Turning Point was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling promotion. It took place on November 9, 2008 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the fourth in the Turning Point chronology and the first under its name to take place in November. The main event was for the T NA World Heavyweight Championship, in which then-champion Sting defeated the challenger A.J. Styles. Kevin Nash versus Samoa Joe was also featured in the contest.
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Turning Point was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling promotion. It took place on November 9, 2008 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the fourth in the Turning Point chronology and the first under its name to take place in November. Eight professional wrestling matches, with three involving championships, were featured on the event’s card. The main event was for the T NA World Heavyweight Championship, in which then-champion Sting defeated the challenger A. J. Styles. Kevin Nash versus Samoa Joe was also featured in the contest. A Falls Count Anywhere match pitting Kurt Angle against Abyss was promoted for the undercard, which Angle won. The TNA Legends Championship was defended for the first time by Booker T against Christian Cage during the show. 30,000 was the reported figure of purchasers for the event by The Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Turning Point had an attendance of 1,100 people. The song Indestructible by the rock band Disturbed was used as the official theme of the event. In October 2017, with the launch of the Global Wrestling Network, the event became available to stream on demand. The event was later announced to be taking place in Charlotte, North Carolina on January 11, 2009. TNA’s main storyline was an on-screen rivalry between professional wrestling veterans, who played the villains and called themselves The Main Event Mafia, and the younger talent of the company, who play the heroic characters and were led by A.J.
Styles and Samoa Joe. The build to the encounter between Joe and Nash began in December 2007. It began on August 10 when Sting assaulted Styles after his encounter with Angle. Sting’s and Styles’ rivalry soon escalated to a point where storyline co-owner of TNA Mick Foley announced that the two would fight for the championship at Turning Point. On October 30, 2008, TNA announced that Joe would face Nash at Turning point. On the October 30 episode of T NA’s television program TNAImpact! Nash defeated Joe in his match against Sting. After time with Nash, Joe became Nash’s mentor, which led to Joe defeating Angle on April 13, 2008. He returned at Bound for Glory IV where he cost Nash the championship. The match was advertised on the October 13 episode of Impact! where he defeated Angle to become the new TNA World heavyweight Champion. The next installment in the turning point chronology was scheduled for December 14, 2008; the date was later changed to December 21. The first moved was Turning Point to the Genesis event date of November 9; Final Resolution was announced for some time in December. The last moved was Genesis, Final Resolution, and Turning Point was announced on November 14, 2009; the location was announced as the TANA Impact! zone in Orlando. The final moved was turning Point to a date of December 21, 2009, and it was announced in a press release by TNA.
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