An angle building up WWE SummerSlam went down on late-night TV last night.
Just a couple weeks away from making his WWE in-ring debut, country music star Jelly Roll guest hosted Wednesday night’s edition of “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” His upcoming tag partner Randy Orton was a guest on the show. But seven minutes into the interview, the two were interrupted by their SummerSlam opponents.
Drew McIntyre crashed the show, insulting Jelly Roll by calling him “trailer trash.” A brawl between Orton and McIntyre then broke out and spilled backstage. Logan Paul took that opportunity to confront Jelly Roll and bully him by slapping him in the face — but it was Jelly Roll who came out on top after chokeslamming Paul through the talk show’s desk.
Full video of the angle can be watched below:
At Saturday Night’s Main Event last weekend, it was confirmed that Orton & Jelly Roll will face McIntyre & Paul at SummerSlam 2025. The two-night PLE will emanate live from MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on Saturday, August 2 and Sunday, August 3.
This will be the 40-year-old Jelly Roll’s first match, but he’s a big WWE fan and has made multiple appearances for the company dating back to 2023. Jelly Roll told “The Pat McAfee Show” that, in preparation for this match, he’s been training at the WWE Performance Center training every day for the past few weeks.
Jelly Roll is taking his pro wrestling training seriously.
The award-winning singer/songwriter is scheduled to make his in-ring debut at WWE SummerSlam, where he’ll team with Randy Orton in a tag match against Logan Paul and Drew McIntyre.
During an appearance on the Pat McAfee Show Wednesday, Jelly Roll said he’s been living in Orlando for the past few weeks and training at the WWE Performance Center every day to prepare.
“I have quietly been living in Orlando for about three or four weeks at the PC. Showing up every day like a piece of furniture over there. They can’t kick me out. I’m there from the moment I wake up till it closes almost. Matt Bloom’s my coach.“
He also mentioned that The Undertaker and Michelle McCool came in to give him pointers the other day.
“Undertaker comes in with Michelle, his wife, and they come in and say, ‘Hey, we just want to watch for a minute, just kind of chill, is that cool?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, for sure.’ This is who he is as a human. The entire three-hour session, he and his wife stood on those ropes and just gave me pointer after pointer.”
He also says the wrestling training has helped him in his weight loss journey.
“I knew how physically grueling it was, and I knew that’s what I needed at this point in my weight loss journey that this would be the fire that I needed but man, if I took my shirt off right now, not only would you be appalled by the loose skin, but you would see I am beaten.”
Jelly Roll’s full appearance on The Pat McAfee Show is available below:
Before they team up at WWE SummerSlam, Randy Orton and Jelly Roll will team up on another entertainment venture.
WWE announced during Monday’s Raw that music star Jelly Roll will be the guest host on this Wednesday, July 16 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, with Orton appearing as a guest on the program.
Jelly Roll made an appearance on Friday’s WWE SmackDown to kick off a storyline also involving Orton, Logan Paul, and Drew McIntyre. Orton intervened as Paul menaced Jelly, then McIntyre aligned with Paul in attacking Orton.
Both Paul and Jelly Roll also were involved in this past weekend’s Saturday Night’s Main Event episode which featured Orton vs. McIntyre in a singles match. When the dust settled, an Orton and Jelly Roll vs. Paul and McIntyre tag team match was made official for the two-night SummerSlam set for August 2 and August 3 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey in the New York market.
Jimmy Kimmel Live airs each weeknight at 11:35 p.m. Eastern time on ABC.
Jelly Roll is officially set to make his in-ring debut at WWE SummerSlam.
The 40-year-old country music star will team up with Randy Orton when they take on Logan Paul & Drew McIntyre at SummerSlam. After the build to the match began on Friday’s SmackDown, it was officially confirmed tonight during Saturday Night’s Main Event.
Orton and McIntyre faced off in a singles match tonight with Jelly Roll and Paul in their respective corners. Jelly Roll and Paul got into it at ringside, which led to McIntyre being distracted and losing to an RKO from Orton.
There was then a post-match angle where Paul attacked Orton. Jelly Roll made the save, dropping Paul with a punch. But when Jelly Roll went to check on Orton, McIntyre laid the musician out with a Claymore.
Later in the show, Jelly Roll & Orton did an interview where they challenged Paul & McIntyre for SummerSlam. WWE has since confirmed the match.
Jelly Roll has been nominated for four Grammys in his music career. He’s a big WWE fan who first interacted with Orton on an episode of Raw in 2023. Some of Jelly Roll’s popularity is due to him being seen as an inspirational figure that’s overcome a difficult past where he dealt drugs and spent time in jail. He’s also dropped approximately 200 pounds from his highest weight.
This is the first two-night SummerSlam in history. It’s being held at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on Saturday, August 2 and Sunday, August 3, and rap star Cardi B will be the host of the show.
Three matches have been announced so far (nights to be announced):
WWE SummerSlam 2025 —
Undisputed WWE Champion John Cena defends against Cody Rhodes
WWE Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton defends against Jade Cargill
Randy Orton & Jelly Roll vs. Drew McIntyre & Logan Paul
There are so many wrestling shows to cover, that we couldn’t do it in 48 minutes, so today’s Wrestling Observer Live with Jim Valley had to go into overtime.
Most of these shows exist because of WWE counterprogramming which I think might be counterproductive.
From Friday, we had Jelly Roll on WWE SmackDown, ROH Supercard of Honor with a match of the year candidate, and many more great matches.
For today, WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event promises to be the most newsworthy one yet, there’s WWE Evolution on Sunday, today’s NXT Great American Bash and the reason for many of these shows: AEW All In Texas.
Music star Jelly Roll and social media personality Logan Paul got physically involved in an angle on Friday’s WWE SmackDown.
In an advertised appearance, Jelly Roll was performing a song on Friday’s episode when Paul interrupted and shouted him down. Randy Orton intervened on Jelly Roll’s behalf, but was laid out by the interfering Drew McIntyre. Paul then pounced on Orton and landed strikes before Jelly Roll took exception and attacked Paul.
Paul made a hasty retreat, but destroyed the Jelly Roll concert set on the stage in retaliation. While Orton and McIntyre will go one-on-one on Saturday Night’s Main Event this weekend, the longer-term direction appears to be McIntyre and Paul vs. Orton and Jelly Roll in a tag team match.
A report emerged this week that Jelly Roll has been training for in-ring action, and has SummerSlam weekend off from his touring schedule.
SummerSlam will take place at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The two-night event is set for Saturday, August 2 and Sunday, August 3. The show will feature John Cena defending the Undisputed WWE Championship against Cody Rhodes.
— Bryan and I will be back tonight talking about all the weekend news with Wrestling Observer Radio.
— Sorry about the problems with the issue this past week. We had a major computer glitch and it’s still not completely fixed but we were able to somehow get enough to do an issue at the last minute. We did get an interview with Kenny Omega up on the site on Friday to somewhat alleviate that. It’s one of the best interviews we’ve done as Omega was very often about his thoughts on his matches with Kazuchika Okada and Gabe Kidd, where he stands physically, his future and so many other topics including how Lucha Libre is affecting the rest of the American and Canadian wrestling scene.
— For this coming weekend, these are the ticket advances for the major wrestling shows:
ROH Supercard of Honor on Friday – unavailable but it’s at the Esports Arena in Arlington, TX, which is a small building.
AEW All Out at Globe Life Field – 20,636. Tony Khan did an interview where he talked about a potential $3 million gate, noting they’ve never done a $2 million show previously. They are probably hovering around the $2.7 million range, or could be slightly lower.
NXT Great American Bash at Center Stage – 593. The place holds 772. It will be sold out but the idea that they didn’t immediately sell out such a small building indicates doing three shows over the same weekend and two the same day in Atlanta was not a good idea. One would think on a different weekend in another city they would have done far better. But this show was always a suicide mission. They did charge very high ticket prices that may have kept people from attending.
WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event at State Farm Arena – 10,731. They are 1,700 shy of capacity. I would have thought Bill Goldbeg’s retirement match in Atlanta would be an instant sellout, but like the afternoon show, they will end up sold out.
WWE Women’ s Evolution at State Farm Arena – 4,804. This will end up as probably the lowest paid for a WWE PPV since since the 2019 Stomping Grounds show in Tacoma. I’m confident it would have been an easy sellout last week at the Mohegan Sun Casino as originally planned. It’s bad in a sense that it took years for WWE to do a show like this after the first one had a somewhat weak advance although it ended up fine and did low levels of viewership (it wasn’t the lowest PPV number but was lower than most). Now this not selling tickets may lead them to believe the concept doesn’t work. For years they didn’t do it based on the idea they believed the concept didn’t work, but with a larger overall start power for women, they did try again. Again, the decision to flood the market this coming weekend very much hurt WWE on the guise of hurting AEW. I guess we’ll know if all these shows do cut into the AEW buy rate, which was the goal of doing all these shows this coming week.
— Donald Trump announced Thursday that he wanted to hold a UFC event on the grounds of the White House in 2026 as part of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. He said he wanted 20,000 to 25,000 people there. We were told by people with knowledge of the area that getting that many would be impossible, but you know how that goes. This is very serious. It’s not something he just said out of the blue and they are talking with UFC about it. Both Jon Jones and Conor McGregor have talked of wanting to be on such a show. Jones, who just retired last week, put himself back into the UFC drug testing protocol after he had pulled out with his retirement announcement last week.
— I have a story up on the front page with the ratings details of the AEW shows I didn’t get into the issue.
— Regarding the Wrestlevotes story from a few days ago and Jelly Roll, WWE sources confirmed the report and said he is scheduled for Smackdown this Saturday and to do something at SummerSlam.
— Bayley will be putting up gear from a recent match for auction with all money going to the families impacted by the tragedy at Camp Mystic girls summer camp.
— There will be a fourth Takayamamania show on 9/3. Minoru Suzuki, Katsuyori Shibata, KENTA and Naomichi Marfufuji will be the main event. Yoshihiro Takayama will be there live and announce who teams with who in that tag match.
— Maple Leaf Pro before about 2,500 in Laval, Quebec last night: Stu Grayson & Evil Uno b Sheldon Jean & Bryce Hanson, Rohan Taja b Hammerstone to keep the Grail Holder title, Thom Latimer b Matt Cardona to keep the NWA title, Michael Allen Richard Clark won scramble over TJP, Mike Bailey, Psycho Mike Rollins, Jonathan Gresham and Bhupinder Gujjar, Doc Gallows & Karl Anderson b David Finlay & Drilla Moloney with the magic killer on Moloney, Gisele Shaw b Shotzi Blackheart to keep the women’s title (finish was messed up b the ref but match said to be good), Josh Alexander b Ace Austin to keep the Canadian men’s title and PCO b Dan Maff in a House of Pain match with Billy Gunn as referee. People were raving about how amazing the crowd reaction to PCO was on the show.
— Among the matches people have raved to me about for this weekend include Alec Price & Jordan Oliver & Marcus Mathers vs. Billie Starkiz & Megan Bayne & Miyu Yamashita from the GCW show last night, Tomohiro Ishii vs. Taichi and El Desperado vs. Kosei Fujita from today’s New Japan show, and Hiroshi Tanahashi vs.Gabe Kidd from Friday’s New Japan show. I’d also recommend FTR vs. The Outunners which was great from last night’s Collision as was Kyle Fletcher vs. Daniel Garcia.
— New Japan and Stardom both sold out Korakuen Hall for shows today.
— In the gauntlet for the final spot in G-1 in the A block, replacing injured Hirooki Goto, Taichi advanced. They did a gauntlet today at Korakuen Hall. Chase Owens first beat Satoshi Kojima. Owens then faced Taichi, which Taichi won. Taichi then beat Ishii in 17:33. Tanahashi beat Tiger Mask, who then announced his retirement for one year from now. Sho & Douki beat Master Wato & Yoh to keep the IWGP jr. tag title and Desperado beat Fujita to keep the IWGP jr. title/
— The A block adds Taichi to Tanahashi, Oleg Boltin, Yota Tsuji, Yuya Uemura, David Finlay, Evil, Sanada, Calllum Newman and Ryohei Oiwa.
— We didn’t get a crowd for Friday at Arena Mexico with Mortos in the main event, but the advance was very strong.
— Update for Raw tomorrow is Bron Breakker vs. Sami Zayn, Jey Uso vs. Bronson Reed, Kairi Sane vs. Roxanne Perez, Seth Rollins vs. Penta and Becky Lynch appearing.
— Bandido is now a double champion having ended Erik Ortiz’s two plus year reign as Riot champion last night in Monterrey.
— The Cauliflower Alley Club is spearheading donations for Wendi Richter, who lost her home and most of her possessions in a fire. You can go to califloweralleyclub.org/donations and put FOR WENDI RICHTER.
— Vincent James McMahon would have turned 111 today had he still been alive. He passed away 41 years ago of cancer.
— Irv Muchnick, who is writing a book about Rikidozan, wrote this to his family, the family of the legendary Sam Muchnick, after seeing Queen of the Ring this weekend:
“I got wind of a new movie called Queen of the Ring, streaming only. I watched last night on Prime. It’s the story of a pioneer woman pro wrestler, Mildred Burke. Review below.
In 1990, when he was running the short-lived daily sports newspaper The National, the late great Frank Deford published his piece about Burke, one of the all-time best sports longform articles. Frank was going to turn it into a book but didn’t have time, and a writer named Jeff Leen picked it up. Leen, investigations editor of the Washington Post, grew up in suburban St. Louis watching my uncle’s Wrestling at the Chase. His Burke bio, published in 2009, is serviceable, but not masterly like Deford. And Leen falls for the hype that the first women’s pro wrestling circuits were more than a backwater.
Burke’s life story is legitimately captivating. Her business partner and husband on paper only, Billy Wolfe, abused her and ran a training and booking center in Columbus, Ohio, that was, for all intents and purposes, a prostitution ring. When Burke and Wolfe split and they eventually had to blend their competing companies, Burke fought June Byers for the “championship” in Atlanta in 1954 – likely the most recent full “shoot” or real match in pro wrestling.
Burke gets a quick mention in my upcoming Rikidozan book because she led a troop who entertained U.S. servicemen in Japan after World War II and helped set up and train the first women wrestlers there. From the 1980s onward, the women in Japan have lapped the athleticism of the men; indeed, they have their own promotions there for the simple reason that every time they do a single guest match on a main men’s promotion’s event, they steal the show and the men are afraid to invite them back. (Burke would like to have believed that the same thing happened in her day in the U.S. – dream on.)
I approached the Queen of the Ring movie with hope. The director-writer, Ash Avildsen, is the son of the late John G. Avildsen, who made the Academy Award-winning Rocky in 1977 and the iconic The Karate Kid in 1984.
Alas, despite pretty good cinematography on a small budget, and a game effort by lead actress Emily Bett Rickards with a predictably lame script, this is an all-time howler. It makes A24’s The Iron Claw look like Citizen Kane.
There are the expected Hollywood hype touches, with steroids. Burke is an avatar of feminism, and a big-time success. She has a house in the hills. When a hotel in the South refuses to give a room to one of her Black wrestlers, Burke buys up every room in the hotel. The Billy Wolfe character is as hapless as he is controlling and violent, in the way of Ike Turner in the Tina Turner biopic What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Some current women wrestlers have roles and of course do the stunt scenes – all with moves that assuredly were not in the repertoire of the 40s and 50s.
The National Wrestling Alliance features not Sam Muchnick, but a “commissioner” out of the “Manhattan” office, played by wrestling personality Jim Cornette. (Cue the bobsled sports organization weighing the Olympic credentials of the Jamaicans in Cool Runnings.) The father of today’s Vincent K. McMahon is there, and he remarks that his young son advises him to go with the lady wrestlers. Uh … Vince McMahon was maybe three years old at the time of that scene, living in a trailer park in North Carolina with Vincent J.’s first wife and her second husband, after he abandoned the family. Young Vince didn’t even know his father until he was a teenager years later.
And maybe the funniest thing of all: Walter Goggins of The White Lotus as Jack Pfeffer, a wrestling promoter. Pfeffer was an influential carny-type operator who developed the career of Buddy Rogers, the biggest box office of the 50s. Pfeffer also was an Eastern European immigrant who spoke with a thick Yiddish accent.”
— Episode three of the current season of WWE LFG is tonight on A&E at 10 p.m.
— AEW Dynamite on Wednesday from Garland,TX, has Samoa Joe vs. Wheeler Yuta, Megan Bayne vs. Tay Melo vs. Queen Aminat a vs. Thekla for the No. 2 spot in the women’s Casino gauntlet, Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli & Young Bucks vs. Adam Page & Will Ospreay & Powerhouse Hobba & Katsuyori Shibata plus confrontations with MJF and Mark Briscoe and Mercedes Mone and Toni Storm.
— Mortos vs. Mistico will be on the live Collision show Thursday night.
— For the same reason as NXT and Dynamite being down a little, I expect much lower than usual rating for SmackDown on Friday and for Collision, the weekend is tough for last night plus it aired live on the West Coast, which always hurts numbers, especially since I don’t know if that was even publicized. It’s likely you’re just getting mostly DVR viewers when it comes to West Coast audiences. So whatever the number is, don’t take it seriously or overreact.
The new issue of the Wrestling Observer is up on the site right now:
Jon Jones announces his retirement, a look back at a remarkable career inside the cage and a story of problems and controversy outside the cage. We look at his background, details on his latest arrest, and thoughts by others.
Preview to Night of Champions, the stories and the direction
Who is Aaron Wolf and why he’s starting his career under more pressure than almost anyone in recent history, his background as a fan, and as an Olympic gold medalist and world champion in judo.
A look at All In Texas and the largest attendance and biggest grossing non-WWE PPV shows in history. What milestones has the show already broken with two weeks out, and what’s the final milestone that it’s touchy if it can break. We look at money adjusted for inflation and AEW’s former biggest shows as well as big shows from Crockett, WCW and the 114 year milestone.
A look at the combined CMLL, AEW, NJPW and RevPro Fantastica Mania at Arena Mexico on Friday. We look at moves CMLL should make to take advantage of its new exposure, popularity and position in the wrestling ecosystem, the big tag team main event and the future booking direction.
The most detailed look at the television ratings for pro wrestling and MMA this past week, including how segments did, demos, did and comparisons to one year ago.
A detailed look and discussion of how Raw on Netflix is doing and on AEW Dynamite on MAX.
More on CMLL’s big week at its other arenas
Next CMLL tournament
AAA booking direction and when WWE takes over the booking and state of current angles
One of the best matches of the year took place on Saturday
Dragon Gate has its biggest event of the year
Lots of G-1 updates
Jun Kasai vs. Desperado looked at
Sabu funeral
Tom Lawlor physical issues discussed in detail
Ronda Rousey physical issues discussed as well
Real American Freestyle early ticket advance
Tetsuya Naito back in action and new name of his faction
Mistico and MJF angle in MLW
More on many AEW and WWE stars health updates
Which company has a higher injury rate by percentage, AEW or WWE, with the actual stats.
AEW ratings comparison between the end of 2024 and the current MAX era
Mortos on wrestling at Arena Mexico after 15 years
Update on AEW performers who aren’t being used
More on the Cung Le lawsuit settlement
Dana White goes into promoting boxing and BJJ
Internet personality arrested for threatening Joe Rogan
Crazy story about Sedriques Dumas and UFC signing him to fight this week and how bad a look that was, and the fight falling apart
Why the UFC main event this week is so big
Update on Ben Askren nd B Penn
Update on Janel Grant lawsuit against Vince McMahon and TKO
How another sport’s move from TV to streaming compares with Raw and what we can learn from it as it relates to Raw
Boxing legend and former MMA champion both talk performing in WWE
Thoughts on Cody Rhodes saying his babyface run is almost over
WWE star doing a record album as a tribute to 1990s All Japan Pro Wrestling
According to sources, several within WWE expect Jelly Roll’s upcoming appearance on SmackDown (7/11) to be the start of something more. There’s anticipation the music superstar will make additional appearances in the near future.
Worth noting: while currently touring, Jelly Roll is off the first weekend of August.
Natalya will challenge Kali Armstrong for the Evolve Women’s Championship on the episode of WWE Evolve that airs next Wednesday. On this week’s show, a contract signing between Armstrong and Natalya ended with Natalya dodging an attack from Armstrong and locking her in the Sharpshooter.
Sheamus – a huge fan of soccer team Liverpool FC – paid tribute to Liverpool player Diogo Jota after the 28-year-old Jota passed away in a car crash today: “Shocked & heartbroken. Rest in peace, Diogo. You’ll never walk alone.”
Other Wrestling
Kenny Omega spoke to the crowd after AEW Dynamite went off the air last night, thanking everyone who has supported the show through its first 300 episodes.
Omega explained the Masa Takanashi shirt he wore on Dynamite and shared a GoFundMe campaign to help Takanashi, who suffered a serious neck injury this March while competing for DDT Pro Wrestling. Omega has made a $10,000 donation to the campaign.
Not many know my beginning days of what started my 11 year journey in Japan. Masa Takanashi was my first roommate in the @ddtpro dormitory in 2008 and soon introduced me to future @AEW athletes, Emi Sakura and Riho. A little later, Hikaru Shida as well.
Whether I was full time in DDT or even @njpw1972, I could always count on Takanashi to help me train at a dojo somewhere. His work to help develop the indies and Joshi scene was never for any selfish reason. He just simply loves to help wherever he can and be involved in the sport of professional wrestling.
I can truly say he is one of the greatest and safest professional wrestlers I’ve had a chance to work with over the years and it’s a shame that I can’t directly introduce his work to fans on an international level. But rest assured, his influence is shown in every performance of mine, no matter what promotion I represent.
Takanashi now is in a dire struggle after a terrible accident in a match. He isn’t the type to seek attention, money, or gratitude, but I’m personally making a choice now to share why he has and will continue to be so special and important to me and the scene as a whole. Thanks to all who’ve read this.
The fans are a huge, major influence on me personally and on AEW. I really believe in listening to fans, and the fans have been so positive about AEW in 2025.
I think it’s the most positive it’s been in four years, maybe ever. Right now we’re having great trends. We’ve been able to grow viewership quarter over quarter, multiple quarters in a row.
Danhausen and his wife Lou Lou welcomed their new baby – a boy named Victor – into the world on July 2.
Former NFL coach Jon Gruden was gifted a box of merchandise from AEW: “This box may have the greatest gift I’ve ever received inside and it comes from Tony Khan and @AEW! I’m a big wrestling fan, and what they’re doing over at AEW is pretty amazing! If you like wrestling, you gotta check this stuff out… but you’ll have to beat me for my belt!”
After announcing earlier this week that he would be undergoing surgery soon, Ric Flair thanked everyone who has reached out to him: “Thank You To Everyone Who Has Reached Out & For All The Thoughts And Prayers! It Means A Lot To Me. I Will Get Through My Health Issues And Be Stronger Than Ever!”
NJPW’s English-language website posted an interview with IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion Gabe Kidd. He spoke about wanting to make his title the top championship in NJPW:
Traditionally, the NEVER Openweight title has been about fighting spirit, about Tokon, but I think the title has been demoted from what it once was. Especially with me holding it, this is the workrate championship. This is about who has the most fighting spirit, who is willing to fight through the pain, who’s going to represent you going through your struggles in daily life and work and everything. This is a championship that asks ‘are you a man, or are you a mouse?’ Put your hands up and let’s find out.
The Global title, to me, means who is the hardest worker. The IWGP World Heavyweight Championship, all those title matches are between 40 year olds, but we’re talking about that being the number one title? This is the number one title, and I will make this the number one title.
Chris Bey celebrated being two years sober from alcohol: “It’s been 2 years since I last drank alcohol and I’m so proud of myself No judgement to anyone who partakes, but it had been somewhat of an issue in my personal life for many years. When I decided to quit, I didn’t think I’d be able to fully commit. Here we are 2 years later. Yay me.”
For the first time since making several appearances during WWE WrestleMania 40 weekend, former WWE co-CEO Stephanie McMahon made her on-screen return during Saturday’s SummerSlam in Cleveland, Ohio.
Unlike WrestleMania, McMahon didn’t cut any promos but was shown in the crowd clapping and having fun.
Former WWE Tag Team Champion and legend Arn Anderson made his on-screen return to the company as part of Cody Rhodes’ entrance.
Anderson, the former manager of Rhodes in AEW, gave Rhodes a pep talk as Rhodes was making his way to the ring for his main event match against Solo Sikoa. Anderson said that he had gone through the locker room and found some allies for Rhodes due to the Bloodline likely getting involved during the main event.
It’s Anderson’s first on-screen appearance since his departure from AEW earlier this year. It’s unknown as of now whether this is a one-off appearance or if he is back in WWE in some capacity.
Cleveland native and musical artist Machine Gun Kelly made a surprise appearance as part of fellow native Logan Paul’s intro ahead of his United States title defense against eventual new champion L.A. Knight. MGK took part in the match by slipping Paul some brass knuckles.
It was MGK’s first WWE appearance since getting power bombed off the Raw stage by Kevin Owens in 2015.
Music superstar Jelly Roll opened up SummerSlam by doing an in-ring performance of his new single and then later got involved during The Miz & R-Truth’s announcement of the night’s attendance.
After the duo announced the number, Austin Theory and Grayson Waller emerged to belittle them, the city of Cleveland, and Jelly Roll who was sitting at ringside.
Eventually, he made his way into the ring with a chair and after the faces and heels had a skirmish, he whacked both Theory and Waller in their backs. However, he wasn’t done, chokeslamming Theory and then calling for John Cena’s Five Knuckle Shuffle which he, R-Truth and Miz hit.
It looks like a musical performance will be part of the lineup for WWE SummerSlam 2024.
“Dead End Road” and “Liar” by Jelly Roll are both official theme songs for this year’s SummerSlam. In a tweet yesterday, Paul “Triple H” Levesque teased that Jelly Roll will also be performing live at the Saturday, August 3 event in Cleveland.
Excited to have my friend Jelly Roll back with two official #SummerSlam theme songs: “Dead End Road” off Twisters: The Album, and “Liar” off his album coming this fall.
“Btw, @JellyRoll615let me know if you’re free on Aug. 3 to play a few songs for the @WWEUniverse,” Levesque wrote.
“Sounds like a good time to me, Bubba!,” Jelly Roll responded. “I’ll have my people call your people!”
Jelly Roll blends country, rap, and hip hop in his music. He won Best New Artist in the 2023 Country Music Association Awards. When Raw took place in Nashville last November, Jelly Roll was featured on the show in an angle where he helped Randy Orton against The Judgment Day.
