Matthew Joseph Korklan
Matthew Joseph Korklan, better known by the ring name Matt Sydal, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). 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 high flying but hybrid lucha libre and puroresu styles of wrestling and was named the Wrestling Observer Newsletter's Best Flying Wrestler in 2008.
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PHOTOS
TV Series
AEW Dark: Elevation
6.6
WWE SmackDown
7.5
AEW Unrestricted
6.5
All Elite Wrestling: Rampage
7.2
All Elite Wrestling: Battle of the Belts
4.7
Raw
6.8
DEFYNOW
0
WWE ECW
6.6
WWE ECW
6.6
AEW Dark
6.5
Hey! (EW)
0
TNA Xplosion
0
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
8
AEW Dark
6.5
All Elite Wrestling: Rampage
7.2
TNA iMPACT!
7.2
Movies
Free The Narrative
0
WWE Night of Champions 2010
7.2
WWE Money in the Bank 2011
7.8
WWE Capitol Punishment 2011
6.8
WWE Fatal 4-Way 2010
7.7
WWE TLC: Tables Ladders & Chairs 2011
7.1
AEW Winter Is Coming
8.5
WWE Wrestlemania XXVI
7.7
WWE Hell in a Cell 2011
6.8
WWE Vengeance 2011
6.7
WWE Royal Rumble 2010
7.783
ROH: Supercard of Honor XV
6.5
WWE Money in the Bank 2010
7.2
WWE Cyber Sunday 2008
8
WWE Survivor Series 2009
8.2
IWA Mid-South Ted Petty Invitational 2003 - Night 1
0
IWA Mid-South Ted Petty Invitational 2003 - Night 2
0
WrestleCon Supershow 2015
0
ROH: Steel Cage Warfare
0
Warrior Wrestling
0
ROH: 13th Anniversary
0
ROH: Final Battle 2014
0
ROH: Survival of The Fittest - Night 1
0
ROH: Supercard of Honor IX
0
ROH & NJPW: Global Wars - Night 1
0
PWG: DDT4
0
PWG: 2014 Battle of Los Angeles - Night Two
0
ROH: Best In The World
0
PWG: 2014 Battle of Los Angeles - Night Three
0
PWG: Black Cole Sun
0
PWG: Don't Sweat The Technique
0
PWG: From Out of Nowhere
0
ROH: Field of Honor
7
ROH: All Star Extravaganza VII
0
PWG: All Star Weekend 3 - Crazymania - Night One
0
PWG: All Star Weekend 3 - Crazymania - Night Two
0
CMLL Homenaje a Dos Leyendas 2024
0
NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2015
0
PWG: Horror Business
0
PWG: Passive Hostility
0
PWG: 2015 Battle of Los Angeles - Stage One
0
PWG: 2015 Battle of Los Angeles - Final Stage
0
NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2015
0
PWG: 2006 Battle of Los Angeles - Night One
1
PWG: 2007 Battle of Los Angeles - Night One
0
PWG: 2007 Battle of Los Angeles - Night Three
0
NJPW Power Struggle 2015
0
AEW Dynasty
7.5
ROH: Winter Warriors Tour - Dayton
0
ROH: Winter Warriors Tour - Dearborn
0
ROH: Final Battle 2015
7.8
ROH: The Rise of Generation Next
0
ROH: Showdown In Motown
0
ROH: Vendetta
0
ROH: Hell Freezes Over
0
ROH: Tag Wars 2006
0
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 10
7
ROH: Dissension
0
ROH: Arena Warfare
10
ROH: Aftershock Tour - Philadephia
0
ROH & NJPW: Global Wars - Night 2
0
NJPW New Year Dash !! 2016
7
NJPW Honor Rising: Japan 2016 - Day 1
5.5
NJPW Honor Rising: Japan 2016 - Day 2
7
RevPro Summer Sizzler 2015
0
PWG: All Star Weekend 11 - Night One
0
PWG: All Star Weekend 11 - Night Two
0
ROH: 14th Anniversary
0
NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2016
0
NJPW The New Beginning in Niigata 2016
0
ROH: Road To Final Battle 2015
0
NJPW Invasion Attack 2016
0
ROH: Supercard of Honor X - Night Two
0
RPW: Epic Encounter 2016
0
ROH: Supercard of Honor X - Night One
0
NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2016
0
WrestleCon SuperShow 2016
0
ROH & NJPW: Global Wars
0
WWE WrestleMania XXV
7.9
NJPW: Best of the Super Juniors 2016 (Day 1)
0
NJPW: Best of the Super Juniors 2016 (Day 6)
0
NJPW: Best of the Super Juniors 2016 (Day 7)
0
PWG: All Star Weekend 12 - Night One
0
PWG: All Star Weekend 12 - Night Two
0
RPW: Sittingbourne Spectacular 2016
0
ROH: War of The Worlds - Night Three
0
ROH: Best In The World
0
ROH: War of The Worlds - Night One
0
NJPW Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall
0
NJPW: Best of the Super Juniors 2016 (FINAL)
0
ROH: Reborn - Stage One
0
ROH: Reborn - Stage Two
0
ROH: World Title Classic
0
ROH: Winter Warriors Tour - Duluth
0
PWG: 2016 Battle of Los Angeles - Stage One
0
PWG: 2016 Battle of Los Angeles - Stage Two
0
PWG: 2017 Battle of Los Angeles - Stage One
10
PWG: Mystery Vortex IV
0
IMPACT Wrestling: Redemption 2018
0
DEFYX Year One
0
IMPACT Wrestling: One Night Only: Cali Combat
0
IMPACT Wrestling: Slammiversary XVI
0
PWG: Man On The Silver Mountain
0
PWG: Nice Boys (Don't Play Rock and Roll)
0
PWG: All Star Weekend 13 - Night Two
0
PWG: 2017 Battle of Los Angeles - Stage Two
0
ROH: The 100th Show
0
IMPACT Wrestling: Bound for Glory 2018
0
YouShoot: Matt Sydal
0
TNA Victory Road 2004
6
ROH: Better Than Our Best
0
ROH: Dragon Gate Challenge
0
ROH: Supercard of Honor
0
ROH: Joe vs Punk II
0
ROH: Redemption
0
ROH: Driven
0
ROH: The Final Showdown
0
ROH: Fourth Anniversary Show
0
ROH: Ring of Hardcore
10
ROH: Year Four
10
ROH: Year 5
10
Phenomenal: The Best of AJ Styles
10
Austin Aries: Evolution of A-Double
10
ROH: Best In The World
0
Bloodstained Honor
10
The Briscoe Brothers: The Baddest Tag Team on the Planet
10
Bryan Danielson: The Final Countdown
10
Claudio Castagnoli: The Swiss Sensation
10
ROH: Creating Excellence
10
ROH: El Generico: Ole! Ole!
0
ROH: Japan's Finest
10
KENTA: Go 2 Sleep
10
ROH: Top 100 Matches, Vol 2
10
The Best of the X Division Vol. 1
10
PWG Sells Out: Volume 2
10
WWE: Straight to the Top - Money in the Bank Anthology
7.4
The Ladder Match 2: Crash & Burn
8
The Road is Jericho: Epic Stories and Rare Matches from Y2J
4.8
WWE Night of Champions 2011
8
AEW All Out
7.5
WrectleCircus Dive Hard With A Vengeance
0
WrestleCircus Battle At The Big Top
0
ROH: Survival of The Fittest - Night 2
0
IMPACT Wrestling: Bound For Glory 2017
0
IMPACT Wrestling vs. Lucha Underground 2018
0
AEW Winter is Coming
8.7
ROH: Do or Die II & III
0
ROH: Survival of The Fittest - Night 2
0
ROH: Unified
0
ROH: Generation Now
0
ROH: Fight of The Century
0
ROH: Gold
0
ROH: International Challenge
0
ROH: Gut Check
0
ROH: Epic Encounter II
0
ROH: Honor Reclaims Boston
0
ROH: Black Friday Fallout
0
ROH: Suffocation
0
ROH: Motor City Madness
0
ROH: Survival of The Fittest 2006
0
ROH: Irresistible Forces
0
ROH: The Chicago Spectacular - Night One
0
ROH: Dethroned
0
ROH: Anarchy In The U.K.
0
ROH: Time To Man Up
0
ROH: Conquest Tour 2016 - Philadelphia
0
ROH: War of The Wire II
0
ROH: Weekend of Champions - Night Two
0
ROH: Death Before Dishonor 2 - Part Two
0
ROH: Ring of Homicide
0
NJPW Dominion in Osaka-jo Hall
0
AEW Double or Nothing
6.9
ROH: Frontiers of Honor II
0
Developmentally Speaking With Bull James, Rob Naylor, & Matt Sydal
0
ROH: Death Before Dishonor 2 - Part One
0
AEW Road Rager
8
IMPACT One Night Only: Zero Fear
0