The pillar tagline attached to Jungle Boy Jack Perry has changed in meaning to him throughout his All Elite Wrestling career.
All Elite Wrestling‘s Jungle Boy Jack Perry recently sat down with Garrett Martin of Paste Magazine to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked what it means to him to be a pillar of AEW, Perry said he didn’t care much about it at first as he believed it was just propaganda by MJF, but he’s grown to appreciate it.
“At first, it really didn’t mean a lot to me, I think the whole thing was kind of propaganda by MJF, realistically,” Jungle Boy admitted. “It was a way to position himself as the best of the four pillars. And I think that’s why he came up with the phrase. But I do think he was onto something. And then I think, when you look at the four of us, we’re all super different in a lot of ways.
“But we’re all young, hungry guys, who really try and push what we’re doing every time we’re out there. And I think, you know, in the beginning it wasn’t even a thing, but I never thought ‘I want to be a ‘pillar’ of this company.’ I just wanted to go out there and have the very best matches that I could have, every single time.
“And I think those three guys are very similar in that respect. And we do it in different ways. But I think that’s a very kind of common goal that we’ve all had from the beginning. And I guess it’s yeah, it’s nice to see people recognize that, you know, just the group of us and what we’re kind of trying to do and help push the company forward and grow with it and whatnot.”
When asked if he feels like he has a special connection to the other three pillars, Perry said there’s a common ground between them but doesn’t see himself being particularly close to any of them.
“Honestly, I really don’t particularly like any of the three, like, personally. So no, there’s not really like any sort of group or anything,” Jungle Boy said. “But that’s what I think is kind of cool about it. It’s like, I think we have these similarities, but we’re also so different, and we’re all kind of really on our own path. But there’s just kind of that common thread. I think it’s gonna be a very interesting match. Just because we are so similar in a lot of ways. And we are also different. I really kind of don’t really even know what to expect out of it.”
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