Fat Joe had plenty to say after attending WWE SummerSlam at MetLife Stadium, where celebrities and big names packed the crowd for both nights of action.
The rapper was there to support his friend Jelly Roll, who stepped into the ring for a tag team match against Logan Paul and Drew McIntyre. On his and Jadakiss’ podcast, Fat Joe admitted he was stunned by the sheer size of Randy Orton, who was in Jelly Roll’s corner.
“So I go to SummerSlam, right? And I went, because a good friend of mine, Jelly Roll, was wrestling. So I knew he trained for months. I know Jelly Roll — he’s a big boy. You know, I stick with the big boys — pause. Pause… But all the fat guys, I’m in they corner… It get to the Jelly Roll. It’s Jelly Roll against Logan Paul, and Jelly Roll come out with this guy. What’s that wrestler Jelly Roll had with him? Yo, Kiss, none of us, none of us want the fair one, we don’t even want the 10 on one. We don’t even wanna be able to have a knife to fight this guy… Randy Orton. Even if he gave you weapons, you don’t wanna fight this guy. This guy’s so big, bro. He’s unreal. Anybody go Google him, if you don’t know wrestling, this guy’s the prototype. He might be the first human A.I. guy.”
Joe said he was in Jelly Roll’s corner the whole way, even as Logan Paul and Drew McIntyre put a beating on him.
“I’m looking and I’m cheering Jelly Roll up. They are beating the breaks off of Jelly Roll. They are double suplexing him. They doing my man so filthy. Now, I’m a fat guy, so I know every bone… I’m a fat guy who lost weight too so I know when he falls, I said, ‘That’s two months out of the Country Awards. He is not going to the Country Awards. Not after this sht.’ This was a childhood dream. I salute you, Jelly Roll…”*
After taking a brutal table spot, Jelly Roll told Joe he was done — but in classic WWE fashion, he made one last fiery comeback.
“Jelly Roll gets up… He turns around and says, ‘I’m sorry, Joe. I can’t fight no more. I tried, Joe. Thank you for supporting me, Joe.’ It’s a million people in this fcking arena. This is Jelly Roll. Out of anybody, I swear to God, he looked at me, ‘I’m sorry, Joe. Joe, I let you down, Joe…’ But in true WWE fashion, he gets to the tip, and he turns around and he starts looking, they like, ‘Jelly! Jelly!’ All of a sudden, the mother — I got the power! He came back and started clotheslining dudes, fcking ‘em up. I got suckered for the wrestling. I felt like Hulkamaniac. I felt like back in the day… They still lost, but I gotta salute Jelly Roll…”
Fat Joe closed by admitting there’s no way he could personally handle what Jelly Roll went through in the ring.
“Maybe I’m too old, maybe he’s a little bit — Jelly Roll might be younger than me, right? I personally know I can’t take that. I can’t take it. Man, he’s way younger than me. I get it; 40 years old, maybe 39, 40, I would have tried it. Right about now, with these amphibious legs, that sht off.”*
Fat Joe might have walked into SummerSlam just to cheer on a friend, but he left sounding like a full-blown WWE convert. From being awestruck by Randy Orton’s size to watching Jelly Roll take a beating and still fire back, the hip-hop legend got the kind of front-row experience you can’t fake — and one he clearly won’t forget anytime soon.
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