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Lockdown (2008)
PromotionTotal Nonstop Action Wrestling
DateApril 13 2008
CityLowell, Massachusetts
VenueTsongas Arena[1]
Attendance5,500[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 card 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), which Team Cage won 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 after performing a Roll-up. 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 didn't win the title at Lockdown then he would quit Professional Wrestling forever. In the weeks leading up to Lockdown Joe didn't show up on iMPACT!. Instead he was kayfabe training. While Joe was training so was Kurt but instead he fought new opponents on iMPACT each week in MMA fights. In 1 of these fights Tomko and A.J. Styles switched back and forth every 60 seconds to fight Kurt.

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 2008 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 team mates would be AJ, Himself, and Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon). While Cage went looking for people to be on his team which first turned out to Rhino, himself, and Kevin Nash. 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. In which Team 3D and the rest of Team Tomko where about to place Team Cage through a few tables. The lights went off then came back on with Sting in the ring with a baseball bat. He started swing the bat until Team 3D, Tomko, and AJ left the ring. After this another match was made for the night between Sting, Cage, Rhino, and Nash vs AJ, 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 James Storm on their team. This allowed Team Cage to add another member to their Team which ironically turned out to be Matt Morgan.

Another feud going into Lockdown was between Booker T and Sharmell and Robert Roode and Payton Banks. This feud started after Booker came to TNA. Roode was unhappy that outsiders were coming to TNA and pushing him further down the ladder of success. Later it switched from anger to being personal after 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! Jim Cornette placed Booker T and Sharmell in a match at Lockdown against Roode and Banks.

Another feud going into Lockdown was between Gail Kim and O.D.B who were fueding 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. In which Awesome Kong prevailed by pinning ODB after a Awesome Bomb and Saeed had tripped her from the outside. This caused ODB and Kim to get frustrated with Saeed and wanted a match with her because she kept costing them their chances at the knockout's 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 turned enemies 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 World tag titles 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 injurd so Kip took his place in the match. During the match Kip attacked Armstrong and BG. He then beat Armstrong down with one of BG's crutches. Latter a match was made for these 2 to meet at Lockdown. Over the weeks leading to Lockdown on iMPACT! video packages played hyping their match with separate interviews of them both talking about their friendship and history together in pro wrestling as a tag team.

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 this match. The first qualification match was between Curry Man and Petey Williams in which Curry Man won. The second was between Sonjay Dutt and Homicide in which Sonjay won. The third was between Johnny Devine and Alex Shelly in which Devine won. The forth was between Shark Boy and Elix Skipper in which Shark Boy won after a Chummer. The fifth was between the debuting Consequences Creed and Jimmy Rave. In which Creed won after a Creed-DT.

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, Rhaka Khan, Salinas, Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, Roxxi Laveaux, Traci Brooks, and Jacqueline all fighting for #1 Contendership to the Knockouts Championship. 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 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). The winners would get a shot at the TNA World Tag Team Championship.

Event

Before the event there was a 30 minutes preshow that aired promos and talked about the main matches on the card. Also as a tradition every match took place inside Six Sides of Steel

The opening match was the X Division Xscape match. The match came down to Champion Jay Lethal and 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 otherside 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 wouldn't let the referees open it. Because of this 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 second match was the Queen of Cage Match. The 2 competitors to be in the cage where Angelina Love and Roxxi Laveaux. Roxxi won by pin after a Voodoo Drop. Since Roxxi won the match she became #1 contender to the TNA Women's Knockout Championship.

The third match was partners turned rivals B.G. James vs. Kip James. In which BG won with a Roll-up.

The forth match to take place was the tag team Cuffed in the Cage match between The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelly), The Rock N' Rave Infection (Lance Hoyt and Jimmy Rave), Scott Steiner and Petey Williams, Kaz and Super Eric (Eric Young), Black Reign and Rellik, and The Latin American Xchange (Homicide and Hernandez). The way to win was to handcuff every team to the cage. 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 latter came back in his "Super Eric" gimmick and entered the match. In the end Eric 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 got a TNA World Tag Team Championship match.

The fifth match was a tag team match between Gail Kim and O.D.B. vs. Raisha Saeed and TNA Knockouts Champion Awesome Kong. This was a very good match and Kong dominated most of it but in the end ODB won after Splash on Saeed to get the pin.

The sixth match to occur was a Mixed Tag Team match between Booker T and Sharmell vs Robert Roode and 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.

The seventh match was the 5 on 5 tag team Lethal Lockdown match between Team Cage and Team Tomko. On Team Tomko's side you had team leader Tomko, A.J. Styles, James Storm and Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon). On Team Cage's side you had Team Leader Christian Cage, Rhino, Kevin Nash, Sting, and Matt Morgan. This was a very good match with alot of insane spots. The match was to begin with Team Captains Christian Cage and Tomko but instead it was Cage standing in the ring in the dark watching Tomko walk down the entrance ramp to the ring. From behind AJ Styles hit Cage with a Springboard Flying Forearm. After that the match began. From there on a member from each team would enter every minute and a half. The end of the match involved Rhino and Storm, where Rhino hit Storm from his right side with a Gore. He then got the pin and victory for Team Cage while Cage and Styles had just fell through a table from a ladder on the top of the cage.

The main match of the card was Kurt Angle vs. Samoa Joe for Angle's TNA World Heavyweight Championship. This match was set up to be like a MMA Fight. For the first few minutes it was a MMA styled fight but it quickly changed from that to a technical bout. The stipulation for this match was that if Joe had lost then he would retire from Professional wrestling. The end of the match came when Joe placed Angle on the top rope and set him up in the Muscle Buster position and hit it. He then pinned Angle for the victory and for his first World Championship. This marked Joe's first reign as TNA World Heavyweight Champion.

Aftermath

See also: Sacrifice (2008)

The feud between Joe and Angle continued on iMPACT!. Where Angle said he had a rematch clause in his contract during a segment between Joe and Scott Steiner who was to have a match at Sacrifice 2008 against the TNA World Heavyweight Champion. Joe and Angle fought again on the April 27 2008 edition of iMPACT! for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. In which 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 Directory Jim Cornette made the TNA World Heavyweight Championship match at Sacrifice a Triple Threat match between Joe, Steiner, and Angle. Unfortunately the match never happened because Angle got a legit injury during a match in Japan. Jim Cornette said the Triple Threat would still happen even though Angle was injurd. He then stated that the winner of TNA's new debuting innovative match the TerrorDome would take Angle's place in the match. Kaz won the TerrorDome and took Angle's place in the match. Which would be won by Joe.

The X Division Champion Jay Lethal latter 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. Lethal would latter participate in the TerrorDome match but would fail at winning it.

On iMPACT World Tag Team Champions A.J. Styles and Tomko defended the titles against The Latin American Xchange and Kaz and Eric Young. Mid way through the match Young left the ring and went backstage but latter returned as his Super Eric gimmick. Later on Kaz and Young won the match. Because of the controversy AJ Styles said that Young and Super Eric were 2 different people. Young said that he wasn't Super Eric. Because of this Jim Cornette vacated the tag titles. He set up a tournament to crown the new tag team champions called The Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament. It had 8 established tag teams fight against each other, where only 4 teams moved on to the tournament to fight 8 single wrestlers that were to be placed together as a tag teams to fight the 4. The 8 single wrestlers were called the "Egotistical Eight". They were Robert Roode, Booker T, Sting, Matt Morgan, James Storm, B.G. James, Kip James, and Awesome Kong. They made up 4 teams of Booker T and Roode, Sting and Storm, Kip and Morgan, and BG and Kong. The 4 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 injurd in Japan). LAX would end up winning the tournament in the finals against Team 3D.

The Gail Kim and ODB feud with Kong and Saeed slowly cooled down afterwards. Instead 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. Where 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 Bald. The winner was Gail Kim with help from Angelina Love and Velvet Sky. The loser was Roxxi Laveaux. Love and Sky helped because if Gail had lost then the last person to be eliminated would have to be shaved bald and that was Love. Because of the pre-match stipulation Roxxi had to have her head shaved bald.

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 against Champion Petey Williams.

The Team Cage and Team Tomko feuded slowly died down afterwards. With Cage and Rhino forming as a tag team and going after the World tag titles in the Deuces Wild tag tournament. While AJ and Tomko broke up and AJ turned face, and 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]

Notes

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 iMPACT! hidden easter egg video.[5]

References

  1. ^ "TNA Announces a 'Lockdown' in New England on April 13". TNA Wrestling. Retrieved 2008-02-21.
  2. ^ "TNA Lockdown 2008 Results". Pro-Wrestling Edge. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
  3. ^ Banks, Bill (2008-02-25). "Official theme music for "Lockdown" performed by "Operator"". TNAwrestling.com. Retrieved 2008-03-04.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Lockdown 2008 DVD On Sale This Tuesday". 2008-06-11. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
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