Fast forward to SummerSlam 2024, Jelly Roll remembered trying his hand at John Cena’s Five-Knuckle Shuffle, where he realized just how serious his weight-problem now was. “I hang onto a rope and R-Truth’s got one arm, Miz has got another arm, and at that moment I realized: I was so big that it took two grown men to get me to stand up,” he admitted. “I knew that if I didn’t do something, it was going to kill me.” Jelly Roll then claimed that leaving SummerSlam 2024 left him determined to not only return the following year, but come back as a different human being.

“I just kind of shot my shot and said, ‘Hey, Triple H, I’m losing this weight, man. Like, what’s up?’ You know what I mean? ‘I’m dead serious about this,'” he added about the conversation he had with Paul “Triple H” Levesque to pitch his return to WWE. “I walked into that ring that night, under 300 lbs. for the first time since I was probably fourteen years old,” he added. “That exact number? 330 lbs.? Was the exact time I jumped off the horse the last time I tried to lose that weight. On a selfish level, I need this – this might motivate me to push past that number I’ve never seen before on the scale.”

Keeping true to his word since “WWE Unreal” was filmed, Jelly Roll has visibly transformed himself and claims he’s up for one more match or even a six to nine month run as a full-time pro wrestler.

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