Matthew Joseph Korklan
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 (192 Appearances)
YouShoot: Matt Sydal
AEW Dynasty 2024
CMLL Homenaje a Dos Leyendas 2024
ROH: Supercard of Honor XV
Hey! (EW)
All Elite Wrestling: Battle of the Belts
AEW Winter Is Coming
All Elite Wrestling: Rampage
AEW Road Rager
Free The Narrative
AEW Double or Nothing 2021
AEW Dark: Elevation
AEW Revolution 2021
AEW Winter is Coming
AEW All Out 2020
AEW Unrestricted
AEW Dark
All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite
IMPACT Wrestling: Bound for Glory 2018
IMPACT Wrestling: Slammiversary XVI
IMPACT One Night Only: Zero Fear
Warrior Wrestling
IMPACT Wrestling: One Night Only: Cali Combat
IMPACT Wrestling: Redemption 2018
IMPACT Wrestling vs. Lucha Underground 2018
DEFYNOW
DEFYX Year One
IMPACT Wrestling: Bound For Glory 2017
PWG: All Star Weekend 13 - Night Two
PWG: 2017 Battle of Los Angeles - Stage Two
PWG: 2017 Battle of Los Angeles - Stage One
WrectleCircus Dive Hard With A Vengeance
PWG: Man On The Silver Mountain
ROH & NJPW: War of the Worlds 2017 - Day 3
WrestleCircus Battle At The Big Top
PWG: Nice Boys (Don't Play Rock and Roll)
PWG: Mystery Vortex IV
PWG: 2016 Battle of Los Angeles - Stage Two
PWG: 2016 Battle of Los Angeles - Stage One
Developmentally Speaking With Bull James, Rob Naylor, & Matt Sydal
ROH: Best In The World
NJPW Dominion 6.19 in Osaka-jo Hall
NJPW Best of the Super Junior 23 - Day 14 (Final)
NJPW Best of the Super Junior 23 - Day 7
NJPW Best of the Super Junior 23 - Day 6
ROH: Conquest Tour 2016 - Philadelphia
NJPW Best of the Super Junior 23 - Day 1
ROH & NJPW: War of the Worlds - Night 3
ROH & NJPW: War of the Worlds - Night 1
ROH & NJPW: Global Wars
NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2016
RPW: Sittingbourne Spectacular 2016
RPW: Epic Encounter 2016
NJPW Invasion Attack 2016
WrestleCon SuperShow 2016
ROH: Supercard of Honor X - Night Two
ROH: Supercard of Honor X - Night One
PWG: All Star Weekend 12 - Night Two
PWG: All Star Weekend 12 - Night One
ROH: 14th Anniversary
NJPW Honor Rising: Japan 2016 - Day 2
NJPW Honor Rising: Japan 2016 - Day 1
NJPW The New Beginning in Niigata 2016
NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2016
ROH: Winter Warriors Tour - Duluth
NJPW New Year Dash !! 2016
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 10
ROH Final Battle 2015
PWG: All Star Weekend 11 - Night Two
PWG: All Star Weekend 11 - Night One
ROH: Road To Final Battle 2015
ROH: Survival of The Fittest - Night 2
NJPW Power Struggle 2015
NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2015
NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2015
ROH: All Star Extravaganza VII
PWG: 2015 Battle of Los Angeles - Final Stage
PWG: 2015 Battle of Los Angeles - Stage One
ROH: Field of Honor
ROH: Aftershock Tour - Philadephia
ROH: Best In The World
RevPro Summer Sizzler 2015
PWG: DDT4
ROH & NJPW: Global Wars - Night 2
ROH & NJPW: Global Wars - Night 1
PWG: Don't Sweat The Technique
WrestleCon Supershow 2015
ROH: Supercard of Honor IX
The Road is Jericho: Epic Stories and Rare Matches from Y2J
ROH: 13th Anniversary
PWG: From Out of Nowhere
ROH: Winter Warriors Tour - Dayton
ROH: Winter Warriors Tour - Dearborn
ROH: Year 5
PWG: Black Cole Sun
ROH Final Battle 2014
ROH: Survival of The Fittest - Night 2
ROH: Survival of The Fittest - Night 1
PWG: 2014 Battle of Los Angeles - Night Three
PWG: 2014 Battle of Los Angeles - Night Two
ROH: Year Four
ROH: Creating Excellence
WWE: Straight to the Top - Money in the Bank Anthology
Claudio Castagnoli: The Swiss Sensation
ROH: Top 100 Matches, Vol 2
Bryan Danielson: The Final Countdown
ROH: The Rise of Generation Next
ROH: El Generico: Ole! Ole!
ROH: Ring of Hardcore
ROH: Japan's Finest
KENTA: Go 2 Sleep
Austin Aries: Evolution of A-Double
WWE TLC: Tables Ladders & Chairs 2011
WWE Vengeance 2011
The Ladder Match 2: Crash & Burn
WWE Hell in a Cell 2011
WWE Night of Champions 2011
WWE Money in the Bank 2011
WWE Capitol Punishment 2011
The Briscoe Brothers: The Baddest Tag Team on the Planet
WWE Night of Champions 2010
WWE Money in the Bank 2010
WWE Fatal 4-Way 2010
WWE Wrestlemania XXVI
WWE Royal Rumble 2010
WWE Survivor Series 2009
WWE WrestleMania XXV
Ring of Honor Wrestling
PWG Sells Out: Volume 2
WWE Cyber Sunday 2008
ROH: Best In The World
Bloodstained Honor
PWG: 2007 Battle of Los Angeles - Night Three
PWG: 2007 Battle of Los Angeles - Night One
ROH: Driven
ROH: International Challenge
ROH: The Chicago Spectacular - Night One
PWG: Passive Hostility
ROH: Dethroned
ROH: Black Friday Fallout
ROH: Honor Reclaims Boston
ROH: Irresistible Forces
ROH: Suffocation
PWG: Horror Business
ROH: Motor City Madness
ROH: Survival of The Fittest 2006
PWG: 2006 Battle of Los Angeles - Night One
ROH: Gut Check
ROH: Epic Encounter II
ROH: Frontiers of Honor II
ROH: Anarchy In The U.K.
ROH: Unified
ROH: Fight of The Century
ROH: Time To Man Up
ROH: Generation Now
ROH: War of The Wire II
WWE ECW
ROH: Ring of Homicide
ROH: Weekend of Champions - Night Two
ROH: The 100th Show
PWG: All Star Weekend 3 - Crazymania - Night Two
PWG: All Star Weekend 3 - Crazymania - Night One
ROH: Better Than Our Best
ROH: Supercard of Honor
ROH: Dragon Gate Challenge
ROH: Arena Warfare
ROH: Fourth Anniversary Show
ROH: Dissension
ROH: Tag Wars 2006
ROH: Hell Freezes Over
ROH: Steel Cage Warfare
ROH: Vendetta
ROH: Showdown In Motown
The Best of the X Division Vol. 1
ROH: Redemption
ROH: The Final Showdown
TNA Victory Road 2004
ROH: Joe vs Punk II
ROH: Gold
IWA Mid-South Ted Petty Invitational 2003 - Night 2
IWA Mid-South Ted Petty Invitational 2003 - Night 1
ROH: Death Before Dishonor 2 - Part Two
ROH: Death Before Dishonor 2 - Part One
ROH: Do or Die II & III
ROH: World Title Classic
TNA iMPACT!
ROH: Reborn - Stage Two
ROH: Reborn - Stage One
Phenomenal: The Best of AJ Styles
TNA Xplosion
WWE Friday Night SmackDown
Raw