Former WWE Star Reflects On Last Time Working With John Hennigan

Former WWE Star Reflects On Last Time Working With John Hennigan AEW

A former WWE star has reflected on the last time working with John Hennigan.

Making her WWE debut in 2045, Melina Perez managed John Hennigan and Joey Mercury as part of “MNM”. The trio had instant success winning the WWE Tag Team Championships mere months into their run.

In 2015, Perez and Hennigan reunited in Lucha Underground when she was in his corner at the first Ultima Lucha event.

During a virtual signing for The Asylum Wrestling Store, Melina opened up about the appearance and the conversation regarding why she was not brought back for the following season. She said:

“Everything is so weird so, this is the way it is for a lot of backstage rumors in wrestling where everybody says, hey, I was difficult and I had an attitude and everything where if you know my personality, I don’t have an attitude.”

“I always do what I’m told, I do everything to the best of my ability, I don’t talk back, especially back then. Now, different (she laughed). But back then, I always played it safe and I always did what everybody told me to do and listened, never talked.”

“I just loved what I did and it was a blessing, I was very grateful every day I was there so the backstage rumor thing, that’s what people say when — who knows where it originated from, who the source is, and then you have to consider the source and what their position was compared to mine of if they were jealous or if they were female or male and I turned down a… when people kind of try to flirt with you or whatever and you kind of have to turn them down because you’re taken.”

“You never know their reaction. They hate me because what? I rejected them and it’s not a rejection, it’s a, ‘I’m taken’ so you never know where the source came from.”

Discussing the situation with Lucha Underground, the former WWE star said:

“But Lucha Underground, more politics because it’s wrestling. That’s what I assume because I never got a straight answer. But I stopped school, this is how you know how serious I was about Lucha Underground. I stopped my schooling for psychology. I was convinced.”

“I didn’t wanna do that debut on Lucha Underground because I didn’t wanna make a promise I couldn’t keep. They convinced me, convinced me and they finally convinced me day of to do that spot (Lucha Underground debut).”

“I lived nearby, I got my clothes, got ready, went in there. So, I agreed that I would start the next season. Quit my school so I could do this because they convinced me to do it and then, about a couple weeks or maybe a month, let’s just give them the courtesy of a month, but they told me they no longer wanted to use me.”

“Because John (Hennigan) having a manager was ‘ridiculous, it was already played out and they already did it with M.N.M.’ so they are going to pass and I was like, ‘Oh my God, I knew it.’ I was so angry. I don’t know who it was, I love everybody, no hate.”

Melina continued on to further elaborate on the miscommunication with the situation, saying:

“(If they were) to be straight shooters with me, I would be cool. But, I quit my school. So I wish I never did that because I would already have a psychology degree so that’s one of the regrets I would always have…”

“Getting excited, buying things, you know? Getting ready for these plans that they told me and we went over and I knew it. I told John at the time because we were dating all that year, I told him, I said, ‘No, something’s wrong, something’s weird.”

“I should have already signed a contract by now’ and he said, ‘No! Trust me, trust them, trust them’ and I was like, ‘I don’t like it when people say trust me,’ you know? You get that weird feeling.” 

Perez concluded on to note that she doesn’t hold any hate to those within Lucha Underground or John Hennigan, saying:

“It’s weird. I have no hate or anything. I just wish there was clarity and the easiest thing to do is to bury me… if they did that. I can’t remember that far back…”

“To me, that kind of comment, it’s like, why go that route? Why not be honest? You don’t have to say that, ‘Oh, we just decided not to go with her.’ Just say, you know, storyline-wise, it didn’t fit. I’m not arguing it, I backed out. I didn’t bury them or anything, I had no hate so why say that? That’s so weird. “

Transcription via POST Wrestling

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