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4'''Matthew Joseph Korklan''' (born March 19, 1983), known by his ring name of '''Matt Sydal''', is a {{backyard wrestl|ing}}er turned professional wrestler who is best known for his work in World Wrestling Entertainment as '''Evan Bourne'''. Well before Wrestling/{{WWE}} though he was known for being the first person to obtain a wrestler's license in the state of Missouri at the age of 17, 18 usually being required. Even more impressive because Missouri is very strict about the required age. His pro debut came in Gateway Championship Wrestling on October 20 2000 but he is also known for stints in several other promotions, such as Wrestling/DragonGate, Wrestling/{{N|ational Wrestling Alliance}}WA[=-=][[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] and Wrestling/RingOfHonor. His WWE debut took place in 2008 when he was 25 and an 8 year veteran by then with the now-defunct ECW brand. Famous for his super junior style that is an amalgamation of Japanese, Mexican and European styles as well as yoga and martial arts. H won his first [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwe-t.html WWE Tag Team Championship]] along side fellow flier Wrestling/KofiKingston, becoming the team known as "Air-Boom".
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6He is a former high school wrestler and has trained in martial arts and self taught gymnastics. In Dragon Gate he was the first gaijin to win [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/japan/dg/dg-bg.html Open The Brave Gate Title]]. He became a one time [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/roh/roh-t.html Ring of Honor World Tag Team Champion]],[[note]]With Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels[[/note]] and a WWE Slammy winner for "best finishing move" in 2008 for his Shooting Star Press.
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8He was released by the WWE in June 2014 but did not stop wrestling, reappearing in Dragon Gate in July of the same year and going on to work at Dreamwave, Evolve, Northeast Wrestling, Ring of Honor, Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerilla and more. In February of 2016, he and [[Wrestling/TrevorMann Ricochet]] would become [[Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling IWGP]] Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions.
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10He also stopped by Wrestling/ImpactWrestling and was an [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tna/tna-x.html Impact Wrestling X Division Champion]] and former Impact Grand Champion.
11After being a free agent for 6 years, he signed with Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling on November 17, 2020.
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13!!! Tropes associated with Evan Bourne include:
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15* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: He got ''really'' cocky after he and Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels won the ROH World Tag Team Title belts, following his sabbatical in Dragon Gate. Winning the Open The Brave Gate further helped his ego along. He became this in Impact.
16* ArchEnemy: Mike Knox and Wrestling/ZackRyder during his ECW run, Wrestling/JackSwagger and Wrestling/DolphZiggler, and Primo and Epico. On the indies, [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]]. In England, Wrestling/WillOspreay is becoming this
17* ArrogantKungFuGuy: In NSW (and to a lesser extent, ROH), he was a baby face despite it. He called out his intentions during a match and was no where near as big or strong as he thought he was but Matt Sydal often did manage to overcome improbable odds anyway.
18* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: That someone for Sydal is Wrestling/AJStyles.
19* AnimalMotifs: Jaguar since he became reborn.
20* BadassBookworm[=/=]HiddenDepths: Mentioned in WWE magazine interview his interest in Quantum Mechanics/Physics. Also majored in business and marketing.
21* BashBrothers: Formerly with Wrestling/DaizeeHaze who helped him win back the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/il/nwa-mw/nwa-mw-x.html NWA Midwest X division Title]] from Delirious by pinning Wrestling/MsChif in a winner takes all tag match. She would later turn on him for the ROH Embassy though, after which he found himself in this role with Christopher Daniels. Kofi Kingston serves as this in the WWE. Ricochet serves as such in New Japan. His real-life brother Mike Sydal literally serves as this in AEW.
22* BattleCouple: Briefly with Wrestling/GailKim.
23* BewareTheNiceOnes- Sheamus, Edge, Randy Orton and Chris Jericho found this out the hard way during his May to June 2010 push. Sheamus found out earlier in January when Bourne answered his open challenge and knocked him down in just 10 seconds before hitting his finisher. Sheamus was the first person ever to kick out of it. How his feud with Jericho started was he kicked out of a Codebreaker during their first match on Raw which led to Jericho stomping on him under the ropes and not listening to the ref, he got a rope-aided enzugiri and the Air Bourne for his troubles.
24* BigDamnHeroes: During the four way dance of ''GCW Adults F-N Only 5'' Wrestling/MsChif, Delirious and Outtkast all ganged up on Matt's Operation Shamrock partner, Ryan Ash, leading Matt to forcibly insert himself into the match.
25* BigWordShout: "Peace" before driving his thigh into the face of an opponent seated in the corner. "Lama san!" before a back bridging leg neck submission to an opponent on their back...he apparently learned it from the Dalia lama himself, a noted submission specialist.
26* TheBusCameBack: Immediately returned to TV when his first suspension was up. He never came back after his second suspension was up due to be being released after nearly 2 and a half year of inactivity due him being in an accident a few days his suspension was up, and [[GameBreakingInjury broke his foot in four places and dislocated it in five, which could be career threatening even if it's healed properly.]] Sydal's career continued.
27* CallingYourAttacks: Matt Sydal was known for doing this, especially if the name of the move was on one of his shirts.
28* TheCameo: As a hooded audience member on Wrestling/{{Shimmer}} volume one, that is unless you saw the show live or bought the non rental version of the DVD and got to see Matt's "dark match".
29* CastFromHitPoints: Like most high flyers, the ends of his maneuvers tend to take something out of him, too.
30* CatchPhrase: In ECW he had “ I defy the odds because I defy gravity.” Recently for his reborn gimmick he uses “ Turn on, Tune in and takeoff.” A catch phrase of Timothy Leary a psychologist who advocated psychedelic drugs under control conditions.” Now he has " Come see what I'm saying"
31* CharacterDevelopment: from *KidHero prodigy to Been There Shaped History* to *NewAgeRetroHippie*
32* CombatCommentator: For IWA Mid-South
33* ContinuityNod
34** Sometimes brought out the Snapmare driver associate with Daizee Haze, such as when he defended the Open The Brave Gate in Liverpool against Wrestling/{{PAC}}.
35** Matt Sydal's "Reborn" RedBaron following his return to ROH. Now what could that be about?
36* {{Contortionist}}: Claims to be a yoga master with unparalleled flexibility. Unfortunately this mostly relates to his arms and he shares the Super Junior ranks with Kyle O'Reilly, an arm submission specialist.
37* CrowdSong and CrowdChant: "[[Wrestling/{{Tazz}} Fuck Em Up Matt, Fuck Em Up]]" and "Matt's Hardcore" at the GCW shows ("adult" and "family" respectively), didn't catch on elsewhere.
38* CurbStompBattle: In the WWE reboot of ECW, and later on WWE's C Show ''Superstars'', Evan Bourne got a lot of easy victories.
39** He would have rivalries with Wrestling/ZackRyder, who he would easily beat. He also beat the likes of Primo Colon, [[Wrestling/CarlitoColon Carlito]] and Epico Colon as well as Wrestling/CurtisAxel.
40** In ECW he did this to the likes of [[Wrestling/LittleGuidoMaritato Nunzio]], James Curtis and Matt Striker when showing off his SSP.
41** He also was victim of this from the likes of Wrestling/TheBigShow and Wrestling/{{Sheamus}}; the latter did this too, but it was after Sheamus was pedigree'd through the announce table by Wrestling/TripleH.
42* ADayInTheLimelight: His feud with Wrestling/ChrisJericho is one of the very few time he's been given any sort of a push. Same can be said for when he won the Tag Team titles with Kofi, their reign might have been more memorable if he hadn't gotten busted for smoking pot.
43* DarkhorseVictory: He and ACH beating Wrestling/TheYoungBucks at ''Road To Final Battle'' to qualify for ''Tag Wars 2014''.
44* DemotedToExtra: Whenever he is getting a push and put in program to elevate him, he always get dropped down again. It looked to be averted when he and Kofi became Tag Team Champs, they where even allowed to keep the titles after he was suspended the first time, but after getting suspended a second time, this time for 60 days, they lost their titles at a house show to Primo and Epico.
45* DisasterDominoes: Even though he landed on his feet, a missed shooting star press at an ROH event lead him to become a crash test dummy for what could be best described as a tag team FiveMovesOfDoom display by Wrestling/BulletClub.
46* EnemyMine
47** After making it two the final elimination match of the Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA Wild Side Super Indy Challenge, Matt Sydal's knee jerk reaction to seeing Delirious was to dive at him over the top rope and beat him up on the outside. However, after Matt was eliminated by Jimmy Rave, he and Daizee Haze took up steel chairs to prevent the also eliminated Fast Eddie and Sal Rinauro from interfering in the match and costing Delirious
48** Temporarily worked with Delirious again at ''ROH Survival Of The Fittest'' against the Briscoes. His return to ROH unsurprisingly lead to a bout with Delirious but the two ended up putting aside their difference to humble [[Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels The]] [[Wrestling/FrankieKazarian Addiction]].
49* {{Expy}}
50** He mentioned being an expy of Wrestling/{{Rey Mysterio|Jr}} and Wrestling/{{Sabu}} when he was a backyard wrestler.
51** Cleaner wrestling style wise to Wrestling/JeffHardy. Maybe not so much lifestyle wise as he's been suspended twice for smoking synthetic marijuana.
52* ExtremityExtremist
53** like his idols Wrestling/RobVanDam, Wrestling/UltimoDragon, Wrestling/XPac and with his taekwondo background he has very educated feet. As well as using his knees, he gave {{Alberto Del Rio} a bloody lip from his trademark high knee in a match on Raw.
54* {{Face}}
55** Small, natural underdog wrestler, clean-cut, almost [[PrettyBoy boyish looks]], he has a very optimistic personality. - all seemingly traits of a perpetual babyface. But you never know...
56** He played a heel in ''Wrestling/WrestlingSocietyX''. [[{{Narm}} But it's not happening again any time soon]]. He played a heel lots of times in other organizations, such as ROH while he was with Christopher Daniels and Larry Sweeny. Matt Sydal's heel runs are largely restricted to tag teams or stables rather than individual efforts, at least runs where he got over as a heel.
57* TheFace: Of IWA Mid-South during the 2007 King Of Europe Cup.
58* FatAndSkinny: His tag team with Mark Henry.
59* FinishingMove
60** The "Air Bourne", a huge Shooting Star Press. He is able to complete a tuck in mid air and get from 25 to 30 feet in mid air, he can do this one legged as shown in a match with Paul Burchill and at ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}}'' when he did a one legged version off a ladder onto Wrestling/{{Christian}}. He is also able to land on his feet if an opponent evades.
61** More awesome because he's presently one of the only people in the WWE to be ''permitted'' to use that move at all, as it's normally banned due to how dangerous it is. Bourne is just so skilled that he's able to pull it off consistently enough to convince them to let him use it.
62** Also Aftershock (Gory neckbreaker similar to [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron the widows peak]]) Cyclorama (Belly to belly moonsault slam) Double Helix (Springboard corkscrew moonsault) and "Here It Is" (Pumphandle half nelson driver)
63* FireForgedFriends: How he ended up in tag teams with former rivals Christopher Daniels and Wrestling/AJStyles
64* {{Foil}}: To Kenny King and Rhett Titus. While Sydal had become a veteran who went out of his way to help upstarts in ROH who reminded him of himself along the way, King and Titus had become bitter veterans who sought to hold upstarts like they once were down.
65* FragileSpeedster: On GCW episode 36, Matt's weight was announced as "allegedly over 100lbs". Bourne's not likely to out-muscle anyone else on the roster. He makes his living by being faster than the other guy. Also a bit susceptible to injuries, both in and out of {{Kayfabe}}.
66* GameBreakingInjury: His various injuries that has put him out action. He dislocated and tore his deltoid ligament in his right ankle in 2008 after landing on it badly. Required shoulder surgery in 2010, so he was written out due to an attack from Wrestling/CMPunk. In 2012 he was in a motorcycle accident and broke his foot in four places and dislocated it in five other. And this was just days after his second suspension was up. After this he disappeared from TV for 2 1/2 years before he was released in June 2014.
67** His foot was pretty much permanently disfigured from this accident too, to the point he ffels like he needs to use marijuana to dull the pain in order to wrestle.
68* GlassCannon: Is unfortunately injury prone.
69* GoshDangitToHeck: Even on GCW's ''Adults F'N Only'' shows, Matt tried to keep his language clean to make sure he offended no one [[MerchandiseDriven who might otherwise buy his shirt.]]
70* TheGimmick
71** as a backyard wrestler he was Lance Sydal the hardcore Luchador, a dynamic masked Luchador and later unmasked, dynamic fan favorite inspired by Wrestling/{{Sabu}}, Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr, Wrestling/DeanMalenko and Wrestling/{{Taz|z}}.
72** In GCW his age was often exaggerated as much younger. In the mid 2000s he was the “ Cocky Coverboy” and in WSX had a jerk jock gimmick with it.
73** In 2014 after his release from WWE he went on an ayahuasca retreat and became “ reborn “, this is now used as his gimmick which he describes as:
74-->Ancient Warrior from the future and American shaman.
75** In WWE and the indies when he was a face he didn’t really have much depth besides in WWE he was known as a {{BewareTheNiceOnes}} like most baby faces.
76* {{Hope Spot}}[=/=][[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle Not So Fast Bucko]]: Was the victim of this some time back with Wrestling/RandyOrton. After gotten RKO'ed by Randy after their win over Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} and Wrestling/ChrisJericho the week before, Bourne decided on some revenge. Things went... Well see [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iCN1Hu2ezQ for yourself.]]
77* IGotBigger: Not by much but Evan Bourne has grown two inches and gained at least thirty pounds over the course of his career, 190 being his max "I need this bulk because I'm really going to get beat up soon" weight, an over sixty pound gain but 160 being his average.
78* IHaveManyNames: he's mentioned he doesn't mind what fans call him. He started out as Sydal in his own backyard wrestler fed based off of Sabu who was homicidal, genocidal etc, so he was just Sydal, then he was Lance Sydal in local backyard shows, then he became MATT in GCW(too young for a last name) and he mentioned on Art of Wrestling he came up with Matt Sydal while in TNA and it stuck. Evan Bourne came from the help of Joey styles( he was going to be called Jordan Jackson or Jason Jordan)
79* InformedJudaism: mentioned on Website/{{Twitter}} and in a Website/YouTube video of an indie locker room, he said he was raised Jewish but hasn't mentioned his religious beliefs
80* JackOfAllStats
81** over 200 moves in his Arsenal. Submissions such as a half Boston crab, armbars and very good at chain wrestling, one of his newer moves is the Namaste Lock, a Muta Lock, since his return to the indies he's used Randy Orton's headlock-back breaker as a signature to set up the shooting star press and in recent matches in Japan he does a feint roundhouse to a kneeling opponent into a spinning close line.
82** Matt/Evan is known for being a solid in ring technician with educated feet as well as a fearless but never reckless cruiserweight. Being an ECW fan he does have some hardcore in him, most of it he used in GCW but did show some in MITB matches. He has/had many power moves prior to WWE including: a kneeling back to belly pile driver, here we go driver( half nelson pumphandle slam), Sydal Special/Cyclorama(a super/avalanche belly to belly moonsault slam)
83** He was able to catch and stop cold a bicycle kick from Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli
84* {{Jobber}}: What his role in TNA amounted to.
85* {{Keet}}: Oh, good lord, yes. Having the energy of power bar binging pre teen is a big part of his gimmick, after all
86* KidHero[=/=]KidHeroAllGrownUp: Parodied. He debuted at age 17 but was treated as a twelve year old by Gateway Championship Wrestling. On the final Adults F-N Only Show Nikki Strychnine derided Matt as prepubescent boy unworthy of even being on the card. In a somewhat straight example though, Matt has down some growing, gaining anywhere from 9 to 31 kilgrams (or 20 to 70 pounds) over the course of his career.
87* {{Leitmotif}}: Warrior Man in ROH, A.I.R by May's in NJPW. His first entrance theme back as Lancs Sydal when backyard wrestling was Anyone by Sugar Ray. One of his first entrance themes on the indies was ironically " Dope Nose" by Music/{{Weezer}} and later "Danger Zone" by Music/KennyLoggins. His usual indie theme prior to wwe was Clavicle by Alkaline Trio but his second theme in ROH was My Seventh Rib by the Shins. In WWE, his first theme was a high energy heavy metal instrumental called Axeman but when he moved to the main roster in 2009 his theme become Born to Win by Mutiny Within and Boom for his tag team with Kofi Kingston. Post WWE he used Warrior Man by Dr.Dog and TNA made a blatant rip off of it called “ Star Man” , now in AEW his theme “ My Time To Fly” is very good
88* MrFanservice: One of the reasons Delirious does not like him, once accusing Evan Bourne of being a GorgeousGeorge who slept his way to the top(incidentally, Matt ''[[ContinuityNod was]]'' a gorgeous George in Wrestling/WrestlingSocietyX). It made him a hit in Dragon Gate too (being pretty that is, not his sexual escapades)
89* NewAgeRetroHippie: Is this in real life as well as in kayfabe.
90* NamedByDemocracy: How his and Kofi's tag team name Air Boom came about, was due to a poll on Website/{{Twitter}}, where their followers could come up with name ideas, where the most popular one got chosen.
91* OddCouple: He was the one responsible for training Floyd Mayweather Jr. for his match with Wrestling/TheBigShow.
92* OlderThanTheyLook: Even at 30 years old Evan Bourne could pass for being late high-school or early college age. This was mocked at ''GCW Adults F-N Only 2'' where the commentators speculated on whether or not his balls had dropped yet. No, growing out his facial hair did not get anyone to change their stance.
93* ThePerfectionist: one of his flaws he's admitted to having especially more so when he was younger, he mentioned in his Youshoot getting riled up and hotheaded during matches at referees for missing pinfall cues or not keeping up. He's pointed out The Miz is very bad at basing(catching a highflying attack) which was used a voice over in botchamania when Miz failed to catch R Truth doing a plancha one time extremely bad. He's known for being very crisp and smooth in the ring and rarely botching.
94* PerkyFemaleMinion: Lizzy Valentine in Wrestling Society X
95* PowerStable
96** A member of Operation Shamrock in GCW with Sean Vincent, Ryan Ash and the Irish Luchador Billy [=McNeil=](mainly a trio with latter two, Vincent was usually antagonistic to them).
97** ROH saw Sydal join Generation Next with Wrestling/AustinAries, Wrestling/RoderickStrong, Jack Evans and Daizee Haze after Fast Eddie Vegas turned on him and joined the Embassy. Later in the same company Sydal would join [[Wrestling/LarrySweeney Larry Sweeney's Sweet 'n' Sour Inc.]]
98** Typhoon in Dragon Gate with Anthony W. Mori, [=BxB=] Hulk, CIMA, Dragon Kid, PAC, Ryo Saito and Susumu Yokosuka
99** APPLE in WWE with Wrestling/SantinoMarella, Mark Henry and Wrestling/DanielBryan. Honestly, APPLE was more like a LegionOfDoom set up to take down the Corre than a power stable, except for the fact APPLE were not villains.
100* PutOnABus: For both of his suspensions. He came back after the first was up, not the other though, and he was released before ever making it on TV.
101* RedBaron: Cocky Cover Boy, Air Bourne( it was revealed in his first appearance on Art of Wrestling that Colin Delaney came up with it), since his return to the indies based off his experience in Peru with the nature based psychedelic drug called Ayahuasca
102* RespectedbytheRespected:
103** John Cena put him over big time in a radio interview, when they main evented on raw as a tag team he introduced him as a “ human wrecking ball.” And the next week called him “ one of the toughest most energized guys we’ve got.”
104** Kevin Kelley Has mentioned him being as a favorite to do commentary for. Also Tazz, Scott Stanford , Matt Striker really expressed there respect for him through their commentary .
105** His tag team partners Wrestling/KofiKingston and [[Wrestling/TrevorMann Ricochet]]. Rey Mysterio, he mentioned on Wrestling/ColtCabana’s podcast that Rey Mysterio actually had to tell him to stop being so polite around him essentially calling him an equal, being a huge fan of Mysterio this must’ve been huge for Matt.
106** He has become close with many of his childhood favorites such as Wrestling/JushinThunderLiger and Wrestling/RickySteamboat.
107** Wrestling/CMPunk while in WWE in an interview promoted him as doing the best stuff in the ring of the most of the roster.
108** After their first singles match Wrestling/KevinOwens as a heel verbally put him over after beating him.
109* RickyMorton: Him and Kofi shared this role during their matches as Tag Team Champions, sometimes both of them playing it during the same match.
110* RebelliousSpirit: big time in real life , politically he’s a progressive who supports Bernie Sanders . His key issues he fights for are for legalization of marijuana , universal health care .
111and he is a firm believer in civil disobedience.
112* TheRival
113** As a member of Generation Next, The Kings Of Wrestling. After Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli and Wrestling/ChrisHero beat Roderick Strong and Austin Aries for the ROH Tag Team title belts, Sydal won them back with Christopher Daniels.
114** His unlikely tag team with ACH started right before the two were went against each other in a best of five series.
115* ShipTease: With Wrestling/GailKim in 2010. After Wrestling/RosaMendes had been drafted to [=SmackDown=], Zack Ryder was looking for a new valet, trying to get Gail Kim and Wrestling/AliciaFox to accompany him to the ring. Alicia Fox took a liking to Ryder and tried to help him beat Bourne, but Gail came to Bourne's aid. Helps that Evan Bourne and Gail Kim are also good friends in real life.
116* SignatureMove: Jumping high knee strike, diving knees to shoulders from the top rope or to the outside of the ring, flashpoint (jumping clothesline variation), standing moonsault, corner shining wizard, frakensteiner, dragonrana, one arm sweep pin.
117* SmallRoleBigImpact: WWE fans will likely remember him as an EnsembleDarkhorse high flyer that was good in tag teams but could never get a singles career off the ground. What a lot of people ''don't'' know, though, is that his advice was instrumental in influencing a young indie wrestler named Tyler Black to give WWE's developmental program a shot. Black is known nowadays as Wrestling/SethRollins, and by 2015 was WWE Champion and arguably the most visible wrestling heel in the world.
118* SpotMonkey: To be expected of a former backyard wrestler with a high flying style but Evan Bourne is surprisingly sensible with his spots and thus not an example of this trope...except for his TNA run, where he had a tendency to do unnecessary flips. Since his return in 2014 he has gotten even more technical which is noticed in his current run in AEW, especially on Dark where he is on a winning streak as a submission specialist .
119* StealthExpert: in 2019 he started using a tactic where he sneaks under the ring when ringside when his opponent isn’t looking , they look under the ring and he sneaks out the other side and attacks them from behind .
120* StillGotIt: Lenny Leonard implied Sydal was burned out and wouldn't be competitive in pro wrestling anymore at ''EVOLVE 31''. Sydal proved this wrong by not only beating Wrestling/JohnnyGargano, but by still running strong a year later.
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122* TheStoner: The source of some his weirder ideas for gimmicks and such. Unfortunately starting to wear this collar in RealLife. (See below.)
123* TagTeam
124** Besides Air Boom, Sydal was one half of the Air Devils in Ring of Honor with Fast Eddie Vegas (now you know why that name won the vote)
125** LOVE GUN with Chris Sabin in Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerilla.
126* {{Technician vs performer}}
127** The performer vs every member of Diabolic Khaos, except for the quick footed Jackal, who incidentally was even smaller than Matt!
128** Answers this question a lot on podcasts of fans who manage to get him on. He admits he's both, he's a sound ground technician but his bread and butter is the high flying that makes him entertaining.
129** This is also the case with his rivalry with The Miz. The Miz while an indie wrestler for 3 years while on The Real World before getting a job with WWE from being tough enough runner up, Bourne was a backyard wrestler turned pro wrestler getting licensed at 17 and was a 8 year veteran by the time he debuted on TV. Miz although a very improved wrestler over the years will never get the praise Matt does.
130* TheatricsOfPain: He sells hits and high impact maneuvers on a level comparable to [[Wrestling/SethRollins Tyler Black]], which unfortunately has made him a frequent [[{{jobber}} doer of the job]] in the WWE. Watch his matches with the Miz where Evan Bourne does almost all the real work.
131* TokenGoodTeammate: In Sweet N'Sour Inc, at least compared to Wrestling/ChrisHero, Tank Toland and Wrestling/LarrySweeney's constant harassment of Bobby Dempsey.
132* TooDumbToLive[=/=]WhatTheHellHero
133** He was criticized by the GCW commentators for doing a cannonball off a balcony to Diabolic Khaos and The Outtkast after just returning from the hospital due to internal injuries previously suffered. The rest of Operation Shamrock ''really'' owed Matt for that.
134** His second suspension WWE in a very short time. The first time he got suspended a month, for smoking synthetic weed, little before Wrestling/SurvivorSeries '11 and served 30 days. During that time he ratted out [[Wrestling/RonKillings R-Truth]] for doing the same thing, (they had both been smoking at a party, Bourne got caught, Truth was not), which lead ''his'' suspension, right after that PPV. This lead to massive heat backstage for Bourne.
135** He had a point, R-Truth happened to be getting ready for a PPV where he and Wrestling/TheMiz were set to team up and face Wrestling/JohnCena and [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]]. The party occurred a week or two before this PPV, and WWE knew before the PPV about R-Truth's violation...but they wrote him off on the following RAW. So Bourne's actions sort of exposed the fact that WWE's superstars aren't disciplined equally under the Wellness Policy, with superstars who are on more prominent spots of the card being shown more favor. Still, Bourne himself admitted on his Twitter account that he screwed up.
136* TournamentArc: Matt Sydal defeated Arik Cannon and Wrestling/KevinSteen in a triple threat match at the finals of the 2005 IWA Mid-South Ted Petty Invitational.
137* UnderdogsNeverLose: {{Discussed| trope}} when Evan Bourne wrestled Rey Mysterio, proclaiming that Mysterio had to be careful because for the first time, he was not the underdog. Rey Mysterio won anyway.
138* UnnecessaryCombatRoll: After successfully hitting a charge in the corner, run back to the opposite turnbuckle and kick off for another. Successful again, [[ThreeStrikeCombo roll and charge again.]]
139* VersusTitle: ''EVOLVE 32: Ricochet vs Sydal''
140* VomitIndiscretionShot: In an indy clip from {{Website/Botchamania}} 185 in which Bourne vomits after a match with Wrestling/CMPunk. While Bourne is hurling on the apron, Punk cuts a promo to the camera saying he makes everyone sick.
141* WartsAndAll: Came to the conclusion Wrestling/TruthMartini and Wrestling/PrinceNana were brilliant men and was flattered to be recruited by them after becoming a free agent again. However, he believed, Martini in particular, was also two faced and used his intelligence for less than noble means.
142* WeUsedToBeFriends: Despite having feuded with Delirious wherever they ended up together, this is how their feud was portrayed at NWA Wilde Side. At IWC Super Indy V, the commentators speculate that since Evan Bourne and Delirious don't try to kill each other the way other wrestlers who have feuded as long as they have often do, that they might have developed a friendship they'd rather not admit to. (Delirious ''has'' tried to take out Sydal's knees with a wooden stake but no, never tried to kill him. Sydal has hit Delirious in the ''head'' with that very same stake but it could be argued he was trying to remove Delirious's mask, rather than attempting murder)
143* WhenSheSmiles: And when he genuinely smiles, rather than smirks. Billy [=McNeil=] said it was worth a million bucks.
144* {{Workaholic}}: while learning to wrestle and starting his career in GCW, he worked at an ice cream shop, while wrestling full time on the indies in the early 2000s he managed to get his bachelor's in business and marketing and worked as vice president of his uncle's mail box company.
145* WouldHitAGirl: [=MsChif=] was a frequent opponent of Sydal's and his application of this trope is ''another'' reason Delirious doesn't like him, since she was good friends with him. [=MsChif=] was so [[RefugeInAudacity hateful her hatred killed the Ministry Of Hate]] but Sydal and Billy [=McNeil=] bending her in half over the top turnbuckle was a little...over the top.
146* WrestlingFamily: His younger brother wrestles as Mike Sydal.
147* XtremelyKoolLetterz: "Sydal" was meant to be "cidal", as in killing (herbicidal). It was a product of the 1990s, as a quick skimming through various Gateway Alumni names will confirm.
148* YouDontLookLikeYou: His WWE debut appearance compared to that of when he first debuted in Wrestling/{{iMPACT|Wrestling}} made him look like a different person altogether thanks to having longer hair and defined facial hair.

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