Jelly Roll Reveals Triple H Conversation That Led To WWE Debut Loss

Jelly Roll has revealed details of the conversation with Triple H that led to his debut match loss at WWE SummerSlam.

The rapper and songwriter made his in-ring debut at the August WWE Premium Live Event and has revealed that the original plan would have seen the celebrity victorious.

Jelly Roll teamed with Randy Orton to take on Logan Paul & Drew McIntyre on the first night of the first two-night WWE SummerSlam.

During an appearance on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Jelly Roll revealed that he fought to lose to the match, appealing to backstage producer Shane Helms and Triple H, saying:

“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 about the pitch he made, Jelly Roll would go on to lay out his reasoning for wanting to lose as a the celebrity on a major WWE PLE, stating:

“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.”

Jelly Roll previously revealed that Paul Heyman was among the WWE names he asked for advice.

Following the success of Jelly Roll and Bad Bunny in WWE, Triple H has also discussed the reason for celebrity involvement.

Transcript from chrisvanvliet.com.