TNA Victory Road
Victory Road is a professional wrestling pay-per-view event held by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. It was originally the name for the very first three-hour pay-per-view card held by TNA in November 2004 and will forever be considered a landmark event in TNA history. The next one was held in July 2006. In 2005, it was replaced as the November pay-per-view by Genesis and moved to the month of July, replacing No Surrender as part of TNA shuffling pay-per-view names.
2004
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| Promotion | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling | ||
| Date | November 7 2004 | ||
| City | Orlando, Florida | ||
| Venue | Universal Orlando Resort | ||
| Attendance | 700 | ||
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Victory Road 2004 took place on November 7 2004 from the Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida. It was the first monthly professional wrestling pay-per-view event held by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. The promotional poster and DVD cover featured Jeff Jarrett, Monty Brown, A.J. Styles and Jeff Hardy.
- Héctor Garza won the 2004 Super X Cup Gauntlet match (26:25)
| Entrant | Eliminated by | Time | ||
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| 1 | Frankie Kazarian | 19 | Garza | 26:25 |
| 2 | Sonjay Dutt | 4 | Shelley | 10:11 |
| 3 | Puma | 1 | Shane and Kazarian | 4:49 |
| 4 | L.A Park | 5 | Kazarian | 8:04 |
| 5 | Jerrelle Clark | 2 | Shane and Kazarian | 2:44 |
| 6 | Miyamoto | 3 | Shane and Kazarian | 1:46 |
| 7 | Michael Shane | 13 | Spanky | 14:58 |
| 8 | Héctor Garza | - | WINNER | 20:00 |
| 9 | Nosawa | 6 | Siaki | 4:41 |
| 10 | Mikey Batts | 7 | Garza | 4:04 |
| 11 | Alex Shelley | 11 | Cross | 7:50 |
| 12 | Matt Sydal | 8 | Shelley | 4:10 |
| 13 | Sonny Siaki | 12 | Sabin and Spanky | 8:14 |
| 14 | Jason Cross | 14 | Psicosis | 8:50 |
| 15 | Shark Boy | 9 | Siaki | 2:52 |
| 16 | Psicosis | 15 | Amazing Red | 7:10 |
| 17 | D-Ray 3000 | 10 | Siaki | 0:45 |
| 18 | Amazing Red | 16 | Kazarian | 5:15 |
| 19 | Spanky | 17 | Sabin | 4:19 |
| 20 | Chris Sabin | 18 | Garza | 4:29 |
- Garza pinned Kazarian with a roll-up after he countered Kazarian's pin attempt.
- Ron Killings, Erik Watts, Johnny B. Badd and Pat Kenney defeated Kid Kash, Dallas and The Naturals (Andy Douglas and Chase Stevens) (4:37)
- Killings pinned Stevens after a double-arm DDT.
- Mascarita Sagrada defeated Piratita Morgan (2:58)
- Sagrada pinned Morgan with a small package.
- 3Live Kru (B.G. James and Konnan) defeated Team Canada (Bobby Roode and Eric Young) to win the NWA World Tag Team Championship (6:57)
- Konnan pinned Roode after a Facejam.
- Piper's Pit segment with guest Jimmy Snuka
- Trinity (w/Johnny Swinger) defeated Jacqueline (1:50)
- Trinity pinned Jacqueline after a Fall From Grace.
- Monty Brown defeated Raven and Abyss in a Monster's Ball match (9:05)
- Brown pinned Raven after a Pounce through a table.
- Petey Williams (w/Coach D'Amore) defeated A.J. Styles to retain the TNA X Division Championship (9:48)
- Williams pinned Styles after a Canadian Destroyer.
- America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm) defeated Triple X (Christopher Daniels and Elix Skipper) in an Elimination Last Man Standing match (10:53)
- Storm pinned Daniels after a reverse Death Valley Driver, but Daniels made it up before the 10 count (1:48)
- Daniels pinned Storm after a Powerplex, but Storm got up before the 10 count (5:32)
- Daniels pinned Storm after hitting his knee with a steel chair, Storm was eliminated (6:07)
- Harris pinned Daniels after a Top Rope Leg Drop, Daniels was eliminated (7:35)
- Harris pinned Skipper after a Catatonic on a steel chair, Skipper was eliminated (10:53)
- The finish was controversial as referee Andrew Thomas counted a pin despite Skipper appearing to kick out at two.
- The rules were once a wrestler was pinned or submitted they had to get up before a 10 count.
- Dusty Rhodes won the TNA Director of Authority election over Vince Russo with 55.6% of the vote. His first order of business as Director of Authority was to book a match at TNA Turning Point between AMW and Triple X in a Six Sides of Steel match.
- Jeff Jarrett defeated Jeff Hardy in a Ladder match to retain the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (18:37)
- Jarrett won when he grabbed the title after the returning Scott Hall and the debuting Kevin Nash both hit Hardy with guitars.
- After the match, Nash stated that he, Hall and Jarrett were taking over, and challenged the rest of TNA to stop them. They fended off A.J. Styles and 3Live Kru, but as the event went off the air, Randy Savage came out to challenge them. Savage's entrance was botched as when his entrance theme first began playing, it began to "skip." The production crew immediately stopped it from playing and put on the backup copy. By the time Savage's pyro had went off, he was already at ringside.
2006
| Victory Road 2006 | |||
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| Promotion | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling | ||
| Date | July 16 2006 | ||
| City | Orlando, Florida | ||
| Venue | iMPACT! Zone | ||
| Attendance | 900 | ||
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Victory Road 2006 took place on July 16 2006 from the iMPACT! Zone in Orlando, Florida. The promotional poster featured Sting, Christian Cage, Scott Steiner and Jeff Jarrett. The DVD cover replaced Jarrett with Samoa Joe.
- Pre-Show match: Johnny Devine (w/Alex Shelley) defeated Shark Boy (3:30)
- Devine pinned Shark Boy after a Double Underhook Piledriver.
- The Naturals (Chase Stevens and Andy Douglas) (w/Shane Douglas) defeated The Diamonds in the Rough (Elix Skipper and David Young) (w/Simon Diamond) (5:27)
- Douglas pinned Skipper after a Last Breath.
- Monty Brown fought Rhino to a no-contest (4:56)
- The match was declared a no-contest after referee Andrew Thomas was knocked out twice and Rhino and Brown fought into the crowd.
- The Latin American Exchange (Homicide and Hernandez) (w/Konnan) defeated Sonjay Dutt and Ron Killings (10:07)
- Hernandez pinned Dutt after a Border toss.
- Senshi defeated Frankie Kazarian to retain the TNA X Division Championship (11:19)
- Senshi pinned Kazarian after a Warrior's Way.
- Raven defeated Larry Zbyszko in a Hair vs. Hair match (3:48)
- Raven pinned Zbyszko after a Raven Effect DDT.
- Afterwards Raven shaved Zbyszko bald. Zbyszko resisted violently, threatening to fire everybody involved, and eventually kicking a taunting Mark "Slick" Johnson in the groin when Slick showed him a mirror.
- Chris Sabin and Jay Lethal defeated The Papparazzi (Kevin Nash and Alex Shelley) (w/Johnny Devine) (9:07)
- Sabin pinned Shelley with a roll-up.
- The James Gang (B.G. James and Kip James) and Abyss (w/James Mitchell) defeated Team 3D (Brother Ray, Brother Devon and Brother Runt) (10:24)
- Abyss pinned Runt after a Black Hole Slam through a table.
- Sirelda, A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels defeated Gail Kim and America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm) in a Mixed Tag Team match to retain the NWA World Tag Team Championship (11:52)
- Styles pinned Storm after Storm was accidentally hit with a steel chair by Harris.
- Sting defeated Scott Steiner, Samoa Joe and Christian Cage in a Fatal Four-Way match (14:09)
- Sting pinned Steiner after a Scorpion Death Drop to become #1 contender to the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
- Early in the match, Jeff Jarrett, who was disguised as a cameraman, used a squirt bottle to squirt gasoline in Sting's eyes. Sting came back with one eye bandaged and finished the match.
2007
| Victory Road 2007 | |||
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| Promotion | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling | ||
| Date | July 15 2007 | ||
| City | Orlando, Florida | ||
| Venue | iMPACT! Zone | ||
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Victory Road 2007 will take place on July 15 2007 from the iMPACT! Zone in Orlando, Florida. The promotional poster features Gail Kim, The Latin American Exchange (Konnan, Homicide and Hernandez), Abyss, A.J. Styles, and Samoa Joe.
- TNA World Heavyweight Champion Kurt Angle and TNA X Division Champion Samoa Joe vs. TNA World Tag Team Champions Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon)
- This match is billed as "Match of Champions"
- All 3 titles will be on the line, with the wrestler getting the pinfall or submission winning the belt of the wrestler they beat.
Official rules of the match are as follows:
1. All four men who hold titles in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling will be in a tag match that will have the TNA Tag Team Champions facing the X Division and Heavyweight Champions.
2. All of the titles are on the line in this match.
3. The person who gets the pinfall or submission wins the title held by the person defeated.
4. If the Tag Champions lose, the person who got the pinfall wins the tag titles and they get to choose their co-title holder.
5. Each of the three titles will be on the line during the next three weeks and if the champion loses the match, they will be replaced in the match at Victory Road.