MATT MORGAN (Courtesy of Google Images)
"I got into the pro-wrestling for one reason and that's to be the top dog and to be the World Champion. I know it sounds like a saying or a catch-phrase but this is what I truly believe. I came out of my mom's womb a future world's champion. And I'm sick of waiting." -Matt Morgan courtesy of SLAM WRESTLING.
Matt Morgan stands at seven feet tall and weighs 330 pounds and he is a former 2-time TNA tag-team champion. He is a former American Gladiator and has all the confidence in the world (as you can see from the quote above) to be a world champion.
So the big question is: Why has this man never been a world champion?
The answer is simple: TNA Impact Wrestling didn't want him to be the star of the company
Let's go back in time shall we? It was the summer of 2009 leading into TNA's October PPV, "Bound For Glory," Matt Morgan had joined a group called The Main Event Mafia consisting of Booker T, Scott Steiner, Kevin Nash, and led by Kurt Angle who was the World Champion at the time. Morgan was promised full-time membership in the group but never received it and realized that he was just being used as hired muscle to help Angle fend off challenges from Sting and AJ Styles.
This led to Morgan confronting Kurt Angle and a scheduled match at "Bound For Glory." You would expect it to be for the title since this is "TNA's biggest Pay-Per-View" but AJ Styles defeated Kurt Angle for the belt in September of 2009 and fought Sting that year at, "Bound For Glory."
Kurt Angle would go on to defeat Morgan in a great match that showed Morgan's potential as a main-eventer. But I think that was all wrong. Had Kurt Angle vs. Matt Morgan been for the World title and Morgan won, he could have played the young, brash, arrogant, bully, champion who thought he was the greatest ever. His challengers could have been Angle, Sting, AJ Styles, and Samoa Joe.
In November 2010, Morgan got a shot at Jeff Hardy but Hardy won because he was a bigger star than Morgan. The fans were behind Morgan but TNA wanted Jeff Hardy to be the "face" of the company but that backfired due to Hardy's problems with drugs.
Kevin Kelly wrote a great piece on the WWE about when guys there get a chance to shine, you can read it here. Kevin Kelly says that all WWE Superstars have their time on the "wheel" and some go from comedy acts to champions over the years.
TNA hasn't let stars like Matt Morgan shine and now they're paying for it. Ratings are low and the hardcore fans aren't excited about the product.
With TNA and their lackluster booking you never know what will happen. Matt Morgan may be sick of waiting, but who knows when his time at the top will come.
Class Dismissed,
THE PROFESSOR
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