Leon Slater EXCLUSIVE Interview - WWE vs. TNA! AJ Styles Dream Match?!
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🗓️ 11 October 2025
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TNA rising star Leon Slater talks to Andrew Pollard about making his WWE debut, being chosen to represent TNA, being surprised by AJ Styles at Slammiversary, being the face of the X Division, facing the influential Amazing Red, working with Je'Von Evans, and more...
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| 0:32.1 | Hello and welcome to What Culture Wrestling. |
| 0:34.7 | Myself, Andrew Pallard, and as you can see, I am joined by a very, very, very special guest today, the youngest in charge, fresh off NXT and Teen A Showdown, the current X Division champion, the youngest X Division champion in TNA history, who defends his belt against Yvonne Evans at Bound for Glory this Sunday. And what many would say is a dream match. Leon Slater. How are you, Leon? |
| 0:54.9 | I'm good, Andrew. I'm good. I'm good to be chatting to you, man. How are you? Yeah, I'm very good. I'm all the better for seeing you again. I mean, it's not long since since you last talk. So it's always good to have a nice little catch-up. Of course, I should say, bound for glory, if anybody wants to keep up with Leon through the T&A Plus app. at the, it's available for £9.99 per month or £99 for the entire year in the new TNA Plus VIP for fans in the UK and Ireland. Paper views are all including in there, including Bound for Glory, every episode of impacting. Go back and watch all the grates of yesterday year. Keep up to take the greats of the current day and the |
| 1:27.8 | future great. And of course, Bound for Glory live from Lowell, Massachusetts, the Songers Center this |
| 1:33.3 | Sunday. How excited are you walking into that, man? Extremely excited. I feel like Bount for Glory has a |
| 1:39.4 | great buzz around it right now. It feels very slam anniversary-esque, you know what I mean? And Sunmerversary And some of the greatest nights of my life, so I'm excited to try and replicate it on Sunday. Yeah, I mean, the last time we spoke to you was back in April, and it's, well, literally, six months ago, and like, what a six months it's been? That was ahead of Teen Air Rebellion. Yep. We were talking before, and I talked to you back in April about I was terrified what you're going to do at Rebellion, that you're going to do something daft, and you did, but then you've gone from that, you've gone from teaming with the Hardee's, which is, again, just like a dream, to them you've gone to beat Moose for the exhibition title you've gone to sharing that awesome moment with |
| 2:17.5 | a j styles you've you've made your wwee debut you've been competing at showdown you've got |
| 2:22.4 | amazing red coming up at house of glory with glory comes friday uh a man whose record you beat to |
| 2:28.9 | become the youngest exhibition champion ever and then you've got giovanni evans on sunday |
| 2:32.9 | a band for glory must be um you know it's not a bad being leon slater right now yeah no it's it's i'm pretty blessed right now man and it's crazy to hear you put it all like that because i feel like when obviously me being me are like i'm in it every day you know what i mean so these like kind of monumental moments like you you have one and then life goes by and then you have |
| 2:52.1 | another and everything just goes so fast you know but when you let out like that it has been a wild |
| 2:56.8 | wild year man it's been crazy yeah that is literally just six months that is to do all of that |
| 3:01.8 | yeah yeah you're right it's crazy man and it's like it's i think it was a nick Nemith we had interviewed on here on the channel, who said it was disgusting that you were so good at 21 years of age. And you're just smashing all of this. Now, to come to, to Bound for Glory, like I said, this Sunday, one of the teenage biggest pay-per-views of the year, yourself, Javon Evans, the youngest in charge, against that boy, |
| 3:25.9 | he is bouncy. It's the young OG. It's what many people see is the two brightest prospects |
| 3:31.4 | in professional wrestling, both. I believe Javon is only 21 as well, which is, again, just crazy, |
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