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Aleister Black’s eye was driven into the steel steps on the 7/27 edition of Monday Night RAW by Murphy. Black was off TV for several weeks and returned just a few weeks after the segment and is now involved in a feud with Kevin Owens. After RAW went off the air on 9/7, Aleister Black and Zelina Vega went live on their Twitch channel.
Aleister visibly has a black rim around the iris of his eye and he spoke about that during the stream. While he did not want to get too much into how that coloration formed around his eye, he said it obviously was related to the steel steps spot but there were issues coming out of that and more to it than what people know.
“Yeah, it’s been a sh*t day guys. But I’m not gonna bore you with that… Alright, let’s address the elephant in the room, this thing [his eye]. It was a lot more that happened to the eye than a lot of people know, that’s why I was wearing the glasses. Half of it was obviously what happened but it was a little bit of an issue here and there. That’s all I’m gonna say about it. That’s why it looks like that. That’s it. I don’t wanna talk about it, I don’t wanna get into it. You’re gonna have to deal with me for a while, if it clears up with this nice little rim in my iris so…”
A user in the chat mentioned how they did not see the black rim around Aleister’s eye while he was on RAW Underground. Aleister said it was there, but the camera did not zoom in on him when he took his bandage off.
“Oh it was there, it was there. They didn’t zoom in on me. You could see it really small at one point in the beginning when I took my bandana off.”
Elsewhere during the live stream, Black discussed the negativity he saw on social media after he searched his name on Twitter following RAW. He said he was hoping to find pictures of himself on RAW Underground. Black also mentioned receiving death threats daily.
“In the vague thing that I never actually do, I don’t know why. I was like, ‘Oh, maybe Twitter has some pictures [of me].’ I type in my name, the amount of negativity that I see where people think that they know everything about me, everything better. I was the worst this, I was the worst that. I was a joke and all these things and I get this stuff all throughout the day. Now again, if I was ten years younger, it would have severely affected me. Now, it’s more like [whatever]… I get death threats on a daily basis. I get people that DM me the weirdest sh*t. You kinda become numb to it almost because you can’t take it seriously. The same goes for what you see on social media. I didn’t find any pictures, I can tell you that. But, it’s just like, there’s people out there that have such a strong opinion about everything and as long as you understand that they come across dumb because they’re so convicted and convinced that they know the stuff about you and obviously from your perspective, you’re like, ‘That’s not how that went at all.’ There’s something to be said about people having a conviction of something you went through and they didn’t [go] through, or not involved in but have an opinion about and they’re convinced of it. The same goes for social media. You see things in real life that make people feel good about themselves but the reality of the situation is that’s not them in that picture, that’s not what they look like.”
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