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Professional wrestling pay-per-view event series
Sacrifice is an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event held by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in the month of May. The first one was held in August 2005. When event names were shuffled by TNA for 2006, the event was moved to May. Sacrifice has had a tradition of being the final round of tournaments. Sacrifice 2005 saw Samoa Joe defeat A.J. Styles to win the Super X Cup . Sacrifice 2006 was the final round of the World X Cup Tournament . Sacrifice 2008 continued the tradition with the finals of the Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament . Sacrifice 2009 featured Beer Money, Inc. defeating The British Invasion in the finals of the Team 3D Invitational Tag Team Tournament . All events have been held inside the Impact! Zone. On January 11, 2013, TNA announced that in 2013 will be only four PPVs, dropping Sacrifice.[1]
Events
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Event
Date
City
Venue
Main Event
Ref
1
Sacrifice (2005) August 14, 2005
Orlando, Florida TNA Impact! Zone Jeff Jarrett and Rhino vs. Raven and Sabu in a Tag Team match
2
Sacrifice (2006) May 14, 2006
Orlando, Florida TNA Impact! Zone Christian Cage (c) vs. Abyss in a Full Metal Mayhem match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship
3
Sacrifice (2007) May 13, 2007
Orlando, Florida TNA Impact! Zone Christian Cage vs. Kurt Angle vs. Sting in a Three Way match to crown the first TNA World Heavyweight Champion
4
Sacrifice (2008) May 11, 2008
Orlando, Florida TNA Impact! Zone Samoa Joe (c) vs. Kaz vs. Scott Steiner in a Three Way match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship
5
Sacrifice (2009) May 24, 2009
Orlando, Florida TNA Impact! Zone Mick Foley (c) vs. Jeff Jarrett vs. Kurt Angle vs. Sting in a Four Way Ultimate Sacrifice match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship
6
Sacrifice (2010) May 16, 2010
Orlando, Florida TNA Impact! Zone Rob Van Dam (c) vs. A.J. Styles for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship
[2]
7
Sacrifice (2011) May 15, 2011
Orlando, Florida Impact Zone Sting (c) vs. Rob Van Dam for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship
[3]
8
Sacrifice (2012) May 13, 2012
Orlando, Florida Impact Zone Bobby Roode (c) vs. Rob Van Dam in a Ladder match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship
[4]
9
Sacrifice (2014) April 27, 2014
Orlando, Florida Impact Zone Eric Young (c) vs. Magnus for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship
10
Impact Wrestling: Sacrifice (2016) April 26, 2016
Orlando, Florida Impact Zone Ethan Carter III vs. Mike Bennett
(c) - refers to the champion prior to the match
Results 2005 2006 Sacrifice (2006) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) eventproduced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on May 14, 2006 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida . It was the second event under the Sacrifice chronology. Eight matches were featured on the event's card .
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Matches
Stipulations
Times
1
Jushin Thunder Liger (w/ Black Tiger , Minoru Tanaka & Hirooki Goto ) defeated Petey Williams (w/ Eric Young , Johnny Devine & Tyson Dux )
World X Cup Tournament match
07:16
2
America's Most Wanted (c) (Chris Harris & James Storm ) defeated A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels
Tag team match for the NWA World Tag Team Championship
15:30
3
Raven defeated A-1 (w/ Larry Zbyszko )
Singles match
05:19
4
Bobby Roode (w/ Coach D'Amore ) defeated Rhino
Singles match
12:07
5
The James Gang (B.G. James & Kip James ) defeated Team 3D (Brother Ray & Brother Devon )
Tag team match
09:35
6
Petey Williams defeated Minoru Tanaka, Puma , Chris Sabin , Hirooki Goto, Incognito , Johnny Devine, Sonjay Dutt , Black Tiger, Magno, Eric Young, Alex Shelley , Jushin Thunder Liger, Shocker , Tyson Dux and Jay Lethal
World X Cup Gauntlet match
19:21
7
Sting and Samoa Joe defeated Jeff Jarrett and Scott Steiner (w/ Gail Kim )
Tag team match
14:24
8
Christian Cage (c) defeated Abyss (w/ James Mitchell )
Full Metal Mayhem match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship
26:01
(c) - refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
2007 Sacrifice (2007) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on May 13, 2007 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida . It was the third event under the Sacrifice chronology. Nine matches were featured on the event's card . On this morning, before the airing of the event, Vice President of the National Wrestling Alliance stripped Christian Cage of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and Team 3D of the NWA World Tag Team Championships due to Cage's refusal to defend the World Title in various NWA Territories. The NWA severed all ties with TNA, although the affected champions still had physical possession of the belts. The affected champions defended their "status" as champions.
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2014 2016 Sacrifice (2016) (aka Impact Wrestling: Sacrifice professional wrestling television special produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), The show was taped on March 19, 2016 at the Impact Wrestling Zone in Orlando, Florida and Aired on Pop TV on April 26, 2016. It was the tenth event under the Sacrifice chronology. Unlike the previous events, this event won't be held on pay-per-view (PPV) and instead, was featured as a special edition of TNA's weekly broadcast of Impact Wrestling
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