page_title: John Morrison (wrestler)
section_title: Singles competition and championship success (2006–2007)
hierarchical_section_title: John Morrison (wrestler) / Professional wrestling career / World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment/WWE / Singles competition and championship success (2006–2007)
caption_attribution_description: Johnny Nitro at a Raw live event. Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, March 18, 2007.
context_page_description: John Randall Hennigan is an American professional wrestler, traceur, actor, and filmmaker. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name John Morrison.
  Hennigan was the winner of Tough Enough III, a televised competition that would award the winner a WWE contract, and was assigned to their then developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling, to continue his wrestling training. Hennigan was called up to the SmackDown! roster in April 2005 under the ring name Johnny Nitro, and in his debut match won the WWE Tag Team Championship. After leaving WWE in November 2011, Hennigan began wrestling overseas on the independent circuit under several ring names, before finding success in lucha libre wrestling promotions Lucha Underground and Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide as Johnny Mundo, as well as Impact Wrestling under the name Johnny Impact.
  Hennigan is a four-time world champion, winning the ECW World, AAA Mega, Impact World, and Lucha Underground Championship once each. In WWE, he has also held the Intercontinental Championship three times and is a six-time tag team champion.
context_section_description: The next week, Nitro, along with Melina, debuted on the Raw brand in a loss to WWE Champion John Cena. Nitro was immediately placed in the Intercontinental Championship picture, beginning his first reign at Vengeance in June after defeating champion Shelton Benjamin in a triple threat match also involving Carlito. Nitro held the championship for four months, feuding with several challengers before losing it to Jeff Hardy on October 2 episode of Raw. Nitro recaptured the Intercontinental Championship from Hardy on November 6 episode of Raw, but lost it back to Hardy on the following week's Raw. Also around this time, Nitro entered into a partnership with rapper Kevin Federline, with the duo antagonizing and beginning a rivalry with WWE Champion John Cena. Federline was then, in storyline, trained by Nitro for a match with Cena, which he won after interference from Umaga.
  In November, MNM reunited on an episode of Raw to accept an open challenge from The Hardy Boyz (Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy) at December to Dismember, a match that they lost. MNM and The Hardy Boyz feuded across the brands throughout December, with the two teams competing in a four-way ladder match for the WWE Tag Team Championship at Armageddon, also involving Brian Kendrick and Paul London and Dave Taylor and William Regal. However, MNM would be unsuccessful in winning the championship. Nitro challenged Jeff Hardy for the Intercontinental Championship in a steel cage match at New Year's Revolution on January 7, 2007, but did not win. MNM lost to The Hardy Boyz at the Royal Rumble later that month and again at No Way Out in February which ended the feud. MNM disbanded as a team when Mercury was released from WWE in March 2007.
  After Mercury's departure, Nitro also ended his association with Melina. Nitro was placed in a tag team with Kenny Dykstra, until the 2007 WWE draft, during which Nitro was drafted to the ECW brand. Nitro made his debut for the brand on the June 19 episode of ECW, with a win over Nunzio, and few days later, on June 24, at Vengeance: Night of Champions, he won the vacant ECW World Championship by defeating CM Punk, replacing the absent Chris Benoit due to his double-murder suicide. A few weeks after winning the title, Nitro was repackaged as John Morrison, a reference to musician Jim Morrison, to whom Hennigan bears a strong physical resemblance. In the months to come, Morrison would retain the championship against Punk at The Great American Bash in July, and SummerSlam in August. Punk would again challenge for the championship on the September 4 episode of ECW, in which Morrison lost the championship to Punk, ending his reign at 69 days. Morrison was then suspended for thirty days for violating WWE's Wellness Program, renewing his feud with Punk upon his return, as well as competing against The Miz for the number one contendership to the title.
caption: After MNM's split, Nitro achieved success as a singles competitor, winning two Intercontinental Championships and the ECW World Championship
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