Aleister Black comments on a creative change that Vince McMahon made to his WWE presentation
WWE star Aleister Black did an interview with WrestleRant and here is an excerpt about a creative change that Vince McMahon made to Black’s presentation…
WrestleRant: “I just feel like—especially with the presentation we saw from you in NXT—when you came to the main roster, we still didn’t really get to see all of it. You had the song for a while, but wasn’t it early into your first main roster run when they added—this was notoriously a Vince thing, maybe you can confirm—the creaking of the board or whatever? It wasn’t awful, but it’s the small things that make the biggest differences.”
Black: “That was definitely a Vince thing. I think Vince thought the character was a vampire, and he envisioned that old-school Nosferatu rising-up moment—like a 1920s Count Orlok type. So he felt he heard a creak, and that’s why he wanted it there.
I didn’t mind it as much, but I feel like for fans it was a bit of a discontinuation from what they knew and loved. Change is always difficult for a lot of people to accept. This wasn’t the biggest change, but I understand where fans were coming from because I don’t personally think it added a lot. It also kind of negated what I thought the character was. So it was just a different interpretation. I could translate it, and it was fine—it didn’t turn me into a completely different character just because there was a creak.
But yes, that was something he wanted to do, and that was his thought process. It didn’t change my mind on much, but it was definitely his spin on it. And we’d seen that with so many people at that point, so it wasn’t entirely surprising.”