TNA - Final Resolution 2008 DVD

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Founded in 2002 as an offshoot of the NWA wrestling division, Total Nonstop Action (TNA) has distinguished itself with a fiercely acrobatic fighting style that takes place in a...
more...unique hexagonal ring. This title showcases TNA's maverick spirit with the FINAL RESOLUTION 2008 event, which was held on January 6, 2008, in Orlando Florida, and included an NWA World Heavyweight Championship between Kurt Angle and Christian Cage.





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Good start to the year for TNA!
A review by atytyut2434 on TNA - Final Resolution 2008 DVD
July 22nd, 2008


Author's product rating:   TNA - Final Resolution 2008 DVD - rated by atytyut2434

Did you enjoy it? Loved it 
How does it compare to similar films? Not applicable 

Advantages: Good matches !
Disadvantages: Not many !

Recommend to potential buyers: yes 

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CONTAINS FULL MATCH REVIEW SPOILERS!

Tag Title Match - BG James & Bullet Bob Armstrong vs AJ Styles & Tomko. A title match to start off a PPV? Aren't these usually saved until the end of the card? On the face of it the champs looked like they would win but Styles & Tomko have been having problems recently. For 67, Bob works damn well! He's a darn sight more talented than Pacman Jones ever was, thats for certain. He took good bumps off both Tomko & Styles. Both guys sold convincingly for him as well. BG looked a lot better than he has done for a while but Tomko got the win after Styles hit BG in the knee hard. Loved the "Old Age Outlaws" sign in the crowd too.

TNA Knockout Grudge Match - Peyton Banks vs Traci Brooks. This was only going to be a scrap as Banks has never shown any actual wrestling ability yet. Banks has let her hair dye fade (she now has brown hair, having gone from blonde to black like Traci again pretty much like I predicted). Banks did show a few moves but not many. Traci got the better of this, looked better, had a wider arsenal of moves & looked the better trained of the 2 women. Brooks got the eventual win.

Case vs Case Match - Petey Williams vs Scott Steiner, the winner getting both a heavyweight title shot & an X-Division title shot. If we're honest they are STILL dragging out the Feast Or Fired angle here. And that was bad. At best I was hoping for a really short match with a quick pin. These guys have totally opposing styles and really DON'T belong in a match together. An overly long match, Steiner got the win thanks to a hot black chick distracting Williams.

Drinking Championship Belt Match - James Storm vs Eric Young. Eric Young as a moronic imbecile is WAY old now, can they please kill the "scared of my own pyro" thing? Here's a match that doesn't belong on TV, let alone a PPV. Rhyno gored Storm behind the refs back, Eric Young took the win and retains his belt. Rhyno is back!

TNA Knockout Womens Title Match - Awesome Kong vs ODB. Why was this so low in the card? It certainly should have been higher than the non-title barbed wire match. I so wanted ODB to win this match, she's an ideal person to be Womens Champion. ODB might not have the same height or weight as Kong but she has a huge amount of spirit & fight and I didn't expect her to take a beating timidly from Kong. Is it just me or when ODB screams does she remind anyone else of Bobcat Goldthwait? If Chyna were to consider a comeback she'd have good people to work with in TNA like ODB and Kong. ODB's slam off the top turnbuckle was pretty awesome but Kong got the win thanks to a distraction by Raisha Saeed. ODB had a great match though.

Barbed Wire Massacre 2 - Abyss vs Judas Mesias. Basically a no rope barbed wire match. So serious the main stadium wouldn't let them hold it there, they claimed. So we cross over to The Impact Zone. (This one was SO obviously taped after the last Impact show, the exact same crowd was there. Mitchell had even changed his suit to try & convince us it wasn't the same day). I honestly didn't expect to see Mesias go on the wire very much with his ring clothes. We saw the use of a barbed wire chair, & several barbed wire boards. Hebner was VERY badly out of position after Abyss's 2 Black Hole Slams on Mitchell & Mesias. Abyss got a well deserved win after a Black Hole Slam into a barbed wire board on the canvas.

1 Fall Grudge Match - Robert Roode vs Booker T. Peyton appeared to have recovered from her match with Traci. I didn't expect to see anything fancy from Booker here, just aggression. Booker is in yet another PPV pretty high up the card as well. This match was way too long, getting into silly territory when Roode went backstage. The result was a double count-out (after a match THIS long? Are you KIDDING ME?) but Booker took it back to his car.

6 Man Hardcore Street Fight for the X-Division Championship - Team 3d & Johnny Devine vs Jay Lethal & The Motor City Machine Guns. Stipulations are if 3d win, the X-Division disbands. If Lethal & Co win TNA will create a weight limit of 275 lbs for all workers. Obviously this result was a forgone conclusion before the match ever started. TNA were hardly going disband the X-Division who not only fill more than half the TNA roster, they are also one of TNA's biggest selling points so this was always going to be a win for Lethal & Co. The ref was very badly out of position to make a count after the triple Tornado DDT. Lethal & The Guns were ahead until then. For those wondering, SoCal Val is more than able to take bumps, she's been working a few Indy feds for a while (Oh, and FYI her real middle name is actually Elizabeth!). I'm not sure if they were using this to set-up up her eventual TNA in-ring debut to wrestle or for her to become his valet. Lethal took the win off Devine with a flying elbow through a table winning for his team, saving the X-Division & winning the X-Division Title again finally taking it back from Team 3d.

Heavyweight Championship Title - Kurt Angle vs Christian Cage with Samoa Joe as special guest enforcer. Alarm bells should have been ringing, hearing the words Special Guest Enforcer as historically they normally always screw someone out of a title. I assume Joe's role was to stop Styles or Tomko interfering? This match was way too long and way too boring for not only the main event but the Heavyweight title. Joe's main contribution seemed to be stopping Angle using a chair, filling in for the ref when he went down & stopping Styles. Tomko did a backbreaker on Cage while Joe was removing Styles and Angle took the win after reviving the ref once Tomko had gone. 

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