The return of John Morrison to television

He's still around? He has to be 45 by now, no? Jon Morrison was the sexiest thing that ever lived back in the WWE day.

He actually only just turned 40 a couple of months ago. It does feel like he’s been around way longer than 19 years though.

He’s in amazing shape for someone his age and considering the punishment he put his body through - must be all the Capoeira.

And it isn’t strictly true to say he’s been absent from tv & stage. He’s been working hard all this time, just in projects that very few people outside of niche wrestling fandom saw, unfortunately.

He even starred as a lead in the movie BOONE a few years back, where of course he was incredibly jacked.

He actually only just turned 40 a couple of months ago. It does feel like he’s been around way longer than 19 years though.

He’s in amazing shape for someone his age and considering the punishment he put his body through - must be all the Capoeira.

And it isn’t strictly true to say he’s been absent from tv & stage. He’s been working hard all this time, just in projects that very few people outside of niche wrestling fandom saw, unfortunately.

He even starred as a lead in the movie BOONE a few years back, where of course he was incredibly jacked.

How does his ex-boyfriend Miz feel about this? Bound to be a little awkward now they’re both married (to women)..

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[quote] Morrison was the sexiest thing that ever lived back in the WWE day.

I’m?!!?

Up until now Morrison was called The Jannety of his old tag-team with Miz.

D’Von? Get the tables...

I'm surprised to see he is dating a trans. Things I learn on Instagram.

I remember going to a WWE show when I was younger. Morrison is huge. tall and ripped. I feel in love.

Of course my straight jr high friends were more into the J-Lo clone Melina.

Aw R9 I always get sad looking at pics of Joey Mercury. He has struggled all his adult life with addiction to pills, but only because of painkillers he took recovering from horribly botched spots early in his career (mostly the infamous ladder that shattered his orbital bone to pieces). He was a talented guy and well-liked until the drugs became too much a part of his life.

Melina is also talented and has has a lot of struggles in life, but she isn’t always the sweetest. She is best and most recently remembered for outing Morrison as a Viagra user on social media during their last messy breakup; cruel, but possibly understandable in that sex & reproduction is a sore subject for her (like many women in the business she has major fertility issues thanks to wrestling injuries etc.) She has also been called out for treating other female wrestlers poorly, but that was kind of how her Era went in general so it seems hypocritical to scapegoat her.

In fact JoMo is the only former member of MNM to come out relatively unscathed. He’s been let go a few times due to challenging his higher-ups over dumb things, but aside from that hasn’t ever had mad health or wealth problems.

Does R8 have receipts?? I thought Taya was biologically female....😵

How is he so cut when he doesn’t even juice...

He must be incredible in bed, if his gymnastic ring performances are any indicia.

Well, Mike the Miz is fairly giddy as a schoolbitch over the whole thing.

Was he John’s road-wife, or what?

Arms wtf?

Hope we get more ass shots on camera

Were R9’s friends blind? Even straight men admire and drool over guys like John.

Bring back the Lars Sullivan/Mitch Bennett thread for christsakes!

He just did a liquor commercial with Walking Dead (the tv series). Ripped off his shirt, obviously.

He was in a movie with Lorenzo Lamas, Corbin Bernsen AND Kevin Sorbo, r3?!

How could anyone have missed that?! I'm going to stream that shit immediately.

Just let me run right off of this cliff first ...

You're pretty naive if you think he doesn't juice, r12.

I think he does testosterone injections at least.

Well R21 that would account for the erectile dysfunction Melina clued us on to...

There should be better sexual health education about hormone injectables for men going into bodybuilding, wrestling etc.

He was in Survivor right?

^yep, in ‘David Vs. Goliath’ 2 years ago

Reports indicate he’s going to Smackdown to be with Miz, as it should be. Love wins!

First appearance on Smackdown was on Friday. This year is looking up and it’s only January.

Having him come out of Miz’s dressing room (just like when Summer Rae came out of Dolph’s that one time) looking mad at the interruption was...wow. I love how not even a minute into the storyline they’re making it gay. Clearly all evidence suggests JoMo was piping Miz in there as a way to comfort him over the whole Fiend debacle.

R8 Taya told off the person who called her FTM on Twitter.

Vein ridden bodies are fucking gross !

^then there’s more of this to go around!

3 hours to go until his return in-ring. Anyone else gonna watch?

Of course it’s going to be on MizTV. Mike is so hype for it, it’s too adorable🍓

[quote] get you ready for #MizTV tonight on #Smackdown w/ yours truly and @johnhennigan . We worked hard in and out of the ring while also solving the age old question can Morrison grate cheese with his abs???

Monsteroid... Ewwwwww...

Return promo was a botch, there I said it. My heart was warmed to see John back beside Miz so giddy about it and he did look sexy, but other than that I want my five minutes back and a do-over.

Attendees that night are saying that WWE edited out the pops & crowd noise because they don’t want returning veterans from other competitors overshadowing their battery-farmed younger merch-ponies. And when will WWE learn than performers sitting casually in fold-out chairs in the ring talking is the most inert form of drama unsuited to commercial populist theater?

Not to mention the fact that the show was a weekly pre-taped airing on Fox and taking place in a very bad town which is the worst time to debut a big return.

Insults to that injury: WWE changed his entrance (no pyro or wind machine) and didn’t play his best-loved theme music either so even older people in the audience (who had cringeworthy buildup as spoilers anyway) wasn’t that hyped to see him; continuity was all over the place (why is Morrison’s character so enamored of Miz? How is the Bray feud instantly resolved? And how can Miz’s dad’s favorite wrestler by Kofi when we know Mr. Mizanin is a racist?); it wasn’t clear who the Heel duo were supposed to be between Miz-Morrison & New Day; and horrible visuals (that eye-bleeding Titantron! Miz looking like a depressed middle-aged Red Ranger! John’s horrible beachy hilights! Crop tops!)

John just deserves way more than this.

Admittedly John himself has major promo-rust and got over-emotional & nervous on mic, but that’s to be expected on a first night back in over decade.

This is so disappointing and we’ve barely even started yet, so I hope this tag-team feud we’re about to experience thing is the gayest, bitchiest, bloodiest thing ever (a la ECW back when these guys first began..)

R20 Those 3 actors are all right wing nut jobs now (& I think born again Christians to boo)t.

I wonder if JoMo is like minded.

Imagine these two going at it in the bedroom!

The Big Show tossed JoMo around like a rag doll in a match.

I wish I could find it...

I guess this match is just as good.

Check out 4:05 to see how the Big Show handles guys JoMo's size =

R33 I follow John on social media and he espouses left-wing/centrist views publicly. I don’t know what he believes in private but he seems a decent enough guy to vote Dem. I’m sure that movie he did was just a pay check role, and even if it wasn’t that’s not say he was close friends or in agreement politically with the right-wing jerks he worked alongside. I mean he worked for the McMahon family for a decade, the people who bankrolled Donald..

R35 I remember John & Miz used to make fun of Delaney for looking like a junior-high kid even though he was in his twenties. They even once nominated him for a joke-award for ‘Biggest Virgin’ on The Dirt Sheet. The last anyone saw of Delaney wrestling was on WWE 205 Live (The webshow for jobbers & cruiserweights) in summer 2018 and his name doesn’t appear on the roster anymore, so who knows where he is now.

Miz as JoMo’s valet?.....I like it. I’d rather see them fuck than the Big Show R34 (but hey, you do you)

sidebar: WHY are New Day still a stable now Xavier is gone and Kofi is due a singles run?

He can still Corkscrew Plancha off a ring-post and keep his shades on while landing perfectly as a 20-something pro-gymnast. He’s pushing 41.

gorgeous he is, granted, more so when he first came onto the scene, but still hotter then hot..

"technically" the best looking wrestler in years, always reminded me of a better built chippendale as pro wrestler....has the body that i think most men would want and would appeal to women...

he has done those b - level movies but also has appeared on "LUCHA UNDERGROUND" for the past few years on the EL REY network as johnny mundo... he was on impact wrestling for a short time as johnny impact.. so he's been making movies and pro wrestling ever since he left WWE....

how i wish he was around in the WCW days! the sexualized and monumental homoerotica that was on those shows was off the charts and would have been with john morrison! they would have had him in backstage scenes showering, walking around in a towel, female wrestlers with dirty innuendo conversations with him, other male wrestlers flirting with him and talking about his body and so on and so on.. might have even put him into some extremely small and snug actual wrestling trunks....

R39 amazing post. True that he has had a fantastic career. Bitter smarks (online nerds, usually straight adult males) always put him down for not making it bigger in WWE but is that all there is? He’s had the kind of success most people would die to have. Plus his body is insanely hot. I can’t imagine how good his sex-life is...

I LOVED him as Johnny Mundo in Lucha Underground, not just because he is so sexy and entertaining but also because it gave him more opportunity to show off his crazy-athletics. I basically tuned in just to watch him, win or lose (and he did win a lot, brining prestige to their main title belts). While I’m beyond excited that he’s back in WWE I really do miss him working in LU, just because I knew he would always be basically respected as a performer and have decent storylines in the latter company.

One of my favorite Lucha Underground moments of his was the hilarious theme-song he recorded for his character entrance, ‘Welcome to Slamtown’. He even recorded it shirtless in the music video. Honestly what’s a gayer tagline for yourself than ‘Mayor of Slamtown’?

Hope his stripper dancing moves make a comeback (sorry Fandango...)

its rumored miz was forced to be johns bitch if he wanted to stay in wrestling, many are hungry for vids of miz getting his fat ass worked over and his tittys chewed on by master john

R41... now i'm wondering what did john morrison (of course not his real name) actually do for a living BEFORE he became a pro wrestler? he looks and acts like THEE epitome of a male stripper and possible gigolo for horny old women!....

would be awesome if he did do male stripping and someone, somewhere has video of it to be seen online..

[quote] wondering what did john morrison (of course not his real name) actually do for a living BEFORE he became a pro wrestler?

John Hennigan (his real name) never had another main career. He was a high-school triathlete (gymnastics, martial Arts & traditional wrestling) who then went straight to College to major in Film. His original career ambition back then was to become a stunt-man/actor combo like Bruce Lee & Jackie Chan, and it didn’t even occur to him to work in pro-wrestling until he turned 22 and saw an ad looking for TOUGH ENOUGH contestants. He signed up on a whim, and though he failed his first audition for the show he applied again a year later and aced the second. He went on to win the series he was on (TE III) and earned a contract tracking him straight into WWE training and eventually the roster. He’s always acted in low-budget movies & tv shows as a supplementary gig, and he occasionally trains people in Parkour.

So he was never a dancer or a stripper. Unless he was secretly a go-go boy as a side hustle in College under an assumed name and no-one ever found out about it....

R44.. thank you for all that information, quite interesting..

IF ONLY he was around during the old wcw homoerotic and sexualized days, they would HAVE MADE his wrestler persona a stripper! in the ring and backstage!....

R39/R45 I can only imagine what insanity WCW would have cooked up for John. Something dirty & ridiculous no doubt, but at least we would have got to see more of that body and those dance moves right? I bet Kevin Nash or Vince Russo would have pitched him for a legit stripper/gigolo angle.

WWE have him wrestling in way too many clothes & accessories, and let him go too light on the mat wrestling/holds so he can do ten backflips a match or whatever (dgmw, I love his highflying style but it would be nice see him put in more submission manoeuvres...for science).

R42🤯😳I didn’t hear that rumor...so hot. Obviously I hope it’s true but I think the situation is probably more complicated and financially-motivated tbh.

The dirt I heard was that John’s return was one of the perks Miz got to choose in return for staying with WWE and not jumping ship to AEW (Cody & Khan offered him something off the record/under the table). That’s also why ‘Miz & Mrs.’ got a renewed tv deal and why Miz got time off in the summer to go do other projects. I don’t know if Miz really has that much clout over the McMahons though....

R46... WELL SAID, WELL SAID! YOU and I are simpatico in regards to morrison!..

MIZ: (about JoMo) “People need to realise, you want to get with a winner.”

... Ok yeah I think they’ve def smashed.

Mike looks at John the way I look at my screen whenever John is on the show, and the way I imagine most straight women passing him by in the street do. Just hearts popping out of the eyes and panting lmao.

John botched his finish in the match last night but only because he was trying to do it with no hands....🤯the man is a demigod. Other than that no ring-rust and he looked like a million bucks out there, of course.

This guy looks like a champ. Vince would be crazy to let him drop to midcard and withhold a title belt from him (so that is probably what will happen sadly)

R49.. that match last night with BIG E LANGSTON was awesome! love love big e's massive juicy heavy jutting thick as hell pecs and his overall beefiness and of course the ripped muscular defined body that is John's... 2 different opposite muscle/muscular spectrums of the male body and both sexy as hell!....

of course i recorded it and will have "cough cough" fun with myself later watching in slow motion and pause! love john pinning langston and langston's nice bulge when he was conquered flat on his back...

man alive to see those 2 side by side in the showers afterwards and then of course wet and hard swinging away/bobbing away in the locker room! my fantasy would be to see these 2 AND drew mcintyre in this way!...

Girl, look at that body..,

R51... beautiful body on him.. the kind of body i think most women would want and most guys would want to look like?...

wonder what his workouts are and diet is?...

He lives off of Muscle-milk, tuna and gallons of water, probably😂I remember he said once in a vlog interview that he has a “complex relationship with carbs” looking pretty morose, so that answers that.

As for typical workouts, there’s no details of specific routines online beyond his Parkour runs. At least we have an image bank...

R53... now that i remember it, i have the issue of muscle & fitness magazine with him on the cover and a article inside, i don't think i read the article, just bought the magazine for him on the cover.. perhaps that article and simple google search will provide the answers to his diet and workout routine...

personally i wish he had about 25 more pounds of muscle on him, but keeping the same definition and "ripped-ness"... and put in some sexy trunks or singlet instead of the same ole same ole pants.. he would be even MORE of a walking wet dream if possible...

R54 John is so gorgeous that I think he’d look hot with several extra lbs. That said I think he prefers to stay lean & cut for his gimmick and move-set in the ring, which makes sense. I believe he also likes stays thin and keeps his hair long/pants on to emulate his hero & namesake Jim Morrison (he mentioned this in an interview somewhere, can’t remember the source).

Old pic: JoMo & Miz with fellow close friends & WWE hotties Ziggler & Ryder (great pron names right?). Apparently Mike is too busy with his family these days to hang out much as a foursome now, sadly. It’s still a cute post and a nice memory.

Now they’re all on the same brand these guys need to be a stable already. Book it Vince!

The photo above reminds me that I miss Breezango. 😓

R54.... all good points by you.. morrison has to have that type of body to do his wrestling moves.. and yes, his persona which i think alot of people don't get is indeed patterned have the lizard king himself jim morrison, a.k.a. sex on a stick as john hannigan definitely is....

you know he's done some b-level movies and i've been thinking for some time how i wish and pray that he would do some of those late night cable soft porn movies! laugh! he would be PERFECT in sex scenes! beyond perfect! wonder if he would do such films and scenes if offered???...

dolph ziglar and zac ryder are two other favorites, although dolph looked much better when he first came on the scene and zac is still handsome and hot with his bearded handsome face and nice built body...

love big e langston for his beefy body and outrageous pecs.. drew mcintyre for his sexy hairy tanned built body (whew!) , randy orton who has a handsome face when he's not making scowling facial expressions and his long, long shapely muscular oiled legs, bobby lashley for his musclebound mandingo body, and bobby roode for his handsome bearded face with the sparkling blue eyes and great smile...also like even though they rarely show him apollo crews and his sexy built body and full pecs and handsome face...

Rumor has it Taya Valkyrie may be joining John in WWE pretty soon.

Thanks, I hate it. I have no problem with her as a solo wrestler and think she’s talented, but there is no doubt WWE will ruin both her & JoMo’s characters putting them together as a “power couple” (ugh). Obviously if she does arrive she’ll end up as her husband’s valet/partner thereby breaking up his program with the Miz.

Besides, she can actually do some good work and stand out in TNA. In WWE she’ll just end up as a sidekick or a midcarder, or worse get the Lita treatment. Unless of course she just wants fame & $$$$$...

rather see jim morrisson dug the fuk up and drug bak to hwoooood

JoMo & Miz have both been entered into tomorrow’s Royal Rumble, which curiously has no tag match on the card. Expect a ridiculously acrobatic and probably very gay save by Morrison and Miz starting shit. Can’t wait!

Fans are let down that Dirt Sheet aren’t in a tag match against New Day on the RR card, though. Perhaps they’ll go for the tag straps at Mania in a few months time.

R23 I just rewatched the Survivor episode where another contestant handfed him. It was...weirdly sexy.

I also appreciated his variety of tie-dye bandannas, which would look douchey on anyone else less hot.

ANYONE watch last night's friday smackdown where they showed big e langston literally fondling himself and those outrageous pecs rubbing himself with oil erotically backstage and with some little out of nowhere twink assistant willing to help him to this task? and doing this because?????? when he wasn't even wrestling last night, it was his tag team partner kofi kingston that wrestled morrison...

TALK ABOUT HOMOEROTICA AND ON PURPOSE!!.. great whack worthy material. thankfully i recorded it...

[quote] langston literally fondling himself and those outrageous pecs rubbing himself with oil erotically backstage and with some little out of nowhere twink assistant willing to help him to this task? and doing this because?????? when he wasn't even wrestling last night

Lmao no?😂but it sounds awesome...

I’m not in the US so don’t get full live broadcasts from WWE unless I subscribe to their network (never happening, so fuck you Vinny M). Where I am we only get heavily-edited broadcasts of the shows hours after they originally air for you. Big E’s twink massage scene was not in the show I saw on Friday. Do we have clips?

Though honestly Big E doesn’t do much for me and I’d prefer to see Miz or Morrison massaged by another guy...😍🤯🤭

I want to see some JoMo butt like we did on Lucha Underground. Snap snap and get on it, Shane!

Rumble is in a few hours, John’s first PPV back. I hope he gets a few good spots in before inevitable elimination.

So relieved that WWE kept his music, wind-machine and his ‘Shaman of Sexy’ name (plus the long duster making a return). It’s too cool as a gimmick to mess with.

Miz seems like JoMo’s full-time manager/valet right now, probably so Mike can reduce his workload and be there for his kids/manage his other tv commitments. I’m not complaining either - something about Mike supporting John like a proud husband just looks and feels..so right?

Edge is back at least until Mania (in a program with Orton), and the last time he was on the roster at the same time as John they had nuclear heat over the Trish thing. Iirc it came to a head over the card at Mania 27, for which John felt his girlfriend Melina deserved Trish’s spot in the women’s title match and thereafter cold-shouldered her - a poor choice as Trish is a good friend & Canadian countryman of Edge & his wife Beth Phoenix who led the lockerroom back then. This was a defining career moment for John, being one of the reasons he left the company in 2010-11 and planting a seed for his eventual breakup with Melina a few years later.

You still get frostbite watching backstage footage of Edge’s retirement, when John reaches out to hug or shake the hand of Edge who just shoves past him hard and cold like he doesn’t even exist (you can catch the moment in the link at about 10’ seconds in, after Ziggler). Edge also ignores or steers away from other people on the roster like Vickie Guerrero & Daniel Bryan but it’s clearly less violently deliberate in those cases; a few years ago Edge said on his podcast that he desperately wanted to hug Orton (standing next to John) and cry all over him but felt it would be embarrassing & undignified with cameras around so saved his emotion until after the show wrapped. Maryse’s affronted face when he dogs her is a picture, though, and thinking about it Edge likely work-snubbed her so obviously because she was dating Miz at the time...

So are we to assume Edge & JoMo are cool now, or? 🤔🤔 it’s been 9 years and Trish is long retired (permanently) so I imagine it’s water under the bridge, but you never know when it comes to this biz. If I were Steph I’d follow up on that and capitalise in case of any lingering resentment, putting RatedRKO (Edge & Randy’s old tagteam) in a match vs. Morrison & Miz. That bout would be a massive nostalgia draw, and Heel vs. Heel heat is so entertaining.

Anyone catch his Chronicle episode last Saturday? He looked so delicious. I admire his lasting professional & creative ethic, still chasing the gold even at his age and already having plenty of success.

Tonight he’s in a fourway tag with some of the most pointless teams on the rostern(The Revival? Lucha House Party?) so he has a ways to go. Still, eyes on the prize!

A friend of mine is his real estate agent in LA. Says Hennigan is about the nicest client he has ever had. Just loves him. And adds that when they part, Hennigan always gives him a great big sweet hug. It totally makes his day, week, month, year.

R68 that is....beautiful....

truly JoMo is the perfect man...

🎶We're only saying, you’re doin' fine Oklahoma! Oklahoma, you’re OK!...l-a-h-o-m-a! Oklahoma...!🎶

...because the Dirt Sheet’s coming back👏

Ok, so I was a little mean about Lucha House Party. They’re flippy and fun, and they bring a damn pinãta to the ring😂 Otis of Heavy Machinery can bump with his giant belly which is impressive.

We got a couple more JoMo corkscrew spots last night, and a Miz x Morrison victory embrace. I’m just enjoying the boys being happy together while it lasts, whether they make beyond Mania or not.

John used to flirt with Mike all the time in their meet-n-greets & promo interviews (probably as a way to shut him up for a few minutes) and it was so cute how flustered Mike always got.

I remember seeing them together once, at a convention where they kindly signed a poster for my little cousin. I was waiting off to one side watching them playfight over a pen, until Mike remarked that John looked hot in the pants he was wearing in the picture they had to sign and then they just made googly eyes at each other for a bit. It was very good fan-service if they weren’t actually fucking.

I rediscovered this little gem from New Zealand’s TV3 in 2009. Mike trash-talks constantly all interview until the closing comment, when John sneaks in some silly innuendo. Mike just corpses and blushes and grins at John nervously after that, like he can’t finish his thought because he’s too distracted.

JoMo: “However you slice the pie of life....I’m the creamy successful filling. People just love to snack on it.” Miz: .......😳😳🤯😛😍

I love how JoMo is a Heel on TV but his Twitter is the most Face it could possibly be. He’s too nice to be that gorgeous.

He looks just like Val Kilmer used to when Val was still hot.

Hate to agree with neckbeard smarks at WhatCulture but....they’re right that the Dirt Sheet segment on last night’s Smackdown! sucked ass. Who made the genius call of putting it in the ring as improv? You can’t do vignette-based meme-humor live on a stage, that doesn’t work diagetically...

Also, why aren’t this team wrestling every week? John & Mike are hilarious & innovative guys, but their work together so far is being hamstrung by managers & execs who apparently can’t tell a story or put on a show to save their lives. Shame.

[quote] San Jose wanted wrestling. It was that simple, and that's why the crowd yawned though the opening 'Dirt Sheet'. This was poorly set-up and could've lasted 2 minutes instead of 10 - stretching skits to kill time on a 2-hour program, you know there's a problem, and this reeked of filler. In fact, the 'Dirt Sheet' should've taken place as a pre-tape like it used to. Miz & Morrison's quirky, almost-meandering banter shines there, not in front of live crowds.

MOST OF WWE IS NOW IS yap, yap, yap and more yapping! whatever happened to the homoerotica? the homoerotic in the ring and backstage storylines and visuals? the funny comedy in the ring and backstage?..

i swear a 2 to 3 hour show they actually show maybe 30 minutes of actual wrestling...

R76 so right.

If Vince wants to keep a two-hour show on Fridays then the current incarnation On Smackdown! should have at least four matches per card - bearing in mind most solid non-PPV matches should last roughly between 5-15 minutes - and constant movement and action in the ring between them (that we actually see on TV).

It’s fine to cutaway to video promos or backstage segments periodically, so long as they are quick-firing and funny and advance a feud. And if the bookers and writers must insist on long talky in-ring sections then they must use several performers who stand up/project/get hype to interact and make sure that the character banter is fast and entertaining with some innuendo and elements of trash-talk (cf. Attitude!Era, like in the link below of Stephanie & Jericho having a war of words).

WWE main shows need to nix the static ‘talks to the audience’ (which has been a problem since 2003) and ban those ridiculous ‘talk-show’ segments a la MizTV. Save the reality bullshit for other channels. I think they could also study vintage TNA (early-mid 00s) and copy their style of candid-camera promo, which works perfectly for backstage vignettes in the current era of entertainment we’re in.

I have no idea why there is such a dearth of content right now on a two-hour weekly show; by comparison the three-hour late-90s WCW Monday Nitro was Tolkienesque (and it was still an underbooked train-wreck).

John is hottest one in his close family circle, apparently. Quelle surprise.

Here he is with two of his brothers or cousins(?), and his co-worker Sheamus. There isn’t much of a likeness at all.

.....

He shoots on drunk-drivers and wife-beaters. Truly a hero for our times.

That bitch doesn't juice??

*Laughs for 90 minutes straight*

Whew, thanks. Needed that.

TBT the 9/2/08 episode of ECW, when domestic-abusing Fatt Hardy had the nerve to mock John & Miz for their closeness by calling them “male partners” tongue-in-cheek. You could still get away with that as broad comedy in 2008, I guess. It’s amazing to see how the rhetoric around LGB has changed just over a decade on.

I like that John hit Matt with a microphone a minute or two later in retaliation, and that neither John nor Mike actually said anything negative in protest of Matt’s comment (though they did share a scandalised expression and shook their heads...) seeming more annoyed by the fact Matt disrupted their segment with his shitstarting.

Looking back, ECW was the most fun WWE acquisition. It was just a madcap bunch of bullshit that sometimes hit pure gold, and you never knew what would happen show to show which made it entertaining even in its worst years like 2007/8. I miss that.

Arguably JoMo & Miz did their best work and got the best Heat as a Heel pair under ECW. I don’t know how well their brand of smack-talking lampoonery is going over in this new era on Smackdown of all places..

Is that a man-bun?

Boys...did R83...just....question the hair...?

ECW was fun and also homoerotic.... had that great handsome sexy built wrestler TEST (r.i.p.) among others...

R76, and R77, You are so spot on. Why all the talking? In the ring for what seems like twenty minutes of non-stop talking, glaring, then talking. They need to pick up the pace, add some mayhem instead of backstage speeches, and actually wrestle when in the ring and not soapbox it.

Also, where are the huge dudes? It's like they recruit the tiniest guys now. We need them as big as they can get them, and as hot as Morrison. The newer wrestling shows are a bit less on the yapping but not my much.

Bigger, hunkier, more handsome, and keep a sock in it please!

R86, i so so hear you... it's like pro wrestling has gone backwards and become even "prudish" although they have no problem parading the women around who look like hookers OR look freaky and dykey....

indeed, what happened to getting the biggest handsomest sexiest guys they could find? i'm guessing a number of reasons.... the crackdown on steroid usage, the crackdown on too much homoeroticism visually and storylines, the more cynicism and what not of society and culture and so on and so on...ODD because mcmahon WAS at the helm 10, 15, 20 years ago when WWE WAS all of these things as was WCW! did the audience and society change or did he or both?... did homoeroticism and sexuality (even among the male and female competitors in the ring or backstage storylines) become just "passe" like male strippers?...

[quote] Also, where are the huge dudes? It's like they recruit the tiniest guys now.

Official Wellness Policy now prevents any guys in major feds from juicing all to hell. Some wrestlers still gas, of course, but no-one is fucking too obviously with it anymore since the Benoit thing because otherwise they can’t be insured. The immense psych risks are better understood these days.

Really, steroid use wasn’t widespread or out of control in the business until the mid-90s anyway, so aesthetically-speaking this current landscape is just like stepping back in time to what wrestlers looked like in the 70s & 80s - no jacked monsters and Adonis, just all-natural husky brutish bears and lithe lean twunks and otters.

As for being hot as Morrison, he’s unsually beautiful for the industry (making him a perfect vain Tweener character). Honestly, most athletic guys who look like him (and have a good College degree like him) don’t bother starving and hurting and embarrassing themselves to become a pro-wrestler; they go to work as models, actors, spokespeople/promoters,personal trainers, escorts/gigolos/kept boys etc. The stereotypical image of an American pro-wrestler is a fugly Midwestern white-trash dropout who couldn’t have done anything else with his life but wrestle in backyards, like say a Jon Moxley.

good post R88.. but the 80's did have their HUGE men and on the "special supplement program" all times studs like scott hall, billy haynes, billy jack strong, kerry von erich , chris "conan" walker and a few others....

the homoerotic costumes and scenes and storylines in the ring and out of the ring didn't really start until the late 80's/early 90's though...

He has such a weird relationship with Taya. If I didn’t know they were married I’d assume they were just close friendly coworkers or maybe cousins/siblings.

R90.. i had NO IDEA HE WAS MARRIED and even more shocking that that? it's who he's married to!! i mean come on! morrison is a "10" in face and body and she is ..... "um, not so much".. . not trying to be mean, just the truth... little ole me wouldn't even give her a glance walking past on the street and yet, she has THEE john morrison (hannegan) ???????!!!!!!!!!!!

she must have a magic personality as well as magic vagina!..

R91 it does seem strange. I suppose after all the ugly drama with Melina, John was just looking for a nice discreet loyal woman he could trust and realistically build a life with not much caring what she looks like. Taya does seem like a kind person.

I just don’t get a ‘spouse’ vibe from pictures or videos of them together, like there’s no obvious chemistry - they’re probably just very private, though. And I suppose John was too late to marry Mike so🤫😭💔😔

Odd that John hooked up with a female wrestler again after last time, but I guess that’s the norm and the only practical choice in the business like it is in dentistry.

Could watch him do gymnastics all day 😍

My favorite Morrison clip--funny, hot, so him!

R94 “so how long have you been a cop...?😛😍” that lady was losing her mind lmao

I love how they leaned into the joke that no-one regardless of gender can resist JoMo’s charm, beauty or body, which is so hilarious because it’s totally true. Even his face & hair have seductive powers😂 John must be able to get away with anything in life looking the way he does.

i wonder if and if so how many men have propositioned him over the years on the road?.. for anything they could get from him and how much they willing to shovel out in dollars?....

he actually looks better usually then in the above clip... more muscular, and certainly more tanned then in this video clip...

wish he lighten his hair a bit more or have those blonde highlights like he did when he first came onto the scene...

why hasn't playgirl called him yet???

R96 there’s no way at least one gay man hasn’t begged him to fuck, or even just take his pants off. Probably dozens of women when they’ve gotten drunk enough.

Sadly Shawn Michaels ruined the whole ‘wrestlers doing Playgirl’ thing.

JoMo met Miz’s baby girl and IG is crying

JoMo & Miz just took the Tag titles they once held back, after 11 long years. Beautiful moment for beautiful men.

Post-match they were so excited and ecstatic to hold the straps again that they fell out of character (forgot to act heelish) and started babbling at each other about how much they missed partnering with one another, and grinning these big goofy smiles like little kids.

I love the end of their victory match, when Miz is hugging John like they’ve won a war while John is just staring at the belt in mild confusion like “but didn’t they used to look...cooler than this? When I left I could swear they were gold, and expensive-looking, and...actually impressive...”

JoMo has IT.

[quote] BOOKER T: WWE made John the tag team champion, put him right back in the mix, and that’s what you need to do with someone like Morrison...he’s not a sideline player. He’s not a guy you want to bring in off the bench. He’s the guy you want to keep in rotation, keep him in the game, you know. Keep him warm, keep him hot. This guy, you look at him, you know from from day one. He’s always had that, that one thing man he always had stop star potential. He always had that, what would that ‘je ne sais quoi.’ The ‘IT’ factor you know what I mean? But yeah, man. He always had ‘it.’

I hate saying this because I live again seeing Morrison back with Miz, but John really should have gone to AEW and asked them for a spot instead. Every week that goes by RAW attendance dwindles and talented roster members are released. The shitty workmanship of the belts (sorry, ‘titles’) reflects how little WWE actually draw now. John should have followed the money and gone with the fresh new young company. It isn’t always better the Devil you know..

i want john to do soft porn late night cable movies! asap! you all know he would be FANTASTIC!....

Even in an empty arena his charisma shines bright as his abs.

It’s so weird watching with no crowd. It’s like AMSR, or watching amateurs work in their living room. You can hear called spots and grunts of exertion. It’s....not bad, but very different. More intimate, in a way. And kind of like TNA used to be😂😂😂

Miz & Morrison’s recent work with Usos & New Day is the only watchable part of WWE programming (a new Smackdown Six, anyone?) They’re basically carrying an entire brand show on their backs right now.

Their WrestleMania build was so funny. Miz in particular was feeling his fullest fantasy backing up JoMo as his whiny shitheel valet (he’s basically acting exactly the same way JoMo’s ex-girlfriend Melina used to, and it works suspiciously well). I love the April 10 episode where Miz just explodes in bitchy rage at literally everyone who talks to him for any reason. “How *dare* you interrupt. What do you *want*, anyway?” “WHAT PART OF ‘MEDICALLY CLEARED’ DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?!”

Morrison got some fantastic one-liners in, too. He was incredibly sexy defending his tag partner. “I got his [Miz] back; everyone else gets my front”. 🙏😳🤩

Gay Easter Eggs in this episode: Big E (with his thicc thighs in tight trackpants) and the “anals of time”, then choking out Jey Uso who liked it way too much (go to 4 minutes in this clip...)

anyone catch i think it was a week ago or maybe 2 weeks ago monday night raw when they had apollo crews (just love his pillow like muscles everywhere) opening the show with a sit down in the ring with 2 other wrestlers and he was wearing these NEON ORANGE spandex trunks and damn if they weren't high cut up his thighs and bulging as he sat in the chair in the ring! awesomely sexy it was!.

He was great on survivor

MizMor dropped yet another music video on us last weekend, this time a Val Halen tribute. They should have won the title for this.

JoMo plays piano and rips his shirt off twenty seconds in. It’s glorious.

Miz & John back on their homoerotic shenanigans. Love to see it!

This time on RAW, John filmed Miz in his bath for an arthouse film they were making to promote Miz’s wife’s beauty product line? (This is a show about wrestling)

“Don’t mind my cold shoulder.”

“Fire is sensual...”

“Moist is better than dry, isn’t it?”