John Morrison has revealed who came up with his unique entrance.
The 46-year-old got an opportunity with WWE not long after deciding to pursue pro wrestling. Starting as a contestant on Tough Enough III in 2002, he went on to have a memorable run with the promotion, first as part of the MNM tag team and then in singles competition. One of the things casual fans still remember the high-flying star for is his unique entrance in the company, which was performed in slow motion.
The wrestling veteran detailed the origin of this entrance during a recent appearance on the Off The Ropes podcast. John Morrison credited Stephanie McMahon for putting the whole thing together from an idea he had:
That was mostly Stephanie actually. We were having a conversation about entrance ideas and I had brought up wanting to have a more cinematic vibe to the entrance, and man, I think I’d talked about trying to use a phantom camera that shoots — it’d shoot almost 100,000 frames per second so if you see those water drops like slowly dropping, I thought about doing something like that.
She Just Kind of Put Together: John Morrison
John Morrison noted that he had also considered using a cinema entrance but decided not to because Goldust already had a similar entrance. The former WWE star said that he was glad the idea came from Stephanie, as it was executed very quickly because of it:
I thought about a cinema treatment but Goldust had kind of already done that and then she just kind of put together in her head, like, ‘Why don’t we just go from regular speed to slow-mo, and then there will be a timelapse, and then you can walk out,’
The former ECW Champion had also recently told the story of why Vince McMahon got rid of his original ring name in the company. You can check out his remarks here.
