MNM | |
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Stable | |
Members | Joey Matthews/Mercury Johnny Nitro Melina (valet) |
Name(s) | MNM |
Billed heights | Mercury: 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Nitro: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)[1] Melina: 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)[2] |
Combined billed weight | 555 lb (252 kg) (Mercury, Nitro and Melina) |
Billed from | Los Angeles, California |
Former member(s) | Jillian Hall (valet) |
Debut | 2004 |
Disbanded | 2017 |
Years active | 2004–2006 2006–2007 2017 |
MNM (Mercury, Nitro, and Melina) were a professional wrestling stable in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) who consisted of Joey Mercury (previously Joey Matthews), Johnny Nitro, and their manager Melina Perez.
Mercury and Nitro first began teaming together in 2004 in OVW, WWE's developmental territory in Louisville, Kentucky.[3] Melina, who at the time was Nitro's actual girlfriend, joined them as their manager in February 2005. While working in OVW, Mercury and Nitro captured the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship on one occasion.
MNM were called up to the SmackDown! roster in April 2005, in which Mercury and Nitro went on to win the WWE Tag Team Championship. While in WWE, their ring personas was that of a trio of Hollywood celebrities, complete with a red carpet ring entrance, that had them accompanied by "paparazzi". The duo lost the title in July 2005. After their third and final reign ended in May 2006, Nitro and Melina blamed Mercury for the loss and attacked him, splitting the team. Nitro and Melina were let go from the SmackDown! roster and debuted on the Raw brand. In November 2006, MNM reunited for a brief period, before Mercury was released from his contract in March 2007.