No Surrender 2012 No Surrender 2012 was a professional wrestling pay - per - view event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ) that took place on September 9 , 2012 at the Impact Wrestling Zone in Orlando , Florida . It was the eighth annual No Surrender under its chronology . The event hosted the culmination of the Bound for Glory Series , which determined the number one contender for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at Bound for Glory . Background . No Surrender featured seven professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre - existing scripted feuds and storylines . Wrestlers portrayed villains , heroes , or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches . The primary matches on the card center around the conclusion of the Bound for Glory Series . The top four in the standings based on points were James Storm , Samoa Joe , Bully Ray , and Jeff Hardy . As the final four , they advanced to the one night tournament at the PPV that will determine the ultimate winner . As points leader , Storm had the option to choose his opponent in the semi - finals , and selected Bully Ray ( due to Ray making accusations about Storm being involved with Aces & Eights and because in the previous year , Bully Ray beat James Storm in a Bound for Glory semi - final match ) , leaving Joe vs Hardy as the other semi - final . The winners of those matches will meet in the finals where the winner receives a TNA World Heavyweight Championship match at Bound for Glory . Another major match on the card features TNA World Champion Austin Aries challenging any member of Aces & Eights to a fight . After weeks of attacks on Aries by the renegade group , Aries had threatened a lower level member of the group in exchange for a fight at the PPV , specifically targeting the large enforcer known as " Arm Breaker " . Another storyline on the card features Rob Van Dam going against Magnus . After Van Dam was eliminated from the final four , Magnus mocked him in backstage by saying that Van Dam can ' t reach the bar anymore and isn ' t the man he once was , which resulted in Van Dam punching Magnus in the face . They start fighting until Security run in to separate them . The top midcard match features Christopher Daniels and Kazarian ] ] defending the TNA World Tag Team Championship against former champions AJ Styles and Kurt Angle . After the revelation that Daniels and Kazarian had fabricated the whole Claire Lynch pregnancy story to blackmail Styles , Styles vowed revenge , and is using his rematch clause to challenge for the titles that Daniels and Kazarian won from Styles and Angle in June . Aftermath . Jeff Hardy went on to feud with Austin Aries over the TNA World Heavyweight Championship , which would lead to Hardy defeating Aries at Bound for Glory to win his third World Title . Hardy would defeat Aries again at Turning Point in a ladder match to retain the title . After Bobby Roode cost James Storm in the Bound for Glory Series , the two former tag team partners reignited their year - long feud leading to a Street Fight at Bound for Glory that Storm won . After failing to win the Knockouts Championship , Tara turned into a villainess on the September 13 edition of " Impact Wrestling " by attacking Brooke Tessmacher , and then claiming on the following week that Tessmacher used her to become champion . Tara later defeated ODB to earn another shot at the Knockouts Championship . At Bound for Glory , the evil Tara defeated Tessmacher to win her fifth Knockouts Championship .