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TNA Final Resolution 2009 PPV Review
Published: December 22, 2009
By Jared Silberkleit - TNA once again delivered a strong PPV with Final Resolution 2009. Much like Turning Point, the final two matches were what made the show truly memorable and the undercard did have some flaws, but overall this was still a very good PPV from TNA and a good way to close out 2009 for the company.
1. TNA World Tag Team Championship: The British Invaison(c) vs. The Motor City Machineguns
This match definitely over delivered and ended up being much better than I was expecting. The crowd was hot for the Guns and firmly believed that there would be a title change. Shelley and Sabin take turns working over Doug Williams’ arm early on before doing simultaneous dives outside the ring onto their opponents. Williams puts Shelley in a modified Gory special position and brings him to the top rope, but Shelley counters a superplex attempt with a big cross body. Shelley fights out of a front face lock and hits a double knee backbreaker before Magnus is tagged in and begins wearing down Shelley. Sabin gets the hot tag and cleans house, but a Cradle Shock attempt on Williams fails and Magnus reenters the match. Soon after this, Sabin dives through the ropes and through Shelley’s legs onto Williams on the outside. Back in the ring, Shelley hits a superkick and Sliced Bread for a near fall. Magnus hits an exploder suplex and a modified Death Valley Driver before accidentally knocking his partner to the floor. Sabin gets the tag and hits an enzuigiri before him and Shelley hit simultaneous superkicks on Magnus for another near fall. Sabin briefly takes out Williams with a cutter while Shelley gets a near fall with a cross body on Magnus. The match comes to an end when the Brits hit a doomsday device uppercut/powerbomb combination on Sabin. Very fun and exciting tag team match. Match Time: 11:50 Match Rating: 7/10
2. TNA Women’s Knockout Championship: ODB(c) vs. Tara
As a fan of both ODB and Tara, this match was very disappointing for me. It was a very generic and short Knockouts match with nothing big to write home about. Tara gets the action started early with a tarantula-like hold through the ropes followed by a slingshot leg drop. ODB takes control for a while after hitting a shoulderbreaker and several punches and kicks. ODB hits a fall away slam for a near fall before Tara goes for a roll up out of nowhere. After more punches and kicks are traded, Tara hits a snap suplex and a standing moonsault for a near fall, but ODB counters a Widow’s Peak attempt. The match then ends when Tara fights out of a TKO attempt and rolls up ODB to win the championship. A very bland Knockouts match that did not belong on PPV. Match Time: 5:42 Match Rating: 4/10
3. Feast or Fired: Jay Lethal vs. Consequences Creed vs. Beer Money Inc. vs. Sheik Abdul Bashir vs. Eric Young vs. Kevin Nash vs. Rob Terry vs. Cody Deaner vs. Homicide vs. Kiyoshi vs. Samoa Joe
I was very surprised that this ended up being the worst match of the night. Feast or Fired was a fun match last year but here it was just a complete mess with not many notable or memorable moments at all. At the opening bell the ring clears and everyone just starts brawling on the outside. Bashir and Deaner both prevent each other from grabbing cases and go at it in the ring. They struggle over a case again and it falls to the floor. Both men fight over it and Bashir is able to wrestle it away from Deaner to get possession. The strange thing about this match was that for the first case the usual rule applied that you had to take the case out of the ring to the floor to officially possess it, but this rule did not apply when the other 3 cases were taken down. Anyway, during the confusion over Bashir and Deaner, Terry scales a turnbuckle to grab a case as well. World Elite then confronts Terry before Beer Money start to attack the faction and hit the DWI on Kiyoshi. Nash then grabs a case and just one remains. We got some good in ring action toward the end of the match as a lot of big moves were hit, including Joe hitting a uranage on Lethal and Homicide connecting with a gringo cutter on Lethal. Deaner goes for the final case but Joe hits a big roundhouse kick before snatching the final case to end the match. The contents of the cases were revealed shortly after the match ended, with Terry getting an X Division title shot, Nash getting a tag team title shot, Joe getting a world title shot, and Bashir getting fired. Terry should not be competing in the X Division, Nash challenging for the tag titles scares me (almost as much as when I heard Scott Hall may be returning to TNA, I’m sure we can all put two and two together here), and I’m sure that Bashir is not really fired. Joe getting the world title shot was a smart move as he was hugely over in this match. Overall this match was just a messy brawl consisting merely of punches, kicks, and people going for cases. Match Time: 9:20 Match Rating: 3.5/10
4. Elimination Tag match: Rhino, Team 3D, and Jesse Neal vs. Matt Morgan, Hernandez, D’Angelo Dinero, and Suicide
Things did not really improve for this PPV with this 8 man tag match filled with bizarre rules and strange incidents throughout. Due to a pre-match stipulation, Hernandez had to start the first five minutes of the match alone before the rest of his team arrived. Rhino dominates Hernandez for a couple minutes and hits a Gore for a near fall, but when he goes for a second one, he hits the ring post and Hernandez rolls him up for a quick elimination. Team 3D and Neal then beat down Hernandez until the 5 minutes are up and the rest of the babyfaces arrive on the scene to clean house. Hernandez hits a suicide dive onto the 3 remaining heels before Suicide goes to work on Neal with a dropkick and a rolling fireman’s carry. Neal fights back into it with some strikes, but after Suicide takes the advantage yet again, Neal attacks him with a chair. Hernandez then grabs the chair and attacks Neal for some payback. It is then announced that Hernandez and Neal have both been disqualified. But if Neal’s chair shot came before Hernandez’s, and Neal was DQ’d, doesn’t that mean that Hernandez attacked someone who was not a legal participant in the match? Ugh. Team 3D hits the 3D on a dazed Suicide for another elimination, picking up the scraps from the confusing sequence. Dinero enters and hits Ray with some elbow strikes and a shoulder block for a 2 count. Dinero is then hit with the 3D out of nowhere and is eliminated, leaving Morgan alone. Morgan hits rapid fire elbows and tries to chokeslam Ray, but Devon hits a chop block. Team 3D then wears down Morgan before Morgan hits a Carbon Footprint on Devon to eliminate him. Ray and Morgan fight for a bit, with Ray countering the Hellevator with a big DDT. Ray brings the chair back into the ring, but Morgan big boots the chair into Ray’s face before pinning him to win the match. A very poor tag team match due to the confusion with the rules and the part with the chair that resulted in 2 strange disqualifications. Match Time: 16:34 Match Rating: 4/10
5. Last Man Standing: Bobby Lashley vs. Scott Steiner
To the shock of pretty much everyone, the streak of poor matches ended with this bout between Bobby Lashley and Scott Steiner. They actually kept it short and made this match alright and somewhat enjoyable. Steiner follows a retreating Kristal up the entrance ramp before Lashley attacks him and the match begins. Steiner chokes Lashley with a cable before the match returns to the ring where Lashley hits a T-Bone suplex and tries to choke Steiner out with a dragon sleeper. Steiner gets up at 6 and the action once again returns to the ringside area where Lashley slams Steiner in to the guardrail and attacks him with a chair. Steiner regains control with some pipe shots that are good for 6 and 7 counts. They come back to the ring where Steiner hits a jawbreaker and a top rope belly to belly suplex. Lashley hits a belly to belly of his own as well as a running powerslam. Steiner gets up at 9 and low blows Lashley before hitting a nice Frankensteiner for a 9 count. Steiner goes for the pipe again, but Kristal grabs it from him and Lashley hits a big spear. Kristal tosses Bobby the pipe and Lashley hits Steiner over the head with it before getting the 10 count to win the match. This match was fairly short for a last man standing match but it was decent. Match Time: 9:16 Match Rating: 5/10
6. Foley’s Funhouse Rules: Raven and Dr. Stevie vs. Abyss and Mick Foley
Foley changes the match to a Foley’s Funhouse Rules match, which basically means it’s hardcore and weapons are legal. This was definitely for the better and the gimmick made the match fun instead of just being a boring tag match. All four guys go at it early on, with Raven and Foley brawling to the back and leaving Abyss and Stevie alone. Abyss slams Stevie into the platform underneath the announce table before pulling out a table. Abyss teases a powerbomb off the stage, but Raven returns and breaks a kendo stick over Abyss’s back. The heels then beat down Abyss and bring the match back to the ring, but Foley reenters the match with a shopping cart full of weapons that he rams into Raven. Foley hits Raven and Stevie with a barbed wire bat before hitting Raven with a piledriver and Stevie with a double arm DDT. Abyss hits a Shock Treatment backbreaker on Stevie, and simultaneously lands a leg drop on Raven. Abyss and Foley both go for Mandible Claws, but Raven throws powder in Foley’s eyes. Foley and Stevie fight up the ramp, which culminates in Foley wrapping barbed wire around Stevie and putting him on the previously set up table before doing a diving elbow drop off the stage through the table. Back in the ring, Raven hits Abyss with an even flow DDT for a near fall before Daffney gets involved and hits Abyss with a chair. Abyss then counters a DDT attempt from Raven with a Black Hole Slam and this one is over. Entertaining hardcore match. Match Time: 9:35 Match Rating: 6/10
7. Three Degrees of Pain: Kurt Angle vs. Desmond Wolfe
Things really kicked into high gear with this Turning Point rematch. The rules for this match were that it was a 2 out of 3 falls match where the first fall was by pinfall, the second by submission, and the third being escape from a steel cage. The cage was down for the whole match, but it could not be legally used as a weapon until the third fall. Wolfe and Angle start the match by going at each other with a lot of submission holds. Wolfe hits a snapmare and an uppercut, but misses a knee drop which allows Angle to begin working over the knee, which he attacked throughout the match. Wolfe hits a couple headlock takedowns before Angle fights back with a hip toss and a suplex. Wolfe regains the advantage with a front facelock but Angle fights out of it and hits a belly to belly suplex and a lariat. Wolfe counters the Angle Slam with a hammer lock before hitting the Tower of London for a near fall. Angle later hits the Angle Slam but misses a moonsault. Wolfe then hits a huge lariat before hitting a second Tower of London which is good enough to put Angle down for 3 and Wolfe wins the first fall. The second fall then begins which featured possibly the most intense mat wrestling I have seen in mainstream wrestling this year. Angle continues to work over the ankle of Wolfe by utilizing a figure four, but Wolfe makes it to the ropes for a break. Wolfe then puts on a modified gogoplata and a wrist lock to work over Angle’s arm. Angle fights out of a second modified gogoplata and counters into an Ankle Lock, but Wolfe counters that into a figure four hold around Angle’s arm. Angle puts on a second Ankle Lock, but Wolfe counters it with one of his own. Angle then counters with a modified triangle choke, but Wolfe counters with the modified gogoplata yet again. Angle counters that into another Ankle Lock, and after struggling for quite some time Wolfe finally taps out. The third fall begins with the score tied at 1-1 and the cage can now legally be used as a weapon. Angle tries to scale the cage, but Wolfe follows him up there and slams Angle’s injured left arm into the cage numerous times before hitting a superplex. Wolfe tries to climb the cage but can’t due to the injured ankle, which allows Angle time to recover and slam Wolfe’s ankle into the cage several times before hitting a German suplex. Angle slams Wolfe face first into the cage before hitting a big lariat and Wolfe is busted open badly, bleeding all over the place. Angle tries for a frog splash and Wolfe gets his knees up, but Angle’s injured arm and Wolfe’s injured leg collided and both men are down. Angle tries to get out of the cage through the door but Wolfe slams the door into Angle’s head repeatedly. Wolfe tries to crawl out, but Angle pulls him back and puts on an Ankle Lock for a very long time. Angle then tries to climb out of the cage over the top, but Wolfe recovers and tries to get out through the door. Angle drops to the floor just before Wolfe is able to crawl out and Angle wins the third fall and the match overall. This is a bonafide match of the year candidate. Match Time: 26:17 Match Rating: 9/10
8. TNA World Heavyweight Championship: AJ Styles(c) vs. Daniels
I was very happy when I looked at the clock and saw that there was plenty of time left for Styles and Daniels to have a good, long match together. The match most certainly did not disappoint and ended up being great. The match begins with both men going for quick takedowns repeatedly until Daniels takes control by working the arm with an armbar. Styles fights back into with a headscissors and a rear chin lock before Daniels goes back to work on the arm. Styles hits a series of kicks and another headscissors, which is followed by a snap suplex. Daniels bails to the floor and AJ responds with a crazy somersault senton over the top rope onto Daniels. The two then brawl in the ringside area where Daniels takes out a couple chairs from the crowd. While the ref is removing one chair, Daniels hits a uranage to Styles through the other chair which was previously standing up. Daniels takes Styles back to the ring where an attempted pinfall fails. Daniels hits a back suplex onto the top turnbuckle for another near fall before continuing to work over AJ’s back with a body slam, kicks, and a split-legged moonsault. He then puts on a rear chin lock but AJ makes it to the ropes. Daniels tries for a Lionsault but lands on his feet before Styles hits a hammerlock back suplex out of nowhere. Styles then counters a hurricanrana with a powerbomb before pounding on Daniels for a bit. Styles hits a springboard backflip into an inverted DDT but only gets a 2 count. Daniels hits a hurricanrana and a shining wizard but can’t keep AJ down. Styles hits a springboard clothesline and then hits a Pele before hitting the Styles Clash, but Daniels kicks out. Daniels puts AJ down and hits a BME for another two count. Both men are then fighting at the top turnbuckle, and Daniels tries for a Frankensteiner, but Styles counters and hits a Styles Clash from the second rope to win the match and retain his title. A fitting end to an excellent main event. Match Time: 21:06 Match Rating: 8.5/10
Overall PPV Rating: 8/10
My name is Jared Silberkleit. I am from Orange, CT and am a huge fan of pro wrestling. I mostly follow WWE and TNA but I also watch the smaller promotions such as ROH and DGUSA. I have been a lifelong WWE fan and have become a TNA fan over the past few years. Aside from wrestling, I also really love baseball and football and follow many other sports such as hockey and MMA. I have written forwww.sportsgrumblings.com roughly a year now as well.
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