Cedric Alexander and Leon Slater will battle over again for the TNA X-Division Championship in a steel cage match at Lockdown.
Slater kicked off Thursday’s “TNA Impact” in tag team motion alongside Ricky Sosa against the System duo of Alexander and Eddie Edwards, winning the match with a 450 splash and subsequent pinfall on Alexander. After the match, he said he wanted one other shot at Alexander’s X-Division Championship and challenged him to a steel cage match at Lockdown on August 23.
Alexander dethroned Slater to turn out to be X-Division Champion in a Two out of Three Falls match in May, having challenged him unsuccessfully twice before – first at Emergence in 2025 after which Rise up earlier this 12 months. Slater has since pursued the title and fell short in Ultimate X at Slammiversary.
Slater and Sosa also scored victory over the System pairing of Edwards and Brian Myers, in addition to the Righteous, originally of this month.