For years Malakai Black competed in WWE as Aleister Black, but his final months with the company have remained somewhat of a mystery. Black was absent from WWE programming for some time, but the company started running vignettes promoting his return. When he finally did return he attacked Big E which led many to believe that a feud with Big E was on the horizon for Black. However, he was released shortly after.
Recently Malakai Black appeared on HardLore and discussed some of the talks he had with Vince McMahon in the months leading up to his release from WWE.
“I had a whole talk with Vince. This was in the COVID era. To make a very long story short, Vince was like, ‘We gotta do something with you.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, no s***.’ We had a 45-minute conversation. It was kind of unheard of because Vince usually didn’t talk [to people longer than] 5 or 10 minutes. He really took the time.”
Black then started working with the band Brutality Will Prevail on new entrance music and he revealed Vince McMahon’s reaction to the song when he added, “I came back and Vince is like, ‘Alright, let’s hear it.’ So I sit there on my mobile phone, and I let Vince hear this extremely loud f***ing hardcore, blackened hardcore song. And Vince goes, ‘Well, I mean, I don’t know if that’s music, but I’m 76 years old, so what the f*** do I know about music?'”
The former NXT Champion went on to note that despite the talks with McMahon he was pulled from TV once again when he said, “Then the new year came, and nothing happened. Obviously I didn’t do anything until April of 2021, I want to say. Then we started shooting the vignettes for the Dark Father, that was the big reset. And then obviously everybody knows what happened.”
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