Total Nonstop Action Wrestling tournaments

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) has held a variety of professional wrestling tournaments.
==TNA Hard 10 Tournament==
The TNA Hard 10 Tournament was a hardcore tournament for a trophy that would proclaim the winner the most hardcore wrestler in TNA. It featured eight wrestlers competing in matches where a point-scoring system was used to determine the winner. The system was that 1 point was awarded for a direct hit with an object and 5 points for putting your opponent through a table, with 10 points needed to win. The only tournament was held in 2003, which was won by The Sandman. The tournament was promptly abandoned by TNA in light of fans complaining about the point system.
==TNA Asylum Alliance Tag Team Tournament==
The TNA Asylum Alliance Tag Team Tournament was a tag team tournament held in 2003 to determine the number one contenders for the NWA World Tag Team Championship, which was won by America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm).
==NWA World Tag Team Championship Tournament==
The NWA World Tag Team Championship Tournament was a tag team tournament held in 2004 in order to crown new NWA World Tag Team Champions, which was won by Kid Kash and Dallas.
==X Division Cup Tournaments==
The TNA X Cup Tournaments are X Division tournaments that feature various wrestlers and/or Teams from around the World. So far, there have been two Super X Cup Tournaments, one America's X Cup Tournament, and three World X Cup Tournaments.
*TNA X Cup Tournaments
==Chris Candido Memorial Tag Team Tournament==
The Chris Candido Memorial Tag Team Tournament was a tag team tournament held to commemorate the memory of Chris Candido. As per Candido's role in TNA (prior to his death) of being the veteran who mentored young rising stars, teams were composed of established veterans pairing up with young rising stars. The tournament was won by Sean Waltman and Alex Shelley in 2005, its only year of existence. In addition to winning the trophy cup, the team was entered into a four-way match with a shot at the NWA World Tag Team Championship.
Teams:
*Chris Sabin and Shocker
*Simon Diamond and Mikey Batts
*Ron Killings and Sonjay Dutt
*B.G. James and Cassidy Riley
*Sean Waltman and Alex Shelley
*Shark Boy and Abyss
*Lance Hoyt and Konnan
*Kip James and Petey Williams
==Fight for the Right Tournament==
The Fight for the Right Tournament was a tournament to determine the number one contender for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and later for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
*Fight for the Right Tournament
==Paparazzi Championship Series==
The Paparazzi Championship Series was a tournament that began at Turning Point 2006 and involved five X Division competitors competing in a variety of matches where points are awarded for victories. These matches included limbo, Texas hold 'em, musical chairs, and a push-up contest, among others. The tournament was created to give the wrestlers airtime while also continuing the Paparazzi Productions storyline surrounding Austin Starr, Alex Shelley and Kevin Nash. Throughout the competitions, Nash kept bringing up Bob Backlund, which led up to Backlund being a guest judge at Final Resolution 2007 during the finals of the competition. Shelley defeated Starr in the finals to win a bowling trophy presented by Nash at Final Resolution 2007. The other three participants in the tournament were Sonjay Dutt, Jay Lethal and Senshi. Nash viciously needled the other three (especially Dutt) throughout the challenge, but kept the actual competition fair and even, always inviting the losers of each contest to "feel free to kiss the winner".
==TNA Turkey Bowl==
The TNA Turkey Bowl was a tournament held in 2007 and 2008 that aired on the Thanksgiving night episode of TNA Impact! The tournament consisted of three preliminary three way matches. Each match featured a member of the Heavyweight Division, The X Division, and The Tag Team Division with the winner of the match going on to the finals. The winner of the finals, also a three-way match, won $25,000. The wrestler who lost in the finals was forced to put on a turkey suit. In the 2007 tourny, Samoa Joe won the tournament, with A.J. Styles being forced into the turkey suit. In the 2008 tournament, Rhino won the tournament, with Alex Shelley being forced into the turkey suit.
===2007 Turkey Bowl===
===2008 Turkey Bowl===
==Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament==
The Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament was a professional wrestling single-elimination tournament held by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion during the months of April and May 2008 for the vacant TNA World Tag Team Championship. It took place on TNA's television program TNA Impact! and at their Sacrifice PPV event on May 11, 2008. It was announced on the April 24, 2008 episode of Impact! by Management Director Jim Cornette. It involved twelve teams overall.
;Background
On the April 17, 2008 episode Impact!, then-champions A.J. Styles and Tomko defended the title in a Three Way match against the teams of Kaz and Eric Young and The Latin American Xchange (Hernandez and Homicide; LAX). Young left during the encounter, but later returned as his "Super Eric" superhero character to pin Styles and win the championship for his team. Due to this finish, Styles and Tomko were scripted to argue that Young and Super Eric were two different people. Super Eric and Young refused to admit they were one in the same in the storyline, which caused Cornette to strip Kaz and Young of the championship. Cornette then set up the Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament on the April 24, 2008 episode of Impact!, announcing two stages with the first involving eight teams competing in qualifying matches to gain entry into the tournament. The second stage of the tournament involved eight wrestlers known as the Egotistical Eight chosen by Cornette. The Egotistical Eight made up four randomly chosen teams that would compete against the four teams which qualified at Sacrifice for the vacant TNA World Tag Team Championship.
;Qualification matches and Egotistical Eight
The Egotistical Eight were announced on the May 1, 2008 episode of Impact! as Awesome Kong, B.G. James, Booker T, Kip James, Matt Morgan, James Storm, Robert Roode, and Sting. The first two qualification matches took place on the April 24, 2008 episode of Impact!. Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray) defeat the team of Black Reign and Rellik in the first, while in the second the pairing of Christian Cage and Rhino defeated The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) to advance. The final two took place on the May 1, 2008 episode of Impact!. In the first, LAX defeated the team of Kaz and Young. The team of A.J. Styles and Super Eric defeated The Rock 'n Rave Infection (Jimmy Rave and Lance Hoyt) in the second to qualify for the tournament. Two Egotistical Eight teams were determined by lottery drawing on the May 8, 2008 episode of Impact!. Sting drew Storm's name in the drawing, connecting the two together for the tournament. Meanwhile, Morgan drew Kip's name, joining the two as a team. Later in the episode, Sting and Storm fought in No Disqualification match, which Sting won. Kip and Morgan also fought in an encounter, with Morgan coming out the victor.
;Sacrifice
Booker T teaming with Roode and Kong teaming with B.G. were the final two teams for the tournament, determined at Sacrifice. The first Quarterfinal match pitted Team 3D against the team of Sting and Storm. Team 3D were the victors after Sting turned on Storm by forcing him through a table. The second Quarterfinal match was between the team of Booker T and Roode and the team of Cage and Rhino, which the later won after Rhino tackled Roode. LAX defeated the team of Kip and Morgan in the third Quarterfinal match after Morgan accidentally hit Kip with a bicycle kick. B.G. and Kong fought the team of Styles and Super Eric in the fourth and final Quarterfinal match. During the bout, Styles accidentally tripped while attempting to jumping off the ropes causing him to fall face-first to the mat below. Afterwards, B.G. lifted up Styles to perform a suplex, which Styles countered into a small package pin for the win.
Team 3D, the team of Cage and Rhino, LAX, and the team of Styles and Super Eric all advanced to the Semifinals. Team 3D were pitted against the team of Cage and Rhino in the first bout, while LAX were pitted against the team of Styles and Super Eric in the second. Team 3D defeated Cage and Rhino after Ray bashed Rhino with a kendo stick. LAX advanced to the Finals after their manager Hector Guerrero reversed a small package pin attempt by Styles on Homicide into LAX's favor while the referee was distracted by Salinas. LAX went on to defeat Team 3D in the Finals to win the vacant TNA World Tag Team Championship when Homicide pinned Devon following a splash from the top of a padded turnbuckle.
;Aftermath
After Sacrifice, LAX defended the TNA World Tag Team Championship against Team 3D in a rematch at TNA's Slammiversary PPV event on June 8. The match was set up on the May 15, 2008 episode of Impact!, when Team 3D attacked Guerrero, blaming him for their loss at the event. At Slammiversary, LAX defeated Team 3D to retain the championship.
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==TNA X Division Championship Tournament (2009)==
The tournament was the result of a match for the TNA X Division Championship at Final Resolution between Eric Young and Sheik Abdul Bashir ending in a controversial fashion, with Young winning the championship thanks to the referee's help. Management Director Jim Cornette stripped Young of the belt and announced the tournament to crown the new champion. 
==Team 3D Invitational Tag Team Tournament==
To reinvigorate the tag team division, Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) announced on the April 23, 2009 episode of Impact! that they would be hosting a tag team tournament. The winning team would receive a trophy, a check for $100,000 and a match for the TNA World Tag Team Championship (held by Team 3D). The tournament started that same night and matches would be held over the next few weeks and TNA announced that the finals would be held at the Sacrifice 2009 PPV.
Teams:
*Beer Money, Inc. (Robert Roode and James Storm)
*Lethal Consequences (Jay Lethal and Consequences Creed)
*No Limit (Yujiro and Naitō)
*Eric Young and Jethro Holliday
*The Motor City Machineguns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley)
*Suicide and Amazing Red
*The Latin American Xchange (Homicide and Hernandez)
*The British Invasion (Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams)
* Before the match, The British Invasion attacked Hernandez backstage causing Homicide having to compete alone.
==TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship Tournament==
TNA announced a Knockouts tag team tournament for the new TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship on the August 20, 2009 episode of TNA Impact!. Round one matches started on the August 27, 2009 episode of TNA Impact!.
Teams:
*Raisha Saeed and Awesome Kong
*The Main Event Mafia (Tracy Brooks and Sharmell)
*Taylor Wilde and Sarita
*Daffney and Alissa Flash
*The Beautiful People (Angelina Love and Velvet Sky)
*Madison Rayne and Roxxi
*Hamada and Sojournor Bolt
*Tara and Christy Hemme
==TNA Championship Series==
The TNA Championship Series took place on the Thanksgiving Day edition of Impact! on November 26, 2009. The winner of the tournament would earn himself a shot at the Championship of his own division.
Participants:
*Abyss (Heavyweight Division)
*Bobby Lashley (Heavyweight Division)
*Desmond Wolfe (Heavyweight Division)
*Suicide (X Division)
*Kurt Angle (Heavyweight Division)
*D'Angelo Dinero (Heavyweight Division)
*Homicide (X Division)
*Robert Roode (Tag Team Division)
==New Year's Knockout Eve Tournament==
The New Year's Knockout Eve Tournament took place on the December 31, 2009, edition of Impact!. The winner of the tournament would earn herself a shot at the TNA Women's Knockout Championship on the live three hour Monday night edition of Impact! on January 4, 2010.
==8 Card Stud Tournament==
The 8 Card Stud Tournament took place on February 14, 2010, at the Against All Odds pay-per-view and its winner would get to challenge the TNA World Heavyweight Champion in the main event of April's Lockdown pay-per-view.
===Qualifying matches===
*Impact!, January 28, 2010
:*Desmond Wolfe defeated Sean Morley
:*Hernandez defeated Daniels
*Impact!, February 4, 2010
:*Mr. Anderson defeated Brutus Magnus
:*Kurt Angle defeated Tomko
*Impact!, February 11, 2010
:*D'Angelo Dinero defeated Orlando Jordan
:*Matt Morgan defeated Suicide
*This was a No Disqualification match
==TNA Tag Team Championship Series==
On the June 17, 2010, edition of Impact! TNA vacated the TNA World Tag Team Championship and announced a two-week long tournament, with the winners facing The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin), who were the number one contenders prior to the titles being vacated, for the titles at Victory Road.
Teams:
*The Band (Eric Young and Kevin Nash)
*Ink Inc. (Jesse Neal and Shannon Moore)
*Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon)
*Beer Money, Inc. (James Storm and Robert Roode)
==TNA World Tag Team Championship Number One Contenders Tournament==
On the August 4, 2010, edition of TNA Xplosion TNA announced a two-week long tournament to determine the number one contenders to the TNA World Tag Team Championship.
Teams:
*Desmond Wolfe and Magnus
*Generation Me (Max and Jeremy Buck)
*Hernandez and Rob Terry
*Ink Inc. (Jesse Neal and Shannon Moore)
==TNA World Heavyweight Championship Tournament==
On the August 19, 2010, edition of TNA Impact!, the TNA World Heavyweight Championship was vacated, after champion Rob Van Dam suffered a storyline injury. The title was put up in a tournament featuring the top eight ranked wrestlers in the TNA Championship Committee rankings. The finals of the tournament would take place at Bound for Glory on October 10.
* Angle and Hardy wrestled another draw on the September 16 edition of Impact!, which led to Eric Bischoff making the final match at Bound for Glory a three–way.
==TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship Tournament==
On the December 9, 2010, edition of Impact! TNA vacated the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championship, after one half of the previous champions, Hamada, had been released by the promotion, and set up a four–team tournament to determine new champions. The finals of the tournament would take place on the December 23 edition of Impact!.
Teams:
*The Beautiful People (Angelina Love and Velvet Sky)
*Daffney and Sarita
*Madison Rayne and Tara
*Mickie James and Miss Tessmacher
*Winter replaced Velvet Sky, who had been attacked backstage by Sarita.
==TNA X Division Championship Number One Contender Tournament (2011)==
On the January 27, 2011, edition of Impact! TNA started a tournament to determine a new number one contender for the TNA X Division Championship, held by Kazarian. The tournament consisted of three three–way semifinal matches, taking place on the January 27, February 3 and February 10 editions of Impact!, with the finals, another three-way match, taking place at Against All Odds on February 13. The finals ended with a double countout, after Jeremy and Max Buck failed to make it to the event due to travel issues.
==Xplosion Championship Challenge==
On the May 24, 2011, edition of TNA Xplosion Desmond Wolfe was announced as the new Xplosion Commissioner. His first act as commissioner was setting up a tournament exclusive to Xplosion where the winner would receive a title shot against any active champion in TNA. The finals of the tournament took place at the August 9 tapings of the August 24 edition of Xplosion.
==X Division Showcase==
On the June 16, 2011, edition of Impact Wrestling, TNA started a twelve-man tournament for a contract in the promotion's X Division. The finals of the tournament would take place on July 10 at Destination X.
*First round
**Austin Aries defeated Jimmy Rave and Kid Kash (Impact Wrestling, June 16, 2011)
**Zema Ion defeated Dakota Darsow and Federico Palacios (Impact Wrestling, June 23, 2011)
**Low Ki defeated Jimmy Yang and Matt Bentley (Impact Wrestling, June 30, 2011)
**Jack Evans defeated Jesse Sorensen and Tony Nese (Impact Wrestling, July 7, 2011)
*Finals
**Austin Aries defeated Jack Evans, Low Ki and Zema Ion (Destination X, July 10, 2011)
==Bound for Glory Series (2011)==
On the June 16, 2011, edition of Impact Wrestling, TNA announced a twelve-man tournament to determine the number one contender for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at October's Bound for Glory. The twelve men faced each other in matches on pay-per-view, television and at untelevised house show events and were given points based on their performance, with a submission victory giving a wrestler 10 points, a pinfall victory 7, a countout victory 5, a disqualification victory 3 and a draw 2 points, while a disqualification loss will cost a wrestler 10 points. A special ladder match on the July 21 edition of Impact Wrestling also gave out 10 points for the winner. The top four wrestlers faced each other in the tournament finals at September's No Surrender, where Bully Ray defeated James Storm via disqualification, while Bobby Roode defeated Gunner via submission, giving both 52 points and setting up a tiebreaker match between the two. In the tiebreaker match, Roode defeated Ray via pinfall to win the tournament.
:These wrestlers qualified for the final matches.
:These wrestlers withdrew from the tournament.
:This wrestler won the final match of the tournament.
 Final standings
Rank	Wrestler	Points	Matches
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	2
 	 	 	2
 	 	 	1
 	 	 	2
1 Morgan was forced to pull out of the tournament on the July 28 edition of Impact Wrestling, after tearing his pectoral muscle.
2 Devon, Dinero and Crimson pulled out of the tournament after suffering storyline injuries at the hands of Samoa Joe on the August 18 and 25 editions of Impact Wrestling.
==Bound for Glory Series (2012)==
On the June 14, 2012, episode of Impact Wrestling, TNA started the second Bound for Glory Series to determine the number one contender for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at October's Bound for Glory. Just like the previous year, the tournament included twelve men, who would be facing each other in matches on pay-per-view, television and at untelevised house show events and would be given points based on their performance, with a submission victory giving a wrestler 10 points, a pinfall victory 7, a countout victory 5, a disqualification victory 3 and a draw 2 points, while a disqualification loss will cost a wrestler 10 points. An opening gauntlet match on the June 14 episode of Impact Wrestling gave out 20 points to the winner. Similarly, two four-way matches and a three-way match contested between the participants at Hardcore Justice gave 20 points to the three winners. Originally, all matches in the tournament had a ten-minute time limit, but on June 28 the limit was raised to fifteen minutes. However, on the August 16 episode of Impact Wrestling, the time limit was ignored without explanation for a match between A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels, which lasted 16 minutes and 50 seconds. Unlike the previous year, in the 2012 tournament wrestlers faced each other only once in singles matches (not counting special multi-wrestler matches). As Mr. Anderson challenged for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship instead of taking part in the opening gauntlet match, he finished the tournament with one match less than the other competitors. The round-robin portion of the tournament concluded on September 6, while the finals took place on September 9 at No Surrender.
: These wrestlers qualified for the final matches.
: These wrestlers withdrew from the tournament.
: This wrestler won the final match of the tournament.
 Final standings
Rank	Wrestler	Points	Matches
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
 	 	 	1
1 Dinero was forced to pull out of the tournament on August 12, after suffering a shoulder injury.
==Maximum Impact Tournament==
On November 23, 2011, TNA announced the start of the Maximum Impact Tournament, an eight-man tournament, which would take place on Xplosion. The winner would receive a shot at the TNA World Heavyweight Championship during TNA's tour of the United Kingdom in January 2012. The finals of the tournament took place on December 13 at the tapings of the January 4, 2012, edition of Xplosion. The winner, Samoa Joe, received his title shot on January 27 in Manchester, in a match taped for Xplosion, but was defeated by the defending TNA World Heavyweight Champion, Bobby Roode.
==Wild Card Tournament==
On the December 15, 2011, edition of Impact Wrestling, TNA started a tag team tournament to determine the number one contenders for the TNA World Tag Team Championship, held by the team Crimson and Matt Morgan, at Genesis. The pairings were, in storyline, decided by a random draw.
Teams:
*Abyss and Scott Steiner
*A.J. Styles and Kazarian
*Anarquia and Shannon Moore
*Christopher Daniels and Rob Van Dam
*Douglas Williams and Robbie E
*Eric Young and ODB
*Hernandez and Rob Terry
*Magnus and Samoa Joe
==TNA X Division Championship Tournament (2012)==
On the June 28, 2012, episode of Impact Wrestling, TNA announced a tournament for the TNA X Division Championship, which would take place at Destination X, where Austin Aries would vacate the title for a shot at the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. The tournament was preceded by four qualifying matches featuring wrestlers from the independent circuit. TNA contracted wrestlers Douglas Williams, Kid Kash and Zema Ion were given automatic spots in the first round of the tournament. The eighth and final spot in the tournament would be filled by the winner of a four-way between the losers of the qualifying matches. At Destination X the eight wrestlers will face each other in four singles matches, with the winners advancing to an Ultimate X match for the X Division Championship.
*Qualifying matches
**Sonjay Dutt defeated Rubix (Impact Wrestling, June 28, 2012)
**Rashad Cameron defeated Mason Andrews (Impact Wrestling, June 28, 2012)
**Flip Cassanova defeated Dakota Darsow (Impact Wrestling, July 5, 2012)
**Kenny King defeated Lars Only (Impact Wrestling, July 5, 2012)
**Mason Andrews defeated Dakota Darsow, Lars Only and Rubix (Destination X, July 8, 2012)
*First round
**Mason Andrews defeated Kid Kash
**Kenny King defeated Douglas Williams
**Sonjay Dutt defeated Rashad Cameron
**Zema Ion defeated Flip Cassanova
*Finals
**Zema Ion defeated Kenny King, Mason Andrews and Sonjay Dutt in an Ultimate X match
==TNA X Division Championship Number One Contender Tournament (2013)==
On the January 3, 2013, edition of Impact! TNA started a tournament to determine a new number one contender for the TNA X Division Championship, held by Rob Van Dam. The tournament consisted of two singles semifinal matches, taking place on the January 3 and January 10 editions of Impact!, with the finals taking place at Genesis on January 13.
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