Post by mattsydal on Jul 15, 2021 17:38:55 GMT -6
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NAME: Matt Sydal
HEIGHT & WEIGHT: 5’8, 165 lbs
CHARACTER ALIGNMENT: tweener- fan favorite but can be disliked by faces.
MANAGER: (if applicable) Mike Sydal
ENTRANCE THEME: Eye In the Sky by Alan Parsons Project
FINISHER: Air Bourne/ Shooting Sydal press - shooting star press
CHARACTER BIOGRPAHY:
starting as a backyard wrestler in 1998, Matt Sydal became pro legally one year under the usual legal age at 17.
He was also on the high school wrestling team despite being the smallest kid in school and even became freshman wrestler of the year.
He did taekwondo martial arts early and at 13 with his Bar Mitzvah money bought a trampoline and began wrestling in the local backyard wrestling scene in Missouri .
At 15 he spent a summer with his brothers and friends building a ring with parts from a metal shop he worked at. At 16 his desire to continue his craft professionally reached its boiling point and he told his parents he would run away to Mexico to train with the luchadors or to Canada to train at the Hart Dungeon. They calmed him down and found the local promotion Gateway Championship Wrestling.
in 2003 he went to the independent circuit where he became a fixture among the late 90’s early 2000’s generation . A generation influenced by the likes of Chris Jericho , Rey Mysterio , Eddie Guerrero intent on showing that they are what a wrestler looks like and fighting against what the stereotype of a pro wrestler is in pop culture since the 80’s. He became a tag team champ in ROH and wrestled in Dragon Gate in Japan in 2006 , also appearing on the MTV show Wrestling Society X
7 years into his career at 24 years old, renowned as a dynamic cruiserweight mixing Japanese & Mexican styles ,
he went to WWE to try out, he was told by John Laurinaitis that although he was very impressive WWE wasn’t hiring talent his size but Nova/ Simon Dean pulled his contract through and he was sent to OVW. Matt Sydal did not enjoy OVW, most of the people there weren’t wrestlers they were models and failed body builders who were playing wrestler . He was told he would be a cog in the machine to those big WWE-made guys, he rebelled against that and became world heavyweight champion there 3 months later .
He had to drop the championship because WWE cut ties with OVW and moved everyone to to FCW . While he was there he was chosen to train Floyd Mayweather for his Wrestlemania match with Big Show .
Independent wrestler named Biohazard asked Matt if he could get him a dark match in WWE, Matt couldn’t even get a dark match , so he saw WWE was gonna be in his hometown St. Louis Missouri and it was his younger brother’s graduation so he asked to be an extra , they told him they didn’t need him and not to come but he showed up anyway and they ended up using him . He had a match against Jamie Noble who he wrestled earlier in his career and was put on TV on ECW.
Matt had dealt with confidence issues his whole career and that got worse in WWE despite being well liked , becoming friends with his childhood idols Rey Mysterio , Ricky steamboat and Dean Malenko. Gaining the attention and praise of John Cena even tagging with him, main eventing raw twice and beating Chris Jericho twice , first by DQ but clean that weekend at the Fatal Fourway PPV in 2010, he defeated Chris Jericho clean in 12 minutes . He won the tag titles with his closest friend on the roster Kofi Kingston but he got suspended twice for smoking synthetic marijuana .
That was the other main problem in WWE was they marketed him wrong . He was portrayed as a white meat goody two shoes babyface when really he was more than that . He was this educated , athletic guy a girl could bring home to her parents while also being a free spirit who smoked weed and was into polyamory .
Matt was also overly humble and didn’t quite know himself, that’s a tough combo when you are already undersized, Vince McMahon is over 30 years older than you and doesn’t get you . After his suspensions , his career was derailed again when on his 29th birthday he was given a motorcycle and had an accident on it injuring his foot permanently in several places .
WWE allowed to heal a bit but fired him the following year . That weekend Matt went to the Peruvian jungle to a spiritual retreat where he became reborn , his love for wrestling increased 10 fold when it had to be juiced out of him by WWE and his attitude has completely changed , now he uses wrestling to spread his spiritual ideology of Buddhism .
At 38 years old with 20 years of experience Matt Sydal is regarded as the best American super junior style wrestler today . He has influenced many such as Seth Rollins, Ricochet and Will Ospreay. Moves he invented have been stolen from him by Melina , The Miz , Liv Morgan, Rich Swann and Cedric Alexander.
he has been praised by :
Jim Cornette
Jim Ross
Tazz
CM Punk
AJ Styles
Kevin Owens
Seth Rollins
Colt Cabana
Bret Hart
Chavo Guerrero
rey mysterio
Christian cage
edge
chris Jericho
The Miz
X Pac
Jushin Liger- innovator of the shooting star press
Matt Striker and Kevin Kelly have noted that Matt Sydal’s matches are their favorite to call as commentators .