Leon Slater discusses making his Swanton 450 a trademark move in his arsenal.
Leon Slater is a talent who has shown at his young age of 20 years old that he is one of the most athletic talents in the world of professional wrestling. One such example of his athleticism is his finishing move, which is a Swanton variation of a 450 splash.
While speaking to WhatCulture in a new interview, Leon was asked about the Swanton 450 and how he developed the move.
"I think the thought process behind it was a combination of me training since I was pretty much a baby and being a huge Hardy Boy fan when I was growing up. Like, Matt and Jeff were my guys growing up, man. I can't express it enough, and I think a combination of that, and like I said, training from a super young age, I was just always in a ring trying stuff and the Swanton 450 isn't something I've had locked down for years and years. It's taken me years and years to really master it and have it where I can't really fail it and have it consistent. But it really just started from practicing 450s since I was 10 or 11 or whatever age I was. As I got older and I grew into my body a bit more and I became a bit more athletic, I'm playing like PPW up and it gave me that environment to try new stuff. I realized that I had a really nice like regular 450. So every week I'd try and stick like side with my head, and then next week after that, I'd go like head and arms, and then the week after that, it was head, arm and legs. Then I try and just practice, practice, practice, practice, practice those movements every week until it's kind of turned into what it is now, which is something that I think makes me unique because nobody else can do it or nobody else I know of can do it. If you can do it, please, please don't. Please let me have this one thing. I know there's some crazy athletic people out there. Just let me have this one thing. But yeah, I like to think that it's very much a Leon Slater trademark move by now."
Slater is currently scheduled to challenge for the TNA X-Division Championship at TNA Rebellion. You can read more about that here.
Elsewhere in another recent interview, Slater elaborated on the influence of the Hardy brothers on his career. You can read more about that here.
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