Triple H Says Drew McIntyre And Randy Orton Are Excited About Working With Jelly Roll

Jelly Roll is set to make his in-ring debut at WWE SummerSlam when he teams with Randy Orton to take on Logan Paul & Drew McIntyre.

The bout was set up on WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event after Jelly saved Orton from an attack by Paul. When he wasn’t looking, McIntyre connected with a Claymore.

Speaking during the WWE Evolution post-show, Triple H commented on Jelly Roll making his way to WWE.

“Jelly has been a fan his whole life. He actually went to school for a brief period of time to try and become a wrestler before he became one of the biggest performing acts in the world. He dedication to this, he’s one of those guys who is living in the Performance Center and doing this every day. My hats off to him,” he said.

Later in the press conference, Shaheem Reid of Variety asked when it was decided Jelly would get in the ring.

“Probably from the first time I met Jelly he has been saying, ‘I need to wrestle. I really want to do this. I’m telling you, I’ll be more dedicated than anybody else.’ He always says it. A lot of people say that and sometimes you end up where they think they want to do it and they think they’re going to be dedicated to it and they’re not. Other times you end up with Bad Bunny or Jelly or somebody that is super dedicated and wants to go all in. He’s been saying it. He told me a couple years ago, ‘Dude, I’m going to lose all this weight. I’m going to stay on you and I want to do something big with you guys.’ We’ve stayed in touch, he did exactly what he said. It might have been WrestleMania week that while we were out there, he went to one of our rings while we were in Vegas and we had him do some stuff. Everybody who was there was like, ‘Wow. He gets this.’ He proceeded to lose even more weight and the timing was right.

He’s at a place where he’s in his weight loss journey looking to get to the next level and increase that loss. He asked if he could come to the Performance Center and train with our trainers and get in the ring cardio-wise and get with our trainers, nutritionist, and our people, and base in between his tours out of the Performance Center and document all that. Part of that was he wanted us to see what he can do. He’s been in that ring every single day just going at it. He’s dedicated to it. I haven’t heard him complain once about being sore. He’s all in. He’s like a giddy kid.

“I’m excited for him. It’s a funny thing, how people look at it. Randy Orton is so excited to be doing this for him. Drew McIntyre is excited. Logan Paul (is excited). As soon as we mentioned any of this, those guys were like, ‘Oh my God, yeah. Let’s go.’ It’s fun and exciting for them and is an opportunity to do something different in a business where this is very serious a lot of the time. If you think about it as an actor doing the roles that you do. To have one that is different every now and then is incredible. They are super into it. His excitement for it is infectious. I get videos of him training every day where I’m like, ‘Wow.’ He’s busting his ass. It’s going to be incredible.”

Jelly Roll delivered a chokeslam to Austin Theory at WWE SummerSlam 2024.

On WWE SmackDown, Jelly’s performance was interrupted by Logan, officially setting up the storyline and match between the two parties.

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