Christian Cage has challenged “Jungle Boy” Jack Perry to a fight at Sunday’s AEW Revolution pay-per-view.
During an in-ring promo on Wednesday’s Dynamite, Christian stated that Jungle Boy’s stated goal to win a singles title in AEW this year will happen over Christian’s dead body, and that Christian wants to win a title this year. He then issued the challenge for Sunday, and said that Jungle Boy is a “no-talent hack, just like his father” if he doesn’t accept.
After Christian’s promo, a video played with Perry digging a grave, then showing a headstone with Christian’s name on it, seemingly accepting the challenge.
AEW has yet to officially announce the match for Sunday, but that appears to be just a formality.
The updated lineup for Revolution:
AEW Revolution, Sunday, March 5 —
60-minute iron man match for the AEW World Championship: MJF (c) vs. Bryan Danielson
AEW Women’s World Championship: Jamie Hayter (c) vs. Ruby Soho vs. Saraya
TNT Championship: Samoa Joe (c) vs. Wardlow
AEW World Tag Team Championship: The Gunns (c) vs. The Acclaimed vs. Jeff Jarrett & Jay Lethal vs. Orange Cassidy & Danhausen
AEW World Trios Championship: The Elite (c) vs. The House of Black
Chris Jericho vs. Ricky Starks — JAS banned from ringside
Christian Cage returned from injury on Wednesday’s Dynamite, reigniting his feud with Jungle Boy.
Christian attacked “Jungle Boy” Jack Perry after Perry defeated Brian Cage on Wednesday’s show. Christian came out with his right arm in a sling, but removed the sling after the attack, revealing that it was a ruse.
Christian has been out of action since September after reportedly suffering a torn triceps and undergoing surgery. Christian defeated Jungle Boy at All Out on September 4, 2022 in a match that went less than a minute due to Christian’s injury. Luchasaurus turned on Jungle Boy to allow Christian to score the victory in that bout.
Christian had served as a manager for Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus throughout their AEW World Tag Team Championship run, but turned on Jungle Boy in June 2022 at Dynamite Road Rager after Luchasaurus and Jungle Boy lost the Tag titles.
Christian, 49, made his AEW debut at Revolution in March 2021, weeks after returning to the ring in WWE at the Royal Rumble after a nearly seven-year layoff.
Jungle Boy will face Luchasaurus at Full Gear inside a steel cage.
The former tag team partners will meet following an angle that took place on Friday’s Rampage. Jungle Boy told Luchasaurus and Christian Cage that he had lost everything thanks to them, challenging Luchasaurus to the steel cage match. Cage responded by insulting Jungle Boy’s mother and father. Jungle Boy grabbed Cage by the throat, but Luchasaurus intervened, chokeslamming Jungle Boy through a seated chair.
The former tag team partners have been feuding ever since Luchasaurus turned on Jungle Boy at All Out back in September, siding with Christian Cage after it initially appeared that Luchasuaurs had stuck with his tag team partner. Luchasaurus chokeslammed Jungle Boy on the stage, putting him out of action for several weeks.
AEW Full Gear, Saturday, November 19 on pay-per-view —
AEW World Championship: Jon Moxley (c) vs. MJF
ROH World Championship: Chris Jericho (c) vs. Bryan Danielson vs. Sammy Guevara vs. Claudio Castagnoli
Interim AEW Women’s World Championship: Toni Storm (c) vs. Jamie Hayter
AEW World Tag Team Championship: The Acclaimed (Max Caster & Anthony Bowens) (c) vs. Swerve In Our Glory (Swerve Strickland & Keith Lee)
AEW has revealed the bracket for the World title eliminator tournament set to conclude at Full Gear on November 19.
Eight participants have been announced for the tournament, with one first round match set for the November 9 Dynamite, and three set for the November 11 Rampage.
The tournament semifinals will take place the following week, with the finals set for Full Gear. The winner will receive a title shot at Winter is Coming on December 14.
The first round matches:
Eddie Kingston vs. Ethan Page — November 9 Dynamite
Bandido vs. Rush — November 11 Rampage
Ricky Starks vs. Lance Archer — November 11 Rampage
Brian Cage vs. Dante Martin — November 11 Rampage
Bryan Danielson won the 2021 AEW World title eliminator tournament, defeating Miro in the finals at Full Gear. Danielson went on to face Hangman Page for the title at Winter is Coming in December in a match that went to a time limit draw.
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“Jungle Boy” Jack Perry will be in action on tonight’s episode of Dynamite.
Ahead of tonight’s show, AEW posted a video of Jungle Boy being interviewed as he arrived to the arena. Jungle Boy announced that he’s signed an open contract for a match on Dynamite tonight.
At All Out, Jungle Boy and Christian Cage were set to face off in a grudge match. But Christian won the match within seconds after Luchasaurus turned against Jungle Boy and attacked him during his entrance.
The Jungle Boy vs. Christian match at All Out was kept short due to Christian entering the pay-per-view with an injury. The word was that Christian’s injury is a torn triceps, though that has yet to be officially confirmed.
Jungle Boy said in his interview before tonight’s Dynamite that he’s looking to get back into the swing of things after things didn’t go the way he expected at All Out.
Tonight’s show is taking place at MVP Arena in Albany, New York. Here’s the updated lineup:
Tournament of Champions second-round match: Bryan Danielson vs. Chris Jericho
Tournament of Champions second-round match: Jon Moxley vs. Sammy Guevara
An injury to Christian Cage led to his match against Jungle Boy being kept short at All Out on Sunday.
Our own Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer addressed Christian’s status on Sunday’s edition of Wrestling Observer Radio.
“I don’t know what Christian Cage’s injury is but Christian Cage is hurt,” Alvarez said. “He couldn’t do the match and I was told it’s serious.”
“The reason there was no match was because Christian couldn’t wrestle,” Meltzer added.
Christian came out for the match with his arm in a brace. In storyline, his arm was injured when Jungle Boy slammed it into the steel steps on the August 17 edition of Dynamite.
At All Out on Sunday, Christian defeated Jungle Boy in a match that went 33 seconds. During his ring entrance, Jungle Boy was attacked by Luchasaurus and choke slammed on the stage area. Luchasaurus would then powerbomb Jungle Boy through a table. Once Jungle Boy was able to get to his feet and the match began, Christian speared him and gave him the Killswitch for the win.
A segment involving Jungle Boy has been announced for AEW Dynamite.
On Tuesday, AEW posted to social media that “we’ll hear from” Jungle Boy on Wednesday’s show.
Fans haven’t heard from Jungle Boy since he was attacked by Christian Cage on the June 15 edition of Dynamite. The angle took place following Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus dropping the AEW World Tag Team Championships to the Young Bucks that night.
Jungle Boy returned to confront Cage on last week’s show. After Cage and Luchasaurus defeated the Varsity Blondes, Jungle Boy came to the ring with a steel chair. Luchasaurus then stepped aside and allowed him to chase after Cage, who escaped through the crowd.
AEW Dynamite this week will be the fourth edition of Fight for the Fallen. It will take place from the DCU Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. The lineup for the show is as follows:
Interim AEW World Champion Jon Moxley defends against Rush
AEW Women’s World Champion Thunder Rosa defends against Miyu Yamashita
FTW Champion Ricky Starks defends against Danhausen
Bryan Danielson vs. Daniel Garcia
Handicap match: Swerve Strickland vs. Tony Nese & “Smart” Mark Sterling (Keith Lee is banned from ringside)
After Christian Cage and Luchasaurus defeated the Varsity Blonds, the two continued to attack their opponents until Jungle Boy arrived, carrying a steel chair. Luchasaurus exited the ring and stared down Jungle Boy until he relented, joining Jungle Boy by his side. Surprised, Cage quickly exited the ring and escaped through the crowd as Jungle Boy chased after him.
Jungle Boy was attacked by Cage after he and Luchasaurus lost the AEW World Tag Team titles to The Young Bucks in a ladder match at Road Rager back on June 15. Cage laid out Jungle Boy then gave him the con-chair-to, then insulted his family after the attack. Jungle Boy had been out of actions since then, dealing with a shoulder injury.
In the weeks since Road Rager, Cage convinced Luchasaurus that his issue was with Jungle Boy, and not him. Luchasaurus then aligned himself with Christian, defeating Serptenico and Griff Garrison in the last two weeks.
Jungle Boy is currently dealing with a shoulder injury.
In a follow-up from Friday’s daily update, Dave Meltzer on today’s Wrestling Observer Radio further noted that it was a shoulder injury.
“It’s a shoulder injury,” Meltzer said. “I don’t know 100% it’s from the ladder match, but that would make sense. But I know it’s a shoulder injury.”
Jungle Boy hasn’t wrestled since the ladder match for the AEW World Tag Team titles that took place on the Road Rager edition of AEW Dynamite on June 15. It was there that The Young Bucks won the titles for a second time, ending Jurassic Express’ title run after 161 days.
After the match, Christian Cage turned on Jungle Boy, laying him out with the killswitch in front of his family, who were watching at ringside. He then delivered a conchairto to end the show. On this week’s Dynamite, Cage continued the feud, saying he wanted revenge for being eliminated from a Casino Battle Royal match, so he pretended to align himself with Jurassic Express until they lost the titles. When Luchasaurus came out to confront Cage, Cage said they needed to talk. Luchasaurus eventually relented as the two walked to the back together.
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Friday News Update
Garrett and I will be doing a show tomorrow morning talking about the news of the week and then Sunday I’ll be back with Bryan talking Forbidden Door.
ABC announced today that the prelims before UFC 276 on 7/2 from 8-10 p.m. air live on ABC, the first time MMA has ever aired in prime time on ABC. Among the fights on ABC are Donald Cerrone vs. Jim Miller.
Add Jungle Boy to the lengthy injury list for AEW.
Countdown to Forbidden Door airs at 11 p.m. tonight on TNT right after Rampage.
Our only weekend poll will be Forbidden Door on Sunday, so you can leave a thumbs up, thumbs down or thumbs in the middle along with a best and worst match to [email protected]
We’re looking for reports from these weekend WWE shows
Smackdown tonight in Austin, TX (dark matches)
NXT tonight in Jacksonville, FL
House show Saturday in Amarillo, TX
House show Saturday in Abilene, TX
NXT Saturday in Venice, FL
House show Sunday in Odessa,TX
House show Sunday in Hidaglo, TX
We’re looking for results, finishes and highlights of the show to [email protected]
Smackdown tonight:
Gunther vs. Ricochet for IC title
Sami Zayn vs. Shinsuke Nakamura MITB qualifier
Tamina (replacing Aliyah) vs. Shotzi MITB qualifier
Rampage tonight
Andrade vs. Rey Fenix
Serena Deeb & Mercedes Martinez vs. Sierra & Laynie Luck
Hook vs. The DKC
Cash Wheeler vs. Jeff Cobb
Forbidden Door odds from BetOnline:
Jon Moxley -250
Hiroshi Tanahashi +170
Thunder Rosa -500
Toni Storm +300
Miro -130
Malakai Black+175
Pac +400
Will Ospreay -1000
Orange Cassidy +550
Jay White -200
Kazuchika Okada +250
Adam Page +500
Adam Cole +700
FTR -300
Rocky Romero & Trent Baretta +300
Jeff Cobb & Great O’Khan +400
Jericho & Suzuki & Guevara -300
Umino & Kingston & Yuta +200
Bucks & Phantasmo & Hikuleo -150
Sting & Allin & Takagi & Hiromu Takahashi +110
Max Caster & Gunn Club -200
LA Dojo team +150
Mystery guy -180
Zack Sabre Jr. +140
Kambi also allows you to bet on the star ratings for the matches. They are expecting a fantastic show based on these predictions that you can get over or under on
Yesterday on the AP’s “This Day in Sports,” which never touches wrestling, it had
1939 – Former football great Bronko Nagurski beats Lou Thesz to win the National Wrestling Association world heavyweight title at the Coliseum in Houston. Thesz was largely considered the greatest wrestler of all-time. Houston Mayor Holcome reportedly presents Bronko with a $10,000 diamond studded belt. At the time of the title change, Nagurski was one of the all-time legends in the NFL and still active. He gave up football as NWA champion although he did make a comeback in the NFL years later.
AAW on 7/15 at 115 Bourbon Street in Merrionette Park, IL has Mat Fitchett defending the AAW title against the winners of Manders vs Fred Yehi earlie in the show. Christi Jaynes defends the women’s title against Heather Reckless. Ace Perry & Alex Hammerstone defend the tag titles against ACH & Jah-C.
If you use the code NFC30 you can get half price tickets to tonight’s PFL show in Atlanta as well as for the 7/1 show.
Defy on Saturday night in Seattle at Washington Hall with Christopher Daniels defending the Defy interim title against Lee Moriarty, Nick Wayne vs. Dante Martin, and Bollywood Boyz defend the tag team titles against Miles Deville & Sebastian Wolfe plus Trey Miguel vs. Daniel Garcia as well as Davey Richards.
LFA announced a 7/15 show billed as Team Rio de Janeiro vs. Team Sao Paulo with a main event of Italo Gomes (11-2) vs. Wellington Prado (12-2). It airs on UFC Fight Pass.
The LFA also announced a show on 7/29 at the Commerce Casino & Hotel in Commerce CA billed as Northern California vs. Southern California. It airs on UFC Fight Pass. The main event is Chase Gibson (11-5) vs. Hyder Amil (6-0) at featherweight.
Invicta on 7/20 airs on AXS, Fight Network and YouTube from Denver with Taniesha Tennant (4-1) defending the bantamweight title against Olga Rubin (7-2) Boxing champ Melissa Oddessa Parker faces kickboxer Isis Verbeek.
Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson wrestle their last match as a team at the Evansville, IN Coliseum against The Rejects for GCW on 7/3.
An injury to Julia Budd has pulled her out of her 7/1 fight with Kayla Harrison in the PFL. This would have been Harrison’s biggest fight to date, facing a former Bellator champion. Kaitlin Young, who dates back to the Gina Carano days on CBS, will be the replacement.
Gillian Robertson vs. Melissa Gatto has been added to the 9/17 UFC show.
Irene Aldana vs. Macy Chiasson has been added to the 9/10 UFC show.
ISPW tonight in Butler, NJ at the St. Anthony of Padua Gym has Danny Morrison defending the ISPW title against Tommy Dreamer, Bull James vs. Afa Jr. for the Tri-State title, Gabby Ortiz vs. Vicious Vicki for the women’s’ title in an I quit match plus Richard Holliday, HC Loc, al Sincere and others.
The Young Bucks won the AEW World Tag Team titles on tonight’s episode of Dynamite.
Matt & Nick Jackson defeated Luchasaurus and Jungle Boy to win the titles in the main event of tonight’s Road Rager event. The finish had Luchasaurus being thrown off the ladder through a large amount of tables set up on the outside of the ring. That allowed both Bucks to hit Jungle Boy with the BTE killer, then climb up the ladder to take the titles, winning them for a second time.
After the match, Christian Cage came to the ring to check on Luchasaurus outside of the ring, then went inside of the ring to check on Jungle Boy. Cage then turned on Jungle Boy, laying him out with the kill switch, grabbed chairs under the ring, then struck Jungle Boy with a conchairto. Relatives of Jungle Boy at ringside were shown as Cage posed to end the show.
The ladder match had been set up on last week’s Dynamite. It was originally set to be a three-way title match with The Hardys also involved. However, they were taken out of the match after Jeff Hardy was indefinitely suspended by AEW on Tuesday after being arrested for a DUI.
Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus are now set to defend their AEW Tag Team titles against The Young Bucks in a two-on-two ladder match on Dynamite this Wednesday. It was originally scheduled to be a three-way ladder match with The Hardys included.
AEW president and CEO Tony Khan issued a statement on Tuesday announcing that Jeff Hardy has been suspended from AEW without pay. Hardy can only return to AEW after he completes treatment and maintains his sobriety.
The suspension comes after Hardy was arrested for driving under the influence in Volusia County, Florida on Monday. In addition to the DUI offense, Hardy is facing charges of driving on a suspended license and violating an interlock restriction.
This week’s Dynamite is a special “Road Rager” edition of the show. It’s taking place at Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Missouri.
Here’s the updated lineup for the episode:
Hair vs. hair match: Chris Jericho vs. Ortiz
Ladder match: AEW Tag Team Champions Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus defend against The Young Bucks
Dax Harwood vs. Will Ospreay
Toni Storm vs. Britt Baker
AEW All-Atlantic Championship tournament qualifying match: Miro vs. Ethan Page
Wardlow vs. 20 security guards in a handicap elimination match
This week’s seven-match AEW Dark from Washington, DC, was headlined by a clash between Wheeler Yuta from Best Friends and Penta El Zero Miedo of Lucha Bros.
The Bunny (w/ The Blade) defeated Erica Leigh
The Bunny slung Leigh by her hair around the ring a few times before focusing on some knee-based offense. Leigh tried to reverse a few of Bunny’s moves, but ultimately fell to The Rabbit Hole which got her the three count.
2point0 & Daniel Garcia defeated Pat Brink, Rayo and Kekoa
Garcia and 2point0 jumped their opposition before the bell, which gave them a running start. Once the bell rang, it was unclear who the legal man was but it didn’t matter as Garcia tapped out Rayo with a sharpshooter very quickly.
2point0 then cut a promo running down the Inner Circle, citing that their days are numbered.
Lance Archer defeated Joe Keys
Keys dodged an Archer clothesline when he hit the ring, but immediately ate one shortly after. Archer took the bout to ringside and choked Keys on the barricade before tossing him back in the ring. Keys went to the second turnbuckle in an attempt to create some offense, but was on the receiving end of a Blackout that got Archer another win.
Leyla Hirsch defeated Janai Kai
Hirsch nailed Kai with a running knee before submitting her with the Legit Lock.
Gunn Club and The Acclaimed defeated Dark Order (Evil Uno, Alex Reynolds, Alan “5” Angels and 10)
Uno and Bowens began the match before tags began to increase with Dark Order maintaining control. Eventually, Max Caster took an opportunity and pulled Alex Reynolds off the apron, sending him crashing face first to the floor.
Reynolds became a point of isolation for the heels, but that didn’t last for long when 10 got the hot tag. He came in and cleaned house, sending both members of The Acclaimed over the top rope with a double clothesline.
He tagged out to Angels, who hit a frog splash on Colten Gunn that resulted in a near fall. Austin Gunn came in and broke up the pin before helping Colten up. The pair hit a assisted floatover neckbreaker on Angels which gave him the win.
Penta El Zero Miedo defeated Wheeler Yuta (w/ Chuck Taylor & Kris Statlander)
Yuta forced Penta to the mat early, applying a various amount of holds before Penta made it back to his feet. Penta applied a leglock of his own before Yuta escaped, leaving them at a stalemate.
Yuta began to mount some offense, sending Penta to the outside. When Yuta attempted a dive, Penta blocked it with a kick to the head. Penta got in the ring with the momentum and attempted a dive of his own, but Yuta blocked it at the last second with a forearm strike.
As the match went on, there was no dominance from either competitor as they traded multiple maneuvers back and forth. Penta attempted to put away Yuta with a rotating driver, but Yuta surprisingly powered out at two. Penta motioned to drill Yuta with a hanging DDT on the arena floor before hitting his signature package piledriver in the middle of the ring to successfully put away Yuta.
Jungle Boy (w/ Luchasaurus) defeated Nick Comoroto (w/ QT Marshall & Aaron Solo)
Comoroto was in the driver’s seat early on, working down one half of the AEW Tag Team Champions with slow-paced offense. The other members of The Factory made attempts to get involved, but Luchasaurus took care of them easily. Jungle Boy regained control of the bout after diving onto Comoroto at ringside.
Comoroto tried to fight back against a energized Jungle Boy once they made it back in the ring, but his efforts went unnoticed. Jungle Boy hit a teardrop brainbuster on Comoroto shortly after for a two count.
The crowd was fully behind Jungle Boy at this point as he transitioned the failed pinfall into a snare trap which made Comoroto submit.
New AEW World Tag Team Champions were crowned on tonight’s Dynamite.
Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus (Jurassic Express) defeated Penta El Zero Miedo and Rey Fenix (The Lucha Brothers) to win the titles. Jungle Boy pinned Penta with a cradle to win the match and end Penta and Fenix’s first AEW title reign at 183 days.
Fenix was injured during the match, either breaking or dislocating his arm after taking a chokeslam off the apron through a table on the floor. Fenix was on his way to the hospital, and the injury was severe enough to likely require surgery.
For Jungle Boy and Luchasaurus, the win marks their first career AEW title victories.
The Tag title match main evented the first edition of Dynamite on TBS, a show that also featured two other title matches. Hangman Page defeated Bryan Danielson to retain the AEW World Championship on the show, plus Jade Cargill was crowned the first-ever TBS Champion, defeating Ruby Soho in a tournament final.
