Former four times WWE Tag Team Champion Heath Slater who is also a former WWE 24/7 champion recently talked about winning the Impact Wrestling Tag Team Championship along with pro wrestling legend Rhyno.
Heath Slater joined the world of professional wrestling at a very young age of mind set on returning to in ring action 20. He first worked on the World Wrestling Alliance for around two years before joining the WWE in 2006.
Heath Slater Discusses Winning The Impact Tag Team Championship
He remained on the development Territory of WWE for nearly four years before coming to the main roster in 2010. He participated on the first ever NXT tournament and he was quite impressive during that time. He defeated a lot of big names during his time in the NXT, the only wrestler he failed to beat was Kane.
He was very impressive for the very first day of coming to the main roster of WWE. When he became the member of the hill stable of the promotion called the Nexus, everybody thought he is going to be a huge deal in the future. As it is known to all, the Nexus storyline could have been a huge success but once again it became a victim of John Cena’s heroism. After the Nexus lost, Slater had many different types of runs and in all of them fans loved him.
The most famous storyline he was involved in has to be the I’ve got Kids storyline. in this story he was not being picked by any of the brands in WWE during the second brand extension and he kept on trying to get a contract from both RAW and Smackdown.
Later he teamed up with professional wrestling Legend Rhyno and won the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship to become the inaugural WWE SmackDown Tag Team champion. In 2020 he was released by the WWE after spending 14 years with the promotion and then he joined TNA.
Heath Slater who is also a former WWE 24/7 champion recently spoke to Cultaholic’s Desert Island Graps where he talked about winning the Impact Wrestling Tag Team Championship along with pro wrestling legend Rhyno. He said;
“It’s a beautiful thing. I love that guy. He’s one of my best friends in the world, inside the ring and outside the ring. We’re buddies, man. I never know my life thought like me and Rhino, ECW crazy ‘Man Beast’, we’re gonna be best buds one day. Never in my life thought it, but damn it, it came, and it’s here. My kids literally call him Uncle Rhino, legit call him ‘Uncle Rhino’.
“It’s just one of those things where like man, I love him to death. This was actually a goal two years ago. Soon as we got into IMPACT, well me, personally, with Slammiversary two years ago, and then I got to Bound For Glory, got hurt, all the bull crap that happens with all that, my goodness it was a pain. But this was a goal for me and him years ago in IMPACT. It was one of those things where hell, men, we got gold here. Let’s get some gold here, you know. Let’s have some fun with it. Then two years pretty much later, it finally happened. Woo.”
“It was one of those things where when I got there, it was just already a layup. So we tried it, but then j had to get injured, and then we tried it again, then he had to get hurt. So then again, third time’s a charm, I guess. So it finally worked out and everything. But no, this was a bucket list goal for me, for IMPACT, from the get-go. I just can’t believe it took this long to finally get there just because of injuries.”
Quotes via Fightful