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Gregory Shane Helms, (born July 12, 1974 in Smithfield, North Carolina), is a professional wrestler performing for World Wrestling Entertainment on the SmackDown! brand. He is the current WWE Cruiserweight Champion.

Career

World Championship Wrestling

After wrestling in many independent promotions, including the OMEGA promotion founded by Matt and Jeff Hardy, Helms and his friend Shannon Moore signed with 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 WWF.

WWF/WWE

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 WCW/ECW 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. This as a homage to Superman.

Originally a heel, he 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 wrestler 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.

The Hurricane 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 Résistance in the finals of a Tag Team Turmoil match to win the World Tag Team Championship.

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Athletes - Gregory Helms

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