Bryan Alvarez’s report on last night’s TNA Final Resolution is now available for subscribers.
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B&V: Bryan Alvarez reviews TNA Final Resolution
Bryan Alvarez is back with the third of six straight solo shows this weekend, this time covering the TNA Final Resolution PPV, a fine show that had one awesome match and one match you should certainly go out of your way to see because the finish was great. A fun show as always so check it out~!
New champion crowned at TNA Final Resolution
The TNA International Championship changed hands at Friday’s Final Resolution event.
Stacks (formerly known as Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo) of WWE NXT defeated Steve Maclin to claim the International Championship on Friday’s show in El Paso, Texas. Stacks becomes the third different wrestler to hold the International title since its inception earlier this year.
Maclin was the inaugural champion after winning a tournament final at Unbreakable in April, then dropped the title to Frankie Kazarian in September at Victory Road, before winning the belt back at Bound for Glory in October.
It was a big night for the Stacks character who was also featured in the show-closing brawl between WWE NXT wrestlers and members of the TNA roster, including TNA authority figure Santino Marella. As revealed on NXT programming earlier this year, Stacks is engaged to Marella’s daughter, NXT wrestler Arianna Grace.
Our full Final Resolution report including news of four debuting wrestlers is available here.
Multiple debuts at TNA Final Resolution
Multiple wrestlers made their surprise TNA debuts at Friday night’s Final Resolution event.
In an unannounced open challenge on the Countdown to Final Resolution pre-show, Bear Bronson and Brock Anderson made their TNA debuts alongside CW Anderson as the opponents for The System’s Brian Myers, Eddie Edwards, and Moose. CW has worked occasional dates for TNA dating back to 2004. Brock took the pin from Myers in the trios match.
Vincent and Dutch of The Righteous also debuted on the Final Resolution program, confronting Matt and Jeff Hardy after the Hardys retained their TNA Tag Team titles in a victory over Tyson Dupont and Tyriek Igwe of WWE NXT.
Prior to the Tag Team title bout, a mystery vignette aired on the video wall allowing Dupont and Igwe to get a jumpstart on The Hardys. The vignette was a tease for The Righteous.
The Righteous left AEW and ROH earlier this year.
Our full report from Final Resolution is available here.
Updated TNA Final Resolution card
The card is set for Friday’s TNA Final Resolution event with a new Knockouts title challenger confirmed, plus a new match added to the pre-show.
Xia Brookside defeated Dani Luna on Thursday’s Impact show to become the new number one contender to Lei Ying Lee’s TNA Knockouts World Championship. Brookside will now challenge Lee for the title on Friday’s Final Resolution special on TNA Plus.
Another new match is official for the program, with Eric Young vs. Cedric Alexander set for the Countdown to Final Resolution pre-show.
The Countdown to Final Resolution begins at 8:30 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, December 5, with the main card beginning at 9 p.m. Eastern time.
Friday’s lineup:
TNA Final Resolution, Friday, December 5, 8:30 p.m. Eastern time on TNA Plus —
- TNA World Champion Frankie Kazarian defends against JDC
- TNA Knockouts World Champion Lei Ying Lee defends against Xia Brookside
- TNA Tag Team Champions The Hardys (Matt and Jeff Hardy) defend against High Ryze (Tyson Dupont and Tyriek Igwe)
- TNA X-Division Champion Leon Slater defends against AJ Francis
- TNA International Champion Steve Maclin defends against Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo
- TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions The IInspiration (Jessie McKay and Cassie Lee) defend against Tessa Blanchard and Victoria Crawford
- Mike Santana vs. Charlie Dempsey
- Street fight: Matt Cardona vs. Mance Warner
- The Rascalz (Dezmond Xavier, Trey Miguel, Zachary Wentz, Myron Reed) vs. Order 4 (Mustafa Ali, Special Agent Zero, Jason Hotch, John Skyler)
- Countdown to Final Resolution pre-show: Eric Young vs. Cedric Alexander
TNA announces two new Final Resolution matches
Two new matches are set for next Friday’s TNA Final Resolution special on TNA Plus.
In an eight-man tag, Order 4’s Mustafa Ali, Special Agent Zero, Jason Hotch, and John Skyler will face Trey Miguel, Zachary Wentz, Dezmond Xavier, and Myron Reed of The Rascalz.
Also added, Knockouts Tag Team Champions Cassie Lee and Jessie McKay of The IInspiration defend their titles against Tessa Blanchard and Victoria Crawford (formerly Alicia Fox in WWE).
Nine matches are now official for the Friday, December 5 TNA Plus special. The updated card:
TNA Final Resolution, Friday, December 5 —
- TNA World Champion Frankie Kazarian defends against JDC
- TNA Knockouts World Champion Lei Ying Lee defends against Dani Luna or Xia Brookside
- TNA Tag Team Champions Matt and Jeff Hardy defend against Tyson Dupont and Tyriek Igwe
- TNA X-Division Champion Leon Slater defends against AJ Francis
- TNA International Champion Steve Maclin defends against Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo
- TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions The IInspiration (Cassie Lee and Jessie McKay) defend against Tessa Blanchard and Victoria Crawford
- Mike Santana vs. Charlie Dempsey
- Street fight: Matt Cardona vs. Mance Warner
- Order 4 (Mustafa Ali, Jason Hotch, John Skyler, Agent Zero) vs. The Rascalz (Trey Miguel, Zachary Wentz, Dezmond Xavier, Myron Reed)
TNA Final Resolution adds seven new matches
TNA has announced seven new matches for their Friday, December 5 Final Resolution event to stream on TNA Plus.
JDC was victorious in a de facto number one contender’s match on Thursday’s Impact to earn a TNA World title shot against Frankie Kazarian at Final Resolution. JDC has announced his intention to retire after Genesis in January, but it is unclear if that is storyline or a legitimate retirement.
The Knockouts World title will also be on the line with either Xia Brookside or Dani Luna challenging for the championship at Final Resolution. Brookside vs. Luna in a number one contender’s match is on tap for the December 4 Impact. Kelani Jordan holds the Knockouts title at present, but defends on Tuesday’s WWE NXT Gold Rush show.
The X-Division title will be n the line at Final Resolution with Leon Slater defending against AJ Francis. In another new title bout, Steve Maclin puts his International title on the line against Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo of WWE NXT.
Matt and Jeff Hardy will defend the TNA Tag Team titles against an NXT team at Final Resolution, facing Tyson Dupont and Tyriek Igwe.
Former TNA Champion Mike Santana will face Charlie Dempsey of NXT on the December 5 show as the TNA vs. NXT storyline continues.
Matt Cardona vs. Mance Warner in a street fight is also set for Final Resolution.
TNA Final Resolution, Friday, December 5 —
- TNA World Champion Frankie Kazarian defends against JDC
- TNA Knockouts World Champion (currently Kelani Jordan) defends against Dani Luna or Xia Brookside
- TNA Tag Team Champions Matt and Jeff Hardy defend against Tyson Dupont and Tyriek Igwe
- X-Division Champion Leon Slater defends against AJ Francis
- International Champion Steve Maclin defends against Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo
- Mike Santana vs. Charlie Dempsey
- Street fight: Matt Cardona vs. Mance Warner
TNA finalizes schedule for remainder of 2025
TNA Wrestling has finalized its schedule for the remainder of 2025, adding two more streaming specials to the calendar.
It was announced today that Turning Point 2025 — a TNA+ special — will take place at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida on Friday, November 14. Along with that, TNA will hold a live Impact episode and a night of TV tapings at Full Sail.
The final TNA+ special of the year will then be Final Resolution 2025 on Friday, December 5. El Paso County Coliseum in El Paso, Texas is hosting that show as well as a weekend of TV tapings.
Tickets for the Orlando and El Paso events will be available on pre-sale starting at 10 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, October 15. Tickets will then go on sale to the general public on October 17.
TNA is billing the El Paso dates as “Fan Appreciation Weekend” with the following perks:
- All fans who purchase tickets for all three shows in El Paso will receive an exclusive TNA Wrestling Fan Appreciation Weekend baseball hat. (The tickets must be purchased on the same transaction.)
- Private Meet & Greets with select TNA stars for purchase.
- In-ring photos for purchase.
Here is the full list of newly announced dates, which are taking place in the aftermath of TNA’s October 12 Bound for Glory pay-per-view:
November —
- Thursday, November 13: Live TNA Impact episode at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida
- Friday, November 14: Turning Point 2025 at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida
- Saturday, November 15: TV taping at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida
December —
- Friday, December 5: Final Resolution 2025 at El Paso County Coliseum in El Paso, Texas
- Saturday, December 6: TV taping at El Paso County Coliseum in El Paso, Texas
- Sunday, December 7: TV taping at El Paso County Coliseum in El Paso, Texas
Eddie Edwards gets into physical altercation with fan at TNA Final Resolution
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Former TNA World Champion Eddie Edwards got into a physical altercation with a fan at Friday’s Final Resolution that saw both men exchange slaps.
Edwards was teaming with Brian Myers, challenging The Hardys for the TNA Tag Team titles in a tables match. Edwards was on the outside of the ring and appeared to take umbrage with what a fan at ringside said as seen below.
They started jawing at each other, leading to the fan slapping Edwards in the face which Edwards then responded to in kind before lightly shoving the fan and walking away. In an unusual move, the altercation was shown during the broadcast in full as if it was an angle.
However, it apparently wasn’t as Fightful reported the unnamed fan was “immediately escorted from the building and turned over to local police.” As of Saturday morning, there has been no update to the story.
Edwards and Myers were unsuccessful in their attempt to defeat The Hardys.
TNA Final Resolution notes: World title match set for Genesis, Hammerstone injured
TNA’s final big event of the year — Final Resolution — had some interesting news coming out of it outside of former World Champion and Knockouts Champion Tessa Blanchard making her return.
Joe Hendry will get another shot at the TNA World title
Hendry won a four-way no. 1 contender’s match Friday to earn a title shot against reigning champion Nic Nemeth at January’s Genesis pay-per-view, set for Sunday, January 19th.
Hendry won after pinning Josh Alexander following a Standing Ovation. Alexander had taken out Steve Maclin while the fourth participant, Mike Santana, was zip tied to a ringside barricade.
Hendry was unable to unseat Nemeth when they wrestled at October’s Bound for Glory. It will be his third-ever opportunity at the company’s top prize.
The company will build the rest of the card for the PPV at Saturday’s TV taping in Atlanta. With five weeks of shows to produce, it’s expected they will air several “Best of” episodes as they have done in the past.
Alexander Hammerstone was set to compete alongside Jake Something in a three team tag match, but on the pre-show, they announced he would be unable to compete due to injury. Something decided to compete on his own, eventually getting defeated after The Rascalz hit their finisher on him to pick up the win.
The specifics on the injury are unknown at this point. He had to miss this past May’s Under Siege due to not being cleared to compete and was out for three months. He was last in the ring at Turning Point on November 29th.
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All four title defenses saw the champions walk away still champions.
Joining the aforementioned Nemeth is Knockouts Champion Masha Slamovich after she defended against Tasha Steelz in a falls count anywhere match; Moose retaining the X-Division title over KUSHIDA; and The Hardyz holding onto the Tag Team titles in a tables match against Eddie Edwards & Brian Myers.
Tessa Blanchard returns, attacks Jordynne Grace at TNA Final Resolution
As reported earlier on Friday, Tessa Blanchard has returned to TNA Wrestling and didn’t waste time in making her impact felt.
The former TNA World Champion and Knockouts Champion appeared during Jordynne Grace’s match with Rosemary on Friday’s Final Resolution streaming special. The masked Blanchard attacked Grace to give her the DQ win, eventually revealing herself to the crowd.
Later, she briefly chatted with Gia Miller about her return and then piefaced the backstage interviewer before leaving.
Our Dave Meltzer reported in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that “the belief is that she’ll debut in Atlanta, do a quick program with Jordynne Grace with Grace then leaving for WWE when her current contract expires.”
The 28-year-old has been in Mexico since the fall of 2023, working nearly solely with CMLL who confirmed her leave on Friday and that the Women’s Tag Team titles she held were vacated.
She worked in TNA (then Impact) from three years from 2018 through 2020, holding the company’s top title for 165 days and the Knockouts title for 147 days.
However, the World title reign started in January 2020 prior to the pandemic and she only had one title defense, that being in February of the same year. TNA fired her in June 2020 and stripped her for not coming back to the U.S. from Mexico to drop the title.
Blanchard’s previous TNA run was marred with controversy due to allegations of being a locker room bully, and both spitting in La Rosa Negra’s face and calling her a racial slur while they were in Japan together in 2017. Those allegations emerged after a social media post following her World title win where she told her fellow women to “try supporting one another” as cool things happen when they do.
Three-way tag team match announced for TNA Final Resolution
The card for Friday’s TNA Final Resolution event is finalized following the addition of a three-way tag team bout.
As announced during Thursday’s Impact go-home show for Friday’s Final Resolution TNA Plus special, The Rascalz will face PCO & Sami Callihan, and Hammerstone & Jake Something in a three-way tag team contest on Friday’s event.
Eight matches are now set for Friday’s main card, plus two bouts are official for Friday’s Countdown to Final Resolution pre-show.
The finalized card:
TNA Final Resolution, Friday, December 13, 7:30 p.m. Eastern time on TNA Plus —
- TNA World Champion Nic Nemeth defends against AJ Francis
- TNA Knockouts World Champion Masha Slamovich defends against Tasha Steelz
- Tables match: TNA Tag Team Champions The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy) defend against The System (Brian Myers & Eddie Edwards)
- TNA X-Division Champion Moose defends against KUSHIDA
- TNA World title number one contender’s match: Joe Hendry vs. Mike Santana vs. Steve Maclin vs. Josh Alexander
- Jordynne Grace vs. Rosemary
- Ace Austin vs. Trent Seven
- The Rascalz (Trey Miguel & Zachary Wentz) vs. PCO & Sami Callihan vs. Hammerstone & Jake Something
- Pre-show: Jonathan Gresham vs. Frankie Kazarian
- Pre-show: Leon Slater vs. JDC (Johnny Dango Curtis)
Big Vinny V: TNA’s final approach to Final Resolution
Image: TNA
Somebody at TNA Wrestling scheduled two app specials in two weeks, leaving the crew scrambling to throw a card together for last Thursday’s Impact with no time to waste.
That means I have no time to waste on this week’s Big Vinny V Show with a recap of the beginning of the final descent into this Friday’s Final Resolution.
We got a five-way match as KUSHIDA, Trent Seven, Ace Austin, Leon Slater, and JDC battled to see who will challenge Moose for the X-Division title; a tag match set up for no reason other than four mean dudes all felt like fighting; a World championship challenge issued by AJ Francis to Nic Nemeth and accepted in a hasty hallway promo battle; a Tag Team championship match between The Hardys and The System with no finish so they could do a rematch eight days later; Tasha Steelz vs. Jordynne Grace in a de facto top contender’s match for Masha Slamovich’s Knockouts title; and a wacky eight-man main event that was supposed to build up a four-way top contender’s match but didn’t do a very good job of it.
We’ll break it all down on the latest Big Vinny V Show!
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Ace Austin to face Trent Seven at TNA Final Resolution
A new match has been made official for TNA Wrestling’s last major event of 2024.
Ace Austin vs. Trent Seven is the latest addition to the lineup for Final Resolution, a TNA+ special that’s being held at Center Stage in Atlanta this Friday. The main card has a start time of 8 p.m. Eastern.
With his tag partner Chris Bey recovering from a serious neck injury, Austin has become aligned with TNA Tag Team Champions The Hardys. They lost a trios match to Seven, Alex Hammerstone & Jake Something last month after Seven gave Austin a low blow.
A five-way match took place on Impact last week to determine Moose’s X-Division Championship challenger for Final Resolution. Austin and Seven were both participants but lost out to KUSHIDA.
The updated Final Resolution card is listed below:
TNA Final Resolution 2024 (Friday, December 13) —
- TNA World Champion Nic Nemeth defends against AJ Francis
- TNA Knockouts World Champion Masha Slamovich defends against Tasha Steelz
- Tables match: TNA Tag Team Champions The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy) defend against The System (Brian Myers & Eddie Edwards)
- TNA X-Division Champion Moose defends against KUSHIDA
- TNA World title number one contender’s match: Joe Hendry vs. Mike Santana vs. Steve Maclin vs. Josh Alexander
- Jordynne Grace vs. Rosemary
- Ace Austin vs. Trent Seven
- Pre-show: Jonathan Gresham vs. Frankie Kazarian
- Pre-show: Leon Slater vs. JDC (Johnny Dango Curtis)
New match added to TNA Final Resolution pre-show
A new match has been added to Friday’s TNA Countdown to Final Resolution pre-show.
After squaring off in tag team action on a recent Impact episode, JDC and Leon Slater will go one-on-one in singles competition on Friday’s Countdown to Final Resolution.
Two matches are now set for Friday’s pre-show, as Frankie Kazarian vs. Jonathan Gresham was announced for Friday’s show earlier on Tuesday.
Six matches are advertised for Friday’s main card. The pre-show will stream on TNA’s digital media channels beginning at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, December 13, with the main card streaming on TNA Plus beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern.
Here is the updated card for Friday’s show:
TNA Final Resolution 2024 (Friday, December 13) —
- TNA World Champion Nic Nemeth defends against AJ Francis
- TNA Knockouts World Champion Masha Slamovich defends against Tasha Steelz
- Tables match: TNA Tag Team Champions The Hardys (Matt & Jeff Hardy) defend against The System (Brian Myers & Eddie Edwards)
- TNA X-Division Champion Moose defends against KUSHIDA
- TNA World title number one contender’s match: Joe Hendry vs. Mike Santana vs. Steve Maclin vs. Josh Alexander
- Jordynne Grace vs. Rosemary
- Pre-show: Jonathan Gresham vs. Frankie Kazarian
- Pre-show: Leon Slater vs. JDC