Jelly Roll Credits Austin Theory For Selling Chokeslam At WWE SummerSlam

Jelly Roll took out Austin Theory with a chokeslam Austin at SummerSlam 2024, and he has a lot of praise toward Theory for that moment. The rapper took out Theory during the attendance announcement segment at 2024’s big summer PLE. He spoke about the moment on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, noting that it helped lead to his eventual match at this year’s SummerSlam.

Jelly Roll teamed with Randy Orton against Drew McIntyre and Logan Paul at this August’s event. You can see a couple of highlights below:

On his previous Raw appearance and Randy Orton interaction:

“It was the best rub ever, dude. I’m sure y’all know this about the Viper already, but none of that happened in rehearsal. In rehearsal, I was supposed to push Dom into him, and he was supposed to table him, you know, the Randy table drop. So I was gonna push him back, Randy’s gonna be there, and I was gonna push him. Instead, it was like so when Randy does it, walks over to me. I was like, Oh, this is the coolest thing ever, dude. And it was cool because obviously I was getting stoned in the back, so that’s what he’s alluding to. I smelled like a big reefer, but he’s just so awesome. And then I was in the back that night doing my interview, I think maybe with Jackie, and he stopped and crashed my interview and put his arm around me and was like, Man, I’m proud of you, man. A lot of the celebrities have come here, gave the big rub on camera right then too. And I would have never guessed that that was going to us being able to wrestle together.”

On giving Austin Theory a chokeslam at SummerSlam:

“Which was all Austin Theory. But once again, the greatest heels make the babyfaces look incredible. That’s all Austin. I mean, that dude’s a seller and a half. But he was the dude I wanted to Undertaker style it, you know, because that’s what I grew up watching. Throw the arm over, kind of like I did Logan in the actual match. Thank you Taker for giving me that nod. But when I went to it, Austin was like, ‘One arm, it will get higher.’ I was like, You sure? He was like, ‘Trust me, bro.’ This is like breaking all kayfabe, straight shoot. He looks at me and goes, ‘My brother, I’m going to jump through the building. I got you dog.’ Because I was so nervous. I made him make us work it out on a crash pad 30 times. They were so over it, him and The Miz, but they were so patient with me. They were like, it’s this easy. And me and Ron Killings are homies. So he was just back there laughing. He’s like, Jelly, I swear you’re gonna be fine. I was like, okay.”

On how the spot led to a match:

“Well, I’m walking up into Gorilla, and I’m obviously losing my mind. I’m definitely a very inflated version of myself, and I see Triple H, and I’m like, ‘Triple H, I got to do this again. I got to take a match, bro. I’m gonna go lose 100 pounds and come back and take a match.’ For the record, I had had a big disconnect between what 100 pounds was gonna feel like and how much I actually needed to lose. That’s a whole different story. But I was in my mind, I’m all jacked up on Mountain Dew. I’m like, Dude, I’m coming back. We’re gonna do this, man. And what I love about Triple H is he’s very direct, he’s serious, but he’s sincere. There’s a real sincerity in his face. You see the seriousness. But I think you got to look at his eyes are sincere. His face is serious. His eyes are sincere. And I seen them eyes, they really soften. He shook my hand. He said, ‘Brother, you lose that weight, you got a home here.'”

On Why He Set His Weight Loss Goal At 100 pounds:

“I guess in my mind, it was like a realistic shot, I should be able to lose 100 pounds in a year. I’ve already lost 50 or 60 pounds in this amount of time. I don’t know what I was thinking, Chris, I was just doing screwball math. You know what I mean? I was just gassing myself into just shooting my shot.”

On If He Believed Triple H:

“For sure, I could see it in his face. Like I said, he’s got a serious face, but it’s also very sincere.”