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TNA Genesis (2011)

2011 wrestling pay-per-view event

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ3062852
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The 2011 Genesis was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event

produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), that took place on January 9, 2011, at the Impact Zone in Universal Studios Florida. It was the sixth event under the Genesis chronology and the first event of the 2011 TNA PPV schedule.

In October 2017, with the launch of the Global Wrestling Network, the event became available to stream on demand. It would later be available on Impact Plus in May 2019.

Storylines

Genesis featured nine professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

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The public source identifies “TNA Genesis (2011)” as 2011 wrestling pay-per-view event. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Genesis, wrestling and pay-per-view.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2017, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Genesis, wrestling and pay-per-view providing the first useful test.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3062852. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011, 2017 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from TNA Genesis (2011)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.