| 2005 Super X Cup Tournament | |
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| Venue | Impact Zone |
| Location | Orlando, Florida |
| Start date | July 19, 2005 |
| End date | August 14, 2005 |
| Competitors | A.J. Styles, Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin, Matt Bentley, Petey Williams, Samoa Joe, Shocker, Sonjay Dutt |
| Champion | Samoa Joe |
The 2005 Super X Cup Tournament was a professional wrestling single-elimination X Cup Tournament produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. It was the second-ever Super X Cup Tournament and the last held until 2017. The competition began on July 19, 2005 and concluded on August 14, 2005 at TNA's Sacrifice pay-per-view (PPV) event. Then-TNA X Division Champion Christopher Daniels called the contest the "Christopher Daniels Invitational".
The tournament featured eight TNA wrestlers: A.J. Styles, Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin, Matt Bentley, Petey Williams, Samoa Joe, Shocker, and Sonjay Dutt. The event was preceded by a four-way qualification match at TNA's No Surrender PPV event on July 17, 2005 in which Dutt defeated Elix Skipper, Mikey Batts and Shark Boy. Samoa Joe and A.J. Styles passed through the quarterfinals and the semifinals to make it to the tournament final at Sacrifice. Joe defeated Styles at the event, thus winning the Super X Cup trophy and becoming number one contender to the TNA X Division Championship. Despite losing to Joe, Styles was added to the title match Joe received for winning the competition due to storyline reasons. TNA held a Three Way match for the TNA X Division Championship between Daniels, Joe, and Styles at the Unbreakable PPV event on September 11, 2005, which Styles won to become the new TNA X Division Champion.
Results[]
- Tournament bracket
| Quarterfinals (TV – TNA iMPACT!) |
Semifinals (TV – TNA iMPACT!) |
Finals (PPV – Sacrifice) |
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| Samoa Joe | Submission | |||||||||||||
| Sonjay Dutt | 09:32 | |||||||||||||
| Samoa Joe | Submission | |||||||||||||
| Alex Shelley | 09:04 | |||||||||||||
| Alex Shelley | Pinfall | |||||||||||||
| Shocker | 05:28 | |||||||||||||
| Samoa Joe | Submission | |||||||||||||
| A.J. Styles | 15:15 | |||||||||||||
| A.J. Styles | Pinfall | |||||||||||||
| Matt Bentley | 10:53 | |||||||||||||
| A.J. Styles | Pinfall | |||||||||||||
| Petey Williams | 09:19 | |||||||||||||
| Chris Sabin | 11:45 | |||||||||||||
| Petey Williams | Pinfall | |||||||||||||
Aftermath[]
After winning the 2005 TNA Super X Cup tournament, Samoa Joe was set to face Christopher Daniels for the TNA X Division Championship at Unbreakable. On the August 19 episode of iMPACT!, however, A.J. Styles assaulted Daniels in an act of revenge for Daniels' interference at Sacrifice. Daniels demanded Styles be suspended for this action. NWA Championship Committee member Larry Zbyszko denied the request, and instead added Styles to the planned encounter at Unbreakable, thus making it a Three Way match for the TNA X Division Championship. TNA promoted the match as an X Division "Dream Bout" pitting the top competitors in the division against each other for the championship. Styles won the match and the title by pinning Daniels. Wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer bestowed a rare 5 Star match rating to the bout between A.J. Styles, Christopher Daniels and Samoa Joe.