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Post by mysterydriver on Jul 29, 2007 18:15:07 GMT -5
TNA has asked for Matt Morgan to attend the tapings tomorrow night in Orlando, Fl. Sources indicate that TNA has huge plans for Morgan.
At this time we do not know whether or not Morgan will be available for the tapings tomorrow night due to flight delays regarding his return trip from Japan.
This news falls in line with the announcement by TNA that “we can expect new and recognizable faces in TNA in the coming weeks”.
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I hope Morgan makes it.
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Post by Parrish on Jul 29, 2007 18:16:37 GMT -5
Last time I saw him was during his run with Nathan Jones and he was jacked
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Post by The Line on Jul 29, 2007 18:19:28 GMT -5
I love MOrgan from an in-ring stand point. He has all the tools to be a good main eventer. He just needs a gimmick that won't make him a joke. Corny is HUGE on the guy,so I think he'll be treated nicely
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2007 18:21:20 GMT -5
Hopefully he gets a good gimmick this time, he had potential while in WWE so I can see him going far in TNA.
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Post by Hulk With A Mustache on Jul 29, 2007 18:23:19 GMT -5
I love MOrgan from an in-ring stand point. He has all the tools to be a good main eventer. He just needs a gimmick that won't make him a joke. Corny is HUGE on the guy,so I think he'll be treated nicely Didn't Cornette say that he would be headlining WrestleMania in a few years? And, that's not a burn on Morgan, as Cornette also said the samething about Batista and John Cena; and he was right.
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Post by Michael Coello on Jul 29, 2007 18:29:21 GMT -5
Will it be Matt Morgan debuting or Sodom/Gamorrah?
And it would be good to get a guy like Morgan in there.
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Post by The Line on Jul 29, 2007 18:32:14 GMT -5
I love Morgan from an in-ring stand point. He has all the tools to be a good main eventer. He just needs a gimmick that won't make him a joke. Corny is HUGE on the guy,so I think he'll be treated nicely Didn't Cornette say that he would be headlining WrestleMania in a few years? And, that's not a burn on Morgan, as Cornette also said the samething about Batista and John Cena; and he was right. Yep. Morgan could be a guy to really turn things around for TNA(if they push him well, with an original gimmick)
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Post by MGH on Jul 29, 2007 18:34:31 GMT -5
Hopefully for TNA's sake they use him. The guy has money written all over him.
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Post by Kash Flagg on Jul 29, 2007 18:44:37 GMT -5
I don't think Morgan is gonna turn things around, but I think he's a solid big guy and it's definitely a good person to have on the roster.
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Post by HMARK Center on Jul 29, 2007 18:50:10 GMT -5
Solid pickup if they get him.
But, damn! Morgan, Tomko, ALBERT/Bernard...TNA's gettin' some bigguns in there. At least they're talented big guys.
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Post by Square on Jul 29, 2007 18:54:36 GMT -5
Has he been a world champion in Japan?
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Post by EvilMasterBetty, Esq. on Jul 29, 2007 18:56:18 GMT -5
I love MOrgan from an in-ring stand point. He has all the tools to be a good main eventer. He just needs a gimmick that won't make him a joke. Corny is HUGE on the guy,so I think he'll be treated nicely Didn't Cornette say that he would be headlining WrestleMania in a few years? And, that's not a burn on Morgan, as Cornette also said the samething about Batista and John Cena; and he was right. i believe it was actually Lesnar he said it about, but yeah he was right. Morgan is definitely one of the better big man workers, and unlike abyss, he's legitimately huge. i have no problem with all the big guys if they would go back to pushing the x-division title and world title equally and keep the smaller x-guys there.
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Post by Chucklehead,baby!!! on Jul 29, 2007 19:28:59 GMT -5
yea matt morgan is HUGE. i remember him on tough enoguh and hes like "yea both my parents are over 6'3'' "
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Post by EJS on Jul 29, 2007 19:42:15 GMT -5
I saw him live last year. The guy is gigantic.
He was yelling at the crowd about how he was going to go to TNA and be a big star soon, that was a year ago...
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Post by JMA on Jul 29, 2007 20:11:42 GMT -5
He needs to drop the "Matt" part of his name if he wants to get over as a monster. He needs something more menacing for a name. Maybe he can keep the last name with a menacing M word (Mauler, Monster, Mangler, ect) in front of it.
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Post by Agent P on Jul 29, 2007 20:15:19 GMT -5
I don't know, but I just don't like him for some reason. It has nothing to do with the stuttering gimmick (even though that was incredibly annoying).
Cornette was also really high on Doug Bashem, so not everything is a guarentee because Cornette likes someone.
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Post by kingoftheindies on Jul 29, 2007 20:34:37 GMT -5
I don't know, but I just don't like him for some reason. It has nothing to do with the stuttering gimmick (even though that was incredibly annoying). Cornette was also really high on Doug Bashem, so not everything is a guarentee because Cornette likes someone. to be fair to Cornette, Basham and Damaja were both money in OVW and looked like they could be big, but they were brought up as a tag team that got whipped by Shaniqua. Some guys just need improvement, Giant Bernard has improved leaps and bounds in Japan since he was last seen in WWE, same with Tomko. Funny what a tour of Japan can do for ya.
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Post by KLRA on Jul 30, 2007 2:22:22 GMT -5
You know I've always seen money written all over Tomko as a tag team specialist to a smaller guy because he just has that natural badass look. Plus him and Christian have insane levels of charisma together.
Morgan could do great things for TNA as well. I would be really interested to see if they brought in Giant Bernard as well too, because that could lead to all sorts of awesomeness.
Now of course if the booking is A-Game Retarded, then none of this will matter.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 30, 2007 9:18:33 GMT -5
I might even say Tomko and Christian, if hand;ed well, could be this generation's HBK and Diesel. Well, hopefully a little smoother.
Does Morgan still use the F-5 like he does in Japan?
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Post by jobber2thestars on Jul 30, 2007 11:31:30 GMT -5
He needs to drop the "Matt" part of his name if he wants to get over as a monster. He needs something more menacing for a name. Maybe he can keep the last name with a menacing M word (Mauler, Monster, Mangler, ect) in front of it. I like that idea, it kinda has a Bruiser Brody feel to it. Like an earlier poster said, Morgan isn't going to turn TNA into competition for the WWE, but he is the type of guy TNA needs. A big man with good in ring ability.
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