The scariest thing any wrestler can face in their career is being erased from history. That will not apply in Leon Slater’s case, as the former and new X-Division Champion will remain in the history books and now carry a second run with the title.
At TNA Lockdown on Sunday, Slater faced Cedric Alexander for his former championship in a Last Man Standing steel cage match. Alexander held the lead in the beginning of the match by sending Slater face-first into the steel cage. After taking multiple boots to the face, Slater turned the tide around by slamming the former champion with a Standing Blue Thunderbomb. Collecting his thoughts, Alexander drove Slater off the top turnbuckle with a Michinoku Driver. Pulling whatever tricks he had left in his sleeve, Slater was successful over Alexander by connecting three back-to-back Lumbar Checks, followed by a Swanton 450. With Alexander unable to stand by the ninth count, Slater walked out of Chicago as the two-time X-Division Champion.
Beginning at Slammiversary 2025, Slater beat Moose to start his first reign as X-Division Champion. Though making history as its longest titleholder at 20-years-old and having a 298 single day reign (tying with former TNA/Impact star Austin Aries), Alexander interfered in Slater’s plans on becoming the first-ever 300-day singles reign champion on the May 14 edition of “TNA Impact.”
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