Harmony Corinthos

Background
Corinthos began her career as a model. She won a Miss California beauty contest and also modeled athletic wear for Nike. She decided to become a professional wrestler after talking to Empire Wrestling Federation (EWF) superstar Mike Henderson in 2000. Corinthos started training at Jesse Hernandez's School of Hard Knocks in San Bernardino, California and made her professional debut in April 2002. Many EWF officials stated that she had the most natural ability of any woman who came through their school. In late 2002 Corinthos auditioned for World Wrestling Entertainment's reality show Tough Enough III, making it through to the final twenty-one before being eliminated from the competition in the final cut of the first episode. After she was eliminated from the contest, trainer Al Snow pulled Corinthos aside and encouraged her to keep trying to pursue her dream as a wrestler.

Corinthos debuted in WWE's developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) in March 2004, being placed in an angle as John Hennigan's ex-girlfriend. The storyline had Matt Cappotelli introduce her to the ring as Maryse a way to taunt Hennigan. Harmony, however, turned on Cappotelli and aligned herself with Hennigan, who later changed his ring name to Johnny Nitro. Soon after, Harmony and Nitro began teaming with Joey Matthews, later known as Joey Mercury. The trio became known as MNM and on November 10, Harmony managed Mercury and Nitro to win the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship. During her time in OVW, Harmony, Nitro, and Steven Adkins came up with Harmony's trademark split ring entrance.

Harmony made her first Raw appearance on November 29, 2004, when Randy Orton was the guest General Manager and hosted a diva lingerie fashion show.She made another Raw appearance in December, participating in a limbo contest when Chris Jericho was General Manager for the night

MNM made their debut in WWE as a villainous tag team on the April 14, 2005, edition of SmackDown!. The team interrupted the first ever Carlito's Cabana interview segment, where one half of the WWE Tag Team Champions, Rey Mysterio, was a guest. Harmony insulted Mysterio and had Mercury and Nitro attack him, leading to MNM's in-ring debut the next week on SmackDown! in a title match. The team was booked to win the match against Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero, starting their first WWE Tag Team Title reign.

While managing the Tag Team Champions, Harmony's character was developed to be more egotistical as she declared herself "the most-dominant Diva in WWE." She made her official WWE in-ring debut on June 30 against Michelle McCool and had her first pay-per-view match (a Bra and Panties match) at The Great American Bash against Torrie Wilson, winning both matches. Also at The Great American Bash, MNM dropped their championship to the Legion of Doom, prompting a new storyline where Harmony hired Jillian Hall, a "fixer", to assist them. MNM regained the title on October 28 in a Fatal Four-Way tag team match. On the Eddie Guerrero Tribute Show Harmony won an interpromotional Divas battle royal by eliminating Women's Champion Trish Stratus. The next week, MNM kayfabe kidnapped Stratus and Harmony challenged her to a match for the Women's Championship. The two fought at Survivor Series, with Harmony losing to Stratus after interference from Mickie James.

During this time, MNM was booked to defend their title against Rey Mysterio and the World Heavyweight Champion Batista. Harmony was placed in an angle with her trying to make Batista call off the match by visiting him in his locker room and attempting to seduce him. The storyline had the two engage in sexual acts, after which he simply thanked her for the "warm-up" before leaving to take part in the match, where he and Mysterio defeated MNM for the title. The storyline played over to the next episode of SmackDown! when, before MNM invoked their rematch clause, Harmony held a press conference in the ring where she claimed that Batista had sexually harassed her. During the tag team match, Mark Henry aided MNM in winning back the WWE Tag Team Championship. The angle with Henry continued into the next year. On the first SmackDown! of 2006, Harmony announced that Henry was her personal protection against Batista. He accompanied her and aided the other members of MNM in matches against Batista and Mysterio.

At Judgment Day on May 21, 2006, MNM were booked to lose their Tag Team Championship to Paul London and Brian Kendrick. After the match, Harmony and Nitro, as part of the storyline, attacked Mercury, blaming him for the loss. Later that night, Harmony lost a singles match against Jillian Hall and after slapping General Manager Theodore Long in anger, she and Nitro were kayfabe fired from the SmackDown! brand. Off-screen, Nitro and Mercury did not get along, and WWE management decided to split the tag team and send Nitro and Harmony to the Raw brand. Harmony and Nitro made their way to Raw on May 29, with Nitro losing to WWE Champion John Cena. The following week, Harmony faked a sprained ankle, allowing Nitro to roll-up Charlie Haas for his first Raw victory. Harmony continued to manage Nitro during his successful hunt for the WWE Intercontinental Championship, while being involved in another storyline with Trish Stratus. The angle turned into a tag team feud when Carlito joined forces with Stratus to take on Harmony and Nitro. At Saturday Night's Main Event on July 15, Harmony and Nitro lost to Carlito and Stratus in a mixed tag team match.

After Harmony's arrival on Raw, Mick Foley began to mention her in promos, playing on their real friendship mentioned in his WWE.com columns, and they soon formed an on-screen friendship. At SummerSlam, Harmony was involved in Foley's "I Quit" match against Ric Flair when Flair threatened to hit her with a barbed wire baseball bat, causing Foley to quit the match to save her. The next night on Raw, the storyline had Vince McMahon order Foley to join the Kiss My Ass club. Foley did not care about saving his own career, but joined after Vince threatened Harmony's job. After begging Foley not to go through with it, Foley "joined the club" to save Harmony's job, only to have her suddenly turn on him by delivering a low blow and kayfabe firing him at the behest of McMahon. This storyline was concocted by Foley to refresh the idea of the Kiss My Ass club. It was also around this time that Harmony added another characteristic to her gimmick: screaming loudly at ringside while managing or in tag team action, which became known as the "primal scream."

On January 29, 2007, Harmony became the number one contender for the WWE Women's Championship, and introduced her finisher from the independent circuit, the Kyrapractor, to WWE under the new name California Dream. On February 5, Harmony lost a title match against Mickie James. The following week on Raw, Harmony pinned James in a mixed tag team match and then challenged James again for the title. On February 19, as part of her first major singles push, Harmony successfully pinned James to win the WWE Women's Championship. This made Harmony the first woman of Mexican heritage to win the WWE Women's Championship. She then retained the title in a rematch during the first ever Women's Falls Count Anywhere match in WWE history.

In March, Harmony was placed in an angle where she became jealous of SmackDown! Diva Ashley Massaro, who was receiving attention because of her appearance in Playboy. The angle had Harmony claim in her blogs that no Playboy cover models were capable of fighting her. This resulted in scheduled matches against former Playboy cover girls Torrie Wilson and Candice Michelle, with both women losing to Harmony. The storyline came to a close at WrestleMania 23, where Harmony pinned Ashley in a Lumberjill match to retain her Women's Championship. After WrestleMania, Harmony organized a photo op with the Women's Title belt in the ring but was interrupted by Mickie James, resulting in another storyline feud between the two Divas. On April 24, at a house show in Paris, France, Harmony lost the Women's Championship in a Triple Threat match to James when James pinned Victoria, but on the orders of Jonathan Coachman she was entitled to a rematch on the same night, where she pinned James by putting her hands on the ropes to regain the title and become a two-time WWE Women's Champion.

On May 7, Harmony was defeated in a tag team match when she was pinned by Candice Michelle. Harmony was scripted to lose to Candice in various tag team matches, as well as in non-title bouts over the next few weeks. At Vengeance, Harmony dropped the Women's Championship to Candice and failed to recapture the title at The Great American Bash.

Harmony, along with then-ally Beth Phoenix, defeated Maria and Ashley at WrestleMania XXIV. After Phoenix lost the Women's Championship to Mickie James, she began a feud with Phoenix after Corinthos accidentally hit Phoenix with her boot in a lumberjill match against James. The following week on Raw, Phoenix walked out on Harmony during a tag match against James and Maria when Harmony accidentally bumped Phoenix off the apron. Harmony was then attacked by Phoenix during a backstage segment following the match, leading to her turning face for the first time in her WWE career. At One Night Stand, Harmony competed in a losing effort against Phoenix in the first ever Women's "I Quit" match. On June 23, 2008, Corinthos injured her heel after falling from the turnbuckles during a tag team match with Mickie James against Natalya and Victoria.

Corinthos made her in-ring return, ahead of schedule, at the November 13 Florida Championship Wrestling television taping, teaming with Gabe Tuft to defeat Jack Gabriel and Alicia Fox in a mixed tag team match. Corinthos returned to WWE television on the November 24 edition of Raw as a face, teaming with former rivals Mickie James and Candice Michelle to defeat Phoenix, Jillian Hall, and Katie Lea Burchill, when Corinthos pinned Burchill. She then made her in-ring singles return against Jillian the following week, and defeated her with her new The Last Call finisher. After the match however, Harmony had stated her intentions to take the WWE Women's Championship away from Beth Phoenix.

On December 29, 2008, Harmony won a six-woman battle royal, to become the number one contender to the Women's Championship. After the match, Harmony and Phoenix engaged in a confrontation over a fan of Phoenix's named Rosa Mendes, who had pushed Harmony. On January 25, 2009, Harmony won her third WWE Women's Championship at the Royal Rumble by defeating Phoenix. She would successfully defend her title against Phoenix numerous times over the course of the next few months.

On the April 13 episode of Raw, Harmony was drafted to SmackDown in the 2009 WWE Draft making the WWE Women's Championship exclusive to the SmackDown brand. Harmony then made her in-ring debut on SmackDown one month later, teaming with Gail Kim to defeat Michelle McCool and Alicia Fox. After McCool was named the new #1 Contender for the Women's Championship, they began a rivalry. Harmony lost the Championship to McCool at The Bash on June 28, after an interference from Fox. Harmony received a rematch on July 26 at Night of Champions, but failed to recapture the Championship.