TNA Turning Point

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Turning Point is the name of one of the monthly professional wrestling pay-per-view events held by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Originally the second monthly pay-per-view held by TNA, its name is the first one to be reused, and is currently the designation for TNA pay-per-views held in December.

TNA Turning Point 2004

The first Turning Point was held in SoundStage 21 at Universal Studios Resort in Orlando, Florida on December 5, 2004.

Free For All: The Naturals (Andy Douglas and Chase Stevens) defeat Mikey Batts and Jerrelle Clark

Stevens pins Batts following a Natural Disaster (4:21)

NWA World Tag Team Championships: Team Canada (Bobby Roode and Eric Young) (w/ Scott D'Amore) defeat The 3Live Kru (c) (B.G. James and Ron Killings)

Roode pins James following interference from Johnny Devine (8:37)

Sonny Siaki, Héctor Garza and Sonjay Dutt defeat Kid Kash, Michael Shane and Kazarian (w/ Traci Brooks)

Garza pins Kazarian following a corkscrew moonsault (11:10)

Serengeti Survival Match: Monty Brown defeats Abyss

Brown defeats Abyss following an Alabama Slam onto the thumbtacks (12:25)

Guest Referee Match (Jacqueline): Pat Kenney and Johnny B. Badd defeat The New York Connection (Johnny Swinger and Glenn Gilberti) (w/ Trinity)

Badd pins Gilberti following a TKO (8:01)

Diamond Dallas Page defeats Raven

Page pins Raven following a Diamond Cutter (12:05)

TNA X Division Championship: Petey Williams (c) (w/ Scott D'Amore) defeats Chris Sabin

Williams pins Sabin following a brass knuckles punch (18:09)

Macho Man Randy Savage, A.J. Styles and Jeff Hardy defeat The Kings of Wrestling (Jeff Jarrett, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall)

Savage pins Jarrett with a roll-up (18:05)

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Six Sides of Steel Match: America's Most Wanted ("Wildcat" Chris Harris and "Cowboy" James Storm) defeat Triple X ("The Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels and "Primetime" Elix Skipper)

Storm pinned Skipper following a powerplex (21:10). As part of the match stipulations, Triple X was forced to disband following the match.

Notes

Turning Point 2004 was promoted by TNA on Fox Sports Net's The Best Damn Sports Show Period as part of a special billed as "The Best Damn Wrestling Event Period".

Before the main event at Turning Point, footage filmed at Universal Studios Orlando showing several TNA wrestlers (Shane Douglas, Abyss, Traci Brooks, B.G. James, Konnan, and Ron Killings) "invading" a commercial shoot for World Wrestling Entertainment's upcoming Royal Rumble PPV, which was filmed in Orlando. All WWE performers filmed were blurred out to preclude legal action from WWE.

Throughout Turning Point, several vignettes aired showing two people, TNA employee Tim Welch and an unknown actor, dressed as WWE personalities Vince McMahon and Triple H searching for the footage backstage. They found a tape, which "Triple H" destroyed with his trademark sledgehammer, but the tape turned out to be "The Best of D-Ray 3000" (a TNA jobber). Later that evening, "Vince" was injured by a midget who hit him with a cookie tray (the TNA wrestlers who had invaded the WWE video shoot had brought cookies and balloons as welcoming gifts). As "Vince" was loaded into an ambulance, "Triple H" asked his "daddy" what he should do (Triple H is McMahon's son-in-law, a position which has in the past led to accusations of nepotism).

During the Six Sides of Steel Tag Team main event, Elix Skipper did his now-legendary cagewalk rana on Chris Harris. This match illicited not only the usual chants of "holy shit" and "this is awesome" from the typically excitable Orlando crowd, but also chants of "Best Match Ever".

References

A recap of the event