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Gregory Shane Helms (born July 12, 1974 in
Smithfield, North Carolina, performing for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
on it's SmackDown! brand where he is the current reigning and defending WWE
Cruiserweight Champion. Helms is the longest reigning WWE Cruiserweight Champion
of all time in its current form.
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Ring name(s) Shane Helms
Hurricane Helms
The Hurricane
Gregory Helms
Height 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight 215 lb (97 kg)
Born July 12, 1974
Smithfield, North Carolina
Billed from Raleigh, North Carolina
Trained by Self Trained
Matt Hardy
Jeff Hardy
Debut July 6, 1991
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Career
World
Championship Wrestling
After wrestling in many independent promotions,
including the Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts (OMEGA) promotion
founded by Matt and Jeff Hardy, Helms and his friend Shannon Moore signed with
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 2000.
In WCW, Helms's first break came as a member of the
heel team 3 Count with Moore and Evan Karagias. The trio was a parody of the
popular boy bands of the time and their gimmick involved making music videos and
performing before their matches, during which their opponents tended to attack
them before the match started. Helms later split from the group, started using
the name "Sugar" Shane Helms, and found success as WCW Cruiserweight Champion.
He was the reigning Cruiserweight Champion immediately before WCW was bought out
by the then World Wrestling Federation (WWF).
World
Wrestling Federation/Entertainment
Helms, after a name change from Shane to his first
name of Gregory due to stem confusion that WWF staff thought would be caused
from having him and Shane McMahon as active members in the organization, was
brought in a part of the Invasion storyline as member of the The Alliance. Along
the way, he had another name change to Hurricane Helms, but found little success
until he began using The Hurricane character.
Helms's superhero character was loosely based on
The Green Lantern; he sports a tattoo of the hero's logo on his right biceps.
His real-life fixation of the character was parlayed into The Hurricane gimmick,
and Helms gradually evolved into a full superhero character to the point of
wearing a costume to the ring. During his time in the locker room he would dress
as a 1950s reporter with glasses, using his real name, as a homage to Clark Kent
(Superman), right down to the similarity in the name of the newspaper he
reported for, the Daily Globe.
Originally a heel, Helms believed himself to have
superhuman powers. He would, for example, wrestle heavyweights and attempt to
chokeslam them, but given his comparatively small size comically couldn't even
pick the other wrestlers up. Over time, his character increasingly received
positive fan reaction. Helms became a face and was able to chokeslam some of his
opponents, often acting surprised at his own strength. Royal Rumble 2002 was one
of the Hurricane's more memorable moments of "superhuman strength", as he
stormed the ring during the Royal Rumble match and attempted (and failed) to
double chokeslam that year's megastars Triple H and Stone Cold Steve Austin.
During The Hurricane's stint as a heel, he stole
Spike Dudley's girlfriend, Molly Holly. She later emerged as Mighty Molly, his
first superhero sidekick. The duo went their separate ways at WrestleMania X8
when Molly turned on Hurricane and won the Hardcore Title from him.
Helms would later be drafted to SmackDown!, winning
the Cruiserweight Title from Taijri and Kidman in a triple threat match. Later
in 2002, he was traded to RAW and won the World Tag Team Titles with Kane. Early
in 2003, Hurricane was involved in a feud with The Rock. The two would engage in
backstage segments, with The Rock referring to The Hurricane as "The Hamburglar"
(in part because his mask is similar to the Hamburglar's). This comic feud
culminated in a match on RAW, in which The Rock clearly dominated. However, in a
shock turn of events (and in part of Stone Cold Steve Austin's distractings of
The Rock), The Hurricane emerged victorious, giving him arguably the biggest win
of his career.
In 2003, Hurricane "discovered" Rosey's potential
as a superhero, and christened him "Rosey, the Super Hero in Training" (or the
S.H.I.T.). On the July 19, 2004 episode of RAW, Rosey appeared with a new
costume, seemingly graduated to a full superhero and teaming with his mentor.
On May 1, 2005, at Backlash, Hurricane and Rosey
defeated La Resistance in the finals of a Tag Team Turmoil match to win the
World Tag Team Championship.
Not long after winning the titles, Stacy Keibler
joined Rosey and The Hurricane as their sidekick, Super Stacy, but in August
2005, Rosey and The Hurricane lost Keibler as their sidekick when she and
Christy Hemme were traded to SmackDown!
On September 5, 2005 Hurricane and Rosey were
defeated by Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch, during their debut match on RAW.
Though this was a non-title match, the pair earned themselves a title match at
Unforgiven. During the title match, Murdoch delivered an elevated DDT on The
Hurricane to the outside. The DDT caused Hurricane to suffer a "stinger" (in
kayfabe) and allowed Cade & Murdoch to beat the injured Hurricane later in the
match to win the World Tag Team Titles from him, and Rosey.
Gimmick
Change
The loss of the titles began a sliding path that
brought the team to an end, for weeks after the pair would begin a losing
streak, mainly caused by Hurricane's injuries. During the October 17, 2005
episode of RAW, The Hurricane was assaulted by Kurt Angle at the request of
Vince McMahon. After the beating, footage was shown of Hurricane ripping off his
mask and striking Rosey because he did not help him fend off Angle. The next
week, The Hurricane no showed a World Tag Team Title match leaving Rosey to face
the champions alone. During the match, The Hurricane (out of costume) appeared
at the top of the entrance ramp; reverting back to his real name, Gregory Helms
he watched as Rosey was double teamed and defeated. After the match, Helms
announced that he was fed up of being funny for the crowd, and that he had been
carrying Rosey as a tag team partner. This started the first heel turn for Helms
since his debut in WWE with the WCW/ECW Alliance.
On the November 7, 2005 edition of RAW, Helms and
Rosey finally faced off in singles action. This was Rosey's last match in WWE.
Helms won the match after hitting the Shining Wizard. On WWE.com's Unlimited,
Helms talked about his frustrations with not only not being on RAW in recent
weeks, but also regarding Jerry "The King" Lawler making comments about him on
the December 26, 2005 edition of RAW. During RAW on January 2, 2006, Helms
confronted Lawler face to face about the comments, to which Lawler responded
that when Helms was The Hurricane he was at least half-entertaining, but now he
was just a guy that sucked. Helms responded by slapping Lawler, who responded
back in kind by punching Helms and sending him out of the ring. This
confrontation led to Lawler challenging Helms to a match at New Year's
Revolution. Helms would go on to lose the match after a Fist Drop.
At the 2006 Royal Rumble, Helms would win
SmackDown!'s WWE Cruiserweight Championship (even though he was, at the time, a
superstar on RAW ) in an Open Invitational to all former Cruiserweight
Champions. The participants were Helms, the reigning champion Kid Kash, Funaki,
Paul London, Jamie Noble, and Nunzio. Helms won after hitting the Shining Wizard
on Funaki.
He would make his return to the SmackDown! brand in
February 2006, to start a feud with Nunzio, Kid Kash and the other
cruiserweights. During this time, Helms defeated Nunzio in a one-on-one match.
The week afterwards, he was supposed to defend against Kid Kash but Kash was
away on a family emergency so Scotty 2 Hotty took his place. Helms defeated
Scotty 2 Hotty and cut a promo about being better than all of the
cruiserweights. At this point all the cruiserweights at the show (who were in
contention for the belt) invaded the ring and beat down Helms using all of their
signature moves. It was later announced by SmackDown! General Manager, Teddy
Long, at No Way Out, Helms would be set to face all these cruiserweights in a
match for the title. Helms was able to retain the championship. Later, Long
mandated that Helms has to defend his title against a cruiserweight each week on
SmackDown! to prove that he is better than all the cruiserweights. Helm's first
defense under this new rule was against Psicosis of the Mexicools; Helms once
again retained with help from the ropes.
On the March 10, 2006 edition of SmackDown!, Teddy
Long told Helms that he didn't have to defend his title due to the fact that he
had a broken nose. Instead, Long put Helms in a champion vs. champion match
against United States Champion Chris Benoit. During the match, Helms narrowly
escaped a Sharpshooter and left the ring. However, his escape was blocked by
four other cruiserweights - Kid Kash, Jamie Noble, Paul London, and Brian
Kendrick - who grabbed Helms and threw him back into the ring, where Benoit
locked in the Crossface for the win.
Helms went on to undergo successful surgery on his
nose was expected to miss five to six weeks. During this time SmackDown!
announcers would state that Helms had a no-compete clause in his contract
allowing him to miss ring time due to any injury. Helms returned to the ring
during the April 28, 2006 edition of SmackDown!, teaming with MNM to face Paul
London, Brian Kendrick and Super Crazy in a six-man tag team competition. Helms
continued on with defending his belt during PPV's but made more regular
appearances on SmackDown!'s sister show, WWE Velocity.
Helms would continue on defending his title against
other cruiserweights while on occasion facing off against SmackDown!'s other
title holders in champion vs. champion matches. Helms would face World
Heavyweight Champion Rey Mysterio on June 16, 2006 and the United States
Champion Bobby Lashley on July 7, losing both matches.
July 13, 2006 was Gregory Helms’ 165th day as
cruiserweight champion, giving him the longest title reign in the 15 year
history of the cruiserweight title.
In
wrestling
Finishing moves
Shining Wizard / Shining Black (Running enzuigiri
to a kneeling opponent)
Nightmare on Helms Street / Eye of the Hurricane
(Spinning headlock elbow drop)
Vertebreaker (Back to back double underhook
piledriver)
Signature moves
The Calm Before The Storm / Death Wish / Underdog
(Reverse version of the inverted double underhook facebuster which sees the
opponent get dropped down to the mat back-first)
Overcast (Flying neckbreaker)
Flying crossbody
Hurrikick / Sugarsmack (Superkick)
Chokeslam
CrossFace Halo (Cross-arm sitout sleeper slam)
X-Plex (Cross-arm German suplex)
TopSpin Facebuster (Fireman's carry to facebreaker
knee smash)
Hammerlock Russian leg sweep
StrangeHold Legsweep (Cross-arm Russian legsweep)
Inverted Side Suplex (Inverted side slam)
The Shoulder Wrecker (Inverted front facelock to
shoulderbreaker on the knee)
Triple Facebuster (Triple sitout facebuster)
Previous managers
Ivory
"Mighty" Molly
Super Stacy
Nicknames
"The Suicide Bomb"
"The Serial Thriller"
"The Show"
"Kid"
"Kid Vicious"
"Gauge"
"Sugar" Shane Helms
"The Sensation of Innovation"
"IBM — Insane Bump Machine"
"The Nice Package"
Championships and accomplishments
Carolina Championship Wrestling
2-time CCW Light Heavyweight Champion
Carolina Championship Wrestling Alliance
2-time CCWA Light Heavyweight Champion
Exodus Wrestling Alliance
1-time EWA Cruiserweight Champion
New Dimension Wrestling
1-time NDW Light Heavyweight Champion
1-time NDW Tag Team Champion (with Mike Maverick)
NWA Wildside
1-time NWA Wildside Tag Team Champion (with Shannon
Moore)
Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts
2-time OMEGA Tag Team Champion (with Mike Maverick)
Southeast Championship Wrestling
1-time SCW Champion
1-time SCW Tag Team Champion (with Mike Maverick)
South Eastern Wrestling Alliance
1-time SEWA Light Heavyweight Champion
Southern Wrestling Alliance
1-time SWA Light Heavyweight Champion
Texas Championship Wrestling
1-time TCW Texas Tag Team Champion (with Lenny
Lane)
World Championship Wrestling
1-time WCW Cruiserweight Champion
1-time WCW Hardcore Champion (with Evan Karagias
and Shannon Moore)
World Wrestling Entertainment
2-time WWE Cruiserweight Champion (Current)
2-time WWE World Tag Team Champion (1 time with
Kane, 1 time with Rosey)
1-time WWE European Champion
7-Time WWE Hardcore Champion
World Wrestling Organization
1-time WWO Light Heavyweight Champion
Other Titles
1-time NAPW Light Heavyweight Champion
Championship succession
(WWE) World Tag Team Championship
Preceded by:
Lance Storm and Christian First, with Kane
Succeeded by:
Chris Jericho and Christian
Preceded by:
Tajiri and William Regal Second, with Rosey
Succeeded by:
Cade & Murdoch
WWE European Championship
Preceded by:
Matt Hardy First Succeeded by:
Bradshaw
WCW/WWE Cruiserweight Championship
Preceded by:
Chavo Guerrero, Jr. First Succeeded by:
Billy Kidman
Preceded by:
Tajiri Second Succeeded by:
Jamie Noble
Preceded by:
Kid Kash Third Succeeded by:
Current
WWE Hardcore Championship
Preceded by:
Spike Dudley First Succeeded by:
Molly Holly
WCW Hardcore Championship
Preceded by:
Brian Knobbs First Succeeded by:
Brian Knobbs
Trivia
In The Squid and the Whale, a poster of The
Hurricane is seen, even though the film is set in the 1980s (IMDB).
Gregory Helms has had a different gimmick in each
of his three Cruiserweight Championship reigns.
Helms is a comic book fan, one of his favorites is
The Green Lantern. He has a tattoo on his bicep which is the Lantern's logo and
his orginal WWE character The Hurricane was inspired by The Green Lantern.
Helms is a fan of MMA.
Is the longest reigning Cruiserweight Champion of
all time.
Helms performed as the stunt double of actor David
Arquette in the movie 'Ready to Rumble'
Is currently in a relationship with Indy women's
wrestler Talia.
Eats two Reese's Peanut Butter Cups before every
match.
His finisher, Nightmare on Helms Street is seen by
some fans as homage to Freddy Krueger, although this is still in debate.
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