Biography
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.
Filmography
all 184
Movies 173
TV Shows 11
self 1
ROH: Supercard of Honor (2022)
Hey! (EW) (2022)
All Elite Wrestling: Battle of the Belts (2022)
AEW Winter Is Coming (2021)
All Elite Wrestling: Rampage (2021)
AEW Road Rager (2021)
Free The Narrative (2021)
AEW: Double or Nothing (2021)
AEW Dark: Elevation (2021)
AEW Winter is Coming (2020)
AEW All Out (2020)
NJPW Dominion in Osaka-jo Hall (2020)
AEW Unrestricted (2020)
AEW Dark (2019)
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite (2019)
IMPACT Wrestling: Bound for Glory (2018)
IMPACT Wrestling: Slammiversary XVI (2018)
Warrior Wrestling (2018)
IMPACT Wrestling: Redemption (2018)
IMPACT Wrestling: One Night Only: Cali Combat (2018)
Impact Wrestling vs. Lucha Underground 2018 (2018)
DEFYNOW (2018)
DEFYX Year One (2018)
PWG: All Star Weekend 13 - Night Two (2017)
IMPACT Wrestling: Bound For Glory (2017)
PWG: 2017 Battle of Los Angeles - Stage Two (2017)
WrectleCircus Dive Hard With A Vengeance (2017)
PWG: Man On The Silver Mountain (2017)
WrestleCircus Battle At The Big Top (2017)
PWG: Nice Boys (Don't Play Rock and Roll) (2017)
PWG: Mystery Vortex IV (2016)
PWG: 2016 Battle of Los Angeles - Stage Two (2016)
PWG: 2016 Battle of Los Angeles - Stage One (2016)
Developmentally Speaking With Bull James, Rob Naylor, & Matt Sydal (2016)
ROH: Best In The World (2016)
NJPW Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall (2016)
NJPW: Best of the Super Juniors 2016 (FINAL) (2016)
NJPW: Best of the Super Juniors 2016 (Day 7) (2016)
NJPW: Best of the Super Juniors 2016 (Day 6) (2016)
ROH: Conquest Tour 2016 - Philadelphia (2016)
NJPW: Best of the Super Juniors 2016 (Day 1) (2016)
ROH: War of The Worlds - Night Three (2016)
ROH: War of The Worlds - Night One (2016)
ROH & NJPW: Global Wars (2016)
NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2016 (2016)
RPW: Sittingbourne Spectacular 2016 (2016)
RPW: Epic Encounter 2016 (2016)
NJPW Invasion Attack 2016 (2016)
ROH: Supercard of Honor X - Night Two (2016)
WrestleCon SuperShow 2016 (2016)
ROH: Supercard of Honor X - Night One (2016)
PWG: All Star Weekend 12 - Night Two (2016)
PWG: All Star Weekend 12 - Night One (2016)
ROH: 14th Anniversary (2016)
NJPW Honor Rising: Japan 2016 - Day 2 (2016)
NJPW Honor Rising: Japan 2016 - Day 1 (2016)
NJPW The New Beginning in Niigata 2016 (2016)
NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2016 (2016)
ROH: Winter Warriors Tour - Duluth (2016)
NJPW New Year Dash 2016 (2016)
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 10 (2016)
ROH: Final Battle (2015)
PWG: All Star Weekend 11 - Night Two (2015)
PWG: All Star Weekend 11 - Night One (2015)
ROH: Road To Final Battle (2015)
ROH: Survival of The Fittest - Night 2 (2015)
NJPW Power Struggle 2015 (2015)
NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2015 (2015)
NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2015 (2015)
NJPW Destruction In Okayama (2015)
ROH: All Star Extravaganza VII (2015)
PWG: 2015 Battle of Los Angeles - Final Stage (2015)
PWG: 2015 Battle of Los Angeles - Stage One (2015)
ROH: Field of Honor (2015)
ROH: Aftershock Tour - Philadephia (2015)
ROH: Best In The World (2015)
RevPro Summer Sizzler 2015 (2015)
PWG: DDT4 (2015)
ROH & NJPW: Global Wars - Night 2 (2015)
ROH & NJPW: Global Wars - Night 1 (2015)
PWG: Don't Sweat The Technique (2015)
WrestleCon Supershow 2015 (2015)
ROH: Supercard of Honor IX (2015)
The Road is Jericho: Epic Stories and Rare Matches from Y2J (2015)
ROH: 13th Anniversary (2015)
PWG: From Out of Nowhere (2015)
ROH: Winter Warriors Tour - Dayton (2015)
ROH: Winter Warriors Tour - Dearborn (2015)
PWG: Black Cole Sun (2014)
ROH: Final Battle (2014)
ROH: Survival of The Fittest - Night 2 (2014)
ROH: Survival of The Fittest - Night 1 (2014)
PWG: 2014 Battle of Los Angeles - Night Three (2014)
PWG: 2014 Battle of Los Angeles - Night Two (2014)
WWE: Straight to the Top - Money in the Bank Anthology (2013)
Claudio Castagnoli: The Swiss Sensation (2013)
ROH: The Rise of Generation Next (2012)
ROH: El Generico: Ole! Ole! (2012)
ROH: Japan's Finest (2012)
KENTA: Go 2 Sleep (2012)
WWE TLC: Tables Ladders & Chairs 2011 (2011)
WWE Vengeance 2011 (2011)
The Ladder Match 2: Crash & Burn (2011)
WWE Hell in a Cell 2011 (2011)
WWE Night of Champions 2011 (2011)
WWE Money in the Bank 2011 (2011)
WWE Capitol Punishment 2011 (2011)
WWE Night of Champions 2010 (2010)
WWE Money in the Bank 2010 (2010)
WWE Fatal 4-Way 2010 (2010)
WWE Wrestlemania XXVI (2010)
WWE Royal Rumble 2010 (2010)
WWE Survivor Series 2009 (2009)
WWE Cyber Sunday 2008 (2008)
ROH: Best In The World (2008)
PWG: 2007 Battle of Los Angeles - Night Three (2007)
PWG: 2007 Battle of Los Angeles - Night One (2007)
ROH: Driven (2007)
ROH: International Challenge (2006)
ROH: The Chicago Spectacular - Night One (2006)
PWG: Passive Hostility (2006)
ROH: Dethroned (2006)
ROH: Black Friday Fallout (2006)
ROH: Honor Reclaims Boston (2006)
ROH: Irresistible Forces (2006)
ROH: Suffocation (2006)
PWG: Horror Business (2006)
ROH: Motor City Madness (2006)
ROH: Survival of The Fittest 2006 (2006)
PWG: 2006 Battle of Los Angeles - Night One (2006)
ROH: Gut Check (2006)
ROH: Epic Encounter II (2006)
ROH: Frontiers of Honor II (2006)
ROH: Anarchy In The U.K. (2006)
ROH: Unified (2006)
ROH: Fight of The Century (2006)
ROH: Time To Man Up (2006)
ROH: Generation Now (2006)
ROH: War of The Wire II (2006)
WWE ECW (2006)
ROH: Ring of Homicide (2006)
ROH: Weekend of Champions - Night Two (2006)
ROH: The 100th Show (2006)
PWG: All Star Weekend 3 - Crazymania - Night Two (2006)
PWG: All Star Weekend 3 - Crazymania - Night One (2006)
ROH: Better Than Our Best (2006)
ROH: Supercard of Honor (2006)
ROH: Dragon Gate Challenge (2006)
ROH: Arena Warfare (2006)
ROH: Fourth Anniversary Show (2006)
ROH: Dissension (2006)
ROH: Tag Wars 2006 (2006)
ROH: Hell Freezes Over (2006)
ROH: Steel Cage Warfare (2005)
ROH: Vendetta (2005)
ROH: Showdown In Motown (2005)
ROH: Redemption (2005)
ROH: The Final Showdown (2005)
TNA Victory Road 2004 (2004)
ROH: Joe vs Punk II (2004)
ROH: Gold (2004)
IWA Mid-South Ted Petty Invitational 2003 - Night 2 (2004)
IWA Mid-South Ted Petty Invitational 2003 - Night 1 (2004)
ROH: Death Before Dishonor 2 - Part Two (2004)
ROH: Death Before Dishonor 2 - Part One (2004)
ROH: Do or Die II & III (2004)
ROH: World Title Classic (2004)
ROH: Reborn - Stage Two (2004)
ROH: Reborn - Stage One (2004)
WWE SmackDown (1999)
WWE Raw (1993)
Phenomenal: The Best of AJ Styles
ROH: Year Four
YouShoot: Matt Sydal
PWG Sells Out: Volume 2
The Best of the X Division, Vol 1
The Briscoe Brothers: The Baddest Tag Team on the Planet
Austin Aries: Evolution of A-Double
ROH: Year 5
ROH: Creating Excellence
Bloodstained Honor
Bryan Danielson: The Final Countdown
ROH: Top 100 Matches, Vol 2
ROH: Ring of Hardcore
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1983-03-19 (41 years old)
Birth PlaceSt. Louis, United States of America
Height173-centimeter
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsEvan Bourne, Matt Sydal, The Vision
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