It includes the single most impressive/dangerous/iconic spot in the entire business. It needs to be mentioned.
Thanks to the fact that major wrestling companies like WWE and WCW never truly gave the tag team division the time of day outside of some brief moments, companies like TNA and Ring of Honor decided to capitalize on this and push tag team feuds to the top of their cards. In TNA, the likes of Team Canada, The Naturals, The Disciples of The New Church all found their places in the tag team division and by feuding with each other, they created some very memorable moments, but no tag team feud from the early days of TNA ever topped America’s Most Wanted vs. Triple X.
AMW comprised of the “Wildcat” Chris Harris and the “Cowboy” James Storm, while Triple X was the trio of the “Fallen Angel” Christopher Daniels, “Primetime” Elix Skipper, and Low Ki who would focus more on his work in Japan and ROH by the end of 2003. Harris, Storm, Daniels, and Skipper would feud on and off for nearly two years, trading the NWA Worlds Tag Team Championships back-and-forth in that time. They had the first-ever Steel Cage match in TNA history, the first-ever tag team Last Man Standing match, and had taken their story to the point where it was worthy of headlining a pay-per-view, and in December 2004, that’s exactly what they did.
Triple X and AMW met inside the Six Sides of Steel at the Turning Point pay-per-view in December 2004. It was only TNA’s second monthly pay-per-view, as well as the second-ever Six Sides of Steel match, with AMW winning the first one against The Naturals a few months earlier. The feud had reached a point where the two teams simply couldn’t be in the same company anymore, meaning that the losing team must disband forever, but what the fans in the Impact Zone were about to witness was a match that is still regarded as perhaps the greatest tag team Steel Cage match in wrestling history.
Three of the four men bled buckets, with the sole exception being Skipper who stole the show by walking on the top of the cage from one side to the other and performing a Hurricanrana. It’s a spot that is still talked about to this day, and even through all of the evolution that we’ve seen in wrestling in the two decades since this match, it still holds up as a genuinely incredible moment. Sadly for Skipper, even his inhuman ability to walk across the wall of the cage wasn’t enough to win him or Daniels the match as AMW got the win, leading to Harris and Storm remaining as a team. Even without Skipper’s death-defying stunt, it would still be considered as one of the best matches in TNA history, and a prime example of how, when done right, tag team wrestling rules.

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