54 Facts About Gregory Helms

Gregory Shane Helms was born on July 12,1974 and is an American professional wrestler.

Gregory Helms is currently signed to WWE under a legends contract, as a wrestler and as a backstage producer.

Gregory Helms is known for his time with World Championship Wrestling, where he wrestled as "Sugar" Shane Helms.

When WCW was bought by the World Wrestling Federation, Gregory Helms' contract was kept by WWF.

Gregory Helms renamed himself "The Hurricane" and won the WWE Cruiserweight Championship.

Gregory Helms later picked up a sidekick, Rosey, and they won the World Tag Team Championship together.

Gregory Helms dropped the superhero gimmick in 2005, and began wrestling under his real name.

Gregory Helms won the Cruiserweight Championship in early 2006, and held it for over a year, becoming the longest reigning Cruiserweight Champion and the longest reigning champion of any kind in SmackDown history.

Gregory Helms spent the majority of his early career in his home state of North Carolina, winning numerous light heavyweight championships.

Gregory Helms began calling himself "The Show" Shane Gregory Helms, and teamed with "Big Daddy" Mike Maverick, initially using the team name Assault and Battery.

SCW would mark the end of the Serial Thrillaz, as Gregory Helms vacated both titles before moving on to NWA Worldwide.

Once there, Gregory Helms joined the Bad Street Boys with Shannon Moore, Christian York, and Joey Matthews.

Moore and Gregory Helms would leave WCW briefly in 2001 to wrestle in NWA Wildside, where they held the Wildside Tag Team Championship for one day.

Gregory Helms became the number one contender for the Cruiserweight Championship after winning a match at SuperBrawl Revenge, but was attacked by Karagias and Moore afterwards.

Gregory Helms was part of the Invasion storyline as a member of The Alliance losing his Cruiserweight Championship in a one-on-one match to another Alliance member, Billy Kidman.

Gregory Helms lost it to Jamie Noble at King of the Ring.

Gregory Helms defeated him and declared that he was better than all the other cruiserweights.

Helm's first defense under this new rule was against Psicosis of The Mexicools; Gregory Helms retained by cheating.

Gregory Helms underwent successful surgery on his nose and was expected to miss five to six weeks.

The feud ended after Gregory Helms defeated him to retain the title at Armageddon in December 2006.

Shortly after losing the championship, Gregory Helms formed a tag team with Guerrero, but they did not win any matches as a team.

On May 18,2007, WWE reported that Gregory Helms had broken two vertebrae in his neck, one of which was pressing on his spinal cord.

Gregory Helms underwent surgery with Dr Lloyd Youngblood to repair them approximately a week later.

Gregory Helms returned on the September 19,2008, episode of SmackDown in a non-wrestling role.

Gregory Helms started a storyline where, while he was interviewing someone, a scripted accident would occur, leading to Helms leaving the interview seconds before the person in distress was saved by The Hurricane.

On February 26,2010, Gregory Helms was released from his WWE contract.

On October 23,2010, Gregory Helms made his debut for Jersey All Pro Wrestling, where he, under his Hurricane gimmick, defeated Azrieal.

On January 10,2011, Gregory Helms signed a contract with Lucha Libre USA.

On January 29,2011 Gregory Helms made his debut for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, during the WrestleReunion 5 weekend, in a match, where he was defeated by Joey Ryan.

Gregory Helms took part in 20-Man Legends Battle Royale, making his second appearance of the night.

Gregory Helms eliminated Cruel Connection, but later was thrown out by Shane Douglas and Terry Funk.

In 2013, Gregory Helms returned to the revived OMEGA, now called OMEGA Championship Wrestling, and on October 12, he defeated Shane Williams to advance in a tournament for the OMEGA Championship.

On November 16,2013, Gregory Helms was defeated by Chris Hero at a Pro Wrestling Syndicate event.

In March 2015, Gregory Helms received a tryout for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as an agent and began working for the company within that capacity that same month.

At Bound for Glory, Gregory Helms made his on-screen debut under his full birth name to congratulate the TNA X Division Champion Tigre Uno.

On June 19,2017 Gregory Helms announced his departure from Impact Wrestling.

In June 2018, it was announced that Gregory Helms signed with Ring of Honor.

Gregory Helms worked as wrestler and producer, including a feud against Marty Scurll.

Gregory Helms entered at number 23 and was quickly eliminated by Big E and Bobby Lashley.

Gregory Helms announced on March 24,2022 that he'd signed a Legends deal with WWE.

The Wrestling Figure Checklist records that Gregory Helms has had 20 different action figures released in the 2000s and 2010s.

Gregory Helms is a comic book fan, and one of his favorite characters is the Green Lantern.

Gregory Helms has a tattoo on his right shoulder which is the Lantern's logo and his original WWE character, The Hurricane, is inspired by the Green Lantern.

Gregory Helms owns a motorcycle called "The Hurri-Cycle", which he got when he was using The Hurricane gimmick.

Gregory Helms is good friends with Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy and Shannon Moore.

Gregory Helms appears on The Hardy Show, The Hardys' internet show.

Gregory Helms performed as the stunt double of actor David Arquette in the movie Ready to Rumble.

That article mentioned several current and former WWE wrestlers, including Gregory Helms who was alleged to have obtained HGH.

Gregory Helms was said to have received testosterone, HGH and nandrolone between November 2003 and February 2007.

In June 2012, Gregory Helms' girlfriend gave birth to his first child, a boy named Sebastian.

Gregory Helms is a weekly guest on the podcast "Keepin it 100" on the Jericho network.

On May 6,2008, Gregory Helms was assaulted in a club in Johnston County, North Carolina, by an acquaintance, Dustin Narron.

On March 13,2011, Gregory Helms was cited for affray following an altercation at a bar in Smithfield, North Carolina.

Gregory Helms suffered a broken leg, ankle, jaw and nose during the accident, as well as sustaining other fractures and receiving over 200 stitches, while his girlfriend sustained a broken neck.