TNA Lockdown (2026)

Lockdown is a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). The event was first held in 2005, which was the first professional wrestling pay-per-view event to have every match take place inside a steel cage.^[1][2] In 2013, the promotion scaled back its monthly pay-per-view events in favor of the new pre-recorded One Night Only events. Lockdown would be dropped as a pay-per-view after 2014; it was then held as a special episode of the weekly television program Impact Wrestling in 2015 and 2016 before the event was discontinued.^[3] It was set to be revived on March 28, 2020, as a monthly special for Impact Plus at St. Clair College in Windsor, Ontario, Canada,^[4][5] but St. Clair College cancelled all upcoming events, including Lockdown, due to the COVID-19 lockdowns.^[6]

On April 16, 2026, TNA announced the return of the pay-per-view event Lockdown on August 23, 2026, at Credit Union 1 Arena in Chicago, Illinois.^[2]

The event will feature professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers will portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.^[7]

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