Jelly Roll has detailed getting the finish of his SummerSlam match changed.
At SummerSlam 2025, Jelly Roll teamed with Randy Orton to take on Drew McIntyre and Logan Paul. On the night, fans were surprised to see the debuting celebrity take the pin, but it was later reported by Dave Meltzer in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that Jelly Roll had actually gotten the finish changed after he was initially slated to win the match. Now, the Grammy-nominated artist has recalled pitching for his team to lose at SummerSlam.
Speaking with Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Jelly Roll first detailed going to Triple H to discuss changing the outcome of his match.
“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.”
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When Van Vliet asked for the reasons behind wanting to lose, Jelly Roll said a celebrity has no business pinning a wrestler in their debut match, noting that he isn’t the only celebrity to have wanted to lose in their first in-ring appearance.
“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. 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.”
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Having to balance any wrestling appearances with his music career, Jelly Roll is yet to return to WWE since SummerSlam, although he’s certainly not shying away from wanting to compete again.
Elsewhere in the interview, Jelly Roll revealed that his dream scenario is to have a full-time run with WWE. You can read more about that here.
As always, we’ll aim to provide any further updates on Jelly Roll’s SummerSlam debut as soon as we hear more.
