Musician Jelly Roll has looked back on his WWE debut, and why he pushed for the ending to be changed.
The Grammy-nominated singer became the latest celebrity to step inside a WWE ring at SummerSlam 2025 as he teamed with Randy Orton to take on the team of Logan Paul and Drew McIntyre. Given that many celebrity matches see the famous face emerge as the victor when all is said and done, this was not the case at the Premium Live Event.
The ending of the match saw Paul hit a frog splash onto Jelly Roll to pick up the win over the singer and Orton. While speaking with Chris Van Vliet, Jelly Roll confirmed that as soon as he found out the finish, he protested the decision:
“I fought that immediately. It’s one of the first things I fought was like, Yo, man, I don’t want to go out [on top].”
When asked if the original plan was for the babyfaces to win, the singer confirmed that it was and went on to plead his case to Triple H:
“It was originally, babyfaces up. So the day of, I’d been dropping it in on Shane [Helms] the whole time. Shane, I want to lose this match. And he was like, ‘Brother, you got to take that up with them.’ I was like, Cool. So I came down and me and Triple H talked about it right there at the ring that day. I said, ‘You know what I’m coming to talk about?’ He said, ‘I want to hear it.’ And I gave it to him. And he was like, All right, all right.”
Jelly Roll Had 3 Reasons Why He Wanted To Lose WWE Match
When asked about the pitch he made to WWE’s Chief Content Officer, Jelly Roll noted that he had multiple reasons why the finish should be changed, which Triple H agreed to:
“It was an easy pitch. I was just like, it took three things. One, it’s the right thing to do, let’s just start at core values here. No celebrity has any business coming in and pinning a wrestler on their first run without some extreme circumstance. If Randy comes out and double RKOs everybody while I’m out and puts me on top of somebody. But two, I can always come back, I don’t think any other celebrity ever really cared enough to think full angle through. If I lose this, I love Logan. That’s my friend in real life. But every time he’s in that ring, now he’s got to wonder if at some point he’s going to hear, ‘You know I got it, so come and get it’ [Who’s Your Daddy? By Toby Keith]. He’s got to wonder about that a little bit. Drew too. If I really owe one of them, it’s Drew. So that was part two of it. I was also smart enough to be like, Yo, I want to angle in. And I was like, I don’t want to be remembered as a celebrity who did the thing, and then Triple H stopped me. This will probably be on Unreal because it was so gangster. He said, ‘I will tell you this though.’ He said Floyd wanted to lose to The Big Show. I don’t know if I should be sharing that, but he told me that, and I thought that was cool.”
Also in the interview, Jelly Roll stated that he is looking to return to the ring at some point as he does not want the SummerSlam match to be a one-off.
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