Impact Wrestling No Surrender

The first No Surrender event took place on July 17, 2005 at the Impact Zone in Orlando, Florida. Nine professional wrestling matches and one pre-show match were featured on the card. The main event was a No Surrender Dog Collar match for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, in which then-champion Raven defended the title against Abyss. Raven won the match, thus retaining the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. After the match, Rhino made his TNA debut by attacking Raven. The TNA X Division Championship was defended by Christopher Daniels against Petey Williams. Daniels retained the championship in the encounter. On the undercard, A.J. Styles defeated Sean Waltman with Jerry Lynn as the Special Guest Referee. Monty Brown and The Outlaw defeated the 3Live Kru (Konnan and Ron Killings) in a Tag Team Street Fight also on the card.

The second No Surrender event took place on September 24, 2006 at the Impact Zone in Orlando, Florida. Eight professional wrestling matches were featured on the card. The main event was a "Fan's Revenge" Lumberjack match, in which Samoa Joe defeated Jeff Jarrett. On the undercard, the challengers A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels defeated champions The Latin American Exchange (Hernandez and Homicide) in an Ultimate X match to win the NWA World Tag Team Championship and Senshi retained the TNA X Division Championship against Chris Sabin.

The third No Surrender event took place on September 9, 2007 at the Impact Zone in Orlando, Florida. Eight professional wrestling matches were featured on the card. Kurt Angle, the holder of the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, the TNA X Division Championship and the TNA World Tag Team Championship defended all three of his titles at the event. In his first title defense, Angle and his World Tag Team Championship partner Sting lost the tag team titles to Team Pacman (Adam "Pacman" Jones and Ron Killings). Angle also lost the X Division Championship to Jay Lethal but retained the World Heavyweight Championship against Abyss. Also, on the undercard, A.J. Styles and Tomko won a tag team gauntlet match to become the #1 contenders for the World Tag Team Championship at Bound for Glory.

The fourth No Surrender event took place on September 14, 2008 at the General Motors Centre in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, marking the first time that a No Surrender event and a TNA event was held outside the United States. Nine professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's card. The main event was a Three Ways to Glory match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship with the champion Samoa Joe defending the title against Christian Cage and Kurt Angle. Joe successfully retained the title at the show. A.J. Styles defeated Frank Trigg in a Mixed Martial Arts match also on the show. The TNA World Tag Team Championship was defended by Beer Money, Inc. (James Storm and Robert Roode) against The Latin American Xchange (Hernandez and Homicide). Beer Money, Inc. retained the championship at the event. TNA held a Ladder of Love match for SoCal Val, in which Sonjay Dutt defeated Jay Lethal. The TNA X Division Championship was also defended in a Three Way match by Petey Williams against Sheik Abdul Bashir and Consequences Creed, which Bashir won to become the new champion.

The fifth No Surrender event took place on September 20, 2009 at Impact Zone in Orlando, Florida. The main event was a Five-Way Dance for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, in which the defending champion Kurt Angle defended the title against A.J. Styles, Matt Morgan, Sting and Hernandez, who cashed in his Feast or Fired briefcase. Styles won the match to win his first TNA World Heavyweight Championship. On the undercard, Bobby Lashley defeated Rhino, Beer Money, Inc. (James Storm and Robert Roode) and Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray) defeated The Main Event Mafia (Booker T and Scott Steiner) and The British Invasion (Brutus Magnus and Doug Williams) in a Lethal Lockdown match, Kevin Nash retained the TNA Legends Championship against Abyss in a $50,000 Bounty Challenge, ODB defeated Cody Deaner to win the vacant TNA Women's Knockout Championship, Samoa Joe retained the TNA X Division Championship against Daniels and Sarita and Taylor Wilde defeated The Beautiful People (Madison Rayne and Velvet Sky) to become the inaugural TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions.

The sixth No Surrender event took place on September 5, 2010 at the Impact Zone in Orlando, Florida. Eight professional wrestling matches were contested at the event. The semi-final round of the tournament for the vacant TNA World Heavyweight Championship took place at the event, which saw Mr. Anderson defeat D'Angelo Dinero in the main event to advance to the final round. In the other semi-final, Jeff Hardy and Kurt Angle wrestled to a time limit draw. Another heavily featured match on the card was a tag team match, in which Jeff Jarrett and Samoa Joe defeated Kevin Nash and Sting by technical knockout. In other prominent matches on the undercard, A.J. Styles defeated Tommy Dreamer in an "I Quit" match, Abyss defeated Rhino in a Falls Count Anywhere match, Douglas Williams retained the TNA X Division Championship against Sabu and The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) retained the TNA World Tag Team Championship against Generation Me (Jeremy Buck and Max Buck).

The seventh No Surrender event took place on September 11, 2011 at the Impact Zone in Orlando, Florida. Nine professional wrestling matches were contested at the event. The main event was a Three-way match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, in which the champion Kurt Angle retained the title against challengers Sting and Mr. Anderson. The event also featured the culmination of the 2011 Bound for Glory Series as Bobby Roode defeated Bully Ray in the final to become the #1 contender for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at Bound for Glory. On the undercard, Austin Aries defeated champion Brian Kendrick to win the TNA X Division Championship, Mexican America (Anarquia and Hernandez) retained the TNA World Tag Team Championship against D'Angelo Dinero and Devon and Winter defeated Mickie James to win the TNA Women's Knockout Championship.

The eighth No Surrender event took place on September 9, 2012 at the Impact Zone in Orlando, Florida. Seven professional wrestling matches were contested at the event. The event featured the culmination of the 2012 Bound for Glory Series as Jeff Hardy defeated Bully Ray in the final to become the #1 contender for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at Bound for Glory. On the undercard, Bad Influence (Christopher Daniels and Kazarian) retained the TNA World Tag Team Championship against A.J. Styles and Kurt Angle, Zema Ion retained the TNA X Division Championship against Sonjay Dutt and Miss Tessmacher retained the TNA Women's Knockout Championship against Tara.

No Surrender (2013)
Promotional poster featuring the TNA World Heavyweight Champion Bully Ray and Mr. Anderson
Promotion	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Date	September 12, 2013
City	St. Louis, Missouri
Venue	Chaifetz Arena
Attendance	2,000
Tagline(s)	"12 Men. One Shot at Glory"
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The ninth No Surrender event took place on September 12, 2013 at the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Missouri. In 2013, TNA dropped most of the pay-per-view events including No Surrender, which was retained as a special episode of Impact Wrestling.

Five matches were contested at the event including a pre-show match. The event concluded the 2013 Bound for Glory Series, as A.J. Styles defeated Magnus in the tournament final to earn himself a TNA World Heavyweight Championship match at Bound for Glory. Also at the event, Bully Ray successfully defended the World Heavyweight Championship against Mr. Anderson in a Last Man Standing match.

Storylines

Bully Ray defended the TNA World Heavyweight Championship against Mr. Anderson in a Last Man Standing match at No Surrender.

The show was centered around the 2013 Bound for Glory Series. On the August 29 episode of Impact Wrestling, TNA General Manager Hulk Hogan announced that the knockout stage of the BFG Series would take place at No Surrender on September 12 and announced that a gauntlet match would take place on the September 5 Impact Wrestling, where all the 12 participants of the BFG Series would participate and the winner would gain 20 points in the series. A.J. Styles won the gauntlet and became the leader in the BFG Series points with Magnus, Austin Aries and Bobby Roode being ranked next to Styles in the rankings respectively, thus determining the Final Four of the BFG Series who would qualify for the knockout stage at No Surrender. Styles was be given the opportunity to choose his semi-final opponent due to being points leader and he chose Aries as his opponent due to him losing Aries earlier in the tournament, thus setting up Styles versus Aries and Roode versus Magnus in the semifinals at No Surrender.

At Hardcore Justice, Tito Ortiz revealed himself to be the newest member of Aces & Eights by turning on Rampage Jackson by hitting him with a hammer, which distracted Chris Sabin enough for Aces & Eights leader Bully Ray to defeat him in a steel cage match to win the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. The Aces & Eights Vice President Mr. Anderson took exception to Ortiz' inclusion into the group and said that Ray had to discuss with him before adding Ortiz into the group but Ray said that Anderson better not be sensitive and take care of his own business. Ray then revealed that the real "Brooke" he loved was Brooke Tessmacher and not Hulk Hogan's daughter Brooke Hogan, whom he had used to reach to the top and win the World Heavyweight Championship. On the August 29 episode of Impact Wrestling, Hulk Hogan announced that Ray would defend the title against a member of Aces & Eights at No Surrender. On the September 5 episode of Impact Wrestling, Anderson revealed himself to be that Aces & Eights member by costing Ray, a no disqualification match against Sting by tossing the hammer away from Ray while Sting had applied a Scorpion Deathlock on Ray. At No Surrender, Hogan added a stipulation to the title match that it would be a last man standing match.

Xplosion taping

During a taping for the September 18 episode of Xplosion prior to the start of the event, Kazarian defeated Chris Sabin by reversing a sunset flip attempt into a roll-up and pinned Sabin by using the ropes for leverage.

Event

A.J. Styles won the Bound for Glory Series to become the #1 contender for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at Bound for Glory.

During the first 2013 Bound for Glory Series semi-final match, A.J. Styles competed against Austin Aries. Styles performed a Styles Clash from the middle rope onto the mat on Aries for the win.

The second semi-final match featured Magnus against Bobby Roode. Magnus was able to pin Roode with a jackknife to advance to the final round against A.J. Styles.

The penultimate match was a Last Man Standing match, in which Bully Ray defended the TNA World Heavyweight Championship against Mr. Anderson. The referee was knocked out during the match as Anderson had delivered a Mic Check to Ray, which allowed Aces & Eights to interfere on Ray's behalf by attacking Anderson and delivering a triple powerbomb to Anderson and Brooke Tessmacher delivering a low blow to Anderson. Anderson got up before the ten count and then Ray speared Anderson through a table to keep Anderson down for the 10 count to retain the title. After the match, Ray performed a piledriver to Anderson on the entrance ramp.

The main event was the final round match of the 2013 Bound for Glory Series between A.J. Styles and Magnus. Extraordinary Gentlemen's Organization (Bobby Roode, Christopher Daniels and Kazarian) interfered in the match to attack both participants in the early moments of the match. Near the end of the match, Magnus nailed a spinebuster to Styles but Styles countered with a series of forearm smashes and nailed a Spiral Tap to Magnus to win the match and win the 2013 Bound for Glory Series. After the match, Styles cut a pipe bomb, in which he criticized TNA management particularly Dixie Carter, calling her out for the next week's episode of Impact Wrestling.

Reception

Jonathan Sullivan of 411Mania considered No Surrender to be the "Best Impact of the year thus far and the best “free PPV” they have put on.". He praised Styles' performances in both of his matches and considered the BFG Series final match between Styles and Magnus to be "a great and dramatic end" to the tournament. He further wrote "Ray and Anderson may not have been great in terms of wrestling, but the story they told was tremendous and it was easily the match of the night. Magnus/Roode was okay but the noticeable weak point wrestling-wise"[2]

James Caldwell of Pro Wrestling Torch considered No Surrender to be "One of the better Impact episodes" of 2013, with "The three high-stakes BFG Series Final Four matches delivered, the TNA Title match was a very good brawl, and TNA got out of the way (for the most part) to let the wrestlers tell their stories."[3]

Aftermath

On the September 19 episode of Impact Wrestling, A.J. Styles criticized Dixie Carter on the way in which she ran TNA and the company made so many mistakes throughout the past eleven years since its inception in 2002, criticizing her for firing the X Division stars like Jerry Lynn, Low Ki, Petey Williams, Jay Lethal and Alex Shelley in favor of mixed martial artists and other sports celebrities, which led to Carter turning into a villainous character saying that she created the "Phenomenal One" character for Styles and Styles would have still be living in poverty if he had not been paid by Carter's father while Styles also revealed that he did not have a contract with TNA. The feud between Styles and Carter continued as Carter tore up a new TNA contract which Hulk Hogan offered to Styles. Carter gave an ultimatum to Hogan to either side with her or leave and Hogan chose to quit TNA. Styles would then begin feuding with Bully Ray over winning the Bound for Glory Series, defeating Ray to win the World Heavyweight Championship at Bound for Glory.[4]

After losing to Bully Ray and being piledriven on stage at No Surrender, Mr. Anderson was out of action for over a month before making his return to TNA on the post-Bound for Glory episode on the October 24 episode of Impact Wrestling, when he rescued A.J. Styles from an assault by Bully Ray, thus resuming his feud with Ray. This set up a no disqualification match between Anderson and Ray at Turning Point, where if Anderson won then Aces & Eights must disband and if Ray won then Anderson must leave TNA.

Results

No Surrender (2014)
Promotional poster featuring Bobby Roode and the TNA World Heavyweight Champion Bobby Lashley
Promotion	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Date	August 7, 2014 (aired September 17, 2014)
City	New York, New York
Venue	Grand Ballroom
Attendance	1,100
Tagline(s)	Free on Spike TV
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The tenth No Surrender event took place on August 7, 2014 at the Grand Ballroom in New York, New York. It aired as a special edition of TNA's weekly broadcast of Impact Wrestling on September 17, 2014.

Six professional wrestling matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Lashley successfully defended the TNA World Heavyweight Championship against Bobby Roode. In prominent matches on the undercard, The Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) defended the World Tag Team Championship against The Hardys (Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy) and Team 3D (Bully Ray and Devon) in a ladder match and Samoa Joe defended the X Division Championship against Homicide.[5][6]

Storylines

At Hardcore Justice, Bobby Roode and Eric Young simultaneously won a Six Sides of Steel match to determine the #1 contender for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. On the August 27 episode of Impact Wrestling, the Director of Wrestling Operations Kurt Angle announced that Young and Roode would compete in a match on the September 3 episode of Impact Wrestling and the winner of that match would become the #1 contender for the title. Roode won the match, thus earning the title shot against Lashley at No Surrender.[7]

At Hardcore Justice, Kurt Angle announced that the World Tag Team Champions The Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards), The Hardys (Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy) and Team 3D (Bully Ray and Devon) would compete in a three match series and the team to score two wins would win the series and the winner of the first match would be able to pick the stipulation for the next match. The first three-way match took place on the August 27 episode of Impact Wrestling, which Team 3D won. Team 3D chose a tables match, which took place on the September 10 episode of Impact Wrestling, which Hardys won. Hardys were then allowed to choose the next stipulation which was a ladder match and it was announced that it would take place at No Surrender and Wolves' World Tag Team Championship would be on the line in the match.[7]

It was announced that Samoa Joe would defend the X Division Championship against Homicide at No Surrender.[7]

A Knockouts battle royal was announced for No Surrender to determine the #1 contender to Gail Kim's Knockouts Championship and would also feature the newcomer Jessicka Havok as one of the participants, thus marking her first match in TNA.[7]

On the September 3 episode of Impact Wrestling, Bram and Magnus defeated Gunner and Samuel Shaw in a tag team match, leading to a match between Gunner and Bram at No Surrender.

On the September 10 episode of Impact Wrestling, Team 3D's new trainee and United States Army veteran Chris Melendez made his TNA debut by defeating DJ Z. It was announced that Melendez would compete in his next match against Kenny King at No Surrender.

Event

The event kicked off with a Knockouts battle royal to determine the #1 contender for the TNA Knockouts Championship. Havok dominated the match earlier on. Madison Rayne was the first to get eliminated as she tried to kick Havok but Havok caught her foot and tossed her over the top rope. Taryn Terrell jumped on Havok's back but Havok tossed her over the top rope but Terrell jumped on the apron and Havok punched her to eliminate her. Havok then eliminated Brittany by hitting her a forearm smash on the apron. Rebel would then eliminate Angelina Love as Love charged at her but Rebel pulled the rope down, causing Love's elimination. Havok next eliminated Rebel by catching her foot and tossing her over the top rope. Havok and Velvet Sky were the last two remaining participants. Sky hit a diving crossbody on Havok but Havok caught her and tossed her over the top rope to eliminate her for the win.

Next, Chris Melendez took on Kenny King. MVP distracted Melendez, allowing King to attack him from behind. King attempted to nail a Royal Flush but Melendez countered with a roll-up and pinned King for the win. King attacked Melendez after the match and delivered a Royal Flush to him and then Mr. Anderson made the save forcing King to retreat.

Next, Samoa Joe defended the X Division Championship against Homicide. Joe countered a Gringo Cutter by Homicide into a Coquina Clutch to make Homicide submit and retain the title. James Storm and The Great Sanada attacked Joe and Homicide after the match and then Manik delivered a frog splash to Homicide.

Later, The Wolves (Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards) defended the World Tag Team Championship against The Hardys (Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy) and Team 3D (Bully Ray and Devon) in a ladder match, the third match of the three-match series between the three teams. Richards pulled a ladder from underneath Jeff, causing Jeff to crash down and allowed Edwards to climb the ladder and retrieve the title belts to retain the titles.

It was followed by the penultimate match of the event pitting Gunner against Bram. Gunner's knee gave up as he tried to nail a powerbomb to Bram. Samuel Shaw then charged at Bram but Bram sidestepped and Shaw accidentally hit Gunner and Bram pinned him for the win.

In the main event, Lashley defended the World Heavyweight Championship against Bobby Roode. MVP was ejected from the ringside by the referee during the match while interfering by grabbing Roode's leg as Roode had climbed the top rope. Kenny King then tried to interfere when Roode countered a spear by Lashley into a crossface as King brought Roode closer to the ropes. Eric Young then showed up at ringside to attack King. Roode injured his knee while sidestepping a spear by Lashley. He then tried to nail a Roode Bomb to Lashley but his knee gave up and Lashley nailed a spear to Roode to retain the title.

Aftermath

Havok received her Knockouts Championship title shot against Gail Kim on the October 1 episode of Impact Wrestling. Havok won the title.

Mr. Anderson and Chris Melendez began feuding with MVP and Kenny King after No Surrender. On the October 1 episode of Impact Wrestling, MVP defeated Anderson. On the October 22 episode of Impact Wrestling, Anderson and Melendez entered the tag team tournament to determine the #1 contenders for the World Tag Team Championship, in which they lost to MVP and King in the opening round.[8] Melendez defeated King via disqualification on the November 19 episode of Impact Wrestling to end the feud.

Due to winning the ladder match at No Surrender, The Wolves named the final match of the series with Team 3D and The Hardys, a Full Metal Mayhem match on the October 8 episode of Impact Wrestling, which Wolves won to win the series and retain the World Tag Team Championship.

On the October 15 episode of Impact Wrestling, Bobby Roode defeated Austin Aries, Eric Young and Jeff Hardy in a four-way elimination match to become the #1 contender for the World Heavyweight Championship, thus earning another title shot. Roode defeated Lashley to win the title in a No Surrender rematch on the October 29 episode of Impact Wrestling.[9] Lashley regained the title from Roode on the January 7, 2015 episode of Impact Wrestling.

Results

The eleventh No Surrender event took place at the Impact Wrestling Zone in Orlando, Florida on June 27, 2015 and aired as a special edition of TNA's weekly broadcast of Impact Wrestling on Destination America on August 5, 2015.

Six professional wrestling matches were contested at the event. The main event was a Full Metal Mayhem match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, in which Ethan Carter III successfully defended the title against Matt Hardy. The undercard notably featured Austin Aries' last match in TNA against Rockstar Spud, which stipulated that if Aries won then he would take Spud's "Rockstar" nickname and if Spud won then Aries would have to leave TNA, which Aries lost.[11][12]

Event

The event kicked off with a match between Mr. Anderson and Bram. Bram tried to hit Anderson with a microphone but Anderson countered with a small package and pinned Bram for the win. Bram hit Anderson with the microphone after the match.

After the match, James Storm cut a promo insulting his Revolution teammate Khoya and Khoya retaliated by hitting a Sky High to Storm and proclaimed that his name was Mahabali Shera.

Next, Gail Kim took on The Dollhouse (Taryn Terrell, Jade and Marti Bell) in a 3-on-1 Handicap match. Dollhouse triple teamed Kim throughout the match until Kim gained momentum which led to Terrell retreating from the ring and she escaped through the crowd. Kim then countered a double suplex by Jade and Bell and dropkicked both of them and nailed an Eat Defeat to Bell for the win.

Next, Eli Drake took on Drew Galloway. Drake poked Galloway in the eye and rolled him up and grabbed the ropes for leverage to pin him for the win.

Later, Austin Aries took on Rockstar Spud in a match which stipulated that if Aries won then he would get Spud's "Rockstar" nickname and if Spud won then Aries would be forced to leave TNA. Spud countered a back superplex by Aries into an Underdog for the win, thus forcing Aries to leave TNA.

This was followed by the penultimate match of the event between Mahabali Shera and James Storm. Storm hit Shera with a cowbell, thus getting disqualified.

The main event was a Full Metal Mayhem match, in which Ethan Carter III defended the World Heavyweight Championship against Matt Hardy. After knocking off EC3 through a table with a diving leg drop from a ladder, Hardy climbed the ladder to retrieve the title belt. EC3 then hit a chair to Hardy's knee and then kicked his knee out to send Hardy to the mat and then climbed the ladder and retrieved the title belt to retain the title.

Results

The twelfth No Surrender event took place on December 7, 2019 at The Brightside Music & Event Venue in Dayton, Ohio and was co-promoted with The Wrestling Revolver. The event aired live as a monthly special exclusively on Impact Plus. Ten professional wrestling matches were contested at the event. The main event was for the Impact World Championship, in which the defending champion Sami Callihan retained the title against challenger Rich Swann. Another heavily promoted match was a Tables match, in which Eddie Edwards defeated Ace Austin. Also on the undercard, Taya Valkyrie retained the Impact Knockouts Championship against Havok by getting disqualified and Ohio Versus Everything (Dave Crist and Jake Crist) defeated The Desi Hit Squad (Mahabali Shera and Rohit Raju) and The Rascalz (Dez and Wentz) in a three-way tag team match.