ALEISTER BLACK

I have no interest in having my wife as my manager and I don't think she has to because it would be kind of cliche. It's almost in the line of expectations where it's like, oh of course you're going to put them together, and I don't want that.

I've never had like many friends, I've had a few. It's just something that's in my character, in my personality.

My social media is very strict to my character and I've disabled comments on a lot of things because why would the Aleister Black character care about comments?

The legacy that The Undertaker has had, I can't even put into words. He changed the landscape.

I mean, proud of myself, I always say that everything that I do is a work in progress.

Just because you have a good athletic background doesn't make you necessarily a good wrestler. Because it takes a lot to be a good professional wrestler.

I understand that people think that because there is a certain element of me that has stepped over to the dark side, but there is only one Undertaker and I can never fill that void. And there is only one Aleister Black, and I am the first one, and there will never be a second one.

Like, the idea that I had to spend the rest of my life behind a desk and not be able to express myself the way I wanted to express myself. To me, that is torture. I mean if people out there that do love that then more love to them, but it just wasn't for me.

To a lot of MMA fighters, pro wrestling is a very popular thing and I'm very thankful for them to try and make the transition into professional wrestling. But then they figure out its not as easy as a lot of people think.

I was born in Amsterdam.

I'm frightened a lot. I feel like it's caused me a lot of obstacles.

My mom was Roman Catholic, my dad was part of.

If I look at who I am as a person and where my interests lie, I figured that going from Tommy End to Aleister Black was almost like a possession. So, one entity to the other.

I never felt like the nine to five mentality is for me.

I was a big fan of the more Mexican-based wrestlers when I started watching WCW, and I saw guys like Silver King, Eddie Guerrero, and Rey Mysterio. And where I come from, we have this European heritage with World of Sport with guys like Johnny Saint, Johnny Kidd, 'Rollerball' Mark Rocco, Robbie Brookside.

Was I a fan of WWE? Yeah, of course, but I knew it was not going to be a thing for me, until NXT came to the foreground and a lot of my friends who I was competing against on the independent scene were getting signed.

I always feel fear, even just in daily life I feel fear.

At 15-years-old, I always wanted to do professional wrestling, and at 15, I started training as a professional wrestler. It was always the plan to become an entertainer, a sports entertainer.

I think that there are always these opponents that you circle back to that you have made some sort of legacy with and I feel Buddy Murphy is that for me.

I think the outside world is more fascinated by the fact that me and my wife are competing against each other than we are ourselves.

Everyone's an individual and individuality is such a strong thing in our society so that translates into wrestling.

The whole Aleister Black character is a creation of my influences, Triple H and NXT, and everyone combined.

I got into wrestling at the age of 4 or 5. I didn't watch WWE until later.

I've been involved in professional wrestling since 2000 when I started training and there hasn't been one day that I haven't put everything into it.

I look at sports entertainment/professional wrestling, whichever you want to call it, I look at it as never done. You're never done learning or getting better or listening, and never done honing your skill.