Awesome / Aleister Black

• In the beginning of the finest year of NXT history, Aleister Black and Adam Cole beat the absolute hell out of each other in a phenomenal Extreme Rules match at NXT TakeOver: Philadelphia.
• In what was a fantastic battle, he upsetted Andrade "Cien" Almas for the NXT title at NXT TakeOver: New Orleans. The final move has Vega trying to leap at Black, who dodges so she's caught by Almas. As Almas spins around trying to handle her, Black hits Black Mass while Almas is still holding Vega, knocking Vega out of the ring so Black can get the pin.
• A missed Black Mass aside, his match with Lars Sullivan at TakeOver: Chicago II still managed to be a good match, with Black hitting two Black Mass kicks to make up for the missed one, with the latter hitting on a bloodied Sullivan's face, finally putting the monstrous big man down for the count. While Lars lost, he looked like an absolute beast as he fought Black, providing the champion his biggest challenge yet.
• His match with Johnny Gargano at NXT TakeOver: WarGames II was a brutal, hard-hitting match that saw both unleash absolute hell against each other. Black was able to escape the Garga-No Escape and deliver a scintillating spinning knee strike onto Gargano's head, and then delivered a step-up knee strike, this time without the knee pad. Lifting Gargano's head up with his foot, he delivered a cringe-inducing (in a good way) Black Mass. Not enough, he lifted Gargano's head once again, told him, "I absolve you of all your sins." and delivered a second one for emphasis to what he had done to him three months prior.
• Debuting in the main roster at the Royal Rumble 2019 and managing to eliminate Dean Ambrose, a former WWE Champion, while impressing the Phoenix crowd with his skills. At one point, Pete Dunne manages to snap one of Black's fingers during the match. Black snaps it right back into place.
• Proceeded to steal the Super Bowl's Halftime with the battle at WWE Halftime Heat, where he teamed up with Ricochet and The Velveteen Dream to fight against Johnny Gargano, Tommaso Ciampa and Adam Cole in a tag team match. Despite clocking in at barely over 16 minutes, it still delivered and then some, with many agreeing it was worth watching over the actual Halftime Show, no hyperbole.
• His match against Cesaro at Extreme Rules 2019. The Dutch Destroyer and the Swiss Superman took each other to the absolute limit in a hard-hitting match that well-demonstrated their respective long histories in wrestling and the contrast in their respective styles, culminating in an earth-shattering Black Mass that finally capped Aleister's first victory in the ring since Wrestlemania 35.
• It's happened. Malakai Black is now All Elite, after he showed up on the 7/7/2021 edition of Dynamite to Black Mass first Arn Anderson, and then Cody.
• Black went on an absolute tear in AEW after his debut, his attention focused on taking apart the Nightmare Family.
  • First he absolutely squashed Cody in the worst drubbing Cody had received since he lost the TNT Championship to Brodie Lee- then afterwards, when Cody looked like he'd been dispirited to the point of trying to retire and tried to leave his boots in the ring, Black came back out and battered him some more before stealing the one boot Cody had managed to remove.
  • The next week Arn Anderson's son Brock challenged Black, hoping to get revenge for Black's assault on his father. Black brutalised him, trying to force Arn (who was watching from ringside) to throw in the towel to spare his son any more punishment, then finishing him off when Arn (at his son's insistance) refused and knocking out Arn again afterwards- the wily old veteran shockingly managed to block the first Black Mass, but then Black just kicked Arn in the crotch and dropped him with a second one.
  • Next he took out Lee Johnson, who was marginally more competitive but still clearly no match for the Dutch monster. After leaving Johnson dazed on the mat, Black left the ring and returned with a steel chair- which he laid down in front of Johnson and turned his back, inviting Johnson to hit him and trade a DQ loss for a measure of revenge. Johnson picked up the chair, but we never found out whether he would have used it because Black turned back and knocked him out.
  • Finally, he came to Dustin. Cody's big brother was the first to give Black serious competition, even fighting back in a rage when Black taunted him by throwing the boot he'd taken from Cody down in front of him and nearly pinning Black after a Canadian Destroyer, but in the end Black was able to send Dustin into an exposed turnbuckle and KO him as well, his demolition of the Nightmare Family complete. A rematch against Cody to end it once and for all is inevitable, but Malakai Black just looks completely unstoppable...

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