Former WWE Superstar and current producer Shane “Hurricane” Helms recently spoke to Chris Van Vliet about the last days of WCW before the company was sold to WWE.
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On seeing Shane McMahon in the locker room before announcement of WCW being sold to WWE: “When Shane McMahon walked in that room that day, everybody’s heart skipped a beat. We heard this company’s gonna buy, this company’s gonna buy it, it’s gonna be this, everything’s gonna be fine. In some cases, management was just trying to keep morale up, you know? I don’t think they were [saying], ‘Hey, just go tell them a lie.’ I don’t think it was that.”
On simply trying to focus on his work in the ring in those final months: “You’ll see us, in those last couple months of WCW — if there’s a match of the night, more than likely it’s 3 Count, or Sugar Shane’s in there. It’s that group of the young guys that — man, we [were] fighting for this, fighting for these moments. And for a lot of us, it paid off. Not for everybody, of course.”
