Turning Point (2010 wrestling)

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Turning Point (2010)
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Promotional poster featuring Jeff Hardy
Promotion Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
DateNovember 7, 2010 [1]
City Orlando, Florida [2]
Venue Impact Zone [2]
Attendance1,100 [3]
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2011

The 2010 Turning Point was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), that took place on November 7, 2010 at the Impact Zone in Orlando, Florida. [2] It was the seventh event under the Turning Point chronology.

Contents

The main event featured Jeff Hardy defending the TNA World Heavyweight Championship against Matt Morgan, which Hardy won following the Twist of Hate. Rob Van Dam versus Tommy Dreamer in a No Disqualification match was also featured on the card. Van Dam defeated Dreamer in the contest. The main bouts on the undercard included Jeff Jarrett versus Samoa Joe, which Jarrett won through making Joe pass out to his signature Rear Naked Choke, and in a Ten Man Tag Team match, Fortune (A.J. Styles, Kazarian, Douglas Williams, Robert Roode, and James Storm) battled EV 2.0 (Raven, Rhino, Sabu, Stevie Richards and Brian Kendrick), where Fortune won after Styles executed the Styles Clash on Sabu from the top rope.

In October 2017, with the launch of the Global Wrestling Network, the event became available to stream on demand. [4]

Storylines

Other on-screen personnel
Commentator Mike Tenay
Taz
Ring announcer Jeremy Borash
Referee Earl Hebner
Rudy Charles
Mark "Slick" Johnson
Jackson James
Andrew Thomas
InterviewersJeremy Borash

Turning Point featured eight professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. [5]

Results

No.Results [6] [7] StipulationsTimes
1 Robbie E (with Cookie) defeated Jay Lethal (c) Singles match for the TNA X Division Championship 10:42
2 Mickie James vs. Tara ended in a no-contestSingles match10:17
3 The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin) (c) defeated Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray) Tag team match for the TNA World Tag Team Championship 18:08
4 Rob Van Dam defeated Tommy Dreamer No Disqualification match 16:53
5 Fortune (A.J. Styles, Douglas Williams, James Storm, Kazarian and Robert Roode) defeated EV 2.0 (Brian Kendrick, Raven, Rhino, Sabu and Stevie Richards) Ten-man tag team match [Note 1] 12:05
6 Abyss defeated D'Angelo Dinero Lumberjack match 13:02
7 Jeff Jarrett defeated Samoa Joe by submissionSingles match10:32
8 Jeff Hardy (c) defeated Matt Morgan Singles match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship 13:06
(c) – the champion(s) heading into the match
  1. The winning team gets to fire a member of the losing team.

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