TNA Sacrifice
Sacrifice is an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event held by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in the month of May. The first one was held in August 2005. When event names were shuffled by TNA for 2006, the event was moved to May. Sacrifice has had a tradition of being the final round of tournaments. Sacrifice 2005 saw Samoa Joe defeat A.J. Styles to win the Super X Cup. Sacrifice 2006 was the final round of the World X Cup Tournament. Sacrifice 2008 continued the tradition with the finals of the Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament. Sacrifice 2009 featured Beer Money, Inc. defeating The British Invasion in the finals of the Team 3D Invitational Tag Team Tournament. All events have been held inside the Impact! Zone. On January 11, 2013, TNA announced that in 2013 will be only four PPVs, dropping Sacrifice.[1]
Events
| # |
Event |
Date |
City |
Venue |
Main Event |
Ref |
|---|
| 01 !1 |
Sacrifice 2005 !Sacrifice (2005) |
000000002005-08-14-0000August 14, 2005 |
Orlando !Orlando, Florida |
TNA Impact! Zone !TNA Impact! Zone |
Jeff Jarrett and Rhino vs. Raven and Sabu in a Tag Team match |
|
| 02 !2 |
Sacrifice 2006 !Sacrifice (2006) |
000000002006-05-14-0000May 14, 2006 |
Orlando !Orlando, Florida |
TNA Impact! Zone !TNA Impact! Zone |
Christian Cage (c) vs. Abyss in a Full Metal Mayhem match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship |
|
| 03 !3 |
Sacrifice 2007 !Sacrifice (2007) |
000000002007-05-13-0000May 13, 2007 |
Orlando !Orlando, Florida |
TNA Impact! Zone !TNA Impact! Zone |
Christian Cage vs. Kurt Angle vs. Sting in a Three Way match to crown the first TNA World Heavyweight Champion |
|
| 04 !4 |
Sacrifice 2008 !Sacrifice (2008) |
000000002008-05-11-0000May 11, 2008 |
Orlando !Orlando, Florida |
TNA Impact! Zone !TNA Impact! Zone |
Samoa Joe (c) vs. Kaz vs. Scott Steiner in a Three Way match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship |
|
| 05 !5 |
Sacrifice 2009 !Sacrifice (2009) |
000000002009-05-24-0000May 24, 2009 |
Orlando !Orlando, Florida |
TNA Impact! Zone !TNA Impact! Zone |
Mick Foley (c) vs. Jeff Jarrett vs. Kurt Angle vs. Sting in a Four Way Ultimate Sacrifice match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship |
|
| 06 !6 |
Sacrifice 2010 !Sacrifice (2010) |
000000002010-05-16-0000May 16, 2010 |
Orlando !Orlando, Florida |
TNA Impact! Zone !TNA Impact! Zone |
Rob Van Dam (c) vs. A.J. Styles for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship |
[2] |
| 07 !7 |
Sacrifice 2011 !Sacrifice (2011) |
000000002011-05-15-0000May 15, 2011 |
Orlando !Orlando, Florida |
Impact Wrestling Zone !Impact Wrestling Zone |
Sting (c) vs. Rob Van Dam for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship |
[3] |
| 08 !8 |
Sacrifice 2012 !Sacrifice (2012) |
000000002012-05-13-0000May 13, 2012 |
Orlando !Orlando, Florida |
Impact Wrestling Zone !Impact Wrestling Zone |
Bobby Roode (c) vs. Rob Van Dam in a Ladder match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship |
[4] |
|
| 09 !9 |
Sacrifice 2014 !Sacrifice (2014) |
000000002014-04-27-0000April 27, 2014 |
Orlando !Orlando, Florida |
Impact Wrestling Zone !Impact Wrestling Zone |
Eric Young (c) vs. Magnus for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship |
|
(c) - refers to the champion prior to the match |
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Results
2005
2006
Sacrifice (2006) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) eventproduced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on May 14, 2006 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the second event under the Sacrifice chronology. Eight matches were featured on the event'scard.
- Jushin Thunder Liger (with Black Tiger, Minoru Tanaka, and Hirooki Goto) defeated Petey Williams (with Eric Young, Johnny Devine, and Tyson Dux) in a World X Cup match (07:16)
- America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm) defeated A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels to retain the NWA World Tag Team Championship (15:30)
- Harris pinned Styles after hitting him with a nightstick thrown down from the rafters by Gail Kim.
- Raven defeated A-1 (with Larry Zbyszko) (05:19)
- Bobby Roode (with Coach D'Amore) defeated Rhino (12:07)
- The James Gang (B.G. James and Kip James) defeated Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) (09:35)
- B.G. pinned Devon after hitting him with a lead pipe.
- Petey Williams won a World X Cup Gauntlet (19:21)
- Also in the match: Minoru Tanaka, Puma, Chris Sabin, Hirooki Goto, Incognito, Johnny Devine, Sonjay Dutt, Black Tiger, Magno, Eric Young, Alex Shelley, Jushin Thunder Liger, Shocker, Tyson Dux, and Jay Lethal.
- Williams pinned Puma after a Canadian Destroyer.
- After the match, Kevin Nash entered the ring and delivered a Jackknife Powerbomb to Puma.
- Sting and Samoa Joe defeated Jeff Jarrett and Scott Steiner (with Gail Kim) (14:24)
- Christian Cage defeated Abyss (with James Mitchell) in a Full Metal Mayhem match to retain the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (26:01)
- Cage grabbed the belt to win the match and reclaim the physical title belt, which had been stolen by Abyss at Lockdown.
2007
Sacrifice (2007) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on May 13, 2007 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the third event under the Sacrifice chronology. Nine matches were featured on the event's card. On this morning, before the airing of the event, Vice President of the National Wrestling Alliance stripped Christian Cage of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and Team 3D of the NWA World Tag Team Championships due to Cage's refusal to defend the World Title in various NWA Territories. The NWA severed all ties with TNA, although the affected champions still had physical possession of the belts. The affected champions defended their "status" as champions.
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2014
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