Jelly Roll confirms WWE return just weeks before WrestleMania
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Jelly Roll is returning to WWE just weeks before WrestleMania 42 in Las Vegas.
The Save Me hitmaker is a huge wrestling fan and has built up a relationship with the company since singing at SummerSlam 2024 before getting physically involved in the action, and he's made several appearances over the past year.
On Thursday (12.03.26), WWE star The Miz wrote on X: "Tomorrow a Special Edition of Miz TV, my guest… JELLYROLL!
"Music superstar. Chart-topper. Sold-out arenas everywhere. But tomorrow he enters the one arena he's never been in before… The Miz TV interview chair.
"SmackDown. Tomorrow. USA Network. It's going to be AWESOME. (sic)"
There have been reports suggesting WWE are wanting Jelly involved at WrestleMania next month, so the timing of his return to SmackDown could be used to set something up.
In July 2025, he started a storyline rivalry with Logan Paul and Drew McIntyre, eventually teaming with Randy Orton to face them at last year's SummerSlam.
Fans were impressed with his first match, and Jelly has credited wrestling with inspiring his weight loss as he moved to Florida to train at WWE's Performance Center.
Speaking in Netflix docu-series WWE Unreal, he said: "I knew that if I didn't do something, it was going to kill me, and I just remember leaving there and being like, 'I will be back next summer a different f****** human'.
"I just kind of shot my shot, and I was like, 'Hey, Triple H, I'm losing this weight, man. I'm dead serious about this...'
"On a selfish level, I need this. This might motivate me to push me past that number I've never seen before on the scale."
Jelly has lost over 200lbs in recent years, and entered his SummerSlam 2025 match under 300lbs for the first time since his teenage years.
However, he added: "Every day, it scared me. My fear in wrestling was, had I bit off more than I could chew? Was I physically going to be able to do it?
"You can imagine my first week, my body was going, 'No! There's no way you're going to be ready for this!' "
The country star recently explained how a big part of his fitness overhaul was his relationship with food.
He told E! News: "The biggest change I made was food.
"Man, I was on the brink of death. I'm not trying to stand on a soapbox, I'm just passionate about it, knowing how upside down our system is with food. "And as an addict, it was hard for me to get away from it, so I did a lot of work with food."
He also turned to cardio to get himself in shape, which he described as a "real healer".
He said: "Running's been my real healer. [I] wake up and run every day -- I mean every day, seven days a week -- even if it's a recovery run, it's one mile and it's a 15 minute jog, really slow.
"I run every day."












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