Triple H Says Aleister Black Is "Going to Be a Player"

WWE COO Triple H and NXT General Manager William Regal were recently interviewed by ESPN, where they discussed some of the current talent that is coming through the development system.

The two main talents that they focused on were Otis Dozovic and Aleister Black.

“Jerry Brisco, who is a WWE Hall of Famer, goes out and scouts all of the amateur wrestling,” said WWE head scout William Regal. “He brought [Otis] to our attention and said whenever he went to a meet, whenever Otis was on the mat, there will be 12,000 people in an arena. There’s several matches going on at one time in different parts of the mat in the arenas, and he said, ‘I always knew he was coming on because everybody, didn’t matter who it was … even if it was some really major contest, would stop watching that and look to where [Dozovic] was.’ He said, ‘You just knew he was in the building, because you can’t take your eyes off him.’

Regal said that very similar things were said about Aleister Black.

“We look for a lot of things, but the number one thing that we look for — and if I suggest anybody to Paul, he will always say it — ‘Do they actually look like they can beat somebody up?’ Because the key thing to what we do, and there’s a lot of wrestlers out there, unfortunately, who will get offended by this, but they just don’t look like they can do anything physical to anybody. Some of that just comes with time. Over time, your face hardens up and you just look more like a fighter. Aleister just fits that bill because that’s what he is. He is a kickboxer, and he’s been through the wars a bit. You can just see life in his face.”

“Aleister Black is very talented,” said Levesque. “I think he’s going to be a player.”