{"id":118120,"date":"2022-09-28T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=118120"},"modified":"2022-09-27T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T22:00:12","slug":"leon-slater-on-finding-success-as-a-17-year-old-in-pro-wrestling-who-recommended-him-for-his-gcw-match-working-with-mike-bailey-and-takeshita-konosuke-his-own-swanton-450-maneuver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2022\/09\/28\/leon-slater-on-finding-success-as-a-17-year-old-in-pro-wrestling-who-recommended-him-for-his-gcw-match-working-with-mike-bailey-and-takeshita-konosuke-his-own-swanton-450-maneuver\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon Slater on finding success as a 17 year-old in pro wrestling, who recommended him for his GCW match, working with Mike Bailey and Takeshita Konosuke, his own Swanton 450 maneuver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-1428457413\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><b>By Jason Powell<\/b>, ProWrestling.net Editor (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prowrestlingnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@prowrestlingnet<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Andrew Thompson Interviews&#8221; with guest Leon Slater<br \/>\nHost: Andrew Thompson<br \/>\nFull interview available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qNWk4UauB1Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube.com<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postwrestling.com\/2022\/09\/27\/interview-leon-slater-chats-2022-british-j-cup-swanton-450-maneuver-not-originally-being-scheduled-for-gcw-in-liverpool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PostWrestling.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qNWk4UauB1Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Leon on achieving the success that he&#8217;s had at 17 years old:<\/b> You know, the crazy thing about it is like you said, it has been moving real fast. Since about March time, it\u2019s just been up and up and up and leveling up constantly and the only time it\u2019s really hit me so far was after my match with \u2018Speedball\u2019 Mike Bailey in York Hall at RevPro\u2019s 10th Anniversary weekend and I got a standing ovation after the match. One of the best matches of my life if not the best match of my life and there\u2019s a video out there somewhere, it\u2019s not on the video-on-demand unfortunately but on social media, you\u2019ll be able to find it for sure. I\u2019m on my knees after that match and everyone\u2019s chanting, \u2018Leon Slater!\u2019 And I put my head in my hands and I just start sobbing because that\u2019s the only time that it\u2019s really hit me. I\u2019ve been training my whole life for this sh*t. I\u2019ve been training since I was 10 years old for this and here I am, one of the biggest promotions in the U.K. against one of the best in the world, getting a standing ovation. So yeah, that\u2019s the only time it\u2019s really hit me of what I\u2019m doing but I definitely realize the fortunate position that I am in for sure.<\/p>\n<p><b>On his matches against &#8216;Speedball&#8217; Mike Bailey and Konosuke Takeshita:<\/b> &#8220;That month of August in itself was a crazy little one so before that, I wrestled Konosuke Takeshita for Progress. That was another crazy one, especially him coming straight off wrestling [Jon] Moxley and Cesaro [Claudio Castagnoli] and all them at AEW. That was a crazy little two week run for me and like I was saying earlier, it was extremely surreal to look across from the ring and see the likes of Takeshita and \u2018Speedball\u2019 standing across from you. It is a nerve-racking feeling but once we get going, they\u2019re just another wrestler wearing spandex just like me. So, I felt confident in both of those matches so, both of \u2018em was very surreal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One thousand percent [he looks fondly on the match with Takeshita] and that was kind of my first big \u2018import match\u2019 I guess we\u2019ll call it. That was before \u2018Speedball\u2019, before a big six-man tag that we had with Big Damo, who obviously has done a lot of stuff with New Japan, WWE, all this stuff so that was kind of my first big test as far as wrestling goes and the feedback I got from it was real good and I\u2019m glad people have enjoyed it online and the GIFS I\u2019ve got out there and stuff. But, I was very nervous going into that but I\u2019m happy with how I performed, I looked confident in there. I was because like I was saying, once that bell rings, he\u2019s just another guy in trunks so yeah, that\u2019s another very crazy one for me. It\u2019s another one on the bucket list, isn\u2019t it? People say, \u2018Oh, you\u2019re a wrestler? What do you do?\u2019 I\u2019ve wrestled Takeshita, I\u2019ve wrestled \u2018Speedball\u2019 in York Hall and the list is gonna go on and on eventually but, he was definitely like my first big test in wrestling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>On how he came up with the &#8216;Swanton 450&#8217; maneuver and knowing when and when not to use it:<\/b> &#8220;So, it all started from training [Slater said about the origins of the Swanton 450] and I\u2019ve always \u2014 give myself a little pat on the back for this [Slater chuckled]. I\u2019ve always been athletic, even from a young age and this is the thing, I\u2019ve been doing 450s since about 13 years old so I\u2019m not a stranger to doing the motion of the 450 and obviously it\u2019s my body becoming more athletic, more explosive and stuff. I\u2019ve been getting more and more height, more and more airtime and stuff like this and eventually in training, I was just like, let me try to stick my head out a little bit. Let me give a little peak to the people at training that I can do this. It started with the head, then I was like, okay, okay, that felt nice. Let me get a little arms going, get a little arms. Got the arms and the head out at the same time and then the last thing was the feet and then the Swanton 450 was born and it\u2019s only recently that I\u2019ve busted it out on shows. For a while, it was a training move but then, I can\u2019t even remember the first time I busted it out I\u2019m sure but one time, I was like, \u2018F&#8212; it\u2019 and I just flipped. Stuck the head out, stuck the arms out, fingers crossed, took my knees and it blew up, 180k views on Twitter. It was crazy, it really was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So at the moment, I\u2019m at a stage where I\u2019m hungry and even though I\u2019ve had all this success, there\u2019s still a long way to go for me so at the moment, I\u2019m just repping this thing out [Swanton 450] as much as I can. I\u2019m trying to get as many views on Twitter, get as many GIFS as possible. Anytime I\u2019m debuting in a place or on a big show, I\u2019m gonna whip it out for sure. Of course there\u2019s times to save it, and there\u2019s not an opportunity to hit it and you don\u2019t need to hit it sometimes. But when it\u2019s a big stage or a big game, I\u2019m for sure popping out. I need them Twitter views brother. I need them Twitter views [Slater smiled].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>On not being scheduled for GCW In Liverpool and having Tony Deppen suggest he be booked:<\/b> That was real cool man [being part of the GCW Liverpool show] \u2026 I\u2019m a big believer in speaking things into existence and I really do believe in this and GCW is something I\u2019ve been speaking into existence since I\u2019ve started. I\u2019ve spoke PROGRESS into existence, I\u2019ve spoke RevPro into existence and I\u2019ve done that. The next goal on my list was GCW and originally, I wasn\u2019t even meant to be on the show. That\u2019s a little exclusive. I wasn\u2019t meant to be on that show but unfortunately, Robbie X, I think he had an injury or was double booked or something and he had to pull out of the GCW show and I was at the TNT show the day before to watch DeReiss and Matt Cardona to support my boys obviously and Dan Moloney, another one of my big brothers in this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was wrestling Nick Wayne so I came down to support the boys and obviously I met Brett [Lauderdale], I met the other GCW guys and Tony Deppen was actually the one that put the good word in for me because he\u2019d seen me and \u2018Speedball\u2019 at RevPro so he was like, \u2018Brett, man, we\u2019ve got to get this guy on tomorrow. We\u2019ve got to get him on\u2019 and very fortunately for me, the powers that be allowed it and I managed to get on the GCW show on a Friday and I feel like I did a good job. I feel like I did an okay job. And those guys are so friendly so it\u2019s not even hard to make good connections with those guys. But yeah, they\u2019re a real good bunch of people and I appreciate, especially Deppen for getting me on that show and hopefully it leads to more stuff. 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