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Jelly Roll Steps Into the WWE SummerSlam Ring for His Wrestling Debut


Jelly Roll made his surprise wrestling debut during the WWE’s SummerSlam event on Saturday, August 3

Footage of the match shared via Instagram Reels shows Jelly Roll (real name: Jason Bradley DeFord) lifting Theory into the air by his neck, before slamming him back onto the mat. In another video shared via Instagram Reels leading up to SummerSlam, the singer exited a car exclaiming, “The Jelly Roll era has begun, baby!” “When you see somebody succeed at the level that they have, like he has, and is yet a massive fan of what we do, that’s the best for us,” Triple H, retired wrestler and chief creative officer for WWE said of Jelly Roll in a video shared via Instagram on Saturday.

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