The 2020 Final Resolution was a professional wrestling event produced by Impact Wrestling. It took place on December 12, 2020 at Skyway Studios in Nashville, Tennessee and aired exclusively on Impact Plus. It was the 11th event under the Final Resolution chronology, the first to be held since the 2013 event, and the first purchase-only event since the 2012 event.
Nine matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Rich Swann successfully defended the Impact World Championship against Chris Bey. In other prominent matches, Deonna Purrazzo defeated Rosemary to retain the Impact Knockouts Championship and Manik defeated Rohit Raju to win the Impact X Division Championship.
Production Background In 2013, Impact Wrestling (then known as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling) discontinued monthly pay-per-view events in favor of the pre-recorded One Night Only events. Final Resolution was produced as a PPV from 2005 to 2012. On November 14, 2020, it was revived as a monthly special for Impact Plus, with that year's event taking place on December 12 at the Skyway Studios in Nashville, Tennessee.
Storylines The event featured professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.
On the December 1 episode of Impact!, Willie Mack defeated Chris Bey in a singles match. Following the match, Moose, who previously defeated Mack in a No Disqualification match on the November 17 episode, attacked Mack, prompting Mack's ally, the Impact World Champion Rich Swann to make the save. Bey then performed the Art of Finesse on Swann following Moose's attack. After the incident, Impact announced that Swann will defend his title against Bey at Final Resolution.
At Turning Point, The Good Brothers (Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson) defeated The North (Ethan Page and Josh Alexander) to win the Impact World Tag Team Championship. On the November 24 episode of Impact!, Page revealed that he attacked and injured Gallows, ruling him out of action for 4–5 weeks. Later on the episode, Page faced a "phenomenal opponent" chosen by Anderson, which was revealed to be Swoggle dressed as former Impact star and current WWE star AJ Styles, with Swoggle calling himself "The wee-nominal one, AJ Swoggle". Swoggle then defeated Page, leaving Page upset in the middle of the ring. This led to Page challenging Anderson to a match at Final Resolution on the following episode, where if Page won, The North would receive an opportunity to challenge for the tag team titles.
At Turning Point, Deonna Purrazzo defeated Su Yung in a no disqualification match to win the Impact Knockouts Championship for a second time. On the December 8 episode of Impact!, she teamed with Kimber Lee to compete in the Knockouts Tag Team Championship Tournament for the revived titles, but were eliminated in the first round by Rosemary and Taya Valkyrie. Later that night, Purrazzo complained to Impact Executive Vice President Scott D'Amore that she's being overworked, which he doesn't buy and tells her that she will be defending the Knockouts title against Rosemary at Final Resolution.
On the November 10 episode of Impact!, X Division Champion Rohit Raju defeated TJP to retain the title, with the stipulation that TJP could no longer challenge for the X Division Championship, as long as Raju was the champion. On the November 24 episode of Impact!, Raju issued his Defeat Rohit Challenge which was answered by Suicide, but he later made it a non-title match. During the match, he unmasked him thinking it was TJP, but the latter appeared and confused Raju, who was pinned by Crazzy Steve who was under the Suicide guise. The following week, Raju would defeat Steve to successfully retain his title. On the December 8 episode of Impact!, Raju ridiculed TJP for losing his match against Brian Myers, and announced that the final Defeat Rohit Challenge of 2020 will take place at Final Resolution.
On the October 6 episode of Impact!, Fallah Bahh stole Hernandez's wad of cash in order to pay for John E. Bravo's wedding. At Bound for Glory, both men were in the Call Your Shot Gauntlet match, with Bahh throwing the cash outside and eliminating himself to retrieve it after Hernandez attempted to get it back. On the November 10 episode of Impact!, Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz defended Bahh after being confronted by Hernandez, but ended up distracting Bahh to take the wad of cash for themselves. On December 8, after being confronted by both men, Hogan and Steelz announced a match where the winner will be the sole owner of the money. It was also added that Hogan and Steelz will be the special referee and ring announcer respectively.
On the October 27 episode of Impact!, a wedding took place between John E. Bravo and Rosemary but the lights went out and a gunshot was heard, ending with the lights going back on and Bravo lying down with a gunshot wound and blood on his chest. In early November, Tommy Dreamer conducted an investigation that narrow down the shooter to 10 suspects, all of them passing a lie detector test. A Wrestler's Court took place on the November 24 episode of Impact!, where Larry D's alter-ego "Lawrence D" confessed to shooting Bravo because he took Rosemary away from him. The following week, Larry D was confronted by Bravo for shooting him, with Dreamer wanting an explanation for his actions but gets attacked instead. On the December 8 episode of Impact!, he was challenged by Dreamer to a match at Final Resolution, where if Larry D won, he's a free man. But if Dreamer won, he has to go to jail for shooting Bravo.
Event Other on-screen personnelCommentatorsJosh MathewsMadison RayneRing announcersDavid PenzerTasha Steelz (Hernandez vs. Fallah Bahh)RefereesBrandon TolleDaniel SpencerKiera Hogan (Hernandez vs. Fallah Bahh)InterviewerGia Miller Preliminary matches The opening match of the event saw Tommy Dreamer versus Larry D in an Old School Rules match, where if Larry D loses, he must go to jail for the attempted murder of John E. Bravo. The two lockup and shove each other before Larry D knocks Dreamer out with a punch and a back elbow. Outside the ring, Dreamer hits Larry D with a baking sheet to the head, and sends him into the ring steps. Larry D sends Dreamer face-first into the ring post, dumps a cardboard box on him, but accidentally punches a trash can lid instead of Dreamer. Back in the ring, Larry D regains control by hitting Dreamer with a baking sheet for two, uses a chain to wrap around his neck but he breaks free to bite Larry D, who retakes the advantage by uppercutting Dreamer from the corner. After setting up a chair in between the middle and top rope, Larry D uses his weight belt to whip Dreamer followed by a body slam, but misses the elbow drop. Dreamer gets the boot up in the corner and uses Larry D's weight belt on him, before wrapping it around his arm and landing an elbow drop for two. Dreamer hits a cutter on Larry D for a near fall, gets tripped on a chair for another near fall, but catches Larry D on the top rope and puts him in the Tree of Woe, before putting a chair across his face to hit a running dropkick. Dreamer brings a table into the ring, but Acey Romero attacks him from behind, and XXXL set up the table in a corner. John E. Bravo arrives to land a double clothesline that doesn't budge on either of them, gets squashed but manages to avoid Romero who goes through the table. Larry D lands a headbutt on Bravo, but gets low blowed by Dreamer with a kendo stick, who plants him with a DDT for the win. After the match, Dreamer puts handcuffs on Larry D.
Next, a knockouts tag team match was contested between The Sea Stars (Ashley Vox and Delmi Exo) against Havok and Nevaeh. Delmi takes out Nevaeh with a hurricanrana, who in return hits her with a bulldog for a two count. Ashley tags in and hits Nevaeh with a dropkick, but causes her to fall towards her corner, tagging in Havok. After avoiding a sit-down splash, Ashley tags in Delmi, but gets taken out by Havok and Nevaeh with a backbreaker into a clothesline for two. Havok and Nevaeh utilize quick tags to continue their offense on Delmi, who gets taken out after the former kicks her from the apron into the latter who delivers a German suplex. Delmi gets the tag to Ashley, and the both of them take Havok out with a codebreaker/senton combination, but only for a near fall. Nevaeh tags in to hit Ashley with a sliding cutter to win for her team.
The third match was an intergender tag team match between Tenille Dashwood and Kaleb with a K against Alisha and Eddie Edwards. After a brief lockup, Tenille and Alisha tagged their respective partners. Eddie takes out Kaleb with an inverted atomic drop and a belly-to-belly suplex. Kaleb gets the advantage after a leg sweep to work on Eddie in the corner, gets caught with a jawbreaker but trips him into the ropes, allowing Tenille to choke him as Kaleb distracts the referee. Eddie fights back with a "Blue Thunder Bomb" on Kaleb, both of them tag out, and Alisha takes Tenille out with a low flatliner, a running senton and a bulldog from the corner. Kaleb breaks up the cover and gets sent to the outside, but manages to trip up Alisha and allow Tenille to land a butterfly suplex for two. Alisha heads to the top rope but gets caught in the Tree of Woe because of Kaleb, leaving her open for Tenille to wrench her neck to the bottom turnbuckle and deliver a low crossbody, but manages to kick out at two. Alisha tags in Eddie who gives Kaleb a back body drop, sets him up for the tiger driver but Tenille stops him, and Alisha tags in to land a tilt-a-whirl DDT on Kaleb, who then gets hit with a suicide dive by Eddie. As Alisha climbs up top, Sami Callihan's music plays but he doesn't appear, leaving her distracted for Tenille to hit the "Spotlight Kick" and get the win. After the match, Callihan emerges from underneath the ring and hits Eddie's head with a baseball bat, followed by a package piledriver. Callihan attempted to piledrive Alisha, but was stopped by several referees and officials from doing it.
The fourth match involved Hernandez against Fallah Bahh, where the winner will receive the wad of cash. Kiera Hogan and Tasha Steelz were the special guest referee and ring announcer respectively. Both men run into each other and deliver a chop to their chest in the corner, with Bahh hitting a running crossbody and a twisting elbow drop for two. Bahh attempts to charge into Hernandez, who pulls Hogan in front of him, and gets thrown onto the apron before hitting a slingshot shoulder block on Bahh. Hernandez dropkicks Bahh out of the ring and hits a dive to the outside, sending him back inside the ring for a two count. Hernandez wrenches Bahh's head and neck, before hitting a corner splash and a running senton for two. Bahh fights back with a clothesline, squashes Hernandez in the corner, and hits a running hip attack afterwards. Hernandez gets out of a Samoan drop attempt but gets hit with a sit-down splash by Bahh, who only gets a slow two count. Bahh argues with Hogan over the count, meets with Hernandez on the top rope and gets knocked down to the mat, and Hernandez hits a diving splash for the win. After the match, Steelz opens her fanny pack but doesn't find the money, resulting in Hernandez pulling out a straight razor that sends her and Hogan to the back.