TNA World Title Series

TNA announced the first ever World Title Series to determine a new NA World Heavyweight Champion. The rules are as followed:

Background
On October 7, 2015, it was announced that a tournament would take place, after TNA World Heavyweight Champion Matt Hardy vacated the title a day prior due to a legal injunction filed by former champion Ethan Carter III. The World Title Series places 32 wrestlers into 8 groups of 4, with the first round being under a round-robin format which was called Group Play. Also, for the first time ever, the Knockouts will have a chance to compete for the World Heavyweight Title.

Each winner in the round-robin matches is awarded 3 points, and a draw is worth 1 point for each, with each match having a 15-minute time limit. The two members of each group with the most points will advance to the final 16, where at that point the tournament switches to a single elimination format. So far, there have been two draws in the Aries/Carter (time limit) and Micah/Drake (count out) matches.

The winner of the tournament will become the new TNA World Heavyweight Champion.

Group Play


These wrestlers qualified for the final matches.

These wrestlers were mathematically eliminated from the tournament during Group Play.


 * Group Champions


 * Group UK


 * Group Knockouts


 * Group Wildcard


 * Group TNA Originals


 * Group Tag Team Specialists


 * Group X Division


 * Group Future 4