Final Resolution 2010: Full Metal Mayhem Gives a Strong Card Its Defining Match

Beer Money faced Ink Inc. for the next TNA World Tag Team Championship shot, not the belts themselves. Jesse Neal began by matching James Storm punches and helping Shannon Moore force both Beer Money members to the floor. Storm and Robert Roode repeatedly collided with one another in the early exchanges, but eventually trapped Neal in their corner and used illegal choking tape as the referee argued with Moore. Roode worked Neal arm and cut off multiple tag attempts. When Moore finally entered, he knocked Roode down with kicks and a hurricanrana, while Neal and Moore both took risks with dives to the floor. Their comeback made Beer Money control less secure than the opening half had suggested.

Moore nearly pinned Roode with a double-team maneuver, but Storm pushed Moore from the top rope. Neal stepped in, hit a front suplex and prepared to spear Roode. Storm intercepted Neal with a superkick, and Beer Money hit their combination DWI finisher. Storm pinned NEAL at 10:42. The opponent who absorbed the pin was Neal, not Moore, and neither title changed hands during this number-one contenders bout. The B- (7.2) gives credit to effective heel isolation and an earned final counter, although the early deliberate Beer Money miscommunication made the match uneven.

Tara and Mickie James used their Falls Count Anywhere stipulation almost immediately, exchanging punches at ringside before Mickie knocked the former champion over the barricade. Tara slammed Mickie into chairs, guardrails and a steel structure for two-counts outside, while Mickie answered with a missile dropkick, floor-level dives and near falls of her own. They kept fighting through backstage corridors and catering areas, using a trash can, a concessions stand and a concrete floor to force one another to improvise rather than stay within ordinary rope-break rules. Mickie countered a possible piledriver onto the floor with a backdrop, but Tara survived the cover. Neither woman had to return to the ring to score the winning fall.

The fight reached the men restroom, where the wrestlers knocked over fixtures and carried the brawl into a stall. Madison Rayne was waiting inside. She discharged a fire extinguisher toward Mickie and struck her with the Knockouts title belt. Tara then covered Mickie in the restroom while the referee counted three at 10:25. Rayne interference, NOT a clean Tara finisher, caused the ending; Rayne herself was not a third official match participant. The B (7.5) rewards the unusual venue changes and the rivalry intensity, but the outside ambush makes the finish less satisfying than an unassisted win.

Robbie E defended the X Division Championship against Jay Lethal with valet Cookie held above the ring in a suspended shark cage. Cookie refused to enter it until Shark Boy appeared and assisted in getting her locked inside. Lethal controlled the opening with chops, arm drags, a missile dropkick and a Lethal Combination that brought him close to regaining the championship. Robbie answered with a chinlock, corner strikes and near falls, but found the champion advantage hard to protect without Cookie beside the apron. Shark Boy was enforcing the announced restriction, not competing as a wrestler in the title match.

Cookie began dropping foreign objects from the overhead cage. Referee Earl Hebner intercepted the first item; when she tossed down hairspray, Lethal grabbed the can before Robbie could use it and sprayed the champion himself. Lethal immediately hit a suplex and covered him, but Hebner called for the bell and DISQUALIFIED Lethal for using the hairspray. Robbie retained because a title cannot change hands under the normal disqualification rule, not because Robbie pinned Lethal. After the match Shark Boy returned and stunned Cookie, a separate segment rather than part of the title decision. The C- (5.8) reflects a character-specific trick ending that denied a conclusive wrestling result.

Rob Van Dam met Rhino under First Blood rules, meaning a pin or submission could not end the contest. Van Dam used rope-assisted kicks, a baseball slide and a legdrop from the apron, while Rhino repeatedly scratched and bit at Van Dam forehead to seek the first cut. Rhino also sent him into the entrance-ramp rail and the ring steps, attempting to produce bleeding through hard impacts rather than a conventional finisher. Van Dam fought back with Rolling Thunder and the Five-Star Frog Splash, but the latter did not draw blood, so no bell followed. Both wrestlers kept returning to trash-can strikes and corner attacks because ordinary covers would have been irrelevant.

Rhino survived a sequence of Van Dam kicks and drove him onto his head with a DDT after a low blow. He then attempted another piledriver onto a trash-can lid, but Van Dam escaped and struck a Van Daminator using the metal. Rhino still had not begun bleeding. Van Dam wedged a trash can in the corner and smashed it into Rhino face, then drove the can into him with a corner-to-corner Van Terminator. The referee saw blood and stopped the match at 12:23, awarding Van Dam the victory. The B- (7.0) recognizes that the final weapon shot fulfilled the unusual announced condition; it was NOT a Van Dam pinfall after the earlier Five-Star.

A.J. Styles defended the TNA Television Championship against Douglas Williams in a rematch between wrestlers who understood each other mat offense. Williams started with controlling cravats and front headlocks, and Styles answered with counterwrestling and a jumping dropkick. The champion slowed Williams with a rear chinlock, kicked his knee and applied a Figure Four that dragged both men through the ropes. Williams regained control with a diving strike from the apron, European uppercuts and an exploder suplex. Several close counts followed: Styles avoided the Chaos Theory rolling German suplex on one attempt, while Williams escaped Styles Clash and another near finish with a timely rollup.

The pace accelerated when Styles landed a Pelé kick and tried another dive. Williams evaded him, drove Styles against the ringside barricade and executed his own Chaos Theory suplex on the outside. Both men beat the count back into the ring. Williams then surprised Styles by lifting him into STYLES CLASH, the champion signature move, and pinned him for the three count at 14:49. The result made Williams the new Television Champion; it was neither another no-contest nor a successful defense by Styles. The B+ (8.3) values the counterwrestling and clean, ironic finish, while allowing the longer tag-title ladder match to be the night standout.

The Motor City Machine Guns, Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin, retain their TNA World Tag Team Championship against Generation Me, Jeremy and Max Buck, in a 16:24 Full Metal Mayhem match. This is the highest-scored encounter on Final Resolution at A and 9.1, combining established rivals, a high-risk stipulation and actual championship stakes. Generation Me remains the challenger team, and the Guns keep the belts; that distinction matters after their earlier meeting at No Surrender. The longer runtime and Full Metal Mayhem presentation justify the event's clearest full-watch recommendation over even the heavyweight main event.

Abyss defeats D'Angelo Dinero in an 11:50 Casket match. That specific stipulation is the central reason to distinguish this bout from their earlier Lumberjack encounter at Turning Point 2010: although the same names meet again, their match rules and positions on the card differ. Abyss remains the winner, and the result continues the personal dispute rather than shifting a championship. With C+ and 6.7, this is a useful storyline chapter but not a must-watch compared with the preceding Full Metal Mayhem tag or Williams's Television title victory. A historical recap should preserve the Casket match label, not invent an unrecorded finishing sequence.

Jeff Jarrett defeats Samoa Joe in 9:04 in a Submission match. Their rivalry spans several 2010 TNA pay-per-views, but this specific result belongs to Jarrett and the announced submission stipulation. It should not be confused with the technical-submission tag on No Surrender or the regular singles result reported at Turning Point. The C and 6.4 evaluation suggests that even with prominent wrestlers the short contest is more valuable as feud chronology than as a premier wrestling selection. Positioned near the end of a card with a 9.1 tag title standout, it carries a much smaller standalone payoff.

Jeff Hardy retains the TNA World Heavyweight Championship against Matt Morgan in 12:30 under No Disqualification rules, with Mr. Anderson appointed special guest referee. The main event gives Final Resolution a recognizable closing title defense, although the world title does not change hands. Its specific officiating role and rule set help separate it from Hardy–Morgan's Turning Point encounter, which also ended with Hardy retaining. Rated B and 7.8, this is a reasonable championship finale but falls below Williams–Styles and the Motor City Machine Guns–Generation Me Full Metal Mayhem bout. Readers should note the referee and stipulation without claiming an unverified interference sequence.