Former WWE star “Hurricane” Shane Helms was recently interviewed by 411Mania to talk about several professional wrestling topics. Helms discussed whether or not he still has heat with Hall Of Famer Shawn Michaels, meeting Michaels in person for the first time since his Tweet, and keeping their resolution to himself.
Here are the highlights:
If he still has heat with Shawn Michaels: “No, not at all. It kind of went away when my son was born about 10 weeks early. And this is the kind of the person I am too. I’m not a grudge person. My son was born super early and it was a very terrifying time. And everything worked out beautifully, amazing, no complications whatsoever, but at the time, it was a pretty worrisome moment in my life.
“And a fan tweeted and for whatever reason, tagged Shawn in the tweet, saying ‘did you know about Hurricane’s son’, and Shawn said ‘I’ll pray for him’. And so at that moment right there, all the heat was done for me. Even though it was just a tweet and only took five seconds, things like that mean more to me than any beef in pro-wrestling.”
Meeting Michaels for the first time since his Tweet: “And so then fast forward and I never saw Shawn again, and never had a chance to really converse with him, or talk to him or explain to him what I said and when I said it or anything like that until I went down to the [WWE] Performance Center, whenever my first visit there was.
“I guess it was, I’ve been an agent there now five or six months, so we’re looking at probably eight or nine months ago, and Shawn was there, and I didn’t want to, I wasn’t going to avoid him or anything like that, I just said ‘hey, can I talk to you’, and before I could even get the words out of my mouth, on anything, he just immediately started talking to me and whatever beef was there, we both just kind of threw out the window.
“And we got a really solid relationship as it stands now. I just saw him at [Wrestle]Mania, first thing we did is shook hands, hugged, talked about different things going on, so that beef got squashed pretty quick. And it wasn’t even really a beef, it was just a different way of looking at things.”
Keeping their resolution to himself: “Actually I don’t even think I told anybody. It was something that we kept to ourselves, it was two men talking, it wasn’t something I was going to go on Twitter and talk about just for the sake of getting the attention.
“And even before, the things I said at that time, I meant it, that doesn’t mean I’m taking anything back, at that time I felt that way. Now I feel a different way. I think as a human being, that’s just a part of growing. Things change. My son coming into my life really changed a lot about how I saw different things. And things that used to make me angry, don’t make me as angry anymore.”
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