Hardcore Justice

The TNA Hardcore Justice logo

Hardcore Justice originally known as Hard Justice was an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event held by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. The first event was held in May 2005 and since 2006, they have all been held in August. Until 2010 the event was known as Hard Justice. As of January 11, 2013, TNA announced that in 2013 will be only four PPVs, dropping Hardcore Justice, but instead it will featured as a special edition of TNA's weekly broadcast of Impact Wrestling.^[1]

Events

No.	Event	Date	City	Venue	Main Event	Ref
1	Hard Justice (2005)	May 15, 2005	Orlando, Florida	TNA Impact! Zone	Jeff Jarrett (c) vs. A.J. Styles with Tito Ortiz as Special Guest Referee for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship
2	Hard Justice (2006)	August 13, 2006	Orlando, Florida	TNA Impact! Zone	Jeff Jarrett (c) vs. Sting for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship
3	Hard Justice (2007)	August 12, 2007	Orlando, Florida	TNA Impact! Zone	TNA and IWGP World Heavyweight Champion Kurt Angle vs. TNA World Tag Team and TNA X Division Champion Samoa Joe in a Winner Takes All match
4	Hard Justice (2008)	August 10, 2008	Trenton, New Jersey	Sovereign Bank Arena	Samoa Joe (c) vs. Booker T in a Six Sides of Steel Weapons match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship
5	Hard Justice (2009)	August 16, 2009	Orlando, Florida	TNA Impact! Zone	Kurt Angle (c) vs. Matt Morgan vs. Sting in a Three Way match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship
6	Hardcore Justice (2010)	August 8, 2010	Orlando, Florida	TNA Impact! Zone	Rob Van Dam vs. Sabu in a Hardcore Rules non-title match	[2][3]
7	Hardcore Justice (2011)	August 7, 2011	Orlando, Florida	Impact Wrestling Zone	Sting (c) vs. Kurt Angle for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship	[4]
8	Hardcore Justice (2012)	August 12, 2012	Orlando, Florida	Impact Wrestling Zone	Austin Aries (c) vs. Bobby Roode in a Last Chance Match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship
9	Impact Wrestling: Hardcore Justice (2013)	August 15, 2013 August 22, 2013	Norfolk, Virginia	Constant Center	Chris Sabin (c) vs. Bully Ray in a Steel cage match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship (for broadcast that aired August 15) The Main Event Mafia (Sting, Samoa Joe, Magnus, Rampage Jackson) and A.J. Styles vs. Aces & Eights (Wes Brisco, Garrett Bischoff, Devon, Mr. Anderson and Knux) in a Loser of the Fall Must Leave TNA match (for broadcast that aired August 22).
10	Impact Wrestling: Hardcore Justice (2014)	August 20, 2014	New York, New York	Grand Ballroom	Bobby Roode vs. Eric Young vs. Gunner vs. Austin Aries vs. Magnus vs. James Storm in a Six Sides of Steel Cage match The winner would receive a future TNA World Heavyweight Championship match.
11	Impact Wrestling: Hardcore Justice (2015)	May 1, 2015	Orlando, Florida	Impact Wrestling Zone	Kurt Angle vs. Eric Young in a Stretcher match

Results

2005

2006

Hard Justice (2006)
Information
Promotion	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Date	August 13, 2006
Attendance	900
Venue	TNA Impact! Zone
City	Orlando, Florida
Pay-per-view chronology
Victory Road (2006) Hard Justice (2006) No Surrender (2006)
Hard Justice chronology
Hard Justice (2005) Hard Justice (2006) Hard Justice (2007)

Hard Justice (2006) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on August 13, 2006 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the second event under the Hard Justice chronology. Nine matches were scheduled on the event's card, but because of a pyrotechnical malfunction, one was cancelled due to time constraints.

• Pre-Show match: Ron Killings defeated A-1 (03:09)
  • Killings pinned A-1 after an Axe Kick.
• Pre-Show match: Sonjay Dutt and Cassidy Riley defeated Jimmy Jacobs and El Diablo (03:08)
  • Dutt pinned Diablo after a standing shooting star press.
• Eric Young defeated Johnny Devine (05:47)
  • Young pinned Devine after a Young Blood Neckbreaker.
• At this point, the show was stopped for over twenty minutes after some pyrotechnics caused a burlap sack in the rafters to burst into flames. The arena was filled with dry fire extinguisher powder and had to be temporarily evacuated. This caused a match between America's Most Wanted, The Naturals, The James Gang and Matt Bentley and Kazarian to be cancelled due to time constraints.
• Chris Sabin defeated Alex Shelley (with Kevin Nash and Johnny Devine) (08:21)
  • Sabin pinned Shelley after a Cradle Shock to become number one contender to the TNA X Division Championship.
  • Kevin Nash was Chris Sabin's original opponent, but had a neck injury at the time.
• Abyss (with James Mitchell) defeated Brother Runt (06:17)
  • Abyss pinned Runt after a Black Hole Slam into a pile of tacks.
• Samoa Joe defeated Rhino and Monty Brown in a Falls Count Anywhere Three Way match (13:36)
  • Joe pinned Brown after a STO through a table.
• Gail Kim defeated Sirelda (04:10)
  • Kim pinned Sirelda after a top rope Neckbreaker.
• Senshi (c) defeated Petey Williams and Jay Lethal in a 3-Way Dance to retain the TNA X Division Championship (10:34)
  • Senshi pinned Lethal after Williams performed a Canadian Destroyer on Lethal.
• A.J. Styles and Christopher Daniels (c) defeated The Latin American Exchange (Homicide and Hernandez) (with Konnan) to retain the NWA World Tag Team Championship (14:38)
  • Daniels pinned Homicide after a double team trip and crossbody.
• Jeff Jarrett (c) (with Scott Steiner) defeated Sting (with Christian Cage) to retain the NWA World Heavyweight Championship (15:09)
  • Jarrett pinned Sting after Cage hit Sting with a guitar.

2007

Hard Justice (2007)
Tagline(s)	"All or Nothing..."
Information
Promotion	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Date	August 12, 2007
Attendance	900
Venue	TNA Impact! Zone
City	Orlando, Florida
Pay-per-view chronology
Victory Road (2007) Hard Justice (2007) No Surrender (2007)
Hard Justice chronology
Hard Justice (2006) Hard Justice (2007) Hard Justice (2008)

Hard Justice (2007) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on August 12, 2007 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the third event under the Hard Justice chronology. Nine matches were featured on the event's card.

• Jay Lethal and Sonjay Dutt defeated Triple X (Christopher Daniels and Senshi) (with Elix Skipper) and The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley) (15:37)
  • Lethal pinned Daniels with a roll-up.
• Kaz defeated Raven (with Havok and Martyr) (5:35)
  • Kaz pinned Raven after a dropkick.
• James Storm (with Jackie Moore) defeated Rhino in a Bar Room Brawl (12:50)
  • Storm pinned Rhino after hitting him in the back of the head with a beer bottle.
• The Latin American Exchange (Homicide and Hernandez) defeated The Voodoo Kin Mafia (B.G. James and Kip James) (with Roxy Laveaux) (05:04)
  • Homicide pinned Kip James with a Victory roll.
  • The match originally ended with Kip pinning Hernandez after Laveaux threw powder in his eyes, but the match was restarted after Hector Guerrero told the referee what happened.
• Robert Roode (with Ms. Brooks) defeated Eric Young (9:25)
  • Roode pinned Young after hitting him with brass knuckles
  • As per stipulation, Young was supposed to be tarred and feathered, but Gail Kim saved him and they tarred and feathered Brooks.
• Chris Harris defeated Black Reign by disqualification (04:40)
  • Reign was disqualified after attacking several referees.
• The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott Steiner) defeated Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) (11:01)
  • Scott pinned Devon after a Steiner Bulldog.
• Abyss, Andrew Martin, and Sting defeated Christian's Coalition (Christian Cage, AJ Styles and Tomko) in a Doomsday Chamber of Blood Match (10:13)
  • Abyss pinned Styles after a Black Hole Slam onto broken glass to earn a TNA World Heavyweight Championship match at No Surrender.
• TNA World Heavyweight Champion and IWGP World Champion Kurt Angle defeated TNA X Division Champion and TNA World Tag Team Champion Samoa Joe to win the TNA X Division and World Tag Team Championship (18:30)
  • Angle pinned Joe after hitting Joe in the head with a steel chair.
  • All four titles were on the line in the match, and it was winner take all.

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

Hardcore Justice (2013)
Tagline(s)	"It's not always about winning - it's about surviving"
Theme song(s)	"Sinister Rise Above Instrumental" by Dale Oliver
Information
Promotion	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Date	August 15, 2013 August 22, 2013
Attendance	3,200
Venue	Constant Center
City	Norfolk, Virginia
Hardcore Justice chronology
Hardcore Justice (2012) Hardcore Justice (2013) Hardcore Justice (2014)

Hardcore Justice (2013) (aka Impact Wrestling: Hardcore Justice) was a professional wrestling event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). It took place on August 15, 2013 (with the card split between both the August 15 and August 22 broadcasts of TNA's weekly flagship program Impact Wrestling). It was the ninth event under the Hardcore Justice chronology. Unlike the previous events, this event was not held on pay-per-view (PPV) and instead, like Destination X (2013), was featured as a special edition of TNA's weekly broadcast of Impact Wrestling.^[5]

Taped for Xplosion

• Christopher Daniels defeated Jay Bradley (8:31)
• Jay Bradley defeated Joseph Park (6:54)

Results

Aired on August 15

No.	Matches	Stipulations	Times
1	Kazarian defeated A.J. Styles, Austin Aries and Jeff Hardy	ladder match for 20 points in the Bound for Glory Series standings	17:41
2	ODB defeated Gail Kim and Mickie James	Three-way hardcore match	6:46
3	Bobby Roode defeated Magnus, Mr. Anderson and Samoa Joe	tables match for 20 points in the Bound for Glory Series standings	10:21
4	Bully Ray defeated Chris Sabin (c)	Steel Cage match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship	18:23
(c) - refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

Aired on August 22

No.	Matches	Stipulations	Times
1	Kazarian and Bobby Roode defeated Gunner and James Storm	Tag Team match	9:37
2	Manik defeated Sonjay Dutt	Singles match	4:28
3	Joseph Park defeated Christopher Daniels, Jay Bradley and Hernandez	Street Fight for 20 points in the Bound for Glory Series standings	12:04
4	Gail Kim defeated ODB	Singles match	6:23
5	The Main Event Mafia (Sting, Samoa Joe, Magnus, Rampage Jackson) and A.J. Styles defeated Aces & Eights (Wes Brisco, Garrett Bischoff, Devon, Mr. Anderson and Knux	Five-on-Five Tag Team match where the Loser of the Fall Must Leave TNA	16:45

2014

Hardcore Justice (2014)
Tagline(s)	"It's not always about winning - it's about surviving"
Theme song(s)	"Sinister Rise Above Instrumental" by Dale Oliver
Information
Promotion	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Date	Taped August 5, 2014 Aired August 20, 2014
Attendance	700
Venue	Grand Ballroom
City	New York, New York
Hardcore Justice chronology
Hardcore Justice (2013) Hardcore Justice (2014) Hardcore Justice (2015)

Hardcore Justice (2014) (aka Impact Wrestling: Hardcore Justice) was a professional wrestling event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). It took place on August 5, 2014, and aired on a tape delay on August 20. It is the tenth event under the Hardcore Justice chronology. Like the previous year's event, this event was not held on pay-per-view (PPV) instead it was featured as a special edition of TNA's weekly broadcast of Impact Wrestling.

This edition of Hardcore Justice marked the first episode of Impact Wrestling to air on Wednesday night. Due to moving from Thursday to Wednesday on one week notice, many fans were unaware of the change, the episode scored a 0.65 rating and was viewed by 852,000 viewers, making it the lowest rated and viewed Impact Wrestling episode since April 2010.^[6]

Results

No.	Results	Stipulations	Times
1	Bram defeated Abyss	Stairway to Janice match	08:25
2	Samoa Joe (c) defeated Low Ki	Singles match for the TNA X Division Championship	08:02
3	Mr. Anderson defeated Samuel Shaw	"I Quit" match	05:50
4	Gail Kim (c) defeated Angelina Love	Last Knockout Standing match for the TNA Knockouts Championship	08:18
5	Bobby Roode and Eric Young defeated Gunner, Austin Aries, Magnus and James Storm	Six Sides of Steel Cage match The winner would receive a future TNA World Heavyweight Championship match.	11:55
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

2015

Hardcore Justice (2015)
Tagline(s)	"It's not always about winning - it's about surviving"
Theme song(s)	"Megatron" by Crazy Town
Information
Promotion	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Date	Taped March 16, 2015 Airing May 1, 2015
Attendance	600
Venue	Impact Wrestling Zone
City	Orlando, Florida
Hardcore Justice chronology
Hardcore Justice (2014) Hardcore Justice (2015) TBA

Hardcore Justice (2015) (aka Impact Wrestling: Hardcore Justice) is a professional wrestling event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). It was taped on March 16, 2015 and aired on a tape delay on May 1, 2015. It is the eleventh event under the Hardcore Justice chronology. Like the previous year's event, this event was not held on pay-per-view (PPV) instead it was featured as a special edition of TNA's weekly broadcast of Impact Wrestling.

Results

No.	Matches	Stipulations	Times
1	The Hardys (Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy) and Davey Richards defeated The Revolution (Manik, Abyss and Khoya)	Street Fight match	9:42
2	Kenny King defeated Rockstar Spud (c), Tigre Uno and Mandrews	Ladder match for the TNA X Division Championship	7:56
3	Taryn Terrell (c) defeated Brooke	Singles match for the TNA Knockouts Championship	6:16
4	Drew Galloway defeated Low Ki	Pipe on a Pole match	7:23
5	Eric Young defeated Kurt Angle	Stretcher match	13:09
(c) - refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

References

1. http://www.impactwrestling.com/news/item/4010-NEWS-TNA-IMPACT-WRESTLING-Announces-Major-Changes-To-2013-Pay-Per-View-Strategy
2. Gerweck, Steve (2010-05-07). "Date for TNA's Hard Justice". WrestleView.com. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
3. Gerweck, Steve (2010-06-04). "TNA Hard Justice Location". WrestleView.com. Retrieved 2010-06-04.
4. Martin, Adam (2011-06-13). "TNA to keep using "Hardcore Justice" PPV name". WrestleView. Retrieved 2011-06-15.
5. "Hardcore Justice Impact on 8/15 with Cage Match", by mattboone, SEScoops.com
6. " TNA NEWS: Impact TV ratings are in for Wednesday's first show in the new timeslot", by James Cladwell, Pro Wrestling Torch

External links

• ImpactWrestling.com – the official website of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling