Sacrifice (2014)
Sacrifice (2014) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event that was produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). It took place on April 27, 2014 at the Impact Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the ninth event under the Sacrifice chronology and the second event in the TNA 2014 pay-per-view schedule.
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| Promotion | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling | ||
| Date | April 27, 2014 | ||
| City | Orlando, Florida | ||
| Venue | Impact Zone | ||
| Tagline(s) | Pain, Agony, Sacrifice. | ||
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Eight professional wrestling matches took place at the event. In the main event, Eric Young defeated Magnus to retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Other prominent matches included Gunner defeating James Storm in an "I Quit" match, concluding a storyline revolving around Storm's jealousy towards Gunner and attacking his father. In the penultimate match, Bobby Roode defeated Bully Ray in a Tables match. On the undercard, The Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) defeated The BroMans (DJZ, Jessie Godderz and Robbie E) in a 3-on-2 Handicap match to win the World Tag Team Championship, Mr. Anderson defeated Samuel Shaw in a Committed match, Sanada defeated Tigre Uno in the final of their best of three series to retain the X Division Championship, and Angelina Love defeated Madison Rayne to win the Knockouts Championship.
In October 2017, with the launch of the Global Wrestling Network, the event became available to stream on demand.[1] It would later be available on Impact Plus in May 2019.[2]
Storylines
| Other on-screen personnel | |
|---|---|
| Commentators | Mike Tenay |
| Taz | |
| Ring announcers | Christy Hemme |
| Jeremy Borash (Main event) | |
| Referees | Earl Hebner |
| Brian Hebner | |
| Scott Wheeler | |
| Brian Stiffler | |
| Interviewer | Jeremy Borash |
Sacrifice featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.[3]
On the April 3 episode of Impact Wrestling, Magnus successfully defended his TNA World Heavyweight Championship against Samoa Joe, Eric Young and Abyss.[4] On April 8, part of TNA Impact, Director of Wrestling Operations MVP announced a 10-man gauntlet match that took place on the April 10 episode of Impact Wrestling, where the winner receives a future TNA World Heavyweight title shot at Sacrifice. The match would later be won by Young, who requested to have his shot that same night, where he went to defeat the champion Magnus.[5] Magnus would invoke his rematch clause at Sacrifice, and wrestle Young for the title.
At Lockdown on March 9, Bully Ray was introduced by Dixie Carter to be the special guest referee for the eight-man Lethal Lockdown match. During the match, he slammed Team Dixie's captain Bobby Roode, allowing Team MVP to be victorious. After the match, he powerbombed Roode through the table that he introduced during the match.[6] On the March 13 episode of Impact Wrestling, Bully explained he didn't want to wind up working for Roode, who would have become part owner of TNA had his team won at Lockdown. The following week, Bully was supposed to have a meeting with Carter but Roode attacked him from behind and beat him down.[7] On the March 27 episode of Impact Wrestling, both men engaged in a brawl where both tried to put each other through a table. The following week, Roode and Ethan Carter III were victorious against Willow and Bully, after putting the latter through a table.[5] After the match, Roode and EC3 put him through another two tables.[4] On the April 17 episode of Impact Wrestling, after both men failed in winning a 10-man gauntlet match for a shot at the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, Dixie made her return and berated Bully for screwing her team over.[8] Bully and Roode were set to face each other in a tables match at Sacrifice.
On the March 6 episode of Impact Wrestling, Kurt Angle was attacked by Ethan Carter III and severely damaged his knees, thus losing his chance to fight at Lockdown.[9] The following week, Jeff Hardy's alter ego Willow, seeking revenge against Rockstar Spud and EC3 after costing him the world title at Final Resolution, made his debut squashing Spud, beating him with an umbrella and trapping his leg to a chair and stomping on it.[10] On the March 20 episode of Impact Wrestling, Bobby Lashley and EC3 had a rematch that ended in a no contest after interference from Willow, attacking EC3 and doing the same onto him.[7] The following week, EC3 and Spud were looking for Willow in the woods, only for him to ambush them. On the April 10 episode of Impact Wrestling, Spud cost Willow the 10-man gauntlet match and EC3 eliminated him.[5] Willow challenged them in a handicap match the following week, which he won. After the match, Angle made his return, vowing revenge.[8] On April 24, after Kurt defeated Spud in a match, EC3 attacked Angle but Willow made the save.
Angelina Love made her return to TNA on the March 13 episode of Impact Wrestling, calling out Velvet Sky wanting to reunite The Beautiful People.[10] Sky would later accept Love's offer the following week, while Knockouts Champion Madison Rayne declined due to Love's attitude towards her. Later in the show, Love attacked Rayne after the two hugged, establishing herself as a heel in the process.[7] On the March 27 episode of Impact Wrestling, Love defeated Rayne in her return match due to interference from Sky, officially returning the original incarnation of the stable. The Beautiful People made their in-ring return the following week on Impact Wrestling, defeating Rayne and Brittany after pinning the latter following the Makeover.[4] On April 10, Love defeated ODB, Gail Kim and Brittany in a four-way match to become the number one contender to the Knockouts title, facing Rayne for the belt at Sacrifice.[5]
At Lockdown, Gunner defeated James Storm in a steel cage Last Man Standing match.[6] On the March 20 episode of Impact Wrestling, after Storm berated Gunner's father, Gunner attacked Storm, but he managed to handcuff him to the middle rope and threatened his father at ringside. Storm walked away, but returned to smash a beer bottle over Gunner's father's head.[7] The following week, both men fought in a no disqualification, no countout match where Gunner was victorious. On the April 10 episode of Impact Wrestling, both men failed in winning a 10-man gauntlet match for a shot at the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.[5] The following week, Bobby Roode issued an open challenge for a tables match which was answered by Gunner, but Roode got the win with help from Storm. After the match, Storm and Roode beat down Gunner until Bully Ray made the save.[8] Storm and Gunner challenged each other in an "I Quit" match at Sacrifice.
Fresh off his victory at Lockdown, after escaping the cage following the use of Christy Hemme as a distraction by pulling her through the camera cut-out of the steel cage, Samuel Shaw lost a street fight rematch against Mr. Anderson on the following Impact Wrestling bringing a mannequin dressed as Christy Hemme to the ring. On the April 3 episode of Impact Wrestling, Shaw defeated Anderson in a Straitjacket match after rendering him unconscious following two kata gatame attempts.[4] The following week, Hemme and Anderson attempted to have Shaw committed, but Shaw escaped.[5]
New TNA acquisitions Tigre Uno and Sanada were put against each other in a best of three series for Sanada's X Division Championship. Sanada won the first match on the April 10 episode of Impact Wrestling, and on the following week Uno won the second match.[5][8] At Sacrifice, the rubber match of the series was set, with the X Division title on the line.
On February 23, The Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) defeated The BroMans (Robbie E and Jessie Godderz) for the TNA World Tag Team Championship, only to lose them the following week to The Bromans during Wrestle-1's Kaisen: Outbreak event on March 2. Since then, the Wolves have had numerous rematches for the titles on Impact Wrestling, with the BroMans either using excuses to avoid defending the belts, having the third member of the team DJZ fill in for defenses, or by getting blatantly disqualified. At Sacrifice, all three BroMans will defend the titles against the Wolves in a three-on-two handicap match.
Event
Preliminary matches
The opening match of the event was The Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) versus The BroMans (DJZ, Jessie Godderz and Robbie E) in a three-on-two handicap match for the TNA World Tag Team Championship. Before the match began, Edwards cut a promo on how The BroMans always manage to keep their titles by disqualification, but said tonight was going to be different. He gave Hemme a note that read, by order of MVP, the match will now fall under No DQ rules. The Wolves start the match by sending DJZ to the floor, as well as Robbie and Jessie with stereo hurricanranas. They dump them over the top to the floor, toss DJZ onto them and hit all three BroMans with suicide dives at ringside. The BroMans get the advantage after DJZ hits Edwards with a laptop and Jessie drops Richards on the barricade, continuing their assault on the former in the ring. Edwards gives Jessie a back suplex and attempts to tag in Richards, but DJZ pulls him from the ring apron, and The BroMans regain control by triple teaming the former on the outside. After hitting Robbie and Jessie with a double hurricanrana and a kick to DJZ's head, Edwards tags in Richards who gives all three of them kicks and clotheslines, and goes up top to hit a double missile dropkick on Jessie and DJZ. After DJZ hits Jessie with the laptop by accident and gets taken out himself, The Wolves hit Robbie with a powerbomb-double knee backbreaker combination and deliver double stomps from the top onto Jessie, pinning him to win the tag titles for the second time.[11][12]
Next, a Committed match was contested between Mr. Anderson and Samuel Shaw. After taking turns getting in and out of the ring, Shaw grabs Hemme and shoves her into Anderson, who brushes her aside and attacks Shaw on the outside. Anderson brings Shaw back into the ring to give him a back body drop and clothesline him to the floor, only for Shaw to hit Anderson on the ring apron. Shaw misses an attack and hits the outside, leaving him open to ringside attacks by Anderson, who then gets thrown to the steel steps by Shaw. After applying a modified triangle choke on Anderson, he goes after Hemme in the ring who slaps him, allowing Anderson to hit Shaw with a series of clotheslines and a swinging neckbreaker. On the outside, Anderson slams Shaw on the barricade, and delivers a rolling senton splash to him on the ramp. Anderson uses a steel chair to hit Shaw, throws him into a barricade, and they go to the back to have Jeremy Borash interview them, with Anderson mimicking Shaw's voice. After slamming Shaw on a cart and pushing it towards some production boxes backstage, Anderson checks on the padded wagon but gets attacked from behind by Shaw. Hemme appears and knees Shaw in the groin, leaving him open for a Mic Check by Anderson, who then throws him into the wagon and closes the doors to win the match.[11][12]
The third match involved the team of Kurt Angle and Willow against the team of Ethan Carter III and Rockstar Spud. EC3 tags in Spud to avoid Angle, who threatens to send him back to England if he doesn't tag out. EC3 is tagged back in but exits the ring, leaving Angle to drop to his knees and give EC3 a chance, who falls for it and gets trapped in an ankle lock. EC3 immediately tags Spud to escape but the latter joins him on the outside, leaving them open to an attack by Willow from up top. Angle goes after EC3 and hits an overhead belly-to-belly suplex, but gets thrown to steel steps afterwards. Willow confronts Spud in the ring, gets double attacked by him and EC3, but fights back with a Whisper in the Wind onto both of them. Willow attempts the Twist of Fate on Spud, but EC3 clotheslines him and tags back in to continue the beat down. Angle gets back in the ring and delivers three German suplexes on EC3 and applies the Ankle Lock, but gets jumped by Spud who he takes out with an overhead belly-to-belly and applies the lock on him as well. EC3 attacks Angle with a chop block but then gets hit by Willow, who uses Spud to hit Poetry in Motion and throw him out of the ring. Willow and Angle hit Spud with the Twist of Fate and Angle Slam, before finishing him with a Swanton Bomb to win the match.[11][12]
The fourth match saw Sanada against Tigre Uno in the last of their best of three series for the X Division Championship. After going back-and-forth with counters onto each other, Sanada hits Uno with a hurricanrana. Uno attempts to suplex Sanada into the ring, but gets countered into an abdominal stretch, gets cradle rolled all over the ring, and kicks out at two. Uno hits Sanada with a tilt-a-whirl arm drag that transitions into a cover, but only gets two, leading him to kick Sanada's head for another two count. Sanada escapes the armbar submission by Uno, and applies a dragon sleeper on him which he escapes, but manages to hit a dropkick as he jumps off the top rope. Uno escapes a Tiger suplex attempt by Sanada, takes him off the apron with a springboard dropkick, and hits a twisting flip dive on the outside. Back in the ring, Sanada lands some rights onto Uno who answers with an enzuigiri, but counters a split-legged moonsault by lifting his knees. After hitting two springboard chops onto Uno, Sanada attempts a third one but misses, and gets caught in a release German suplex to the corner, but manages to kick out at two. Uno gets tripped up on the top rope by Sanada who hits a hurricanrana, followed by a Tiger suplex that only gets him a two count. Sanada misses the moonsault but lands on his feet, and attempts another Tiger suplex on Uno who counters it into a roll up for two. Uno hits Sanada with a high cradle into a DDT, but misses the Sabertooth Splash, allowing Sanada to hit the moonsault and pin him to retain the title. The two shake hands after the match.[11][12]
Next was an "I Quit" match between Gunner and James Storm.[11][12]
The sixth match saw Madison Rayne defend the Knockouts Championship against Angelina Love (with Velvet Sky). Rayne gets the early advantage with a shoulder block and some arm drags that forces Love to exit the ring. Love gets a side headlock and shoulder block on Rayne, but gets tripped up and leaves the ring, only to get hit by a baseball slide immediately afterwards. Rayne hits the apron after a blocked kick attempt, and Love distracts the referee for Sky to drag her back into the ring, but only gets a two count. Love delivers rights to Rayne and turns the referee's attention to her as Sky chokes Rayne in the ropes, but then gets back elbowed and put into a sunset flip that she kicks out of at two. Love regains control with a clothesline and hits a dropkick on Rayne that sends her to the outside, distracting the referee again to allow Sky to get some stomps before sending her back in the ring, but only gets another two count. Rayne escapes Love's leg-assisted full nelson and hits multiple clotheslines and an enzuigiri, before trapping her in the Scissor Stomp. Love rolls out of the ring with Sky attempting to help her, but both of them get hit by Rayne with a dive off the apron. After delivering the Rayne Drop, Rayne charges at Love but hits the ring post, leaving her open for the Botox Injection that she kicks out of at two. Love misses the top-rope crossbody and gets hit with a Spear, but Sky distracts the referee by shaking her ass and pushing him aside to blind Rayne with hairspray, allowing Love to roll her up and win the title for the sixth time.[11][12]
The seventh and final match on the undercard saw Bobby Roode take on Bully Ray in a tables match.[11][12]
Aftermath
Angelina Love went on to feud with Gail Kim, attacking each other on multiple occasions.[13][14][15] On the June 12 episode of Impact Wrestling, Kim defeated Brittany and Madison Rayne to become the number one contender to Love's championship, setting up a title match at Slammiversary.[16]
On the May 1 episode of Impact Wrestling, James Storm attempted to cost Gunner a TNA World Title shot during his match against Mr. Anderson, but ended up hitting the latter instead. Later that night, Anderson confronted Storm after his match against Willow, hitting the former with a Mic Check as he charged at him.[13] The two meet in a match on the May 15 episode of Impact Wrestling, with Storm getting the victory after spitting beer into Anderson's face and hitting the Last Call.[17] The following week, Anderson and Storm meet at a bar for a drinking contest, with the former acting drunk by only consuming fake beer.[15] On the June 5 episode of Impact Wrestling, Anderson mocks him by wearing a cowboy outfit and acting drunk, leading Storm to knock out Anderson with the Last Call and challenge him at Slammiversary.[18]
Samuel Shaw would not be seen until the May 15 episode of Impact Wrestling, where he was visited by Gunner at the psychiatric facility.[17] Gunner spent weeks trying to help Shaw by telling a story about a Marine friend he knew that was also committed, played Go Fish and looked at his drawings.[15][18] On the June 26 episode of Impact Wrestling, Gunner was able to release Shaw from the facility under his supervision.[19]
Results
| No. | Results | Stipulations | Times[20] |
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| 1 | The Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) defeated The BroMans (DJZ, Jessie Godderz and Robbie E) (c) | Handicap match for the TNA World Tag Team Championship | 10:14 |
| 2 | Mr. Anderson (with Christy Hemme) defeated Samuel Shaw | Committed match | 10:30 |
| 3 | Kurt Angle and Willow defeated Ethan Carter III and Rockstar Spud | Tag team match | 09:04 |
| 4 | Sanada (c) defeated Tigre Uno | Singles match for the TNA X Division Championship Final in the best of three series |
09:29 |
| 5 | Gunner defeated James Storm | "I Quit" match | 18:50 |
| 6 | Angelina Love (with Velvet Sky) defeated Madison Rayne (c) | Singles match for the TNA Knockouts Championship | 08:08 |
| 7 | Bobby Roode defeated Bully Ray | Tables match | 13:42 |
| 8 | Eric Young (c) defeated Magnus | Singles match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship | 15:50 |
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See also
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