1. Matt Sydal is known for his tenure with WWE from 2008 to 2014 under the ring name Evan Bourne.
67 Facts About Matt Sydal
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Matt Sydal is 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, where he is a former ROH World Tag Team Champion.
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Matt Sydal has wrestled for New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where he is a former two-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion and a one-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion.
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Matt Sydal lost the title to Delirious on June 26,2004.
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Matt Sydal teamed with Daizee Haze in an intergender tag team match against Delirious and MsChif, of which the male wrestler on the winning team would become champion.
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Matt Sydal lost the title to Jaysin Strife roughly four months later before leaving the promotion.
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Matt Sydal wrestled several top independent stars during his time as a regular in IWA.
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Matt Sydal faced CM Punk, Chris Sabin and Nate Webb.
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On September 24,2005, Matt Sydal won the fifth Ted Petty Invitational tournament, defeating El Generico, Tyler Black, and Sabin to reach the final match, where he defeated Kevin Steen and Arik Cannon.
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Matt Sydal participated in a twenty-man X Division Gauntlet for the Gold match.
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Matt Sydal was a candidate in an online poll to determine who would meet Christopher Daniels for the TNA X Division Championship at Sacrifice, but was not chosen.
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Matt Sydal debuted in Ring of Honor at Reborn: Stage One on April 23,2004, defeating his nemesis, Delirious.
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In late 2005, Haze turned on Matt Sydal, leaving him and Generation Next and joining The Embassy.
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Matt Sydal teamed with Samoa Joe and Jack Evans to chase the title.
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Matt Sydal went to the finals of the 2006 Survival of the Fittest tournament, before losing to Delirious.
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At Man Up, Matt Sydal wrestled his final match for ROH, losing to long-time rival Delirious.
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Matt Sydal began touring Japan with Dragon Gate in May 2006.
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At Wrestlejam, Matt Sydal teamed with Generation Next stablemate Roderick Strong to win the $10,000 Tag Team Challenge.
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On February 12,2007, Matt Sydal won the Dragon Gate Open the Brave Gate Championship from Masato Yoshino, becoming the first gaijin to hold the championship.
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Matt Sydal held it for just over a month, successfully defending it against Yoshino in Hyogo and against Austin Aries at Ring of Honor's Fifth Year Festival: Dayton.
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Matt Sydal was a part of the short-lived MTV promotion, Wrestling Society X, where he competed as a heel against Jack Evans, Scorpio Sky and the Human Tornado.
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Matt Sydal began a feud with Syxx-Pac over Sydal's valet and on-screen girlfriend Lizzy Valentine, but WSX folded before they ever had a match.
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Matt Sydal debuted in Ohio Valley Wrestling at its October 10,2007 TV taping, defeating Jamin Olivencia.
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Matt Sydal joined WWE's new developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling, debuting on March 22,2008, and defeating TJ Wilson.
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Matt Sydal was then called up to WWE's main roster.
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Matt Sydal made his debut for the ECW brand on June 3,2008, as a face character.
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Matt Sydal lost a match by countout to Shelton Benjamin, after he was thrown at guest commentator Kofi Kingston.
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Matt Sydal was pinned after Hardy performed a Twist of Fate on him.
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Matt Sydal unsuccessfully challenged Jay Lethal for the ROH World Television Championship at Final Battle 2014.
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At Global Wars Matt Sydal teamed with Kushida and The Motor City Machine Guns and they were defeated by Bullet Club in an eight-man tag team match.
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At War Of The Worlds, Matt Sydal was defeated by Hiroshi Tanahashi.
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Matt Sydal made his PWG debut on the second night of Battle of Los Angeles on August 30,2014, by defeating Chris Hero in the opening round of the namesake tournament.
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At Black Cole Sun, Matt Sydal teamed with Chris Sabin to defeat The Young Bucks.
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At From Out Of Nowhere, Matt Sydal was defeated by his tag team partner Ricochet.
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Matt Sydal became active in the UK scene in 2014, most notably in Revolution Pro Wrestling, feuding with Will Ospreay.
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On February 7,2015, Matt Sydal debuted for Family Wrestling Entertainment, unsuccessfully challenging Paul London for the FWE Tri-Borough Championship.
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On October 3,2015, at a show in South Korea, Matt Sydal briefly held the PWF Lord Of The World Championship, defeating Namsuk Kim, before being defeated in an immediate rematch.
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In March 2018, Matt Sydal competed in Westside Xtreme Wrestling's 16 Carat Gold 2018 Tournament.
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Matt Sydal competed for the Border City Wrestling Heavyweight Title in a fatal four-way that included Cody Deaner, Johnny Impact and Kongo Kong.
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At All American Wrestling's event AAW Unstoppable 2018 on November 24,2018, Matt Sydal teamed with Colt Cabana in a losing effort against David Starr and Eddie Kingston.
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In November 2018, Matt Sydal took some time off to have surgery to repair torn cartilage in his knee with an estimated recovery time of six months.
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Matt Sydal has since defended the title against local wrestler Yuval Goldshmit and WWE Hall of Famer "Bad Ass" Billy Gunn.
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On September 23,2015, Matt Sydal made his debut for NJPW at Destruction in Okayaka, teaming with Hiroshi Tanahashi in a tag team match, where they defeated Bad Luck Fale and Tama Tonga.
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Later in the month, Matt Sydal entered the 2016 Best of the Super Juniors.
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Matt Sydal finished the tournament with five wins and two losses, tied with Ryusuke Taguchi, but failed to advance to the finals due to losing to Taguchi in their head-to-head match.
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On July 20, Matt Sydal, representing ROH, entered the 2016 Super J-Cup, defeating Kaientai Dojo's Kaji Tomato in his first round match.
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Matt Sydal missed two shows over three days, officially due to "travel issues".
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Matt Sydal was replaced at Destruction in Kobe by David Finlay, who afterwards took his spot as Ricochet's regular tag team partner.
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Matt Sydal's profile has since been removed from NJPW official site.
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Matt Sydal made his return to Impact Wrestling on the April 27,2017 Impact Wrestling TV taping, defeating Trevor Lee in his first match.
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At Bound for Glory, Matt Sydal competed in a Six-way lucha rules match for the Impact X Division Championship but failed to win the title.
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On November 10,2017, Matt Sydal defeated Ethan Carter III to win the Impact Grand Championship.
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On March 8,2018, Matt Sydal defeated Taiji Ishimori to win the Impact X Division Championship in a match that Matt Sydal's Grand Championship was on the line, thus becoming a dual champion.
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At Impact Wrestling Redemption, Matt Sydal defeated Petey Williams to retain the Impact X Division Championship.
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Matt Sydal would beat Swann in their first encounter due to interference from the debuting Ethan Page.
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Matt Sydal later lost an X-Division championship qualifying match to Page.
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At All Out, Matt Sydal was a surprise entrant in the Casino Battle Royale drawing in as the Joker.
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On November 17,2020, after months of appearing at AEW shows despite not being under contract with the company, AEW confirmed that Matt Sydal was now officially signed with the company.
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Matt Sydal returned to ROH, now owned by Tony Khan as a sister promotion to AEW, reformed his tag team with Christopher Daniels, defeating The Outrunners on the February 26,2023 episode of Ring of Honor.
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Image Entertainment, Inc released a DVD titled "Before They Were Stars: Matt Sydal: Bourne Is Born" on January 20,2009, which features every match from Wrestling Society X Korklan participated in as well as various promos and a music video.
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Matt Sydal has a younger brother named Mike, who is a professional wrestler.
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Matt Sydal continued to wrestle, attending college three days a week, while wrestling mid-week and on weekends.
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Matt Sydal graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2005, and began working as a sales and marketing vice president for a small mailbox company in St Louis owned by his uncle, he worked there since he was 18 and worked himself up from shopboy to the marketing department and having his own shop, while continuing to wrestle.
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Matt Sydal resigned around 2006 using his vacation days for his first international tour of the UK.
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Matt Sydal has studied Buddhism and cites Alan Watts and Ram Das as his spiritual influences.
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Matt Sydal spoke about this on Colt Cabana's Art of Wrestling podcast, Airey Bros Radio, Bad Yogi podcast and on David Nichtern's podcast.
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Matt Sydal clarified on RJ City's YouTube comedy interview show that he does not consider himself a Buddhist as he does not have any personal dogma but loves studying and as a student of David Nichtern he can lead meditation ceremonies.