Aleister Black Says Returning With His Original Theme Was ‘Only Thing That Made Sense’

Aleister Black reverted to his original theme song when he returned to WWE, and he says it was the only thing that made sense for him. Black made his return at the Smackdown after WrestleMania 41. He came back to essentially his original theme song and entrance. Black spoke with WrestleRant about returning with his original presentation.

He also confirmed that Vince McMahon was responsible for the creak effect that was added to the entrance when he debuted on the main roster. Black said that it was to give him a Nosferatu-style feel. You can see the highlights below:

On Returning With His Orignal Music:

“I mean, it was the only thing that would make sense. Like, that’s the only thing for the most part that like, people can cling on to. And over the years, the amount of people that would, you know, reference my music. The package was obviously the rising up out of nowhere, the music, the lights, the jackets, the aesthetic, the stoicness, and just the nature of the character in that regard. They were one package.

“So if you would take one element out from the package, you would tarnish the package. And you tarnish the memory or level of expectation that fans would have. So we didn’t want to take anything away from it. And even before any conversations were had, what directions it would take — the conversation immediately went like, ‘we’re going to do this and this.’ And those both included the coming out of nowhere, rising up, and the music. That was obviously the first thing that were right back on the table.”

On If The Creaking Sound Was a Vince McMahon Thing:

“That was definitely a Vince thing. I think Vince thought that the character was a vampire. And he felt like old school Nosferatu rising up, you know, 1920s Count Orlok-type. So he felt that he heard a creak, and that’s why he wanted to have the creek there. I didn’t mind it as much. But I feel like for fans it was a little bit of a discontinuation of what they, you know, love and see. And change is always difficult for a lot of people to accept.

“And this wasn’t the biggest change, but I do feel that I understand where fans were coming from. Because I don’t personally think that it add a lot. It also kind of like negated what I thought of what the character was. So you know, it’s a different translation. But at the same time, I could translate it and it was fine. Yeah. It didn’t make me a very different character, just because it was a creak. But yeah, that’s something that he wanted to do and that was fun. It didn’t change my mind on a lot of things, but it was definitely his thought process in that regard.”

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