Matthew Clement is a Canadian professional wrestler and trainer. He is best known for his work with WWE as Tyler Breeze. He was one-half of Breezango. He is a former WWE NXT Tag Team Champion.
In 2007, Clement made his wrestling debut at Power Zone Wrestling. He spent his early years wrestling for several Canadian promotions as Mattias Wild before moving to the American wrestling scene.
In 2010, Clement signed a deal with WWE and worked for FCW. During his time in FCW, Clement won the FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship and FCW Florida Tag Team Championship. After FCW's rebranding to NXT, Clement began working for NXT. In 2013, Clement created a new character called Tyler Breeze and began winning matches.
In 2014, Breeze was involved in more prominent storylines, and championship matches but failed to win. In May, Breeze defeated Sami Zayn to win the contenders match for the NXT Championship but lost in the title match. At TakeOver Unstoppable, Breeze lost to Finn Balor. At TakeOver Brooklyn, Jushin Thunder Liger defeated Breeze.
In October, Breeze made his main roster debut. In November, Breeze defeated Dolph Ziggler at Survivor Series. Breeze spent his time in various matches before WrestleMania 32. After Mania, they drafted Breeze to SmackDown and formed a team with Fandango called Breezango. The team became quite popular and earned several championship matches on RAW and SmackDown. However, they failed to accomplish a major title on the main roster. After WrestleMania 34, they sent Breeze and Fandango back to NXT and Fandango suffered an injury.
In 2019, Breeze began working full-time with NXT. He restarted his singles journey on NXT, where he feuded with Velveteen Dream. At TakeOver XXX, he lost to Velveteen Dream in a match for the North American Championship. In July, Fandango made his return and reunited with Breeze. They defeated several teams such as Forgotten Sons, Imperium, Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch, The Undisputed Era, and Legado del Fantasma.
In 2020, they defeated Imperium to win the NXT Tag Team Championship. In October, they lost the titles to Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch. After the loss, they entered the 2021 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic but lost in the first round. In June, they were released from their contracts.
Tyler Breeze‘s real name is Matthew Clement.
*Updated on 10th December, 2022
