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by Ring name(s) John Hennigan
Johnny Blaze
Johnny Spade
Johnny Nitro
Billed height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Billed weight 219 lb (100 kg)
Born October 3, 1979 (age 27)
Los Angeles, California, USA
Billed from Los Angeles, California
Trained by Tough Enough III trainers
OVW staff
Nick Dinsmore
Debut January 27, 2003
Career
Hennigan began his professional wrestling career when he joining the third season of the WWE/MTV reality show Tough Enough. In the season finale he was named co-winner (with Matt Cappotelli), and awarded a WWE developmental contract and assigned to "farm territory" Ohio Valley Wrestling to continue his training. It's worth noting that he tried out for the second season of Tough Enough, and can be seen on the first episode, but the judges thought he wasn't serious about wrestling for a living, and he was cut from the "final 13".
In March of 2004 Hennigan debuted on RAW as the (kayfabe) apprentice and assistant of RAW brand General Manager Eric Bischoff under the name Johnny Blaze. The next week his name was changed to Johnny Spade, and the week after that it was changed once more, this time to Johnny Nitro. The Nitro name, which stuck, was a reference to Monday Nitro, the flagship show of World Championship Wrestling which Bischoff had created, and to drive the point home he began using the Nitro theme music as his ring entrance music. Bischoff (kayfabe) fired Nitro as his assistant/apprentice on the June 7 RAW after he failed to defeat Bischoff's (kayfabe) nephew Eugene.
After being "fired" from RAW Nitro returned to OVW and started a feud with his former partner Matt Cappotelli. In the course of the feud Cappotelli brought in Nitro's (kayfabe) ex-girlfriend, Melina Perez, to embarrass him, only to get double-crossed by her when she and Nitro got back together. Not long after they were joined by Joey Mercury, forming the stable "MNM". MNM wrestled in OVW for around a year, winning the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship once, before being called up to the main SmackDown! roster. While on SmackDown! they feuded with teams of Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero, Mysterio and Batista, & Paul London and Brian Kendrick. Together they captured the WWE Tag Team Championship on three occasions, all in their rookie year on the brand.
At the May 2006 Judgment Day pay-per-view, where MNM lost the tag team title to London and Kendrick, Nitro and Melina suddenly turned on Mercury, breaking up the group. Later in the night, after Melina lost a match to Jillian Hall in controversial fashion, she and Nitro complained to SmackDown! General Manager Theodore Long. Melina lost her temper and slapped Long, getting both her and Nitro (kayfabe) fired from the brand.
The next week Nitro (with Melina) debuted on the RAW brand in a loss to WWE Champion John Cena. The following week Melina faked a sprained ankle, which allowed Nitro to roll-up the distracted Charlie Haas for his first RAW brand win.
Nitro immediately joined the hunt for the WWE Intercontinental Championship, finally defeating champion Shelton Benjamin at June's Vengeance in a Triple-Threat Match which also involved Carlito. Nitro held the belt, the first singles title in his career, for four months and feuding with several challengers before losing it to Jeff Hardy on the October 2 RAW.
During his time on RAW, Nitro was involved in a sporadic rivalry with the man who defeated him in his first RAW match, John Cena. The feud was unique in that it also involved non-wrestler Kevin Federline, who appeared on the October 16 RAW from Los Angeles.Federline was (kayfabe) trained by Nitro for a January 1, 2007 match with Cena, which he ended up winning after outside interference from Umaga.
In the meantime Nitro recaptured the Intercontinental title from Jeff Hardy on November 6 when former friend, and General Manager for the night, Eric Bischoff restarted a match that Nitro had been disqualified from. The very next week, however, Hardy won the title back.
In November 2006 MNM reunited on an episode of RAW to accept an "open challenge" from The Hardys (Matt and Jeff) for ECW December to Dismember. MNM and The Hardys feuded across the brands, with the feud intensifying after Mercury was (legitly) injured at the December Armageddon event.[ MNM continued on and off as a unit until Mercury's release in March of 2007.
Wrestling facts
Finishing and signature moves
Standing shooting star press
Superkick - 2004-2006
Corkscrew moonsault
Feint backdrop wheelbarrow facebuster
Standing step-up enzuigiri
Springboard enzuigiri
Neckbreaker slam
Split-legged handstand into a one-handed handstand followed by pivoting 180° into a leg drop
Guillotine leg drop
Swinging fisherman suplex
Inverted headlock backbreaker into a Russian legsweep
Satellite Russian legsweep
Leg-lace lock
Spinning heel kick
Headscissors takedown
Springboard dropkick
Running crossbody plancha
With Joey Mercury
Snapshot (Flapjack DDT)
Simultaneous leg-drops to the throat and leg
Double baseball-slide dropkick
Managers
Melina
Championships and accomplishments
Ohio Valley Wrestling
OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Joey Mercury
World Wrestling Entertainment
WWE Intercontinental Championship (2 times)
WWE Tag Team Championship (3 times) - with Joey Mercury
all three Tag Titles reigns came during their WWE rookie year
WWE Tough Enough III co-winner with Matt Cappotelli
Ce parere aveti despre fostul campion I-C si actualul detinator al titlului ECW World? Mie mi se pare un atlet desavarsit cu abilitati extraordinare in ring, ce isi merita acest push imens.
PS. Sper sa intelegeti cateceva din cariera lui, deoarece sursa de inspiratie a fost wikipedia, si nu am tradus comunicatul. :D
