The man that would become Johnny Blaze, then Johnny Spade, then Johnny Nitro, and finally John Morrison, before leaving to become John Hennigan again on the independents and then Johnny Mundo on Lucha Underground wait, this sentence has gotten away from us. Too many Johns. That man, received a developmental contract after winning the third season of Tough Enough, and was assigned to OVW to continue training. Despite his natural ability, it was OVW that provided Hennigan with the skills and experience to get called up to the main roster and become a five time tag team champion, a three time Intercontinental champion and a world champion. Hey, we know it was under WWECW, but the titles lineage goes back through the original Extreme Championship Wrestling to the NWA and Eastern Championship Wrestling its the same title, no matter what the WWE say. Tough Enough is a reality TV show designed to publicise the WWE brand. Although Tough Enough winners are promised a WWE contract, its a developmental one with no guarantee of further employment: the show is a promotional tool, not a recruitment drive, hence why it can exist in 2015 alongside NXT. The three most successful WWE superstars connected with auditioning for Tough Enough have been Melina (didnt make the show in 2002), The Miz (a runner-up in 2004), and Hennigan himself (the joint winner of the third season). Today, the majority of the actual winners of the vaunted Tough Enough WWE contract have been retired for a decade, disillusioned and disheartened. John Hennigan, on the other hand, left WWE of his own volition in 2011, uninjured and on good terms, after a six-year run on the main roster and plenty of championship gold. In 2015, the former John Morrison wrestles for one of the most talked about professional wrestling television shows around, works on whatever low budget movies he feels like and would probably be able to return to WWE in a heartbeat should he choose to make the call.
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