Lockdown was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion. It took place on April 13, 2008, at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell, Massachusetts. The main event was a Six Sides of Steel Cage match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship between then-champion Kurt Angle and the challenger Samoa Joe. It was the fourth event in the Lockdown chronology and the fourth in the 2008 TNA PPV schedule.
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Lockdown was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion. It took place on April 13, 2008, at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell, Massachusetts. The main event was a Six Sides of Steel Cage match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship between then-champion Kurt Angle and the challenger Samoa Joe. Joe won the encounter, thus winning the title for the first time. Also held on the card was the 2008 Lethal Lockdown match between Team Cage and Team Tomko. It was the fourth event in the Lockdown chronology and the fourth in the 2008 TNA PPV schedule. 55,000 was the reported figure of purchasers for the event by The Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Lockdown had an attendance of 5,500 people. Every match was contested inside a six-sided steel structure known as the Six Sided of Steel. The official theme for the spectacle was Nothing to Lose by Operator. It featured eight professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. The event was TNA’s first PPV in the Northeastern area. TNA released a poster to promote the event sometimes prior featuring Angle and Joe. The match between Joe and Angle was announced on the March 13 episode of TNA Impact! by Management Director Jim Cornette. Joe proclaimed on the same episode that if he did not win the title at Lockdown, he would quit TNA in the storyline.
On the April 10 episode of Impact!, Joe signed the contract, making it official if he lost the match he would instead quit professional wrestling forever. The TNA X Division Championship was defended by Jay Lethal against Consequences Creed, Curry Man, Johnny Devine, Shark Boy, and Sonjay Dutt. The first match was an Intergender Tag Team match pitting the team of Robert Roode and Payton Banks against theTeam of Booker T and Sharmell. The second match was a match between Christian Cage, Matt Morgan, Kevin Nash, Rhino, and Sting against Tomko, A. J. Styles, James Storm, and Team 3D. The final match was the match between Jay Lethal and Christian Cage to retain the championship. It marked the fourth time the Lethal Lock down and Xscape match formats were used by TNA. The last time was at TNA Turning Point PPV on November 19, 2006. The fourth installment of the Lock down chronology was announced in January 2008 as taking place on February 29, 2008. The New England area was reported as the believed location of the event. It is later reported that Lockdown was suspected to be held outside of the T NA Impact! Zone. The show was held on April 12, 2008 as part of the festivities of the show. A section covering the event on their website was posted on the website. It has been reported that the event was held in the Boston, Massachusetts area.
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