Aleister Black Granted Release + What Is a Conditional Release?

Fightful Select is reporting that Malakai Black has been granted his conditional release from AEW. At All Out on Sunday, with the cameras off of him Black took a bow and appeared to bid farewell to the audience. Xero News reported that he requested his release last week and it appears they were correct. This marks the end of the run for the former Aleister Black. He debuted last year against Cody Rhodes but was never really positioned as a main event talent. He had the House of Black, a group that had potential but never got off the ground with Buddy Matthews, Brody King and Julia Hart.

It’s been reported that he’s had some mental health issues. Which if that is the case, we want to extend our deepest sympathies to the grappler. It’s also been reported that he’s been dissatisfied with how his character has been presented. Whatever the reason is, we hope that Malakai comes back when he’s ready. There’s enough avenues to make money where it shouldn’t be an issue if he has to take to time off for wrestling. A lot of people are thinking he’ll go back to WWE. Which leads to the next question. What is a conditional release?

The phrase conditional release has been thrown around a lot. I questioned it so I of course I hit Google and it didn’t provide me the right definition given the context. So I hit up the greatest app of all time, Twitter. There I found Andrew Baydala. He perfectly explained what a conditional release is. It pretty much means that his release could be revoked if the terms of the deal are broken. If he goes to the competition, i.e: WWE or who knows, maybe Tony Khan’s freaked by the Freddie Prinze Jr company.

Xero News is reporting the conditions of the release to be 6 months non-compete with an option to return to AEW. If I had to guess, I’d bet that we see Malakai Black pop up on the indies in 6 months to a year. Although I sincerely hope he doesn’t rush himself back to the ring and that when he does come back that it’s a better run than his AEW one. Check the links here. Link to the latest podcast is here. I’d love to hear your thoughts below.

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