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WWE SmackDown Results
December 20th, 2016
Report by Josh Lopez for Wrestlezone.com
First Match: AJ Styles (c) vs. James Ellsworth for the WWE World Championship
Styles and Ellsworth goes into the collar and elbow tie up. Styles bounces Ellsworth head on the top turnbuckle. Ellsworth goes for No Chin Music, but Styles blocks it. Styles drops Ellsworth with his lightning quick offense. Styles scores the pinfall. After the match, Styles tosses Ellsworth out of the ring. Styles with a back breaker to Ellsworth on the announce table. Styles rips off Ellsworth shirt. Styles lands a vicious forearm. Styles sends Ellsworth face first to the steel ring step. Ellsworth is now catapults the neck of Ellsworth off the frame of the ring apron.
Styles comes back to ringside. Styles with a snap suplex that sends Ellsworth back first to the ringside barricade. Styles celebrates in the ring. Styles grabs a mic. Styles has no remorse because this has been brewing for over six weeks. Now Ellsworth can go back to the Island of Misfit Toys. Styles can move on to 2017. Styles doesn’t need any christmas gifts from Santa. Dolph Ziggler comes down to the ring. Ziggler congratulates Styles on his victory. Ziggler says that before Styles goes on vacation, he has one more title defense. Ziggler is the new number one contender to the WWE World Title. Ellsworth is being taken out on a stretcher. Styles says that next week is going to be a cake walk because Ziggler is a loser. Ziggler knows his win/loss record, but it took Styles four times to defeat James Ellsworth.
