5 Things You Didn't Know About Aleister Black 

#4. Aleister Black Grew Up Poor

Aleister Black - NXT

NXT Superstar Aleister Black didn't grow up with a silver spoon in his mouth, as some may have. He isn't a multi-generational talent with a rich father who helped ease his transition into the wrestling business. Instead the former NXT Champion grew up poor, although he admits to hardly noticing it, due primarily to his father's hard work. Black's father worked incessantly to ensure that Black and his siblings had everything they needed to get by. Eventually Black's father, who often worked from 5AM - 4PM and then more at home, suffered a mental breakdown that lasted more than half a decade. The trauma of that breakdown would affect Black for the rest of his life.

Black recalls not being able to get certain toys he wanted and having nothing new, but not being fully aware of his circumstances until he was older. Money was always difficult to come buy in Black's family. Black told Lilian Garcia, "We didn’t have new things. I couldn’t buy the toys that I wanted to buy, but gradually as I got older, it got better, but in the early days it was very tight."

Black used the difficult times he faced in his childhood to build his troubled Aleister Black character.