WWE SmackDown Live Results 13th December 2016, Latest SmackDown Live winners, review and video highlights

The episode begins with James Ellsworth backstage and he’s clearly under the weather as he sneezes and coughs all over Daniel Bryan and Shane McMahon’s office. McMahon and Bryan tell Ellsworth that he isn’t fit to compete tonight and announced that they will find a new #1 contender tonight.

Miz TV

The show kicks off with Miz TV with the first guest being none other than WWE World Champion – AJ Styles. Styles says that even though Ellsworth escaped from his wrath again tonight, he would soon rip Ellsworth from limb to limb. Styles added that there was no one on his level to which the Miz replied that he'd made the Intercontinental Championship legendary and hat he'd defeated the man that AJ had been feuding with for months – Dean Ambrose – just last week.

As the two of them faced off in the middle of the ring, Dean Ambrose's music hit and he made his way to the ring. He was followed out by Dolph Ziggler. Ziggler told Miz that he was hiding behind Maryse's skirt to which Miz takes exception and hit a Skull Crushing Finale to Ziggler. Ambrose followed it up with a Dirty Deeds on Miz.

Styles saw all this and just walked away as Ambrose also hit a Dirty Deeds on Ziggler. The lights then went off as Luke Harper appeared and clotheslined Ambrose's head off.