Evan Bourne
| Matt Sydal | |
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Matt Sydal in 2016
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| Birth name | Matthew Joseph Korklan |
| Born |
March 19, 1983 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Residence | Clearwater, Florida |
| Alma mater | University of Missouri |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Evan Bourne Matt Sydal |
| Billed height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
| Billed weight | 185 lb (84 kg) |
| Billed from | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Trained by | Gateway Championship Wrestling |
| Debut | October 20, 2000 |
Matthew Joseph "Matt" Korklan (born March 19, 1983), also known by the ring name Matt Sydal, is an American professional wrestler, perhaps best known for his time in WWE under the ring name Evan Bourne.
Between 2000 and 2007, Korklan wrestled on the independent circuit, for promotions including NWA Midwest, IWA-Mid South, and Ring of Honor, winning both singles and tag team championships. He also wrestled for the short-lived Wrestling Society X and was featured on Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's early pay-per-view events. Beginning in 2005, he wrestled for Dragon Gate in Japan, and won the Open the Brave Gate Championship in early 2007. Korklan signed with WWE in 2007, and made his main roster debut as Evan Bourne on ECW the following year. In 2011, he formed an alliance with Kofi Kingston, known as Air Boom, and they won the WWE Tag Team Championship. In 2012, Korklan was suspended for violating WWE's wellness policy, and then suffered foot injuries in a motorcycle accident, forcing him out of action. Without reappearing on television, he was released from WWE in 2014 and returned to wrestling on the independent circuit under his former ring name. He also made his debut 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.
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