Sydal lost the title to Delirious on June 26, 2004. He won his first championship, the IWA Mid-South Light Heavyweight Championship, on January 17, 2004, by defeating J.C. Korklan debuted in Independent Wrestling Association Mid-South (IWA Mid-South) in November 2003, combining two of his old ring names into a new one, Matt Sydal. Operation: Shamrock maintained a feud with the villainous Ministry of Hate faction, led by Nikki Strychnine. In addition, Korklan and fellow stable member Billy McNeil formed a tag team. In 2003, Korklan (now known as Matt, forgoing a surname) formed a stable in GCW, known as Operation: Shamrock. Prior to this, Korklan had briefly wrestled as Lance Sydal in the backyard wrestling promotion, Saint Peters Wrestling Organization.
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After three months of training, Korklan began wrestling for GCW in October 2000, becoming the first person under the age of 18 to receive a wrestler's license in Missouri. Louis, Missouri-based Gateway Championship Wrestling (GCW) promotion. While a senior in high school, Korklan began training with the St. Korklan was on his high school wrestling team, he did Taekwondo when he was younger as well.
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Professional wrestling career Training and independent circuit (2000–2007)
1.13 All Elite Wrestling (2020–present).1.11.2 Alliance with Ethan Page and departure (2018–2019).1.8 Return to the independent circuit (2014–2019).1.4 Dragon Gate and Wrestling Society X (2006–2007).1.2 Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2004–2005).1.1 Training and independent circuit (2000–2007).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. Beginning in 2005, he wrestled for Dragon Gate in Japan, and won the Open the Brave Gate Championship in early 2007. He also wrestled for the short-lived Wrestling Society X. Korklan has also wrestled on the independent circuit, for promotions including NWA Midwest, IWA-Mid South, winning both singles and tag team championships. 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.
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. Prior to signing with AEW, Sydal wrestled in WWE as Evan Bourne, and was a one-time WWE Tag Team Champion, with Kofi Kingston. Matthew Joseph Korklan (born March 19, 1983), better known by the ring name Matt Sydal, is an American professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW).