After beating AJ 3 times in screwy finishes, he's delusional and thinks he can beat him in a real match.
>>2023344
Yes but AJ was about to win anyway. Ellsworth didn't need to interfere. More going on here!
>>2023348
it was probably because if AJ won clean there would be absolutely no reason for their tuesday wwe title match
>>2023685
Except for the fact that he won his shot on the last episode of Smackdown.
>>2023343
Maybe he thought AJ would keep climbing and get the title instead of stopping and going to beat the shit out of him.
Maybe in his grand delusion, he pictured AJ getting the strap and having a big staredown with him at the end of the event since he gets the next shot.
Or he's just a moron.
>>2023348
He wasn't coming out to interfere originally, he was coming out to do an old fashioned staredown since he's the #1 contender and seriously thinks he's a cool guy and badass wrestler. Then that inadvertently got Dean the win so he had to push over the ladder to stop it.
>>2027162
I can buy this. Especially since he's delusional enough to think he and Dean are still friends and he can make things right again by offering Dean a title match later. So maybe his original plan was to kneal down by Dean to check on him while staring down AJ.