John first came to the डब्ल्यू डब्ल्यू ई after co-winning the WWE's 2002 'Tough Enough' reality program. For winning he was दिया a डब्ल्यू डब्ल्यू ई developmental contract and sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling, whom the डब्ल्यू डब्ल्यू ई used at the time to train and develop their future talent. In March of 2004 John appeared on RAW as Johnny Blaze. A couple weeks later he was Johnny Spade. Again, a few weeks later it was changed to Johnny Nitro. After a few months on RAW he was sent back to OVW were he began to be partnered with Joey Mercury and their manager Melina. The team, known as MNM, won the OVW Southern tag team titles there...