Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) has held a variety ofprofessional wrestling tournaments competed for by wrestlers that are a part of theirroster.

The NWA World Tag Team Championships tournament was held to crown newNWA World Tag Team Champions afterJeff andJerry Jarrett formed NWA:Total Nonstop Action (NWA:TNA) to control/feature theNWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship and theNWA World Tag Team Championship as their championships.AJ Styles andJerry Lynn won the tournament to become the first NWA World Tag Team Championships in TNA.^[1]

AJ Styles and Jerry Lynn were a last minute replacement for James Storm and Chris Harris who were attacked backstage.

An 8-man tournament was held to crown a #1 contender for theNWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship which was held at the time byRon Killings.Jeff Jarrett won the tournament and would later win the championship.^[2]

The TNA Hard 10 Tournament was a hardcore tournament for a trophy that would proclaim the winner the most hardcore wrestler in TNA. It featured eight wrestlers competing in matches where a point-scoring system was used to determine the winner. The system was that 1 point was awarded for a direct hit with an object and 5 points for putting your opponent through a table, with 10 points needed to win. The only tournament was held in 2003, which was won byThe Sandman.

The TNA Anarchy Alliance Tag Team Tournament was a tag team tournament held in 2003 to determine the number one contenders for theNWA World Tag Team Championship, which was won byAmerica's Most Wanted (Chris Harris andJames Storm).^[3]

The NWA World Tag Team Championship Tournament was a tag team tournament held in 2004 in order to crown newNWA World Tag Team Champions, which was won byKid Kash andDallas.

The NWA World Heavyweight Championship Number One Contender Tournament was a 4-man tournament held in October 2004 in order to crown new number one contender for theNWA World Heavyweight Championship at TNA's first-ever monthly pay-per-view eventVictory Road.^[5]

The TNA X Cup Tournaments areX Divisiontournaments that feature variouswrestlers and/or Teams from around theWorld. So far, there have been two Super X Cup Tournaments, one America's X Cup Tournament, and three World X Cup Tournaments.

The Fight for the Right Tournament was a tournament to determine the number one contender for theNWA World Heavyweight Championship and later for theTNA World Heavyweight Championship.

ThePaparazzi Championship Series was a tournament that began atTurning Point 2006 and involved five X Division competitors competing in a variety of matches where points are awarded for victories. These matches includedlimbo,Texas hold 'em,musical chairs, and a push-up contest, among others. The tournament was created to give the wrestlers airtime while also continuing thePaparazzi Productions storyline surroundingAustin Starr, Alex Shelley andKevin Nash. Throughout the competitions, Nash kept bringing upBob Backlund, which led up to Backlund being a guest judge atFinal Resolution 2007 during the finals of the competition. Shelley defeated Starr in the finals to win a bowling trophy presented by Nash at Final Resolution 2007. The other three participants in the tournament wereSonjay Dutt,Jay Lethal andSenshi. Nash viciously needled the other three (especially Dutt) throughout the challenge, but kept the actual competition fair and even, always inviting the losers of each contest to "feel free to kiss the winner".

The Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament was held during April and May 2008 for the vacantTNA World Tag Team Championship. It took place onTNA Impact! and atSacrifice on May 11, 2008. It was announced on the April 24, 2008 episode ofImpact! byManagement DirectorJim Cornette.^[6] It involved twelve teams overall.

The tournament was the result of a match for theTNA X Division Championship atFinal Resolution betweenEric Young andSheik Abdul Bashir ending in a controversial fashion, with Young winning the championship thanks to the referee's help. Management DirectorJim Cornette stripped Young of the belt and announced the tournament to crown the new champion. The tournament final took place atGenesis.

To reinvigorate the tag team division,Team 3D (Brother Ray andBrother Devon) announced on the April 23, 2009 episode ofImpact! that they would be hosting a tag team tournament. The winning team would receive a trophy, a check for$100,000 and a match for theTNA World Tag Team Championship (held by Team 3D). The tournament started that same night and matches would be held over the next few weeks and TNA announced that the finals would be held at theSacrifice pay-per-view.

TNA announced a Knockouts tag team tournament for the newTNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship on the August 20, 2009 episode ofTNA Impact!. Round one matches started on the August 27, 2009 episode ofTNA Impact!.

On the September 3, 2009 episode ofImpact!, a two-bracket one-night tournament was held to determine two competitors that would faceMatt Morgan andKurt Angle for theTNA World Heavyweight Championship atNo Surrender.Sting won the first bracket, andAJ Styles won the second bracket.^[7]

The TNA Championship Series took place on the Thanksgiving Day edition ofImpact! on November 26, 2009. The winner of the tournament would earn himself a shot at the Championship of his own division.^[8] However, the winner of the tournament,Bobby Lashley, did not receive his title match.

Participants:

• Abyss (Heavyweight Division)
• Bobby Lashley (Heavyweight Division)
• Desmond Wolfe (Heavyweight Division)
• Suicide (X Division)
• Kurt Angle (Heavyweight Division)
• D'Angelo Dinero (Heavyweight Division)
• Homicide (X Division)
• Robert Roode (Tag Team Division)

The New Year's Knockout Eve Tournament took place on the December 31, 2009, edition ofImpact!. The winner of the tournament would earn a shot at theTNA Women's Knockout Championship on the live three-hour Monday night edition ofImpact! on January 4, 2010.^[9]

The 8 Card Stud Tournament took place on February 14, 2010, at theAgainst All Odds pay-per-view and its winner would get to challenge theTNA World Heavyweight Champion in the main event of April'sLockdown pay-per-view.^[10]

On the June 17, 2010, edition ofImpact! TNA vacated theTNA World Tag Team Championship and announced a two-week-long tournament, with the winners facingThe Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley andChris Sabin), who were the number one contenders prior to the titles being vacated, for the titles atVictory Road.^[11][12]

On the August 4, 2010, edition ofTNA Xplosion, TNA announced a two-week-long tournament to determine the number one contenders to theTNA World Tag Team Championship.

Teams:

• Desmond Wolfe andMagnus
• Generation Me (Max and Jeremy Buck)
• Hernandez andRob Terry
• Ink Inc. (Jesse Neal andShannon Moore)

On the August 19, 2010, edition ofTNA Impact!, theTNA World Heavyweight Championship was vacated, after championRob Van Dam suffered a storyline injury. The title was put up in a tournament featuring the top eight ranked wrestlers in theTNA Championship Committee rankings. The finals of the tournament would take place atBound for Glory on October 10.^[15][16]

On the December 9, 2010, edition ofImpact! TNA vacated theTNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship, after one half of the previous champions,Hamada, had been released by the promotion, and set up a four–team tournament to determine new champions.^[17] The finals of the tournament would take place on the December 23 edition ofImpact!.^[18]

*Winter replaced Velvet Sky, who had been attacked backstage by Sarita.

On the January 27, 2011, edition ofImpact!, TNA started a tournament to determine a new number one contender for theTNA X Division Championship, held byKazarian. The tournament consisted of three three–way semifinal matches, taking place on the January 27, February 3 and February 10 editions ofImpact!, with the finals, another three–way match, taking place atAgainst All Odds on February 13.^[20][21][22] The finals ended with a double countout, after Jeremy and Max Buck failed to make it to the event due to travel issues.^[23]

On the May 24, 2011, edition ofTNA Xplosion,Desmond Wolfe was announced as the new Xplosion Commissioner.^[24] His first act as commissioner was setting up a tournament exclusive to Xplosion where the winner would receive a title shot against any active champion in TNA.^[25] The finals of the tournament took place at the August 9 tapings of the August 24 edition ofXplosion.^[26][27]

On the June 16, 2011, edition ofImpact Wrestling, TNA started a twelve-man tournament for a contract in the promotion's X Division. The finals of the tournament would take place on July 10 atDestination X.^[34]

First round

• Austin Aries defeatedJimmy Rave andKid Kash (Impact Wrestling, June 16, 2011)^[34]
• Zema Ion defeatedDakota Darsow and Federico Palacios (Impact Wrestling, June 23, 2011)^[35]
• Low Ki defeatedJimmy Yang andMatt Bentley (Impact Wrestling, June 30, 2011)^[36]
• Jack Evans defeatedJesse Sorensen andTony Nese (Impact Wrestling, July 7, 2011)^[28]

Finals

• Austin Aries defeated Jack Evans, Low Ki and Zema Ion (Destination X, July 10, 2011)^[37]

On November 23, 2011, TNA announced the start of the Maximum Impact Tournament, an eight-man tournament, which would take place onXplosion. The winner would receive a shot at theTNA World Heavyweight Championship during TNA's tour of the United Kingdom in January 2012.^[38] The finals of the tournament took place on December 13 at the tapings of the January 4, 2012, edition ofXplosion.^[39] The winner,Samoa Joe, received his title shot on January 27 inManchester, in a match taped forXplosion, but was defeated by the defending TNA World Heavyweight Champion,Bobby Roode.^[40]

On the December 15, 2011, edition ofImpact Wrestling, TNA started a tag team tournament to determine the number one contenders for theTNA World Tag Team Championship, held by the teamCrimson andMatt Morgan, atGenesis.^[43] The pairings were, in storyline, decided by a random draw.^[44]

On the June 28, 2012, episode ofImpact Wrestling, TNA announced a tournament for theTNA X Division Championship, which would take place atDestination X, whereAustin Aries would vacate the title for a shot at theTNA World Heavyweight Championship. The tournament was preceded by four qualifying matches featuring wrestlers from theindependent circuit.^[45] TNA contracted wrestlersDouglas Williams,Kid Kash andZema Ion were given automatic spots in the first round of the tournament.^[46] The eighth and final spot in the tournament would be filled by the winner of a four-way between the losers of the qualifying matches.^[47] At Destination X the eight wrestlers will face each other in four singles matches, with the winners advancing to anUltimate X match for the X Division Championship.^[46]

On the January 3, 2013, edition ofImpact! TNA started a tournament to determine a new number one contender for theTNA X Division Championship, held byRob Van Dam. The tournament consisted of two singles semifinal matches, taking place on the January 3 and January 10 editions ofImpact!, with the finals taking place atGenesis on January 13.

TheTNA Gut Check Tournament was a 4-man tournament held from May 9 thru June 2, 2013 in order to determine whichTNA Gut Check competitor would compete in theBound for Glory Series the finals of the tournament took place atSlammiversary XI.^[48] Sam Shaw advanced to the finals of the tournament after Silva was no longer able to compete.

On the July 11, 2013 edition ofImpact a tournament was held where the twelve Bound for Glory Series participants were randomly paired up into six tag teams. There were then three tag matches with the winning teams advancing to a six-manGauntlet Battle Royal. Once there were two competitors left in the match, the match became a regular singles match with the winner earning 25 points in theBound for Glory Series.

On theDestination X edition ofImpact! TNA started a tournament to determine a newTNA X Division Champion, since the title was vacated afterChris Sabin traded it in for a shot at theWorld Championship. The tournament consisted of three three–way semifinal matches, taking place on the July 18 edition ofImpact!, with the finals, another three–way match, taking place on July 25, 2013.

On October 29, 2013, TNA PresidentDixie Carter vacated theTNA World Heavyweight Championship after the previous championA.J. Styles left the company with the championship title. On the October 31 edition ofImpact Wrestling, Carter announced an eight-man tournament to determine a new TNA World Heavyweight Champion, that would begin on November 7. Seven of the eight men were former TNA World Heavyweight Champions includingJeff Hardy,Chris Sabin,Bobby Roode,James Storm,Kurt Angle,Austin Aries, andSamoa Joe. The eighth would be determined later in the night in a gauntlet match, which was eventually won byMagnus last eliminatingKazarian andSting. Also later that night, Carter announced the "Wheel of Dixie" in which she would spin a wheel full of different stipulation that the competitors would compete in. The stipulations on the "Wheel of Dixie" were aFalls Count Anywhere match, aBull Rope match, aSubmission match, aLadder match, aFull Metal Mayhem match, aCoalminer's Glove match, aTables match, aDixieland match, aTuxedo match, andLast Man Standing match. The Storm/Roode match was originally aBull Rope match but Storm asked Carter to change it to aFlorida Death match, which was not on the "Wheel of Dixie", which Carter agreed to.

On theDestination X edition ofImpact! TNA started a tournament to determine a newTNA X Division Champion, since the title was vacated afterAustin Aries traded it in for a shot at theWorld Championship. The tournament consisted of three three–way semifinal matches, taking place on the July 31 edition ofImpact!, with the finals, another three–way match, taking place on August 7, 2014.

On September 17, 2014 TNA Executive DirectorKurt Angle announced a "Gold Rush" tournament. Which took place on September 24, 2014. Where the winners of 5 qualifying matches would advance to the main event later that night. The winner of the main event would earn a championship match against any TNA champion, at any time.

On the October 15, 2014, edition ofImpact Wrestling, TNA started an eight tag team tournament to determine the number one contenders for theTNA World Tag Team Championship, held byThe Wolves (Eddie Edwards andDavey Richards).

Between March 14 and March 16, 2015 episodes ofImpact Wrestling a tournament was held to crown newTNA World Tag Team Champions.^[49]

On the Destination X 2015 edition ofImpact! TNA started a tournament to determine a newTNA X Division Champion, since the title was vacated afterRockstar Spud traded it in for a shot at theWorld Championship. The tournament consisted of three three–way semifinal matches, taking place on the June 10th edition ofImpact!, with the finals, another three–way match, taking place on June 27, 2015.

On October 7, 2015, it was announced that a tournament would take place, afterTNA World Heavyweight ChampionMatt Hardy vacated the title a day prior due to a legal injunction filed by former championEthan Carter III. The World Title Series places 32 wrestlers into 8 groups of 4, with the first round being under around-robin format.^[50] Also, for the first time ever, the Knockouts were given an opportunity to compete for the World Heavyweight Title.^[51]

Each winner in the round-robin matches is awarded 3 points, and a draw is worth 1 point for each, with each match having a 15-minute time limit. The two members of each group with the most points will advance to the final 16, where at that point the tournament switches to a single elimination format.

The title was introduced at the August 13, 2016 tapings of TNA's television programImpact Wrestling' after TNA PresidentBilly Corgan announced that theTNA King of the Mountain Championship would be deactivated and retired in favor for theImpact Grand Championship. Corgan also announced an 8-man single elimination tournament that would feature new rules that would apply to the title. The new rules would be similar like the UFC in which each match will be three timed rounds, with a team of judges to award the win based on points, if there is no winner via pin or submission within the time limit. The final match was at 2016'sBound for Glory, where, due to injuryEddie Edwards subbed forDrew Galloway againstAron Rex to determine the inaugural champion.^[52]

On November 23, 2017 it was announced after Gail Kimretired andvacated theImpact Knockouts Championship that it would be a 6-Womentournament to determine who would be the new Knockouts Champion where twotriple threat matches will happen and onefinals.^{[53][54][55][56]}

TheImpact Mashup Tournament was held in 2019 to determine the #1 contender for theImpact World Championship atBound for Glory. Four qualification matches for the tournament were held on the July 19, 2019 episode ofImpact Wrestling, where wrestlers were randomly paired as partners in tag team matches and the winners of the four tag team matches qualified for a fatal four-way elimination match in the main event of that episode and the participants of the winning team qualified for the #1 contender's match atUnbreakable.

A tournament was held to determine the new #1 contender for theImpact World Championship from the May 12, 2020 to June 2, 2020 episodes ofImpact!.^[58]

†Trey was attacked before his match and hisThe Rascalz teammate Wentz took his place in the finals.

Over the course of 2020, Impact Wrestling (which had been renamed from TNA in 2017) signed several female talents such asNevaeh,^[59]Tasha Steelz,^[60]Deonna Purrazzo,^[61] andKimber Lee,^[62] all of which were paired with already established names on the roster.^[63] After months of competition between the tag teams in theKnockouts division, on October 24 at theBound for Glory pay-per-view,Madison Rayne announced that after nearly eight years of inactivity, Impact Wrestling is reviving the Knockouts Tag Team Championship.^[64] It was also announced that an eight-team tournament would take place over the next two months to determine the next champions. The brackets were announced in November, with the final taking place at theHard To Kill pay-per-view in January 2021.^[65][66] At Hard To Kill,Fire 'N Flava (Kiera Hogan andTasha Steelz) defeatedHavok andNevaeh in the tournament final to win the revived titles.

Tournament Bracket

A tournament featuringmixed tag teams was held to determine the "King and Queen" atHomecoming on July 31, 2021.^[69][70]

On the September 23 episode ofImpact!, producerGail Kim announced an eight-woman, one night tournament for theKnockouts Knockdown event, where the winner will earn a future shot at theImpact Knockouts Championship.^[71][72]

On the September 23 episode ofImpact!, Impact started a tournament to determine the newImpact X Division Champion, since the title was vacated afterJosh Alexander invokedOption C to challenge for theImpact World Championship. The tournament consist of threethree–way semi-final matches, with the finals, another three–way match, will taking place atBound for Glory.^[74]

On the September 30 episode ofImpact!, theImpact Digital Media Championship was introduced and it was announced that an intergender tournament will be held with the inaugural champion being crowned in the final atBound for Glory. The first round matches will air on Tuesdays and Wednesdays onImpact Plus and onYouTube for Impact Ultimate Insider members, before being distributed to the public across all social media platforms 24 hours later.^[79][80]

First round

• John Skyler defeatedZicky Dice – October 5, 2021^[81]
• Crazzy Steve defeatedHernandez – October 6, 2021^[81]
• Fallah Bahh defeated Sam Beale – October 12, 2021^[82]
• Jordynne Grace defeatedJohnny Swinger – October 13, 2021^[82]
• Chelsea Green defeatedMadison Rayne – October 19, 2021^[83]
• Tenille Dashwood defeatedAlisha Edwards – October 20, 2021^[83]

Final

• Jordynne Grace defeatedChelsea Green,Crazzy Steve (withBlack Taurus),Fallah Bahh, John Skyler, andMadison Rayne* –October 23, 2021^[84][78]

*Madison Rayne replaced Tenille Dashwood, who was removed from match.^[84]

On October 20, 2022, afterFrankie Kazarian vacated the Impact X Division Championship for a shot at theImpact World Championship it was announced that there will be an eight-man tournament to determine who will be the new Impact X Division Champion on November 18, 2022, at Impact Pay-per-viewOver Drive.^[85]

On August 2, 2023 a new four man tag team tournament was announced where the winners will faceSubculture (Mark Andrews andFlash Morgan Webster) (with their female valetDani Luna in their corner) for theImpact World Tag Team Championships at Impact Pay-per-viewEmergence of year 2023.^[89]

TheBound for Glory Series are a tournament in which 12 wrestlers compete in a series of matches over several months to determine who receives a shot at the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at Bound for Glory.

TheFeast or Fired match is a pole match featured inTotal Nonstop Action Wrestling. In the match, all four ring posts have poles attached, and a briefcase hangs from each pole. The match features a large group of participants, who attempt to scale the turnbuckles and grab the cases. Each case contains a different item, either a title shot or a pink slip.

TheTNA Turkey Bowl was a tournament held in 2007 and 2008 aired on theThanksgiving night episode ofTNA Impact! The tournament consisted of three preliminarythree way matches. Each match featured a member of the Heavyweight Division, The X Division, and The Tag Team Division with the winner of the match going on to the finals. The winner of the finals, also a three-way match, won $25,000. The wrestler who lost in the finals was forced to put on a turkey suit.

The TNA Turkey Bowl returned with a different format in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2016 which aired on theThanksgiving night episode ofImpact Wrestling.

Impact One Night Only is a periodic series of PPV events held around a particular theme. This section is for annual One Night Only events.

Joker's Wild consists of seven tag team matches, where partners are picked by a random lottery. The winning teams advance to the main event, a 14-man battle royal for the chance to win a $100,000 prize.

Knockouts Knockdown is an event where current members of theTNA Knockouts Division take on female wrestlers from the independent circuit, with the winners advancing to the main event, agauntlet battle royal where the winner will be crowned "Queen of the Knockouts."

Teams of wrestlers from around the World compete in Heavyweight,X Division, Tag Team and Knockouts Division matches, the winning team members gaining points for their respective teams. The two teams with the most points face off in the main event in aFive-on-Five Elimination tag team match to crown the winners of the TNA World Cup.

In January 2019 taping, Impact brought back the World Cup name for a tournament in partnership withLucha Libre AAA Worldwide. Team Impact consisted ofSami Callihan,Eli Drake,Eddie Edwards andFallah Bahh, and Team AAA consisted ofAero Star,El Hijo del Vikingo,Puma King andPsycho Clown. The match, which aired the February 15Impact!, was a 4 on 4 single elimination match. The match came down to Edwards and Clown with, Clown eliminating Edwards, after Drake hit Edwards with a kendostick.

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