5 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE SummerSlam 2025 - Saturday (Results & Review)

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5. Celebrity Tag Match Delivers

WWE SummerSlam 2025 Drew McIntyre Logan Paul Jelly Roll
WWE

The notion of an overweight country music star “wrestling” on one of WWE’s biggest shows of the year sounds ridiculous on its face, but sometimes you need to just lower your expectations and roll with it.

Jelly Roll teaming with Randy Orton to take on Logan Paul and Drew McIntyre is not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. It might downright piss some people off. But giving WWE a bit of latitude, this wasn’t all that bad of a match. It was structured decently, with Jelly taking everything seriously – the training clips helped show that he wasn’t just walking into the ring blindly – and knowing he was overmatched in the opening minutes against McIntyre.

Orton basically had to wrestle a handicap match, with Jelly being useful in very small spurts… until Logan splashed the musician through the announce desk in another highlight reel spot. Kudos to Jelly for taking that move. Randy was on his own until Jelly bravely(?) climbed back onto the apron and tagged in. Jelly got in a bit of offense on Paul before McIntyre leveled him with a Claymore, and Logan finished him with a frogsplash for the win.

Basically, a celebrity came in, trained on camera to show he was taking this seriously, got blasted through a table, hung in there and delivered a couple of nice spots, and ultimately ate the pin because he was overmatched.

That’s a surprisingly simple formula, with a fair amount of ga-ga stapled on. Some will hate this, but it ultimately was inoffensive.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.