AEW wrestler Malakai Black ‘shattered’ his testicle into seven pieces during horrific WWE match

Black almost had to have a prosthetic (Picture: WWE)

Malakai Black has recalled the moment he literally ‘shattered’ his testicle into seven pieces during a WWE match.

The wrestler formerly known as Aleister Black, who made his AEW Dynamite debut earlier this month, has been reflecting on his time with Vince McMahon’s company and remembered one horrific incident which occurred during an NXT live event as he faced Tommaso Ciampa.

Appearing on Pro Wrestling 4 Life with Sean “X-Pac” Waltman, the star said: ‘Me and Tommaso were in this feud. This is the reason why I wasn’t on TV for 3 months. We were supposed to get into an angle with me, Johnny [Gargano], and Tommaso that was going to be a TakeOver match. It was already announced.

‘A week later, we went on the road. Tommaso had just won the belt from me. We were on the road. We were in Las Vegas. We had this thing where I jump on the top rope, he comes running and crotches me.

‘He came in with so much force that as I’m going down, his head collides with my nether region. Because of that flinch, I couldn’t catch myself from falling on the post. So I hit the post full speed, and it shattered my testicle into seven pieces.

‘I fell in the ring. I remember telling the referee, “Can you give me a second. I just got hit in the nuts.” I wrestled the full 22 minutes. I cut a promo after the match.’

Black – who was released from WWE at the beginning of June – then collapsed backstage, but several people thought he was just joking around after the match.

‘I came backstage and I just knew something was wrong. I collapsed. I was crawling on the floor. I was in agony. My down there was swollen and protruding through my trunks,’ he added.

‘I had to grab a towel. I said, “I think I need to go to the hospital.” They picked me up and took me to my locker room. I collapsed again. Everybody started laughing because they thought I was joking.

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‘Chris Hero said, “You’re not ok, are you?” I said, “No. I think something happened.” I explained what happened and he said, “We have to take you to the hospital.” He put me in the ambulance with Christian, the NXT doctor.’

He was given an option of either having surgery to repair his testicle, which would require three months away from the ring, or to have it removed and replaced with a prosthetic.

Black went for the latter, and revealed: ‘They drove me to the Las Vegas hospital. I had to wait quite a while to actually get surgery. I had to wait like 6 or 7 hours before I got the surgery.’

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