When Malakai Black first arrived on the WWE main roster it seemed that he had momentum behind him, but unfortunately the former NXT Champion apparently got lost in the shuffle during the pandemic era, and he spent a number of months sitting on the sidelines.
Black recently joined the Universal Wrestling Podcast and he discussed his final months with WWE while crediting Seth Rollins and Kevin Owens as two of the stars who tried to help him.
“The same goes for Kevin. In those last few matches right before I, ya know, rang the door and basically said ‘boss, we need to have a conversation because what the hell is happening?’, Kevin would check on me every single week because he knew what was going on and he knew that it wasn’t right and he knew that, what was being presented and what I was promised versus what I was given would flip-flop literally every Monday and it drove me insane. Like, it drove me insane because I was just like what’s going on? But again, reflection of that, Kevin would like check on me every single week after TV or like basically go ‘hey man, penny for your thoughts and just know I understand that this is not the easy part’ and he’d say this is the frustrating part. But ya know, trying to keep my morale high but I think commonly, I think we all try to keep each other’s morale high because it was…yeah, it was a pretty grim kind of phase in the whole universe.”
“You know I have to give a special thanks to both Seth [Rollins] and Kevin [Owens] because they held my head up high during those times of like complete confusion. Seth was also someone who was there for me with a lot of advice and a lot of like knowledge and a lot of like, try this angle, try that, tell me about this. So, if you think about your character what would you do this way what would but you know he really made think. Ya know because Seth is a lot smarter than people realize he is in this business. People like don’t understand how long he’s been on top because I don’t care what people think. That guy’s been a top player for the man for almost like a decade. He’s been a high profile guy even from his NXT days, he was a high profile player there to being a high profile player on the mat. He’s so smart.”
Malakai Black eventually made his return to WWE programming when he attacked Big E on the May 21st, 2021 episode of SmackDown, but he was released shortly after. He went on to debut with AEW in July of 2021 where he is currently part of the House of Black stable.
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