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Victory Road (2008)
PromotionTotal Nonstop Action Wrestling
DateJuly 13 2008
CityHouston, Texas[1][2]
VenueReliant Arena[2]
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Victory Road (2008) will be the fourth Victory Road professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by American promotion, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). It will take place on July 13 2008 at the Reliant Arena in Houston, Texas and will feature talent from TNA, CMLL, Dragon Gate, and other Independent Promotions.[3][4][5][2] The tagline for the event is "Houston, we have a problem."

The main match heading into Victory Road is between Samoa Joe and Booker T, with the two fighting over the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. The predominate match on the card is between the teams of A.J. Styles, Christian Cage, and Rhino, and Kurt Angle and Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon). At Victory Road, by a fans vote, they will either fight in a Tables match, Falls Count Anywhere match, or a Full Metal Mayhem match. The primary match on the undercard is between the teams of The Latin American Xchange (LAX) (Homicide and Hernandez) and Beer Money (Robert Roode and James Storm), with both teams fighting over the TNA World Tag Team Championship in a "Fan's Revenge" Lumberjack match. Another match on the undercard is the Ultimate X match, which involves four unknown competitors from the four teams (Team Mexico, Team Japan, Team TNA, and Team International) in this year's World X Cup Tournament.

Background

The main feud heading into Victory Road is between Samoa Joe and Booker T, with the two fighting over the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. This feud began before Slammiversary, when Booker T demanded that Joe place him in his four picks to fight against Management Director Jim Cornette's four picks, to fight in qualification matches to be in the King of the Mountain match at Slammiversary on the May 15 episode of Impact!. Joe obliged and placed Booker T in his four picks. Joe would then state, that he did not choose Booker T because of him demanding him to, but because he felt Booker T was tough competition and Joe wasn't backing down or hiding from anyone. Later Booker T would defeat A.J. Styles to gain entrance into the match on the May 22 episode of Impact!. At Slammiversary, Joe would retain the TNA Championship in King of the Mountain match. On the June 12 episode of Impact!, Joe defended the title against challenger Kaz, after Kaz won the first ever X Division King of the Mountain match on the June 5 episode of Impact!. Joe would retain his title again against Kaz. After the match, Booker T interrupted and said to Joe that he was cheated out of his chance at the title by Kevin Nash in King of the Mountain match and wanted a shot at Joe for the TNA title at Victory Road.[6] He also said, that if Joe wasn't backing down from anyone that he would come and find him in his locker room and accept his challenge.[6] Later that night, Joe went to Booker T's locker room and accepted his challenge to fight him for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship in Booker T's hometown of Houston, Texas at Victory Road.[6]

The predominate feud is the encounter between two teams; A.J. Styles, Christian Cage, and Rhino, and Kurt Angle, and Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon). The storyline that surrounds this feud is between Kurt Angle and AJ Styles. Before Slammiversary, AJ's former Angle Alliance tag team partner Tomko attacked AJ viciously. During the beatdown Angle came to the ring to protect AJ but would turn on AJ and attack him with a Steel Chair. This in turn would turn AJ face. At Slammiversary, Angle and AJ would have a match in-which AJ would come out the victor. After the match, Tomko and Angle would attack AJ again. On the following Impact! after Slammiversary, AJ and Angle met again, this time in a Lumberjack match with Christian Cage, Rhino, Matt Morgan, Team 3D, and Tomko as the lumberjacks. Angle would come out victoriously in the match, following the match 3D, Tomko and Angle began to try and attack AJ but was stopped by Cage and Morgan, who had befriended AJ along. In the weeks leading up to Victory Road 3D and Angle would continue to try and attack AJ, but would be unsuccessful each time as Rhino and Cage would show up to help defend AJ. With Cage and Rhino becoming a problem, 3D would begin to try and eliminate Cage and Rhino from the picture. On the June 19 episode of Impact!, 3D would attack Rhino, while he was by-himself, and place him through a table. On the Impact! following that (June 26), 3D would attack Cage, with help from Tomko, and crash him through a Glass Table. Then on the July 03 episode of Impact!, AJ Styles was in the ring with Karen Angle (Kurt Angle's wife), who demanded that Angle come to the ring and end this feud once in for all. Angle would however not do as AJ demanded, instead Team 3D came to the ring. 3D and AJ would then have a small discussion which ended in Brother Ray calling Karen a whore, this would in-turn have AJ to start a fight with both members of Team 3DS alone. AJ would dominate the fight for a small part until 3D gained the upperhand. At-which Rhino returned and made a challenge to Team 3D at Victory in a 6-man Tag Team match between Himself, Christian Cage, AJ Styles versus Team 3D and Kurt Angle. Rhino would later state that the fans would get to choose the stipulation between either a Tables match, Falls Count Anywhere match, or a Full Metal Mayhem match. Voting for the stipulation will begin when the event starts on TNAWrestling.com.

On the June 12 episode of Impact!, The Latin American Xchange (LAX) (Homicide and Hernandez w/Hector Guerrero) defended the TNA World Tag Team Championship against the team of James Storm and Robert Roode (w/Jacqueline), later called Beer Money.[6] During the match, Jacqueline took off her belt and gave it to James Storm, who took the belt and tied it around his boot and performed a Last Call on Hernandez, while the referee wasn't looking.[6] Roode would then get the pin. After the match Hector Guerrero would explain to the referee what happened.[6] Because of the controversial finish, the referee restarted the match.[6] LAX would go on to win the restart, after Hernandez scored the pinfal following a sit-out powerbomb on Storm.[6] Immediately following the match, Roode attacked Homicide and Hernadez with a steel chair.[6] Then he, Storm, and Jacqueline would handcuff the LAX and Guerrero to three turnbuckles and beat them with leather belts.[6] Later in a interview, Storm and Roode challenged LAX to get some payback. On the June 19 episode of Impact!, LAX challenged Roode and Storm to a "Fan's Revenge" Lumberjack match at Victory Road.[7] Storm and Roode would accept the offer on TNAWrestling.com, after the match was made for the Tag Team Championship.[8]

The main feud from the Knockouts division is between Gail Kim and Angelina Love. On the Impact! after Sacrifice, Kim would have a title match against champion Awesome Kong for the TNA Knockouts World Championship. During the match Love and her tag team partner, Velvet Sky, would attack Kim and cost her, her chance at the winning the title. Kim, with her partners O.D.B. and Roxxi Laveaux would fight Love, with her partners Velvet Sky and Moose at Slammiversary. Following Slammiversary, a match was made for Victory Road to end Kim's and Love's feud once and for all. It would later be known that their feud was much more than a rivalry, it was personal. With Love having a grudge against Kim since working with her on the Indy Circuit. Love would later state that she doesn't like Kim because she was always mean to her, because Kim was jealous of her for being more attractive.

A major angle that will conclude at Victory Road is the 2008 World X Cup Tournament between teams TNA, International, Japan, and Mexico. Each week on Impact! each Round matches for the tournament was done which would lead to Round Three and Four to happen at Victory Road. On the July 03 episode of Impact!, announcer Mike Tenay, announced that at Victory Road the Fourth Round would be a Ultimate X match and would feature four competitors, one from each team. Also that Round Three would be a Triple Elimination Battle Royal featuring three competitors from each team.

Matches

See also

References

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