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John Morrison: “I’d Love to Wrestle Roman Reigns in 10 Years, Because By Then Hopefully He’d Figure Out How to Work”

Posted By: Ben Kerin on Mar 10, 2016

John Morrison: “I’d Love to Wrestle Roman Reigns in 10 Years, Because By Then Hopefully He’d Figure Out How to Work”

Former WWE Superstar John Morrison (Johnny Mundo) was recently interviewed by The World According To Wrestling in which he said heā€™d love to wrestle Roman Reigns in about ten years because ā€œhopefully heā€™d have figured out how to work.ā€Ā 

He also discussed wanting to reignite his rivalryĀ with Seth Rollins and his former tag partner and friend Joey Mercury in the future, the live screen-testing of his character name in WWE, where he thinks the real revolution in womenā€™s wrestling is happening, why his Johnny Nitro name was dropped, AJ Styles and the future of Lucha Underground after rumours of talks with WWE.

Below are some interview highlights:

On who he wants to wrestle in the future:

"Well Iā€™ve fought most them. Everyone knows some day Iā€™m gonna beat the crap out of Seth Rollins ā€“ that would be awesome. Iā€™d love to beat the crap out of him. Iā€™d just love to have a great match with Seth Rollins. Roman Reigns, Iā€™d love to wrestle him in like 10 years if heā€™s still wrestling, because by then hopefully heā€™d figure out how to work. It would be cool to wrestle Joey (Mercury) too, man, we wrestled a few times in OVW about 13 years ago but itā€™d be cool to wrestle him now just because so much has changed for both of us."

On the revolution in womenā€™s wrestling:

"I think if youā€™re talking about a ā€œdivas revolutionā€, Lucha Underground is the only show right now thatā€™s really empowering their female characters in a way that makes them equal with the guys. Itā€™s the only wrestling show to my knowledge where thereā€™s not just a women match every once in a while, thereā€™s intergender tags, thereā€™s matches where men are wrestling women. And ā€“ if you ask anyone on the Lucha roster ā€“thatā€™s what theyā€™ve always felt like they wanted. Anyone thatā€™s been with WWE, thereā€™s frustrations of feeling like you can only do so much. The women are told not to punch or to kick, to do power bombs and the power moves and none of that exists in Lucha Underground. So basically it presents the same canvas to the men and the women in Lucha and says ā€œYou have the tools, you know who you are, hereā€™s the Lucha Underground canvas, paint the picture you wantā€ instead of, in my opinion, WWE saying ā€œhereā€™s the WWE canvas but we only want you to use watercoloursā€. Thatā€™s the difference to me."

On why the name Johnny Nitro was dropped:

"Well, I always liked ā€œJohnny Blazeā€ but we announced in on TV and it was under copyright by Marvel. Then I had Johnny Spade and that name sucked, then I had Johnny Nitro. Johnny Nitro was one of my favourite names. I wish I was Johnny Nitro. I donā€™t think I ever needed to change but Vince didnā€™t like the name ā€˜Nitroā€™ because it reminded him of WCW so we picked John Morrison out of a hat one dayā€¦ I donā€™t know if anyone would ever say that but thatā€™s why, yeah."

On whether he thinks WWE and Lucha Underground could work together:

"I donā€™t know. I will say that if you look at wrestling historically that shit happens all the time and everybody ā€“ especially the wrestlers in all the organisations 0 always says like ā€œNever, No, Neverā€ because thereā€™s no way Lucha Underground could work with WWE or TNA would work with AAA or New Japan. Itā€™s always such a shock when it happens but historically speaking it always happens so, in that respect, I have no idea. Lucha Underground is a brand new organization. Weā€™re in our infancy and weā€™re expanding and people are recognising me as Johnny Mundo as opposed to John Morrison so itā€™s gonna be interesting to see how much the future holds for Lucha Underground, how it fits into the wrestling world."

Click Here to listen to the full interview on The World According To Wrestling on iTunes.


Tags: #wwe #lucha underground #john morrison

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