I'm doing a quickie this week even though I've got some stuff ready to go. I always think about the New Japan Tokyo Dome show for January but - nah! You can get that somewhere else. Let's do an old TNA show instead! 20 years ago there was TNA Final Resolution 2005. If you're getting long in the tooth like me then, 2005 seemed like just a few years ago.

Christopher Daniels, Kazarian & Michael Shane vs. 3 Live Kru (BG James, Konnan & Ron Killings) - Fun but pretty much a misuse of Daniels, Kaz & Shane as they were pretty much bowled over by 3 Live Kru. There's good action though and a good way to start the show.

Elix Skipper vs. Sonjay Dutt - This is your movez match of the card (so far) and it's good. Lotsa fun stuff to get you amped to be watching TNA

Kid Kash vs. Dustin Rhodes - This is a weird angle but I guess Kash & Dusty had a angle going and this is an extension of that. Gotta say I love Dustin's punches... they remind me of Great Kabuki's...just a lot of snap to them and not so much stomping.. just looks like he really is popping the guy in the jaw. Anyhow they used some good psychology and made this different than a David vs Goliath match. It was really, really smart and really good. 

Erik Watts vs. Raven - Just happy to see more Raven. I really should see more of him in early TNA. This was a lot of fun and actually a good match. Raven was calling it for sure but Watts did an excellent job despite getting hurt early on. I actually enjoyed this one.

Scott Hall vs. Jeff Hardy (Special Referee: Roddy Piper) - RIP Roddy & Hall. This was a fun match...not sure if it's ppv worthy (it's not) but it was fun.

Diamond Dallas Page vs. Monty Brown vs. Kevin Nash (#1 Contendership Three Way Elimination Match) - This was OK...Monty wins and is going to face Double J in the main event.

Team Canada (Bobby Roode & Eric Young) (w/Scott D'Amore) vs. America's Most Wanted (Chris Harris & James Storm) - Wow! What a relatively simple but red hot match. The fans are going crazy, the announcers are going crazy, Scott D'Amore is going crazy  and this is so damn exciting. It's great to see TNA talent shine finally. This is one heck of an exciting match. There's shenanigans at the end (of course) but it works. It keeps the feud going and this absolutely delivered. I'm going to call it a classic TNA tag title match. If there's one thing older TNA should be remembered for, it's their excellent tag division.

Petey Williams (w/Scott D'Amore) (c) vs. Chris Sabin vs. AJ Styles (Ultimate X Match) - I've actually seen this one as I have the TNA Best of the X-Division vol. 1 DVD. That's a highly recommended item if you like this stuff but, clearly a lot of it is on YouTube if you know how to find it. Shoot, it's probably been 7-8 years since I watched this so let's see. Yeah! this was a very good spot match...they did some pretty crazy rana & power bomb spots. And they told a lil story with AJ hurting his arm and had no way to shimmy across to capture the belt. AJ also takes an iconic bump here as well. Definitely a lot of fun

NWA World Heavyweight Title Match
Jeff Jarrett (c) vs. Monty Brown - I'm going to try...the other Monty Brown match is the kind of  why I turned off wrestling in the 2000's ... rigid muscle bound guys with no skill and old timers that couldn't work anymore but cashed nostalgia checks. Now I'm not a Jeff Jarrett fan but the dude could still work in 2005 so I'm going to see....OK this starts out pretty fun but eh..this is goofy. I watched this and drifted into watching an episode of 'Taxi' and I don't feel like I missed anything.

This was a fun TNA PPV but I've seen better. There's a lot of talent on here but they didn't use them to their potential. There's certainly a lot of Monday Night War veterans clogging the card up, if I'm being honest. Kid Kash vs Dustin Rhodes & Raven vs Erik Watts were the exceptions. I think the could have booked DDP vs Jeff Hardy and that would have been pretty good. Monty Brown was on too much of the card. He would have been best in that 6 man match or some other kind of tag. The Ultimate X match was really good and something completely different... the kind of stuff the X Division is there for. You definitely want to see Roode & Young vs America's Most Wanted if you're a tag team fan. Again, it's a classic TNA tag match. So don't feel bad if you skip ahead to that and the ultimate X match

Thanks for reading!!!