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'''Lockdown (2008)''' was the fourth annual [[TNA Lockdown|Lockdown]] [[professional wrestling]] [[pay-per-view]] event produced by [[Total Nonstop Action Wrestling]] (TNA). It took place on [[April 13]] [[2008]] at the [[Tsongas Arena]] in [[Lowell, Massachusetts]]. The official theme song was "''[[Soulcrusher|Nothing to Lose]]''" by [[Operator (band)|Operator]].<ref name="song">{{cite web|url=http://www.tnawrestling.com/content/view/579/84/|title=Official theme music for "Lockdown" performed by "Operator"|date=2008-02-25|accessdate=2008-03-04|last=Banks|first=Bill|publisher=TNAwrestling.com}}</ref> |
'''Lockdown (2008)''' was the fourth annual [[TNA Lockdown|Lockdown]] [[professional wrestling]] [[pay-per-view]] event produced by [[Total Nonstop Action Wrestling]] (TNA). It took place on [[April 13]] [[2008]] at the [[Tsongas Arena]] in [[Lowell, Massachusetts]]. The official theme song was "''[[Soulcrusher|Nothing to Lose]]''" by [[Operator (band)|Operator]].<ref name="song">{{cite web|url=http://www.tnawrestling.com/content/view/579/84/|title=Official theme music for "Lockdown" performed by "Operator"|date=2008-02-25|accessdate=2008-03-04|last=Banks|first=Bill|publisher=TNAwrestling.com}}</ref> |
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The [[main event]] was for the [[TNA World Heavyweight Championship]] between [[Kurt Angle]] and [[Samoa Joe]], which Joe won by [[Pin (professional wrestling)|pinning]] Angle after performing a [[Professional wrestling throws#Muscle Buster|Muscle Buster]]. The predominant match on the [[undercard |
The [[main event]] was for the [[TNA World Heavyweight Championship]] between [[Kurt Angle]] and [[Samoa Joe]], which Joe won by [[Pin (professional wrestling)|pinning]] Angle after performing a [[Professional wrestling throws#Muscle Buster|Muscle Buster]]. The predominant match on the [[undercard]] featured a [[Professional wrestling match types#Lethal Lockdown|Lethal Lockdown match]] between [[Christian's Coalition#The New Team Cage (Lockdown 2008)|Team Cage]] ([[Jason Reso|Christian Cage]], [[Kevin Nash]], [[Terry Gerin|Rhino]], [[Sting (wrestler)|Sting]], and [[Matt Morgan (wrestler)|Matt Morgan]]) and [[The Angle Alliance#Setup for the breakdown|Team Tomko]] ([[Travis Tomko|Tomko]], [[A.J. Styles]], [[Dudley Boyz|Team 3D]] ([[Mark LoMonaco|Brother Ray]] and [[Devon Hughes|Brother Devon]]), and [[James Storm]]). Team Cage won the match after Rhino pinned Storm following a [[Professional wrestling attacks#Spear|Gore]]. Another primary match on the undercard featured [[Booker Huffman|Booker T]] and [[Sharmell Sullivan|Sharmell]] versus [[Bobby Roode|Robert Roode]] and [[Bonnie Maxon|Payton Banks]] in a [[Professional wrestling tag team match types#Mixed tag team match|mixed tag team match]], which Booker and Sharmell won after Sharmell pinned Banks. Other matches on the undercard featured [[Brian Gerard James|B.G. James]] versus [[Monty Sopp|Kip James]] and [[Eric Young (wrestler)|Super Eric]] and [[Frankie Kazarian|Kaz]] versus The [[Motor City Machine Guns]] ([[Chris Sabin]] and [[Alex Shelley]]) versus [[Latin American Exchange|The Latin American Xchange]] ([[Nelson Erazo|Homicide]] and [[Shawn Hernandez|Hernandez]]) versus [[Scott Steiner]] and [[Petey Williams]] versus The [[Rock 'n Rave Infection]] ([[Lance Hoyt]] and [[Jimmy Rave]]) and [[Dustin Rhodes|Black Reign]] and [[John Hugger|Rellik]] in a Cuffed in the Cage Match. |
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===Background=== |
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The main [[Feud (professional wrestling)|feud]] heading into Lockdown was between [[Kurt Angle]] and [[Samoa Joe]], with the two battling for the [[TNA World Heavyweight Championship]]. This feud restarted after Management Director [[Jim Cornette]] announced that Joe would fight Angle for the title at Lockdown. During the weeks leading up to Lockdown Joe said that if he |
The main [[Feud (professional wrestling)|feud]] heading into Lockdown was between [[Kurt Angle]] and [[Samoa Joe]], with the two battling for the [[TNA World Heavyweight Championship]]. This feud restarted after Management Director [[Jim Cornette]] announced that Joe would fight Angle for the title at Lockdown. During the weeks leading up to Lockdown, Joe said that if he did not win the title at Lockdown, he would quit [[professional wrestling]] forever. In the weeks leading up to Lockdown, Joe did not show up on ''[[TNA Impact|iMPACT!]]'', because he was [[kayfabe]] training instead. At the same time, Angle fought new [[Job (professional wrestling)|opponents]] on ''iMPACT'' each week in [[Mixed martial arts|MMA fights]]. In one of these fights, [[Travis Tomko|Tomko]] and [[A.J. Styles]] switched back and forth every sixty seconds to fight Angle. |
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The secondary feud going into Lockdown was about the annual [[Professional wrestling match types#Lethal Lockdown|Lethal Lockdown match]]. Team |
The secondary feud going into Lockdown was about the annual [[Professional wrestling match types#Lethal Lockdown|Lethal Lockdown match]]. Team captains announced by Jim Cornette were Tomko and [[Jason Reso|Christian Cage]]. This feud started when Tomko turned on Cage at [[TNA Against All Odds#2008|Against All Odds]] in Cage's World Heavyweight title match against Kurt Angle. Tomko entered the ring and performed a [[Neckbreaker#Argentine neckbreaker|torture rack neckbreaker]] on Cage, which cost him his chance to win the title. Tomko decided that his teammates would be Styles and [[Dudley Boyz|Team 3D]] ([[Mark LoMonaco|Brother Ray]] and [[Devon Hughes|Brother Devon]]). Cage decided on [[Terry Gerin|Rhino]] and [[Kevin Nash]] as his teammates. Then later on ''iMPACT'', while Team Cage were in a brawl with Team Tomko, a promo came on showing the return of [[Steve Borden|Sting]]. Sting returned the next week after a match between Christian Cage and Rhino vs Team 3D. Team 3D and the rest of Team Tomko where about to place Team Cage through tables. The lights went off then came back on with Sting in the ring with a baseball bat. He started swinging the bat until Team 3D, Tomko, and Styles left the ring. After this, another match was made for the night between Sting, Cage, Rhino, and Nash vs Styles, Tomko, and Team 3D in a tag match, in which Team Cage won. After the match Team Cage were celebrating their victory when [[James Storm]] attacked Sting and hit him with a beer bottle in the back of the head. The next week on ''iMPACT!'', [[Matt Morgan (wrestler)|Matt Morgan]] let Team Tomko place Storm on their team. This allowed Team Cage to add another member to their Team, which turned out to be Morgan. |
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Another feud going into Lockdown was between [[Booker Huffman|Booker T]] and [[Sharmell Sullivan|Sharmell]] and [[Bobby Roode|Robert Roode]] and [[Bonnie Maxon|Payton Banks]]. |
Another feud going into Lockdown was between [[Booker Huffman|Booker T]] and [[Sharmell Sullivan|Sharmell]] and [[Bobby Roode|Robert Roode]] and [[Bonnie Maxon|Payton Banks]]. The feud started after Booker debuted in TNA. Roode was unhappy that outsiders were coming to TNA and pushing him further down the ladder of success. Later, Roode accidentally hit Booker's wife (Sharmell) at [[Final Resolution#2008|Final Resolution]]. Booker and Roode then fought at Against All Odds and [[TNA Destination X#2008|Destination X]]. After their match at Destination X, Sharmell returned and hit everyone around the ring, including Security, Roode, Payton Banks, and Jim Cornette with a leather strap. On the following ''iMPACT!'', Cornette placed Booker T and Sharmell in a match at Lockdown against Roode and Banks. |
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Prior to the event, [[Gail Kim]] and [[Jessica Kresa|O.D.B]] were feuding with [[Kia Stevens|Awesome Kong]] and [[Melissa Anderson|Raisha Saeed]]. At Destination X, Gail Kim, ODB, and Awesome Kong were involved in a [[List of professional wrestling match types#Basic non-elimination matches|Triple Threat match]] for the [[TNA Women's Knockout Championship|TNA Knockouts World Championship]]. Awesome Kong prevailed by pinning ODB after performing a [[Powerbomb#Sitout powerbomb|Awesome Bomb]] after Saeed had tripped her from the outside. This caused ODB and Kim to get frustrated with Saeed, wanting a match with her because she kept costing them their chances at the championship. A match was then made to take place at Lockdown involving ODB and Gail Kim vs Saeed and Awesome Kong. |
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Another feud heading into Lockdown was between former partners |
Another feud heading into Lockdown was between former partners [[Brian Gerard James|B.G. James]] and [[Monty Sopp|Kip James]]. Kip was angry that BG used his [[TNA Turning Point#2007|Feast or Fired briefcase]], which had a [[TNA World Tag Team Championship|Tag Team Championship]] match in it, with his dad instead of choosing him as his partner. At Against All Odds, BG and his dad [[Bob Armstrong]] failed in their attempt to win the Tag Team Championship in a match against [[AJ Styles and Tomko]] after a [[Professional wrestling double-team maneuvers#Aided whiplash|Tornado-Plex]] on BG to get the pin. A rematch took place on ''iMPACT'', but BG was injured so Kip took his place in the match. During the match, Kip attacked Armstrong and BG. Later a match was made for Lockdown. |
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Another match to take place at Lockdown was the annual [[X Division]] [[Professional wrestling match types#Xscape Match|Xscape match]] for the [[TNA X Division Championship]]. Champion [[Jay Lethal]] defended the X Division Championship against [[Johnny Devine]], [[Sonjay Dutt]], [[Christopher Daniels|Curry Man]], [[Shark Boy]], and [[Austin Creed|Consequences Creed]]. Each man (besides Lethal) fought in qualification matches on iMPACT! to determine who would fight in |
Another match to take place at Lockdown was the annual [[X Division]] [[Professional wrestling match types#Xscape Match|Xscape match]] for the [[TNA X Division Championship]]. Champion [[Jay Lethal]] defended the X Division Championship against [[Johnny Devine]], [[Sonjay Dutt]], [[Christopher Daniels|Curry Man]], [[Shark Boy]], and [[Austin Creed|Consequences Creed]]. Each man (besides Lethal) fought in qualification matches on ''iMPACT!'' to determine who would fight in the match. The first qualification match was between Curry Man and [[Petey Williams]], which Curry Man won. The second was between Sonjay Dutt and [[Nelson Erazo|Homicide]], which Sonjay won. The third was between Johnny Devine and [[Alex Shelly]], which Devine won. The forth was between Shark Boy and [[Elix Skipper]], which Shark Boy won after a [[Stunner (professional wrestling)|Chummer]]. The fifth was between the debuting Consequences Creed and [[Jimmy Rave]]. Creed won after a [[DDT (professional wrestling)#Legsweep DDT|Creed-DT]]. |
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2 other matches that occurred at Lockdown were the Queen of the Cage and the Cuffed in the Cage matches. In the Queen of the Cage match all of the Knockouts in the Knockouts division (with the exception of Gail Kim, ODB, Saeed, Sharmel, Payton Banks, and Awesome Kong). You had to climb up the cage and get into the ring. After 2 people have climbed the cage and gotten into the ring then a regular match will start. The participants were [[Christy Hemme]], [[Trenesha Biggers|Rhaka Khan]], [[Shelly Martinez|Salinas]], [[Angel Williams|Angelina Love]], [[Velvet Sky]], [[Nicole Raczynski|Roxxi Laveaux]], [[Tracy Brookshaw|Traci Brooks]], and [[Jacqueline Moore|Jacqueline]] all fighting for #1 Contendership to the Knockouts Championship. |
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In Cuffed in the Cage you had to handcuff both members of a team to the cage. After all teams were cuffed then your team won the match. The participants were [[Latin American Exchange| The Latin American Xchange]] ([[Nelson Erazo|Homicide]] and [[Shawn Hernandez|Hernandez]]), [[Rock 'n Rave Infection|The Rock N' Rave Infection]] ([[Lance Hoyt]] and [[Jimmy Rave]]) , [[Dustin Rhodes|Black Reign]] and [[John Hugger|Rellik]], [[Scott Steiner]] and [[Petey Williams]], [[Eric Young (wrestler)|Super Eric]] and [[Frankie Kazarian|Kaz]], and [[Motor City Machine Guns|The Motor City Machine Guns]] ([[Chris Sabin]] and [[Alex Shelley]]). The winners would get a shot at the TNA World Tag Team Championship. |
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Before the event, there was a thirty minutes pre-show which aired promos and hyped the main matches on the card. As a tradition of the annual pay-per-view, every match took place inside [[List of professional wrestling match types#Cages|Six Sides of Steel]], a cage surrounding the ring. |
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The opening match was the [[X Division]] [[Professional wrestling match types#Xscape Match|Xscape match]]. The match came down to |
The opening match was the [[X Division]] [[Professional wrestling match types#Xscape Match|Xscape match]]. The match came down to champion [[Jay Lethal]] against [[Johnny Devine]]. Lethal, who was about to escape the cage and win, was graped and tied up by Devine to the ring ropes on the other side of the cage. While Devine tried to make his escape, Dutt, who was the first eliminated in the match, and [[SoCal Val]] closed the cage down and would not let the referees open it. As a result, Devine started to climb up the side of the cage. While he was climbing the cage, Dutt helped Lethal get untied from the outside of the cage. While SoCal and Dutt were stopping Devine from jumping off of the cage, Lethal ran and jumped his way through the cage door to the outside to win the match and retain the [[TNA X Division Championship|X Division Championship]]. |
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The Queen of the Cage match, which occurred next, included [[Christy Hemme]], [[Trenesha Biggers|Rhaka Khan]], [[Shelly Martinez|Salinas]], [[Angel Williams|Angelina Love]], [[Velvet Sky]], [[Nicole Raczynski|Roxxi Laveaux]], [[Tracy Brookshaw|Traci Brooks]], and [[Jacqueline Moore|Jacqueline]]. The object of the match was to climb the cage and get into the ring. After two people climbed the cage and were in the ring, then the match would begin. The two competitors that were the first to climb the cage where Angelina Love and Roxxi Laveaux. Laveaux won by pin after a [[Professional wrestling throws#Guillotine drop|Voodoo Drop]]. Since Laveaux won the match, she became #1 contender to the [[TNA Women's Championship|TNA Women's Knockout Championship]]. |
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The third match was |
The third match was between rivals, and former partners, [[Brian Gerard James|B.G. James]] and [[Monty Sopp|Kip James]]. BG won the contest with a [[Pin (professional wrestling)#Roll-up|roll-up]] pin. |
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The fourth event of the night was the Cuffed in the Cage match, where the objective was to handcuff both members of all the opposing teams to the cage. The participants were [[Latin American Exchange|The Latin American Xchange]] ([[Nelson Erazo|Homicide]] and [[Shawn Hernandez|Hernandez]]), [[Rock 'n Rave Infection|The Rock N' Rave Infection]] ([[Lance Hoyt]] and [[Jimmy Rave]]) , [[Dustin Rhodes|Black Reign]] and [[John Hugger|Rellik]], [[Scott Steiner]] and [[Petey Williams]], [[Eric Young (wrestler)|Super Eric]] and [[Frankie Kazarian|Kaz]], and [[Motor City Machine Guns|The Motor City Machine Guns]] ([[Chris Sabin]] and [[Alex Shelley]]). Before the match began, Eric Young was beaten down by Rellik and Reign. During the match, Young came out but was scared away by Reign and Rellik and went backstage. He later came back in his "Super Eric" gimmick and entered the match. In the end, YOung handcuffed Reign last to the cage after everyone else was handcuffed to win the match for him and Kaz. Because of their victory, Super Eric and Kaz earned a [[TNA World Tag Team Championship]] match. |
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The fifth match was a tag team match between [[Gail Kim]] and [[Jessica Kresa|O.D.B.]] |
The fifth match was a tag team match between [[Gail Kim]] and [[Jessica Kresa|O.D.B.]] versus [[Melissa Anderson|Raisha Saeed]] and TNA Knockouts Champion [[Kia Stevens|Awesome Kong]]. Kong dominated most of the match, but ODB won after performing a [[Professional wrestling aerial techniques#Splash|splash]] on Saeed to get the [[Pin (professional wrestling)|pin]]. The sixth match to occur was a [[Professional wrestling tag team match types#Mixed tag team match|mixed tag team match]] between [[Booker Huffman|Booker T]] and [[Sharmell Sullivan|Sharmell]] versus [[Bobby Roode|Robert Roode]] and [[Bonnie Maxon|Payton Banks]]. Booker and Sharmell won the match when Sharmel rolled Banks up to get the pin and the victory for her and her husband. |
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⚫ | The seventh match was the 5 on 5 tag team [[Professional wrestling match types#Lethal Lockdown match|Lethal Lockdown match]] between [[Christian's Coalition#The New Team Cage (Lockdown 2008)|Team Cage]] and [[The Angle Alliance#2007-2008|Team Tomko]]. Team Tomko was comprised of [[Travis Tomko|Tomko]], [[A.J. Styles]], [[James Storm]] and [[Dudley Boyz|Team 3D]] ([[Mark LoMonaco|Brother Ray]] and [[Devon Hughes|Brother Devon]]). Team Cage was comprised of [[Jason Reso|Christian Cage]], [[Terry Gerin|Rhino]], [[Kevin Nash]], [[Sting (wrestler)|Sting]], and [[Matt Morgan (wrestler)|Matt Morgan]]. The match was to begin with Team Captains Christian Cage and Tomko, but instead AJ Styles hit Cage from behind with a [[Professional wrestling aerial techniques#Springboard|springboard]] [[Professional wrestling attacks#Elbow smash|flying forearm]] while Cage was waiting for Tomko to make his ring entrance. The match began, and a member from each team would enter every minute and a half. At the end of the match, Rhino hit Storm from his right side with a [[Professional wrestling attacks#Spear|Gore]], to pin him for the victory for Team Cage. Meanwhile, Cage and Styles had just fallen through a table from a ladder on the top of the cage. |
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The sixth match to occur was a [[Professional wrestling tag team match types#Mixed tag team match|Mixed Tag Team match]] between [[Booker Huffman|Booker T]] and [[Sharmell Sullivan|Sharmell]] vs [[Bobby Roode|Robert Roode]] and [[Bonnie Maxon|Payton Banks]]. This was a slow match but in the end it sped up. Booker and Sharmell won the match when Sharmel rolled Banks up to get the pin and the victory for her and her husband. |
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⚫ | The main match of the card was a [[MMA|MMA fight]] between [[Kurt Angle]] and [[Samoa Joe]] for Angle's [[TNA World Heavyweight Championship]]. For the first few minutes it was a MMA styled fight, but it quickly changed into a technical bout. The stipulation for this match was that if Joe lost, then he would retire from professional wrestling. At the end of the match, Joe placed Angle on the top rope and performed the [[Professional wrestling throws#Muscle Buster|Muscle Buster]] on him. He then pinned Angle for the victory and his first [[World Championship]]. This marked Joe's first reign as [[TNA World Heavyweight Championship|TNA World Heavyweight Champion]]. |
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⚫ | The seventh match was the 5 on 5 tag team [[Professional wrestling match types#Lethal Lockdown match|Lethal Lockdown match]] between [[Christian's Coalition#The New Team Cage (Lockdown 2008)|Team Cage]] and [[The Angle Alliance#2007-2008|Team Tomko]]. |
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⚫ | The main match of the card was [[Kurt Angle]] |
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===Aftermath=== |
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The feud between Joe and Angle continued on [[TNA Impact|iMPACT!]]. |
The feud between Joe and Angle continued on ''[[TNA Impact|iMPACT!]]''. Angle claimed to have a rematch clause in his contract during a segment between Joe and [[Scott Steiner]], who was set to have a match at Sacrifice against the [[TNA World Heavyweight Championship|TNA World Heavyweight Champion]]. Joe and Angle fought again on the [[April 27]] [[2008]] edition of ''iMPACT!'' for the World Heavyweight Championship. Joe won after a [[Professional wrestling throws#muscle buster|Muscle Buster]] and after Steiner hit Angle with a lead pipe. Because of the controversy of Steiner costing Angle his match, Management Director [[Jim Cornette]] made the TNA World Heavyweight Championship match at Sacrifice a [[List of professional wrestling match types#Basic non-elimination matches|Triple Threat match]] between Joe, Steiner, and Angle. The match, however, never happened because Angle got a [[Legit (professional wrestling)|legitimate]] injury during a match in [[Japan]]. Cornette said the Triple Threat would still happen even though Angle was injured. He then stated that the winner of TNA's debuting match, the [[List of professional wrestling match types#Thundercage|TerrorDome]], would take Angle's place in the match. [[Frankie Kazarian|Kaz]] won the TerrorDome and Angle's place in the match. |
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The [[TNA X Division Championship|X Division Champion]] Jay Lethal |
The [[TNA X Division Championship|X Division Champion]] Jay Lethal later lost the title to [[Petey Williams]] because of Williams cashing in his [[TNA Turning Point#2007|Feast or Fired Briefcase]], which had a X Division Championship match in it to be used whenever he seemed fit. |
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On iMPACT [[TNA World Tag Team Championship|World Tag Team Champions]] [[A.J. Styles and Tomko]] defended the titles against [[Latin American Exchange|The Latin American Xchange]] and |
On ''iMPACT'', [[TNA World Tag Team Championship|World Tag Team Champions]] [[A.J. Styles and Tomko]] defended the titles against [[Latin American Exchange|The Latin American Xchange]] and Kaz and [[Eric Young (wrestler)|Eric Young]], which Kaz and Young won when Young left the match and returned in his "Super Eric" gimmick. Because of the controversy, Styles claimed that Young and Super Eric were two different people. As a result, Jim Cornette vacated the tag titles and set up a tournament to crown the new tag team champions called [[List of TNA tournaments#Deuces Wild tournament|The Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament]]. The tournament had eight established tag teams fight against each other, but only four teams moved on to the tournament to fight eight single wrestlers that were to be placed together as a tag teams. The eight single wrestlers were called the "Egotistical Eight" and were [[Bobby Roode|Robert Roode]], [[Booker Huffman|Booker T]], [[Sting (wrestler)|Sting]], [[Matt Morgan (wrestler)|Matt Morgan]], [[James Storm]], [[Brian Gerard James |B.G. James]], [[Monty Sopp|Kip James]], and [[Kia Stevens|Awesome Kong]]. They made up four teams: Booker T and Roode, Sting and Storm, Kip and Morgan, and BG and Kong. The four established teams to move on were [[Dudley Boyz|Team 3D]], [[Jason Reso|Christian Cage]] and [[Terry Gerin|Rhino]], [[Latin American Exchange|The Latin American Xchange]] (LAX), and [[A.J. Styles]] and Super Eric (Super Eric was a replacement for [[Travis Tomko|Tomko]] who had been [[kayfabe]] injured in [[Japan]]). LAX won the tournament in the finals against Team 3D. |
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At Sacrifice, there was a Battle Royal/Ladder match held to crown the Number 1 contender to the [[TNA Women's Championship|Knockouts Championship]]. On ''iMPACT'', Jim Cornette announced that he was tired of the [[TNA Knockout]]s complaining and acting like [[WWE Divas|Divas]]. So he decided to make a match he called the TNA Knockout [[Battle royal (professional wrestling)|Makeover Battle Royal]]. The winner got a shot at the TNA Knockouts Championship and the loser would get her head shaved bald. On the ''iMPACT'' before Sacrifice, [[Gail Kim]] won immunity from having her head shaved. The winner of the match was Kim, with help from [[Angel Williams|Angelina Love]] and [[Velvet Sky]], who assisted Kim so Love would not have her head shaved. The loser was [[Nicole Raczynski|Roxxi Laveaux]], and because of the pre-match stipulation, Laveaux had to have her head shaved bald. |
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⚫ | The [[Christian's Coalition#Team Cage|Team Cage]] and [[Angle Alliance#Setup for the breakdown|Team Tomko]] feuded slowly died down afterwards. Cage and Rhino formed a tag team and went after the World tag titles in the Deuces Wild tag tournament. Meanwhile, Styles and Tomko broke up and styles turned [[Face (professional wrestling)|face]]. Also, [[Team 3D]] went after the new World Tag Team Champions, LAX. |
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After Lockdown TNA debuted the Terrordome at Sacrifice 2008. Which was a Steel barred cage with a domed roof. The way to win was to climb out of the small hope in the ceiling. The winner would get a [[TNA X Division Championship]] match in the future. Before the match began Jim Cornette announced that the winner would take Angle's place in the TNA title match. The winner was Kaz who went on to fail in the main event. He will get his X Division title match at [[Slammiversary (2008)|Slammiversary 2008]] against Champion Petey Williams. |
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== Results == |
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**Joe pinned Angle after a [[Professional wrestling throws#Muscle Buster|Muscle Buster]]. |
**Joe pinned Angle after a [[Professional wrestling throws#Muscle Buster|Muscle Buster]]. |
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**The stipulation for this match was if Samoa Joe lost, he would have to retire from every professional wrestling company forever. |
**The stipulation for this match was if Samoa Joe lost, he would have to retire from every professional wrestling company forever. |
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On [[June 17]] the event will be released on [[DVD]], courtesy of TNA Home Video. It will feature the event in it's entirity, as well as bonus footage from the InterAction event and a [[TNA Impact|iMPACT!]] hidden easter egg video.<ref name=LDDVD>{{cite website|url=http://www.tnawrestling.com/content/view/827/84/|title=Lockdown 2008 DVD On Sale This Tuesday|date=2008-06-11|accessdate=2008-06-11}}</ref> |
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Promotion | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling | ||
Date | April 13 2008 | ||
City | Lowell, Massachusetts | ||
Venue | Tsongas Arena[1] | ||
Attendance | 5,500[2] | ||
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Lockdown (2008) was the fourth annual Lockdown professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). It took place on April 13 2008 at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell, Massachusetts. The official theme song was "Nothing to Lose" by Operator.[3]
The main event was for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship between Kurt Angle and Samoa Joe, which Joe won by pinning Angle after performing a Muscle Buster. The predominant match on the undercard featured a 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). Team Cage won the match after Rhino pinned Storm following a Gore. Another primary match on the undercard featured Booker T and Sharmell versus Robert Roode and Payton Banks in a mixed tag team match, which Booker and Sharmell won after Sharmell pinned Banks. Other matches on the undercard featured B.G. James versus Kip James and Super Eric and Kaz versus The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley) versus The Latin American Xchange (Homicide and Hernandez) versus Scott Steiner and Petey Williams versus The Rock 'n Rave Infection (Lance Hoyt and Jimmy Rave) and Black Reign and Rellik in a Cuffed in the Cage Match.
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Background
The main feud heading into Lockdown was between Kurt Angle and Samoa Joe, with the two battling for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. This feud restarted after Management Director Jim Cornette announced that Joe would fight Angle for the title at Lockdown. During the weeks leading up to Lockdown, Joe said that if he did not win the title at Lockdown, he would quit professional wrestling forever. In the weeks leading up to Lockdown, Joe did not show up on iMPACT!, because he was kayfabe training instead. At the same time, Angle fought new opponents on iMPACT each week in MMA fights. In one of these fights, Tomko and A.J. Styles switched back and forth every sixty seconds to fight Angle.
The secondary feud going into Lockdown was about the annual Lethal Lockdown match. Team captains announced by Jim Cornette were Tomko and Christian Cage. This feud started when Tomko turned on Cage at Against All Odds in Cage's World Heavyweight title match against Kurt Angle. Tomko entered the ring and performed a torture rack neckbreaker on Cage, which cost him his chance to win the title. Tomko decided that his teammates would be Styles and Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon). Cage decided on Rhino and Kevin Nash as his teammates. Then later on iMPACT, while Team Cage were in a brawl with Team Tomko, a promo came on showing the return of Sting. Sting returned the next week after a match between Christian Cage and Rhino vs Team 3D. Team 3D and the rest of Team Tomko where about to place Team Cage through tables. The lights went off then came back on with Sting in the ring with a baseball bat. He started swinging the bat until Team 3D, Tomko, and Styles left the ring. After this, another match was made for the night between Sting, Cage, Rhino, and Nash vs Styles, Tomko, and Team 3D in a tag match, in which Team Cage won. After the match Team Cage were celebrating their victory when James Storm attacked Sting and hit him with a beer bottle in the back of the head. The next week on iMPACT!, Matt Morgan let Team Tomko place Storm on their team. This allowed Team Cage to add another member to their Team, which turned out to be Morgan.
Another feud going into Lockdown was between Booker T and Sharmell and Robert Roode and Payton Banks. The feud started after Booker debuted in TNA. Roode was unhappy that outsiders were coming to TNA and pushing him further down the ladder of success. Later, Roode accidentally hit Booker's wife (Sharmell) at Final Resolution. Booker and Roode then fought at Against All Odds and Destination X. After their match at Destination X, Sharmell returned and hit everyone around the ring, including Security, Roode, Payton Banks, and Jim Cornette with a leather strap. On the following iMPACT!, Cornette placed Booker T and Sharmell in a match at Lockdown against Roode and Banks.
Prior to the event, Gail Kim and O.D.B were feuding with Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed. At Destination X, Gail Kim, ODB, and Awesome Kong were involved in a Triple Threat match for the TNA Knockouts World Championship. Awesome Kong prevailed by pinning ODB after performing a Awesome Bomb after Saeed had tripped her from the outside. This caused ODB and Kim to get frustrated with Saeed, wanting a match with her because she kept costing them their chances at the championship. A match was then made to take place at Lockdown involving ODB and Gail Kim vs Saeed and Awesome Kong.
Another feud heading into Lockdown was between former partners B.G. James and Kip James. Kip was angry that BG used his Feast or Fired briefcase, which had a Tag Team Championship match in it, with his dad instead of choosing him as his partner. At Against All Odds, BG and his dad Bob Armstrong failed in their attempt to win the Tag Team Championship in a match against AJ Styles and Tomko after a Tornado-Plex on BG to get the pin. A rematch took place on iMPACT, but BG was injured so Kip took his place in the match. During the match, Kip attacked Armstrong and BG. Later a match was made for Lockdown.
Another match to take place at Lockdown was the annual X Division Xscape match for the TNA X Division Championship. Champion Jay Lethal defended the X Division Championship against Johnny Devine, Sonjay Dutt, Curry Man, Shark Boy, and Consequences Creed. Each man (besides Lethal) fought in qualification matches on iMPACT! to determine who would fight in the match. The first qualification match was between Curry Man and Petey Williams, which Curry Man won. The second was between Sonjay Dutt and Homicide, which Sonjay won. The third was between Johnny Devine and Alex Shelly, which Devine won. The forth was between Shark Boy and Elix Skipper, which Shark Boy won after a Chummer. The fifth was between the debuting Consequences Creed and Jimmy Rave. Creed won after a Creed-DT.
Event
Before the event, there was a thirty minutes pre-show which aired promos and hyped the main matches on the card. As a tradition of the annual pay-per-view, every match took place inside Six Sides of Steel, a cage surrounding the ring.
The opening match was the X Division Xscape match. The match came down to champion Jay Lethal against Johnny Devine. Lethal, who was about to escape the cage and win, was graped and tied up by Devine to the ring ropes on the other side of the cage. While Devine tried to make his escape, Dutt, who was the first eliminated in the match, and SoCal Val closed the cage down and would not let the referees open it. As a result, Devine started to climb up the side of the cage. While he was climbing the cage, Dutt helped Lethal get untied from the outside of the cage. While SoCal and Dutt were stopping Devine from jumping off of the cage, Lethal ran and jumped his way through the cage door to the outside to win the match and retain the X Division Championship.
The Queen of the Cage match, which occurred next, included Christy Hemme, Rhaka Khan, Salinas, Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, Roxxi Laveaux, Traci Brooks, and Jacqueline. The object of the match was to climb the cage and get into the ring. After two people climbed the cage and were in the ring, then the match would begin. The two competitors that were the first to climb the cage where Angelina Love and Roxxi Laveaux. Laveaux won by pin after a Voodoo Drop. Since Laveaux won the match, she became #1 contender to the TNA Women's Knockout Championship.
The third match was between rivals, and former partners, B.G. James and Kip James. BG won the contest with a roll-up pin.
The fourth event of the night was the Cuffed in the Cage match, where the objective was to handcuff both members of all the opposing teams to the cage. The participants were The Latin American Xchange (Homicide and Hernandez), The Rock N' Rave Infection (Lance Hoyt and Jimmy Rave) , Black Reign and Rellik, Scott Steiner and Petey Williams, Super Eric and Kaz, and The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley). Before the match began, Eric Young was beaten down by Rellik and Reign. During the match, Young came out but was scared away by Reign and Rellik and went backstage. He later came back in his "Super Eric" gimmick and entered the match. In the end, YOung handcuffed Reign last to the cage after everyone else was handcuffed to win the match for him and Kaz. Because of their victory, Super Eric and Kaz earned a TNA World Tag Team Championship match.
The fifth match was a tag team match between Gail Kim and O.D.B. versus Raisha Saeed and TNA Knockouts Champion Awesome Kong. Kong dominated most of the match, but ODB won after performing a splash on Saeed to get the pin. The sixth match to occur was a mixed tag team match between Booker T and Sharmell versus Robert Roode and Payton Banks. Booker and Sharmell won the match when Sharmel rolled Banks up to get the pin and the victory for her and her husband.
The seventh match was the 5 on 5 tag team Lethal Lockdown match between Team Cage and Team Tomko. Team Tomko was comprised of Tomko, A.J. Styles, James Storm and Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon). Team Cage was comprised of Christian Cage, Rhino, Kevin Nash, Sting, and Matt Morgan. The match was to begin with Team Captains Christian Cage and Tomko, but instead AJ Styles hit Cage from behind with a springboard flying forearm while Cage was waiting for Tomko to make his ring entrance. The match began, and a member from each team would enter every minute and a half. At the end of the match, Rhino hit Storm from his right side with a Gore, to pin him for the victory for Team Cage. Meanwhile, Cage and Styles had just fallen through a table from a ladder on the top of the cage.
The main match of the card was a MMA fight between Kurt Angle and Samoa Joe for Angle's TNA World Heavyweight Championship. For the first few minutes it was a MMA styled fight, but it quickly changed into a technical bout. The stipulation for this match was that if Joe lost, then he would retire from professional wrestling. At the end of the match, Joe placed Angle on the top rope and performed the Muscle Buster on him. He then pinned Angle for the victory and his first World Championship. This marked Joe's first reign as TNA World Heavyweight Champion.
Aftermath
The feud between Joe and Angle continued on iMPACT!. Angle claimed to have a rematch clause in his contract during a segment between Joe and Scott Steiner, who was set to have a match at Sacrifice against the TNA World Heavyweight Champion. Joe and Angle fought again on the April 27 2008 edition of iMPACT! for the World Heavyweight Championship. Joe won after a Muscle Buster and after Steiner hit Angle with a lead pipe. Because of the controversy of Steiner costing Angle his match, Management Director Jim Cornette made the TNA World Heavyweight Championship match at Sacrifice a Triple Threat match between Joe, Steiner, and Angle. The match, however, never happened because Angle got a legitimate injury during a match in Japan. Cornette said the Triple Threat would still happen even though Angle was injured. He then stated that the winner of TNA's debuting match, the TerrorDome, would take Angle's place in the match. Kaz won the TerrorDome and Angle's place in the match.
The X Division Champion Jay Lethal later lost the title to Petey Williams because of Williams cashing in his Feast or Fired Briefcase, which had a X Division Championship match in it to be used whenever he seemed fit.
On iMPACT, World Tag Team Champions A.J. Styles and Tomko defended the titles against The Latin American Xchange and Kaz and Eric Young, which Kaz and Young won when Young left the match and returned in his "Super Eric" gimmick. Because of the controversy, Styles claimed that Young and Super Eric were two different people. As a result, Jim Cornette vacated the tag titles and set up a tournament to crown the new tag team champions called The Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament. The tournament had eight established tag teams fight against each other, but only four teams moved on to the tournament to fight eight single wrestlers that were to be placed together as a tag teams. The eight single wrestlers were called the "Egotistical Eight" and were Robert Roode, Booker T, Sting, Matt Morgan, James Storm, B.G. James, Kip James, and Awesome Kong. They made up four teams: Booker T and Roode, Sting and Storm, Kip and Morgan, and BG and Kong. The four established teams to move on were Team 3D, Christian Cage and Rhino, The Latin American Xchange (LAX), and A.J. Styles and Super Eric (Super Eric was a replacement for Tomko who had been kayfabe injured in Japan). LAX won the tournament in the finals against Team 3D.
At Sacrifice, there was a Battle Royal/Ladder match held to crown the Number 1 contender to the Knockouts Championship. On iMPACT, Jim Cornette announced that he was tired of the TNA Knockouts complaining and acting like Divas. So he decided to make a match he called the TNA Knockout Makeover Battle Royal. The winner got a shot at the TNA Knockouts Championship and the loser would get her head shaved bald. On the iMPACT before Sacrifice, Gail Kim won immunity from having her head shaved. The winner of the match was Kim, with help from Angelina Love and Velvet Sky, who assisted Kim so Love would not have her head shaved. The loser was Roxxi Laveaux, and because of the pre-match stipulation, Laveaux had to have her head shaved bald.
The Team Cage and Team Tomko feuded slowly died down afterwards. Cage and Rhino formed a tag team and went after the World tag titles in the Deuces Wild tag tournament. Meanwhile, Styles and Tomko broke up and styles turned face. Also, Team 3D went after the new World Tag Team Champions, LAX.
Results
As a Lockdown tradition, every match took place inside the Six Sides of Steel.[4]
- Jay Lethal defeated Curry Man, Sonjay Dutt, Johnny Devine, Shark Boy and Consequences Creed in a Xscape match to retain the TNA X Division Championship[4]
- Devine pinned Dutt with a roll-up.
- Creed pinned Shark Boy after a Creed-DT.
- Curry Man pinned Creed after a Spice Rack.
- Devine pinned Curry Man after a Devine Intervention.
- Lethal escaped the cage to win with some help from Dutt and So Cal Val.
- Roxxi Laveaux defeated Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, Salinas, Rhaka Khan, Traci Brooks, Christy Hemme and Jacqueline in a Queen of Cage Match[4]
- Love climbed into the cage first.,and Roxxi climbed in second.
- Roxxi pinned Love after a Voodoo Drop.
- As a prize, Roxxi received a TNA Women's World Championship match.
- B.G. James defeated Kip James[4]
- B.G. pinned Kip with a roll-up.
- After the match Kip raised B.G.'s hand and the attacked him.
- Super Eric and Kaz defeated The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley), The Latin American Xchange (Homicide and Hernandez), Scott Steiner and Petey Williams, The Rock 'n Rave Infection (Lance Hoyt and Jimmy Rave) and Black Reign and Rellik in a Cuffed in the Cage Match[4]
- Super Eric cuffed Black Reign last to win.
- Gail Kim and O.D.B. defeated Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed[4]
- O.D.B. pinned Saeed after a Splash from the top rope while holding onto the cage.
- Booker T and Sharmell defeated Robert Roode and Payton Banks in a Mixed Tag Team match[4]
- Sharmell pinned Banks with a roll-up.
- Team Cage (Christian Cage, Kevin Nash, Rhino, Sting, and Matt Morgan) defeated Team Tomko (Tomko, A.J. Styles, Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon), and James Storm) in a Lethal Lockdown match[4]
- Rhino pinned Storm after a Gore.
- Samoa Joe defeated Kurt Angle to win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship[4]
- Joe pinned Angle after a Muscle Buster.
- The stipulation for this match was if Samoa Joe lost, he would have to retire from every professional wrestling company forever.
References
- ^ "TNA Announces a 'Lockdown' in New England on April 13". TNA Wrestling. Retrieved 2008-02-21.
- ^ "TNA Lockdown 2008 Results". Pro-Wrestling Edge. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
- ^ Banks, Bill (2008-02-25). "Official theme music for "Lockdown" performed by "Operator"". TNAwrestling.com. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Martin, Adam. "Updated card for TNA Lockdown PPV on Sunday, April 13 from Lowell, Ma". WrestleView.com.