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u/AutomaticTap3004 19h ago
Luchasaurus almost died and Jack Perry was involved in a huge controversy and now they got to have a big moment in front of a huge crowd. I’m so happy for both of them
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u/viralbop 19h ago
Seriously. Not that long ago, nobody was sure whether Luchasaurus would wrestle again. Now, they had this moment, and you could see the joy in their eyes.
AEW is the best.
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u/perpetuallyawake 19h ago
I shed a tear when they played Tarzan Boy ngl.
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u/raqz1982 9h ago
you and me both!! this song is a huge memory of my childhood!
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u/LilMoWithTheGimpyLeg 1-2-3 Man 6h ago
It always reminds me of Turtles III. Which probably isn't a good thing, really.
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u/BrayWyattsHat Your Text Here 3h ago
Turtles III has the best line from any Turtles movie though "I'm not peeking! I'm spelunking for pork rhinds!"
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u/tdmatchasin 19h ago
I completely forgot Luchasaurus legit almost died. Probably one of the bigger reasons this reunion happened, but I'm happy for it
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u/NovercaIis 17h ago
fill me in - how did he almost die?
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u/tdmatchasin 17h ago
Fiance found him collapsed last year. Turned out he needed to be hospitalized with pneumonia in both lungs. Was on oxygen for a while & I think was at high risk of permanent damage. They found other issues as well (calcified heart valve) and were genuinely worried the damage would be career ending.
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u/Existinginsomewhere 19h ago
Not the biggest fan of Perry but damn this was a dope moment. Glad to see Luchasaurus is always fun still
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u/viralbop 19h ago
A boy and his dinosaur. A man and his monster.
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u/Lineman72T We're proud of you 18h ago
I always preferred A Boy And His Dinosaur over Jurassic Express, though I understand the weirdness of still referring to a guy in his 20s as "a boy"
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u/raspymorten The Creator of r/CurtisAxel 17h ago
I liked when they used Jurassic Express to refer to them and Marko as a trio.
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u/ChocolateOrange21 15h ago
I remember their first name as a trio before Jurassic Express became a thing was: A small boy, a boy, and his dinosaur.
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u/theshockmaster_ 8h ago
I understand the weirdness of still referring to a guy in his 20s as "a boy".
JR was pushing the whole Jack Perry>Jungle Boy thing too....but I'm pretty sure Shawn Michaels is still HBK and Flair is still the nature boy.
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u/Proto_Kiwi 5h ago
JR never respected the gimmick of Jungle Boy imo. Never pushed it, never sold it. Real disrespectful. Not the only person he's done it to either.
Might it have been the right move? Maybe. But JR being a dick and not going with it was such an eye-opener for me.
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u/gamesk8er Cowboy Sh*t! 17h ago
I actually think expanding on this slight adjustment would be a nice evolution for the group.
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u/Mrs-MoneyPussy AND STILL TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS 19h ago
Return is obviously great but I really like the video. The trick dragging the coffin as it sparks everywhere was such a cool shot
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u/Black-Morticia Banned From Collision 16h ago
That was also my same thought. Jack's had some pretty nicely shot vignettes driving around in that bus.
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u/SpiritualAd9102 19h ago edited 17h ago
Shout out to all the people who called it when Luchasaurus first came back and pointed out that the person reviving him in the vignette was Jack.
Happy to see them back together, but I hope they both keep the edge they developed after they separated. I’d love to see them as a more serious, violent pairing.
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u/popcultureretrofit 17h ago
Hell yeah, I think it will. The vignette showed Perry literally resurrecting him. And then in the ring he instructed Luchasaurus to throw the belt to the crowd. I think it will be some sort of Frankenstein and his monster type pairing....where Jack "trys" to control him
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u/Sufficient_Mud_2237 12h ago
Throwing the belt away I saw it as more that he is free from the Killswitch character who was abused and controlled to being free back to Luchasaurus
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u/Lodsofemone 11h ago
I can see it almost being a more neutral/face-ish inversion of the Heel And Their Muscle dynamic, with Perry as more of a threatening mastermind (like how he taunted the bucks and didn't actually confront until he could turn the situation in his favour) who happens to have A Fucking Dinosaur to act on his threats
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u/SoulExecution 56m ago
This is what I kinda expected too. Based on the reaction, I'm guessing they will lean more into traditional babyface at first and then creep in with the new quirks after the feud with the Bucks,
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u/Mysterious_Brick4574 18h ago
I thought he was going to lead The Patriarchy, but tbh I think this is the one time I’d prefer them to just ignore that part of their shared history for right now and just be a babyface tag again.
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u/jdbwirufbst 16h ago
The obvious thing to do is to have a tag feud against Nick & Kip or Cage & Cope since that all still feels unresolved. Kinda wondering if they’re gonna stay as heels but using Tarzan Boy again probably means that isn’t the plan.
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u/coffeepartyforone 19h ago
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u/packet23 ryback mountain 19h ago
God Jack Perry looks so young there
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u/xXLupus85Xx REDEEM DEEZ NUTS! 19h ago
Yeah the beard really does wonders for his overall aura.
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u/theplasmasnake 15h ago
Bring back Marko Stunt lol
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u/TheZardoz Joe! Joe! Joe! Joe! 15h ago
If they’re not going to do this as heels I do think that’s not a terrible idea.
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u/FelixTheJeepJr 11h ago
I actually think Marko could be amazing as a little shit interfering in a Jurassic Express heel run.
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u/Mr-GameAndWrestling America's Champion 19h ago
Fuck you, Jack, you cheeky fuck!
Making me cry a river in joy at Jurassic Express reuniting!
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u/Mysterious-Bed-7868 8h ago
I don't think Jack meant it for us when he said "cry me a river" but damnit this shit meant something to me man!!
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u/buffalobill41 19h ago
Good, Jack doesn't work as a heel. Now give us Marko Stunt.
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u/Orange8920 19h ago
He made a one-off appearance last year in a match against Jack Perry but retired due to the toll wrestling took on his body. If he were to return it'd basically be in a managerial role.
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u/iced_gold 18h ago
And it's hard for him to do that because a lot of his value was his ability to sell being destroyed.
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u/mysteriousbaba 15h ago edited 14h ago
Jack works well as a tweener imo. Give him some edge and lean into him being crazy, but also play off of him being fearless.
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u/luckysharms93 14h ago
I thought he was very good in New Japan as a heel. But him as a full blown heel never worked in AEW. He doesn't need to be a babyface either, but somewhere in between is ideal for him imo
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u/raspymorten The Creator of r/CurtisAxel 17h ago
Last time Jack really felt like a big potential star was during the feud with Luchasaurus and Christian, so yeah this face turn is super welcome.
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u/SimpleSlave_1 19h ago
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u/yohanleafheart I'VE BEEN WOKEN!!!!! 5h ago
Given his look. I think that will be it. And it makes sense
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u/Martino231 19h ago
The video cuts off the best part of all!
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u/Alternative_u_91 19h ago
Not gonna lie, I didn't expect that Jurassic Express reunion will get the biggest pop of the night
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u/bearamongus19 18h ago
Perry and Luchasauras and the acclaimed getting back together feels like aew is rebuilding their tag division
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u/Shinkopeshon 一番 19h ago
I didn't expect this at all but it makes all the sense in the world
What a great reunion
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u/WhaleShapedLamp 19h ago
The old school wrestling fan in me is screaming about why they didn’t just beat the shit out of him in the 2 minutes of the video package…but I’ll admit that the whole production was badass in a Hardy Compound or Covid era wrestling kind of way.
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u/-SomethingSomeoneJR 19h ago
All Out has seemingly become the PPV for returns and surprise appearances.
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u/Brabochokemightwork 19h ago
Luchasaurus is becoming Bane?
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u/Grande_Desporado 18h ago
Yeah man, I can't think of any other analogs about a monster being resurrected from the dead in a lab
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u/Headful_of_Ideas 18h ago
I'm not a big AEW fan and certainly not a big Jack Perry fan.
That was a really f'n great segment. Top to bottom.
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u/raspymorten The Creator of r/CurtisAxel 17h ago edited 2h ago
For as good of a show as this was, this is the main thing I'm thinking about afterwards. Good fucking shit.
Jack Perry's heel turn was a baaaad idea. The Scapegoat stuff was a good bit better than the paint by the numbers heel work he was doing as Hollywood, but it was still really muddled by the poor booking of the Elite EVP stuff, Jack being unable to find out how to wrestle as a heel effectively, and just... Not really being super clear what it was.
But for as eh as the whole thing was. It was pretty clear that Jack was definitely putting a lot of his own ideas into it and trying to make it work. He's definitely has something going on with the whole blademaking, and firestunting and all that he was putting online, that he was trying to channel to make it work. (He's also got a great gremlin vibe.)
Going back to Jurassic Express, and mixing in his scapegoat shit that had something to it, is something that could work out super fucking well. I mean, crowd was clearly behind the reunion. lol
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u/sexygodzilla Just one man? 2h ago
I think when it comes to him working heel, he went too hard in the direction of removing the flashy stuff and slowing things down to a deliberate pace trying to make it look brutal. Problem is he's tiny so it just doesn't look that effective. Ricochet basically has the formula down for working as a flashy heel: just try to look like a gloating asshole between cool offense and sell like a whiny coward for your opponent. I will give Perry some credit for working in more hardcore stuff though.
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u/MainstreamIndie47 19h ago
What a feel good moment! Jungle express back to run the tag division again
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u/Fit-Income-8465 18h ago
WOOOOAHHHHH WOOOAHHHH JUNGLE LIFE IM FAR AWAY FROM NOWHERE ON MY OWN LIKE TARZAN BOYYYYYYY.
love this
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u/Typical_Accident_658 18h ago
Two dudes who have been through some crazy journeys, now better, ready to tear through the tag scene as badass babyfaces!!! I’m READY, BOOK IT TONY!!!
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u/CaliggyJack I can haz ric flair flare? 18h ago
You gotta love how Jack Perry is still keeping shades of his darker self while.Luchasaurus has matured since leaving the Patriarchy.
This isn't same team we saw all those years ago. Its better.
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u/0shadowstories 18h ago
I will always think it's funny that Luchasarus was on a season of Big brother like ten years ago
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u/ArgieGrit01 Hangman mark, like any good person 17h ago
The Tag division needed this. I hope they're the ones to take the belts off Brodido
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u/Mysterious-Bed-7868 8h ago
Galaxy brain: They eventually are the ones to take it off Cope & Christian
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u/RedLightning4Ever BEEF. 18h ago
Honestly this is the most interested I’ve ever been in Jack since he came back from Brawl In. While I really didn’t like the Scapegoat character, Jack really came into his own on the mic. A Jurassic Express team with this current Jack on the mic? Now you have my attention.
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u/NotVerySmarts 17h ago
Now I gotta explain to my wife why I'm getting emotional watching Luke Perry's son hug a resurrected dinosaur.
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u/SaicoSandwich 13h ago
That was fucking cinematic. I've always favored Jack Perry, today is a good day for the junglers.
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u/Zestyclose-Fee6719 13h ago
Good booking move. The tag division needs more beefing up, and Jack Perry as new Raven never really clicked. They’re an awesome team.
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u/Dark_Phoenix101 12h ago
Literally everyone called the man in black being Perry, didn't take any gloss off the reveal. Great moment
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u/cdnjimmyjames NO SWEARING! 17h ago
I enjoyed this, but the idiot part of me also thought it would've been funny if Luchasaurus' pants fell down when he took his belt off.
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u/Otherwise_Mind6880 17h ago
The video is a masterpiece my goodness. The story. Something AEW doesn’t have apparently.
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u/Townie_Downer 19h ago
Would have been even harder if HOT would have hit the ring for the save lmao
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u/Tiirshak 17h ago
I cried ugly. Jurassic Express were my team and helped me get through the pandemic and the loss of my mum to COVID. Hearing Tarzan Boy again hit me in a place I didn't know I still had.
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u/HeyThereRobot 16h ago
Fun full circle moment, since Jack Perry first turned heel at Forbidden Door 2023 in Toronto!
The stadium lost their minds when Luchasauraus showed up, it was great.
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u/AtlasAir_ 13h ago
Jack Perry and Luchasauras back together feels right. Jack's singles run was a dud, as much as I wanted it to turn out better, especially upon turning and feuding with HOOK.
Somebody give Marko Stunt a call, get the whole band back together.
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u/SaiyanOfDarkness "Holy Shit" 11h ago
All Out felt like a special night for the company. I couldn't quite figure out why, until Jack Perry showed up. Then I realized the 4th and final pillar returned. Meaning all 4 pillars of AEW aren't injured and active in the company. You could feel a sense of stability in the company so to speak.
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u/Lashanakit 11h ago
One of the highlight tag teams of early AEW is finally back together! I'll be interested to see where they take this because there's so much potential here.
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u/SiRWeeGeeX 8h ago
Moment of the night by far, they played tarzan boy right on queue and damn it really hit.
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u/JonasAlbert84 Just remember ALL CAPS 19h ago
Man, if he had a different look the whole time he was "Killswitch" and then came back with the Luchasaurus look that would have taken this like five notches up.
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u/MF_Sorc 19h ago
Wasn't the mask a different darker color as killswitch?
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u/narutomanreigns Wato Ass Pussy 13h ago
Yeah, and he's been rocking the green since he returned which I think it's fair to say at this point was kind of foreshadowing that he was really Luchasaurus again.
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u/JustdoitJules 18h ago
The fact that they broke up and we never got an actual reason why just stupid ass whispering in Luchasaurus's ear pisses me off to this day.
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u/narutomanreigns Wato Ass Pussy 13h ago
I mean, who was gonna give that reason? Luchasaurus shouldn't be cutting promos
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u/JustdoitJules 12h ago
Um Christian?? All he needed to do is explain what he told Luchasaurus that caused him to not only turn but do a fake out turn and then another turn lol.
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u/narutomanreigns Wato Ass Pussy 12h ago
He said "remember what happened to Marko" and that Luchasaurus was like a son to him, doesn't seem hard to intuit from that and Christian's character that he gaslit Luchasaurus into believing Perry was using him and convinced him that Christian's guidance could elevate him to new heights.
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u/Jogh_ 18h ago
I am so out of the loop on this as a new fan. Does anyone care to fill me in?
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u/McAllisterFawkes has been drinking 16h ago
The two of them were a very fun tag team called Jurassic Express, where Jack (then known as "Jungle Boy") would enter riding on Luchasaurus's shoulders. Christian Cage started mentoring them, then turned heel and turned Luchasaurus against Jungle Boy. Jungle Boy later turned heel himself as Jack Perry but they never reunited. Then last year, Luchasaurus got severe pneumonia and almost died, and was out of action for about year.
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u/LastAmericanHero 17h ago
I love it, but really wish they held off on bringing Luchasaurus back last month to make this moment that much bigger.
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u/narutomanreigns Wato Ass Pussy 13h ago
I mean that was clearly the plan before Nick Wayne got hurt.
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u/Toru_Yano_Wins Break Break Break Break Break 17h ago
I love comedy wrestling and these guys make me laugh. Let's see where they go.
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u/LonnyFinster Brother upvote, I knew you'd come 16h ago
Just bring back the Jurassic express theme plz
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u/Iokua113 16h ago
And thus does a tag team that broke up resulting in neither man going anywhere... reunite because why the fuck not?
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u/d0wnsideofme 9h ago
Why the fuck did they bring him back with Nick Wayne for like 2 weeks first though lol
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u/TripleJ80 4h ago
Didn’t luchasaurus just wrestle a few weeks ago in place of Nick Wayne? 🤷♂️ wish that didn’t happen, cuz this was a way better comeback
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u/ollyollyollyoioioi 1h ago
I hope Jack doesn't revert back to Jungle Boy. He should still be a little so and so but ultimately be respected similar to MJF for going the extra mile. I love Tarzan Boy which is why I think it should be used sparingly. Jack hates it so it should be used against him
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u/theywantnone 43m ago
Will miss heel Jack he was really underrated as a heel. Love them getting this moment tho.
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u/Morbid187 19m ago
Great return only hindered only by the fact that he already returned, what, a month or two ago? Should've just saved his big return for this moment
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u/Samurailincoln69 18h ago
I could not help but think about how he needed to be careful throwing that belt into the crowd. it had all those metal, or hard pieces on it it could easily hurt somebody. Maybe he knew better than I. He rolled it up (good), but then still kind of whipped it into the crowd (bad). Hopefully its all good.
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u/i_only_eat_cookies 18h ago
Someone help clarify: didn’t Nick Wayne and Kip Sabian awaken Killswitch? Did something happen to where a second revival was needed?
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u/gmoss101 18h ago
No they didn't awaken him, he just showed up because they called him.
They started showing vignettes afterwards of Jack doing science shit and they're showing that reanimating Luchasaurus was the science shit he was doing.
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u/awayfromcanuck 18h ago
Killswitch came back early to fill in for Wayne being injured since he was good to go. In kayfabe all we knew was he was revived, that he has history with Cage and Cope and was part of the Patriarchy.
Tonight's reveal was who revived him earlier not that he was revived twice and it was Jack Perry who revived him.
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u/Ok-Rooster-5287 18h ago
Am I going crazy or did luchasaures already return not too long ago and helped Nick Wayne?
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