Key Highlights
- Although many people believed he never really got his due, he certainly showed he’s a guy who can get himself over no matter how much or little time and opportunity he may have been afforded. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementLong-time fans will know Matt was an early adopter of YouTube, using his own channel to tell deeper stories about himself and what wrestling means to him.
- Matt constantly thought of ways to help himself, even if he was bumping into a glass ceiling at WWE. History kind of forgets that when Matt was part of that massive WWE COVID-era talent cull, he was initially lost in the mix.
- He had a two-date gig with AEW, Cody Rhodes helped bring him in, and while many expected him to sign there, for whatever reason it was underwhelming and that was it. Matt was left kicking around until — and Matt will be the first to tell you this — his wife Chelsea Green (another one of the industry’s good people) told him, “You should take every booking.
- It should feel like you are everywhere, all the time, and could appear in any promotion.”Matt took that idea and crushed it.
- He did “anti-Zack Ryder” matches and became the Death Match King in GCW, which Matt is so rightly proud of. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementWe brought Matt (and Chelsea) in regularly for TNA.
