Destination X (2008) was a
professional wrestling
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pay-per-view
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(PPV)
event
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produced by the
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
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Founded by Jeff and Jerry Jarrett in 2002, the promot ...
(TNA)
promotion, which took place on March 9, 2008, at the
Norfolk Scope in
Norfolk, Virginia
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. It was the fourth event under the
Destination X
Destination X is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event held by Impact Wrestling currently in the month of August. The event primarily revolves around the X-Division, the 2005, 2006, 2009, and 2010 events had Ultimate X matches.
It w ...
chronology and the third event in the 2008 TNA PPV schedule. Eight
professional wrestling matches
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were featured on the event's
card Card or The Card may refer to:
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, two of which involved championships, while one match was held prior to the event.
The main event was a
Six Man Tag Team match
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where The Unlikely Alliance (
Christian Cage,
Kevin Nash, and
Samoa Joe) defeated
The Angle Alliance
The Angle Alliance was a heel wrestling stable headed by Kurt Angle (and briefly Christian Cage on a self-proclaimed basis) in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. For Lockdown 2008, in the absence of Kurt from the stable's activities, Tomko capta ...
(
Kurt Angle,
A.J. Styles
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, and
Tomko). On the undercard was an
Elevation X match in which
Rhino defeated
James Storm
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He started his career in 1997 and after working on several independent pr ...
.
Robert Roode defeated
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in a
Stand By Your Man Strap match. The team of
Curry Man
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and
Shark Boy
Dean Matthew Roll (born January 28, 1975) is an American professional wrestler, best known for his appearances in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the ring name Shark Boy. Prior to his appearances in TNA, Roll competed on the independen ...
defeated
Team 3D (
Brother Devon and
Brother Ray) in a
Fish Market Street Fight.
This event marked the second time the Elevation X match was used by TNA. Jason Clevett of the professional wrestling section of the
Canadian Online Explorer
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rated the event a six of ten, lower than the seven out of ten given to the
2007 event's ranking by Chris Sokol.
Production
Background
It was reported in December 2007 that Destination X was planned to be held on March 16 outside of the
TNA Impact! Zone
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in
Orlando, Florida
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.
However, in January 2008 TNA announced that Destination X would be held on March 9 instead.
TNA issued a press release in mid-January 2008 stating that Destination X would be held at the
Norfolk Scope in
Norfolk, Virginia
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on March 9, 2008. Tickets for the event went on sale January 25, 2008.
In Demand listed a preview of Destination X in late-January 2008 promoting the return of the Elevation X match.
TNA released a poster featuring
The Motor City Machine Guns (
Alex Shelley
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and
Chris Sabin
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After being trained by Scott D ...
; MCMG) sometime prior to help promote the event. The song Life Story by the band Crash Anthem was used as the official theme for the show.
Storylines
Destination X featured eight professional wrestling matches and one match prior to the event that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and
storylines. Wrestlers portrayed
villains
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,
heroes
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* ''Heroes'' (1977 film), an American drama
* ''Heroes'' (2008 film), an Indian Hindi film
Gaming
* ''Heroes of Might and Magic'' ...
, or
less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated into a wrestling match or series of matches.
![Rhino at TNA show](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Rhino_at_TNA_show.jpg)
The main event at Destination X was a
Six Man Tag Team match
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pitting The Unlikely Alliance of
Christian Cage,
Kevin Nash, and
Samoa Joe against
The Angle Alliance
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(
Kurt Angle,
A.J. Styles
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, and
Tomko). The storyline behind this match was Joe's quest to win the
TNA World Heavyweight Championship from Angle, with the two scheduled to fight for the title at TNA's next PPV event
Lockdown on April 13, 2008. Also connected was Cage's feud with Styles and Tomko, after the two betrayed him and cost him the TNA World Heavyweight Championship twice against Angle in the storyline at TNA's
Final Resolution
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PPV event on January 6, 2008, and at TNA's
Against All Odds PPV event on February 10, 2008.
This bout was announced on the February 21, 2008, episode of TNA's television program ''
TNA Impact!'' during a backstage segment between Joe and
Management Director Jim Cornette.
On the March 6, 2008, episode of ''Impact!'', the participants in the match fought in a series of matches to determine who would get a five-minute man advantaged at Destination X. Nash defeated Styles, Tomko defeated Joe in a
First Blood match, and Cage defeated Angle in a
Six Sides of Steel Cage match, leaving it two to three, with The Unlikely Alliance gaining the advantage.
TNA held the second-ever
Elevation X match at Destination X between
Rhino and
James Storm
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He started his career in 1997 and after working on several independent pr ...
. At Against All Odds, Rhino returned from injury to attack Storm during his encounter with
Eric Young over the
TNA World Beer Drinking Championship
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, reigniting their feud from mid-2007. Prior to this match, Rhino and Storm were involved in a storyline over past alcoholic issues by Rhino.
This led to the two fighting at TNA's
Victory Road PPV event on July 15, 2007, which Storm won.
The two fought again at TNA's
Hard Justice PPV event on August 12 in a
Bar Room Brawl
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, which Storm also won.
Rhino defeated Storm at TNA's
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...
PPV event on September 9, 2007, thus ending the feud.
In late 2007, Rhino suffered an injury sidelining him until his return at Against All Odds. On the February 14, 2008, episode of ''Impact!'' Rhino challenged Storm to an Elevation X match.
The match was later promoted for the event by TNA.
Robert Roode versus
Booker T Booker T or Booker T. may refer to
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** List of things named after Booker T. Washington, some nicknamed "Booker T."
* Booker T. Jones (born 1944) ...
in a
Stand By Your Man Strap match was another highly promoted match heading into the event. The feud regarding this contest began at Final Resolution, where Roode accidentally punched Booker T's wife
Sharmell
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, fracturing her jaw in the storyline, after a
Mixed Tag Team match pitting Roode and his then-manager
Ms. Brooks against Booker T and Sharmell.
Booker T and Roode then fought at Against All Odds to a double
count-out.
Cornette announced on the February 14 episode of ''Impact!'' that Booker T and Roode would face in another match at Destination X.
On the February 28, 2008, episode of ''Impact!'', Roode handcuffed Booker T to the ring ropes and beat him with a belt, until Roode's former manager Ms. Brooks, now Traci Brooks, came to Booker T's defense. However, Roode and his new manager
Payton Banks ended up attacking both with belts.
On the March 6 episode of ''Impact!'', Cornette announced that Booker T and Roode would face in a Stand By Your Man Strap match, in which if Booker T won then Brooks would be allowed to beat Banks with a strap ten times and vice versa.
Curry Man
Daniel Christopher Covell (born March 24, 1970), better known by the ring name Christopher Daniels, is an American semi-retired professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and is the Head of Talent Relations. He is best kno ...
and
Shark Boy
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fought
Team 3D (
Brother Devon and
Brother Ray) in a
Fish Market Street Fight at Destination X. At Against All Odds, Team 3D and
Johnny Devine lost a
Six Man Tag Team Street Fight to
Jay Lethal and MCMG (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin). Due to pre-match stipulations, Team 3D was then forced to work with a weight-limit in TNA in order to compete in matches, with the limit set at .
On the February 14 episode of''Impact!'', Team 3D fought Curry Man and Shark Boy in which Ray did not make weight, leaving Devon to face them alone. Devon won the contest after help from Ray.
On the February 21, 2008, episode of ''Impact!'', another match was held between the teams, in which Devon did not make weight, but Ray still won the bout after cheating.
On the February 28 episode of ''Impact!'', neither of Team 3D made weight, losing the match by
disqualification.
Curry Man and Shark Boy won a
battle royal on the March 6 episode of ''Impact!'' to add a stipulation to a match between them and Team 3D at Destination X. The two chose that if Team 3D did not make weight then Team 3D would be forced to leave TNA, but if they did then the contest would be a Fish Market Street Fight.
The
TNA Women's Knockout Championship was defended in a
Three Way match
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by
Awesome Kong against
Gail Kim and
ODB ODB may refer to:
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* ODB (wrestler) (born 1978), Stage name of American professional wrestler Jessica Kresa
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, also on the card. Build to this encounter began on December 2, 2007, at TNA's
Turning Point
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PPV event, where then-TNA Women's Knockout Champion Kim defeated Kong by disqualification.
Kim then fought Kong again at Final Resolution in a
No Disqualification match, in which Kim retained the title.
On the January 10, 2008, episode of ''Impact!'', Kong defeated Kim to win the title in a match which gave Kim an injury in the storyline.
Kong then defended the title against ODB at Against All Odds, which Kong won.
Leading up to Destination X, Kim and ODB started a partnership in order to try and take the championship from Kong on the February 14 episode of ''Impact!''.
TNA later promoted a Three Way match between the three leading up to the event.
Event
Prior to the show, TNA held a match for the crowd between
Roxxi Laveaux
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and
Angelina Love
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Between ROH ...
, which Roxxi won.
Miscellaneous
The event featured employees other than the wrestlers involved in the matches.
Mike Tenay and
Don West were the commentators for the telecast.
Jeremy Borash and
David Penzer were ring announcers for the event. Andrew Thomas,
Earl Hebner,
Rudy Charles, and
Mark "Slick" Johnson participated as
referees for the encounters.
Crystal Louthan
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Early life and career
Louthan worked as a Model (person), model once appeared as a boxing ...
and Borash were used as interviewers during the event. Besides employees appearing in a wrestling role,
Salinas,
Christy Hemme
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,
Rhaka Khan,
Scott Steiner,
Sonjay Dutt,
SoCal Val,
Raisha Saeed, Jim Cornette, Johnny Devine, Payton Banks, Traci Brooks, and
Jackie Moore all appeared on camera, either in backstage or ringside segments.
Preliminary matches
![The LAX](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/The_LAX.jpg)
The event opened with a Three Way Tag Team match to determine the number one contenders to the
TNA World Tag Team Championship between
The Latin American Xchange (
Hernandez and
Homicide
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; LAX), who were accompanied by Salinas, MCMG (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin), and
The Rock 'n Rave Infection
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History 2007
Lance Hoyt and Jimmy Rave made their debut as a team at No Surrender in the tag team ga ...
(
Jimmy Rave and
Lance Hoyt), who were accompanied by Christy Hemme. The bout lasted ten minutes and twenty-eight seconds. LAX won the bout thus becoming number one contenders after Hernandez pinned Rave following his signature
Border Toss maneuver.
Jay Lethal defended the
TNA X Division Championship against
Petey Williams, who was accompanied by Rhaka Khan, in a contest lasting eleven minutes and forty-one seconds. Near the end of the bout, Khan distracted the referee, at which time Steiner came down to the ring and interfered in the match, allowing Williams to perform his signature
Canadian Destroyer
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maneuver. SoCal Val then interfered as the referee was counting the
pinfall, removing him from the ring. Khan began to chase Val, before Sonjay Dutt came to her rescue. When Williams went for another pin attempt, Lethal countered it into a
small package pin, winning the match and retaining the TNA X Division Championship.
The team of Eric Young and
Kaz were pitted against the team of
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* 'Black Reign", ...
and
Rellik in the third match. The duration of the encounter was ten minutes and three seconds. During the contest, Young left the ring, leaving Kaz to fight off both Reign and Rellik by himself. Later, Young returned to the ring dressed as a
superhero
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, where he performed a double
Death Valley Driver
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on Reign and Rellik slamming them both into the mat, thus winning the match.
A Three Way match for the TNA Women's Knockout Championship was held in which then-champion Awesome Kong, who was accompanied by Raisha Saeed defended the title against Gail Kim and ODB. Near the end, ODB was tripped by Saeed, which led to Kong performing her signature
Awesome Bomb maneuver at eleven minutes and thirty-three seconds to win the contest.
Main event matches
![James Storm](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/James_Storm.jpg)
The team of Curry Man and Shark Boy were pitted against Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray), who were accompanied by Johnny Devine, in a thirteen-minute-and-twelve-second Fish Market Street Fight. Prior to this bout, Management Director Jim Cornette announced that if Team 3D made weight, then the weight restriction on them would be lifted. Also, that Kurt Angle originally won the Six Sides of Steel Cage match against Christian Cage, however the decision with The Unlikely Alliance gaining the advantage in the Six Man Tag Team match was still in effect. Before the bout, both members of Team 3D were weighed, with both coming in below the mark. In a Fish Market Street Fight the match is won by pinfall or submission, in which there are no disqualifications and the ring area is covered by fish paraphernalia. Devine interfered in the match near the end, accidentally throwing white powder in Ray's face. This led to Shark Boy tossing him out of the ring and through a table. Afterwards, Ray mistakenly performed Team 3D's signature tag team maneuver the
3D on Devon with Curry Man, allowing Shark Boy to cover for the pinfall victory.
Robert Roode, who was accompanied by Payton Banks, fought Booker T, who was accompanied by Traci Brooks, in a Stand By Your Man Strap match. The duration of the contest was seven minutes and fifty-six seconds. In a Stand By Your Man Strap match, both competitors are connected with a ten-foot-long strap, with the match won by either pinfall or submission. Roode gained the pinfall after punching Booker T with a pair of handcuffs. After the match, Banks got to lash Brooks with a strap ten times, until Sharmell made her return attacking Roode and Banks with a strap.
The second-ever Elevation X match was held between Rhino and James Storm, who was accompanied by Jackie Moore. The bout lasted thirteen minutes and eighteen seconds. In an Elevation X match, both opponents fight on a scaffolding several feet above the ring, in which the only way to win is for one to fall off and down to the ring. The two brawled at ringside during the opening minutes. Rhino won the match after kicking Storm off the scaffold and down to the ring through a table.
The main event was a Six Man Tag Team match pitting The Unlikely Alliance (Christian Cage, Kevin Nash, and Samoa Joe) against The Angle Alliance (Kurt Angle, A.J. Styles, and Tomko). The match duration was twelve minutes and twenty-nine seconds. Angle was forced to sit out of the match for five minutes, giving The Unlikely Alliance the three on two advantage. Joe won the encounter after he forced Tomko to submit with his signature
Coquina Clutch submission maneuver.
Reception
A total of three thousand two hundred people attended the event.
Canadian Online Explorer
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writer Jason Clevett rated the entire event a six out of ten,
which was lower than the seven out of ten given to the
2007 Destination X event by Chris Sokol.
Destination X's rating was lower than TNA's previous event Against All Odds, which was given a seven and a half out of ten.
It was also lower than the six and a half given to TNA's next event
Lockdown.
Compared to rival
World Wrestling Entertainment's WrestleMania XXIV PPV event held on March 30, 2008, Destination X was rated lower as WrestleMania was given a nine out of ten by Dale Plummer.
The highest rating of Clevett's review, an eight out of ten, was given to the Women's Knockout Championship match and the Three Way Tag Team match. The Elevation X match received the lowest rating of the review with a zero out of ten. The main event was rated a five out of ten, while the Stand By Your Man Strap match was ranked a three out of ten. The Fish Market Street Fight was rated four out of ten. Clevett felt Destination X "was not a bad pay per view," but "it wasn’t particularly good."
Wade Keller
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''Pro Wrestling Torch''
Kel ...
of the ''Pro Wrestling Torch'', in his published review of the event, rated the main event three and one-quarter stars out of five, the Elevation X match one star out of five, the Stand By Your Man Strap match one and one-quarter stars out of five, and the Fish Market Street Fight two stars out of five. The Women's Knockout Championship match and the main event were the highest rated matches in the review, with the Elevation X match the lowest. Keller thought the main event was a "good six-man tag match, but it didn't feel substantial enough to be a PPV main event." Regarding the Elevation X match, Keller felt it was "pretty bad." Commenting on the Stand By Your Man Strap match, Keller said it was a "letdown." Remarking on the Women's Knockout Championship match, Keller thought that "in some ways, just excellent" and that it was a "strong showing again by these women."
The event was released on DVD on May 13, 2008, by
TNA Home Video.
Aftermath
![Samoa Joe Sign](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Samoa_Joe_Sign.jpg)
Following Destination X, Samoa Joe went on to Lockdown on April 13, 2008, to face Kurt Angle in a Six Sides of Steel Cage match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. This match was announced on the March 13, 2008, episode of ''Impact!'' by Management Director Jim Cornette.
On the April 10, 2008, episode of ''Impact!'', a stipulation was added that if Joe lost he would retire from professional wrestling.
At Lockdown, Joe defeated Angle to win the championship.
Christian Cage and Tomko were announced as the annual team captains in the 2008
Lethal Lockdown match by Cornette on the March 13 episode of ''Impact!''.
Over the weeks leading up to the event the two picked their team members, ending up with
Team Cage consisting of Cage, Rhino, Kevin Nash,
Sting
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* Irritating hairs or prickles of a stinging plant, or the plant itself
Fictional characters and entities
* Sting (Middle-eart ...
, and
Matt Morgan, while Team Tomko was made up of Tomko, A.J. Styles, James Storm, and Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray). At Lockdown, Team Cage defeated Team Tomko in a Five-on-Five Lethal Lockdown match.
With the return of Sharmell at Destination X, an
Intergender Tag Team Six Sides of Steel Cage match was held at Lockdown, pitting Sharmell and Booker T against Payton Banks and Robert Roode. The bout was announced on the March 20, 2008, episode of ''Impact!'' by Cornette.
Sharmell and Booker were the victors in the contest at Lockdown, thus ending the feud between Booker T and Roode.
TNA X Division Champion Jay Lethal went on to defend the title in an
Xscape match
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at Lockdown. The match was promoted on the March 13 episode of ''Impact!'', with qualifying matches held leading up to Lockdown.
The wrestlers who qualified for the bout were Shark Boy, Curry Man, Johnny Devine, Sonjay Dutt, and
Consequences Creed
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. Lethal ended up retaining the title at the event.
Lethal eventually lost the title on the April 17, 2008, episode of ''Impact!'', when Petey Williams used his TNA X Division Feast of Fired Title shot.
LAX (Hernandez and Homicide) became number one contenders to the TNA World Tag Team Championship at Destination X. They were given their championship match on the April 17 episode of ''Impact!'', however at Lockdown the team of Eric Young and Kaz won a Cuffed in the Cage match earning them a championship match as well. Due to this, it became a Three Way Tag Team match between LAX, the team of Young and Kaz, and TNA World Tag Team Champions Styles and Tomko. Young and Kaz won the bout, however, due to a controversial finish the championship was vacated by Cornette.
Cornette then set up the
Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament heading into TNA's
Sacrifice
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PPV event on May 11, 2008, to crown new champions. LAX went on to the event to win the tournament, thus winning the championship.
In October 2017, with the launch of the
Global Wrestling Network, the event became available to stream on demand.
Results
References
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External links
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Destination X
2008 in Virginia
Events in Virginia
Events in Norfolk, Virginia
Professional wrestling in Norfolk, Virginia
March 2008 events in the United States
2008 Total Nonstop Action Wrestling pay-per-view events