Despite dishing out chokeholds and clotheslines, the country singer took the loss in his battle with the social media provocateur
The much-hyped battle between Jelly Roll and Logan Paul finally hit the ring Saturday at WWE’s SummerSlam event, where the country singer and tag team partner Randy Orton faced off against the social media provocateur and his partner Drew McIntyre.
The fight, which was set up over a month ago on Smackdown and was heavily promoted since then, marked Jelly Roll’s first official match as a wrestler after making a handful of appearances at WWE events over the past year.
Jelly Roll — who claimed he broke his pinky and suffered other injuries while training for the match — endured a significant amount of beating during the match; at one point, Jelly Roll was outside the ring, lying on an announcers table when Paul jumped from the top post and landed on the singer, causing the table to overturn. “The day the music died,” one of his opponents quipped.
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That aforementioned move knocked out Jelly Roll for a considerable amount of time as Orton fought against Paul and McIntyre alone. However, he recovered and made his way back to the ring “like the walking dead” in time to accept Orton’s tag-in, and delivered some clotheslines and choke slams on Paul to even up the match.
However, the match concluded when Paul dropped his signature move the “Paul from Grace” on Jelly Roll, who was then promptly pinned and defeated. The loss likely sets up WWE future involvement and an opportunity for revenge for Jelly Roll, but no plans have been announced as yet:
