Jaret Reddick of Bowling For Soup Recalls Meeting Alexa Bliss, Who The Band Named A Song After

In 2022, Bowling for Soup put out a song titled “Alexa Bliss,” named after the WWE superstar.

Speaking on Ropes N Riffs, Jaret Reddick from the band explained how he first linked up with Alexa.

“It’s a really cool story. My son, who’s 19 now, I believe, was around 12. He got into wrestling just all of a sudden. You know, it was just, I guess some friends from school or some kid he met in the neighborhood and he got into it pretty hardcore. so the first one I ever took him to, it was kind of a surprise to me. I just got some tickets. We were up in the nosebleeds of American Airlines here in Dallas, and you know, we’re having fun.

“All of a sudden, you know this walk-up music starts, and this little blonde firecracker comes out, and I say to my son, and I see her name, and I go ‘Okay, I think that girl is a fan of my band,’ and Jack goes, ‘no way.’ I go, ‘Yeah, I saw a thing. Somebody sent me a thing where this wrestler was a big fan of Bowling for Soup, and she did a photo shoot and a Bowling for Soup shirt.’ He’s like, ‘There’s no way.’ I found it in my phone, and I showed him, and it was her. He goes, ‘Dad, that’s crazy. He goes, ‘You got to send her a message.’ I sent her a message, and I just go, ‘Hey, that was awesome. I got my son here or whatever. It was really cool to see you wrestle. I saw the pictures of you in the Bowling for Soup shirt. That’s so cool.’

“She answered right back after her match and was just like, ‘Are you coming backstage?’ I’m like, no, I’m in the nosebleed section. This is crazy. I can’t even believe she answered back. We just messaged back and forth. She told me that I was the last concert she saw before she left Columbus to go to WWE training and just some cool stories about listening to my band. I sent her some merch, and she took some pictures and put them on the internet and stuff. But we had just, you know, messaged back and forth a few times and then she offered my family tickets to the Royal Rumble that year in Philadelphia. Or maybe it was the next year, whatever. I took my family to the Royal Rumble, she got us backstage, the kids met everybody. It was just really, really cool.”

Bowling for Soup is on Alexa’s pump up playlist. Fans can learn more about some of her favorite bands here.