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Later that night, Melina lost a singles match against Jillian Hall and after slapping General manager Theodore Long in anger, she and Nitro were fired from the SmackDown! brand in storyline. [38] [39] Off-screen, Nitro and Mercury did not get along, and WWE management decided to split the tag team and send Nitro and Melina to the Raw brand. [40]
Melina Nava Perez [2] (born March 9, 1979) is an American professional wrestler. She is best known for her tenure in WWE under the ring name Melina. Perez most recently wrestled for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). In 2000, Perez began training to be a professional wrestler at Jesse Hernandez's School of Hard Knocks, and made her debut in ...
As Melina made her way to the ring performing her signature split to enter, the champion dropkicked the challenger to the floor of the arena, starting an aggressively-fought match. The match spent a portion of time on the floor with McCool holding Melina on the barricade, dropping her on her face on the structure with a DDT.
Another rivalry involved an inter-brand match involving the WWE Divas Champion Melina and the WWE Women's Champion Layla and Michelle McCool, collectively known as Lay-Cool, in a title unification Match. On May 14, Layla had pinned Beth Phoenix in a handicap match to win the Women's championship. However, both Layla and McCool decided to make ...
The original WWE Women's Championship was unified with the WWE Divas Championship at the Night of Champions pay-per-view in September 2010. Divas Champion Melina faced self-professed co-WWE Women's Champion Michelle McCool in a lumberjill match. McCool won the match due to interference from real Women's Champion Layla to unify the two titles. [19]
Later that night Nitro and Melina were fired from the SmackDown! brand in storyline, to facilitate their move to Raw, where they reappeared the following week. [36] [37] The legitimate reason for the team's sudden split was later revealed to be Mercury failing a WWE Wellness Policy drug test and being forced to serve a 30-day suspension.
After MNM's split, Nitro achieved success as a singles competitor, winning two Intercontinental Championships and the ECW World Championship. The next week, Nitro, along with Melina, debuted on the Raw brand in a loss to WWE Champion John Cena. [43]
In April 2011, the promotion ceased using its full name with the "WWE" abbreviation becoming an orphaned initialism. [9] In August, the brand split was dissolved, thus the 2011 Royal Rumble was the last Royal Rumble held during the first brand extension. [10] However, the brand split would be reinstated in July 2016. [11]