I love Ciampa. He just carries himself like a haunted figure with a dark past, traveling from town to town fighting in underground cage matches for money and just to feel something at all.
Who Attacked Aleister Black? an NXT Parking Lot Mystery
Mr. Black? Mr. Blaaack?? Oh my god he-
Aka one of the best storylines in NXT and one of the many incidents of people getting jumped in the parking lot 'cause security over here is ass LMAOOO. Contains spoilers for the DIY feud if you're learning about that too. (Seriously please check out the DIY fued its phenomenal 10/10)
First, what led up to Aleister getting jumped in the parking lot?
Okay. So. Y'all know who Johnny Gargano and Tomasso Ciampa are right? The tag team formerly known as DIY until Tomasso cruelly turned on Johnny at Takeover: Chicago? Leading into a descent into madness for the both of them, willing to fuck over anyone in their path on a quest to destroy and prove themselves to each other????
Well, Aleister beats Andrade Cien Almas for the NXT title, right? Tomasso is given a match for the title. Johnny, trying to prevent Tomasso from winning the championship, intervenes in the match, costing Aleister the belt, and Tomasso wins.
Aleister was not happy about this.
William Regal, the brilliant and amazing and super hot general manager, decides to make a triple threat match for the NXT championship. (Ain't he smart?)
But in a surprising twist, Aleister, who was set to be in that Triple threat, is found knocked unconscious in the parking lot on August 8th, 2018!!!
So, we have our SUSpects (are among us memes still funny?)
HMMMMMMMMMMMM.
Who could it be? Undisputed Era? Tomasso Ciampa? Ricochet??? RIKISHI?!?!?!?
We have some leads though! Kinda.
And in an even MORE surprising twist, Nikki Cross, the twisted sister of NXT, announces she has a secret...SHE KNOWS WHO DID IT!
...or does she?
Is the scourge of NXT the culprit?
Will, desperate to get an answer out of her, calls her in to be interrogated. It goes about as well as you'd expect. (please I'm begging you watch this clip it's so fucking funny) (also he interviews others like Kassius Ohno and Heavy Machinery the interview segments are so fun)
Does Nikki really know? Or is she just fucking with all of us?
Well guess what? SHE DID KNOW. In a rematch against Bianca Belair because their first match ended in a double count-out (GO WATCH THEIR MATCHES OMG) On Oct. 17th, Aleister Black returns and demands that Nikki tell him who attacked him!
Look at her she's so cuuuuuute
She whispers it in his ear, and the show closes out on an enraged Aleister. Guess we'll have to find out who did it next week!
It's Oct. 24th, 2018. Will's totally bugging. He has security all over NXT since Aleister is supposed to return tonight and he knows he is PISSED OFF. The show goes mostly off without a hitch, and then the last five minutes happen. Aleister beats up security and storms into Full Sail! he gets in the ring! He's all in Will's face!
AND THEN WE GET THE BIGGEST PLOT TWIST EVER. SOMEONE COMES UP AND AMBUSHES ALEISTER
IT WAS JOHNNY ALL ALONG !!!!!!
But why John Boy...Why?!?!? Well, he tells us why!
Johnny and Aleister then face each other at Nxt: Takeover Wargames on November 17th 2018 in a phenomenal match. Which gave us the bone-chilling and phenomenal moment of Aleister Taking Johhny by the chin, saying "I absolve you of all your sins" AND KICKING HIM RIGHT IN THE FUCKING FACE.
He'd also face Aleister again on Dec. 19th in an awesome steel cage match .
So that's basically the Who Attacked Aleister saga! Hoped you'd enjoyed another NXT history lesson <3
someone better tell Triple H to have Tomasso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano team up again or else let them leave WWE and let them have some more bangers against FTR in AEW. He should be the first one to understand how incredible they are together