John Morrison (wrestler) - Wikipedia. John Randall Hennigan[1] (born October 3, 1. American professional wrestler, actor and traceur, who currently wrestles for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide and Lucha Underground under the ring name. Johnny Mundo and for Impact Wrestling under the ring name Johnny Impact. He is also known for his tenure in WWE where he used the ring names John Morrison and Johnny Nitro. Hennigan was the winner of Tough Enough III, a televised competition that would award the winner a WWE contract, and was assigned to their developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), to continue his wrestling training. While in OVW, he adopted the ring name Johnny Nitro and was placed in a tag team with Joey Mercury.
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The duo won the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship and alongside their manager. Melina, the stable was called MNM. MNM was called up to the Smack. Down! roster and on their debut match in April 2. Hennigan and Mercury won the WWE Tag Team Championship. After the stable split, Hennigan won the ECW World Championship and his ring name changed to John Morrison.
He then formed a partnership with The Miz in late 2. WWE Tag Team Championship and the World Tag Team Championship on separate occasions, as well as winning the 2. Tag Team of the Year Slammy Award.
After leaving WWE in November 2. Hennigan began wrestling overseas on the independent circuit before wrestling in lucha libre professional wrestling promotions Lucha Underground and Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide. In Lucha Underground, Hennigan won the main event of the debut episode, as well as the first ladder match and steel cage match in the promotion's history.
He is also the second Triple Crown Champion in the company's history, having held the Lucha Underground Championship, the Gift of the Gods Championship and the Lucha Underground Trios Championship once each. In AAA, he (with partners Chavo Guerrero Jr. Brian Cage) won the 2. Lucha Libre World Cup, and is currently the reigning AAA Mega Champion as well as a former AAA Latin American and AAA World Cruiserweight Champion (being the first in history to hold the three titles simultaneously). Between WWE and AAA, Hennigan has held a dozen total championships including two world championships (ECW World, AAA Mega). Professional wrestling career[edit]World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment/WWE[edit]Tough Enough and early appearances (2. Before getting into professional wrestling, Hennigan attended the University of California, Davis studying both film and geology.[1.
Upon deciding that he did not want to pursue either path, Hennigan began his professional wrestling career training at the Supreme Pro Wrestling school in Sacramento, California.[8] After failing his audition for Tough Enough 2,[1. World Wrestling Federation contract, he was accepted as a cast member for Tough Enough III in 2. Matt Cappotelli.[1. For winning, Hennigan was awarded a developmental contract and assigned to their developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), to continue his training.[1. Hennigan competed in the Acolytes Protection Agency's invitational Bar Room Brawl match at Vengeance in July 2. Hennigan and Cappotelli made an appearance on an episode of Heat in January 2.
Garrison Cade and Mark Jindrak in a tag team match.[2]On March 1, 2. Hennigan debuted on the Rawbrand under the ring name "Johnny Blaze". His gimmick was that he was the apprentice and assistant of the Raw General Manager, Eric Bischoff.[1. The next week his name was changed to "Johnny Spade",[1. Johnny Nitro".[1. The Nitro name, which finally stuck, was a reference to WCW Monday Nitro, the flagship show of World Championship Wrestling for which Bischoff had previously worked.
To drive the point home, he began using the Nitro theme as his ring entrance music.[2. Nitro acted as Bischoff's apprentice and assistant until June, when he was sent back to OVW. To explain his departure, Nitro lost a match on June 7 episode of Raw against Eugene, which carried the stipulation that upon his loss, he also lost his job.[2. Upon his return to OVW, Nitro was put into a feud with his former partner Matt Cappotelli. Watch Darkroom Streaming more. During the course of the feud Melina was brought into the company as Nitro's ex- girlfriend and an ally of Cappotelli, only to turn on him and side with Nitro.
Not long after, Nitro and Melina were joined by Joey Mercury, forming the stable. MNM.[2. 2] MNM wrestled in OVW for around a year, holding the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship once, before losing the titles to Cappotelli and Johnny Jeter in January 2. They were soon called up to the main Smack. Down! roster in April that same year.[2][2. Championship reigns (2.
In their debut match on the main roster, MNM won the WWE Tag Team Championship from Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero.[2. MNM held the titles for three months, having successful titles defenses against the teams of Mysterio and Guerrero and Hardcore Holly and Charlie Haas, before dropping them to the Legion of Doom (LOD) at The Great American Bash.[2][2. They won the titles again in a four- way match defeating The Mexicools, William Regal and Paul Burchill, and LOD,[2][2. Mysterio and Batista days before Armageddon in December.[2] Due to help from Mark Henry, MNM defeated Mysterio and Batista in a rematch on December 3. They began a rivalry with the team of Paul London and Brian Kendrick that lasted over three months,[2.
London and Kendrick at Judgment Day in May 2. Nitro and Melina suddenly turning on Mercury after the match, breaking up the group.[3.
Later that night, Melina and Nitro were booked off the Smack. Down! brand by having the General Manager, Theodore Long, "fire" them.[3. The next week, Nitro, along with Melina, debuted on the Raw brand in a loss to WWE Champion.
John Cena.[3. 2] Nitro was immediately placed in the WWE Intercontinental Championship picture, beginning his first reign at Vengeance in June after defeating champion Shelton Benjamin in a triple threat match also involving Carlito.[3. Nitro held the belt for four months, feuding with several challengers before losing it to Jeff Hardy on October 2 episode of Raw.[3. Nitro then engaged in a feud with Hardy. Nitro recaptured the Intercontinental Championship from Hardy on November 6 when the General Manager for the night, Eric Bischoff, restarted a match that Nitro lost by disqualification.[3. The next week, however, Hardy won the title back.[3. In addition, Nitro was also in a sporadic feud with John Cena throughout the second half of 2. The feud was unique in that it also later involved non- wrestler Kevin Federline, who appeared on October 1.
Raw.[3. 6] Federline was then, in storyline, trained by Nitro for a match with Cena, which he won after interference from Umaga.[3. ECW World Champion (2.
In November, MNM reunited on an episode of Raw to accept an open challenge from The Hardys (Jeff and Matt Hardy) at December to Dismember, a match that they lost.[3. MNM and the Hardys feuded across the brands throughout December, with the feud intensifying after Mercury was legitimately injured at Armageddon in a four- way ladder match.[4. Mercury wrestled Matt on Smack. Down!, while Nitro continued to feud with Jeff for the Intercontinental Championship on Raw, including a steel cage match at New Year's Revolution.[4.
MNM lost to The Hardys at the Royal Rumble, and again at No Way Out in February which ended the feud.[4. MNM continued on and off as a team until Mercury was released from WWE in March 2. After being drafted to the ECW brand, Nitro won the ECW World Championship and subsequently changed his ring name to John Morrison. Without Mercury, Nitro's association with Melina was played down as she began competing for the WWE Women's Championship.[4. Nitro was paired up with Kenny Dykstra,[4.
WWE Draft, during which Nitro was sent to the ECW brand and Dykstra was sent to Smack. Down![5. 0]Johnny Nitro made his ECW debut on June 1. Nunzio,[5. 1] and few days later, on June 2.