AEW: Everything you need to know about Jurassic Express

AEW will debut on TNT in just over a week’s time and in anticipation, we are going to tell you everything you need to know about their hottest new stable, Jurassic Express.

In a little more than a week, on Oct. 2 live on TNT, All Elite Wrestling will be making their much anticipated television premiere with AEW: Dynamite. The critically acclaimed action that they brought to their first four Pay-Per-Views will finally be arriving to a TV set near you in less than 10 days.

The AEW roster will offer plenty of old, familiar faces from wrestling’s past – such as Chris Jericho, Jon Moxley (fka Dean Ambrose in WWE), and Cody Rhodes – as well as totally new faces to represent wrestling’s present and future. Among those new faces will be the group known as Jurassic Express.

Before explaining who these men are as a unit, let’s first break down who they are as separate individuals.

Let’s start with Luchasaurus, who is on a mission to widen dinosaur representation in media, something that is severely lacking at the moment. Thanks to him (and not Barney), dinosaurs are making a big comeback.

Before he was Luchasaurus, he was Judas Devlin as a member of WWE’s FCW roster. When FCW was rebranded as NXT, Devlin mostly worked house shows over the course of the next couple years. While working closely with Dusty Rhodes down there, they struggled to concretely figure out a character for Devlin, but what they did brainstorm eventually planted the seeds for what Luchasaurus would become. However, by 2014, while Devlin was nursing a hip injury, he was released from WWE.

After a 2015 stint on Big Brother’s 17th season, the recipient of a Master’s degree in Medieval Literature (and a Graduate degree in History) returned to wrestling by going to Lucha Underground. There, he was rechristened as Vibora, a sort of predecessor to the Luchasaurus character. As he recalled in an interview with Chris Van Vliet (seen above around the four minute mark) Vibora’s character was described to him as a “giant snake with a huge helmet mask.

His first night working under the mask, he received “Luchasaurus!” chants from the crowd. They loved him, and the boys in the back loved the name. Wrestlers backstage suggested that he wrestle as Luchasaurus on the indies, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Vibora was killed off (yes, literally killed off via decapitation) in Aug. 2018 on Lucha Underground, but a year later, he popped up as Luchasaurus on the Buy-In pre-show of AEW’s first PPV, Double or Nothing. After he received a strong reception from the crowd, it was revealed three days later that AEW had signed Luchasaurus full time. At the last few PPVs, we’ve seen him linked closely with Jungle Boy as the team aptly named A Boy and His Dinosaur.

Jungle Boy is the son of the late, great Luke Perry. Yes, the same Luke Perry who played Pike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie, not the show). Well, you might know Perry best for his time on 90210, but you definitely know him as Pike in the greatest movie ever made, which spawned the best show ever. Sorry, my Buffy bias is showing. Moving on.

Anyway, believe it or not, despite only being 22-years old, Jungle Boy has been wrestling since he was a teenager. He started training in 2009. He was in fourth grade. After years of clotheslining his sister on trambolines, Jungle Boy’s parents took heed to their son’s excitement towards wrestling and figured if he was serious and dedicated to it, then they’d take him to wrestling school.

He attended a wrestling school led by Ric Drasin, a bodybuilder wrestler who competed in the 80’s and trained under Mae Young. It’s worth noting that Drasin also trained WWE’s Rusev to be a wrestler.

During the first week that Jungle Boy trained to be a wrestler, he met 6’5, 230+ pounder of a man who had also started training to wrestle under Drasin that same week. That man would become Luchasarus. The two became great friends and 10 years later, that friendship still holds strong as their chemistry simmers through AEW TV.

Then, most recently at the last couple AEW PPVs, a major addition was added to their chemistry when Marko Stunt was signed to AEW.

You might recognize Marko Stunt as the 5’2 hyperactive stick of dynamite that competed in the Over the Budget Battle Royale at All In last year. The appeal in Marko Stunt is basically in his name: he’s a stunt monkey. And I’m not saying that to knock the guy either. When you need a … let’s call them “enhancement talent” who needs to be ragdolled left and right to make someone look like a million bucks, this 23-year old is your ideal guy.

He always does his job and he does it well. Not to mention, he’s incredibly fun to watch to boot. Much like his tag partner, Jungle Boy, Stunt looks about 10 years younger than he really is, but is surprisingly athletic and agile for his age.

All three men compiled together make up Jurassic Express. Given their unique bond and dynamic as an enticing giant and two deceptively agile young men, they’ve quickly become a hot commodity among AEW’s roster. Expect big things in their future going forward.