Jungle Boy quickly became an over with fans as a babyface as part of Jurassic Express with Luchasaurus where they found success in AEW as Tag Team Champions.
Jungle Boy is now performing as a singles star after his former partner and Christian Cage turned on him.
Now, he is using his real name, Jack Perry, and Jungle Boy as his nickname. While speaking with ComicBook.com’s Liam Crowley, the AEW star noted that he went with his real name because he wanted to separate his personal and professional lives.
“I initially went with the whole Jungle Boy thing as a way to not be myself or more what I guess people thought I was,” Perry said. “It was my way of really getting people to just watch my wrestling, which was really important to me. I wanted people to just watch me do what I did in the ring. I didn’t want to have to talk or have a character that other people were trying to push on me. It was like, I’m Jungle Boy. I don’t talk, I don’t do anything. You just got to watch what’s in the ring. A lot of that was to avoid my personal life in a way.”
It all comes down to him wanting to make a change as the nature of his feud with Cage, and Luchasaurus is more reality-based as Cage has frequently brought up Perry’s family on AEW programming. Once that happened, he questioned why he would go forward without using his real name.
Perry will look to end his feud with the heels when he takes on Luchasaurus inside a steel cage tonight at the AEW Full Gear pay-per-view.
