The 2007 Genesis 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
Impact Wrestling (stylized as ''IMPACT! Wrestling''), is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is a subsidiary of Anthem Sports & Entertainment.
Founded by Jeff and Jerry Jarrett in 2002, the promot ...
(TNA)
promotion
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, which took place on November 11, 2007, at the
TNA Impact! Zone
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in
Orlando, Florida
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. It was the third event under the
Genesis
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* Genesis creation narrative, the first several chapters of the Book of ...
chronology, the last held in the month of November, and the eleventh event of the 2007 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:
* Various types of plastic cards:
**By type
***Magnetic stripe card
*** Chip card
*** Digital card
**By function
***Payment card
****Credit card
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, four of which were for championships.
The
main event
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was a
tag team match
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for the
TNA World Heavyweight Championship
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, in which then-champion
Kurt Angle
Kurt Steven Angle (born December 9, 1968) is an American retired professional wrestler, Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 100 kg, Olympic gold medalist in American freestyle wrestling, and former Collegiate wrestling, ...
and
Kevin Nash
Kevin Scott Nash (born July 9, 1959) is an American actor and retired professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE under a legends contract. He is best known for his tenure with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) where he performed under his ...
defeated the team of
Sting and
Booker T Booker T or Booker T. may refer to
* Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), African American political leader at the turn of the 20th century
** List of things named after Booker T. Washington, some nicknamed "Booker T."
* Booker T. Jones (born 1944) ...
; Angle gained the pinfall to retain the title. The final round of
The 2007 Fight for the Right Tournament was determined in a
ladder match, in which
Kaz defeated
Christian Cage
William Jason Reso (born November 30, 1973) is a Canadian professional wrestler and actor. He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) under the ring name Christian Cage. He is best known for his tenure in WWE under the ring name Christ ...
to become number one contender to the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
Samoa Joe
Nuufolau Joel Seanoa (born March 17, 1979), is an American professional wrestler better known by the ring name Samoa Joe who is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Joe is currently a double champion - in his first reign both as AEW ...
versus
Robert Roode
Robert Francis Roode Jr. (born May 11, 1976) is a Canadian professional wrestler signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand. He is currently inactive due to undergoing neck surgery.
Roode is known for his 12-year tenure for Total Nonst ...
was also featured on the card, which Joe won.
The Motor City Machine Guns
The Motor City Machine Guns is an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin. They are currently signed to Impact Wrestling, where they are three-time and current Impact World Tag Team Champions. The tea ...
(
Alex Shelley and
Chris Sabin) defeated
Team 3D
The Dudley Boyz (also known as Team 3D) are an American professional wrestling tag team that consisted of kayfabe half-brothers Bubba Ray Dudley (Mark LoMonaco) and D-Von Dudley (Devon Hughes). The team was also joined by various Dudley family me ...
(
Brother Devon
Devon Hughes (born August 1, 1972) is an American retired professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he works backstage as a producer. Hughes wrestled for Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) from 1995 to 1999 and for the WWF/E ...
and
Brother Ray) in a tag team match.
Genesis is noted for the TNA debut of Booker T. The professional wrestling section of the
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website rated the entire event a 7.5 out of 10 stars, higher than the
2006 event's rating of 5.
Production
Background
The third Genesis event was announced in mid-August 2007, scheduled for November 11, 2007 at the
TNA Impact Zone
The Impact Zone is the nickname for any one of three sound stages at Universal Studios Florida in Orlando derived from '' Impact!'', a weekly television series produced by the professional wrestling promotion Impact Wrestling (formerly Total ...
in
Orlando, Florida
Orlando () is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida, Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the center of the Greater Orlando, Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, acco ...
.
The promotional poster for the gathering was released some time prior through PPV providers featuring various TNA wrestlers. It featured the
tagline
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"A New Breed of Company... A New Breed of Wrestler... A New Breed in Wrestling".
Storylines
Genesis featured eight professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and
storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either
heels
The heel is the prominence at the posterior end of the foot. It is based on the projection of one bone, the calcaneus or heel bone, behind the articulation of the bones of the lower leg.
Structure
To distribute the compressive forces exert ...
or
face
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in the scripted events that build tension and culminate into a wrestling match or series of matches.
![Stingtna](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Stingtna.jpg)
The primary storyline heading into Genesis involved the
TNA World Heavyweight Championship
The Impact World Championship is a professional wrestling world championship created and promoted by Impact Wrestling. It is the promotion's principal championship. Like most professional wrestling championships, the title is won via the result o ...
held by then-champion
Kurt Angle
Kurt Steven Angle (born December 9, 1968) is an American retired professional wrestler, Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 100 kg, Olympic gold medalist in American freestyle wrestling, and former Collegiate wrestling, ...
. On the October 25 episode of TNA's television program ''
TNA Impact!
''Impact!'' (stylized as ''IMPACT!''), also known as ''IMPACT! on AXS TV'',
is an American professional wrestling television program produced by the American promotion Impact Wrestling (formerly known as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA)) tha ...
'',
Management Director Jim Cornette
James Mark "Jim" Cornette (born September 17, 1961) is an American author and podcaster who has previously worked in the professional wrestling industry as an agent, booker, color commentator, manager, promoter, trainer, and occasional prof ...
announced that the title would be defended in a
tag team match
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with Angle and
Kevin Nash
Kevin Scott Nash (born July 9, 1959) is an American actor and retired professional wrestler, currently signed to WWE under a legends contract. He is best known for his tenure with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) where he performed under his ...
against
Sting and a partner of his choosing.
The lead-up to this decision began at TNA's previous PPV event
Bound for Glory on October 12. There, Sting defeated Angle to win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.
On the October 25 episode of ''Impact!'', with help from Nash, Angle defeated Sting to win back the title. Due to the controversial circumstances, Cornette announced that Angle would defend the title in a tag team match, in which the person that got the
pinfall
In wrestling, a pin is achieved by holding an opponent's shoulders to the mat for a three count. Pinfall is the term used in professional wrestling which is a way to win the match for that person or team.
Background
A pinfall is a victory condi ...
or
submission
Deference (also called submission or passivity) is the condition of submitting to the espoused, legitimate influence of one's superior or superiors. Deference implies a yielding or submitting to the judgment of a recognized superior, out of re ...
would win the title.
The 2007 Fight for the Right Tournament was held in the weeks prior to the Genesis PPV event. It was an eight-man
single-elimination tournament
A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final matc ...
to decide the number contender to the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. It began at Bound for Glory, where a
16-man reverse battle royal was held to determine the participants, where the last remaining eight advanced to the second round and were seeded in order of elimination.
Eric Young,
Robert Roode
Robert Francis Roode Jr. (born May 11, 1976) is a Canadian professional wrestler signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand. He is currently inactive due to undergoing neck surgery.
Roode is known for his 12-year tenure for Total Nonst ...
,
James Storm,
Junior Fatu,
Chris Sabin,
Kaz,
Lance Hoyt
Lance Hoyt (born February 28, 1977) is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) under the ring name Lance Archer. He also makes sporadic appearance for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). He is also known for ...
, and
Alex Shelley all advanced to round two.
The first bout of the quarterfinals took place on the October 18 episode of ''Impact!'' between Shelley and Sabin, which ended in a
no contest
' is a legal term that comes from the Latin phrase for "I do not wish to contend". It is also referred to as a plea of no contest or no defense.
In criminal trials in certain United States jurisdictions, it is a plea where the defendant neith ...
.
This led to a vacant spot in the tournament, which was filled later in the episode when
Christian Cage
William Jason Reso (born November 30, 1973) is a Canadian professional wrestler and actor. He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW) under the ring name Christian Cage. He is best known for his tenure in WWE under the ring name Christ ...
defeated
Samoa Joe
Nuufolau Joel Seanoa (born March 17, 1979), is an American professional wrestler better known by the ring name Samoa Joe who is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). Joe is currently a double champion - in his first reign both as AEW ...
.
Kaz defeated Hoyt, Storm defeated Young, and Fatu defeated Roode in the remaining quarterfinal matches, which took place on the 18 and 25 episodes, respectively.
The semi-finals were held on the November 1 episode of ''Impact!'', where Kaz defeated Storm, and Cage defeated
Chris Harris—who was a replacement for Fatu—to advance to the finals.
On the November 8 episode of ''Impact!'', Cage defeated Kaz, with interference from Cage's allies
A.J. Styles
Allen Neal Jones (born June 2, 1977), better known by his ring name AJ Styles (also stylized as A.J. Styles), is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand. Regarded as one of the best ...
and
Tomko, to win the tournament.
Afterwards, Cornette's stand-in for the night
Matt Morgan
Matthew Thomas Morgan (born September 10, 1976) is an American politician, actor and retired Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He is a current City Commissioner in Longwood, Florida. He is known for his time in Total Nonstop Actio ...
declared the match a no contest and announced that the tournament would be decided in a
ladder match between Cage and Kaz at Genesis due to the interference.
At Bound for Glory,
Team 3D
The Dudley Boyz (also known as Team 3D) are an American professional wrestling tag team that consisted of kayfabe half-brothers Bubba Ray Dudley (Mark LoMonaco) and D-Von Dudley (Devon Hughes). The team was also joined by various Dudley family me ...
(
Brother Devon
Devon Hughes (born August 1, 1972) is an American retired professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he works backstage as a producer. Hughes wrestled for Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) from 1995 to 1999 and for the WWF/E ...
and
Brother Ray) fought
The Steiner Brothers
The Steiner Brothers are an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of brothers Robert "Rick Steiner" Rechsteiner and Scott "Scott Steiner" Rechsteiner.
The brothers wrestled as amateurs at the University of Michigan. The team ma ...
(
Rick
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People
*Rick (given name), a list of people with the given name
*Alan Rick (born 1976), Brazilian politician, journalist, pastor and television personality
*Johannes Rick (1869–1946), Austrian-born Brazilian priest and mycol ...
and
Scott Steiner
Scott Rechsteiner (born July 29, 1962), better known by the ring name Scott Steiner, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA).
Steiner is perhaps best known for his time in World Championshi ...
) in a
two out of three falls tables match
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. They were unsuccessful at defeating the Steiners as
The Motor City Machine Guns
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(Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin; MCMG) interfered and helped the Steiners win the match.
On the October 18 episode of ''Impact!'', Team 3D attacked MCMG during their match in The 2007 Fight for the Right Tournament, injuring them in the plot, which led to a spot being vacant. Afterwards, they stated they were going to destroy the
X Division
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, for which MCMG belonged.
On the November 1 episode of ''Impact!'', MCMG returned from injury and attacked Team 3D. Afterwards, Shelley challenged Team 3D to a fight at Genesis, which was later made official by TNA.
Joe versus Roode was another featured contest on the event's card. On the October 18 episode of ''Impact!'', Joe fought Cage for the vacant spot in The 2007 Fight for the Right Tournament. During which Roode interfered by attacking Joe, which led to Joe losing the bout.
Joe retaliated on the October 25 episode of ''Impact!'' by interfering in Roode's quarterfinal match with Fatu, causing him to also lose.
TNA commentator
Mike Tenay
Michael William Tenay (born March 1, 1955) is an American podcast presenter and retired professional wrestling play-by-play announcer known for his time as an announcer for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TN ...
announced on the November 1 episode of ''Impact!'' that the two would face in a bout at Genesis.
Event
Miscellaneous
The event featured employees other than the wrestlers involved in the matches. There were four overall commentators for the event; Mike Tenay and
Don West provided
English
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commentary, while
Hector Guerrero
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and Willie Urbina served as the
Spanish
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**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
announce team.
David Penzer
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was the
ring announcer
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In boxing and mixed martial arts bou ...
for the event, while
Earl Hebner
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,
Rudy Charles
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,
Mark "Slick" Johnson
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Career
World Championship Wrestling
Johnson gained national expos ...
, and Andrew Thomas participated as
referees
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for the encounters.
Jeremy Borash
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and
Crystal Louthan
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Early life and career
Louthan worked as a Model (person), model once appeared as a boxing ...
were used as interviewers throughout the event. Besides wrestlers who were appearing in a wrestling role,
James Mitchell,
Awesome Kong
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,
SoCal Val,
B.G. James and
Kip James
Monty Kip Sopp (born November 1, 1963), better known by his ring name Billy Gunn, although he is currently finding renewed popularity under the ring name Daddy Ass, is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to All Elite Wr ...
of the
Voodoo Kin Mafia
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(VKM),
Ms. Brooks,
Karen Angle, and
Sharmell
Sharmell Sullivan-Huffman (born November 2, 1970) is an American retired professional wrestling valet, dancer, beauty queen, and professional wrestler. As the wife of Booker T, she is best known for her time with World Wrestling Entertainment (W ...
were also featured on the broadcast.
A series of backstage segments featured on the show involved James Storm and Eric Young, with
Jackie Moore as an observer, involved in a
beer drinking contest over what Storm called the "World Beer Drinking Championship". It eventually led to Storm passing out and Young stealing the
TNA World Beer Drinking Championship belt.
Preliminary matches
![Sabin TNA Tag Champion](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Sabin_TNA_Tag_Champion.jpg)
The event opened with a
Shop of Horrors match between
Abyss
Abyss may refer to:
* Abyss (religion), a bottomless pit, or a passage to the underworld
Film and television
* ''The Abyss'' (1910 film), a Danish silent film starring Asta Nielsen
* ''The Abyss'' (1988 film) (''L'Œuvre au noir''), a French- ...
and
Black Reign, which lasted 10 minutes and 13 seconds.
In a Shop of Horrors match, all weapons are legal to use, a wrestler can not be counted out, and it can only be won by pinfall or submission. James Mitchell interfered on Reign's behalf during the encounter. Abyss won the contest by pinfall after slamming Reign into the mat with his maneuver, the
Black Hole Slam. After the encounter, Abyss grabbed a key that hung around Reign's neck and used it to open a locked building on the stage, which unknowingly was occupied by an
unknown wrestler. Reign and the unknown wrestler then proceeded to lock Abyss in the building and push it off the stage.
A series of other preliminary matches followed the Shop of Horrors match. MCMG fought Team 3D in a match that lasted 17 minutes and 37 seconds.
MCMG won the contest, after the pair performed their
ASCS Rush combination on Ray, which involves a series of kicks to the head and midsection, to gain the pinfall.
The
TNA Women's World Championship was defended in a
Four Way match
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involving then-champion
Gail Kim
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,
Roxxi Laveaux
Nicole Raczynski (born April 19, 1979) is an American former professional wrestler. She is best known for her tenure in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring names Roxxi Laveaux, The Voodoo Queen, and Roxxi. She is also known for her time ...
,
ODB ODB may refer to:
People
* Ol' Dirty Bastard (1968–2004), American rapper and founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan
* ODB (wrestler) (born 1978), Stage name of American professional wrestler Jessica Kresa
* Original David Baker (born 1972), a monik ...
, and
Angel Williams
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Between ROH ...
. VKM accompanied Roxxi Laveaux to the ring; they were eventually sent to the backstage area during the contest. After nine minutes and one second, Kim pinned ODB after slamming her into the mat with her maneuver the
Happy Ending
A happy ending is an ending of the plot of a work of fiction in which almost everything turns out for the best for the main protagonists and their sidekicks, while the main villains/antagonists are dead/defeated.
In storylines where the protagon ...
to retain the title.
Sonjay Dutt
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challenged
Jay Lethal
Jamar Shipman (born April 29, 1985), better known by the ring name Jay Lethal, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW).
Dubbed "The Franchise" of Ring of Honor, Lethal is a two-time ROH World Champio ...
for the
TNA X Division Championship
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next. Lethal successfully retained the title after gaining the pinfall following an
elbow drop
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from the top of a padded
turnbuckle
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at 12 minutes and one second.
Afterwards, Team 3D attacked Dutt and Lethal, and stole the X Division Championship belt, claiming they were holding it "hostage".
Christian's Coalition
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(
A.J. Styles and Tomko) defended the
TNA World Tag Team Championship TNA may refer to:
Organisations
* Tamil National Alliance, a political coalition in Sri Lanka
* The National Alliance, a political party in Kenya
* The National Archives (United Kingdom), a UK public body
* Tonga Nurses' Association, a trade union ...
against The Steiner Brothers in a match lasting 10 minutes and 43 seconds.
The pair retained the titles, when Styles pinned Rick following a shot to the groin and a
chair shot
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to the head, neither of which was seen by the referee.
Main event matches
![Booker T](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Booker_T.jpg)
The sixth match was between Samoa Joe and Robert Roode, who was accompanied by Ms. Brooks. It lasted 15 minutes and 43 seconds,
with Joe becoming the victor after slamming Roode into the mat with his
Muscle Buster
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maneuver.
Ms. Brooks legitimately passed out at ringside during the contest, believed to be due to overheating. She recovered later in the night after
EMTS
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helped her to the backstage area.
Next, the finals of The 2007 Fight for the Right Tournament were held between Christian Cage and Kaz in a ladder match that lasted 15 minutes and 13 seconds.
In a ladder match, an object is hung above the ring and the first to climb a ladder and retrieve the object is the winner. During the match, Cage was legitimately busted open above his eye.
Midway through the encounter, the contract fell off the clipboard that hung above the ring, which changed the objective to just grabbing the clipboard to win. Kaz won the contest after causing Cage to fall off the ladder onto Styles and Tomko, who were interfering on Cage's behalf, and then ascending the ladder to grab the clipboard, becoming number one contender to the TNA World Heavyweight Championship in the process.
The
main event
In sports, a card lists the matches taking place in a title match combat-sport event. Cards include a main event match and the undercard listing the rest of the matches. The undercard may be divided into a midcard and a lower card, according to ...
was a tag team match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, pitting the teams of then-champion Kurt Angle, who was accompanied by Karen Angle, and Kevin Nash against Sting and a mystery partner. Before the contest began, Sting introduced his partner as the debuting
Booker T Booker T or Booker T. may refer to
* Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), African American political leader at the turn of the 20th century
** List of things named after Booker T. Washington, some nicknamed "Booker T."
* Booker T. Jones (born 1944) ...
, who was accompanied by the also debuting Sharmell.
During the 13 minute and 41 second long encounter,
the team of Styles and Tomko interfered on Angle's behalf by attacking Booker T and Sting. This led later to Angle hitting Nash with the World Heavyweight Championship belt and the slamming of Sting into the mat with his
Olympic Slam maneuver to gain the pinfall and retain the title.
Reception
The attendance for the event was 900.
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writer Chris Sokol rated the entire event 7.5 out of 10,
which was higher than the
2006 event's rating of 5 out of 10 by Bob Kapur.
Sokol rated the ladder match between Cage and Kaz an 8.5, his highest rating of the review, while the main event match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship was rated a 7. The Women's Title match was rated the lowest with a 5.
Sokol stated in his review of the event when referring to Booker T being Sting's mystery partner, he gave TNA "major props". In his comments on the finish to the main event he stated that it was an "intriguing ending to an excellent PPV".
Wade Keller of the ''Pro Wrestling Torch'' gave the main event two and 1/4 stars out of five, and stated he felt it "wasn't anything special"; however, he felt Booker T looked "refreshed and full of spunk". He believed the ladder match was a "really good spectacle match" and gave it three and a half stars.
James Caldwell of the ''Pro Wrestling Torch'' gave the main event two stars out of five, while the ladder match three and 3/4 stars. He felt the ladder match was a "very good ladder match" and was the "best match" up to that point.
Dan Wilkenfeld of the ''Pro Wrestling Torch'' gave the overall event a B rating and believed it was a "step down" from the previous month's Bound for Glory.
The event was released on DVD on January 15, 2008 by
TNA Home Video
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.
Aftermath
Following Genesis, A.J. Styles and Tomko went on to join Kurt and Karen Angle to form
The Angle Alliance
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. Due to Angle's attack on Nash at Genesis, Nash and Scott Hall went on to request a
Six Man Tag Team match for TNA's
Turning Point
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Turning Point or Turning Points may refer to:
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PPV event on December 2. Nash and Hall were granted their request, and Samoa Joe later was revealed as their mystery partner for the encounter.
Hall ended up no-showing the event, and as a result Eric Young filled his place in the bout, which was won by Joe, Nash, and Young.
Team 3D and MCMG continued their rivalry heading into Turning Point, with MCMG now joined by Lethal. On the November 15 episode of ''Impact!'',
Johnny Devine
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, an X Division wrestler, betrayed and attacked MCMG and Lethal, joining Team 3D in the process.
This led to the six meeting in a Six Man Tag Team Tables match at Turning Point. Team 3D and Devine went on to win the contest.
The mystery wrestler revealed after the Shop of Horrors match at Genesis was soon after dubbed Rellik. Abyss, now joined by
Rhino
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, went on to feud with both Reign and Rellik leading into Turning Point.
The four were promoted to fight in a
Match of 10,000 Tacks at the event, but Rhino ended up being replaced by
Raven due to an injury. Abyss and Raven won the contest at Turning Point.
Kaz got his TNA World Heavyweight Championship match on the November 15 episode of ''Impact!'' against Angle, but failed to win the title.
Kaz then went on to team with Booker T in a match against Christian Cage and Robert Roode at Turning Point, which the pair won.
In October 2017, with the launch of the
Global Wrestling Network
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, the event became available to stream on demand.
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