page_title: Orlando Jordan
section_title: Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2010–2011)
hierarchical_section_title: Orlando Jordan / Professional wrestling career / Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2010–2011)
caption_attribution_description: English: Professional wrestler Orlando Jordan at a TNA Impact! taping
context_page_description: Orlando Mason Jordan is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenure in WWE, where he was a one-time United States Champion, and his time with TNA Wrestling.
context_section_description: On the January 4, 2010, live, three-hour, Monday night edition of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's Impact! television show Jordan made his debut for the company in a backstage segment with D'Angelo Dinero. He then as a heel, defeated Dinero in a singles match on the January 21 episode of Impact!. After scoring an upset victory over Samoa Joe on the February 18 edition of Impact!, Jordan disappeared from TV, before re-surfacing on the March 29 edition of Impact!, debuting a new look and starting the bisexual angle he had proposed to WWE creative before his release from that company. On April 9 Jordan announced that he had signed a new multi-year contract with TNA. On the May 3 edition of Impact!, Jordan debuted his new interview segment, O-Zone, during which he attacked and started a feud with the Global Champion Rob Terry. At Sacrifice Jordan challenged Terry for the Global Championship, but was unsuccessful. The following Thursday on Impact!, Jordan scored a non-title victory over Terry, after capitalizing on Terry's injured knee, which he had injured at Sacrifice. Jordan's feud with Terry came to an end on the June 3 edition of Impact!, when the Global Champion pinned him in a tag team match, where he teamed with Desmond Wolfe and Terry with Abyss.
  On the July 21 episode of Explosion, Jordan defeated Homicide, On the July 29 edition of Impact! Jordan, himself formed a dysfunctional tag team with face Eric Young, who had been battling (kayfabe) mental problems ever since taking a bump on the head, being completely unaware of Jordan's sexual orientation and interest in him. on September 29 edition of TNA Xplosion, Jordan defeated Suicide. on September 24 edition of TNA Xplosion, Jordan and Eric Young faced Ink Inc. in a losing effort this led to a rematch At Bound for Glory Young's antics cost him and Jordan their match against Ink Inc. (Jesse Neal and Shannon Moore). on the October 15 edition of TNA Xplosion, Jordan and Eric Young defeated Rob Terry and Suicide. on the November 3 edition of TNA Xplosion, Jordan defeated Magnus, Upon the team's next appearance on Impact! on December 16, Jordan had turned face as he and Young defeated Generation Me (Jeremy and Max Buck) in a tag team match. On April 17, 2011, at Lockdown, Jordan and Young were unsuccessful in becoming the number one contenders to the TNA World Tag Team Championship in a four tag team steel cage match, which was won by Ink Inc. on May 12, 2011 edition of Impact! Jordan competed in a battle royal to become the #1 contender for the world heavyweight championship but failed to win the match. on June 28, 2011, Jordan faced Magnus in the 1st round of the Xplosion Championship Challenge but lost the match. After this point, Eric Young went on a singles run and won the TNA Television Championship, the title formerly known as the TNA Global Championship, while Jordan was taken off television. Jordan last TNA match took place on July 2, 2011 at a TNA Live Event where  Jordan, Eric Young and Amazing Red defeated Robbie E, Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams in a six-man tag team match. On July 11, 2011, it was reported that Jordan had been released from TNA.
caption: Jordan in July 2010
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