Aleister Black Names His Three Favorite AEW Matches

Aleister Black reflects on his favorite moments from his time in AEW.

Aleister Black, also known as Malakai Black, joined All Elite Wrestling in 2021. After four years with the company, he returned to WWE on Friday Night SmackDown following WrestleMania 41. Now, he’s reflecting on his time in AEW and has nothing but positive things to say about it.

Speaking with Denise Salcedo in an interview recorded ahead of WWE SummerSlam 2025, Black named his three favorite moments in his AEW career. Going in chronological order, he shouted out his blow-off match with Cody Rhodes from the Saturday Night Dynamite in Orlando, Florida, in 2021. He then spoke about the rise of the House of Black faction and his rivalry with Adam Copeland.

“I think if I have to go in line, it’s my blow off match with Cody in Orlando. It’s the forming of the House of Black because of all the little vignettes that I was able to do and the way that we brought Brody in and manipulating the audience into realizing that it was Brody King when people didn’t really know him that well, so I got a lot of people to kind of like, ‘Oh, it’s Brody King, who’s Brody King? Then they started sharing amongst each other. So when he came out, he got a good reaction— same thing with Buddy.

“Then my match with Adam Copeland, the Cage Match, and that whole story, because Adam let me write a lot of that stuff, and then Adam gave his input, and he made sure that we had, like, a clean way to tell all those stories, kind of. The Cage Match itself is one of my favorite things done. The thing is, I’ve done a lot of really cool stuff in AEW. I don’t look back at my AEW career as bad. Not at all.”

Learn more about Aleister Black’s decision to return to WWE here. Currently, he’s not scheduled for the WWE SummerSlam card.

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