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Malakai Black denies AEW release and reveals he received death threats after WWE rumours-Alistair McGeorge-Entertainment – Metro
He is still All Elite.
Malakai Black has responded (Picture: AEW)
Malakai Black has spoken out to address speculation he is leaving All Elite Wrestling and urged people to be mindful of mental health.
The AEW star – who appeared in WWE as Aleister Black before his exit last year – recently confirmed he had requested his release from Tony Khan’s company, and revealed he would be taking a break from wrestling to focus on his own well being.
This led to fans wondering what his next move would be, and while Black had never said he had left the promotion, he has revealed he received ‘death threats’ over reports about his future.
In an Instagram Live on Monday night, he said: ‘You know, the worst thing about it is, for the past three days, [I’ve been getting] hateful comments and today, even two death threats. Death threats? Death threats?
‘You wish death upon a person because of what someone else had said, and then says that it’s confirmed. It’s not confirmed. Clearly it’s not confirmed. None of it’s confirmed.
‘There’s no confirmation because I haven’t left. That’s what this whole thing was about. I’ve been given time off by Tony to take care of a bunch of stuff. All this stuff has been played up like weeks. All this stuff was weeks ago.’
Black explained he wants to focus on ‘feeling good again’, and he won’t be around on social media for the time being as he takes a step back.
He added: ‘I would like to very much go back to just working on my stuff, working on my private life, working on getting to the point of feeling good again. So I hope that this puts all this stuff to bed. I am definitely not going to be on my social media for a while.’
Black also insisted he is ‘just taking time off’, and suggested fans will see him when he’s ready to return, while urging people not to listen to ‘any other narrative’ with conflicting reports in recent weeks.
He appeared in WWE as Aleister Black before joining AEW last year (Picture: WWE)
He continued: ‘I will see you guys in a couple weeks, maybe a couple of months, like I said, I’m only taking some time off. That’s it. Just taking time off. There’s no conspiracy to this. Just taking some time off.
‘Alright. I will see you guys soon. Take care of yourself, stop believing any other narrative. Right now, I debunked it. There’s nothing going on. Don’t believe these people.
‘Don’t write, don’t believe it, nothing. I’m fine, I’m going to be fine. Everything is fine. You’ll see me right back with AEW pretty soon. I’m just gonna take some time. That’s it.’
He also referenced the ‘tribalism’ between some AEW and WWE fans, and insisted it isn’t something he wants to be involved in as he urged people not to use his situation as an ‘instrument’.
He said: ‘I don’t do the whole Team AEW versus Team WWE. I don’t play that. To me, this is a business. This is genuinely like a business in the sense that it’s a business, it’s my job, it’s what I do for a living.’
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