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No Surrender (2007) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on September 9, 2007 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida. It was the third event under the No Surrender chronology. Eight professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's card.

The main event was a standard wrestling match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, in which the then-champion, Kurt Angle, defeated Abyss. Another featured match was between Christian Cage and Samoa Joe in another standard match, which Cage won by disqualification. The undercard contained multiple types of matches and bouts between different opponents. The TNA X Division Championship] was contested for in a match between Kurt Angle and Jay Lethal, in which Lethal defeated Angle to win the championship. The TNA World Tag Team Championship was also fought over at No Surrender, where then-champions, Kurt Angle and Sting, lost the championship to Team Pacman (Adam Jones and Ron Killings).

Background
The event featured eight professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines. Wrestlers were portrayed as either villains or heroes in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

The main storyline written into No Surrender involved Kurt Angle, whom held all of TNA's Championships at the time: the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, TNA X Division Championship, and TNA World Tag Team Championship, which he held alone before No Surrender; scripted into defending all three at the event. In the main event, he defend the World Heavyweight Championship against Abyss (Chris Parks) in a standard wrestling match. Also in another standard wrestling match he defended the X Division Championship against Jay Lethal (Jamar Shipman). In his third and final defence he was scripted to team with Sting (Steve Borden), who won a match involving four other competitors to become Angle's partner on the ? episode of TNA's primary television program, TNA Impact!, against the team known as Team Pacman (Adam Jones and Ron Killings) for the World Tag Team Championship.

TNA promoted a match between Christian Cage (William Reso) and Samoa Joe (Joe Seanoa) just a small portion less than the main event match.

Preliminary matches
No Surrender opened live on PPV with a Tag Team match for the TNA World Tag Team Championship, contested between the teams of Kurt Angle and Sting and Team Pacman (Adam Jones and Ron Killings). Mid-way through the match's time-limit, Karen Angle came down to the ring to help Sting and Angle. Sting demanded that she head to the backstage area, which she refused. After she repeatedly shoved Sting, he quickly pointed to the entrance ramp in a sign for her to return, however, the motion he made seemed as if he had slapped Karen, whom he had not actually slapped. She was then scripted to fall to the floor in an act as if he had. Afterwards, Angle noticed following a few minutes and found out what had happened. He then entered the ring and lifted Sting up, turned 90°, and fell down to the mat in what Angle titled an Olympic slam. Jones then tagged himself in and pinned Sting to win the Tag Team Championship for himself and Killings.

The second match to air live at No Surrender was a standard wrestling match between Rhino (Terry Gerin) and James Storm (James Black), who was accompanied by Jackie Moore (Jacqueline Moore).

The next match to take place was another standard wrestling match, this time between Robert Roode, who was accompanied by Ms. Brooks (Tracy Brookshaw), and Kaz (Frank Gerdelman).

The second of Angle's defences was next. It pitted Angle against Jay Lethal for the TNA X Division Championship.

Chris Harris fought Black Reign (Virgil Runnels III) in a standard wrestling match following Lethal's victory.

A 10-Team Gauntlet match for a TNA World Tag Team Championship match at TNA's next PPV event in October, Bound for Glory, involved the teams of A.J. Styles and Tomko, The Voodoo Kin Mafia (B.G. James and Kip James), The Latin American Exchange (Homicide and Hernandez), Team 3D (Brother Ray and Brother Devon), The Motor City Machine Guns (Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley), Triple X (Christopher Daniels and Elix Skipper), Sonjay Dutt and Petey Williams, Serotonin (Raven and Havok), Eric Young and Shark Boy, and Lance Hoyt and Jimmy Rave.

Main event matches
One of TNA's multiple featured main event bouts was next, in which Christian Cage fought Samoa Joe in a standard wrestling match.

The main event saw Angle defending the TNA World Heavyweight Championship against Abyss in the final standard wrestling match of the event.