MNM (professional wrestling)

MNM
Nitro (left), Melina (center), and Mercury (right) on an episode of SmackDown in 2006
Stable
MembersJoey Matthews/Mercury
Johnny Nitro
Melina (valet)
Name(s)MNM
Billed heightsMercury:
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 fromLos Angeles, California
Former
member(s)
Jillian Hall (valet)
Debut2004
Disbanded2017
Years active2004–2006
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.

  1. ^ "Johnny Nitro's WWE Profile". World Wrestling Entertainment. Retrieved June 24, 2007.
  2. ^ "Melina's WWE Profile". World Wrestling Entertainment. Retrieved June 25, 2010.
  3. ^ "MNM". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved June 24, 2009.