Hard Justice (2008)

Hard Justice (2008)
Promotional poster for the event featuring The Latin American Xchange (Hernandez and Homicide) (left) and Samoa Joe (right)
Promotion	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA)
Date	August 10, 2008
City	Trenton, New Jersey
Venue	Sovereign Bank Arena
Attendance	3,500[1][2]
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The 2008 Hard Justice was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) promotion that took place on August 10, 2008 at the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton, New Jersey. It was the fourth event under the Hard Justice name and the eighth event in the 2008 TNA PPV schedule. Seven professional wrestling matches were featured on the event's card, three of which were for championships.

The main event was a Six Sides of Steel Weapons match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship, in which the champion Samoa Joe defeated the challenger Booker T to retain the title. Another heavily promoted bout was a Last Man Standing match between Kurt Angle and A.J. Styles, which the latter won. The card also featured a match for the TNA World Tag Team Championship, which saw Beer Money, Inc. (James Storm and Robert Roode) defeat The Latin American Xchange (Hernandez and Homicide) to become the new champions. A New Jersey Street Fight was also held pitting the team of Christian Cage and Rhino against Team 3D (Brother Devon and Brother Ray). Cage and Rhino were the victors in the contest.

Hard Justice featured the start of a storyline between veteran wrestlers and younger wrestlers in TNA along with marking the beginning of Jeff Jarrett's return to active competition. 35,000 was the reported figure of purchasers for the event by The Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Hard Justice had a reported attendance between 2,300 and 3,500 people. Canadian Online Explorer writer John Pollock reviewed the show and felt it featured the "usual assortment of wacky finishes and outside interference" but that "all in all it was a solid show." Wade Keller and James Caldwell of the Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter both reviewed the event, praising the Last Man Standing match saying it was a "superb" and "epic match."

In October 2017, with the launch of the Global Wrestling Network, the event became available to stream on demand.^[3]