On a recent edition of the “Busted Open Radio” podcast, Bully Ray stated that AEW should make Jack Perry should run through several ECW legends, including himself, to get him over as a top heel.
According to Ray, Perry should defeat multiple stars from ECW’s past before HOOK returns to face Perry.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
Bully Ray on Tommy Dreamer getting involved: “If Jack Perry is wrestling Rob Van Dam and beats Rob Van Dam and then all of a sudden were to go underneath the ring and pull out a kendo stick and start kendo-ing Rob Van Dam to death, there’s only two guys known for using a kendo, and that’s The Sandman and you.”
Tommy Dreamer on RVD in AEW and how it could help Perry: “All Rob has to do is play [his] greatest hits and the fact that it still looks like Rob Van Dam could still do things in the ring, he hits a few of his signature spots, or even teases him, those people are going to come unglued. And there is a generation of wrestlers that are in that AEW locker room that did grow up watching Rob Van Dam and have emulated stuff that he has done. It will be a cool moment. I don’t necessarily know if I want to go down the nostalgia route all that long. You could go the route. What they did with Randy Orton, ‘I’m the Legend Killer,’ which could be a layer for Jack Perry. There’s a lot of places you can go.”
Bully on the purpose of the older talent: “It’s all about Jack Perry and HOOK. It’s not about Rob Van Dam. It’s not about Taz. It’s not about Jerry. It’s not about Tommy. It’s not about Bubba. It’s about none of those guys. It’s utilizing all of those guys to the max to get Jack the most amount of heat so that when HOOK does return, and hopefully take that FTW championship back, it’s going to get a monster response.”