Jack Perry really wanted the matchup with Rob Van Dam.
Jack Perry and Rob Van Dam faced off in an FTW Rules title match on August 9th edition of AEW Dynamite, with Perry coming away with the victory in the matchup.
In a recent interview with Denise Salcedo, Van Dam revealed that his match with Perry has been something Jack has wanted for quite some time, also noting how long the match had been planned for.
“They’ve had this planned for quite a while actually, it was towards the beginning of the year when I started getting phone calls seeing if I was interested and even available, which it’s pretty remarkable that so many months later, the first dates that were mentioned were the exact same dates that it fell upon so that tells me a lot about how far ahead these guys think. Just like with anything, it’s not real until it happens and that’s how I took it.”
“What was really cool about Jack Perry is that he really wanted this match. He was a real fan, maybe of the whole hardcore, extreme style or whatever so it was a really organic fit. If it was just like thrown together, which a lot of matches are, every match is a compromise of what two completely different people bring together, you make the stew, you both got your own ingredients. Sometimes it’s good, when you’re RVD, it’s always good. With Jack being extra excited about this particular match, that just made it that much better.”
Rob Van Dam
Perry’s retirement of the FTW Championship is the only thing set for the August 23 episode of Dynamite.
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