Update On Aleister Black’s WWE Status, Not Looking Great

It’s a bad place to be. This has been an up and down year in WWE, which is quite the roller coaster in a normal year. You never know when you are going to see someone moving around the card, often in a bad way. Sometimes a talented wrestler is not going to get the best treatment, which may or may not be due to something they have dome. That seems to be the case again and it’s sad to see.

One of the bigger stories over the last few weeks was the release of Zelina Vega. This seems to come from Vega’s stance on WWE’s new third party policy, but her release had quite the fallout included. Vega is also married to SmackDown star Aleister Black, who has not been seen in a rather long time. Now we might know what is behind the absence, and you probably won’t be surprised.

According to Wrestling Observer Radio, Black has been forgotten about by WWE and there is no word on when he will be back on television. No one with any authority in WWE sees anything in Black. His recent request to return to NXT was ignored and Black’s most recent match took place on the October 12 edition of Monday Night Raw. It is not clear if this is related to Vega being released.

Black has some serious talent. Check out what WWE is leaving on the sidelines:

Opinion: This is a situation that doesn’t make me happy but it also doesn’t surprise me. WWE has a bad tendency to have wrestlers sit on the sidelines because they have nothing to do with them and it often does not make a ton of sense. Black is someone who could do something on television but for some reason it just does not happen. I don’t get it and that is the case with a lot of WWE’s current stars.

What do you think of Black? When will he be back on TV? Let us know in the comments below.

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