Jack Perry Discusses His AEW Return, Only Expected To Be Off TV for a Short Time After Full Gear

Speaking to Haley Miller with VICE, AEW star and former TNT Champion Jack Perry discussed his recent AEW TV return and reuniting Jurassic Express with Killswitch (aka Luchasaurus). Perry disappeared from AEW programming after losing the TNT Title to Daniel Garcia at AEW Full Gear last November. He recently made his return earlier this month at All Out, reforming Jurassic Express with Luchasaurus. Below are some highlights:

Jack Perry on his return to AEW TV: “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.”

On thinking he’d only be off television for a month: “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.”

On the cinematic vignettes with Luchasaurus: “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.”

On how they turned out: “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.”

The former AEW World Tag Team Champions, Jurassic Express, are scheduled to make their AEW TV return tomorrow night on AEW Dynamite, which marks Dynamite’s sixth-anniversary show. The event is being held at the Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, California. It will air live on TBS starting at 8:00 pm EST.