Sephiroth
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Post by Sephiroth on May 16, 2018 5:35:40 GMT -5
The Hurricane remains a favorite gimmick of mine, and I still wish WWE had brought in Shark Boy to be his tag team partner instead of Rosie the SHIT. But The Hurricane got over so huge that I think people have forgotten where Helms was when he conceived the character. Please correct me if I am wrong about anything here: in those final days of WCW Bischoff was planning a major push for the cruiserweights, part of which was creating a tag team title for them-which last about a month. Another part was putting the belt on Helms and revamping him from 3 Count to be some sort of hot new baby face, including an elaborate entrance that featured loads of pyro and the Nitro Girls. But no sooner did this begin than WCW went under, and when he first defended the title on a WWF show he went from the pyro and Nitro Girls ot just wearing a glittery robe-and losing the title, I think. I remember feeling genuinely sorry for the guy when I saw that match on tv, it had to be pretty discouraging to have gone from one to the other. Yet he turned it all around by creating The Hurricane, supposedly all on his own with minimal inputs from creative, and the rest is history. Testament to how good the guy is.
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Post by TGM on May 16, 2018 7:31:39 GMT -5
I'm surprised Helms got to run with The Hurricane gimmick when he got to WWE considering what the political atmosphere must have been like.
His friendship with Matt Hardy must have done him some favours.
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Post by auph10imitated on May 16, 2018 7:41:23 GMT -5
Wasnt he called Sugar Shane Helms at the end if WCW?
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on May 16, 2018 10:51:34 GMT -5
Wasnt he called Sugar Shane Helms at the end if WCW? Yeah, he was still pretty boy bandish at the end. He called his superkick the Sugar Smack for God's sake. |
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Post by nickcave on May 16, 2018 12:45:45 GMT -5
He couldn't even keep his first name because of Shane McMahon, he pretty much had to do the Hurricane or he would have been lost in the shuffle.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2018 13:14:52 GMT -5
I wish the Sugar Shane Helms gimmick had worked out. I thought it was unique and could have ended up being something cool.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2018 18:49:39 GMT -5
3 Count Superfan Tank Abbott is one of the greatest things in wrestling history.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on May 16, 2018 19:27:45 GMT -5
Wasnt he called Sugar Shane Helms at the end if WCW? Yeah, he was still pretty boy bandish at the end. He called his superkick the Sugar Smack for God's sake. And weren’t the Nitro girls he came out with called the Sugar Babies? Also, I remember his brief WCW Vertebreaker theme being awesome |
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Post by Redbeard's Ghost on May 17, 2018 1:02:27 GMT -5
3 Count Superfan Tank Abbott is one of the greatest things in wrestling history. When I think of Tank Abbott, I think of the death of WCW. I also think of him chasing morbidly obese assclown Mark Madden around the ring. |
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Post by Joe Neglia on May 20, 2018 2:24:28 GMT -5
I'm surprised Helms got to run with The Hurricane gimmick when he got to WWE considering what the political atmosphere must have been like. Comedy gimmick. No one felt threatened by it. |
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Post by Mozenrath on May 20, 2018 2:28:44 GMT -5
I'm surprised Helms got to run with The Hurricane gimmick when he got to WWE considering what the political atmosphere must have been like. Comedy gimmick. No one felt threatened by it. That, and he clocked Bagwell with a water bottle, didn't he? I'm surprised they didn't give him a medal. I do wonder if guys were envious, though, given at one point, Helms was apparently actually making more money for merch than through his contract for wrestling. Sweet gig, if you can get it, midcarder or not. |
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Post by héad.casé on May 20, 2018 3:50:05 GMT -5
I remember Sugar Shane as WCW Cruiserweight Champ with the dancing girls and Vertebreaker theme. That entrance made him stand out. Helped that he was damn good in ring too.
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Post by Sephiroth on May 20, 2018 6:20:12 GMT -5
I'm surprised Helms got to run with The Hurricane gimmick when he got to WWE considering what the political atmosphere must have been like. Comedy gimmick. No one felt threatened by it. And he ended up only one step removed from being a grand slam champion |
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on May 20, 2018 9:10:31 GMT -5
I liked the way they handled his transformation into The Hurricane, where the whole thing started off with his gimmmick being "Guy who has a bizarre fixation on the Green Lantern".
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