Former WWE Star Matt Morgan had a conversation with Chris Van Vliet on a number of topics such as how there were plans for him to return to the WWE in the 2014 Men's Royal Rumble Match, but he turned the WWE down due to the birth of his son a number of weeks prior.
Matt Morgan said:
“I would have had that chance when I was supposed to go back and re-debut with them [in] 2014, January 2014. The Royal Rumble. I was going to be The Blueprint finally on WWE TV, not TNA. But my son Jackson was born January 7. And that was something that my wife and I had been praying on for 12 straight years, we went through eight rounds of IVF, none of them worked. And by the grace of God, she naturally got pregnant, the biggest thing for me in my life ever, ever! And so when he was born, and I held him for the first time, this switch went off in my head, I’m done. I’m not going back on the road, I need to be a dad and I need to be home here every night, you know, with my son.”
Matt Morgan also talked about how his son was diagnosed with nonverbal autism a few years later.
Matt Morgan said:
“And like I’ve said many times that ended up being the right decision because just, you know, almost three short years later, a little bit under three years later, Jackson was diagnosed as being nonverbal autistic. So again, it’s a tag team, between me and my wife, on being able to take care of him and do the listening and the myriad things we have to do every single day before he goes to school after he goes to school. All the therapy needs, you know, getting them in the right charter school, that all those different things that are very important. But let’s say it never happened. I was on track to be re-debuting for Royal Rumble 2014 that January. And so I called them up. I told them what happened.”
You can check out Matt Morgan's comments at this link. H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.
