Lockdown (2009)
Promotional poster featuring Sting and Mick Foley
PromotionTotal Nonstop Action Wrestling
DateApril 19, 2009
CityPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
VenueLiacouras Center
Attendance4,500[1]
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The 2009 Lockdown was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion, which took place on April 19, 2009 at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] It was the fifth event under the Lockdown chronology. In the theme 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 Mick Foley defeated the reigning champion, Sting, 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 Jarrett defeated Team Angle. Two featured bouts were scheduled on the undercard. In a Philadelphia Street Fight for the TNA World Tag Team and IWGP World Tag Team Championships, Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) defeated Beer Money, Inc. (Robert Roode and James Storm) to retain the IWGP World Tag Team and to win the TNA World Tag Team Championship. The other bout was a Doomsday Chamber of Blood match, which saw Matt Morgan defeat Abyss.

Mick Foley chronicled the build to his match against Sting in the fourth volume of his memoirs, Countdown to Lockdown: A Hardcore Journal.

In October 2017, with the launch of the Global Wrestling Network, the event became available to stream on demand.[3] It would later be available on Impact Plus in May 2019.[4]

Storylines

Other on-screen personnel
Role: Name:
Commentator Mike Tenay
Don West
Interviewer Jeremy Borash
Lauren Thompson
Ring announcer Jeremy Borash
David Penzer
Referee Earl Hebner
Rudy Charles
Mark Johnson
Andrew Thomas

Lockdown featured nine professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines. Wrestlers will be portrayed as either villains or heroes in the scripted events that build tension and culminated into a wrestling match or series of matches. Traditionally, every match was contested inside a 16 foot (4.9 m) high steel structure with six sides known as Six Sides of Steel.

The main event at Lockdown featured TNA World Heavyweight Champion Sting defending the title against Mick Foley in a Six Sides of Steel cage match. On the March 19 episode of TNA's primary television program, TNA Impact!, the team of Foley and Jeff Jarrett defeated the team of Kurt Angle and Sting, after Foley hit Sting with a steel chair which allowed Foley to gain the pinfall victory. As a result of Foley's actions, Sting challenged him to a match at Lockdown with the TNA World Heavyweight Championship on the line.

Continuing another tradition of Lockdown events, TNA held the fifth annual Lethal Lockdown match. In this match, one wrestler from each four-member team started in the ring; after five minutes, another wrestler entered, followed two minutes later by a member of the other team. Every two minutes, a new wrestler entered until all ten were in the ring; at this point a ceiling with weapons attached was lowered and pinfalls or submissions were allowed. On the March 26 episode of Impact!, a 20man Six Sides of Steel Gauntlet match was held to determine the two captains for the match at Lockdown; the last two wrestlers to not be eliminated in the match would win this honor. Kurt Angle and Samoa Joe were last two remaining wrestlers in the contest. Joe refused to be captain of his team at Lockdown so Jarrett was appointed in his place on the April 3 episode of Impact!; setting up the official teams at LockdownTeam Angle and Team Jarrett. Also on that episode, Booker T, Kevin Nash, and Scott Steiner were chosen by Angle to compete alongside him at Lockdown, while A.J. Styles was given the third spot in Team Jarrett; joining Jarrett and Joe. On the April 10 episode of Impact!, Christopher Daniels was announced as the fourth member of Team Jarrett.

The main feud in the tag team division was between Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) and Beer Money, Inc. (Robert Roode and James Storm). Beer Money, the TNA World Tag team Champions, granted Team 3D a title shot at Lockdown in Philadelphia (the city where Team 3D wrestled when a part of the hardcore wrestling promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling). Team 3D, who were the IWGP Tag Team Championsions agreed to the match and announced they would defend their IWGP titles too - making the winner of the match both TNA and IWGP Tag Team Champions.

Results

No.ResultsStipulationsTimes
1PEric Young defeated Danny BonaduceSix Sides of Steel Cage match03:24
2Suicide (c) defeated Consequences Creed, Kiyoshi, Jay Lethal and Sheik Abdul BashirXscape match for the TNA X Division Championship11:37
3ODB (with Cody Deaner) defeated Daffney, Madison Rayne and Sojournor BoltQueen of the Cage match06:05
4The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) (c) defeated The Latin American Xchange (Hernandez and Homicide) and No Limit (Naito and Yujiro)Six Sides of Steel Cage match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship11:49
5Matt Morgan defeated AbyssDoomsday Chamber of Blood match12:26
6Angelina Love (with Velvet Sky) defeated Awesome Kong (c) (with Raisha Saeed) and Taylor WildeSix Sides of Steel Cage match for the TNA Women's Knockout Championship06:53
7Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray) (IWGP Champions) defeated Beer Money, Inc. (James Storm and Robert Roode) (TNA Champions)Philadelphia Street Fight for the TNA World and IWGP Tag Team Championships14:59
8Team Jarrett (A.J. Styles, Christopher Daniels, Jeff Jarrett and Samoa Joe) defeated Team Angle (Booker T, Kevin Nash, Kurt Angle and Scott Steiner) (with Sharmell)Lethal Lockdown match23:01
9Mick Foley defeated Sting (c)Six Sides of Steel Cage match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship15:54
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
P – the match was broadcast on the pre-show

Xscape match

Elimination no. Eliminated Eliminated by Notes
1 Kiyoshi Consequences Creed and Jay Lethal Pinned by both Lethal and Creed after a Fireman's carry cutter by Creed followed by a diving elbow drop by Lethal
2 Consequences Creed Sheik Abdul Bashir Pinned after a WMD
3 Jay Lethal Sheik Abdul Bashir Pinned after a Suicide Solution by Suicide
Loser Sheik Abdul Bashir N/A Bashir failed to escape the cage before Suicide
Winner Suicide N/A Suicide escaped the cage before Bashir to win the match and retain the championship

References

  1. "Lockdown at Pro Wrestling History.com". Pro Wrestling History.com. Retrieved May 4, 2009.
  2. "Monthly Three-Hour Pay-Per-View Events". TNA Wrestling.com. Archived from the original on August 1, 2008. Retrieved December 23, 2008.
  3. Varsallone, Jim (October 10, 2017). "Anthem, Impact announce Global Wrestling Network launch". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on April 10, 2019. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
  4. Thompson, Andrew (April 28, 2019). "IMPACT Wrestling Announces Launch Of "IMPACT Plus" Streaming Service". Fightful. Archived from the original on August 1, 2020. Retrieved January 31, 2021.
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