Jungle Boy says AEW reunion with Luchasaurus will be ‘darker’, but thinks their popular music will still work with that.
After a longer than expected amount of time off, Jack “Jungle Boy” Perry returned to AEW at All Out Toronto. On the Sept. 20 PPV, Perry rescued his former Jurassic Express tag partner Luchasaurus. Clues had been planted for a reunion of the former AEW Tag champs, but it was still somewhat surprising given everything Jungle Jack’s been through since his last babyface run with his dinosaur man partner.
Jurassic Express have their first match together since 2022 on Dynamite tomorrow night (Oct. 1), and it will be Perry’s first since losing the TNT title to Daniel Garcia at last November’s Full Gear PPV. To promote their return match, and the sixth anniversary edition of Dynamite it will happen on, Perry recently sat for an interview with Vice.
Like they usually were in the past, the 2025 version of Jurassic Express look to be a babyface team. But it sounds like Jungle Jack may want to play around in the gray when it comes to character alignment. Perry told Vice’s Haley Miller that his time as the “Scapegoat” character after his issues with CM Punk made it so now prefers things not to be so “black and white”:
“It was interesting with the Scapegoat thing because I would get a mixed reaction. At certain times, I almost felt like a babyface. My idea was, I’m not the bad guy, I’m really the ultimate good guy here. I think it’s more interesting when it’s not so black and white and I think even if it’s leaning more towards the babyface side, I think there’s definitely a darker vibe with both of us than there was before. It’s a story, it’s always evolving. We are evolving. The sort of world that we are in is evolving. I think the more we can be open to that the more interesting it’ll be and the better it is.”
The act’s popular entrance to Baltimora’s “Tarzan Boy” doesn’t really fit with a “darker vibe”, but Jack knows the song is good for them and has a spin on why it still works:
“I think the song is here to stay. It’s funny ’cause I was thinking about that. I was like, ‘I don’t know, we have a different look.’ The thing that solidified it for me was that people were singing it before we even played it. I looked, it’s been like three years, like a thousand something days since Luchasaurus and I have been on screen together.
I’ve been off about a year, I was the Scapegoat before this, I’m wearing all black with a knife on my belt. He’s in all black and people are singing that song. I think in the time that we had it, it cut deep with people. I think there is an interesting thing when I watch shows, I get a lot of inspiration from shows and movies, but I just watched this show, Hunting Wives on Netflix.
What I really liked about it was on the surface level, it’s this community and they’re all happy and they go to church, then underneath it, there’s all this dark kind of undercurrent going on. White Lotus is another show like that. There’s lighthearted funniness to it and happiness and whatever, and it’s silly. Then there’s murder going on underneath it all. I’m interested in experimenting with the duality of something like the song and our new presentation.”
We’ll see how it all works on screen starting tomorrow night. Check out the rest of part one of Vice’s interview with Perry here.
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