Aleister Black Says His First Year Back In WWE Has Been A Massive Success
Aleister Black is enjoying his return to WWE.
After departing All Elite Wrestling on February 10 last year following the expiration of his contract, the then-Malakai Black made his return to WWE during the April 25 edition of Friday Night SmackDown under his previous name of Aleister Black after weeks of vignettes teasing his arrival.
Speaking to Rob Pasbani for The Stunner in a new interview, Aleister Black opened up on his first year back with WWE and said he feels as though it’s been a massive success.
“First and foremost, I consider it a massive success. A lot more work, a lot more things that I have done inside the ring and outside the ring. I like being busy; once I feel like I am not busy, I feel like I am not doing something right. The amount of work I have had within WWE has been a lot, which is good. Several main events, headlining several Smackdown episodes, merchandise sales, commercials, various interviews, and then obviously as of recently, working the main event with Randy Orton and beating him. I cannot really complain when it comes to that. Can we do better? We can always do better. Even if I would have been at the highest of highest of echelons, I would still find things of myself that I would be like, ‘I can improve on this or I can improve on that.’ So, I consider it to be a very good year, very fruitful, very exciting, and very diverse. A lot of changes, a lot of new things. I was happy that I was able to bring over something that I was working on at the end of my first run when we did the Dark Father. This whole corrupting people character that was going to start with the Dark Father and obviously had its life in AEW for a minute, bringing that over to WWE, I feel like it has a lot more legs. With Randy, it has not even seeded as much as it is going to, which is a really cool prospect for me. I should be very happy and excited to be doing what I am doing. It feels very good.”
-Aleister Black
The highlight of Aleister Black’s return to WWE has undoubtedly been his rivalry with former World Heavyweight Championship holder Damian Priest, with Black picking up a victory in a Last Man Standing match between the pair before Priest brought the feud to an end with a win in an Ambulance match.
The aforementioned Last Man Standing match saw Zelina Vega, Black’s real-life wife, assist her partner for the win, with the pair now an established double act on Friday Night SmackDown.
As always, we’ll aim to provide any further updates on future plans for Aleister Black as soon as we hear more.
