During a recent appearance on the Universal Wrestling podcast, AEW star Malakai Black threw massive praise to WWE Superstars Seth Rollins and Kevin Owens for looking out for him when the House of Black leader was still with WWE.
Black states that his final days in WWE were a “confusing time,” and credits Rollins for sharing a ton of advice with him while he was trying to figure stuff out. He adds that Rollins is filled with knowledge, which he believes is why he has been at the top of the industry for as long as he has.
“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 complete confusion. Seth was also someone who was there for me with a lot of advice and a lot of knowledge and a lot of, ‘Try this angle. Try that. So if you think about your character, what would you do this way?’ And he really made me think. You know, because Seth is a lot smarter than what people realize he is in this business. People 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 them for almost like a decade almost? 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 — he’s so smart”
Black shared some similar praise for Kevin Owens. He said that the prizefighter reached out to him almost every week to check in as he was someone who went through similar frustrations in the past.
“The same goes for Kevin, right? Kevin, in those last few matches, right before I 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, you know, what was being presented and what I was promised was 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 is going on? But again, reflection of the pandemic and Kevin would check on me every single week after TV or basically going like, ‘Hey man, penny for your thoughts and I understand that this is not the easy part. I understand this is the frustrating part’ but you know, really trying to keep my morale high, you [Chris Dunn] tried to keep my morale high but prominently so, I think we all tried to keep each other’s morale high because yeah, it was a pretty grim kind of phase in the whole — in the WWE universe.”
Black and his group have been involved in multiple storylines in AEW, including a feud with the Death Triangle that will most likely culminate with a match at Double or Nothing in Las Vegas, NV.
(h/t – Post Wrestling)
