Going into 2025, TNA star Leon Slater seemed poised to interrupt out from being a promising UK prospect. That is exactly what he did; because the 12 months involves a detailed, Slater finds himself because the youngest TNA X-Division Champion in history, is about to challenge for the NXT Championship at Recent 12 months’s Evil to start out 2026, and this past weekend teamed with Je’Von Evans to face AJ Styles and Dragon Lee at Saturday Night’s Predominant Event, which was also the positioning of John Cena’s last ever match.
Appearing on “TheA2theK Wrestling Show” just days before SNME, Slater was asked about his breakout 12 months and his X-Division Championship win back in the summertime. The 21 12 months old acknowledged that every part was a little bit of a blur in some regards.
“It has been crazy man,” Slater said. “Like, even just zooming in on that moment itself…forgetting the AJ Styles stuff happens afterwards, forgetting the entire run that I have been on. Like, just the moment of becoming the youngest X-Division Champion of all time, with my family in the gang in a giant, big arena, which on the time was essentially the most attended Slammiversary, ?
“It’s one among those things where you usually sort of picture it and you usually see it, for myself I did at the very least. And I almost liken it to the birth of your first child, what I’m saying? You mostly imagine what it will be prefer to have your son, have your daughter, and once they finally come there, it’s like ‘Oh. Well, what the hell do I do now?’ So it was a really, very surreal moment, and I’m glad I used to be surrounded by such good people when it happened.”
Slater Calls John Cena The Best Of All Time
The conversation then turned to the chance Slater needed to work on Cena’s last show as one among the young talents Cena had hoped would make up the vast majority of the cardboard. Slater was unsurprisingly positive towards Cena and did appear to consider that Cena at the very least had a say in getting him and Evans booked for the show. He also remarked on how unlikely it still felt, given he was still contracted to TNA.
“I believe it’s one other one among these items that is going to hit me…a number of months down the road, when it’s all sort of said and done, ?” Slater said. “But I believe…right away it’s like ‘This guy is the best to do what I’ve spent my life attempting to do,’ what I’m saying? So it’s almost…I don’t desire to say a culmination of my life’s work, because I hope it keeps recuperating and higher, and we keep going higher and high.
“But up up to now, being recognized by the best of all time and being chosen for a really limited spot, like I used to be saying before, by the person himself…I might imagine he had a say in it at the very least, is incredibly surreal. And it’s much more surreal that I’m obviously still with TNA. You’ll think those spots can be reserved for most important roster talent only, and the indisputable fact that I’ve are available as kind of an outsider, and I’ve managed to get a spot on that card is just insane.”
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