Jungle Boy, real name Jack Perry, was born in June of 1997 in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of the late actor Luke Perry, who is famous for roles on Beverly Hills, 90210, and Riverdale, also making guest appearances on The Simpsons, Will & Grace, and more.
He was wrestling before he was even wrestling. That is to say, when he was very young, like many children his age, he would Batista Bomb and Tombstone Piledrive his younger sister on a trampoline. Rather than continue to put their little girl through the wringer as a kid, her parents told Jungle Boy that if he was indeed serious about his love for wrestling, he could try it out with others who also wanted to do it so he could learn to do it properly and safely.
From then on, after school, his parents drove him to wrestling practice and, after that, to shows. He doesn’t remember what promotion his first match was under, but on it, he was scared to death about it. “I remember thinking, right before it was time to go out, ‘why would anybody do this?’” he hilariously told Chris Van Vliet. Although you could have argued it was the beginner's nerves in his early twenties, Jungle Boy expressed that he still gets the same nerves when waiting behind the curtain these days too. There was a period where he fell out of love with wrestling, a phase he says many probably go through, but one day, Monday Night RAW accidentally came on his television when he sat on the remote. Despite being with a girl, he ended up watching it all the way through. Immediately, he was back into it. When asked about whether he could fall back out of love with it now, he replies that he is a lot more invested now.