10 AEW Wrestlers To Jump Ship RIGHT NOW
3. Malakai Black
Malakai Black needs to live the WWE challenge again too.
This time, he'll win. Vince McMahon was never going to understand someone so cerebral and in-ring focused during his leadership dotage. Black is the kind of worker who marries independent wrestling's best with occasionally-deep character work. He just needs a promoter who backs that for longer than a few weeks.
Tony Khan is not that man. The House Of Black concept has run out of legs in AEW, and Malakai is visibly toiling. A controversial effort inside the cage vs. Adam Copeland at Double Or Nothing could be as good as it's ever going to get around here for the HOB leader. Receiving a hug and a vote of confidence from Papa H would go a long way.
Malakai is respected by his peers, and rightly so. He's a top worker on his day, and has a creative mind that's gone unfulfilled since he was encouraging SmackDown stars to "pick a fight with me". It'd be sweet to see this man get his flowers on a bigger stage.