Gregory Shane Helms was born on July 12,1974 and is an American professional wrestler.
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49 Facts About Shane Helms
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Shane Helms is currently signed with WWE under a legends contract, as a wrestler and as a backstage producer.
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In WWE, Helms has wrestled as The Hurricane, Gregory Helms, and Hurricane Helms.
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Shane Helms is known for his time with World Championship Wrestling, where he wrestled as "Sugar" Shane Helms.
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Shane Helms first began wrestling in 1991 at the age of 17, and wrestled in numerous independent promotions, including the Organization of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts, winning numerous light heavyweight and tag team championships.
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Shane Helms renamed himself "The Hurricane" and won the WWE Cruiserweight Championship.
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Shane Helms later picked up a sidekick, Rosey, and they won the World Tag Team Championship together.
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Shane Helms dropped the superhero gimmick in 2005, and began wrestling under his real name.
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Shane 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.
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Shane Helms won his first championship shortly afterwards, by defeating "Playboy" T C Cruise to become the Southern Wrestling Alliance Light Heavyweight Champion.
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Shane Helms spent the majority of his early career in his home state of North Carolina, winning numerous light heavyweight championships.
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Helms began calling himself "The Show" Shane Helms, and teamed with "Big Daddy" Mike Maverick, initially using the team name Assault and Battery.
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SCW would mark the end of the Serial Thrillaz, as Shane Helms vacated both titles before moving on to NWA Worldwide.
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Once there, Shane Helms joined the Bad Street Boys with Shannon Moore, Christian York, and Joey Matthews.
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Moore and Shane Helms would leave WCW briefly in 2001 to wrestle in NWA Wildside, where they held the Wildside Tag Team Championship for one day.
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Shane 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.
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Shane 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.
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Shane Helms defeated him and declared that he was better than all the other cruiserweights.
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Shane Helms underwent successful surgery on his nose and was expected to miss five to six weeks.
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The feud ended after Shane Helms defeated him to retain the title at Armageddon in December 2006.
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Shortly after losing the championship, Shane Helms formed a tag team with Guerrero, but they did not win any matches as a team.
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On May 18,2007, WWE reported that Shane Helms had broken two vertebrae in his neck, one of which was pressing on his spinal cord.
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Shane Helms underwent surgery with Dr Lloyd Youngblood to repair them approximately a week later.
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Shane Helms returned on the September 19,2008, episode of SmackDown in a non-wrestling role.
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Shane Helms made his ECW debut as a backstage interviewer on April 28,2009, reverting to his Gregory Shane Helms ring name, interviewing Evan Bourne.
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Shane 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.
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On October 23,2010, Shane Helms made his debut for Jersey All Pro Wrestling, where he, under his Hurricane gimmick, defeated Azrieal.
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On January 29,2011 Shane Helms made his debut for Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, during the WrestleReunion 5 weekend, in a match, where he was defeated by Joey Ryan.
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Shane Helms took part in 20-Man Legends Battle Royale, making his second appearance of the night.
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Shane Helms eliminated Cruel Connection, but later was thrown out by Shane Douglas and Terry Funk.
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On November 16,2013, Shane Helms was defeated by Chris Hero at a Pro Wrestling Syndicate event.
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In March 2015, Shane Helms received a tryout for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as an agent and began working for the company within that capacity that same month.
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At Bound for Glory, Shane Helms made his on-screen debut under his full birth name to congratulate the TNA X Division Champion Tigre Uno.
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Shane Helms worked as wrestler and producer, including a feud against Marty Scurll.
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Shane Helms entered the match at number 23 and was quickly eliminated by Big E and Bobby Lashley.
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Shane Helms announced on March 24,2022 that he'd signed a Legends deal with WWE.
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Shane Helms made an appearance in All Elite Wrestling on November 7,2020 during the Elite Deletion match under both The Hurricane and reporter Gregory Shane Helms personas, in a supporting effort for Matt Hardy against Sammy Guevara.
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Shane Helms is a comic book fan, and one of his favorite characters is the Green Lantern.
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Shane 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.
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Shane Helms owns a motorcycle called "The Hurri-Cycle", which he got when he was using The Hurricane gimmick.
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Shane Helms is good friends with Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy and Shannon Moore.
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Shane Helms appears on The Hardy Show, The Hardys' internet show.
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Shane Helms performed as the stunt double of actor David Arquette in the movie Ready to Rumble.
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Shane Helms was said to have received testosterone, HGH and nandrolone between November 2003 and February 2007.
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In June 2012, Shane Helms' girlfriend gave birth to his first child, a boy named Sebastian.
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Shane Helms is a weekly guest on the podcast "Keepin it 100" on the Jericho network.
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On May 6,2008, Shane Helms was assaulted in a club in Johnston County, North Carolina, by an acquaintance, Dustin Narron.
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On March 13,2011, Shane Helms was cited for affray following an altercation at a bar in Smithfield, North Carolina.
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Shane 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.
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