WWE SmackDown Live Results 15th May 2018, latest SmackDown winners and video highlights

AJ Styles vs Shinsuke Nakamura (winner decides the stipulation)

Nakamura and Styles started off at a furious pace and with a hot crowd behind them. Nakamura slowed down the pace with a series of knee strikes before Styles floored Nakamura with a dropkick. Nakamura rolled out to ringside for respite and Styles followed it up with a springboard forearm.

Still outside the ring, Nakamura replied with a nasty knee strike before rolling up AJ for a 1-count inside the ring.

The match just kept getting more brutal as both men started hitting each other harder and harder with whatever they had. AJ followed up a Pele Kick with a Facebuster for a 2-count. Nakamura replied with a landslide. AJ kicked out at 2 and went for a Phenomenal Forearm but Nakamura stopped him in his tracks and hit a knee to the gut.

Nakamura and AJ continued their battle on the apron. Nakamura hit Styles with a knee and rolled him inside for 2-count. He looked to hit a Kinshasa but AJ reversed it and got Nakamura in the Styles Clash position. Nakamura booted himself free and caught AJ with a stray boot.

With the referee down for a second, Nakamura pretended that AJ lowblowed him and took advantage of the distraction to hit AJ with a reverse Exploder Suplex and followed it up with a Kinshasa to beat AJ Styles.

Shinsuke Nakamura def. AJ Styles