Aleister Black Says Main Eventing WrestleMania & Winning World Title Is ‘Of Course The Goal’ For Him But He’s Content Being Back In WWE

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Aleister Black says main eventing WrestleMania and winning his first world championship is “of course the goal” for him, but he’s content being back in WWE.

It has now been almost a year since Aleister Black came back to WWE, with the former NXT Champion returning to the company on the April 25, 2025 episode of SmackDown after almost four years in AEW.

While Black has been prominently featured alongside several big names in WWE and holds recent wins over the likes of Randy Orton and Sami Zayn, Black, nor his wife Zelina, have matches at WrestleMania 42.

Speaking to The Ringer, Black was asked whether he’s currently satisfied with where he is now, compared to other stages in his career, to which Black responded:

“That’s a loaded question and obviously you’re not the first one to ask me that on camera. You’re not the first one to ask me that in my private life. I feel that it doesn’t matter what you get. Being satisfied is very difficult. Not because I think, or any of us think, we should have more, deserve more. I think any professional always tries to push the boundaries and tries to climb as high as they possibly can on whatever ladder they’re given. And even when they reach the top of the ladder they’re like, ‘I wonder if I reach up, if there’s going to be another ladder.’ Like you keep trying to get better and move up higher. That’s just a never ending thing.

“And I’ve asked myself, grand exits, what is the accomplishment you would look back on like, if you could have it your way. And let’s say it is, I’m just bullsh***ing you, main event WrestleMania and I win the title. Would I then be satisfied? Because people ask me, ‘What is success?’ And the honest answer is I don’t know. Would I be content? I don’t know. I can honestly say that I don’t know.

“Of course that’s the goal. I think that’s for anybody that starts professional wrestling with the goals of reaching the WWE. That is obviously the goal; world title, WrestleMania, of course. But I think also for some that have certain ambition, I often wonder to myself would I then be happy? Would I then be content? And even when I’ve reached other goals in my life, literally 10 minutes later, ‘Alright, what’s next?’ It’s almost like you’re ungrateful to your own goals if that makes sense.

“So am I happy and content? Yes, because I had to learn to be happy and content because you also got to realize that you’re gonna get what you’re gonna get. And that what you get right now is not gonna be what you get next week and everything always plays out way different in reality that it plays out in your head. And that’s a big lesson that I had to learn because it’s easy for anybody in this industry to get frustrated, to get angry, to feel that they are barred or doors are being closed, and then a week later something happens, you’re like, ‘Oh, I don’t know why I got (angry or frustrated).’ So I’ve learned to just let things be in peace for myself.

“Am I happy? No never. But am I content? Yes, of course. I’m back, I wanted to be back, I felt like I had a lot of unresolved things that I wanted to do. When I was 30 years old it became about goals, goals, goals. Now it’s about what can I do? And How can I do it? And what else is there for me to do?”

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