Total Nonstop Action Wrestling pay-per-view event series
Professional wrestling pay-per-view event series
Sacrifice is aprofessional wrestling event held byTotal Nonstop Action Wrestling . It was originally held as apay-per-view event between 2005 and 2014. The first Sacrifice event took place 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 sawSamoa Joe defeatA.J. Styles to win theSuper X Cup . Sacrifice 2006 was the final round of theWorld X Cup Tournament . Sacrifice 2008 continued the tradition with the finals of theDeuces Wild Tag Team Tournament . Sacrifice 2009 featuredBeer Money, Inc. defeatingThe British Invasion in the finals of theTeam 3D Invitational Tag Team Tournament . All events take place inside the Impact! Zone. On January 11, 2013, TNA announced that in 2013 will be only four PPVs, dropping Sacrifice.[ 1] Impact Wrestling monthly special forImpact Plus in 2020.
Theinaugural Sacrifice event took place on August 14, 2005, at theTNA Impact! Zone inOrlando, Florida .[ 2] third Sacrifice , which took place on May 13, 2007, at the Impact! Zone in Florida,Kurt Angle became the inauguralTNA World Heavywight Champion , by defeatingChristian Cage andSting in athree-way match .[ 3] last event at the time, which took place on April 27, 2014, at the Impact Zone.[ 4] [ 5] special televised Sacrifice event at the Impact Zone, which aired ontape delay on April 26.[ 6] Anthem Sports & Entertainment purchased a majority stake of TNA, Anthem re-branded TNA as Impact Wrestling.[ 7]
On January 29, 2020, Impactretrieved the Sacrifice event as amonthly special forImpact Plus , where the event itself took part on February 22, at the Davis Arena, inLouisville, Kentucky .[ 8] COVID-19 pandemic in the United States , Impact had to present the majority of its programming from abehind closed doors set at Skyway Studios inNashville, Tennessee .[ 9] 13th Sacrifice event, which took place on March 5, 2022, at the Paristown Hall in Louisville, saw the return of live attendance.[ 10]
# Event Date City Venue Main Event Ref. 1 TNA Sacrifice (2005) August 14, 2005 Orlando, Florida TNA Impact! Zone Jeff Jarrett andRhino vs.Raven andSabu in atag team match [ 2] 2 TNA Sacrifice (2006) May 14, 2006 Christian Cage (c) vs.Abyss in aFull Metal Mayhem match for theNWA World Heavyweight Championship 3 TNA Sacrifice (2007) May 13, 2007 Christian Cage vs.Kurt Angle vs.Sting in athree-way match to crown the firstTNA World Heavyweight Champion [ 3] 4 TNA Sacrifice (2008) May 11, 2008 Samoa Joe (c) vs.Kaz vs.Scott Steiner in athree-way match for theTNA World Heavyweight Championship 5 TNA Sacrifice (2009) May 24, 2009 Mick Foley (c) vs.Jeff Jarrett vs.Kurt Angle vs.Sting in afour-way Ultimate Sacrifice match for theTNA World Heavyweight Championship 6 TNA Sacrifice (2010) May 16, 2010 Rob Van Dam (c) vs.A.J. Styles for theTNA World Heavyweight Championship [ 11] 7 TNA Sacrifice (2011) May 15, 2011 Impact Zone Sting (c) vs.Rob Van Dam for theTNA World Heavyweight Championship [ 12] 8 TNA Sacrifice (2012) May 13, 2012 Bobby Roode (c) vs.Rob Van Dam in aladder match for theTNA World Heavyweight Championship [ 13] 9 TNA Sacrifice (2014) April 27, 2014 Eric Young (c) vs.Magnus for theTNA World Heavyweight Championship 10 TNA Sacrifice (2016) April 26, 2016[ a] Ethan Carter III vs.Mike Bennett [ 6] 11 Impact Wrestling Sacrifice (2020) February 22, 2020 Louisville, Kentucky Davis Arena Ace Austin (c-X Division ) vs.Tessa Blanchard (c-World ) in a non-title champion vs. champion match[ 8] 12 Impact Wrestling Sacrifice (2021) March 13, 2021 Nashville, Tennessee Skyway Studios Rich Swann (c-Impact) vs.Moose (c-TNA) in achampionship unification match for theImpact World Championship and theTNA World Heavyweight Championship [ 14] 13 Impact Wrestling Sacrifice (2022) March 5, 2022 Louisville, Kentucky Paristown Hall Moose (c) vs.Heath for theImpact World Championship [ 10] 14 Impact Wrestling Sacrifice (2023) March 24, 2023 Windsor, Ontario ,Canada St. Clair College Frankie Kazarian ,Rich Swann andSteve Maclin vs.Time Machine (Alex Shelley ,Chris Sabin andKushida ) in asix-man tag team match [ 15] [ 16] 15 TNA Sacrifice (2024) March 8, 2024 Moose (c) vs.Eric Young for theTNA World Championship 14 TNA Sacrifice (2025) March 14, 2025 El Paso, Texas El Paso County Coliseum TBA [ 17] (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
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