Turning Point (2008 wrestling)

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Turning Point (2008)
TNA Impact! Zone
Attendance1,100[1]
Tagline(s)"The balance of power has reached a Turning Point"
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The 2008 Turning Point was a

professional wrestling matches, with three involving championships, were featured on the event's card
.

The main event was for the

TNA Legends Championship was defended for the first time by Booker T against Christian Cage
during the show. Booker T was the victor in the bout, thus retaining the championship.

30,000 was the reported figure of purchasers for the event by

2007 event's
rating of 6.5.

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

Production

Background

On the first day of 2008, TNA updated their official website to publicize the official dates for all of their PPV events to take place that year. The next installment in the Turning Point chronology was scheduled for December 14, 2008.

TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida.[4] In October 2008, three events were rescheduled: Genesis, Final Resolution, and Turning Point. The first moved was Turning Point to the Genesis event date of November 9, while Final Resolution was announced for some time in December.[5] Genesis was later announced to be taking place in Charlotte, North Carolina on January 11, 2009.[6] The song Indestructible by the rock band Disturbed was used as the official theme of the event.[7] The promotional poster for the gathering, featuring Mick Foley, was released through PPV providers.[8]

Storylines

Turning Point featured eight professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either villains or heroes in the scripted events which built tension and culminated with a wrestling match or series of matches.[9]

TNA World Heavyweight Championship
at Turning Point.

Heading into Turning Point, TNA's main storyline was an

TNA World Heavyweight Championship between the reigning champion, Sting, and the challenger, Styles. It began on August 10 at TNA's Hard Justice PPV event when Sting assaulted Styles after his encounter with Angle.[10] Sting then defeated Joe, an ally of Styles, at TNA's Bound for Glory IV PPV event on October 12 after an assist from Nash, which later sparked a rivalry between Joe and Nash.[11] Sting's and Styles' rivalry soon escalated to a point where storyline co-owner of TNA Mick Foley announced on the October 30 episode of TNA's television program TNA Impact! that the two would fight for the championship at Turning Point.[12]

The build to the encounter between Joe and Nash began in December 2007. On December 2, 2007 at the previous

The Angle Alliance (Angle, Styles, and Tomko).[13] Hall, however, missed the event citing "food poisoning", leaving Joe legitimately angered by the excuse. Joe went on to make an on-camera statement in the ring insulting Hall.[14] Following the incident, TNA began a storyline in which Joe was unhappy with his position in the company for various reasons and had continuous conflicts with Nash. After time, Nash became Joe's on-screen mentor, which led to Joe defeating Angle on April 13 at TNA's Lockdown PPV event to become the new TNA World Heavyweight Champion.[15] Joe and Nash's partnership seemed to come to a close after Nash disappeared from TNA television in mid-2008. He returned at Bound for Glory IV where he cost Joe the championship in his match against Sting.[16] On the October 30 episode of Impact!, Foley announced that Joe would face Nash at Turning Point.[17]

Another bout advertised for the event was Angle versus

disqualification after Angle struck Abyss with a steel chair.[12] Following their encounter, a match was promoted pitting Angle against Abyss in a Falls Count Anywhere match at Turning Point.[17]

On the October 23 episode of Impact!, Booker T introduced a new

Christian Cage, who had remained neutral in the storyline, entered the arena and challenged Booker T to defend the championship against him at Turning Point.[21] Booker T accepted after he added the stipulation that if Cage lost the encounter he would have to join The Main Event Mafia.[20] Later on the October 30 episode of Impact!, the match was made official when it was promoted for the event.[12]

Event

Miscellaneous

The event featured employees other than the wrestlers involved in the matches. There were four overall commentators for the event;

Matt Morgan were also featured in backstage segments.[23] Other than contractual employees being featured, the group Insane Clown Posse (ICP) and Scott Hall were seen in attendance. This was later revealed to have been scripted to occur, as TNA had asked ICP to attend the event, but were unaware of Hall being their guest.[25]

Preliminary matches

The event commenced with a ten-man

lucha libre tag team rules, in which a participant could be replaced if thrown from the ring to the floor, but not eliminated from the match unless by pinfall or submission. The order of elimination determined the standings in the X Division towards a future TNA X Division Championship match, in storyline. Homicide was injured during the match, thus was declared eliminated after a bad fall to the outside area. Lethal and Young were the final two men in the contest. Young was the victor in the match after slamming Lethal into the mat with a bridging back suplex at 17 minutes.[26]

Robert Roode; pictured) retained the TNA World Tag Team Championship
at Turning Point.

A

Rhaka Khan, was held. After various maneuvers were performed by each competitor, Wilde gained the pinfall victory on Saeed after forcing her back into the mat with a bridging German suplex at eight minutes.[24]

Rhino fought Sheik Abdul Bashir in the

tackle.[23]

The

The Motor City Machineguns of Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin. After several tag team maneuvers from both teams, Storm spat beer in Sabin's face, blinding him. This allowed Beer Money to lift up and slam Sabin back-first to the mat with their Drinking While Investing (DWI) tag team maneuver to gain the pinfall and retain the championship at 17 minutes.[27]

Main event matches

Adult Samoan male kneeling in a wrestling ring with red ropes.
Samoa Joe (pictured) was defeated by Kevin Nash in their encounter at Turning Point.

The fifth match was Booker T's defense of the TNA Legends Championship against Christian Cage, with the added stipulation that if Cage lost, he would be forced to join The Main Event Mafia. Booker T was accompanied by

Sharmell for the bout. The match lasted for 11 minutes, ending when Booker T pinned Cage with a roll-up.[28]

A Falls Count Anywhere match between Kurt Angle and Abyss followed, lasting 17 minutes. At one point during the encounter while Abyss was standing on the concrete floor and Angle was on the stage, Angle performed a running leap off the stage into a somersault senton, connecting with Abyss on the floor. Angle was the victor in the bout, after throwing Abyss off of a scaffold through the Spanish announcers' table, then descending and covering Abyss for the pinfall.[24]

Kevin Nash fought Samoa Joe in the seventh contest of the night. The match lasted 12 minutes. At two points during the match, Nash performed his signature Jackknife Powerbomb with Joe kicking out before the three count. This led to Nash hitting Joe in the groin and placing his feet on the ropes for leverage in his winning pin attempt.[23]

The

pele kick on Sting, which allowed Sting to counter with a small package pin on Styles to retain the championship.[27]

Reception

A total of 1,100 people attended the event.

TNA Home Video on DVD on March 24, 2009 as part of the "TNA Wrestling: Cross The Line Vol. 2" box set, which included the December 2008 Final Resolution event and the Genesis 2009 event.[30]

Aftermath

On the November 13 episode of Impact!, Cage was to be inducted into The Main Event Mafia (MEM), however, they instead turned on and assaulted him after it was revealed that he would be leaving TNA upon the expiration of his contract.

The TNA Front Line after he was attacked by MEM on the November 20 episode of Impact!.[32] During that same telecast, Angle versus Rhino was announced as TNA's Final Resolution event, with the added stipulations that if Angle won he would gain an opportunity to face Jeff Jarrett, while if Rhino won, then Angle was to be released from his TNA contract.[32] Angle went on to defeat Rhino at the event,[33] which led to Angle defeating Jarrett in a No Disqualification match at TNA's Genesis event in January 2009.[34]

Sting and Styles went on to have another match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at Final Resolution. This time, the team of Sting, Steiner, Nash, and Booker T faced off against Styles, Joe, and two mystery partners (The TNA Front Line) in an

Brother Ray).[35] Sting went on to retain the title at Final Resolution after he pinned Joe.[36]

Eric Young got his TNA X Division Championship match on the November 13 episode of Impact! against then-champion Sheik Abdul Bashir.

tournament for the title, ending at Genesis where Alex Shelley defeated Chris Sabin to become the new champion.[34]

Results

No.Results
TNA World Heavyweight Championship
15:00
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
  1. The Main Event Mafia
    .
X Division Rankings match eliminations
Elimination No. Eliminated participant[24] Eliminator
1 Sonjay Dutt Volador
2 Volador Jimmy Rave
3 Jimmy Rave Doug Williams
4 Homicide Injured
5 Consequences Creed Petey Williams
6 Petey Williams Hiroshi Tanahashi
7 Hiroshi Tanahashi Jay Lethal
8 Doug Williams Eric Young
9 Jay Lethal Eric Young
Winner
Eric Young
 N/A

References

Footnotes

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External links

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