By James Caldwell, Torch assistant editor

TNA wrestler Matt Morgan covered a number of TNA subjects in an interview with Jim Varsallone of the Miami Herald following this week's marathon PPV/TV tapings in Orlando, Fla. The interview is worth reading in its entirety. The following are key highlights.

-- Morgan said he nearly broke down crying on-camera following his TNA tag title victory with Hernandez at the Genesis PPV because his father was recently diagnosed with brain cancer. Morgan said his father "waited eight long years to see me win a title" and he's not in good shape right now.

Morgan said he was in a fragile state of mind going into the PPV. "I'm still a team player, and I'm thinking I don't want to ruin the pay-per-view by breaking down. They said, 'You're not going to ruin it. That's who you are. That's emotion we can't write for you, Matt. So if you do it, you do it. If you don't, you don't.'"

-- Morgan said some wrestlers have advised him to jump to WWE while he's hot as a big man in the wrestling business who recently main-evented TNA PPVs. Morgan said he won't because he's loyal to TNA and president Dixie Carter.

"People that think they know what's best for my career, like I don't, apparently, will beg and plead with me to go back to WWE. They think I'm crazy for not doing it and why wouldn't I do it especially right now while I'm hot," Morgan said. "Well, it's because of things like that, what Dixie Carter did for me. Physically, I would run through that wall for her, if she told me to. I really would. You can't put a price tag on that. You can not. I'm so emotionally invested. She's a good person."

-- Morgan said he was initially concerned about being teamed with Hernandez on TV after his singles push, but he believes TNA is building toward a "money match" down the road when they inevitably split apart.

"When I was told I was teaming with Herandez, I said, 'Okay, where are we going with this?'" Morgan said. "We have a lot of similarities. We are both big strong guys who are athletic. We do a lot of finesse moves, plus power moves. ... One day that's a money match. That's a Bound for Glory, Super Bowl type match. We're both competitors. The athlete in me looks forward to it, and same with him, and that's why I like him. That's why we're friends, but right now, we are the tag team champs, and that's are focus."

-- Morgan showed he knows who butters his bread, as he talked up Hulk Hogan in the interview. Morgan stated his opinion that Hogan was "one of the most over big man babyfaces" of all-time in wrestling and he wants to learn from Hogan in order to one day handle the pressure of being a headline star carrying a company.

"If you don't want to pick Hulk Hogan's brain, you really need to have your head examined and quit the business now because you just don't want to be a headline star," Morgan said. "You just don't. You don't want the pressure of the company on your shoulders. Otherwise you'd be picking his brain because no one's ever had a company on his shoulders more than him."

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