After delivering a chokeslam to Austin Theory at WWE SummerSlam 2024, Jelly Roll immediately sought out WWE Chief Content Officer Triple H backstage to share his desire to compete in a match. Speaking on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, Jelly Roll described the pivotal conversation.
“Well, I’m walking up into Gorilla, and I’m obviously losing my mind. I’m definitely a very inflated version of myself, and I see Triple H, and I’m like, ‘Triple H, I got to do this again. I got to take a match, bro. I’m gonna go lose 100 pounds and come back and take a match,'” Jelly Roll recounted. “For the record, I had had a big disconnect between what 100 pounds was gonna feel like and how much I actually needed to lose… But I was in my mind, I’m all jacked up on Mountain Dew. I’m like, Dude, I’m coming back. We’re gonna do this, man.”
Jelly Roll shared his impression of Triple H during their interaction, noting his straightforward yet genuine demeanor. “And what I love about Triple H is he’s very direct, he’s serious, but he’s sincere,” he observed. “There’s a real sincerity in his face. You see the seriousness. But I think you got to look at his eyes are sincere. His face is serious. His eyes are sincere.”
Triple H listened to Jelly Roll’s pitch and gave him a clear condition for the opportunity. “And I seen them eyes, they really soften. He shook my hand. He said, ‘Brother, you lose that weight, you got a home here.'”
This conversation set the stage for Jelly Roll’s eventual journey to train and compete in a WWE ring a year later at SummerSlam 2025 in a tag team match, where he and Randy Orotn lost to Drew McIntyre and Logan Paul.
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