TNA Sacrifice 2006

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TNA Sacrifice 2006 was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. It took place on May 14, 2006 in soundstage 21 of Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida. The promotional poster has the logo for the event superimposed over icons of various national flags, with the tagline "Global Turmoil", highlighting the TNA 2006 World X Cup Tournament.

Match results

Preshow
*Commentators Mike Tenay and Don West recapped the current standings in the TNA 2006 World X Cup Tournament. Team USA had five points, Team Mexico has two points and Team Canada and Team Japan each had zero points.

World X Cup semi-final captain versus captain match: Jushin Liger (Team Japan) defeated Petey Williams (Team Canada)
*Liger won by pinfall following a CTB, earning three points for Team Japan. After the match, Team Japan laid their flag over Williams's body

Interview segment

Backstage, Jeremy Borash interviewed America's Most Wanted, Gail Kim and Jackie Gayda (who was crying). Chris Harris claimed that A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels did not deserve another shot at the NWA World Tag Team Championship, while James Storm told Daniels to tell Styles's wife that her husband was not coming home. Borash asked Gayda why she was crying, with Gayda revealing that she was pregnant. As a result, Kim fired Gayda from Planet Jarrett.

America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm) defeated A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels to retain the NWA World Tag Team Championship
*America's Most Wanted won the match when Harris pinned Styles after hitting him with a nightstick thrown down from the rafters by Gail Kim, who had previously been banned "from ringside".

Interview segment

Backstage, Jeremy Borash interviewed A-1 and Larry Zbyszko. Zbyszko claimed that the issues resulting his being placed on probation by TNA management were the fault of Raven. Referee Mark "Slick" Johnson entered and told Zbyszko that the "new man" in TNA management would be revealed one month later at TNA Slammiversary 2006. Johnson jokingly teased Vince Russo, Roddy Piper and The Ultimate Warrior as possible names.

Raven defeated A-1 (with Larry Zbyszko)
*Raven won the match by pinfall following a Raven Effect DDT. Following the match, Zbyszko demanded that he and Raven settle their differences in the ring at that precise moment. However, security guards separated them shortly after they began to fight.

Interview segment

Backstage, Jeremy Borash interviewed Scott Steiner and Jeff Jarrett. Jarrett claimed that Sting had failed to "one-up" he and Steiner, and appeared convinced that Sting and his partner, Samoa Joe, would be unable to co-exist during their match with Jarrett and Steiner. Steiner appeared to be fixated on destroying Samoa Joe.

Bobby Roode (with Scott D'Amore) defeated Rhino
*Roode won by pinfall following a Northern Lariat.

Interview segment

Backstage, Jeremy Borash interviewed Team 3D. Brother Ray talks about not forgetting where he was during historical moments such as the September 11, 2001 attacks, the re-election of George W. Bush and the awarding of an "innocent" verdict to O.J. Simpson (the African American Brother Devon was mildly offended by Ray's insinuation that Simpson was in fact guilty). Ray also recollected when he and Devon defeated the New Age Outlaws for the WWF World Tag Team Championship on February 27, 2000, and claimed that he and Devon would defeated the Outlaws, now known as The James Gang, in their rematch six years later.

The James Gang (B.G. James and Kip James) defeated Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon)
*The James Gang won the match when B.G. James pinned Brother Devon after hitting him with a lead pipe.

Interview segment

Jeremy Borash interviewed Abyss and James Mitchell. Mitchell compared the suspension of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship above the ring in the Full Metal Mayhem match before Abyss and Christian Cage to the way Cage was hanged above the ring during TNA Lockdown 2006. Mitchell went on to claim that Cage had nothing left to live for, and would suffer "Doomsday".

World X Cup gauntlet final
*The first two wrestlers in the ring were Minoru (Team Japan) and Puma (Team Mexico). The draw was in order of Team Japan, Team Mexico, Team Canada and Team USA. The order of the other entrants was: Petey Williams, Chris Sabin, Hiroki Goto, Incognito, Johnny Devine, Sonjay Dutt, Black Tiger, Magno, Eric Young, Alex Shelley, Jushin Liger, Shocker, Tyson Dux and Jay Lethal. The order of elimination was Incognito, Sonjay Dutt, Johnny Devine, Chris Sabin, Magno, Black Tiger, Hiroki Goto, Minoru Tanaka, Shocker, Jushin Liger, Eric Young, Tyson Dux, Alex Shelley and Jay Lethal. Petey Williams and Puma were the final remaining entrants, with Williams (Team Canada) winning by pinfall following a Canadian Destroyer.
*Williams's victory earned five points for Team Canada. As a result, the World X Cup ended in a tie between Team Canada and Team USA. The winner of the Cup was determined in a tiebreaker singles match between Petey Williams and Chris Sabin on the May 18, 2006 episode of TNA iMPACT!, which was won by Sabin.
*As Team Canada celebrated after the match, Kevin Nash entered the ring and delivered a Jackknife Powerbomb to Puma. Nash then delivered a promo in which he claimed not to know the names of anyone involved in the gauntlet match and then reiterated his claim that even a "mediocre big man" could defeat any "little man".

Interview segment

Jeremy Borash interviewed Samoa Joe. In response to Borash's enquiry as to whether Joe and Sting could cooperate as a tag team, Joe claimed that he did not need to "hold hands and sing kumbaya" to "kick ass". Joe claimed he would knock Jeff Jarrett "off the mountain" and make his heavyweight reputation by destroying Scott Steiner.

Sting and TNA X Division Champion Samoa Joe defeated Jeff Jarrett and Scott Steiner (with Gail Kim)
*Sting and Samoa Joe won the match when Joe pinned Jarrett following a Muscle Buster. Following the match, Joe begrudgingly shook Sting's hand and left. Steiner then attacked Sting. After Joe neglected to return to the ring to assist Sting, several members of the locker room came to his aid instead.

Christian Cage defeated Abyss (with James Mitchell) in a Full Metal Mayhem match to retain the NWA World Heavyweight Championship
*Cage won the bout after frog splashing Abyss through a table before scaling the ladder and taking possession of the belt. Cage retained the title, and retrieved the physical title belt from Abyss, who had seized it at TNA Lockdown 2006.

Trivia

The ending of the match between Team 3D and The James Gang was an inverted parallel of the match between The James Gang (then known as the New Age Outlaws) and Team 3D (then known as the Dudley Boyz) at WWF No Way Out 2000, which saw Team 3D defeat The James Gang after Brother Ray (then known as Buh Buh Ray Dudley) struck Kip James (then known as Billy Gunn) in the arm with a lead pipe.
Sacrifice 2006 marks the first time since Sacrifice 2005 that the X Division Championship has not been contested at a monthly pay-per-view; on that night, champion Christopher Daniels defeated Austin Aries in a non-title match.
The live feed of TNA Sacrifice 2006 froze near the end of the Liger-Williams match, and freed up after Liger won the match. The replay feeds did not have this problem, and the ending of the match was shown at TNAWrestling.com for free to make up for it.
Gayda was in fact pregnant at the time of the pay-per-view. The father of her child was her husband, wrestler Charlie Haas.
Sacrifice was the first TNA event to be screened in Australia.
This win for Christian Cage keeps his undefeated record in TNA pay per views, with a win/loss record of 6-0.

External links

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling pay-per-views (2006)
Final Resolution \| Against All Odds \| Destination X \| Lockdown \| Sacrifice \| Slammiversary \| Victory Road \| Hard Justice \| No Surrender \| Bound For Glory \| Genesis \| Turning Point

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