Another one bites the dust. Maybe.
While Samoa Joe was busy saying the clues behind the identity of the AEW Devil led to Hangman Adam Page this week on Dynamite, that all went out the window when Page himself was attacked by the Devil and his black-garbed goons.
(Also, let’s be real, it was never going to be Hangman anyway because he hasn’t been involved with this storyline until recently, and doing the mysterious puppet master thing isn’t his style at all. Ahem.)
That assault led to a flare-up of the fan theory that Jack Perry is the Devil, mostly because Page got slammed onto a car windshield. You might remember that Perry’s backstage dust-up with CM Punk at All In London started after a similar spot in his match with Sammy Guevara, after which he uttered a now famous line about the legitimacy of the glass and another that doubles as the title of a Justin Timberlake song.
It was an inside baseball reference to be sure, but Punk took offense, hands were supposedly thrown, and Punk eventually was fired. Perry has been suspended since then.
Or perhaps not. Fightful Select (subscription required) suggested this week that “technically Perry’s suspension has long been up” but he hasn’t returned to AEW shows yet. Unless … he’s the Devil?
Fightful doesn’t think so.
Fightful received a message from one high level source immediately after the segment specifying that they don’t believe Jack Perry is involved in the angle.
Of course the beauty of doing a subplot with a mystery person who never speaks is that it could literally be anyone under the Devil mask, and then when the reveal actually happens, someone could be under there who wasn’t playing the role the whole time.
Which is to say that while the Devil likely hasn’t been Perry, it could still be Perry when it’s all said and done. Honestly, though, we’re hoping for someone else when the Scooby Doo-style unmasking finally takes place.