AJ Styles and Jerry Lynn won the tournament to become the first NWA World Tag Team Championships in TNA.
[1] AJ Styles and Jerry Lynn were a last minute replacement for James Storm and Chris Harris who were attacked backstage.
The NWA World Heavyweight Championship Number One Contender Tournament was a 4-man tournament held in October 2004 in order to crown new number one contender for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship at TNA's first-ever monthly pay-per-view event Victory Road.
The tournament was created to give the wrestlers airtime while also continuing the Paparazzi Productions storyline surrounding Austin Starr, Alex Shelley and Kevin Nash.
Nash viciously needled the other three (especially Dutt) throughout the challenge, but kept the actual competition fair and even, always inviting the losers of each contest to "feel free to kiss the winner".
Management Director Jim Cornette stripped Young of the belt and announced the tournament to crown the new champion.
On the September 3, 2009 episode of Impact!, a two-bracket one-night tournament was held to determine two competitors that would face Matt Morgan and Kurt Angle for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at No Surrender.
The winner of the tournament would earn a shot at the TNA Women's Knockout Championship on the live three-hour Monday night edition of Impact!
TNA vacated the TNA World Tag Team Championship and announced a two-week-long tournament, with the winners facing The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin), who were the number one contenders prior to the titles being vacated, for the titles at Victory Road.
[20][21][22] The finals ended with a double countout, after Jeremy and Max Buck failed to make it to the event due to travel issues.
[24] His first act as commissioner was setting up a tournament exclusive to Xplosion where the winner would receive a title shot against any active champion in TNA.
[26][27] On the June 16, 2011, edition of Impact Wrestling, TNA started a twelve-man tournament for a contract in the promotion's X Division.
[39] The winner, Samoa Joe, received his title shot on January 27 in Manchester, in a match taped for Xplosion, but was defeated by the defending TNA World Heavyweight Champion, Bobby Roode.
[45] TNA contracted wrestlers Douglas Williams, Kid Kash and Zema Ion were given automatic spots in the first round of the tournament.
[46] The eighth and final spot in the tournament would be filled by the winner of a four-way between the losers of the qualifying matches.
On the July 11, 2013 edition of Impact a tournament was held where the twelve Bound for Glory Series participants were randomly paired up into six tag teams.
On the October 31 edition of Impact Wrestling, Carter announced an eight-man tournament to determine a new TNA World Heavyweight Champion, that would begin on November 7.
Seven of the eight men were former TNA World Heavyweight Champions including Jeff Hardy, Chris Sabin, Bobby Roode, James Storm, Kurt Angle, Austin Aries, and Samoa Joe.
The eighth would be determined later in the night in a gauntlet match, which was eventually won by Magnus last eliminating Kazarian and Sting.
On September 17, 2014 TNA Executive Director Kurt Angle announced a "Gold Rush" tournament.
The final match was at 2016's Bound for Glory, where, due to injury Eddie Edwards subbed for Drew Galloway against Aron Rex to determine the inaugural champion.
Over the course of 2020, Impact Wrestling (which had been renamed from TNA in 2017) signed several female talents such as Nevaeh,[61] Tasha Steelz,[62] Deonna Purrazzo,[63] and Kimber Lee,[64] all of which were paired with already established names on the roster.
The brackets were announced in November, with the final taking place at the Hard To Kill pay-per-view in January 2021.
[67][68] At Hard To Kill, Fire 'N Flava (Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz) defeated Havok and Nevaeh in the tournament final to win the revived titles.
A tournament featuring mixed tag teams was held to determine the "King and Queen" at Homecoming on July 31, 2021.
[87] On August 2, 2023 a new four man tag team tournament was announced where the winners will face Subculture (Mark Andrews and Flash Morgan Webster) (with their female valet Dani Luna in their corner) for the Impact World Tag Team Championships at Impact Pay-per-view Emergence of year 2023.
The match features a large group of participants, who attempt to scale the turnbuckles and grab the cases.
The TNA Turkey Bowl returned with a different format in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2016 which aired on the Thanksgiving night episode of Impact Wrestling.
Joker's Wild consists of seven tag team matches, where partners are picked by a random lottery.
In January 2019 taping, Impact brought back the World Cup name for a tournament in partnership with Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide.