Match: AJ Styles (WWE World Champion) vs. James Ellsworth for the WWE World Title
Dean Ambrose makes his entrance, now out of his referee gear and headed over to ringside. Picking up a microphone as he took a seat near the timekeeper.
AJ Styles walked out next. appearing sceptical of Dean Ambrose being ringside and threatened him to not ‘dare’ interfere in the match.
James Ellsworth then entered the ring wearing a shirt with his own face on it, being welcomed by chants of “Ellsworth” by the crowd.
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Dean Ambrose got in the ring, as the ring announcer and introduced both the competitors, hyping up James Ellsworth and introducing AJ Styles as the ‘master of taking the easy way out’ as well as a ‘current and temporary’ World Champion.
He then went ringside and assumed the duties of the timekeeper, ringing the bell constantly without stopping (thus stalling the start of the match) until AJ Styles got frustrated and was distracted, resulting in a hold from James Ellsworth which AJ quickly powered out of and reversed into a hold of his own.
This prompted Dean Ambrose to get on the mic and stop the match, stating that the match had to be stopped for a ‘commercial break’, further infuriating AJ who screamed at Dean Ambrose, who replied with ‘Gotta pay the bills brother’ as the show did actually cut to commercials.
We’re back as AJ Styles appears to be beating down James Ellsworth some more. He then placed James Ellsworth on the top turnbuckle, before climbing it himself and was just setting up to deliver a move until Dean Ambrose then got on the mic and diverted the crowd’s attention to the Titantron.
He then started advertising the James Ellsworth’s shirt that was available on WWEShop.com. A distracted AJ Styles was nearly attacked by Ellsworth as a consequence, as AJ quickly got to his senses and started beating down Ellsworth again, which was followed by a clothesline and a dropkick. Ellsworth’s chin appeared to be hurt.
AJ Styles continued to accuse Dean of excessively interfering in the match as he then delivered a Suplex into the corner turnbuckles to Ellsworth. AJ Styles then went outside the ring and accused Dean Ambrose of being responsible for the beatdown on James Ellsworth.
Back in the ring, AJ Styles was about to start his offence again as Dean Ambrose got on the mic and made an announcement about a Blue Toyota Corolla’s lights being on in the parking lot. He then announced that Smackdown was being sponsored by Verizon.
James Ellsworth tried taking advantage of the distracted AJ Styles by delivering a splash off the top rope which AJ Styles easily avoided. AJ Styles then threw Ellsworth out of the ring, trying to get a victory by count out. Dean Ambrose threw him back in.
The back-and-forth of AJ throwing Ellsworth out of the ring and Dean Ambrose throwing him back in continued for a few more times until Ellsworth finally got to his feet and pulled AJ’s leg as he was on the top rope, shouting at the ringside Dean Ambrose and delivered a ‘No Chin Music’ superkick, followed by a pin attempt,
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Dean Ambrose then started hyping up James Ellsworth from ringside as the crowd broke into ‘Ellsworth’ chants again.
A Spinebuster by AJ Styles on James Ellsworth quickly killed the hype, followed by forearms to his head in the corner. Dean Ambrose then accused AJ Styles of not hitting Ellsworth hard enough. AJ then landed a bunch of kicks on a downed Ellsworth which were accused by Ambrose of being ‘like a soccer mom’.
AJ then began a vicious barrage of strikes on Ellsworth, expressing his frustration. The referee attempted to stop AJ Styles from assaulting Ellsworth unsuccessfully as he was doing so against the ropes, AJ did not stop, thus causing the referee to disqualify him from the match.
Ambrose announced AJ Styles as the loser of the match. He then got in the ring and upon a frustrated AJ attacking him, delivered a Dirty Deeds before finally announcing James Ellsworth as the winner of the match. The world title didn’t change hands due to the victory being by means of disqualification, however.
Result: James Ellsworth defeated AJ Styles via Disqualification
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