Leon Slater Still Hasn’t Watched Back TNA Slammiversary Segment With AJ Styles, Does Not Plan To

Leon Slater says that he hasn’t watched back his TNA Slammiversary moment with AJ Styles.

At TNA Slammiversary earlier this year, Leon Slater would capture the TNA X-Division Championship from Moose, with AJ Styles coming out to cut his promo on the show after the bout. Slater maintained in the aftermath that he had no idea that Styles was set to come out while he was in the ring, and he also claims he still hasn’t watched the segment back.

While speaking to WhatCulture in a new interview, Leon Slater was once again asked if he didn’t know AJ Styles was coming out after his match at Slammiversary, with Slater once again confirming it to be true, noting that he still hasn’t watched back the moment.

“1,000% true. I had absolutely zero clue. Obviously, AJ was announced, and I saw him backstage, so he signed and said hello. But even on the run sheet that we have backstage, there was no AJ Styles appearance scheduled, you know what I mean? So when I was in the ring, I’d shaken Carlos’ hand, I’d had the belt from Moose, I’d given my family a hug because they were in the crowd, which is, again, another super cool moment. I was just taking it all in. I remember like looking around at the people and then all of a sudden I hear the drums like, Get Ready To Fly, and I lost my mind, bro. You could see it, right? I was jumping around. I was sprinting. After like a 20 minute match, I was exhausted, but the adrenaline pumped all the way back up, you know? So again, I’ve said it a couple of times before, but for him to share that moment with me and that moment being his first moment in the company that he helped build in like 10 years plus, you know what I mean, was so, so special, and I still haven’t watched it back because I feel like moments like that, I want to preserve the first-person memory. I feel like as soon as I watch the footage on these things, whether it’s a match or a promo, that memory gets turned to a third-person memory, you know what I mean? So everything about that night at Slammiversary, I can still remember living in full colour in first-person perspective, which I think is a super cool memory to hold, you know?”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Slater noted that he and Je’Von’s match at Bound For Glory will be the youngest dream match. You can read more about that here. 

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