page_title: John Morrison (wrestler)
section_title: Championship pursuits (2017–2018)
hierarchical_section_title: John Morrison (wrestler) / Professional wrestling career / Impact Wrestling / Championship pursuits (2017–2018)
caption_attribution_description: English: Johnny Impact vs Eli Drake @ Bound for Glory
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: In August 2017, despite not being signed to the promotion at the time, Hennigan appeared for Impact Wrestling at some live events. On August 17, a video package was shown at Destination X revealing his ring name as Johnny Impact. His first feud in the promotion was with Eli Drake, when Impact made his televised in-ring debut on the August 24 episode of Impact!, participating in a Gauntlet for the Gold match for the vacant Global Championship, but was eliminated by eventual winner Eli Drake. Impact would face Drake for the title at Victory Road and  Bound for Glory, where he failed to win the title. Since the Bound for Glory match ended after Alberto El Patrón made an interference, Impact, Alberto and Drake had a three-way Last Chance Six Sides of Steel match on the January 25, 2018 episode of Impact!, where Drake retained the title.
  After Drake lost the renamed Impact World Championship to Austin Aries, Impact began pursuit of Aries's championship, facing him at Crossroads special, where he lost again. On the April 19 episode of Impact!, Johnny Impact was attacked and injured by Kongo Kong, which was performed to write him off television in order to film for reality television show Survivor. Impact returned at Slammiversary XVI, when he won a four-way match against Fenix, Taiji Ishimori, and Petey Williams.
caption: Johnny Impact wrestling Eli Drake at Bound for Glory
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