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Reaction to Leon Slater Working WWE SNME

Added 2025-12-09 20:46:38 +0000 UTC

Over the weekend, both wXw and RevPro would announce Leon Slater’s withdrawal from the promotions bouts on their shows.

On December 8th’s edition of WWE Monday Night RAW, Leon would be announced to be teaming with Je’Von Evans against WWE World Tag Team Champions AJ Styles and Dragon Lee.

Prior to the announcement on Monday, Fightful Select asked around with wXw sources about the withdrawal, with sources noting that Leon’s withdrawal cited ‘scheduling’ issues leading to the withdrawal. It was said to Fightful Select that while the promotion is fully aware of Slater’s busy schedule, this weekend’s show appearance was agreed between wXw and Slater as far back as March, with the promotion working around Slater’s TNA dates to book him for shows. It was noted Slater was as ‘positive and helpful as usual’ during his last appearance with wXw.

Following the announcement on Monday evening, we asked the same sources about Slater’s WWE appearance, with it noted to us that it’s ‘kind of what the promotion expected’, but would have preferred to have WWE give them a heads up about the appearance rather than putting Slater in an unfortunate situation, as the promotion viewed this coming weekend as one of their biggest shows of the year.

Fightful's Sean Ross Sapp spoke with TNA sources who spoke positively of the spot for Slater and said that it was another example of the WWE/TNA partnership continuing.

We also reached out to RevPro for comment, but did not hear back.

As we reported earlier this year, Slater is about to enter a contract year, as his deal with TNA expires in late 2026.