John Morrison (wrestler)

John Morrison
Ring name(s) John Hennigan[1]
John Morrison[1][2]
Johnny Blaze[2]
Johnny Nitro[1][2]
Johnny Onyx[3]
Johnny Spade[1]
Johnny Superstar[4]
Billed height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[5]
Billed weight 223 lb (101 kg)[5]
Born October 3, 1979 (1979-10-03) (age 31)[2]
Los Angeles, California[6]
Resides Los Angeles, California[7]
Billed from Los Angeles, California
Trained by SPW staff[3][8]
Tough Enough III trainers[2]
OVW staff[2]
Debut January 27, 2003[1]

John Randall Hennigan[9] (born October 3, 1979)[1][2] is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring names John Morrison and Johnny Nitro.[2] He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) performing on its Raw brand.[5]

Before being promoted to the main WWE roster, Hennigan entered Tough Enough III, 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 a tag team, 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 WWE Intercontinental Championship twice. In June 2007, Hennigan was drafted from Raw to the ECW brand. During that time, he won the vacant ECW World Championship once, which was his first world championship. Hennigan formed a partnership with The Miz in late 2007, with the two capturing the WWE Tag Team Championship and the World Tag Team Championship on separate occasions. They split in April 2009, and Morrison returned to SmackDown, where he won the Intercontinental Championship for the third time in September 2009.

Contents

Career

Tough Enough

Before getting into professional wrestling, Hennigan attended the University of California at Davis studying both film and geology.[6] 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.[3] After failing his audition for Tough Enough 2,[10] he was accepted as a cast member for Tough Enough III in 2002, eventually becoming the co-winner with Matt Cappotelli.[11] For winning, Hennigan was awarded a WWE developmental contract and assigned to WWE's developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), to continue his training.[12] Hennigan competed in a Bar Room Brawl match at Vengeance in July 2003.[2] 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.[2]

World Wrestling Entertainment

Bischoff's assistant and apprentice (2004)

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.[13] The next week his name was changed to "Johnny Spade",[14] and three weeks after that it was changed to "Johnny Nitro".[15] 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.[16] Nitro acted as Bischoff's apprentice and assistant until June, when he was sent back to OVW. To explain his departure, Hennigan 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.[17]

MNM and Intercontinental Champion (2004–2007)

Upon his return to OVW, Hennigan 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 stable MNM.[18] 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.[2][19]

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.[20][21] 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][22] They won the titles again in a four-way match defeating The Mexicools, William Regal and Paul Burchill, and LOD,[2][23] but lost them to 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 30 to win the championship for the third time.[2][24] They began a rivalry with the team of Paul London and Brian Kendrick that lasted over three months,[25] until they dropped the championship to London and Kendrick at Judgment Day in May, with the storyline leading to Nitro and Melina suddenly turning on Mercury after the match, breaking up the group.[26] Later that night, Melina and Nitro were booked off the SmackDown! brand by having the General Manager, Theodore Long, "fire" them.[27]

The next week Nitro, along with Melina, debuted on the Raw brand in a loss to WWE Champion John Cena.[28] Hennigan was immediately placed in the WWE Intercontinental Championship picture, beginning his first reign at Vengeance in June defeating champion Shelton Benjamin in a triple threat match also involving Carlito.[27] Hennigan held the belt for four months, feuding with several challengers before losing it to Jeff Hardy on the October 2 episode of Raw.[29] 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.[30] The next week, however, Hardy won the title back.[31]

In addition, Hennigan 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.[32] Federline was then, in storyline, trained by Nitro for a match with Cena, which he won after interference from Umaga.[33]

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.[34][35] 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.[36][37] Mercury wrestled Matt on SmackDown!, while Nitro continued to feud with Jeff for the Intercontinental Championship on Raw, including a steel cage match at New Year's Revolution.[38] MNM lost to The Hardys at the Royal Rumble, and again at No Way Out in February which ended the feud.[39][40] MNM continued on and off as a team until Mercury was released from WWE in March 2007.[41]

Without Mercury, Nitro's association with Melina was played down as she began competing for the WWE Women's Championship.[42][43] Nitro was paired up with Kenny Dykstra,[44][45] until the 2007 WWE Draft, during which Nitro was sent to the ECW brand and Dykstra to SmackDown!.[46]

ECW World Champion; teaming with The Miz (2007–2009)

John Morrison as the ECW World Champion.

Hennigan made his ECW debut on June 19 with a win over Nunzio,[47] and the next week, at Vengeance: Night of Champions, took the vacant ECW World Championship in a match against CM Punk, when he was called upon to replace the missing Chris Benoit.[48]

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,[49] modeled after Jim Morrison, to whom Hennigan bears a resemblance.[50] After defeating CM Punk again at The Great American Bash,[51] 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,[52] which set up another match between the two at SummerSlam. Morrison won by illegally using the ring ropes for leverage.[53] The next week, Punk again became the number one contender;[54] this time, however, Punk won the championship.[55] Hennigan was then suspended for thirty days for violating WWE's Wellness Program,[56] renewing his feud with Punk upon his return, as well as competing against The Miz for the number one contendership to the title.[57][58][59]

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

Though rivals, Morrison and The Miz were placed in an ad hoc team on the November 16 episode of SmackDown!, and were booked to take the WWE Tag Team Championship from the imploding team of Matt Hardy and Montel Vontavious Porter.[60][61] At Survivor Series, Morrison and The Miz were both defeated by CM Punk in a triple threat match for the ECW Championship.[62] After the defeat, the rivalry aspect of Miz and Morrison's relationship faded, as they were now portrayed as trusting friends. In February 2008, Morrison and 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. Morrison and The Miz co-wrote each episode of The Dirt Sheet each week, and he credits his time in college studying film with contributing to the success of the show.[8] 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.[63]

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 at Cyber Sunday.[64][65][66] 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.[67] On December 13, Morrison and The Miz won the World Tag Team Championship from CM Punk and Kofi Kingston at a Raw live event.[68] Morrison and the Miz engaged themselves in a feud with The Colóns (Carlito and Primo), who were the reigning WWE Tag Team champions which resulted in both teams defending their respective championships successfully in separate matches. Their feud culminated in a tag team lumberjack match at WrestleMania XXV where both titles were on the line, but it was The Colóns who would unify the championships with a win.[69] As part of the 2009 WWE Draft on April 13, The Miz was drafted to the Raw brand to split up the team, and, as a result, Miz attacked Morrison.[70]

Brand switches and NXT (2009–present)

Hennigan after winning the WWE Intercontinental Championship for the first time as John Morrison, and third time overall.

On April 15, 2009, Morrison was drafted to the SmackDown brand as part of the 2009 Supplemental Draft.[71] In Morrison's first match back for the brand, on April 17, he defeated R-Truth.[72] On the May 1 episode of SmackDown, Morrison defeated Shelton Benjamin, and then engaged in a backstage fight with Chris Jericho, after Jericho slapped him, thus turning into a face (fan favorite character).[73] At Judgment Day, Morrison defeated Benjamin in a rematch.[74] On the July 31 episode of SmackDown, Morrison had his first World Heavyweight Championship match against champion Jeff Hardy, but failed to win the title.[75] On the September 4 episode of SmackDown, Morrison defeated Rey Mysterio to win his third Intercontinental Championship.[76] At the TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs pay-per-view, Morrison lost the Intercontinental Championship to Drew McIntyre.[77]

In 2010, Morrison formed a friendship with R-Truth. He won an Elimination Chamber pay-per-view qualifying match and participated but lost and failed to capture the World Heavyweight Championship.[78] Morrison and Truth defeated Cryme Tyme and The Hart Dynasty to earn a Unified WWE Tag Team Championship match at WrestleMania XXVI against ShoMiz (The Big Show and The Miz). At the event, they failed to win the championship.

On April 26, Morrison was drafted to the Raw brand as part of the 2010 WWE Draft, and lost his first match back for the brand later that night to Jack Swagger.[79] Later that week, in his final match on SmackDown, he lost to Cody Rhodes.[80] On June 1, Morrison announced that he would be mentoring Eli Cottonwood in the second season of WWE NXT.[81][82] Cottonwood, however, was eliminated from the competition on the July 27 episode of NXT.[83]

Morrison then went on to participate in the main event of SummerSlam in which he and six teammates were victorious in a seven-on-seven elimination tag team match against the Nexus.

Other media

In 2009, Hennigan appeared on two episodes of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, which were both aired on September 29.[84][85] Hennigan is the subject of a WWE DVD, called John Morrison – Rock Star, which was released on February 16, 2010.[8][86] The DVD covers his career from his name change to John Morrison up until his Intercontinental Championship win in September 2009.[8][86] He appeared on an episode of Destroy Build Destroy on March 3, 2010.[87] Hennigan was on the cover of Muscle & Fitness in June 2010, with the issue also featuring an interview and photo shoot.[88]

Personal life

Hennigan has two sisters and grew up in Palos Verdes, where he attended high school.[89] He graduated from the University of California, Davis in 2002.[90] Hennigan cites Shawn Michaels, Randy Savage, and Curt Hennig as his favorite wrestlers.[91]

Hennigan was in a long-term relationship with Melina Perez, his former on screen manager,[92] but they have since broken up.[93] The pair met during auditions for Tough Enough III, although she did not make the show.[7] Hennigan is good friends with fellow professional wrestlers Randy Orton and Matt Cappotelli.[8][94]

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.[95][96] As a result of the infraction, Hennigan was suspended for thirty days.[56]

In wrestling

Morrison performing the Starship Pain
Johnny Nitro as the Intercontinental Champion.

Championships and accomplishments

Morrison as WWE Tag Team Champion.

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