Former AEW TNT Champion Jack Perry recently spoke about his long-awaited return to All Elite Wrestling television and the emotional reunion of Jurassic Express with Killswitch (formerly Luchasaurus). Perry, who had been absent from AEW programming since losing the TNT Championship at Full Gear last November, made his surprise return at the All Out pay-per-view earlier this month, where he reformed the popular tag team. The comeback marks a new chapter for Perry, who has been through a tumultuous period in his career, and his comments reflect a renewed sense of enthusiasm and purpose.
Speaking with Haley Miller of VICE, Perry discussed his feelings about being back on television and reuniting with his long-time friend.
“I feel great to be back. Especially under these circumstances with someone who’s one of my best friends, and I mean, so much has happened. It’s something that was always gonna happen, us coming back together. So many things have gotten in the way so for it to finally come to fruition and then get that kind of response feels great. In terms of physicality, this is the longest that I’ve gone [without wrestling] in my life since I was like 16 or 17 years old. I’m sure it’s gonna feel absolutely horrible the day after my first match back; that’s just part of the game. But I’m looking forward to it.”
He also reflected on his unexpected long layoff and the creative process behind the cinematic vignettes that teased their reunion.
“I did not know I was gonna be off for as long as I was. I thought I was gonna be off a month or two and then be back. But then things just change a lot and that’s how it goes. I will say, Luchasaurus and I were always going to be back together doing something. We knew that from the day that we broke up as a tag team the first time. I also felt I had such a good run the year before. I was like, ‘I don’t know if I’m gonna be able to top that right now.’ We concluded this is probably the best time for us to do this. It’s weird ’cause we thought this would be so easy. We’ll just tell ’em we want to do it again and that’ll happen. It turned out to be just about the hardest thing in the world to get it all to line up. It all came together, not the way we planned, but I think in a really cool way with these vignettes of him being resurrected it was kind of a happy accident. We were gonna do a couple of me first sort of like digging up this grave and dragging this coffin and you didn’t know whose it was and it was gonna be his reveal at the end. And then he ended up having to go back for some other stuff. We were thinking Saw, where they end up going back at the end of the movie and showing you how the beginning got set up. So, I don’t know, I think it all turned out super cool. Not the way we necessarily had planned it, but it felt perfect the way it all came together.”
Jurassic Express is scheduled to make their AEW TV return tonight on AEW Dynamite, which marks the show’s sixth-anniversary special.
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