Jack Perry Reveals Some People Were ‘Hell-Bent’ on Stopping a Jurassic Express Reunion, Scrapped Plans for Evil Heel Version

AEW star Jack Perry reunited with Luchasaurus, reforming Jurassic Express. Perry recently spoke to the Battleground Podcast ahead of the AEW Dynamite six-year anniversary show scheduled for tomorrow. He revealed that some people were “hell-bent” on stopping his recent reunion with Luchasaurus, noting they at one point planned an evil heel version of the duo. Below are some highlights (via Fightful):

Jack Perry on the Jurassic Express reunion: “That was the culmination of so long. Without saying too much and throwing certain people under the bus — maybe one day — he’s one of my best friends in the entire world, in wrestling and out, and that’s something we’ve been talking about for a long time. There were many iterations over the years of how we would come back together. There was an evil version that somebody else ruined, and we didn’t get to do it, and there was all sorts of stuff.”

On Luchasaurus’ recent health issues: “This past year, we both ended up being off. He was off; he had pneumonia, which has been documented, and all that, but it turned out to be pretty serious, and he almost died, which is surreal. Guy’s like your best friend, and I’m talking to him every day and all that. Then all of a sudden it’s like, ‘Oh, I could have died.’ It really puts things into perspective, you know, just how fragile life is and really what’s important, because it’s easy, I feel like, to get lost in the weeds of like, ‘I’m pissed about this, I hate this guy. I want to do this,’ so we do. It really puts it all in perspective.”

“We were thinking the way it had worked out. We were both off. We wanted to do this again, because we felt like we could do it better than the first time, and we both know ourselves so much more, and it’s different. Then it turned out to be just about the hardest thing in the world to make it happen, just scheduling and things were coming up, and there were certain people who seemed hell bent on not letting it happen. But we fought through it all, and we kept going. Finally, it culminated in that moment that you saw, and it just felt so good. I feel like I couldn’t have asked for it to go any better.”

The newly reunited Jurassic Express are scheduled for tomorrow’s six-year anniversary show for AEW Dynamite. 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.