TNA January 6, 2008 “Final Resolution” PPV
1) LAX vs. The Rock and Rave Infection **
2) Frankie Kazarian vs. Black Reign *3/4
3) Gail Kim vs. Awesome Kong –No DQ TNA Women’s Title– **3/4
4) Judas Mesias vs. Abyss *3/4
5) Booker T & Sharmell vs. Robert Roode & Tracy Brooks *
6) Team 3-D/Johnny Devine vs. “Black Machismo” Jay Lethal & The Motor City Machine Guns –Ultimate X– *
7) AJ Styles & Tomko vs. Kevin Nash & Samoa Joe –TNA World Tag Team Titles– *3/4
8) Kurt Angle vs. Christian Cage –TNA World Title Match– ***
What an ass-backwards company. With all the talent and resources in one company that TNA possesses. tp put together such awful TV and PPV’s is amazing. It’s almost impossible. The one good thing they had going a year or so ago was their PPV quality but that has fallen by the wayside. Dispersed between so,me good in-ring action are some of the dumbest gimmicks, angles, and storylines I’ve ever seen.
Christian Cage and TNA World Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist ® Kurt Angle worked the main event and they put on a good match but it was so overshadowed by idiotic storylines, plus Karen Angle, plus the blurred lines between face and heel, and add the FACT that the title was secondary to the decision of that buffoon AJ Style’s… it was all so lost upon me.
The best feud they have going is Gail Kim vs Awesome Kong. Somehow they haven’t managed to screw it up to where I don’t care. The competitors do a great job in the ring as Gail seems to be taking it to Kong as hard as she can to prove that she can hang with a monster. Considering who Gail has had to work with in the U.S. and who Kong worked with all those years in Japan, great job by both. It meant nothing. But did they have to throw in all the ref bumps and shenanigans? It took the match down a notch for me that would have put it up there for the serendipity MOTY candidate for 2008.
It is a flabbergasting show to watch, a frustrating company to try to follow or cheer for. How many years has it been since the prognosticators said TNA had six months to live? It was a running joke at the time, but who is laughing now that all this foreshadowing simply implies a long and steady vegetative and zombie-like life instead of a quick and painless pulling of the plug?
