A highlight of the most recent Talking Smack plays, showing Daniel Bryan and Renee Young shocked over the events that had just unfolded in the main event, where James Ellsworth cost Dean Ambrose his match at TLC, and Ellsworth justifying his actions
James Ellsworth is put in his place
AJ Styes entered to open the show wearing a walking boot due to the ankle injury he obtained at TLC. AJ Styles started by “addressing the elephant in the room”, and showed the tear he had in the back of his pants in TLC. He said that he was not medically cleared to face James Ellsworth, and then Ellsworth made his entrance, to a more polarizing reaction.
He still got the “Ellsworth” chants but comparatively lesser. Ellsworth asked AJ if he really was injured or was using it as an excuse to avoid defending the title against him, still claiming that he had his number.
Ellsworth also said that AJ won on Sunday only because of him, and AJ said that he would have won anyway. He also said that whatever Ellsworth had in WWE was because of Dean Ambrose, and he burned that bridge too.
Ambrose then made his entry. He then immediately hit the Dirty Deeds on Ellsworth and exited, while his music was playing the whole time.
A rematch between Heath Slater & Rhyno against Bray Wyatt & Randy Orton for the Smackdown Tag Team Championships was announced as up next. Alexa Bliss was announced to be having a championship celebration later in the night.
The New Wyatt Family(c) vs Heath Slater & Rhyno – Smackdown Tag Team Championship match
The Wyatts have a new introduction, with Orton being added to the creepy few seconds. The arena was lit with Bray’s “fireflies”. Slater started off the offense but it only took seconds before Randy Orton got back on him.
Bray was tagged in and Slater managed to get the momentum in his favour so he tagged Rhyno in. Rhyno almost hit Bray with the Gore but The Eater Of Worlds dodged the bullet.
After the commercial break, Bray is in control over The Man Beast. The crowd seemed to be cheering on for Randy Orton who was just then tagged in. Slater got the hot tag and started getting offense against Randy, but the moment he turned his back and turned back again, he was hit with the smoothest scoop slam in the WWE.
Bray Wyatt got Heath Slater in a position for a Sister Abigail but teased a new move with Randy Orton. He then kissed Slater's forehead, pushed him up and let Randy Orton hit Slater with the RKO, and pinned Slater to retain the championships.
The New Wyatt defeated Heath Slater & Rhyno to retain the Smackdown Tag Team Championships
Natalya vs Carmella
Trouble brewing between the two. After losing to Nikki Bella at TLC, Carmella told Nikki that Natalya was the one who attacked her at Survivor Series, a claim that Natalya denied. Carmella cut a promo about Natalya and her denying attacking Nikki Bella at Survivor Series.
She said that Natalya was jealous of Nikki’ s spotlight. She was then met with “ How you’ doin’?” chants but told the crowd to shut up. She also told Nattie that denying that she attacked Nikki made her a deceiving con artist.
Natalya then entered and took down Carmella, and Carmella started fleeing away, and it went backstage, where Natalya ran into Nikki Bella, and told her that she can’t believe what Carmella said. Nikki then stormed off, leaving Natalya flustered.
The match ended in no contest after both competitors never had the match
Backstage, Baron Corbin was walking and Dasha Fuentes interviewed him and Corbin said that while there is no denying that Kalisto is fast, and called him a mosquito
The Ascension vs The Hype Bros
Before the match starts there are two small clips of each team cutting generic promos about rising and how it’s their time. The Ascension initially knocked Mojo Rawley off and dominate Zack Ryder, until he got a neck breaker, and got the hot tag on Mojo, who got a lot of offense on Viktor.
The Hype Bros then hit the Hype Ryder on Viktor for the win
The Hype Bros defeated The Ascension
The Miz TV with Dean Ambrose
The Miz opens things up by asking the crowd “No You Deserve It chants?”, and brags about how Dolph Ziggler is permanently in his rear view mirror. He then introduced the guest, Dean Ambrose. The Miz asks how angry Ambrose must be regarding the whole Ellsworth situation.
Ambrose said that he wasn’t mad and that The Miz had never seen him angry. Ambrose said that he was surprised at how he took a “minimum wage” guy and then was turned on.
The Miz told Ambrose that he deserved it because he manipulated and used Ellsworth to get under AJ Styles’ skin. Ambrose said that what surprises him is when someone tries to intentionally piss him off.
The Miz then used Maryse as a shield. The Miz then said that at TLC he walked away empty handed, but not anymore, as The Miz had something for Dean Ambrose, the first ever “Miz participation award”, and is met with a “You deserve it” chant from a small portion of the crowd.
Daniel Bryan came out and told Ambrose sarcastically that he couldn’t see Ambrose attack The Miz, but he had something better and announced the main event of the show, where Dean Ambrose would face The Miz. But he did one better and made it an Intercontinental Championship match.
Baron Corbin vs Kalisto
JBL introduced Kalisto as The King Of Flight. Corbin starts off dominant on Kalisto despite the former Lucha Dragon doing multiple impressive dodges on The Lone Wolf’s offenses. Kalisto got Corbin outside and did a moonsault from the ring post, but seemed to land badly on his face. Kalisto managed to get momentum on his side thanks to his speed.
Kalisto tried getting more offense but Corbin countered it into The End Of Days, pinning him once more.
Baron Corbin defeated Kalisto
Nikki Bella meets tonight’s special guest
Nikki Bella met child singer sensation Sophia Grace backstage, who made a surprise appearance and spoke about a music video featuring her and some of the other WWE women.
Chad Gable vs Tyler Breeze
The match has some pretext shown in a backstage segment on the pre-show where Alpha got “pulled over” by the fashion police, Breezango. Chad Gable starts off the match against Tyler Breeze. Gable got attacked outside, giving Prince Pretty the momentum. However, things shift and Gable manages to transition a small package into a suplex to pin Breeze to 3.
Chad Gable defeated Tyler Breeze
Alexa Bliss’ Championship celebration
Alexa Bliss got the pyro as she lifted her championship in the ring. A section of the crowd started chanting for Becky Lynch and Alexa mentioned last week how Becky called her a “word that rhymed with witch”, and said that “this b**ch runs the Smackdown Women’s division”. Becky Lynch then came out and said that she couldn't stand that someone like Alexa leading the division
Alexa said that unlike, Becky she doesn't care about getting love and admiration from the WWE Universe. Becky said that she wanted a rematch immediately, and while Alexa teased it by removing her jacket, she rolled out of the ring and walked away.
The Miz(c) vs Dean Ambrose - Intercontinental Championship Match
The Lunatic Fringe started things off in his favor by trying to hit a dive through the middle ropes, The Miz put Maryse in front of him. After the commercial break, The Miz had the advantage, and once more continued to tease with the Yes! chants and Daniel Bryan's running knees.
The Miz attempted a Skull-Crushing Finale which Ambrose countered into an attempt at the Dirty Deeds. The Miz tried the Figure-4 Leg Lock unsuccessfully, and then started working on Ambrose’s legs. He managed to finally get the Figure-4 locked in, however, Ambrose was able to reach the ropes.
Ambrose was selling a hurt leg but managed to get the topé suicida on The Miz. The Miz later started doing the Yes! chants and kicked Ambrose multiple times before Ambrose reversed it to a small package, and then a rope rebound lariat onto the Intercontinental Champion.
From the top rope, Maryse then gave Ambrose a sweep on the leg which led to him falling on the wrong part of his body. Ellsworth came out again and tried to prevent Maryse from further interfering, but ended up distracting the referee while Ambrose had The Miz clearly in a small package, but was unable to get the full count thanks to the referee being distracted.
Ambrose then realized that Ellsworth was there, and he ended up getting distracted by him, and The Miz hit the skull crushing finale onto Ambrose,retaining his title.
The Miz defeated Dean Ambrose to retain the Intercontinental Championship
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