(1983-03-19) March 19, 1983 (age 41)[1] St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.[1]
Alma mater
University of Missouri
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
Evan Bourne[2] Lance Sydal[1] MATT[3] Matt Sydal[4] The Vision
Billed height
5 ft 8 in (173 cm)[5]
Billed weight
165 lb (75 kg)[5]
Billed from
Clearwater, Florida[4] St. Louis, Missouri[2]
Trained by
Gateway Championship Wrestling[1]
Debut
October 20, 2000[1]
Matthew Joseph Korklan (born March 19, 1983), better known by the ring name Matt Sydal, is an American professional wrestler signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW).[6] He is also known for his tenure with WWE (2008–2014) under the ring name Evan Bourne.
Prior to signing with AEW, Sydal wrestled in WWE as Evan Bourne, and was a one-time WWE Tag Team Champion, with Kofi Kingston. Sydal is also known for his time in Impact Wrestling where he is a former Impact Grand Champion and Impact X Division Champion, and in Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is a former ROH World Tag Team Champion. He has also wrestled for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a former two-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion and a one-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion.
Korklan has also wrestled on the independent circuit, for promotions including NWA Midwest, IWA-Mid South, winning both singles and tag team championships. He also wrestled for the short-lived Wrestling Society X . Beginning in 2005, he wrestled for Dragon Gate in Japan, and won the Open the Brave Gate Championship in early 2007.
Korklan is known for his dynamic technical cruiserweight hybrid style of lucha libre and puroresu styles of wrestling and was named the Wrestling Observer Newsletter's Best Flying Wrestler in 2008.
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^ ab"Matt Sydal". Impact Wrestling. Archived from the original on October 25, 2019. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
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to Penta el Zero M and Rey Fenix in a three-way match, also involving MattSydal and Ricochet. The Young Bucks made their debut for Dragon Gate (DG) in...
Private Party defeated MattSydal and Top Flight (Dante Martin and Darius Martin) after using a steel chair before attacking Sydal and Top Flight afterwards...
Jungle Boy vs. Adam Cole, Cody Rhodes and Lee Johnson vs. Dante Martin and MattSydal, Penelope Ford and The Bunny vs. Tay Conti and Anna Jay, sixteen-man tag...
injured Drew Galloway). On the January 25, 2018 Genesis episode of Impact!, MattSydal defeated champion Ethan Carter III in a "No Rounds, No Judges" match....
"Matt Morgan Reveals How A Concussion Cost Him A WWE Push". Wrestling Inc. January 26, 2019. "Matt Morgan To Wrestle One Final Match, MattSydal's Surgery...
achieved victory on both nights defeating Will Ospreay on night one, and MattSydal on night two. He entered the 2016 Battle of Los Angeles and made it all...
Family". www.sportskeeda.com. Retrieved 2022-08-18. "Christian Cage And MattSydal Declare Themselves For Casino Battle Royal At AEW Double Or Nothing |...
Aries after their tag team title match against Christopher Daniels and MattSydal. Strong then formed the "No Remorse Corps" with Davey Richards. Jack Evans...
World 2014 on June 22. On November 23, 2014, reDRagon defeated ACH and MattSydal, The Addiction and The Briscoes to retain the ROH World Tag Team Championship...
SoCal Uncensored Match of the Year (2016) with MattSydal & Ricochet vs. Adam Cole & The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson & Nick Jackson) on 3 September Southside...
and later the team of Lee Johnson, Brock Anderson, Lee Moriarty, and MattSydal. Although ostentisiably allies, the Acclaimed regularly disparaged Austin...
Christopher Daniels and MattSydal in a three-way match, which Daniels won. On the first show of 2006, Styles wrestled and defeated MattSydal, after which the...
secondary show Dark, facing the likes of Shawn Spears, Trent Beretta, MattSydal and Mike Sydal in losing efforts. On the January 20, 2021 episode of Dynamite...
wrestling promotion in his career. Drake would defend the title against MattSydal on Impact, and against Cody Hall in Japan for Pro Wrestling Noah. He would...
Wrestling News: MattSydal accused of ripping promoter off; Sydal fires back". www.sportskeeda.com. Powell, Jason (3 December 2017). "MattSydal misses BCW...
vs. Sammy Guevara for the Interim TNT Championship, Ricky Starks vs. MattSydal for the FTW Championship". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved 2023-08-04...
Jay Lethal. Something would later make two other appearances, losing to MattSydal on the June 28 episode of Dark and Danhausen on the July 7 episode of...
AEW Championship, Hangman Page vs. Powerhouse Hobbs, Dante Martin vs. MattSydal, Kris Statlander vs. Allie, Ethan Page vs. Bear Bronson, Konnan and Tully...
set to take on MattSydal and Ricochet, Roppongi Vice (Baretta and Rocky Romero) and The Young Bucks (Matt Jackson and Nick Jackson). Sydal and Ricochet...
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