EDITOR’S NOTE: One other bit about Jelly Roll, in order to best convey the sheer amount of Jelly Roll on this show.
One other week of “WWE SmackDown” got here, and Jelly Roll was here over again, wrestling Kit Wilson and embedding himself further into the WWE Championship feud between Randy Orton and Cody Rhodes. Jelly is the newest within the long line of wrestling fans who became celebrities and appealed to the latent clout-chaser inside a promoter, leveraging their fame and talent in a single industry to yoink someone’s spot from beneath them despite the indisputable fact that it’s their chosen vocation. They’re those with stacked medical bills due to it.
Oh, they usually’re also normally a lot better at it. And with Jelly, endearing as one may find him, that’s most definitely the case. His match with Wilson was pretty much as good as Wilson is within the ring and as not bad as Jelly may very well be. He didn’t drop Wilson on his head, and he knows how to do the moves. It’s just doing the stuff in between the moves that he doesn’t excel at, and he’s also just not believable in any respect.
Then he won the match, which, sure, he’s the more popular guy, objectively speaking. But then he returned within the most important event… why? Like seriously, why is Jelly Roll embedded throughout the WWE Championship program? It’s Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton feuding; they’ve loads of well-known wrestling friends and third parties that you could possibly usher in if you happen to really needed to. But apart from that, they didn’t need anyone else.
This was presupposed to be probably the greatest feuds, the best stories to inform, and it’s being presented as Orton and Rhodes face each other, but first, what does Jelly Roll think? In the midst of a brawl between Orton and Rhodes, a really, really long brawl between Orton and Rhodes, Jelly Roll got here right down to the ring to get between them and, I assume, attempt to stop them from fighting – because that at all times works, doesn’t it? After which he got hit with a terrible-looking RKO and melodramatized the remainder of the show together with his face on the mat.
Great effort on his part, do not get me unsuitable. Nevertheless it’s the very indisputable fact that there’s a star embroiled in a feud set to most important event WrestleMania. Especially once they’re nowhere near the extent of a Bad Bunny, or perhaps a Stephen Amell – and possibly he would have much more of a reason to be involved with Rhodes.
On the close of the show, the main target was more, “Oh, Jelly Roll got RKO’d,” quite than what was occurring beyond the 2 men who will probably be fighting for the industry’s top title. And that becomes quite damning for the industry, the more one thinks about it.
Written by Max Everett