Team Shooting Star Press selects with their 11th pick, John Morrison!!
John Randall Hennigan[8] (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 their
ECW brand, where he is one half of the current
World Tag Team Champions with
The Miz.
[5] 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.