Matthew Thomas "Matt" Morgan was born September 10, 1976, in Fairfield, Connecticut. He is an American professional wrestler, currently working for TNA Wrestling.
Matt originally played college basketball for Monmouth University, and was on the squad which made the 1996 NCAA Tournament, who lost to Marquette in the first round. After a change of coach, Morgan transferred to Chaminade University, from where he graduated. Matt had professional tryouts with the Indiana Pacers, but was eventually cut, and decided to pursue a career in pro wrestling.
Morgan debuted in TNA Wrestling on the August 7, 2007 episode of TNA Today, appearing briefly in the background of a segment featuring Eric Young and Jeremy Borash. On the August 9 episode of TNA Impact!, Matt appeared alongside TNA Management Director Jim Cornette, with TNA later identifying him as Cornette's "backup". Morgan was the Special Enforcer in the Samoa Joe and Christian Cage match at Bound for Glory, preventing Christian's Coalition from interfering as Joe gave Cage his first true defeat in TNA.
Matt had to restrain Tomko and A.J. Styles on the October 18 edition of Impact! when they tried interfering in the main event helping Christian defeat Samoa Joe in a Fight For The Right Qualifying match.
On the April 3, 2008 edition of TNA Impact!, it was revealed that Morgan allowed Team Tomko to add James Storm to their team, giving them a 5-4 advantage heading to Lockdown; however, at the end of the program, it was revealed that Matt himself had joined Team Cage. The next week, Jim Cornette relieved Morgan of his assistant duties to become a full time wrestler. With Matt joining Team Cage he has established himself as a face. Because of his wrestling abilities, Morgan has developed the nickname "The Blueprint". Matt was teamed up with Kip James at Sacrifice as a result of the Deuces Wild Tournament. They failed to win the tag titles as James and Morgan couldn't get along long enough. On July 10 2008, he participated in a 6 man tag team match.
On the July 17 edition of TNA Impact Matt faced and defeated Jimmy Rave in about less than 2 minutes. Then the other member of the Rock and Rave Infection, Lance Hoyt (who had changed his name to Lance Rock) challenged him to a match right there. Morgan accepted, and the ref rung the bell. Matt then defeated him in about the same exact time. On the 31 July episode of iMPACT!, he issued a challenge to Tomko as he harrassed Karen Angle on her TNA talk show, Karen's Angle. He defeated him after a HellEvator (Vertical suplex side slam).
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