Leon Slater Says Conversations About Him Winning The TNA X-Division Title Began In September 2024
Leon Slater reflects on his journey to becoming the TNA X-Division Champion.

Leon Slater talks his journey to becoming the TNA X-Division Champion.
At TNA Slammiversary earlier this month, Leon Slater became the youngest X-Division Champion of all time by defeating Moose at the event at just 20 years old.
While speaking to Cultaholic in a recent interview, Leon spoke about when conversations began about him winning the TNA X-Division Championship.
“They actually started quite a while back. This is probably like a year ago, the conversations maybe started in like September 2024 because my birthday is in September. When I turned 20, I was saying to the team at TNA like, ‘Hey, I’d really like to pursue trying to be the youngest X-Division Champion of all time.’ And this was like for real, because I’m the first person that’s actually had a chance to do it since [Amazing] Red did it 20 years ago. “So it was a real possibility to make history and I think that was super intriguing to the team. And then, obviously, as the months and weeks have gone by and I’ve started to do more stuff with The Hardys and almost proved myself to be reliable, more than just a cool move and athletic manoeuvres. As we started to develop, I think the team realised I was getting more and more ready for an opportunity like this, and when the time came to making the matches for Slammiversary, I think they wanted to make some history. So we went and made the match, and I made it happen on Sunday.”
Elsewhere in another recent interview, Slater spoke about wanting to break the record for most title defenses at X-Division Champion. You can read about that here.