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[oldschoolrules]

When he debuted on Smackdown 2 years ago, I thought that he had a lot of potential as a big man, decent mic skills and had a pretty cool finishing move.  But then he was released over a year ago and I haven't heard anything about him since.  He would seem to be a good fit in TNA possibly as a bodyguard for AJ Styles.  Then they can recreate the Diesel/Shawn Michaels pairing further establishing Styles as a main-eventer while also elevating Morgan to eventually feud with him.  Where is wrestling now and has he improved in the ring since his WWE release?

[LShunter]

Jim Cornette had always praised Morgan's work ethic and willingness to learn, and he had pushed for TNA to hire him a few months ago. However, they didn't. How else can they afford to pay Fat Naked Oily Guy?

[jawhnb74]

It's funny I was just thinking about him yesterday and remembered Cornette being high on him. I remember in the Observer OVW reports they talked about how he was improving and they did a mask gimmick with him as Blueprint. Didn't he have some sort of crazy finisher? I didn't think he was thaaaat bad.

[rzombie1988]

He's in HUSTLE now.

[PMO]

He's starting back in Italy in 2 weeks for Nu Evolution Wrestling

[El Daniel]

jawhnb74, on Feb 12 2007, 03:50 PM, said:

It's funny I was just thinking about him yesterday and remembered Cornette being high on him. I remember in the Observer OVW reports they talked about how he was improving and they did a mask gimmick with him as Blueprint. Didn't he have some sort of crazy finisher? I didn't think he was thaaaat bad.

On the finisher front, I think it was a vertical suplex turned Chokeslam that did indeed look killer. I liked Matt, and someone his size with solid talent and a good look should have been a solid midcarder at min. Don't get why the E stuck him with taht studdering gimmick

[Eivion Thanotos]

I don't know how he was before, but when I saw him in AJPW he sucked.

[BrianS81177]

Eivion Thanotos, on Feb 12 2007, 11:55 PM, said:

I don't know how he was before, but when I saw him in AJPW he sucked.

I saw one AJPW match he had which sucked but in his defense he was matched up against Arashi who is a black hole

[Eivion Thanotos]

Same match I saw to be honest, but I have heard other mention how much he sucked in his tags with RO&D.

[jayman]

Basically Morgan had the audacity to learn how to cut a good promo in OVW. He also had the problem of Cornette being so high on him, at a time when Cornette wasn't liked. It's basically the same thing Mike Knox is/was going through with Paul Heyman.

[SorceressKnight]

Still does seem surprising why TNA or WWE won't give him a shot right now- especially considering the track record (when Cornette says that they'll main event Wrestlemania in 5 years and both his other two people anointed as such [The Rock and Batista] both hit that goal, you'd expect that would be enough for TNA to snap him up or WWE to resign him...)

[Cool Arrow]

rzombie1988, on Feb 12 2007, 05:04 PM, said:

He's in HUSTLE now.

He is?  What's his gimmick?

[Chester_Copperpot]

Didn’t Morgan and Jindrak team together in HUSTLE in a team called “Sodom and Gomorra”?

[Eivion Thanotos]

Yes

[Kaptain Kayfabe]

I don't get why Morgan was cut either... JR was supposedly in love with the dude. Plus he fits the whole 300+ pounds 6'5"+ mold... and he wasn't a bad worker or horrible promo either. The stuttering gimmick was bad, though.

[tomk]

I thought he was clearly better than Masters. And on his first Japan tour was clearly better than Haas. Neither of which is high praise. But all that said he  is a guy who looked credible standing toe to toe with The Big Show. He is far too tall for TNA.

[oldschoolrules]

As I mentioned before, since TNA doesn't have any wrestlers his size I think that he would make a great addition.  Instead of putting AJ Styles with Christian's stable, I think that he would be better off alone with a bodyguard ala Diesel with Shawn Michaels and Morgan would be a perfect fit.  Then Styles would not only be a main event star but he can also eventually elevate Morgan.  Then I could see Morgan feuding with guys like Samoa Joe and Abyss in the main event picture where he can have a match vs. Joe titled "The immovable object vs. the unstoppable force".  TNA should take the book from Russo and give it to me.

[The Natural]

Novacain, on Feb 12 2007, 11:25 PM, said:

jawhnb74, on Feb 12 2007, 03:50 PM, said:

It's funny I was just thinking about him yesterday and remembered Cornette being high on him. I remember in the Observer OVW reports they talked about how he was improving and they did a mask gimmick with him as Blueprint. Didn't he have some sort of crazy finisher? I didn't think he was thaaaat bad.

On the finisher front, I think it was a vertical suplex turned Chokeslam that did indeed look killer. I liked Matt, and someone his size with solid talent and a good look should have been a solid midcarder at min. Don't get why the E stuck him with taht studdering gimmick

I thought it was turned into a Rock Bottom?

[sockjock]

I'm probably one of the only people that liked the stuttering gimmick. It made him less generic.

[Triple Haitch]

WWE did fire A-Train, Chuck Palumbo, and Test around that time period too, so maybe they weren't as high on big guys then

Also the finisher he used for awhile did end in a Sidewalk Slam type move

He's probably in the same boat as someone like D'lo Brown in that he is making enough off Japan/doesn't fit into TNA's schedule