Impact Wrestling Turning Point

Turning Point is a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event, produced by the American professional wrestling promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). The event was created in 2004 and was originally held annually in December. TNA changed the date of the 2008 event to be held in November. The event has been held as an annual PPV event for TNA. The 2004 event was the second TNA PPV to be produced annually. Since its inception in 2004, the event has been held exclusively in Orlando, Florida. Every event has been held in an indoor arena, with all of the events taking place in the Impact Zone until 2019. Each event features talent from TNA competing in various professional wrestling match types. Since the inaugural event, five championship matches have taken place in the main event.

Turning Point
TNA Turning Point Logo
Promotion(s)Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
First eventTurning Point (2004)

TNA discontinued most of the monthly pay-per-views in 2013 in favor of the new pre-recorded One Night Only events and since then Turning Point has been held occasionally as a special episode of Impact Wrestling and has been revived as an Impact Plus event in 2019.

History

Turning Point is a PPV event consisting of a main event and undercard that feature championship matches and other various matches. The first Turning Point was held in 2004, and was the second PPV held by TNA established as an annual PPV. It took place on December 5, 2004 and aired live on PPV.[1] Since then, TNA has held Turning Point annually, producing the event from 2004-2007 in December. Without explanation, however, in 2008 TNA chose to hold the event in November and produce Final Resolution in December. On January 11, 2013, TNA announced that in 2013 will be only four PPVs, dropping Turning Point.[2] Each Turning Point event has been held in an indoor arena, with all events taking place in the United States in Orlando, Florida until 2019. All of the events have been held in the TNA Impact! Zone until 2019.

Events
# Event Date City Venue Main Event Ref
1 Turning Point (2004) December 5, 2004 Orlando, Florida Impact Zone America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris and James Storm) vs. Triple X (Christopher Daniels and Elix Skipper) in a Six Sides of Steel Cage match [3][4]
2 Turning Point (2005) December 11, 2005 Orlando, Florida Impact Zone Jeff Jarrett (c) vs. Rhino for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship [5][6]
3 Turning Point (2006) December 10, 2006 Orlando, Florida Impact Zone Kurt Angle vs Samoa Joe [7][8][9]
4 Turning Point (2007) December 2, 2007 Orlando, Florida Impact Zone Eric Young, Kevin Nash, and Samoa Joe vs. The Angle Alliance (Kurt Angle, A.J. Styles, and Tomko) in a Six Man Tag Team match [10][11][12]
5 Turning Point (2008) November 9, 2008 Orlando, Florida Impact Zone Sting (c) vs. A.J. Styles for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship [13][14][15]
6 Turning Point (2009) November 15, 2009 Orlando, Florida Impact Zone A.J. Styles (c) vs Daniels vs. Samoa Joe in a Three Way match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship [16]
7 Turning Point (2010) November 7, 2010 Orlando, Florida Impact Zone Jeff Hardy (c) vs. Matt Morgan for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship [17][18]
8 Turning Point (2011) November 13, 2011 Orlando, Florida Impact Zone Bobby Roode (c) vs. A.J. Styles for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship [19]
9 Turning Point (2012) November 11, 2012 Orlando, Florida Impact Zone Jeff Hardy (c) vs. Austin Aries in a Ladder match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship
10 Turning Point (2013) November 21, 2013 Orlando, Florida Impact Zone Bully Ray vs. Mr. Anderson in a No Disqualification match
11 Turning Point (2015) August 19, 2015 Orlando, Florida Impact Zone Ethan Carter III (c) vs. P.J Black for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship
12 Turning Point (2016) August 12, 2016 Orlando, Florida Impact Zone Ethan Carter III vs. Drew Galloway
13 Turning Point (2019) November 9, 2019 Hazleton, Pennsylvania Holy Family Academy Sami Callihan (c) vs. Brian Cage for the Impact World Championship
(c) - refers to the champion prior to the match

References
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  2. http://www.impactwrestling.com/news/item/4010-NEWS-TNA-IMPACT-WRESTLING-Announces-Major-Changes-To-2013-Pay-Per-View-Strategy
  3. Gartshore, Chris (2004-12-06). "11/5 TNA Turning Point PPV review: Garty's detailed "alt perspective" report". PW Torch. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
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  5. Kapur, Bob (2005-12-12). "Ups and downs to Turning Point". Canadian Online Explorer. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
  6. Martin, Adam (2005-12-11). "Turning Point PPV results - 12/11/05 (Sting sends a message & more)". WrestleView. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
  7. Sokol, Chris (2006-12-11). "Samoa Joe finally tops Angle at Turning Point". Retrieved 2008-12-18.
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  14. Keller, Wade (2008-11-09). "Keller's TNA turning Point report 11/9: Ongoing "virtual time" coverage of Sting vs. Styles, Nash vs. Samoa Joe, Main Event Mafia". PW Torch. Retrieved 2008-12-18.
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