Slam Fest to bring pro wrestling festival to Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas

Las Vegas volition crook into the pro wrestling superior of the satellite for a fewer days successful April.

WrestleMania 42 volition beryllium the main people for astir fans who volition marque the trek to Sin City. But successful the days starring up to the star-studded amusement astatine Allegiant Stadium, determination volition beryllium plentifulness of events taking spot up and down The Strip that could permission them satisfied and smiling.

Paragon Talent Group and Palms Casino Resort announced past week that Slam Fest volition beryllium hosted astatine the venue, starting connected April 15 and lasting until April 18. It volition bring respective pro wrestling companies together, including Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling (TJPW), Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), House of Glory (HOG), World Wonder Ring Stardom and Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling, for days of matches.

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Additionally, WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley volition big his drama show, pro wrestling prima Saraya volition person a unrecorded occurrence of her podcast, "Rulebreakers with Saraya" and tag squad legends Matt and Jeff Hardy volition enactment connected a "Hardy Party" with Matt Hardy sharing stories of his career.

Mojo Rawley arrives astatine the Sports Illustrated's SI The Party astatine Cow Palace Arena & Event Center connected Feb. 8, 2026 successful Daly City, California.  (Miikka Skaffari/Getty Images)

Dean Muhtadi, the co-founder of Paragon Talent Group who performed successful WWE arsenic Mojo Rawley, told Fox News Digital the lawsuit received bully marks among fans past twelvemonth and they wanted to bash it again.

"How tin we bash this this twelvemonth bigger and better? One mode we decided to bash that would beryllium for america to enactment connected the wrestling shows astatine the Palms this year," Muhtadi explained. "That was gonna beryllium a large one. We’ve besides brought successful immoderate truly awesome events. The Hardys are doing their ‘Hardy Party,’ Mick Foley is going to person his drama show, Saraya is going to bash a unrecorded podcast. Of course, you already know, we’re going to bring the excavation enactment backmost due to the fact that that was our biggest lawsuit past twelvemonth by a mile.

"A batch of amusive for the fans. A batch of amusive for america arsenic good – tons of games and activities and things to do. We don’t ever privation to propulsion parties wherever everyone is conscionable benignant of bored, lasting around. We privation to make precise intimate experiences for the fans wherever they tin really bent retired with the wrestlers, play games with them, person a bite, person a drink, person a conversation. With Paragon, that’s ever what we’re trying to bash with our events is to marque the endowment accessible and fto everyone person a bully clip together."

One cardinal constituent of having an lawsuit similar Slam Fest was for it to beryllium affordable.

Saraya (black attire) during AEW Dynamite astatine Footprint Center connected Feb. 22, 2023. (Joe Camporeale/USA TODAY Sports)

Major pro wrestling events could spot prices spell from anyplace betwixt $200 and $2,000.

Muhtadi said that with immoderate lawsuit that Paragon has enactment on, affordability has "always been a apical goal."

"One of the biggest halfway competencies of Paragon is sponsorships and third-party marque deals. With those, sometimes we’re capable to get our partners to travel connected committee and chopped those costs down truthful that we tin either bash escaped admittance oregon half-price admission, oregon thing similar that," helium said. "If we’re capable to bring successful immoderate of our partners, we privation it to beryllium a win-win for everybody. I deliberation a batch of wrestling fans tin hold that sometimes, erstwhile you spot events excessively heavy branded, the sponsor logos everywhere, it tin beryllium a detraction unless fans consciousness a triumph from that too.

"We did our wrestlers harvester lawsuit that was sponsored by DraftKings previously. We brought summons prices down to adjacent to thing for that. We person done escaped admittance for different events acknowledgment to sponsors. DreamMania was a amusement that was enactment connected that was wholly escaped for fans to travel successful and that had pro wrestling shows and FloRida performing and philharmonic performances, each that. But I think, particularly successful this climate, things are conscionable getting much and much costly by the time and I deliberation that’s imperative to person a palmy event. Get everybody successful the doorway and fto them person their amusive erstwhile they’re there."

Either way, fans volition beryllium successful for a dainty passim the week. Muhtadi had immense respect for each of the companies coming into the building.

Saya Kamitani wrong the ringing during the Women's Pro-Wrestling "Stardom" - 15th Anniversary astatine Edion Arena Osaka connected Feb. 7, 2026 successful Osaka, Japan. (Etsuo Hara/Getty Images)

TJPW, Stardom and CMLL are well-established pro wrestling companies extracurricular of the U.S. that person created apical stars and leveraged partnerships with the champion of the champion successful the manufacture to bring their wrestlers to places similar WWE and All Elite Wrestling.

Muhtadi said to person companies similar these travel into Palms Casino for Slam Fest "shows you the spot of the pro wrestling world."

CMLL volition marque past arsenic they volition showcase its archetypal standalone lawsuit held extracurricular of Mexico astatine the Palms Casino Resort.

Scott D’Amore, the erstwhile Total Nonstop Action (TNA) president, founded Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling (MLP) and relaunched the marque successful August 2024. The institution has hosted respective lawsuit since reentering the pro wrestling fray.

"Maple Leaf Pro, their first-ever amusement successful the United States. When you spell backmost and look done Scott D’Amore’s background, man, that’s kinda saying thing right? This is simply a feline who is incredibly accomplished," helium said. "He’s been 1 of our partners with Paragon to enactment connected this full happening successful the archetypal place, helping america spearhead the wrestling information of Slam Fest and he’s been great.

"Also, benignant of funny, considering we utilized to negociate contracts against this guy. And everyone ever utilized to accidental Scott D’Amore is specified a bully feline and I was like, you know, I’ve ne'er seen that part. I deliberation he’s benignant of a jerk a small bit. But that’s what happens erstwhile you’re negotiating these things, right? But present we’re connected the aforesaid team, man, I recognize each bit. I ever told him that, we were cracking up astir it but a wealthiness of cognition bringing truthful overmuch to the array for america present to enactment each this on."

HOG was co-founded by erstwhile TNA prima Amazing Red successful 2012 and the lone U.S. institution that volition beryllium featured successful Slam Fest. The Hardys are HOG’s tag squad champions and are expected to beryllium successful enactment during Slam Fest.

Jeff and Matt Hardy triumph during Showdown astatine the WWE Performance Center connected Oct. 7, 2025 successful Orlando, Florida. (Bradlee Rutledge/ Via Getty Images)

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"As you tin tell, we’re conscionable truly excited astir the squad that we enactment together, the shows that we’re going to beryllium capable to springiness to the fans. I mean, a batch of our events are going to beryllium escaped admission, the excavation party. You got immoderate of the biggest names successful the past of the concern and fans tin travel conscionable them and bent retired for virtually $0 and the spot is large capable to beryllium capable to location everybody, escaped amusement supplemented by each the events. … it’s gonna beryllium a lot.

"We got a batch of things cooking."

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