TNA Against All Odds
Against All Odds is an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event held by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in the month of February. It was established in 2005 as TNA's fourth pay-per-view event as part of the inaugural series of monthly pay-per-views put on by the promotion.
Events
| # | Event | Date | City | Venue | Main Event |
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| 1 | Against All Odds (2005) | February 13, 2005 | Orlando, Florida | TNA Impact! Zone | Jeff Jarrett (c) versus Kevin Nash for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. |
| 2 | Against All Odds (2006) | February 12, 2006 | Orlando, Florida | Impact! Zone | Jeff Jarrett (with Gail Kim) (c) versus Christian Cage (William Reso) for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. |
| 3 | Against All Odds (2007) | February 11, 2007 | Orlando, Florida | Impact! Zone | Christian Cage (c) versus Kurt Angle for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. |
| 4 | Against All Odds (2008) | February 10, 2008 | Greenville, South Carolina | BI-LO Center | Kurt Angle (with Karen Angle) (c) versus Christian Cage for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship with Samoa Joe (Joe Seanoa) as Special Guest Ringside Enforcer. |
| 5 | Against All Odds (2009) | February 8, 2009 | Orlando, Florida | Impact! Zone | Four Corners Match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship: Sting (c) vs. Kurt Angle vs. Brother Ray vs. Brother Devon[1] |
Results
2005
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| Promotion | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling | ||
| Date | February 13, 2005 | ||
| City | Orlando, Florida | ||
| Venue | TNA Impact! Zone | ||
| Attendance | 775 | ||
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Against All Odds (2005) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on February 13, 2005 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the first event under the Against All Odds chronology. Eight professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's card.
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
- Pre-Show match: Phi Delta Slam (Bruno Sassi and Big Tilly) (with Trinity) defeated Lex Lovett and Buck Quartermain
- Tilly pinned Quartermain after a Tsunami Splash.
- Pre-Show match: The Harris Brothers (Ron and Don) (with Traci) defeated Mikey Batts and Jerelle Clark (3:12)
- The Harris Brothers won after an H-Bomb.
- Elix Skipper defeated Petey Williams (with Coach D'Amore) (7:58)
- Skipper pinned Williams after a Sudden Death.
- B.G. James and Jeff Hammond (with Ron Killings and Konnan) defeated Shazarian (Michael Shane and Kazarian) (5:33)
- Hammond pinned Kazarian after an elbow drop.
- Raven defeated Dustin Rhodes (8:20)
- Raven pinned Rhodes with a roll-up.
- After the match, the lights went out and a promo appeared on the screens, promoting the imminent arrival of Trytan.
- America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm) defeated Kid Kash and Lance Hoyt to retain the NWA World Tag Team Championship (12:25)
- Storm pinned Hoyt after a Death Sentence.
- Abyss defeated Jeff Hardy in a Full Metal Mayhem match (15:21)
- Abyss grabbed the correct envelope to become number one contender to the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.
- Diamond Dallas Page and Monty Brown defeated Team Canada (Eric Young and Bobby Roode) (with Coach D'Amore and Johnny Devine) (9:43)
- Page pinned Young after a Top Rope Diamond Cutter.
- A.J. Styles defeated Christopher Daniels 2-1 in an Iron Man match to retain the TNA X Division Championship (31:37)
- Daniels pinned Styles after a Angel's Wings (14:07)
- Styles pinned Daniels with a roll-up (23:58)
- Styles pinned Daniels after Styles Clash in overtime (31:37)
- Jeff Jarrett defeated Kevin Nash to retain the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (19:45)
- Jarrett pinned Nash after two Strokes.
- During the match, Monty Sopp made his debut and interfered to help Jarrett while Sean Waltman interfered to help Nash.
2006
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| Promotion | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling | ||
| Date | February 12, 2006 | ||
| City | Orlando, Florida | ||
| Venue | TNA Impact! Zone | ||
| Attendance | 775 | ||
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Against All Odds (2006) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on February 12, 2006 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the second event under the Against All Odds chronology. Eight professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's card.
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
- Pre-Show match: Ron Killings defeated A-1 (1:43)
- Killings pinned A-1 after an Axe Kick.
- Pre-Show match: Lance Hoyt, Cassidy Riley and Shark Boy defeated Shannon Moore and The Diamonds in the Rough (Elix Skipper and David Young) (with Simon Diamond) (5:49)
- Hoyt pinned Skipper after a Texas Towerbomb.
- The Naturals (Andy Douglas and Chase Stevens) defeated Austin Aries and Roderick Strong (10:29)
- Douglas pinned Aries after the Natural Disaster.
- Jay Lethal defeated Matt Bentley (with Traci), Alex Shelley and Petey Williams in a Four-Way match (10:30)
- Lethal pinned Williams with a bridged pin after Bentley hit Williams with a Back Body Drop.
- The James Gang (B.G. James and Kip James) defeated The Latin American Exchange (Homicide and Machete) (with Konnan) (5:59)
- B.G. pinned Machete after a Pumphandle Drop.
- After the match, LAX attacked The James Gang until B.G.'s father Bob Armstrong came to the rescue.
- America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm) (with Gail Kim) defeated Chris Sabin and Sonjay Dutt to retain the NWA World Tag Team Championship (10:43)
- Storm pinned Dutt after the Death Sentence.
- Rhino defeated Abyss (with James Mitchell) in a Falls Count Anywhere match (15:25)
- Rhino pinned Abyss after a Gore off the stage area and through four tables.
- Samoa Joe defeated A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels in a 3-Way Dance to retain the TNA X Division Championship (16:07)
- Joe pinned Styles after a Muscle Buster.
- Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) defeated Team Canada (Bobby Roode and Eric Young) (with Coach D'Amore) (13:12)
- Ray pinned Young after a 3D.
- After the match, America's Most Wanted and Team Canada attacked Team 3D until Ron Killings made the save.
- Christian Cage defeated Jeff Jarrett (with Gail Kim) to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (16:14)
- Cage pinned Jarrett after an Unprettier.
- The referee was the debuting Earl Hebner.
- Earlier in the evening Larry Zbyszko warned that anybody interfering in the main event would be fired. During the match Gail Kim hit Cage with Jarrett's guitar, but she was never fired.
2007
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| Promotion | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling | ||
| Date | February 11, 2007 | ||
| City | Orlando, Florida | ||
| Venue | TNA Impact! Zone | ||
| Attendance | 900 | ||
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Against All Odds (2007) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on February 11, 2007 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the third event under the Against All Odds chronology. Nine professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's card.
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
- Pre-Show match: Serotonin (Kazarian and Havok) (with Maverick Matt) defeated Jay Lethal and Sonjay Dutt (5:14)
- Kazarian pinned Lethal after Matt hit a superkick.
- After the match, Raven hit Kazarian, Matt and Havok with a kendo stick.
- The Latin American Exchange (Homicide and Hernandez) defeated Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) in a Little Italy Street Fight (9:26)
- Hernandez pinned Devon after a Border Toss.
- Senshi defeated Austin Starr (8:21)
- Senshi pinned Starr.
- After the match, Starr slapped Bob Backlund (who was watching the match from ringside) and Backlund put Starr in the Crossface Chicken Wing.
- Christy Hemme defeated "Big Fat Oily Guy" in a Tuxedo match (2:29)
- After the match, Kip James ran in and stripped off Hemme's tuxedo.
- Lance Hoyt (with David Eckstein) defeated Dale Torborg (with A.J. Pierzynski) in a Basebrawl (5:04)
- Hoyt pinned Torborg after Eckstein hit Torborg with a steel chair.
- Originally Torborg had won when Pierzynski hit Hoyt with the chair but the referee restarted the match after finding about the chair shot.
- A.J. Styles defeated Rhino in a Motor City Chain match (15:07)
- Styles pinned Rhino after Styles moved and Rhino hit a Gore through a table.
- Chris Sabin defeated Jerry Lynn to retain the TNA X Division Championship (13:33)
- Sabin pinned Lynn while using the ropes for leverage.
- James Storm and Jacqueline Moore defeated Petey Williams and Gail Kim in a Mixed Tag Team match (8:49)
- Moore pinned Kim after Storm collided into Kim.
- After the match, Chris Harris returned and chased Storm and Moore from the ring.
- Sting defeated Abyss (with James Mitchell) in a Prison Yard match (11:57)
- Sting won by putting Abyss in the cage,after Sting powerbombed Abyss through a table with a barbwired covered board on top.
- After the match, Sting attacked Mitchell.
- Christian Cage defeated Kurt Angle to retain the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (19:02)
- Cage pinned Angle after a steel pipe shot followed by an Unprettier.
- During the match, Tomko and Scott Steiner interfered on Cage's behalf.
- Samoa Joe was at ringside as the unofficial Outside Enforcer.
2008
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| Promotion | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling | ||
| Date | February 10, 2008 | ||
| City | Greenville, South Carolina | ||
| Venue | BI-LO Center | ||
| Attendance | 3,500 | ||
| Tagline(s) | Barb-Wired!!! | ||
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Against All Odds (2008) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on February 10, 2008 at the BI-LO Center in Greenville, South Carolina. It was the fourth event under the Against All Odds chronology. Nine professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's card.
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
- Dark match: Jackie Moore and Traci Brooks defeated the Rise Guys (Skip and Mattman)[2]
- Moore made the pin.
- Dark match: Sonjay Dutt and Consequences Creed defeated The Rock 'n Rave Infection (Lance Hoyt and Jimmy Rave)
- Creed pinned Rave.[2]
- A.J. Styles and Tomko defeated B.G. James and Bob Armstrong to retain the TNA World Tag Team Championship (7:45)[2]
- Styles pinned James after a Tornado-Plex.
- Traci Brooks defeated Payton Banks (5:07)[2]
- Brooks pinned Banks with a Schoolgirl.
- Scott Steiner defeated Petey Williams (9:24)[2]
- Steiner pinned Williams after an Elevated powerbomb to win the TNA World Heavyweight Feast or Fired case and retain the TNA X Division Feast or Fired case
- During the match, a mystery woman (later revealed to be Rhaka Khan[3]) came out and distracted Williams.
- Eric Young defeated James Storm (with Jacqueline) to retain the World Beer Drinking Championship (7:49)[2]
- Awesome Kong (with Raisha Saaed) defeated O.D.B. to retain the TNA Women's World Championship (6:54)[2]
- Kong pinned O.D.B. after an Awesome Bomb.
- Abyss defeated Judas Mesias (with Father James Mitchell) in a Barbed Wire Massacre (14:51)[2]
- Abyss pinned Mesias after a Black Hole Slam onto a barbed wire board.
- This match was taped at the iMPACT Zone on January 22 due to restrictions by the South Carolina Athletic Commission.[4]
- Booker T fought Robert Roode (with Payton Banks) to a double count-out (9:17)[2]
- Both men were counted out when they fought to the backstage area.
- Jay Lethal and The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley) defeated Johnny Devine and Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) in a Street Fight (12:30)[2]
- Lethal pinned Devine after a Flying elbow drop through a table to win the TNA X Division Championship.
- As a result of losing, Brother Ray and Brother Devon cannot compete in TNA unless they weigh in at under 275 pounds.
- Kurt Angle (with Karen Angle) defeated Christian Cage (w/Samoa Joe as Special Enforcer) to retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship (20:40)[2]
- Angle pinned Cage after Tomko interfered and performed a Torture rack neckbreaker on Cage.
- During the match, A.J. Styles distracted Joe by trying to get into the ring, which prompted Joe to chase him backstage.
2009
References
- ^ "TNA Against All Odds 2008". TNA Wrestling. Retrieved 2009-01-24.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "TNA Against All Odds 2008". Pro Wrestling History. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
- ^ "Woman revealed from Steiner and Williams match". WrestleView.com. 2008-02-11. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
- ^ "Barbed Wire Massacre Taped Early". SESCOOPS. Retrieved 2008-02-08.