“If anyone benefited from the incident last year at All In, it was Jack Perry.”

Allin feels like he has to be “The Scapegoat.”

It's been a full year since the physical altercation between CM Punk and Jack Perry at AEW All In 2023. Their scuffle resulted in Perry being suspended indefinitely and Punk being fired from the company.

Perry is currently the reigning TNT Champion and since winning the belt he has successfully defended five titles. The various versions of Perry's film character over the years were discussed by Darby Allin.

Allin told the New York Post that Jungle Boy has a shelf life, the “Hollywood” version of Jack isn't believable, but the current version is exactly where he belongs. He said if anyone benefited from the All In incident, it was Perry.

Honestly, it sounds crazy, but it's great. Because when he was Jungle Boy, I felt like it was just too cheesy and had a shelf life, if that makes sense. Like there was a glass ceiling with Jungle Boy, and then when he first became a villain, Hollywood Jack, or wherever the hell he was, it just wasn't believable. Nothing he did was believable. It felt like a terrible made-for-TV Lifetime movie character.

If anyone benefited from the incident that happened at All In last year, it's Jack Perry, because I feel like he's now what he always needed to be.

On the topic of a potential new television deal for AEW, Darby stated that it's not time to get comfortable when it comes to that.

Everyone literally has to work harder. Once we have a new TV deal, it's not time to say, “Oh yeah, let's party.” That's fine. I think when someone makes a lot of money, they almost feel like they don't have to work. They feel like people have the best work ethic when they have nothing, are broke, and are living paycheck to paycheck. This is the work ethic we must have at all times.

Both Allin and Perry were featured at the AEW Grand Slam. Allin competed in the main event of Dynamite. At Collision on September 28, Perry defended the TNT title against Minoru Suzuki.