Johnny Jeter

John Jeter (born December 14, 1981) is an American professional wrestler.

Jeter was trained by Nick Dinsmore (also known as Eugene), and made his wrestling debut in 2001.

After being trained by Nick Dinsmore, Jeter debuted in 2001, and began working for Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW).

He began working for Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), which led to him signing a developmental contract with WWE in 2003.

Alongside Matt Cappotelli, he won the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship, and also won the OVW Heavyweight Championship in singles competition.

In 2003, Jeter signed a contract with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and continued to wrestle in OVW, which was WWE's developmental territory, although he occasionally made appearances in dark matches for WWE.

In one of his earliest dark matches, Jeter teamed with Nova in a loss to Chuck Palumbo and Nunzio on the February 23, 2003 episode of Velocity.

His pay-per-view debut was at the 2003 Vengeance event, when Jeter appeared as the masked Conquistador #2 in the APA's Barroom Brawl match.

In 2004, Jeter formed a tag team with Matt Cappotelli known as The Thrillseekers.

The Thrillseekers wrestled in several dark matches before both Raw and SmackDown, defeating the teams of Johnny Nitro and Chris Cage, and MNM.

On January 19, 2005, The Thrillseekers defeated MNM to win the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship.

They successfully defended the championship against MNM and The Heart Throbs, before losing it to the Blond Bombers (Tank and Chad Toland) on April 6.

On July 27, The Thrillseekers defeated MNM to become the number one contenders to the Tag Team Championship, in a match with the added stipulation that whoever gained the pin would receive a match for the OVW Heavyweight Championship.

The Thrillseekers got simultaneous pins, but it was Jeter who received the championship match.

On August 3, Jeter defeated the OVW Heavyweight Champion, Brent Albright, to win the championship, after Ken Anderson and Daniel Puder interfered on his behalf.

After the match, Jeter turned into a heel (villainous character) by attacking Cappotelli, who had suffered an injury.

In the following weeks, Jeter also attacked Albright, announcer Dean Hill, and official Danny Davis.

Jeter quickly formed an alliance with Ken Anderson, who helped him retain the championship on several occasions.

They later added Paul Burchill to the alliance as an enforcer.

After holding the OVW Heavyweight Championship for five months, Jeter lost it to Cappotelli in a two out of three falls match on November 9, 2005.

Jeter challenged Cappotelli on numerous occasions Cappotelli in an attempt to regain the championship, but was unsuccessful.

In OVW, he became a part of The Spirit Squad, a faction using the in-ring personas of male cheerleaders, using the name "Johnny".

He is best known for his appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in 2006 as Johnny, a member of The Spirit Squad.

Jeter became part of the Spirit Squad and debuted on Raw in January 2006.

They won the World Tag Team Championship once.

After being released from WWE, he returned to OVW.

On January 23, 2006, they had their WWE television debut as a group, appearing on Raw and helping Jonathan Coachman win a Royal Rumble qualifying match against Jerry Lawler by distracting Lawler and performing cheers for Coachman.

They later became a part of the ongoing scripted feud between WWE chairman Vince McMahon and Shawn Michaels.

The heel (villainous) McMahon brought in The Spirit Squad to attack Michaels on numerous occasions, including placing them in multiple handicap matches.

They also wrestled in the tag team division and on Raw on April 3, The Spirit Squad won the World Tag Team Championship when Kenny and Mikey, with outside help from the other three members, defeated Kane and The Big Show.

After winning the championship, all five members of The Spirit Squad were recognized as the champions, allowing any combination of them to defend the championship.

In May, McMahon signed another handicap match, with The Spirit Squad facing Michaels.

The Spirit Squad instead attacked Michaels before the match started, and Triple H came out to help The Spirit Squad.

Triple H felt disrespected by The Spirit Squad however, and as a result, helped Michaels instead.

This led to Triple H and Michaels reforming D-Generation X (DX) and they began a feud with The Spirit Squad.

DX played various sophomoric jokes on The Spirit Squad and the McMahons, as well as defeating The Spirit Squad in handicap tag team matches at Vengeance and a clean sweep in an elimination handicap match at Saturday Night's Main Event XXXIII.

At the same time as their feud with DX and their alignment with McMahon, The Spirit Squad also wrestled other teams in Raw ' s tag division over their World Tag Team Championship, successfully defending the championship against the teams of Jim Duggan and Eugene, Charlie Haas and Viscera, and Snitsky and Val Venis.

They then entered a lengthy feud with The Highlanders, whom they eventually defeated to retain the championship at the Unforgiven pay-per-view in September.

The Spirit Squad as a whole later began a losing streak with Johnny, Mikey, and Mitch losing singles matches to Ric Flair on consecutive episodes of Raw.

He retired, but returned to the ring in 2019.