Baron Black: Atlanta Is Important To Battle Slam, But We Will Travel At Some Point

Battle Slam won’t be an Atlanta exclusive promotion for long.

2022 has been a loaded year for wrestling fans that live near the Atlanta area. After kicking off the year with WWE’s Day 1 pay-per-view on January 1, other companies such as All Elite Wrestling, IMPACT Wrestling, GCW have also all come to the greater Atlanta area. Furthermore, new independent promotions/shows such as TERMINUS, Battle Slam, and Zicky Dice’s Outlandish Paradise have all brought life to the city’s wrestling scene in 2022.

With the fifth Battle Slam show of the year rapidly approaching on October 30, some fans have been wondering if the hip-hop/wrestling crossover promotion will be debuting in other cities soon. In a new interview with PW Mania, Baron Black discussed the importance that Atlanta holds to Battle Slam, while also revealing that a show outside of the city will indeed happen one day.

“Well, I guess I could give you an exclusive now. Battle Slam was always about pro wrestling and hip hop. But the secondary objective was to engage what I like to call the dormant fan base of pro wrestling fans in the Atlanta metro area. That’s what Terminus has done and Battle Slam has also done that by amplifying that and we were getting the fans out here mobilized, coming to shows, being enthusiastic and really engaging in pro wrestling once again, especially with different ethnic backgrounds and the black community and the Hispanic community. We really getting a lot of those people back engaged. And as you can tell, that we have done a good job at Terminus and especially at Battle Slam because we have a lot of promotions starting to come to Atlanta a lot more often now. You know what I mean? That’s not just a coincidence. So I’m very prideful that Terminus and Battle Slam has helped turn this back into a wrestling hot bed which used to be back in the day in NWA so I’m very happy about that. But Battle Slam has to travel at some point and I get this question so much. It will happen. I can’t tell you when and where but first time I have confirmed it will happen with Battle Slam. But you have to wait and see when that actually is going to happen.”

Battle Slam: Thriller is set to feature top stars such as ‘Speedball’ Mike Bailey, Abadon, Adam Priest, and more. To learn more about the show’s full card, click here.

Elsewhere in the interview, Black discussed his current relationship with All Elite Wrestling. To learn more, click here.

Special thanks to PW Mania for the quote.