Jelly Roll urged to lose his debut tag team match at WWE SummerSlam, where he and Randy Orton lost to Logan Paul and Drew McIntyre. Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Roll explained his reasoning and how he pitched the idea to management.
“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.’
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.
It was an easy pitch. 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… Two, I can always come back, I don’t think any other celebrity ever really cared enough to think full angle through. 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. 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.”
