Hard Justice 2008 Hard Justice 2008 was a professional wrestling pay - per - view ( PPV ) event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ( TNA ) , which took place on August 10 , 2008 at the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton , New Jersey . It was the fourth annual event under the Hard Justice chronology . Seven professional wrestling matches were featured on the event ' s card . The main event saw Samoa Joe defeat Booker T , who was accompanied by Sharmell , in a steel structure with six sides that was filled with weapons — a match titled a Six Sides of Steel Weapons match — to retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship . A . J . Styles defeated Kurt Angle in the second main match on the card in which the wrestler who was unable to respond to a ten count by the referee would lose . Two tag team matches were featured bouts scheduled on the undercard . In the first , Christian Cage and Rhino defeated Team 3D ( Brother Ray and Brother Devon ) in a New Jersey Street Fight in which no one could be disqualified . The second was for the TNA World Tag Team Championship , in which Beer Money , Inc . ( Robert Roode and James Storm ) defeated the champions , The Latin American Xchange ( Homicide and Hernandez ) , to win the championship . The event marked the beginning of a return angle for Jeff Jarrett , who had not been active in the company since May 2007 , when Samoa Joe used the signature weapon of Jarrett ' s ( an acoustic guitar ) in his match with Booker T . When the event was released on DVD , it reached a peak position of number five on " Billboard ' s " DVD Sales Chart . Wrestling Observer . com and 411Mania . com writer Larry Csonka rated the entire event a 7 . 6 out of 10 stars , higher than the 2007 event ' s rating of 4 . Aftermath . On the episode of Impact after Hard Justice , Jim Cornette announced that at TNA ' s next PPV event , No Surrender , Samoa Joe would defend the championship against three competitors in a match entitled Four Ways to Glory . Christian Cage , Kurt Angle , and Booker T all won entrance into the match . At No Surrender , Joe retained the championship after Jeff Jarrett entered the ring while the referee was unconscious and stuck Angle over the head with a guitar , which allowed Joe to gain the pinfall victory . As a result of Hurricane Ike causing all flights out of Houston , Texas to become grounded , Booker T , who resides in Houston , could not make it to the event , which took place in Canada . Styles went on to have a short rivalry with Frank Trigg , which began after Trigg assaulted Styles on the September 4 episode of Impact ! . The two had an encounter in a Mixed Martial Arts match at No Surrender , which ended in a no contest . Jay Lethal and Sonjay Dutt continued their rivalry at No Surrender in a Ladder of Love match , where a wrestler must climb a ladder to retrieve a ring that was hanging by a wire . The winner would get to marry SoCal Val . At the event , the evil Val betrayed Lethal and allowed Dutt to pick up the victory . Meanwhile , The Latin American Xchange ( Homicide and Hernandez ) got their rematch with Beer Money , Inc ( Robert Roode and James Storm ) for the TNA World Tag Team Championship at No Surrender , in a losing effort as Beer Money , Inc retained the championship . Moreover , Petey Williams later lost the TNA X Division Championship to Sheik Abdul Bashir in a match involving three competitors called a 3 - Way Dance at No Surrender , which also involved Consequences Creed