Jelly Roll Makes WWE Debut at SummerSlam 2024
Jelly Roll celebrates with R-Truth and Miz
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Jelly Roll took the wrestling world by storm at WWE’s SummerSlam 2024, making his debut in the ring on Saturday, August 3, at the Cleveland Browns Stadium.
The singer teamed up with wrestlers Miz and R-Truth to take on Austin Theory and Grayson Waller. Footage of the match shows Jelly Roll lifting Theory into the air by his neck and slamming him back onto the mat, as well as using a metal chair to hit one of his opponents over the back.
A longtime fan of the sport, Jelly Roll expressed his gratitude to WWE for including him in this year’s event, writing on social media, “Crazy — I lived a childhood dream tonight in the craziest way I’ve ever lived it. Wow. Man thank you WWE for everything. What a night.”
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Jelly Roll has been a key face of the WWE’s ad campaign for SummerSlam 2024, starring in a promo where he fantasized about being a wrestling champion. In another video, he exited a car exclaiming, “The Jelly Roll era has begun, baby!”
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Jelly Roll also performed his latest single, “Liar,” one of the SummerSlam theme songs. The other theme song is his song “Dead End Road,” which also appears on the Twisters soundtrack.
“When you see somebody succeed at the level that they have, like he has, and is yet a massive fan of what we do, that’s the best for us,” Triple H, retired wrestler and chief creative officer for WWE, said of Jelly Roll. “So when we can all get together and we love his music and he loves our product, and we share that passion together, man, this is when it’s [the] absolute best.”
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Roll quipped in response, “We’re watching every week.”
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While Saturday was his debut inside the ring, this isn’t Jelly Roll’s first time going up against WWE wrestlers. In November 2023, the musician had an altercation on the sidelines with Dominik Mysterio and JD McDonagh during a WWE Raw card in Nashville.
“It was my hometown of Nashville, Tennessee. I said, ‘Whatever it takes, we got to be in the building,’” Jelly Roll said in an interview with WWE after the November match. “Dude, I’m still shaking man. When I stood up and everybody cheered, I’m like, ‘I’m doing the right thing. I am not wrong here.’ And I just went for it, dude. It was awesome.”
He added, “It has been one of the most amazing experiences. I have been starstruck all night. I have been to award shows, I have been to all kinds of crazy stuff, I have never been more starstruck than I was back here tonight.”
