Final Resolution (December 2008)

The December 2008 Final Resolution was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), which took place on December 7, 2008 at the TNA Impact! Zone in Orlando, Florida.^[2] It was the fifth event under the Final Resolution chronology and second Final Resolution event to take place in 2008. Final Resolution was usually held in January; in early October 2008 TNA moved the event to December. As a result of TNA's decision, two Final Resolution events took place in 2008; the other was in January.

Final Resolution (December 2008)
Promotional poster featuring The Main Event Mafia
Promotion	Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Date	December 7, 2008
City	Orlando, Florida
Venue	TNA Impact! Zone
Attendance	1,200[1]
Tagline	"Respect is Earned"
Pay-per-view chronology
← Previous Turning Point Next → Genesis
Final Resolution chronology
← Previous January 2008 Next → 2009

Storylines

Other on-screen personnel

Role:	Name:
Commentator	Mike Tenay
	Don West
Interviewer	Jeremy Borash
	Lauren Thompson
Ring announcer	Jeremy Borash
	David Penzer
Referee	Earl Hebner
	Rudy Charles
	Mark Johnson
	Andrew Thomas

Final Resolution featured seven professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.^[3]

Homicide and Curry Man in the Feast or Fired match

Results

No.	Results	Stipulations	Times
1	Curry Man, Hernandez, Homicide and Jay Lethal defeated Alex Shelley, B.G. James, Chris Sabin, Consequences Creed, Cute Kip, Jimmy Rave, Lance Rock, Sonjay Dutt and Shark Boy	Feast or Fired match	12:10
2	ODB, Roxxi and Taylor Wilde defeated The Beautiful People (Angelina Love and Velvet Sky) and Sharmell (with Cute Kip)	Six-knockout tag team match	7:27
3	Eric Young defeated Sheik Abdul Bashir (c)	Singles match for the TNA X Division Championship	8:05
4	Christy Hemme defeated Awesome Kong (c) by disqualification	Singles match for the TNA Women's Knockout Championship	5:05
5	Beer Money, Inc. (James Storm and Robert Roode) (c) (with Jacqueline) defeated Abyss and Matt Morgan	Tag team match for the TNA World Tag Team Championship	11:35
6	Kurt Angle defeated Rhino	Singles match with Mick Foley as special guest enforcer Since Angle won, he got a rematch with Jeff Jarrett at Genesis, had Rhino won, Angle would have been fired from TNA.	14:24
7	The Main Event Mafia (Booker T, Kevin Nash, Scott Steiner and Sting) (with Sharmell) (c) defeated The TNA Front Line (A.J. Styles, Brother Devon, Brother Ray and Samoa Joe)	Eight-man tag team match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship	21:24
(c)  – the champion(s) heading into the match