013.^[3]

Events

#	Event	Date	City	Venue	Main Event	Ref
01 !1	Destination X 2005 !Destination X (2005)	02005-03-13-0000March 13, 2005	Orlando !Orlando, Florida	Impact! Zone !TNA Impact! Zone	Jeff Jarrett (c) vs. Diamond Dallas Page in a Ringside Revenge match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship
02 !2	Destination X 2006 !Destination X (2006)	02006-03-12-0000March 12, 2006	Orlando !Orlando, Florida	Impact! Zone !TNA Impact! Zone	Christian Cage (c) vs. Monty Brown for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship
03 !3	Destination X 2007 !Destination X (2007)	02007-03-11-0000March 11, 2007	Orlando !Orlando, Florida	Impact! Zone !TNA Impact! Zone	Christian Cage (c) vs. Samoa Joe for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship
04 !4	Destination X 2008 !Destination X (2008)	02008-03-09-0000March 9, 2008	Norfolk !Norfolk, Virginia	Norfolk Scope !Norfolk Scope	The Unlikely Alliance (Christian Cage, Kevin Nash, and Samoa Joe) vs. The Angle Alliance (Kurt Angle, A.J. Styles and Tomko) in a Six Man Tag Team match
05 !5	Destination X 2009 !Destination X (2009)	02009-03-15-0000March 15, 2009	Orlando !Orlando, Florida	Impact! Zone !TNA Impact! Zone	Sting (c) vs. Kurt Angle for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship with Jeff Jarrett as Special Guest Referee and Mick Foley as Special Guest Enforcer
06 !6	Destination X 2010 !Destination X (2010)	02010-03-21-0000March 21, 2010	Orlando !Orlando, Florida	Impact! Zone !TNA Impact! Zone	A.J. Styles (c) vs. Abyss for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship	[4]
07 !7	Destination X 2011 !Destination X (2011)	02011-07-10-0000July 10, 2011[5]	Orlando !Orlando, Florida	Impact Wrestling Zone !Impact Wrestling Zone	A.J. Styles vs. Christopher Daniels	[6]
08 !8	Destination X 2012 !Destination X (2012)	02012-07-08-0000July 8, 2012[5]	Orlando !Orlando, Florida	Impact Wrestling Zone !Impact Wrestling Zone	Bobby Roode (c) vs. Austin Aries for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship	[6]
09 !9	Destination X 2013 !Impact Wrestling: Destination X (2013)	02013-07-18-0000July 18, 2013	Louisville !Louisville, Kentucky	Broadbent Arena	Bully Ray (c) vs. Chris Sabin for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship	[6]
10 !10	Destination X 2014 !Impact Wrestling: Destination X (2014)	02014-07-31-0000July 31, 2014	New York !New York, New York	Grand Ballroom	Bobby Lashley (c) vs. Austin Aries for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship
(c) - refers to the champion prior to the match

Results

2005

2006

Destination X (2006)
Tagline(s)	Beyond the Ring
Information
Promotion	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Date	March 12, 2006
Attendance	900
Venue	TNA Impact! Zone
City	Orlando, Florida
Pay-per-view chronology
Against All Odds (2006) Destination X (2006) Lockdown (2006)
Destination X chronology
Destination X (2005) Destination X (2006) Destination X (2007)

Destination X (2006) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on March 12, 2006 from the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the second event under the Destination X chronology. Eight matches were featured on the event's card.

• Pre-Show match: Shannon Moore defeated Cassidy Riley (03:21)
  • Moore pinned Riley after a Halo.
• Pre-Show match: The Diamonds in the Rough (David Young and Elix Skipper) (with Simon Diamond) defeated Shark Boy and Norman Smiley (03:17)
  • Young pinned Smiley after a side slam by Skipper.
• Alex Shelley defeated Jay Lethal (10:08)
  • Shelley pinned Lethal after a Sliced Bread #2.
• Lance Hoyt defeated Matt Bentley (with Traci Brooks) (07:59)
  • Hoyt pinned Bentley after a Boot From Hell.
• Team Canada (Bobby Roode and Eric Young) (with Coach D'Amore and A-1) defeated The Naturals (Chase Stevens and Andy Douglas) (12:24)
  • Roode pinned Douglas after Young hit Douglas with a hockey stick.
• The James Gang (B.G. James and Kip James) and Bob Armstrong defeated The Latin American Exchange (Homicide, Hernandez and Machete) (w/Konnan) (06:38)
  • Kip pinned Machete after a One and Only.
• Chris Sabin defeated Petey Williams, Sonjay Dutt and Puma in a Four Way match (14:57)
  • Sabin pinned Puma after a Cradle Shock.
• Jeff Jarrett, Abyss, and America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm) (with James Mitchell and Gail Kim) defeated Rhino, Ron Killings, and Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) in an 8-Man War (20:10)
  • Jarrett pinned Killings after a Stroke.
• Christopher Daniels defeated Samoa Joe (c) and A.J. Styles in an Ultimate X match to win the TNA X Division Championship (13:26)
  • Daniels unlatched the X Division title to win.
• Christian Cage (c) defeated Monty Brown to retain the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (17:11)
  • Cage pinned Brown after an Unprettier.
  • After the match, America's Most Wanted, Abyss, Alex Shelley, Team Canada, Jeff Jarrett, and Brown attacked Cage. Rhino came down to help Cage, and eventually Sting made his return and attacked Jarrett and locked him in the Scorpion Death Lock. Scott Steiner then made his debut in TNA, attacking Sting and placed him in the Steiner Recliner.

2007

Destination X (2007)
Tagline(s)	First You Must Die...in Order to Live
Information
Promotion	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Date	March 11, 2007
Attendance	900
Venue	TNA Impact! Zone
City	Orlando, Florida
Pay-per-view chronology
Against All Odds (2007) Destination X (2007) Lockdown (2007)
Destination X chronology
Destination X (2006) Destination X (2007) Destination X (2008)

Destination X (2007) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on March 11, 2007 from the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the third event under the Destination X chronology. Nine matches were featured on the event's card.

• The Latin American Xchange (Homicide and Hernandez) (with Konnan) defeated Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) (with Johnny Rodz) in a Ghetto Brawl (14:49)
  • Homicide pinned Devon after Alex Shelley hit Devon with a camera and then a Frog Splash through a table.
• James Storm and Jacqueline Moore defeated Petey Williams and Gail Kim in a Double Bullrope match (07:52)
  • Storm pinned Williams after a superkick.
• Senshi defeated Austin Starr in a Crossface Chickenwing match (11:09)
  • Senshi forced Starr to submit with the Crossface Chickenwing.
  • After the match, Starr attacked Bob Backlund (who had come to ringside during the match) and put him in the Crossface Chickenwing.
• The Voodoo Kin Mafia (B.G. and Kip James) defeated The Heartbreakers (Antonio Thomas and Romeo Roselli) (with Christy Hemme) (09:02)
  • B.G. pinned Antonio after a Pumphandle Slam.
• Chris Sabin (c) defeated Jerry Lynn in a Two out of Three Falls Match to retain the TNA X Division Championship (12:18)
  • Lynn pinned Sabin after a Tornado DDT (05:51)
  • Sabin pinned Lynn using the ropes for leverage (08:51)
  • Sabin pinned Lynn with the Cradle Shock after the distraction of a masked man (12:18)
  • After the match, the masked man (Christopher Daniels) hit the Angel's Wings on Sabin and hit Lynn with the X Division Title belt.
• Rhino defeated A.J. Styles in an Elevation X match (09:05)
  • Rhino knocked Styles off the structure to win.
• Kurt Angle defeated Scott Steiner (12:42)
  • Angle pinned Steiner after a Sunset Flip off the top-rope.
• Sting defeated Abyss in a Last Rites match (10:41)
  • Sting won the match after putting Abyss in the casket and shutting the lid.
• Christian Cage (c) defeated Samoa Joe to retain the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (17:57)
  • Cage pinned Joe after flipping over while in the Coquina Clutch and using the ropes for leverage.

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

Destination X (2013)
Tagline(s)	LIVE and FREE on spike tv
Theme song(s)	"Sinister Rise Above Instrumental" by Dale Oliver
Information
Promotion	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Date	July 18, 2013
Attendance	3,200
Venue	Broadbent Arena
City	Louisville, Kentucky
Destination X chronology
Destination X (2012) Destination X (2013) Destination X (2014)

Destination X (2013) (aka Impact Wrestling: Destination X) was a professional wrestling event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on July 18 at the Broadbent Arena in Louisville, Kentucky. It was the ninth event under the Destination X chronology. Unlike the previous events, this event was not held on pay-per-view (PPV) and was instead featured as a special edition of TNA's weekly broadcast of Impact Wrestling.

Background

Destination X featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

On January 11, 2013, TNA announced that there would only be four PPVs in 2013, dropping Destination X as a PPV. However during Slammiversary XI on June 2, 2013, after the Ultimate X Match where Chris Sabin won the X Division Championship, TNA general manager Hulk Hogan announced that just like in 2012, the reigning X Division champion would have the option to voluntarily vacate the title in exchange for a World Heavyweight Championship match at the 2013 Destination X event, which would now be a special episode of TNA's primary weekly television program Impact Wrestling.^[7][8]

Sabin was noncommital as to whether he was going to cash in for the World Heavyweight title shot. On the June 27 edition of Impact Wrestling, Sabin lost the title in a three-way match (also involving Kenny King) to Suicide. Hogan then came out and announced that the real Suicide (T.J. Perkins) had been knocked out backstage and that the Suicide in the ring was an imposter. Hogan then gave Suicide until the end of the night to either unmask or be stripped of the championship. Suicide then unmasked, revealing himself to be Austin Aries. Aries confessed to being the person who jumped T.J. Perkins, explaining as he was the one who came up with the idea of the X Division Champion having the yearly right to exchange the X title for a match for the World title (and the one who traded in and won last year) Aries announced that he would be challenging Bully Ray for the World Championship.

At the June 29 tapings in Las Vegas, Nevada, Hulk Hogan announced a three-way match for the X Division Championship also involving Chris Sabin and T.J. Perkins (now going by Manik), which was won by Sabin (aired July 4). In the portion of the tapings that aired on July 11, Sabin voluntarily vacated the title in exchange for a match to wrestle for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at Destination X against champion Bully Ray on July 18.^[9]

Results

• Xplosion match: Joseph Park defeated Devon (6:22)
  • Park pinned Devon after a splash from the middle rope.
• Austin Aries defeated Bobby Roode in a Bound for Glory Series match (11:56)
  • Aries pinned Roode after a brainbuster.^[10]
• Sonjay Dutt defeated Homicide and Petey Williams in a three-way match in a tournament for the vacant TNA X Division Championship (4:06)
  • Dutt pinned Homicide after a moonsault double foot stomp.^[10]
• Manik defeated Chavo Guerrero and Kenny King in a 3-Way match in a tournament for the vacant TNA X Division Championship (4:35)
  • Manik pinned Kenny King after a running double high knee.^[10]
• Greg Marasciulo defeated Rockstar Spud and Rubix in a three-way match in a tournament for the vacant TNA X Division Championship (6:25)
  • Marasciulo pinned Spud after an Inverted Piledriver.^[10]
• Chris Sabin defeated Bully Ray (c) to win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship (18:44)^[10]
  • Sabin pinned Bully Ray after hitting him in the head with his hammer.
  • Aces & Eights and The Main Event Mafia gathered around ringside after the start of the match and later brawled across the arena.

Aftermath

On the July 25 edition of Impact Wrestling Manik defeated Sonjay Dutt and Greg Marasciulo in the Ultimate X finals to win the new X Division Championship.

Bully Ray and Chris Sabin continued their feud over the TNA World Heavyweight Championship after Destination X. The week after Destination X on the July 25 episode of Impact Wrestling it was announced that on the Hardcore Justice special Chris Sabin will defend his title against Bully Ray in a Steel Cage match, which was won by Bully Ray.

2014

Destination X (2014)
Tagline(s)	Free on Spike TV
Theme song(s)	"Sinister Rise Above Instrumental" by Dale Oliver
Information
Promotion	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Date	Taped June 26, 2014 Aired July 31, 2014
Attendance	1,000
Venue	Grand Ballroom
City	New York, New York
Destination X chronology
Destination X (2013) Destination X (2014) TBA

Destination X (2014) (aka Impact Wrestling: Destination X) is a professional wrestling event produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion. It is the tenth event under the Destination X chronology. Like the previous year's event, this event was not held on pay-per-view (PPV) and was instead featured as a special edition of TNA's weekly broadcast of Impact Wrestling. It was taped on June 26 and aired on July 31.

Background

Destination X will feature professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.

On June 23 TNA confirmed on their website that the company will be returning to the six-sided ring starting at the Impact Wrestling tapings in New York City.

TNA continued the tradition that began in June 2012 Destination X event where the current X Division Champion can invoke "Option C" - a concept in which the current X Division Champion may voluntarily vacate the championship in exchange for a TNA World Heavyweight Championship match at this year's Destination X event. On June 24, Aries agreed to give up the title to face World Champion Lashley at Destination X for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.

On June 24 TNA announced that The Hardys (Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy) would be competing at the Destination X. Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy reunited and they challenged the TNA Tag Team Champions The Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards).

At Destination X TNA started a tournament to determine the new TNA X Division Champion, after the title was vacated by Austin Aries when he invoked Option C. The tournament consisted of three three–way semifinal matches.

Results

• The Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) (c) defeated The Hardys (Matt and Jeff Hardy) in a Tag team match (12:16)
  • The Wolves pinned Matt Hardy after a Force of Nature.
• Low Ki defeated DJ Z and Manik in a TNA X Division Championship Three-way semifinal tournament match (5:16)
  • Low Ki pinned Manik after a Ki Krusher.
• Sanada defeated Brian Cage and Crazzy Steve (with Rebel, Knux and The Freak) in a TNA X Division Championship Three-way semifinal tournament match (4:33)
  • Sanada pinned Steve with a Tiger suplex bridge.
• Samoa Joe defeated Homicide and Tigre Uno in a TNA X Division Championship 3-Way semifinal tournament match (9:49)
  • Joe pinned Homicide after a Muscle buster.
• Lashley (c) defeated Austin Aries in a Singles match to retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship (20:06)
  • Aries had invoked Option C to receive a title shot.
  • Lashley pinned Aries after a spear.

Aftermath

On the August 7th edition of Impact Wrestling (taped June 27) Samoa Joe, Sanada and Low Ki wrestled in a three way tournament final to crown the new X Division Champion, in which Joe was victorious.

References

External links

• TNAWrestling.com - the official website of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling major pay-per-view events Destination X 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Current Lockdown Sacrifice Slammiversary Bound for Glory Former Genesis (2005–2013) Turning Point (2004–2012) Final Resolution (2005–2012) Destination X (2005-2012) Hardcore Justice/Hard Justice (2005–2012) Against All Odds (2005–2012) Victory Road (2004, 2006–2012) No Surrender (2005–2012) Unbreakable (2005) See also Weekly pay-per-view show (2002–2004) One Night Only (2013–present)