Teenage sensation tells us how that viral move changed his career

18 year old wrestling sensation Leon Cage caught the eyes of the wrestling world last year with his finishing move “Stomp into the future” receiving Millions of views.

He was on this week’s edition of the Are You Ready podcast and explains 

“So when I did it, it was just an idea that was in my head. And I just thought, I don’t know if this works, but there’s no harm in trying and I tried, like, telling some people, may I think this would work, and they’d just tell me, no. That won’t work. That won’t work. So then I give it a go in training before before the session started.” 

“It went up a little bit early because it’s extra cardio. So let’s give it a trial while the the ropes are up. Let’s let’s give it a go. And it just worked The first time, it just just clicked, just worked.

“And I thought, okay. Perfect. I hit a match, and I used it in the match. And the boy I did it to, Tommy Vrill, he put it up on TikTok. And within, like, several minutes, it got, like, 20k views. and it got to a point where he messaged me. He was like, you really need to put this down. This is getting crazy views.” Said Leon

Just at 18 years of age the move helped open a lot more doors in the UK independent wrestling scene “I think it just it just added to me getting so much more opportunity than just to be almost people knowing me and knowing who I am because of one move, it just helped me so much. Just so people already have an impression, like, promoters, wrestler, had an impression of what I do. Just finding me one thing.

And it was so cool that I had that ability to just be known for one thing. Look. And I started to do I obviously did other things anyways. But when I did even more then, it almost, like, became more special. “

Two of the people the move caught the attention of are former 3 time AEW tag team Champions and current EVP’s of the company, The Young Bucks who used it in a match of AEW’s flagship show, Dynamite.

“People were telling me that, like, you have all the right to be annoyed. They’re using your thing.

“But for me, I was just super happy that I kind of had a situation where they’ve seen something I’ve done and for me, that was the only realization. And then Will (Ospreay) put it up on his Twitter there, and it almost stopped.

“It got another 200k views in moments, really, just from doing that. And, I mean, 200k in that day. And it just kept on evolving because they did it. I was getting more views on my version. And, again, just, like, I grew up watching the Young Bucks wrestle on PWG and New Japan and when AEW started.

“So for me to see them do something that I’ve done, it was just super cool, especially because I look up to them as one of the best fat teams of all time. So to see them do something, it really, really, really does warm my heart in a sense of I’ve done something good.”’

Photo Credit: British Wrestling Pictures

The full interview with Leon is available  here now