At the start of the program, Kurt Angle announced he received a legitimate neck injury wrestling overseas a few days prior to the show. He consequently removed himself from the main event at the order of his doctor.
Miscellaneous Sacrifice featured employees other than the wrestlers involved in the matches.
Mike Tenay and
Don West were the primary commentators for the telecast;
Frank Trigg provided guest commentary for the main event.
Jeremy Borash (for the main event) and
David Penzer served as ring announcers. Andrew Thomas,
Earl Hebner,
Rudy Charles, and
Mark "Slick" Johnson participated as
referees.
Lauren Thompson and Borash conducted interviews during the show. In addition, Angle, Trigg,
Kevin Nash,
Rick Steiner, Jim Cornette,
Petey Williams,
Hector Guerrero,
Raisha Saeed, and members of Samoa Joe's family appeared on camera in backstage or ringside segments. Joe's family performed a traditional
Samoan fire dance during his ring entrance.
Billy Corgan of
The Smashing Pumpkins was also in attendance.
Preliminary matches The first of four quarterfinal matches in the Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament opened Sacrifice. It pitted James Storm, accompanied by
Jackie Moore and Sting, against Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray). The match lasted eight minutes and fifty seconds. Near the end, Team 3D set up a table in the middle of the ring. Sting then turned on Storm and lifted him off the
turnbuckle and slammed him through the table. Devon covered Storm for the win, thereby advancing himself and Brother Ray in the tournament. (pictured) won the
TerrorDome to become the number one contender at the
TNA X Division Championship, taking
Kurt Angle's place in the main event at Sacrifice.|alt=Adult tan male posing for a picture wearing a blue shirt making hand signals. The second quarterfinal match, Christian Cage and Rhino against Booker T and Robert Roode, lasted seven minutes and five seconds. Rhino won the match for his team by
tackling Roode. Afterwards, Booker T attacked Cage and Rhino with a steel chair. In the third quarterfinal match, Latin American Xchange (Hernandez and Homicide; LAX), accompanied by Hector Guerrero, fought the team of Kip James and Matt Morgan. The match ended after four minutes and twenty seconds when Morgan missed a
bicycle kick on Hernandez, mistakenly hitting Kip in the face. Hernandez then performed a
dropkick on Morgan and followed with the cover on Kip for the win. The last quarterfinal match featured
A.J. Styles and Super Eric against Awesome Kong and B.G. James. Super Eric picked up Kong and slammed her into B.G., who was lying on the ring mat. Later, Styles attempted to perform a move by
jumping off the ropes, but legitimately tripped, falling face-first on the mat. Then B.G. lifted Styles to perform a
suplex, which Styles countered into a
small package pin attempt, resulting in a victory at five minutes and forty five seconds. The fifth match was the debut of the TerrorDome and involved Alex Shelley, Chris Sabin, Consequences Creed, Curry Man, Jay Lethal, Jimmy Rave, Johnny Devine, Kaz, Shark Boy, and Sonjay Dutt. Before the match, Management Director Jim Cornette announced that the winner would take Kurt Angle's place in the main event, in addition to being the TNA X Division Championship number one contender. In this match, the ring was surrounded by a giant red steel barred cage with a domed roof. The wrestlers were to compete as they climbed up the side to a hole in the center of the ceiling; the first to escape the cage would win. While Devine was attempting to escape, Kaz intervened and caused Devine to fall from the ceiling into a group of wrestlers huddled in the center of the ring. Kaz then climbed out of the hole to win the contest at ten minutes and forty five seconds. The semifinals of the Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament followed, beginning with Team 3D pitted against Cage and Rhino in the sixth encounter. The bout lasted ten minutes. Before the contest, the TNA commentators announced that Booker T's attack on Cage and Rhino had caused them to have concussions in the storyline. During the contest, Team 3D associate Johnny Devine came to the ring and handed Ray a
kendo stick without the referee's knowledge. Although Rhino tackled Devon and went for the cover, Devine entered the ring to distract the referee, allowing Ray to hit Rhino with the kendo stick and cover to win the contest for his team. The last semifinal match between LAX, accompanied by Guerrero and
Salinas, and Styles and Super Eric. During the bout, Hernandez lifted Super Eric and held him upside-down vertically for an extended period of time before slamming him back-first into the mat with a
delayed vertical suplex. Later, Styles held Homicide in a small package pin attempt until Salinas distracted the referee, allowing Guerrero to enter the ring and readjust Styles and Homicide to make the pin in LAX's favor. Afterwards, the referee counted the pin, giving LAX the win at seven minutes and forty seconds, although Styles' shoulders were clearly not fully against the mat.
Main event matches (pictured) was originally promoted to take part in the main event at Sacrifice, but was injured prior to the event.|alt=Adult white male wearing wrestling tights and knee pads as well as a black jacket. The first main event match was the TNA Knockouts Makeover Battle Royal, the winner of which would become the number one contender to the TNA Women's Knockout Championship. It involved
Angelina Love,
Christy Hemme, Gail Kim, Jackie Moore,
ODB, Salinas,
Rhaka Khan,
Roxxi Laveaux,
Traci Brooks, and
Velvet Sky. This contest involved two stages; the first was a standard battle royal. After all but two wrestlers were eliminated, stage two, a ladder match, began. The winner of the ladder match would become the number one contender to the TNA Women's Knockout Championship; the loser would have her head shaved. The final four were Kim, Laveaux, Love, and ODB. The next eliminated was ODB, followed by Love; both were eliminated by Laveaux. Only Kim and Laveaux remained for the ladder match portion. Kim had won immunity on the May 8 episode of
Impact!, so if Laveaux won the match, then Love's head would be shaven. Love and Sky interfered in the contest several times. During the bout, as Kim and Laveaux stood on the ladder, Kim
flipped over Laveaux, grabbed her around the legs, and slammed her into the mat back-first with a
powerbomb. Laveaux's head was legitimately cut open during this stage. Later, while Laxeaux climbed the ladder in an attempt to retrieve the contract, Love interfered by pushing the ladder over. Kim followed by climbing the ladder and grabbing the contract to win the encounter at ten minutes. Afterwards, Laveaux was forced to have her head shaven. Next was the Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament finals for the vacant TNA World Tag Team Championship between LAX, accompanied by Guerrero and Salinas, and Team 3D. The duration was eleven minutes and thirty seconds. Devine tried to interfere in the contest by setting up a table for Team 3D, but Guerrero stopped him and set up the table for himself outside the ring, placing Devine on top. Guerrero then climbed a padded turnbuckle and jumped onto Devine with a
diving foot stomp, forcing him through the table. In the ring, Team 3D performed one of their signature tag team maneuvers, the
3D II, forcing Homicide into the mat and following with a cover, but the referee refused to count because Homicide was not the legal man in the contest. Hernandez then performed his signature
Border Toss maneuver on Devon, slamming him into the mat from the top of a turnbuckle. Homicide followed with a
splash from the top of a padded turnbuckle on Devon for the pinfall victory, winning the Deuces Wild Tag Team Tournament and the vacant TNA World Tag Team Championship. The main event was a Three Way match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship between then-champion Samoa Joe and challengers Kaz and Scott Steiner—Steiner was accompanied by Petey Williams and Rhaka Khan. At the beginning of the bout, Joe placed Kaz and Steiner in various
holds and submission maneuvers. Steiner countered this by placing Joe in his signature
Steiner Recliner submission maneuver, which Joe escaped by lifting him in the air on his shoulders. Kaz then jumped off of a turnbuckle and dropkicked Steiner. Later, Joe dove through the second rope onto Steiner. However, Steiner countered by hitting Joe in the head with a steel pipe while the referee was distracted by Khan. Near the end of the match, Kaz tried to perform his signature
Flux Capacitor maneuver on Steiner from a turnbuckle, but Steiner countered by pushing him off to the ringside area. Joe then
kicked Steiner in the head and then performed his signature
Muscle Buster maneuver, driving Steiner neck- and back-first into the mat, at fourteen minutes and thirty seconds to win the contest and retain the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. ==Reception==