During a recent appearance on Sean Waltman’s “Pro Wrestling 4 Life” podcast, AEW Superstar Malakai Black commented on his reaction to Bray Wyatt’s release from WWE, what advice Wyatt gave him, and more. You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On Bray Wyatt’s WWE release: “I think I speak for everyone when I say that we were all very, very surprised. Obviously, I don’t know the reasons why, and the reasons for that is also not for me to know. That’s between them and the company. All I can say is that Bray is a phenomenal talent. I think there’s no question about that. Everyone thinks that he is a phenomenal, creative guy. Funny enough, in our conversations a lot of times, there’s a lot of cross reference the way him and I think about subliminal messaging, and building characters and where we get our inspirations from, and it’s interesting to hear him talk about his characters. A lot of times we’re always kind of like, ‘What would we do if it was just you and me?’ We do a little bit of fantasy booking here and there. Windham, for as much as I know him, has always been a stand up guy since the first time I met him. He’s also been there for me when I wanted to ask him a few things because obviously, at the time, he was in the company for a very, very long time, and he went through a similar process that I have to go through.”
On Wyatt’s career advice to him: “One of the things that he always told me, and he always did is, fight, just fight for what you want to do. And I did, and he did too, but at the end, it’s not up to us. And in the end, it’s going to be someone else’s decision, no matter how hard you fight, but I agree with the sentiment. You want to die on your own sword so at least you want to know that you tried everything, and even if it doesn’t go the way you want it to go, at least you tried, at least you tried to convince, you try to convey, you try to talk, you try to present no matter how many times you get shut down or no matter how many times they try to change it or present it in a way that doesn’t work for you anymore. You try and that’s one of the things that he really instilled in me was, try, you got to try keep trying, keep fighting, keep talking.”
