Aleister Black made an appearance during yesterday's episode of
WWE's The Bump, and revealed that the structure used to create the effect of him rising from the ground was originally created for The Undertaker. Many fans believe he could be WWE's next version of the Deadman, especially as Paul Heyman is building him up as a top star on
RAW each week.
"I feel as soon as the lights go and the candles come up, the audience knows what time it is," Black explained. "They did such a good job in priming the audience to know and realize that when this is happening, everything changes. The landscape changes like, the lights change, the candles come up, it gets really dark, there's fog, and the entrance is completely different."
He continued, "I was talking to Triple H about it and he showed me this construction, which is of the thing that propels me, and it was actually meant for The Undertaker."
"He said, 'We don't have any use for this thing right now, what do you think?' I'm like, 'I'll take it.' It was one of those things where I could formulate something around this entrance where Aleister Black will just appear from nowhere. People think it's a coffin but it's not, I'm just propelled out of a void, I just come out of nowhere. I materialize and that's the idea behind it."
"Same as the room, the room's a non-existing place," he said of the room backstage he's often shown in. "I materialize from that to that. It has hints of supernatural."
This is certainly an interesting approach to the character, and it will be interesting seeing how WWE plays on that over the years to come. The original Bray Wyatt character was originally imagined as a possible replacement for The Undertaker, but that persona grew stale, and he's since been reinvented as The Fiend.
What do you guys think?