Slammiversary (2015)
Promotional poster featuringKurt Angle holding theTNA World Heavyweight Championship
Promotion	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Date	June 28, 2015
City	Orlando, Florida
Venue	Impact Zone
Tagline	"The Return of the King of the Mountain"
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The 2015Slammiversary was aprofessional wrestlingpay-per-view (PPV)event produced byTotal Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). It was live fromImpact Zone,Orlando,Florida. It was the eleventh event under theSlammiversary chronology, and the first event in the 2015 TNA PPV schedule.This was the first Slammiversary pay-per-view to feature aKing of the Mountain match sinceSlammiversary 2009. It was also the first King of the Mountain match in which the winner will be crowned theTNA King of the Mountain Champion.^{[1][unreliable source]}

In October 2017, with the launch of theGlobal Wrestling Network, the event became available to stream on demand.^[2]

Slammiversary followed four straight days of TNA taping future episodes ofImpact Wrestling. Due to the episodes set to air after the PPV, the live Slammiversary featuredTaryn Terrell as theTNA Knockouts Champion even though she had already lost the title andEthan Carter III being billed as the number one contender to theTNA World Heavyweight Championship, despite already having won the title. In addition,Austin Aries andDavey Richards wrestled for the right to choose a stipulation for a match that had already occurred.^[3]

Slammiversary featuredprofessional wrestling matches involving 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.^[4]

On the April 24 edition ofImpact Wrestling,Magnus andMickie James both came down to the ring to announce Mickie's retirement from professional wrestling to focus on raising their son, but were interrupted byJames Storm, who managed to convince her not to. Magnus was later approached backstage by Davey Richards, who warned Magnus to not trust Storm, after which Magnus asked a member of the camera crew to follow Mickie around to keep an eye on her. After consulting the footage the crew gathered, Magnus confronted Storm and warned him to stay out of his and Mickie's business. On the May 15 edition ofImpact Wrestling, the two would have another confrontation where Storm would provoke Magnus into attacking him with a guitar, officially igniting their feud. The following week, Magnus called out Storm for a fight, only to instead be met by former rival and Storm'sThe Revolution teammateAbyss, and eventually the rest of The Revolution membersManik andKhoya, later that night Storm confronted them and told them that this is between him and Mickie James and they have nothing to do with them. On the June 3 edition ofImpact Wrestling, James Storm met Mickie inNashville, Tennessee, where Storm would push Mickie down onto train tracks. Storm afterwards called Magnus with Mickie's phone, warning him that he is coming. On June 17, Magnus would charge into the Impact Zone and say that he's halting the show and that he would not leave until Storm showed up. After security emerged, Storm would show up and talk about Magnus and his family, which caused Magnus to try desperately to reach Storm, but security repeatedly stood in his way until Magnus fought them off. When Magnus charged toward Storm, Storm kicked a stroller off the stage. Magnus panicked believing that inside the stroller was his son, but found out that the "baby" was only a doll.

On June 16, TNA announced on their website that for the first time in six years, theKing of the Mountain match would return at Slammiversary. On the June 24 live edition ofImpact Wrestling,Jeff Jarrett, alongsideKaren Jarrett, made a surprise return and announced his participation in the match. On June 25 TNA announced on their website the four competitors that would join Jarrett in the King of the Mountain match:Matt Hardy,Eric Young,Drew Galloway andBobby Roode, with the prize being the newly reactivated and renamedTNA King of the Mountain Championship.^[5]

On April 17, after losing a tag team match to theDirty Heels,Jessie Godderz andRobbie E got into a brawl, disbandingThe BroMans and turning Robbie Eface. On May 15, after Robbie E defeated Godderz three times in the same night, Godderz hit Robbie E with a microphone, and afterwards Godderz placed a chair around Robbie E's neck and slammed it into one of the ring posts. On June 17, Godderz would defeatDJ Z via submission, Robbie E would come out after the match and attack Godderz. On June 18, TNA announced that Godderz would face Robbie E at Slammiversary.

On June 22, it was announced onFacebook by TNA that The Dollhouse (Taryn Terrell,Jade andMarti Bell) would faceBrooke andAwesome Kong in a3-on-2 Handicap match at Slammiversary.

On June 24 live edition ofImpact Wrestling it was announced thatLashley andMr. Anderson would face Ethan Carter III andTyrus at Slammiversary.

AtDestination X,Bram would cut a promo stating that he would "rewrite history" and challenged any TNA wrestler from the past,Crimson would answer the challenge and be defeated by Bram. The following week, Bram defeatedJoseph Park. On the June 24 live edition ofImpact Wrestling,Vader would answer the challenge and win the match viadisqualification after Bram hit Vader with a foreign object, Bram would go on to continue the attack untilMatt Morgan made the save, later that night TNA would announce that Bram would face Morgan at Slammiversary.

AfterThe Wolves vacated theTNA World Tag Team Championship due to an injury toEddie Edwards, anUltimate X match was held for the titles on the April 17 edition ofImpact Wrestling.The Hardys defeatedThe Beat Down Clan (Kenny King andLow Ki), Ethan Carter III andBram, andRockstar Spud andMr. Anderson to win the match and the titles for the first time as a team. However, the Hardys vacated the titles afterwards after Jeff suffered a broken tibia. On the May 8 live edition ofImpact Wrestling, TheDirty Heels (Bobby Roode and Austin Aries) would come out wanting the tag team championship. Davey Richards would come out and announce the return of Eddie Edwards, setting up a Best of 5 Series for the tag team championship. On the May 15 edition ofImpact Wrestling, The Wolves would defeat Roode and Aries in the first match of the series. On the May 29 edition ofImpact Wrestling, The Wolves defeated The Dirty Heels in the second match of the series. The following week The Dirty Heels defeated The Wolves after a low blow and chair shot in the third match of the series. On June 17, Austin Aries wasn't medically cleared to wrestle, therefore a match was set between Eddie Edwards and Bobby Roode were the winner of that match will be able to choose the stipulation for match four in the series, in which Edwards was victorious, and announced that match four would be aFull Metal Mayhem, in which The Dirty Heels were victorious. At Slammiversary, a match was set between Richards and Aries where the winner get to pick the stipulation for the fifth match in the series, that would take place on the July 1 special edition ofImpact Wrestling,Bell To Bell, with the TNA World Tag Team Championship on the line.

On June 28, it was announced onTwitter that Slammiversary's opening match would be a three-way elimination match for theTNA X Division Championship, where the X Division ChampionTigre Uno would defend his title against Manik and DJ Z.

Three days after Slammiversary, on the July 1 episode ofImpact Wrestling, Ethan Carter III defeated Kurt Angle for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. After winning the championship, Carter teasedDixie Carter's return. On the July 8 episode ofImpact Wrestling, Dixie Carter made her first televised appearance after a nearly year long absence, criticizing Ethan Carter III's villainous actions and apologizing to the fans for her own past actions, saying that she would not make those same mistakes again, turning Dixie into afan favorite once again.^[6]

Also on the July 1 episode ofImpact Wrestling, The Wolves defeated The Dirty Heels (Bobby Roode and Austin Aries) for theTNA World Tag Team Championship after Austin Aries would defeat Davey Richards at the Slammiversary event.

Slammiversary received mixed reviews from critics. Much of the positive reception went to the Aries - Richards match, and the Storm - Magnus match. However, Magnus's promo before the match was universally criticized.^[7]

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