At this year's SummerSlam, rapper, singer, and songwriter Jelly Roll teamed up with Randy Orton to battle Logan Paul and Drew McIntyre. Much to the surprise of fans, he and The Viper didn't walk out of the two-night PLE with the win.
Unlike many celebrities who show up in WWE, Jelly Roll impressed fans with both his slimmed-down physique and in-ring talents. Speaking with Chris Van Vliet, the popular singer explained why he was the one who pushed for that loss.
"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],'" Jelly Roll revealed. "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."
Asked to elaborate on how he pitched his loss, Jelly Roll reflected on his approach to changing Triple H's mind about the match's finish:
"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."
You can hear more from Jelly Roll on his in-ring debut in the player below.