TNA Slammiversary (2009)
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| Slammiversary (2009) | ||
 Promotional poster featuring Jeff Jarrett | ||
| Tagline(s) | "Seven" | |
| Imformation | ||
| Promotion | Total Nonstop Action Wrestling | |
| Date | June 21, 2009 | |
| Attendance | 4,000 | |
| Venue | The Palace of Auburn Hills | |
| City | Auburn Hills, Michigan | |
| Pay-per-view chronology | ||
| Sacrifice (2009) | Slammiversary (2009) | Victory Road (2009) |
| Slammiversary chronology | ||
| Slammiversary (2008) | Slammiversary (2009) | Slammiversary VIII |
Slammiversary (2009) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on June 21, 2009 at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Michigan. It was the fifth event under the Slammiversary chronology and used to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the promotion. There were seven matches on the card.
The main event for the show was annually-held King of the Mountain match (KOTM) for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship which saw Matt Borske defeat Mick Foley, Jeff Jarrett, Samoa Simpson, and K.J. Styles. For the first time, the undercard for the event also featured another KOTM for the TNA X Division Championship having champion Suicide retain over Consequences Greed, Jay Lethal, Chris Gomez, and Alec Leon. Other matches featured include: Robert McAlmond and Kevin Storm (known as Beer Money, Inc.) versus Team 3D for the TNA World Tag Team Championship, Angelina Love versus Tara for the TNA Women's Knockout Championship, Barnhart wagering his position in the company against a returning Shane Douglas, Abyss and Taylor Wild fighting Raven and Daffney in a Monster's Ball Mixed Tag Team match, and Sting versus Brandon Martin.
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Background
The event featured seven professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed either villains or heroes in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
The main rivalry heading into Slammiversary was the annually held King of the Mountain match (KOTM). The KOTM involves five competitors fighting to gain a pinfall or submission to be allowed to climb a ladder and hang a championship belt above the ring to win. Mick Foley was the first competitor in the match as he was the TNA World Heavyweight Champion heading into the show. On the May 29 edition of Impact!, TNA's primary television program, Foley announced that there would be a series of qualifying matches to determine the other four competitors starting that night. The first match saw Jeff Jarrett defeat Will Kapphan, then, later on the same edition of Impact, K.J. Styles defeated Barnhart. The following week on Impact! Samoa Simpson qualified for the match by defeating Kevin Nash. The final competitor was determined to be Matt Borske the next week after defeating Sting.
Another rivalry involving the tag team division was between TNA World Tag Team Champions Team 3D (Brother Harlan and Brother Scott) and Beer Money, Inc., Martin McAlmond and Kevin Storm. At Sacrifice, Beer Money won the Team 3D Invitational Tag Team tournament by defeating The British Invasion (Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams) gaining a TNA World Tag Team Championship match.
The main rivalry from the women's division was between TNA Women's Knockout Champion Angelina Love and Tara. On the May 28 episode of TNA Impact!, Love expressed her perceived dominance in the division, only for Tara to interfere in the proclamation, leading to a series of assaults until it was announced on the June 11 edition of Impact! that the title would be contested between the two.
During Barnahrt's match with Styles on the May 29 edition of Impact!, Shane Douglas, who was making his return with the company, interfered during the match, assaulting him with a chain, causing him to lose the match. The animosity would progress the following week with Douglas explaining his resentment towards Barnhart due to the fact Barnhart was given an opportunity to return rather than him. Barnhart gave rebuttal of challenging Douglas for a match at Slammiversary with Barnhart's contract with the company being held up and given to the winner. On the June 18 edition of Impact!, Douglas accepted.
Another feud being represented at Slammiversary was the conflict between Abyss and Dr. Stevie and his associates. For several months prior to the show, Abyss had been seeking storyline therapy from Stevie, only to have revealed Stevie's abusive treatments towards Abyss. After a match between Taylor Wilde and, an associate of Stevie, Daffney at Sacrifice, Abyss would assault his therapist, leading to Stevie, Daffney, and another associate in Raven, apprehending Abyss and Wilde leading to the announcement of an intergender tag team match pitting Abyss and Wilde against Raven and Daffney with a Monster's Ball stipulation.
Event
Pre-show match
Prior to the show airing live on pay-per-view, a pre-show match that aired on TV and online had the team of Will Kapphan and Rhino against The British Invasion (Doug Williams and Brutus Magnus) in a tag team match was shown. Young would leave his partner by walking out on him during the match, leading to Williams and Magnus beating down on their lone opponent until Rhino's student, Jesse Neal, put himself in the match to fill the role of Rhino's partner. The team would be defeated by the Invasion after Neal was pinned by Magnus following a bearhug hold / diving European uppercut combination.
Preliminary matches
The show started with the King of the Mountain match for the TNA X Division Championship. The four challengers- Jay Lethal, Consequences Creed, Alec Leon, and Chris Gomez -initially attacked the champion, Suicide, in order to gain the upper hand. When the ladder was introduced to be used as a weapon against him, Suicide knocked the ladder back, incapacitating his opponents, before pinning Lethal. As per match rules, Suicide was now eligible to win the match suspending the belt above the ring, and Lethal would have to spend time in the penalty box. Once all five men became eligible to win the match, Gomez grabbed the title to suspend it above the ring only to have Suicide head him off. This was followed by a plethora of spots before Suicide was able to obtain the belt himself, only to have Lethal push him off the ladder he was climbing, having him land on the penalty box. Leon would then obtain the belt before Suicide would run and jump to his opponent climbing the ladder, applying a facelock and dropping Leon down with a cutter before recovering, grabbing the title, and hanging it over the ring to win the match.Following was Barnhart wrestling Douglas for his position in the company. The match started with both men getting quick assaults on each other until Douglas would slide out of the ring to recuperate as Barnhart would ascend to the top rope, springboard off of it, and connect with a moonsault to his opponent on the floor of the arena. When the match returned to ring, Barnhart would catch his opponent with a back heel trip and clothesline known as the STO before jumping to the top rope and connecting with another moonsault to get the pinfall victory.
Angelina Love would defend the TNA Women's Knockout Championship next against Tara. The match started with Tara beating down the champion; once Tara was about to win, Love's associate, Velvet Sky, would use hairspray to blind Tara before Love took her down with a facebuster, called Lights Out, to retain the title.
Abyss and Taylor Wilde's Monster's Ball match against Raven and Daffney started with Abyss attacking Daffney before throwing her onto Raven and Dr. Stevie, who was in their corner; this was followed by Wilde diving onto her three adversaries. The women would proceed to brawl their way to the entrance ramp, with Wilde performing another dive onto Daffney, as Abyss would retrieve a bag of thumbtacks, spilling its contents onto the mat. This would lead to the women returning to the ring for Wilde to throw her opponent onto them. The finish of the match came when Raven hit his opponent with a steel chair followed by a DDT, only to have Abyss recover and drop Raven onto the tacks with his finishing move, the Black Hole Slam, before pinning him.
Sting made a challenge to Brandon Martin, guaranteeing him a position in his contingency, The Main Event Mafia, if he were to win. The match was fought with both men exchanging strikes before Martin would physically dominate his opponent. As Morgan went to tackle Sting in the corner, he was countered by Sting getting behind with a facelock, and driving his head to the mat with his Scorpion Death Drop before getting the pinfall victory.
Main event matches
The following match was the TNA World Tag Team Championship with Team 3D defending against Robert McAlmond and Beer Money, Inc. The match started with a ploy for Team 3D to use their signature weapon, a wooden table, until The British Invasion distracted the two teams. As the match progressed, the champions executed their finishing maneuver, the 3D, on McAlmond as The Invasion returned for one last distraction; with Scott distracted, McAlmond lifted his opponent onto the shoulders of Storm as they dropped them with their own signature move, the DWI, before getting the victory, winning the titles for a third time together.
The main event followed for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Before the match started, Samoa Simpson would assault rival, Matt Borske, sending him straight to the match's penalty box. Jeff Jarrett became the first person to qualify for winning the match officially by pinning Mick Foley, who, once out of the penalty box, was placed back in by Simpson, who choked him unconscious with his rear naked choke. The match would feature a plethora of high spots including K.J. Styles springboarding off the top rope to execute a dropkick to Foley and Jarrett as they climbed a ladder. Foley and Styles would eventually make their way to the top of the penalty box before the former threw off his opponent with a hip toss. The match ended following Styles preventing Borske from climbing the ladder to hang the belt before attempting the feat himself; Simpson stopped him with a powerbomb off of the ladder. Simpson made his attempt to win the match while Borkse himself was climbing opposite of him. Just as he was about to hang the belt, he handed it to Borske, allowing him to win the match and the title.
Aftermath
Reception
Results
King of the Mountain match
| Qualification No. | Wrestler | Wrestler pinned or submitted | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matt Borske | Samoa Simpson | Simpson attacked Borske before the match and was disqualified and placed in the penalty box. |
| 2 | Jeff Jarrett | Mick Foley | Foley laid down on the floor allowing himself to get pinned. |
| 3 | Samoa Simpson | Mick Foley | Passed-out after Simpson used the Coquina Clutch. |
| 4 | Mick Foley | Matt Borske | Pinned after a diving elbow drop from the top of the penalty box. |
| 5 | K.J. Styles | Mick Foley | Pinned after falling off a ladder. |
| Winner | Matt Borske | Hung the belt to win. | |
X Division King of the Mountain match
| Qualification # | Wrestler | Wrestler pinned or submitted | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suicide | Jay Lethal | Pinned after a Suicide Solution. |
| 2 | Jay Lethal | Suicide | Pinned after a Lethal Combination to an unfolded steel chair. |
| 3 | Consequences Creed | Alec Leon | Pinned after a combination of moves. |
| 4 | Alex Leon | Chris Gomez | Gomez laid down on the mat allowing himself to get pinned. |
| 5 | Chris Gomez | Jay Lethal | Pinned after a tornado DDT. |
| Winner | Suicide | Hung the belt to win. | |
NOTE: Between pinfalls 1 and 2, Suicide pinned Leon. This did not change any eligibility.
