Aleister Black

Tom Budgen
Aleister Black in 2017
Data
Surname	Tom Budgen
Ring name	Aleister Black Thomas van Dyck Tommy End Tommy The End
Additions to names	The Dutch Destroyer
height	183 cm
Fighting weight	96 kg
birth	May 19, 1985 Alkmaar , The Netherlands
debut	2003

Aleister Black (born May 19, 1985 in Alkmaar ; actually Tom Budgen ), also known as Tommy End , is a Dutch wrestler . He is currently under contract with World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) and appears there on Raw . His greatest achievement to date has been receiving the NXT Championship .

Career in wrestling

Beginnings (2003-2005)

Tom Budgen played his first wrestling matches in 2003.

In the first years of his career he performed under the ring name Tommy The End , especially in Freestyle Championship Wrestling .

Westside Xtreme Wrestling and Others (2005-2016)

From 2005 onwards, Budgen got into the ring primarily at Westside Xtreme Wrestling . There he received his first wrestling title on September 16, 2006 with the wXw World Lightweight Championship , after defeating the previous title holder Emil Sitoci and Mike Quackenbush , Pac and Ricky Marvin in a fatal five-way elimination match . He held the title for a little less than three months before handing it over to Pac on December 9, 2006 at the wXw World Lightweight Tournament .

From 2010 he formed the tag team The Sumerian Death Squad with Anthony Zeus, who from 2011 carried the new ring name Michael Dante . Between 2011 and 2016, the team received tag team titles in six different promotions , including twice the wXw World Tag Team Championship at Westside Xtreme Wrestling and the Progress Tag Team Championship at Progress Wrestling .

Budgen was also very successful as a singles wrestler . He won the 16 Carat Gold Tournament twice and the wXw Unified World Wrestling Championship once with a win over Axel Tischer on June 1, 2013 at Dead End XIII .

On May 25, 2014 Budgen achieved his greatest success at the International Catch Wrestling Alliance when he received the ICWA Heavyweight Championship there . He gave this up on May 21, 2016 after around two years or 727 days of reign.

WWE (since 2017)

In June 2016 it was announced that Budgen had signed a contract with WWE , which he would take up from October of the same year. He made his debut on 11 November 2016 during a house show of NXT when he Lince Dorado could defeat. At the beginning of 2017 he was given the new ring name Aleister Black . A few days later he made his TV show debut when he surprisingly appeared at the WWE United Kingdom Championship Tournament , but had to lose a singles match against Neville , which took place outside the actual tournament. He played this match under his old name, Tommy End.

On April 1, 2017 , he won a match against Andrade Almas on NXT TakeOver: Orlando . On May 8, 2017, he made his Main Event debut in the main grinder , defeating Curt Hawkins . However, it stayed with this one-off appearance for the time being. In NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III he was able to win another big match against Hideo Itami , as well as in NXT TakeOver: Philadelphia on January 27, 2018 against Adam Cole . Finally, he received the NXT Championship from Almas on NXT TakeOver: New Orleans on April 7, 2018 . He lost the title again on July 18, 2018 during the tapings for the NXT TV show to Tommasso Ciampa after Johnny Gargano intervened in the fight. He had to be canceled due to an injury from a triple threat match between Black, Ciampa and Gargano announced below. In the storyline, Black's time-out was explained by a devious attack that he fell victim to in the outdoor area of Full Sail University , where the NXT shows mostly take place. The search for the perpetrator was thematized in the general NXT storyline in the form of a criminal "search for clues" with numerous interviews with wrestlers present. Eventually, Johnny Gargano turned out to be the culprit. Black was able to defeat this at NXT TakeOver: Wargames 2018 . On January 26, 2019, Black had a rematch for the NXT Championship at NXT TakeOver: Phoenix , but was defeated by the reigning champion Tommasso Ciampa.

On January 27, 2019, Black took part in the men's Royal Rumble match and was able to throw Dean Ambrose out of the ring and the match. However, Black was eliminated by Baron Corbin even after a few minutes . This was his second appearance on the WWE main roster , and made his official debut on February 18, 2019 on Raw . In his first match that evening, he defeated Elias . The following day he also appeared on SmackDown Live , defeating Andrade there . In the following weeks Black formed a tag team with Ricochet and both played numerous matches on Raw, SmackDown Live and NXT as well as their pay-per-views . Black also took part in the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic tournament on NXT with Ricochet . In the March 27, 2019 edition of NXT, Black and Ricochet won the tournament by defeating the Forgotten Sons (Steve Cutler and Wesley Blake) in the final.

As part of the 2019 Superstar Shake-Up, Black switched from NXT to SmackDown on April 15, 2019 . On July 14th, he played a singles match against Cesaro at Extreme Rules , which he won. As part of the WWE Draft, Black moved from SmackDown to Raw on October 14, 2019 .

Others

Tommy End takes a kick against Donovan Dijak

Budgen also trained martial arts and kickboxing and incorporates this into his wrestling style. His technical repertoire includes a variety of different kicks .

In a podcast of Colt Cabana in June 2015 declared Budgen that his occult embossed gimmick on the membership of his father to a religious cult was based in his childhood.

At the end of November 2018, Budgen married his colleague Thea Trinidad, who appears in the WWE under the name Zelina Vega .

successes

Aleister Black after winning the NXT Championship at NXT TakeOver: New Orleans (April 2018)

World Wrestling Entertainment

• 1 × NXT Champion
• 1 × Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic (2019 with Ricochet )

Catch Wrestling Northern Germany

• 1 × CWN Middleweight Championship Champion

Fiend Wrestling Germany

• 1 × FWG Lightweight Champion

Fight Club: Pro

• 1 × FCP Champion

Insane Championship Wrestling

• 1 × ICW Tag Team Champion (with Michael Dante)

International Catch Wrestling Alliance

• 1 × ICWA European Tag Team Champion (with Michael Dante)
• 1 × ICWA Heavyweight Champion
• 1 × ICWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion

Pro Wrestling Holland

• 1 × PWH Tag Team Champion (with Michael Dante)

Pro wrestling showdown

• 1 × PWS Heavyweight Champion

Progress wrestling

• 1 × Progress Tag Team Champion (with Michael Dante)

Southside Wrestling Entertainment

• 1 × SWE Tag Team Champion (with Michael Dante)

Westside Xtreme Wrestling

• 1 × wXw Unified World Wrestling Champion
• 2 × wXw World Lightweight Champion
• 2 × wXw World Tag Team Champion (with Michael Dante)
• 2 × winner of the 16 Carat Gold Tournament (2013 & 2015)

Pro Wrestling Illustrated

• Number 23 of the top 500 wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2020

Web links

Commons : Tommy End  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile in the Cagematch database .
• Profile in the database of broken neck .
• Profile of Aleister Black on the WWE Official Website .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WWE NXT Champion April 7, 2018 - today: Aleister Black in the Cagematch database , accessed July 3, 2018.
2. ↑ Aleister Black - Matches per league and year in the Cagematch database , accessed on July 3, 2018.
3. ↑ wXw World Lightweight Tournament, # 8110 in the Cagematch database , accessed July 3, 2018.
4. ↑ wXw World Lightweight Tournament, Nr.9560 in the database of cage match , accessed on July 3, 2018th
5. ↑ Sumerian Death Squad in the Cagematch database , accessed July 3, 2018.
6. ↑ wXw World Tag Team Champions October 1, 2011 - August 12, 2012: The Sumerian Death Squad (Anthony Zeus & Tommy End) in the Cagematch database , accessed on July 3, 2018.
7. ↑ wXw World Tag Team Champions April 22, 2016 - June 4, 2016: The Sumerian Death Squad (Michael Dante & Tommy End) (2) in the Cagematch database , accessed on July 3, 2018.
8. ↑ Progress Tag Team Champions May 25, 2015 - November 29, 2015: The Sumerian Death Squad (Michael Dante & Tommy End) in the Cagematch database , accessed on July 3, 2018.
9. ↑ ICWA Heavyweight Champion May 25, 2014 - May 21, 2016: Tommy End in the Cagematch database , accessed on July 3, 2016.
10. ^ John Clapp: Tommy End, Big Damo and “Crazy” Mary Dobson join WWE Performance Center. WWE.com, October 9, 2016, accessed July 3, 2018 . 
11. ↑ WWE NXT Live November 11, 2016 from the Cagematch database , accessed July 3, 2018.
12. ↑ WWE United Kingdom Championship Tournament - Day 2 from Cagematch's database , accessed July 3, 2018.
13. ↑ NXT "Takeover: Orlando" results + report from Orlando, Florida from April 1st, 2017 (incl. Videos). Wrestling-Infos.de, April 2, 2017, accessed on July 3, 2018.
14. ^ WWE Main Event # 240 in the Cagematch database , accessed July 3, 2018.
15. ↑ WWE "NXT Takeover: Brooklyn III" results + report from Brooklyn, New York, USA from August 19, 2017 (incl. Videos and complete pre-show). Wrestling-Infos.de, August 20, 2017, accessed on July 3, 2018.
16. ↑ WWE "NXT TakeOver: Philadelphia" results + report from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA from January 27, 2018 (incl. Videos and complete pre-show). Wrestling-Infos.de, January 28, 2018, accessed on July 3, 2018.
17. ↑ WWE "NXT TakeOver: New Orleans" report + results from New Orleans, Louisiana from April 7th, 2018 (incl. Videos and complete preshow). Wrestling-Infos.de, April 8, 2018, accessed July 3, 2018.
18. ↑ WWE NXT cagematch.de, July 19, 2018, accessed on July 19, 2018.
19. ↑ Phillip Martinez On 10/24/18 at 9:04 PM: Johnny Gargano revealed to be Aleister Black's Attacker on NXT. October 24, 2018, accessed February 3, 2019 . 
20. ↑ Mike Chiari: Tommaso Ciampa Beats Aleister Black, Retains WWE NXT Title at TakeOver: Phoenix. Retrieved February 3, 2019 . 
21. ↑ WWE: Aleister Black's Elimination Of Dean Ambrose Could Foreshadow An Epic Feud. In: Daily DDT. January 28, 2019, Retrieved February 3, 2019 (American English). 
22. ↑ Phillip Martinez On 2/18/19 at 8:47 PM: Ricochet, Gargano, Ciampa and Aleister Black make Monday Night RAW debuts. February 18, 2019, accessed February 19, 2019 . 
23. ↑ Who Won The 2019 WWE NXT Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic ?, New "Takeover: New York" Match. March 27, 2019, accessed April 1, 2019 . 
24. ↑ Tommy End (Aleister Black) Ep 256 | Colt Cabana's AOW Podcast. on the YouTube channel ColtCabana , June 24, 2015, accessed July 3, 2018.
25. ↑ Aleister Black And Zelina Vega Recently Got Married prowrestlingsheet.com, November 20, 2018, accessed December 14, 2018.