Lockdown 2008

Lockdown 2008 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on April 13, 2008 at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell, Massachusetts. It was the fourth annual event under the Lockdown chronology. Eight professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's card. In the tradition of Lockdown events, every match took place inside a steel structure with six sides, known as Six Sides of Steel.
The main event was a Six Sides of Steel cage match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, in which Samoa Joe defeated the reigning champion, Kurt Angle, to win the championship. Following another tradition of Lockdown events, TNA held the annual Lethal Lockdown match, which was contested inside a steel structure with a flat roof; in this match, Team Cage defeated Team Tomko. Two featured bouts were scheduled on the undercard. In an intergender tag team match, Booker T and Sharmell defeated Robert Roode and Payton Banks. The other bout was an Xscape match for the TNA X Division Championship, in which six competitors fought to eliminate each other by pinfall or submission until there were two left; the remaining two then fought to escape the steel structure. Jay Lethal defeated five opponents in this match to retain the championship.
The event marked the fourth time the Lethal Lockdown format was used by TNA, and the first time a World Championship was contested in a Lockdown main event. When the event was released on DVD, it reached a peak position of number five on Billboard's DVD Sales Chart. The professional wrestling section of the Canadian Online Explorer website rated the entire event a 6.5 out of 10 stars, one star higher than the 2007 event.
==Results==
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*Jay Lethal (c) defeated Johnny Devine, Shark Boy, Sonjay Dutt, Curry Man, and Consequences Creed in a Xscape match for the TNA X Division Championship (10:25)
*Roxxi Laveaux defeated Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, Salinas, Rhaka Khan, Traci Brooks, Christy Hemme, and Jacqueline in a Queen of Cage match for number one contendership to the TNA Women's Knockout Championship (5:27)
*B.G. James defeated Kip James in a Six Sides of Steel match (6:45)
*Super Eric and Kaz defeated The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley), The Latin American Xchange (Homicide and Hernandez), Scott Steiner and Petey Williams, The Rock 'n Rave Infection (Lance Hoyt and Jimmy Rave), and Black Reign and Rellik in a Cuffed in the Cage match for a future TNA World Tag Team Championship match (10:41)
*Gail Kim and O.D.B. defeated Awesome Kong and Raisha Saeed (8:26)
*Booker T and Sharmell defeated Robert Roode and Payton Banks in a Intergender Tag Team match (7:35)
*Team Cage (Christian Cage, Kevin Nash, Rhino, Sting, and Matt Morgan) defeated Team Tomko (Tomko, A.J. Styles, Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon), and James Storm) (w/ Jacqueline) in a Lethal Lockdown (26:27)
*Samoa Joe defeated Kurt Angle (c) in a Six Sides of Steel match to win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship (17:34)
;Xscape match eliminations
Elimination #	Eliminated 	Eliminator 	Notes 	Time
1 	Sonjay Dutt 	Johnny Devine 	Pinfall by a roll-up 	2:47
2 	Shark Boy 	Consequences Creed	Pinfall after a Creed-DT 	4:30
3 	Consequences Creed	Curry Man 	Pinfall after a Spice Rack 	7:12
4 	Curry Man 	Johnny Devine 	Pinfall after a Devine Intervention. 	8:32
5 	Johnny Devine 	n/a 	n/a 	10:40
WINNER 	Jay Lethal 	n/a 	Lethal escaped the cage with help from Dutt and SoCal Val	10:40
;Cuffed in the Cage eliminations
Elimination #	Eliminated 	Eliminator
1 	Scott Steiner 	Rellik, Black Reign, Lance Hoyt, and Kaz
2 	Alex Shelley 	Petey Williams
3 	Chris Sabin 	Kaz
4 	Homicide 	Rellik
5 	Petey Williams	Reign
6 	Hernandez 	Reign
7 	Kaz 	Rellik
8 	Jimmy Rave 	Super Eric
9 	Lance Hoyt 	Super Eric
10 	Rellik 	Super Eric
11 	Black Reign 	Super Eric
Winner 	Super Eric 	N/A
;Lethal Lockdown entrances
Entrance	Wrestler 	Team 	Time
1 	Christian Cage	Team Cage 	00:00
2 	A.J. Styles 	Team Tomko	00:00
3 	Brother Ray 	Team Tomko	05:00
4 	Rhino 	Team Cage 	07:00
5 	James Storm 	Team Tomko	09:00
6 	Kevin Nash 	Team Cage 	11:00
7 	Brother Devon 	Team Tomko	13:00
8 	Matt Morgan 	Team Cage 	15:00
9 	Tomko 	Team Tomko	17:00
10 	Sting 	Team Cage 	19:00
==See also==
*Lockdown
==External links==
* Lockdown 2008 at [CAGEMATCH.net
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