Jelly Roll on His WWE Wrestling Future, His Management Being Against Him Wrestling, His Reason Why He Wanted To Lose His In-Ring Debut Match, & The Rock Offering To Help Him

Musician and CMT Awards winner Jelly Roll has made several appearances for WWE over the past year including him making his official in-ring debut at this past August’s SummerSlam 2025 event in a tag team match with Randy Orton against Logan Paul & Drew McIntyre.

A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast featured Jelly Roll as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Jelly Roll’s thoughts about his current plans for a potential return to WWE in the future.

“I will wrestle again, for sure. I want to run it back. I want to do one more. I know why Bad Bunny had to do Backlash now because I know he walked out of that ring that night [after his first match] knowing how much more he could give.”

Jelly Roll also gave his thoughts about if he wants to compete in a singles match next and him wanting a longer run in WWE and to wrestle weekly for several months.

“I don’t really know what I want. But one, a dream scenario is: I’d like to get involved for like a run. Like, I’d like to wrestle every Friday, you know what I mean? Like, I’d like to get involved for like a 6-9 month run. But I definitely got to do one more though, man.

It’s like anything else in life. You did it once and you think you were prepared, but you wasn’t. And you leave there, all I could think about is everything I know I could have done a little better.”

Jelly Roll also gave his thoughts about how he was originally supposed to take some time off this past summer but he wanted to wrestle instead despite his management not wanting him to do it.

“Before Wrestlemania in Las Vegas, I’d already got down like 60 or 70 pounds, and I started looking at it as a God thing, man. I travel like 300 days a year. I travel so hard that my management this year was very intentional about giving me more time off. So they had booked the entire month of July off for me, except for this one thing, where I was going to host Kimmel for a couple days, and I was going to have the whole month off, and I was going to stay here and write my album, because I hadn’t wrote in a year. I’ve been just taking time off writing to just allow life to happen. I started calling management January, and was like, ‘Hey, man, I think I’m going to be able to use July to wrestle at SummerSlam like I told Triple H I wanted to do.’ And as you can imagine, management was so against it. Nobody on my team was cheering for this to be a reality. You know, that’s another fun thing to talk about. But I talked to management, they’re just like, ‘Hey, man, you know, it’s gonna cost you a lot of money. You got time to write. You’re always complaining about not having time with your family. Have you ran this by your wife?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I prayed about it, I talked to my wife and kids. They’ll come see me in Orlando.’ I was like, I want to move down there and just move to the PC for the month. This is January, and I’m like, I want to rent two houses, and I want to put a studio in one house, and I’ll write them up while I’m icing down every day, or see if my what my body can handle, because I didn’t know what I was going to be able to handle or not. And they were like, look, you know, keep thinking about it.

Then as we get close to WrestleMania, I was like, Hey, man, if I’m going to do this at SummerSlam, what’s up? They were like, ‘Can you do a ring check the night of WrestleMania?’ I was like, no problem. I showed up, and I was like, what time is the ring check? They were like, ‘Can you wait till midnight?’ And I was like, ‘Yep, no problem.’ I stayed there and watched. I was going to watch the whole show anyways. And at midnight, I walked into that room with Bruce Pritchard and a couple of the producers, and I proved to him I could take a bump for about an hour and a half. I don’t want to say it was a rib, but they were definitely there to see if I had any bitching in me.”

Jelly Roll also gave his thoughts about his reason why he wanted to lose his in-ring debut match at WWE’s SummerSlam 2025 event.

“I fought that immediately. It’s one of the first things I fought was like, Yo, man, I don’t want to go out [on top]. 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.”

Jelly Roll also gave his thoughts about the pitch he made to WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque about losing his in-ring debut match.

“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 also gave his thoughts about how Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson offered to help him ahead of his in-ring debut match at SummerSlam 2025 and Johnson praising his ring work after the match.

“Just, all praises. Because I talked to him about it, then I was like, ‘Man, I think I want to get involved in a match.’ He’s like, ‘You can get healthy enough?’ I was like, Yeah, man. He’s like, ‘Go shoot for it, brother.’ DJ’s energy is, how can I help? Like, he’s got that energy in life. Anytime you get around him, it’s automatically processed. and then he’s like how can I help? So he immediately, I’m like, I’m having a match, and he stops, we’re walking, and he stops and looks at me and goes, ‘How can I help?’ I’m like no I got it, I’m talking to Triple H. Like, we’re good. He’s like, just let me know. You know what I mean. But like, that instant, like, that’s his spirit in life.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com, Fightful.com 1, 2, & 3