Leon Slater On Making GCW Debut In Liverpool, Excited To Be Part of RevPro British J-Cup

Leon Slater made his GCW debut with the company’s Liverpool show earlier this month, and he recently talked about the experience and more. Slater spoke with Andrew Thompson at POST Wrestling for a new interview and you can check out a couple of highlights below:

On being part of the Liverpool show: “That was real cool man… I’m a big believer in speaking things into existence and I really do believe in this and GCW is something I’ve been speaking into existence since I’ve started. I’ve spoke PROGRESS into existence, I’ve spoke RevPro into existence and I’ve done that. The next goal on my list was GCW and originally, I wasn’t even meant to be on the show. That’s a little exclusive. I wasn’t 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. 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’d seen me and ‘Speedball’ at RevPro so he was like, ‘Brett, man, we’ve got to get this guy on tomorrow. We’ve got to get him on’ 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’s not even hard to make good connections with those guys. But yeah, they’re a real good bunch of people and I appreciate, especially Deppen for getting me on that show and hopefully it leads to more stuff. Maybe flying out to the U.S. in the future and that.”

On participating in the RevPro 2022 British J Cup tournament: “100 percent [excited to be part of RevPro’s British J Cup] … Even just look at the heritage of the people that have won the J Cup previously. The first one was Jushin Thunder Liger I think and it went to El Phantasmo and I think it went to Michael [Oku]… and then obviously COVID, we had to take a year off and the previous one is ‘Speedball’ so yeah man, I’ve got a real good opportunity here and I don’t plan to fumble the bag. I plan to be the youngest J Cup winner ever and like you said, the second Black winner ever. So yeah, I’m sure the tournament will be stacked. I think announced so far is obviously me, Robbie X is in that. That’s another match I’d hope to get and I look forward to and then Will Kaven I think has been announced as well… but it’s definitely gonna be a stacked card for sure and even [Minoru] Suzuki is on that show as well. Dan [Moloney] is wrestling Suzuki on that show so that’s gonna be a very special night for the boys if I manage to pull that off.”