Aleister Black was featured on the latest episode of Sheamus’ Youtube Show, Celtic Workouts.
During the video, Black ended up sharing the story behind when he was called up to the WWE main roster.
Here is what he said (h/t to Cageside Seats for the quotes below):
“And my call-up was obviously a quick one, cause I wasn’t scheduled to be called up yet. It was a last minute decision… We were like – I remember Saturday in this very gym [in his home garage/gym in Orlando], I was just done and we had a NXT live event that night and it was 11:30, and I’m thinking to myself I don’t have to leave until 1, I was gonna take a little 45 minute nap, you know? We don’t get many, we don’t get a lot of sleep.
I had my phone placed next to me, and I’m starting to doze off and my phone goes, and it’s Coach Bloom… ‘I have some news for you.’ I’m like ‘You are firing me,’ as a joke. He’s like, ‘Something like that… this Sunday you’re flying to’ I can’t remember where I flew to because – they flew us somewhere we weren’t making our debut deliberately so… because they didn’t want us to be seen by fans lining up at the airport, they wanted it to be a surprise… ‘and this Monday you make your debut on Raw and Tuesday on SmackDown,’ and my exact sentence was get the f*** out.”
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On a related note, here is what Black had to say about fans comparing him to the Undertaker.