Final Resolution 2007: Angle vs. Joe Goes Thirty Minutes and Carries a Deep TNA Pay-Per-View

The Riggs brothers, Jason and Johnny, defeated Kazarian and Havok of Serotonin in a non-televised tag match before Final Resolution's pre-show. The historical result is a pin on Havok, not a victory in a championship contest. Some records use Havok's other name, Johnny Devine; the opponents should not be confused with two additional members of the stable. The precise bell-to-bell duration was not reliably established, so there is no reason to invent one or treat this as part of the televised opening sequence. The short undercard result provides a piece of faction history while its limited surviving footage and documentation restrict the depth of any in-ring evaluation.

Lance Hoyt defeated Chase Stevens. The match is presented as singles match and runs 2:04. On the pre-show, its value comes from the result, placement and the amount of time the card gives the idea. The match is minor material whose short duration or limited consequence keeps it from becoming an important part of the event. The 4.5 score reflects the complete bell-to-bell proposition rather than later reputation: immediate match quality, role on Final Resolution 2007, and how much the result adds to the surrounding card are weighed together.

Rhino beat A.J. Styles in a Last Man Standing match when Styles could not answer the referee's ten-count after two Gores. The stipulation made a conventional three-count irrelevant: Rhino's objective was to leave his opponent unable to regain his feet, and the closing run of powerful tackles finally accomplished it. Styles' speed had supplied a contrasting approach to the fight, but the decisive strikes made the feud's physical stakes explicit. This contest opened the pay-per-view proper after the pre-show, and the finishing ten-count, rather than a pinfall or submission, is central to its historical result and evaluation.

Chris Sabin pinned Jerry Lynn with a tights-assisted roll-up to win the TNA X Division Championship from Christopher Daniels in a three-way. Daniels entered as champion, but Sabin did not have to pin the titleholder directly under the multi-wrestler rules. The finish followed an exchange involving all three X Division performers and gave Sabin a championship victory without a decisive one-on-one fall over Daniels. Lynn's presence as a veteran of the division provided an additional dimension to the title fight. The championship genuinely changed hands here; calling it a Daniels retention or naming Daniels as the wrestler pinned would alter the recorded result.

Alex Shelley won the Paparazzi Championship Series final against Austin Starr only after Kevin Nash ordered extra time. Their initial ten-minute wrestling period ended in a draw, and judges including Bob Backlund could not produce a winner, turning the ostensible final into an extended contest. Shelley ultimately pinned Starr with a roll-up and received a bowling trophy for winning the peculiar series. The competition was a comedy-tinged angle surrounding the X Division, not the TNA X Division Championship itself. The unplanned extension is essential to distinguishing the victory from an ordinary one-fall match decided before the clock expired.

James Storm pinned Petey Williams with a roll-up while using the ropes for extra leverage. Gail Kim accompanied Storm, but the decisive exchange involved the two legal singles competitors rather than a mixed-tag lineup. After the result, Jacqueline returned to TNA and joined Storm in attacking Kim with their Death Sentence double-team maneuver. The postmatch assault extended the storyline; it was not the fall that gave Storm the win. This comparatively brief singles match had more value as a bridge into that rivalry than as a championship contest or a lengthy showcase, and its recorded ending depended on Storm's unnoticed use of the ropes.

The Latin American Xchange retained the NWA World Tag Team Championship over Team 3D when Brother Runt jumped from the ropes onto Homicide and caused Team 3D to be disqualified. Homicide and Hernandez therefore kept their titles even though the challengers were not pinned and the champions did not win by a conventional three-count. Brother Ray and Brother Devon had challenged the champions in an intense tag-team rivalry, but Runt's intervention brought the referee's disqualification ruling rather than a decisive championship exchange. That distinction leaves room for the feud to continue while recording the legal result accurately.

Kurt Angle won the thirty-minute Iron Man match against Samoa Joe by three falls to two, earning the NWA World Heavyweight Championship opportunity at Against All Odds. Joe struck first by forcing Angle to submit to the Coquina Clutch. Angle answered with two ankle-lock submissions to take a 2-1 lead, only for Joe to tie it with a Muscle Buster pin. Angle secured the deciding fall using an inside cradle with just over five minutes left and defended his narrow lead until time expired. The changing score explains the urgency throughout the final stretch: the bout did not end with a sudden final submission at the thirty-minute mark, and no championship belt was directly defended.

Christian Cage won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship in a three-way elimination match by pinning Sting with a Frog Splash after Sting had already eliminated defending champion Abyss. Sting first pinned Abyss following a Scorpion Death Drop, guaranteeing a new champion before the final two wrestlers settled the result. Christian then found his opening and landed the winning splash to take the title. James Mitchell accompanied Abyss but was not a legal entrant; Sting's elimination of the defending champion and Cage's later cover were separate falls. Unlike a normal one-fall triple threat, those two eliminations explain the title change.