Hardcore Justice
Hardcore Justice is an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event held by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. The first event was held in May 2005 and since 2006, they have all been held in August. Until 2010 the event was known as Hard Justice.
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[edit] Events
| # | Event | Date | City | Venue | Main Event |
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| 1 | Hard Justice (2005) | May 15, 2005 | Orlando, Florida | TNA Impact! Zone | Jeff Jarrett (c) vs. A.J. Styles with Tito Ortiz as Special Guest Referee for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship |
| 2 | Hard Justice (2006) | August 13, 2006 | Orlando, Florida | TNA Impact! Zone | Jeff Jarrett (with Scott Steiner) (c) vs. Sting (with Christian Cage) for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship |
| 3 | Hard Justice (2007) | August 12, 2007 | Orlando, Florida | TNA Impact! Zone | Kurt Angle (TNA and IWGP World Heavyweight Champion) vs. Samoa Joe (TNA X Division and World Tag Team Champion) (with Karen Angle) in a Winner Takes All Match. |
| 4 | Hard Justice (2008) | August 10, 2008 | Trenton, New Jersey | Sovereign Bank Arena | Samoa Joe (c) vs. Booker T in a Six Sides of Steel Weapons Match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship |
| 5 | Hard Justice (2009) | August 16, 2009 | Orlando, Florida | TNA Impact! Zone | Kurt Angle (c) vs. Sting vs. Matt Morgan in a Three-Way Match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship |
| 6 | Hardcore Justice (2010) | August 8, 2010[1] | Orlando, Florida[2] | TNA Impact! Zone[2] | Rob Van Dam (TNA World Heavyweight Champion) vs. Sabu in a Hardcore Rules Non-Title Match [3] |
| 7 | Hardcore Justice (2011) | August 7, 2011[4] | Orlando, Florida | Impact Wrestling Zone | Crimson vs. Rob Van Dam in a Bound for Glory Series Sting (c) vs. Kurt Angle for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship |
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[edit] Results
[edit] 2005
[edit] 2006
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Promotional poster featuring Jeff Jarrett, Samoa Joe, Sting, Christian Cage, Scott Steiner |
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| Promotion | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling | |||
| Date | August 13, 2006 | |||
| Attendance | 900 | |||
| Venue | TNA Impact! Zone | |||
| City | Orlando, Florida | |||
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Hard Justice (2006) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on August 13, 2006 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the second event under the Hard Justice chronology. Nine professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the event's card, but because of a pyro malfunction, one was cancelled. Eight took place.
- Pre-Show match: Ron Killings defeated A-1 (03:09)
- Killings pinned A-1 after an Axe Kick.
- Pre-Show match: Sonjay Dutt and Cassidy Riley defeated Jimmy Jacobs and El Diablo (03:08)
- Dutt pinned Diablo after a standing shooting star press.
- Eric Young defeated Johnny Devine (05:47)
- Young pinned Devine after a Young Blood Neckbreaker.
- At this point, the show was stopped for over twenty minutes after some pyro caused a burlap sack in the rafters to light on fire. The arena had been filled with fire extinguisher dry powder and had to be temporarily evacuated. This caused a match between America's Most Wanted, The Naturals, The James Gang and Matt Bentley and Kazarian to be cancelled due to time constraints.
- Chris Sabin defeated Alex Shelley (with Kevin Nash and Johnny Devine) (08:21)
- Sabin pinned Shelley after a Cradle Shock to become number one contender to the TNA X Division Championship.
- Kevin Nash was Chris Sabin's original opponent, but had a neck injury at the time.
- Abyss (with James Mitchell) defeated Brother Runt (06:17)
- Abyss pinned Runt after a Black Hole Slam into a pile of tacks.
- Samoa Joe defeated Rhino and Monty Brown in a Falls Count Anywhere Three Way match (13:36)
- Joe pinned Brown after a STO through a table.
- Gail Kim defeated Sirelda (04:10)
- Kim pinned Sirelda after a top rope Neckbreaker.
- Senshi (c) defeated Petey Williams and Jay Lethal in a 3-Way Dance to retain the TNA X Division Championship (10:34)
- Senshi pinned Lethal after Williams performed a Canadian Destroyer on Lethal.
- A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels (c) defeated The Latin American Exchange (Homicide and Hernandez) (with Konnan) to retain the NWA World Tag Team Championship (14:38)
- Daniels pinned Homicide after a double team trip and crossbody.
- Jeff Jarrett (c) (with Scott Steiner) defeated Sting (with Christian Cage) to retain the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (15:09)
- Jarrett pinned Sting after Cage hit Sting with a guitar.
[edit] 2007
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Promotional poster featuring Kurt Angle |
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| Tagline(s) | "All or Nothing..." | |||
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| Promotion | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling | |||
| Date | August 12, 2007 | |||
| Attendance | 900 | |||
| Venue | TNA Impact! Zone | |||
| City | Orlando, Florida | |||
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Hard Justice (2007) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on August 12, 2007 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the third event under the Hard Justice chronology. Nine professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's card.
- Jay Lethal and Sonjay Dutt defeated Triple X (Christopher Daniels and Senshi) (with Elix Skipper) and The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley) (15:37)
- Lethal pinned Daniels with a roll-up.
- Kaz defeated Raven (with Havok and Martyr) (5:35)
- Kaz pinned Raven after a dropkick.
- James Storm (with Jackie Moore) defeated Rhino in a Bar Room Brawl (12:50)
- Storm pinned Rhino after hitting him in the back of the head with a beer bottle.
- The Latin American Exchange (Homicide and Hernandez) defeated The Voodoo Kin Mafia (B.G. James and Kip James) (w/Roxy Laveaux) (05:04)
- Homicide pinned Kip James with a Victory roll.
- The match originally ended with Kip pinning Hernandez after Laveaux threw powder in his eyes, but the match was restarted after Hector Guerrero told the referee what happened.
- Robert Roode (w/Ms. Brooks) defeated Eric Young (9:25)
- Roode pinned Young after hitting him with brass knuckles
- As per stipulation, Young was supposed to be tarred and feathered, but Gail Kim saved him and they tarred and feathered Brooks.
- Chris Harris defeated Black Reign by disqualification (04:40)
- Reign was disqualified after attacking several referees.
- The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) defeated Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) (11:01)
- Scott pinned Devon after a Steiner Bulldog.
- Abyss, Andrew Martin, and Sting defeated Christian's Coalition (Christian Cage, A.J. Styles and Tomko) in a Doomsday Chamber of Blood Match (10:13)
- Abyss pinned Styles after a Black Hole Slam onto broken glass to earn a TNA World Heavyweight Championship match at No Surrender.
- TNA World Heavyweight and IWGP World Champion Kurt Angle defeated Samoa Joe to win the TNA X Division and World Tag Team Championship (18:30)
- Angle pinned Joe after hitting Joe in the head with a steel chair.
- All four titles were on the line in the match, and it was winner take all.
[edit] 2008
[edit] 2009
[edit] 2010
[edit] 2011
[edit] References
- ^ Gerweck, Steve (2010-05-07). "Date for TNA's Hard Justice". WrestleView.com. http://wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1273229990. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
- ^ a b Gerweck, Steve (2010-06-04). "TNA Hard Justice Location". WrestleView.com. http://wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1275674118. Retrieved 2010-06-04.
- ^ "TNA's Hard Justice". Facebook.com/tnawrestling. 2010-08-08. http://www.facebook.com/tnawrestling/posts/118646528185171. Retrieved 2010-08-08.
- ^ Martin, Adam (2011-06-13). "TNA to keep using "Hardcore Justice" PPV name". WrestleView. http://www.wrestleview.com/viewnews.php?id=1307996338. Retrieved 2011-06-15.
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