Rapper and musician Jelly Roll made his pro wrestling debut at WWE SummerSlam 2025 alongside Randy Orton, with the pair taking up Logan Paul and Drew McIntyre. For the match, Jelly Roll was already noticeably slimmer in comparison with previous appearances and, up to now, has come down 160 lbs. since his heaviest in 2020.
In a segment through the latest “WWE Unreal” season, Jelly Roll opened up about his lifelong weight reduction struggle. “I used to be a chunky kid, as you could possibly imagine, like an excellent fat kid and I loved donuts, and as an alternative of calling me ‘Jelly Donut’ [my mother] called me ‘Little Jelly Roll,’ and it just stuck,” he said, joking that if his mom called him “Slim Jim” as an alternative, he may be sporting a six pack.
Jelly Roll then claimed that he used to look at celebrities come up within the industry and appear on WWE, making him wonder if he’d ever turn into famous enough to have the consideration to do the identical. “It was Monday night ‘Raw’ in Nashville, 2023. And Randy Orton’s there, and it was super, super cool and that was the primary time I used to be like, ‘Dude, I’m famous enough, they let me get entangled!’ So it was really cool,” he recalled about his segment where he got physically involved with Dominik Mysterio.
‘I used to be so big that it took two grown men to get me to rise up’
Fast forward to SummerSlam 2024, Jelly Roll remembered trying his hand at John Cena’s Five-Knuckle Shuffle, where he realized just how serious his weight-problem now was. “I hang onto a rope and R-Truth’s got one arm, Miz has got one other arm, and at that moment I spotted: I used to be so big that it took two grown men to get me to rise up,” he admitted. “I knew that if I didn’t do something, it was going to kill me.” Jelly Roll then claimed that leaving SummerSlam 2024 left him determined to not only return the next yr, but come back as a unique human being.
“I just sort of shot my shot and said, ‘Hey, Triple H, I’m losing this weight, man. Like, what’s up?’ You recognize what I mean? ‘I’m dead serious about this,'” he added concerning the conversation he had with Paul “Triple H” Levesque to pitch his return to WWE. “I walked into that ring that night, under 300 lbs. for the primary time since I used to be probably fourteen years old,” he added. “That exact number? 330 lbs.? Was the precise time I jumped off the horse the last time I attempted to lose that weight. On a selfish level, I would like this – this might motivate me to push past that number I’ve never seen before on the dimensions.”
Keeping true to his word since “WWE Unreal” was filmed, Jelly Roll has visibly transformed himself and claims he’s up for yet one more match or perhaps a six to nine month run as a full-time pro wrestler.
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