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John Hennigan
Born (1979-10-03) October 3, 1979 (age 44)[1]
Los Angeles, California[2]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)John Hennigan[3]
Johnny Blaze[1]
John Morrison[3][1]
Johnny Nitro[3][1]
Johnny Onyx[4]
Johnny Spade[3]
Johnny Superstar[5]
Billed height6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[6]
Billed weight219 lb (99 kg)[6]
Trained bySPW staff[4]
Tough Enough III trainers[1]
OVW staff[1]
DebutJanuary 27, 2003[3]

John Randall Hennigan[8] (born October 3, 1979)[3][1] is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring names John Morrison and Johnny Nitro.[1] He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) performing on their ECW brand.[6] He appears on the Raw and SmackDown brands due to the ECW talent exchange with the two brands.

Before being promoted to the main WWE roster, Hennigan entered the third season of Tough Enough, a televised competition that would award the winner a WWE contract. He was one of the winners in the competition and assigned to their developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), to continue his wrestling training. While situated at OVW, he was placed in tag team competition, alongside Joey Mercury, in which they won the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship on one occasion. It was also during this time that he and Mercury, alongside their manager Melina, were known as the stable MNM.

After signing with WWE, the group were called up to the SmackDown! roster and on their debut in April 2005, Hennigan and Mercury went on to win the WWE Tag Team Championship. After their third and final reign ended in May 2006, Hennigan and Melina turned on Mercury. Hennigan and Melina were let go from the SmackDown! roster and debuted on the Raw brand. During his time with the brand, Hennigan competed in singles competition and won the Intercontinental Championship twice. In June 2007 he was drafted from Raw to the ECW brand, and during that time, he won the vacant ECW Championship. Since then, Hennigan has formed a partnership with The Miz, with the two capturing the WWE Tag Team Championship and the World Tag Team Championship on separate occasions.

Career

Tough Enough

Before getting into professional wrestling, Hennigan attended the University of California at Davis studying both film and geology.[2] Upon deciding that he did not want to pursue either path, he began his professional wrestling career training at the Supreme Pro Wrestling school.[4] After failing his audition for the second series,[9] he was accepted as a cast member for the third season of the WWE/MTV reality show WWE Tough Enough in 2002, eventually becoming the co-winner with Matt Cappotelli.[10] For winning, he was awarded a WWE developmental contract and assigned to WWE's "developmental territory" Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) to continue his training.[11] Hennigan competed in the "Bar Room Brawl" match at the Vengeance pay-per-view in July 2003.[1] Hennigan and Cappotelli made an appearance on an episode of Heat in January 2004, losing to Garrison Cade and Mark Jindrak in a tag team match.[1]

World Wrestling Entertainment (2004–present)

Bischoff's assistant and apprentice

On March 1, 2004 Hennigan debuted on the Raw brand under the ring name "Johnny Blaze". His gimmick was that he was the apprentice and assistant of the Raw General Manager, Eric Bischoff.[12] The next week his name was changed to "Johnny Spade",[13] and three weeks after that it was changed to "Johnny Nitro".[14] The Nitro name, which finally stuck, was a reference to Monday Nitro, the flagship show of World Championship Wrestling for which Bischoff had previously worked, and to drive the point home he began using the Nitro theme as his ring entrance music.[15] Nitro acted as Bischoff's apprentice and assistant until June, when he was sent back to OVW. To explain his departure he lost a match on the June 7 episode of Raw against Eugene, which carried the stipulation that upon his loss, he also lost his job.[16]

MNM

Upon his return to OVW he was put into a feud with his former partner Matt Cappotelli. During the course of the feud Melina was brought in to 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 faction "MNM".[17] MNM wrestled in OVW for around a year, holding the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship once, before being called up to the main SmackDown! roster in April 2005.[1][18]

Nitro (left), Melina (center) and Mercury (right) as WWE Tag Team Champions

In their first match for the brand they won the WWE Tag Team Championship from Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero.[19][20] They 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 new Legion of Doom (LOD) at The Great American Bash.[1][21] They won the titles again in a four-way match defeating The Mexicools, William Regal and Paul Burchill, and LOD,[1][22] but lost them to Mysterio and Batista days before the Armageddon pay-per-view in December.[1] Due to help from Mark Henry, they defeated Mysterio and Batista in a rematch on December 30 to win the Championship for the third time.[1][23] They began a rivalry with the team of Paul London and Brian Kendrick that lasted over three months,[24] until they dropped the championship to London and Kendrick at May's Judgment Day, with the storyline leading to Nitro and Melina suddenly turning on Mercury after the match, breaking up the group.[25] Later that night, Melina and Nitro were booked off the SmackDown! brand by having the General Manager, Theodore Long, "fire" them.[26]

Raw and Intercontinental Champion

The next week Nitro, along with Melina, debuted on the Raw brand in a loss to WWE Champion John Cena.[27] He was immediately placed in the WWE Intercontinental Championship picture, beginning his first reign at June's Vengeance pay-per-view with a win over champion Shelton Benjamin in a Triple Threat match also involving Carlito.[26] He held the belt, the first singles title of his career, for four months, feuding with several challengers before losing it to Jeff Hardy on the October 2 episode of Raw.[28] Nitro recaptured the Intercontinental title from Hardy on November 6 when the General Manager for the night, Eric Bischoff, restarted a match that Nitro lost by disqualification.[29] The very next week, however, Hardy won the title back.[30]

In addition, he was featured in a sporadic feud with John Cena throughout 2006. The feud was unique in that it also involved non-wrestler Kevin Federline, who appeared on the October 16 episode of Raw from Los Angeles.[31] Federline was then, in storyline, trained by Nitro for a January 1, 2007 match with Cena, which he won after interference from Umaga.[32]

In November, MNM reunited on an episode of Raw to accept an "open challenge" from The Hardys (Matt and Jeff) for the ECW December to Dismember pay-per-view, a match that they lost.[33][34] 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.[35][36] Mercury wrestled Matt on SmackDown!, while Nitro continued to feud with Jeff for the Intercontinental Championship on Raw, including a steel cage match at the Raw pay-per-view event New Year's Revolution.[37] MNM lost to The Hardys at the Royal Rumble, and again at the No Way Out pay-per-view in February which ended the feud.[38][39] MNM continued on and off as a unit until Mercury was released from WWE in March 2007.[40]

Without Mercury, Nitro's association with Melina was played down as she began competing for the WWE Women's Championship.[41][42] Nitro was paired up with Kenny Dykstra,[43][44] until the annual WWE draft, during which Nitro was sent to the ECW brand and Dykstra to SmackDown!.[45]

ECW and ECW Champion

John Morrison as the ECW Champion.

He made his ECW debut on June 19 with a win over Nunzio,[46] and the next week, at Vengeance, took the vacant ECW World Championship in a match against CM Punk, when he was called upon to replace the missing Chris Benoit.[47]

A few weeks after getting the title, Nitro's name was changed to John Morrison and his gimmick was tweaked to be even more conceited and self-aggrandizing,[48] modeled after Jim Morrison, to whom Hennigan bears a resemblance.[49] After defeating CM Punk again at the Great American Bash,[50] he began taking part in a "15 Minutes of Fame" segment on the weekly ECW on Sci Fi television program, where if a wrestler could either defeat him or last 15 minutes without being defeated, they would earn a title shot. The first wrestler to do so was CM Punk,[51] which set up another match between the two at SummerSlam, which Morrison won by illegally using the ring ropes for leverage.[52] The next week, Punk again became the number one contender;[53] this time, however, Punk won the Championship at the September 1 television taping in Cincinnati, Ohio.[54] Hennigan was then suspended for 30 days for violating WWE's Wellness Program,[55] renewing his feud with Punk upon his return, as well as competing against The Miz for the number one contendership to the title.[56][57][58]

Teaming with The Miz

Morrison (right), with The Miz (left) as World Tag Team Champions and with their Slammy Awards.

Though rivals, Morrison and The Miz teamed together on the November 16 episode of SmackDown!, which was taped on November 13, and were booked to take the WWE Tag Team Championship from Matt Hardy and Montel Vontavious Porter.[59][60] At Survivor Series, Morrison and The Miz were both defeated by CM Punk in a triple threat match for the ECW Championship.[61] After the defeat, the rivalry aspect of Miz and Morrison's relationship was dropped, as they were now portrayed as trusting friends. The team had many successful title defenses over the next few months, before dropping the titles to Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder at the Great American Bash in a fatal four-way match which also featured Jesse and Festus and Finlay and Hornswoggle. Neither The Miz nor Morrison were pinned, as Hawkins pinned Jesse to win the titles.[62] Afterwards, they started a feud with Cryme Tyme (Shad Gaspard and JTG) through each team's Internet show, which then transitioned to matches on Raw and pay-per-view, at Cyber Sunday.[63][64][65] After winning the Slammy Award for Best WWE.com exclusive earlier in the day, Morrison and The Miz won the "Tag Team of the Year" Slammy Award on the December 8, 2008 episode of Raw.[66] On December 13, Morrison and The Miz won the World Tag Team Championship from CM Punk and Kofi Kingston at a Raw house show.[67] Morrison and the Miz engaged themselves in a feud with The Colóns (Carlito and Primo), who were the reigning WWE Tag Team champions. Their feud culminated in a tag team lumberjack match at WrestleMania XXV. At the event, the duo lost the World Tag Team titles to The Colóns to unify the World Tag Team and the WWE Tag Team titles, in the process.[68]

Personal life

Hennigan was in a long-term relationship with Melina Perez, his former on screen manager,[69] but they have since broken up.[70] The pair met during auditions for Tough Enough III, although she did not make the show.[7] Hennigan is good friends with fellow professional wrestler Randy Orton.[71] Hennigan cites Shawn Michaels, Randy Savage and Curt Hennig as his favorite wrestlers.[72]

Articles posted by Sports Illustrated, the New York Daily News, and The Washington Post during the weekend of August 30, 2007, named Hennigan as one of a number of WWE superstars to have purchased pharmaceuticals from an online pharmacy, a violation of the "Talent Wellness" program. Specifically, Hennigan received somatropin, anastrozole, testosterone, stanozolol, and chorionic gonadotropin between June 2006 and February 2007, which is after the "no drugs from online sources" rule was instituted.[73][74] As a result of the infraction, Hennigan was suspended for 30 days.[55]

In wrestling

Johnny Nitro as the Intercontinental Champion
  • Nicknames
    • During his time as Johnny Nitro, he, as well as the rest of MNM, were often referred to as "A-listers". After his name change to John Morrison he began referring to himself with a slew of nicknames, including "The New Face of Extreme", "The Guru of Greatness", "The Shaman of Sexy", "The A-list Elitist", and "The Tuesday Night Delight" in his promos.[80][81][82][83]
  • Entrance themes
    • As a singles wrestler, Hennigan has had four themes in WWE. When he was first given the name Johnny Nitro it was coupled with the former theme song of WCW Monday Nitro.[15] After splitting from MNM, he continued to use their theme, Paparazzi, until his July 17, 2007 name change. After that he was given the Rock & Roll styled song "Ain't No Make Believe"[84] performed by Stonefree Experience.[85] It was originally played as an instrumental, but lyrics were added on August 7, 2007.
  • Signature taunts
    • Mimicking taking pictures with his hands
    • Pelvic thrust with accompanying finger guns
    • Showing off his eight pack
    • Holds one arm to side, followed by swinging his arm in a circle across him and raising his other arm, accompanied by slow-motion theatrics
  • The Dirt Sheet
    • In February 2008 Morrison and his tag team partner the Miz were given a streaming segment on WWE.com named The Dirt Sheet in which they mocked other wrestlers and facets of pop culture. On December 8, 2008, it was given a Slammy Award for Best WWE.com Exclusive.[66]

Championships and accomplishments

Morrison as one-half of the WWE Tag Team Champions, along with The Miz.

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