TNA Lockdown

Lockdown is an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event held by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in the month of April. The first one, in 2005, used the revolutionary premise that all matches were to take place in the Six Sides of Steel, which is set to be the standard for future Lockdown pay-per-views. The event usually features not only steel cage matches, but also additional gimmicks added on to the steel cage stipulation. Trademark Lockdown specialty matches include the Lethal Lockdown and Xscape match.

The original premise was to have two quality cage matches to highlight the gimmick name "Lockdown", but TNA President Dixie Carter switched the format to an all-steel cage match show.

2005

Lockdown 2005
Promotion	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Date	April 24, 2005
City	Orlando, Florida
Venue	iMPACT! Zone
Attendance	775
Pay-per-view chronology
← Previous Destination X 2005 Next → Hard Justice 2005

Lockdown 2005 took place on April 24, 2005 from the iMPACT! Zone (Soundstage 21 at Universal Orlando Resort) in Orlando, Florida. The promotional poster prominently featured Kevin Nash, Diamond Dallas Page, A.J. Styles, Jeff Jarrett and The Outlaw. The DVD cover replaced Nash and Page with Monty Brown and Abyss.

• Pre-Show match: 3Live Kru (Ron Killings and Konnan) defeated David Young and Lex Lovett, and The Naturals (Andy Douglas and Chase Stevens) (w/Chris Candido) in a Triple Threat match (6:34)
  • Killings pinned Lovett after a Sitout Double Underhook Facebuster.
• Apolo and Sonny Siaki defeated Chris Candido and Lance Hoyt in a Six Sides of Steel match (6:53)
  • Siaki pinned Hoyt after a Top Rope Splash.
  • After the match The Naturals came out and attacked Hoyt, delivering the Natural Disaster.
  • Candido would die 4 days later after having a surgery for an injury suffered during this match.
• Dustin Rhodes defeated Bobby Roode (w/Coach D'Amore and A-1) in a Two out of Three Falls Six Sides of Steel match (15:15)
  • Roode pinned Rhodes with a Small Package (0:50)
  • Rhodes pinned Roode after a Diving Bulldog (11:00)
  • Rhodes pinned Roode after hitting him with a Steel chair, both men were blindfolded for the third fall. (15:15)
• Shocker defeated Michael Shane (w/Trinity), Sonjay Dutt and Chris Sabin (w/Traci) in an Elimination X-Scape Six Sides of Steel match (15:35)
  • Shocker pinned Dutt after a Corkscrew Elbowdrop (10:56)
  • Sabin pinned Shane after a Cradle Shock (14:03)
  • Shocker won by escpaing the cage to become #1 Contender to the TNA X Division Championship (15:35)
  • The match started out as a four way match, then became a triple threat match, and when it got down to two people the only way to win was escaping the cage.
• Jeff Hardy defeated Raven in a Six Sides of Steel Table match (14:01)
  • Hardy won after a Leg Drop from the top of the cage through two stacked-up tables.
• America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm) defeated Team Canada (Petey Williams and Eric Young) (w/A-1) in a Six Sides of Steel Strap match to retain the NWA World Tag Team Championship (15:10)
  • Storm pinned Williams after a Death Sentence.
• Christopher Daniels defeated Elix Skipper in a Six Sides of Steel match to retain the TNA X Division Championship (15:23)
  • Daniels pinned Skipper after the Angel's Wings.
• Sean Waltman, Diamond Dallas Page and B.G. James defeated Jeff Jarrett, Monty Brown and The Outlaw in a Lethal Lockdown match (15:38)
  • Waltman pinned Brown with a Small Package.
• A.J. Styles defeated Abyss in a Six Sides of Steel match (19:58)
  • Styles pinned Abyss after a Sunset Flip Powerbomb off the cage into a pile of tacks to become #1 contender to the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

2006

Lockdown 2006
Promotion	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Date	April 23, 2006
City	Orlando, Florida
Venue	iMPACT! Zone
Attendance	900
Pay-per-view chronology
← Previous Destination X 2006 Next → Sacrifice 2006

Lockdown 2006 took place on April 23, 2006 from the iMPACT! Zone (Soundstage 21 of Universal Orlando Resort) in Orlando, Florida. The promotional poster and DVD cover prominently featured Sting.

• Team Japan (Black Tiger IV, Minoru Tanaka and Hirooki Goto) defeated Team USA (Sonjay Dutt, Jay Lethal and Alex Shelley) in a Six Sides of Steel match (12:01)
  • Black Tiger pinned Lethal after a Tiger Suplex.
• Senshi defeated Christopher Daniels in a Six Sides of Steel match
  • Senshi pinned Daniels with a roll-up and his feet on the turnbuckle.
  • Daniels original opponent was Jushin Liger,who backed out of the match due to a lack of experience in steel cage matches and not wanting to put on a bad match.
• Bob Armstrong (w/The James Gang (B.G. James and Kip James)) defeated Konnan (w/Homicide) in an Arm Wrestling challenge
• Chris Sabin defeated Elix Skipper (w/Simon Diamond), Petey Williams (w/Coach D'Amore), Chase Stevens, Shark Boy and Puma in a Six Sides of Steel Xscape match (12:48)
  • Williams pinned Shark Boy after a Canadian Destroyer (5:02)
  • Skipper pinned Stevens after a Sudden Death (8:53)
  • Williams pinned Skipper with a roll-up (9:36)
  • Sabin pinned Puma after a Cradle Shock (10:21)
  • Sabin escaped the cage (12:48)
• Samoa Joe defeated Sabu in a Six Sides of Steel match to retain the TNA X Division Championship (6:12)
  • Joe pinned Sabu after a Muscle Buster.
• Team 3D (Brother Ray, Brother Devon and Brother Runt) defeated Team Canada (Bobby Roode, Eric Young and A-1) (w/Coach D'Amore) in a Six Sides of Steel Anthem match (8:45)
  • Runt captured the US flag to win the match and allow Team 3D to sing the US national anthem.
  • After the match, Team 3D gave D'Amore the 3D.
• Christian Cage defeated Abyss (w/James Mitchell) in a Six Sides of Steel match to retain the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (14:04)
  • Cage pinned Abyss after a Unprettier on a pile of thumbtacks.
• Sting's Warriors (Sting, A.J. Styles, Ron Killings and Rhino) defeated Jarrett's Army (Jeff Jarrett, Scott Steiner and America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm)) (w/Gail Kim and Jackie Gayda) in a Lethal Lockdown (23:49)
  • Sting forced Harris to submit with the Scorpion Death Lock.

2007

Lockdown 2007
Promotion	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Date	April 15, 2007
City	Saint Charles, Missouri
Venue	Family Arena
Pay-per-view chronology
← Previous Destination X 2007 Next → Sacrifice 2007

Lockdown 2007 took place on April 15, 2007 at the Family Arena in Saint Charles, Missouri. This was the second monthly pay-per-view, after Bound for Glory 2006, to be held outside Orlando, Florida. Promotional items for the event featured Scott Steiner, Christian Cage, Kurt Angle and Sting. The tagline was Every War Ends in the Cage.

• Pre-show match: The Voodoo Kin Mafia (B.G. James and Kip James) (w/Lance Hoyt) defeated Serotonin (Kaz and Havok) (w/Martyr and Christy Hemme) in a Six Sides of Steel match (3:39)
  • Kip pinned Kaz after a Cobra Clutch Slam.
• Chris Sabin defeated Jay Lethal, Sonjay Dutt, Alex Shelley and Shark Boy in a Six Sides of Steel Xscape match to retain the TNA X Division Championship (15:50)
  • Shelley pinned Shark Boy after a Missile dropkick (5:42)
  • Sabin pinned Dutt after a Cradle Shock (13:30)
  • Lethal pinned Shelley after a Diving elbow drop (14:33)
  • Sabin escaped the cage (15:50)
• Robert Roode (w/Ms. Brooks and Eric Young) defeated Petey Williams in a Six Sides of Steel match (10:12)
  • Roode pinned Williams with a Payoff.
• Gail Kim defeated Jackie Moore in a Six Sides of Steel match (7:14)
  • Kim pinned Moore after a Flying crossbody from the top of the cage.
  • This was the first women's cage match in TNA history.
• Senshi defeated Austin Starr (w/Bob Backlund as Special Guest Referee) in a Six Sides of Steel match (9:57)
  • Senshi pinned Starr with a roll-up after Backlund pushed Starr.
• James Storm defeated Chris Harris in a Six Sides of Steel Blindfold match (9:50)
  • Storm pinned Harris after a Superkick.
• Christopher Daniels defeated Jerry Lynn in a Six Sides of Steel match (13:19)
  • Daniels pinned Lynn after the Last Rites.
• Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) defeated The Latin American Exchange (Homicide and Hernandez) in an Electrified Six Sides of Steel match to win the NWA World Tag Team Championship (15:35)
  • Devon pinned Homicide after the 3D.
• Team Angle (Kurt Angle, Samoa Joe, Rhino, Sting and Jeff Jarrett) defeated Team Cage (Christian Cage, A.J. Styles, Scott Steiner, Abyss, and Tomko) (w/James Mitchell) in a Lethal Lockdown match (28:05)
  • Sting pinned Abyss after a Guitar Shot from Jarrett to earn a NWA World Heavyweight Championship match at Sacrifice 2007.

External links

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