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Slammiversary (2007)
Slammiversary 2007 was the third annual Slammiversary professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). It took place on June 17 2007 at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. It marked the fifth anniversary of the promotion and TNA's first televised event in the state of Tennessee since the end of their weekly pay-per-view events in September 2004. The tagline was "Massacre in Music City!." The official theme song was "Boom Boom" by the LoCash Cowboys, who performed the song live.

The main event was a King of the Mountain match for the vacant TNA World Heavyweight Championship consisting of Kurt Angle, Samoa Joe, A.J. Styles, Christian Cage, and Chris Harris, which was won by Angle after he hung up the belt. The main matches on the undercard were Chris Sabin versus Jay Lethal for the TNA X Division Championship and Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) versus Rick Steiner and Road Warrior Animal for the TNA World Tag Team Championship.

Prior to the main event Jeff Jarrett held a shoot interview where he discussed the recent death of his wife Jill, who died on May 23 2007 of breast cancer. Jarrett discussed how she influenced the company during the "early days" followed by saying he doesn't know when or where he'll wrestle again. Jarrett then concluded by thanking the fans for their support on his and his wife's behalf. The fans responded by chanting Jill's name as well as "Thank you Jeff."

Background
The main feud heading into Slammiversary was between Kurt Angle, Samoa Joe, A.J. Styles, Christian Cage, and Chris Harris over the vacant TNA World Heavyweight Championship. The previous month at Sacrifice, Kurt Angle defeated Christian and Sting in a Three Way match to "win" the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Earlier that day, the National Wrestling Alliance served all business relationships with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, regaining control of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and the NWA World Tag Team Championship, thus stripping Cage of the World title and Team 3D of the Tag titles. This forced TNA to create the TNA World Heavyweight Championship and TNA World Tag Team Championship. Four days after on Impact!, Management Director Jim Cornette stripped Angle of the TNA World title due to a controversial ending of the Three Way match at Sacrifice. Cornette then announced that over the proceeding five weeks, there would be five qualifying match for the King of the Mountain match at Slammiversary. Later that night, Angle defeated Rhino to become the first entrant in the match. The following week on Impact!, Samoa Joe faced off against Sting to determine the next entrant for the King of the Mountain match. Towards the end of the match, Christopher Daniels came out and hit Sting with a baseball bat, which led to Joe executing a Samoan Drop for the pinfall victory.

Results
Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.
 * Rhino and Senshi (w/Hector Guerrero) defeated The Latin American Exchange (Homicide and Hernandez) (w/Konnan) (8:25)
 * Rhino pinned Homicide after a Gore.
 * Chris Harris was originally scheduled to be Rhino's partner.
 * Jay Lethal defeated Chris Sabin to win the TNA X Division Championship (8:52)
 * Lethal pinned Sabin after a diving elbow drop.
 * Frank Wycheck and Jerry Lynn (w/Kyle Vanden Bosch) defeated James Storm and Ron Killings (w/Jackie Moore) (8:52)
 * Wycheck pinned Storm after a Cradle Piledriver.
 * Bob Backlund defeated Alex Shelley (3:46)
 * Backlund pinned Shelley with a roll-up.
 * After the match, Shelley and Chris Sabin attacked Backlund.
 * The Voodoo Kin Mafia (B.G. James and Kip James) defeated Basham and Damaja (w/Christy Hemme) (2:47)
 * Kip pinned Damaja with a small package.
 * Eric Young defeated Robert Roode (w/Ms. Brooks) (9:09)
 * Young pinned Roode with an inside cradle.
 * Roode had originally pinned Young after hitting him with a steel chair, but the match was restarted by Jim Cornette.
 * Young was freed from his contract with Roode. If Roode had won, Young would have been fired.
 * Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon) defeated Rick Steiner and Road Warrior Animal to retain the TNA World Tag Team Championship (6:39)
 * Devon pinned Steiner after a 3D.
 * Animal replaced Scott Steiner, who had been injured.
 * Sting defeated Christopher Daniels (6:33)
 * Sting pinned Daniels after a Scorpion Death Drop.
 * Abyss defeated Tomko in a No Disqualification match (13:54)
 * Abyss pinned Tomko after a Black Hole Slam onto broken glass.
 * Kurt Angle defeated Samoa Joe, A.J. Styles, Christian Cage and Chris Harris in a King of the Mountain match to become the first TNA World Heavyweight Champion (19:21)
 * Harris qualified by pinning Styles after a Catatonic (3:45)
 * Angle qualified by pinning Harris after an Olympic Slam (8:45)
 * Cage qualified by pinning Angle after Angle passed out from Joe's Coquina Clutch (10:53)
 * Angle hung up the belt to win (19:21)