8 Ups & 2 Downs From WWE SmackDown (Dec 22 - Results & Review)

3. AJ Styles Gives A Reason

He's not a perfect person. There's many things he wished he didn't do, but he continues learning. OK, who had using lyrics from Hoobastank's 'The Reason' down as a way to contextualise AJ Styles attacking LA Knight on last week's episode of SmackDown? Nobody? Not surprising.

This week's opening promo was really, really solid. Sure, it was standard WWE revolving door stuff, but all four workers involved can talk and played their roles to a tee. AJ explained that he went after Knight last week because LA capitalised on his injury to team with John Cena and thus get a crack at Roman Reigns.

That made sense, and is a valid-enough reason for the sudden ambush.

Styles is p*ssed off that someone else benefitted from his misery, basically. That led to LA and Randy Orton coming out for some chatter of their own, and GM Nick Aldis strolling out to keep the peace whilst simultaneously making a mega-match for later on.