Back in 2021, Aleister Black was officially released from WWE, and shortly after he went on to sign with All Elite Wrestling. Black finished up with AEW months ago, but throughout his run with the company it was rumored that he didn’t want to take losses.
Recently Aleister Black appeared on The Ringer’s Masked Man Show, and he directly addressed the rumors regarding his time in All Elite Wrestling.
“One of the things, they’re like, ‘Oh, he never wanted to be in AEW.’ That’s completely false. That’s absolutely not true. I had a great time in AEW. I had a lot of fun. Did I do everything that I wanted to do? No, but that’s okay. Because at the end of the day, it’s not my company. I don’t have any say.
“And it’s the same way for all the, ‘He didn’t want to lay down for people.’ If you really think that I have so much pull in the company that I can say who I’m not going to go up against or lay down against, you think I’m going to not, like, vouch for myself and put myself in the main events and stuff? You think I’m going to politic for — oh, I’m not going to lay down for this person.”
Aleister Black also talked about his reasons for choosing WWE over AEW, and he explained that his return to WWE was a “calculated business decision.”
I don’t like that that for a big part has also been like a running narrative, like coming out of it. Because I’ve always loved wrestling. I still love wrestling. I loved being in AEW. I think my match with Adam Copeland in the cage is one of the funnest things I’ve done in wrestling, right?
“And yes, of course, at the end of it, I made a calculated business decision. I looked at what I wanted to do, where I wanted to do it, and how I wanted to do it. ‘Well, this is where my wife [Zelina Vega] was.’ Listening to option A with what they wanted me to do, listening to option B with what they wanted to do, and I picked the one that business-wise made sense for me. And also where my heart lay more in terms of, well, I feel I have a lot left that I want to do here. And I know on this side, this is what they want me to do. And that doesn’t completely align with what I want to do at this moment. So I’m going to go the other way.”
H/T F4Wonline.com