page_title: Lockdown (2005)
section_title: Reception
hierarchical_section_title: Lockdown (2005) / Reception
caption_attribution_description: English: A Six Sides of Steel match at the TNA Lockdown 2007 pay-per-view event.
context_page_description: Lockdown (2005) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling promotion, which took place on April 24, 2005, at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the first event under the Lockdown chronology and the fourth event in the 2005 TNA PPV schedule. Eight professional wrestling matches and one pre-show match were featured on the event's card. Every match took place inside a six sided steel structure known as the Six Sides of Steel. As a result, Lockdown was the first-ever all steel cage event held in professional wrestling.
  The main event was for a NWA World Heavyweight Championship match at TNA's Hard Justice PPV event between A.J. Styles and Abyss. Styles won the match, thus earning his title shot against then-champion Jeff Jarrett at Hard Justice. TNA held the first-ever Lethal Lockdown match during the event. It pitted Team Nash against Team Jarrett, which Team Nash won. Kevin Nash was originally supposed to take part in the match but was removed due to sickness and was replaced with James. The TNA X Division Championship defense by Christopher Daniels against Elix Skipper was another highly promoted match for the event.
context_section_description: A total of 775 people attended the event. Canadian Online Explorer writer Jason Clevett rated the entire event a 6 out of 10, which was lower than the 8 out of 10 given to the 2006 Lockdown event by Chris Sokol. A rating was not given to TNA's previous event Destination X, but Clevett gave a rating of 7 out of 10 in his review of TNA's Against All Odds. Compared to rival World Wrestling Entertainment's WrestleMania 21 PPV event held on April 4, Lockdown was rated lower, Dale Plummer and Nick Tylwalk gave WrestleMania a 7 out of 10. Regarding the overall event, Clevett felt the all cage match format was "too much of a good thing". He went on to state that by the end of the event he "was tired of seeing the cage", but that Styles and Abyss "quickly brought my interest back with a brutal and fun bout that ended off the show on a positive note". When speaking of the TNA X Division Championship match, Clevett wrote that he felt it "was technically a very good match", but he "expected more considering the talent involved". However, he felt that the psychological aspect was "excellent" regarding the two former Triple X partners' counters of each other's moves. Clevett gave the highest match rating of 8.5 out of 10 to the main event, while he gave the lowest rating of 2 out of 10 to the Prince of Darkness match. He gave the Lethal Lockdown match a 5 out of 10, while he gave the X Division Title match an 8 out of 10.
  Wade Keller of the Pro Wrestling Torch rated the main event and the X Division Championship match 3 and a half stars out of 5, while he rated the Lethal Lockdown match a 2 and three-fourths out of 5. He gave the lowest ranking to the Prince of Darkness match, at a fourth of a star. Keller commented on the main event as not being "bad at all, but not quite at a four-star level". He felt that if there had not been "any other cage matches or stunt bumps, it might have been four-stars-plus". Regarding the Lethal Lockdown match, Keller believed the bout "felt rushed". As for the X Division Championship defense, Keller stated that it was a "good match". When speaking on Candido's injury, Keller stated it was "absolutely brutal looking" and felt it was an "obvious full snapping of his ankle bone". 411Mania's Ronnie LaFianza rated Lockdown an overall 8 out of 10. The main event was given 4 and three-fourths stars out of 5, the Lethal Lockdown match 2 and a half stars, and the X Division Championship defense 3 and a half stars. LaFianza felt the event "just seemed to get better and better as it went on", but felt it was a "pretty average PPV leading up into the main event". On August 19, 2005, the event was released on DVD by TNA Home Video. A DVD boxset called "TNA Anthology: The Epic Set", including Lockdown, TNA's November 2004 Victory Road PPV event, and the 2004 Turning Point event was also released on September 20, 2005. TNA released a DVD counting down the top 50 moments in their history in 2007, and Lockdown was the first all steel cage PPV listed at number 23.
caption: All matches contested at Lockdown were held inside the Six Sides of Steel.
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