Jelly Roll likes the idea of a UFC fight playing out on the White House Lawn.
As of late, the rapper-turned-country-artist has proven that he can truly do it all. In addition to becoming a household name in the music world, Jelly Roll has used the summer of 2025 as a bit of an what-else-can-I-do experiment. He’s still sticking with music as his day job, but he’s recently tested the waters of the WWE, and he even made his late night hosting debut last week.
Funny enough, he actually did a little bit of both when he choke slammed influencer Logan Paul through the Jimmy Kimmel Live! desk while he was hosting the show:
Jelly Roll is legitimately out here doing side quests.
I’ll be honest with you… the “Need A Favor” singer really held his own stepping in a guest host for Jimmy Kimmel. Jelly has what it takes to carry a talk show, if he ever felt so inclined to do so. And he’s evidently ready to step into a bigger role in the WWE as well, and he described in his monologue that he’s always wanted to get into wrestling because it’s one of the three things he’s mistaken for (wrestler, tattoo artist, and “member of the Insane Clown Posse that just got sober”).
Something that definitely stood out during his monologue was a joke about the proposed plan by President Donald Trump to host a UFC fight on the White House lawn next year. The POTUS faced some backlash for just throwing that out there, but Jelly Roll evidently thinks it’s a great idea:
“Let’s talk about the big brawl that everybody is talking about, it’s the UFC fight President Trump’s planning on having on the South Lawn on the 4th of next July. Now, listen, I know this is causing a little bit of controversy. But for me, I think it’s awesome. I’m not gonna lie.
Where I’m from, watching two meth heads beat the p**s out of each other on a lawn is just part of our year. I tell you what, a UFC fight at the White House might not be what our Founding Fathers would have wanted. But our founding stepdads would have loved that s**t.”
Jelly Roll probably saw plenty of lawn fights back in his day… so he’s thinking why not have an official, sanctioned fight on one of the world’s most recognizable lawns? UFC fighters duking it out with the White House in the background would definitely be quite the spectacle.
And if that idea from President Trump wasn’t good enough, the country artist pitched his own idea for a big-time fight at another famous Washington D.C. location:
“Actually, I think I have an even better idea. We should put an octagon at the Pentagon and have a couple of geometry teachers fight it out. Let’s settle this once and for all y’all.”
Like I said earlier, if Jelly Roll was nervous during his fill-in hosting gig, you couldn’t tell one bit. He was quite comfortable cracking jokes and interviewing folks, and you can view his second night’s monologue below:
