AEW Nation Champion Jack Perry recently reformed Jurassic Express with Luchasaurus, but the two men weren’t the only members of the original trio. Former AEW star Marko Stunt was released from the company in 2022, and outside of a guest appearance in 2024, hasn’t been seen near the former “Jungle Boy” since.

That changed on Saturday, when Stunt was attacked at GCW’s Maniac 2026 event in Perry’s hometown of Los Angeles, CA, by former AEW star KJ Orso, known to AEW fans as Fuego Del Sol, and Orso’s partner Sam Stackhouse. Perry surprised the Ukrainian Cultural Center crowd by showing up to save his former comrade. 

Things will not end there though, as Perry will team with Stunt for the first time in years to take on Orso and Stackhouse at Joey Janela’s Spring Break X in Las Vegas, NV’s Horshoe Las Vegas Hotel on April 17. The show will also feature potential AEW star Negative One, son of Brodie Lee, who will be taking on Janela.

Stunt intially announced his retirement from wrestling in 2024, going on to sell cars at Homer Skelton Ford in Mississippi, but is clearly ending that retirement for the tag match, even posting “back in business” on social media. Stunt had wrestled on the independent scene, following his AEW release, but injuries caught up with him, leading to the change in occupation.

Perry returned from injury at the end of 2025, shedding his “Scapegoat” persona, which led to him winning the AEW National Title from Ricochet in a Battle Royal at last month’s Revolution PPV.

Throughout his almost three-decade long career in WWE, Michael Cole has witnessed it all, including moments that have shocked even him. Cole explained on “The Sal Licata Show” that while he knows about “80 percent” of what’s going to happen, there are times he chooses not to know anything if he can help it, like at WrestleMania. He talked about the times he’s been most shocked behind the desk, with the big one occurring at WrestleMania 30.

“There wasn’t one person in that building that thought Undertaker was going to lose,” Cole explained. “Every single person believed that he was either going to retire undefeated, or if he was going to lose, he was going to lose to an up-and-coming person that he could help give the ‘rub’ to. None of us knew that Brock was going to win. I think the legend goes that the actual ending of the match was changed mid-match. Anyhow, when Brock hit ‘Taker with the F5, I believed that ‘Taker was going to kick out. So, it was almost a nonchalant, ‘one, two’ and I was about to say ‘kickout’ when I froze, and that’s just when I simply, the first thing that came to mind was, ‘the streak is over.'”

Cole said looking back, he doesn’t think he could have called it any better, due to how genuinely shocked he was. He said he doesn’t listen back to much of his work, but when he hears that call, he still gets chills. Cole said the other most shocking moment to him was when Eddie Guerrero defeated Lesnar to win his first world championship in 2004.

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Amidst the WWE-TNA partnership once came the “WWE NXT” debut of former TNA Knockouts Champion Rosemary. For WWE fans, it was a pleasant surprise as “The Demon Assassin” stepped up to face then-NXT Women’s North American Champion Kelani Jordan. For Rosemary herself, it also emerged as a shock, though in a different way.

“We’ve been in TNA for 10 years now, and you’re never really sure if people are aware of you outside of that bubble, outside of that scope,” Rosemary told “Counted Out.” “It might just be people who only watch TNA. So to walk out at NXT as a surprise and no lead-up, no prep work, nothing that people could go and do research on and perhaps look up to see who’s coming over. To walk out as a surprise and have that kind of reception, there was a moment backstage — much like we talked about with The Bunny thinking people maybe forgot her — right before we were about to reveal ourselves and wondering, ‘What if nobody knows who we are? Wouldn’t that be a bit embarrassing? Then the music hit and all of the humans erupted. Do you know this doesn’t happen very often, but it was very humbling.”

At that time of this crossover, Jordan was approaching an NXT Women’s North American Championship defense against Wendy Choo at “NXT” No Mercy 2024. Ahead of their in-ring meeting, though, Choo extended an invite for Rosemary, an equally scary character, to take on Jordan on “NXT” first. Jordan emerged victorious in the bout, but not before the dark duo left her lying in the ring, with Choo holding the NXT Women’s North American Championship over her.

Under the TNA banner, Rosemary has enjoyed one reign as Knockouts World Champion and four as a TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion.

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Matt and Jeff Hardy broke into pro wrestling in the 1990s, after getting their start as backyard wrestlers. They’ve been closely associated with ladder matches throughout their respective careers, and speaking on his podcast, Matt explained the extent to which they were inspired by the ladder match between Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon (AKA Scott Hall) at WWE WrestleMania X.

“That match had a hold on us,” Matt said. “It made us want to experiment with ladders. … We’d never seen anything like it.”

Hardy explained that his brother Jeff worked for a landscaping company and would continually buy ladders, only to destroy them during matches and then go out to buy new ones to replace the broken ladders. This confused their father, but Matt mused that it wound up working out for them.

“We thought the concept was so cool,” Matt said regarding ladder matches. “There’s a belt hanging, you have to climb up the ladder to get it, the way they used the ladder as a weapon, the way that they would go up the ladder and get shoved off. And then Shawn took a couple bumps.”

Although ladder matches have earned a reputation for being built around spots, Hardy shared his belief that the first big ladder match used lots of psychology, centered on the ladder as both a weapon and the means to win the title.

“They did a lot of really cool, innovative stuff, and it’s something that we saw and it resonated with us, and we were like, ‘Whoa, I want to do something like that!'”

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