{"id":36411,"date":"2019-01-24T22:02:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T03:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=36411"},"modified":"2019-01-24T22:02:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T03:02:40","slug":"jungle-boy-signs-with-all-elite-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/01\/24\/jungle-boy-signs-with-all-elite-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Jungle Boy Signs With All Elite Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally reported last week, <strong>All Elite Wrestling<\/strong> made it official today, announcing the signing of 21-year old <strong>Jungle Boy<\/strong>, a rising star in the West Coast independent scene. It was unveiled during the debut episode of <em><strong>The Road to Double or Nothing<\/strong><\/em> web series on <strong>Cody Rhodes<\/strong>&#8216; YouTube Channel.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AEW - The Road To Double Or Nothing - Episode 01\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zTm-2AqdXOA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a whirlwind year for Jungle Boy, who was originally more known for his famous father (former <em><strong>90210<\/strong><\/em> star <strong>Luke Perry<\/strong>) than he was for wrestling. He started with <strong>Underground Empire Wrestling (UEW)<\/strong> in 2015, a small local indie in Los Angeles, before moving up to the Bay area&#8217;s <strong>All Pro\u00a0Wrestling\u00a0(APW)<\/strong> the following year. But in 2018, everything changed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"War of the Underground: Michael Nothing vs Jungle Boy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_R4yl00OgsA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He made his debut with <strong>Championship Wrestling From Hollywood<\/strong> in August, but it was his debut for <em><strong>Joey Janela&#8217;s LA Confidential<\/strong><\/em>, presented by <strong>Game Changer Wrestling (GCW)<\/strong>, that exposed him to a national audience via PPV. And much like <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/08\/18\/size-doesnt-matter-when-youre-the-guy-marko-stunt-makes-his-mark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Marko Stunt<\/strong>&#8216;s stock exploded<\/a> on the national indie scene after his appearance at Janela&#8217;s Lost in New York earlier that summer, Jungle Boy became a hot commodity. He&#8217;s continued to work with GCW on the East Coast, and soon debuted with <strong>Bar Wrestling<\/strong> and <strong>Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG)<\/strong>, the latter just last week at <em><strong>PWG Hand of Doom<\/strong><\/em> against <strong>Brody King<\/strong>. And now he&#8217;s the newest member of AEW.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattJackson13\/status\/1088622504896122880<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally reported last week, All Elite Wrestling made it official today, announcing the signing of 21-year old Jungle Boy, a rising star in the West Coast independent scene. It was unveiled during the debut episode of The Road to Double or Nothing web series on Cody Rhodes&#8216; YouTube Channel. It&#8217;s been a whirlwind year for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":36415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[3911,98,3868,99],"class_list":["post-36411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-all-elite-wrestling","tag-cody-rhodes","tag-jungle-boy","tag-young-bucks"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}