The main event was for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship between then-champion Kurt Angle and the challenger Christian Cage.

TNA moved Final Resolution to December later in the year and held a second event for unknown reasons.

[5] Final Resolution featured eight professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines.

Styles and Tomko, aided Kurt Angle in retaining the TNA World Heavyweight Championship in the main event without Coalition leader Christian Cage's consent.

The match was originally promoted to have been Scott Hall and Nash challenging for the titles, however this was changed due to unknown reasons on the January 3, 2008, episode of Impact!

[11][12] Robert Roode and Ms. Brooks facing Booker T and Sharmell in a Mixed Tag Team match was also promoted for the event.

However, before the encounter it was changed to a tag team match pitting Booker T and Christian Cage against Kurt Angle and Robert Roode for later in the episode, which the latter lost.

[10] On the January 3, 2008, episode of Impact!, Team 3D attacked and injured MCMG in the storyline by beating their hands with kendo sticks.

[11] The TNA Women's Knockout Championship was defended by Gail Kim against Awesome Kong in a No Disqualification match at Final Resolution.

Andrew Thomas, Earl Hebner, Rudy Charles, and Mark "Slick" Johnson participated as referees for the encounters.

A series of backstage segments featured on the show had James Storm and Eric Young, with Jackie Moore, Borash, and Crystal as observers, competing in a beer drinking contest in which the winner would determine their match at the Against All Odds PPV event on February 10, 2008.

The match lasted six minutes and forty-eight seconds before Hernandez performed his signature Border Toss maneuver from the top of a padded turnbuckle on Rave to gain the pinfall.

[19] Gail Kim defended the TNA Women's Knockout Championship against Awesome Kong in a No Disqualification match.

There, Kong performed her signature Awesome Bomb maneuver on the referee and followed by hitting him with a steel chair.

Kim took the steel chair from Kong, bashed her over the back and head with it, before getting a near-fall which was counted by a replacement referee.

Near the end, Abyss performed his signature Black Hole Slam maneuver on Mesias, however Mitchell distracted the referee from counting the pinfall.

During the bout, Sabin and Shelley consistently could not climb the ropes due to the attack by Team 3D on the January 3, 2008, episode of Impact!.

After an attempt by MCMG and Lethal to stop them, Devine climbed the ladder and removed the X Division Championship belt.

Styles and Tomko against the team of Kevin Nash and Samoa Joe in the seventh encounter, lasting twelve minutes and ten seconds.

[1] Canadian Online Explorer writer Mark Xamin rated the entire event a six out of ten,[18] which was lower than the seven and a half out of ten given to the 2007 Final Resolution event by Chris Sokol,[20] but equal with the second Final Resolution held in December 2008 given by Bryan and Chris Sokol.

[5] Final Resolution's rating was lower than TNA's previous event Turning Point, which was given a six and half out of ten.

The first was the TNA Women's Knockout Championship defense by Gail Kim against Awesome Kong in a No Disqualification match.

The second match given this score was the main event between Kurt Angle and Christian Cage for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship.

Regarding the overall event, Xamin wrote that "Final Resolution was more about advancing storylines and entertainment value than it was about watching good wrestling."

He also believed that Final Resolution had two "stand-out matches (Gail Kim vs Awesome Kong and Angle vs Christian Cage)" despite the rest of the card being "lacklustre[sic] at best.

"[18] Wade Keller of the Pro Wrestling Torch rated the main event and the Women's Knockout Championship match three and a three-quarter stars out of five.

[26] On the January 24, 2008, episode of Impact!, Management Director Jim Cornette announced that Joe would be the Special Outside Enforcer at Against All Odds due him being controversially disqualified during the match.

[28] On the January 17, 2008, episode of Impact!, Lethal and MCMG accepted the agreement but only after including that Team 3D would have to weigh less than 275 pounds in order to compete in their matches in TNA.

[21] At TNA's Destination X PPV event on March 9, 2008, Roode defeated Booker T in a Stand By Your Man Strap match.

[30] Gail Kim defended the TNA Women's Knockout Championship against Kong once again on the January 10, 2008, episode of Impact!.