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.jpg) Promotional poster featuringSting andRob Van Dam | |||
| Promotion | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling | ||
| Date | May 15, 2011 | ||
| City | Orlando, Florida | ||
| Venue | Impact Zone | ||
| Attendance | 1,100[1] | ||
| Tagline | "Will One Man's Legacy Fulfill Another Man's Dream? " | ||
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The 2011Sacrifice was aprofessional wrestlingpay-per-view (PPV)event produced byTotal Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA)promotion, which took place on May 15, 2011 at theImpact Zone inOrlando, Florida. It was the seventhSacrifice event.
The event featured the return ofChyna to in-ring competition for the first time since 2002; in what would ultimately be her last match.
In October 2017, with the launch of theGlobal Wrestling Network, the event became available to stream on demand.[2]
| Other on-screen personnel | |
|---|---|
| Commentator | Mike Tenay |
| Taz | |
| Ring announcer | Jeremy Borash |
| Referee | Rudy Charles |
| Mark "Slick" Johnson | |
| Andrew Thomas | |
| Interviewers | Jeremy Borash |
Sacrifice featured nineprofessional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds andstorylines. Wrestlers portrayedvillains,heroes, orless distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.[3]
The primary storyline which was featured at Sacrifice was between defending championSting andRob Van Dam for theTNA World Heavyweight Championship. AtLockdown Sting defeated both RVD andMr. Anderson in a Three Way Steel Cage match to retain his championship after he pinned Anderson, also during the match RVD refused to hit Sting with steel pipe whenHulk Hogan gave it to him. On the following edition ofImpact April 21, Sting chose RVD to be his opponent at Sacrifice due to his good actions at Lockdown.