There is an old saying that goes “Never meet your heroes” but for Shane Helms (best
known for his Hurricane gimmick in the WWE) he did just that! In an episode of the Highway
2 Helms show, Shane Helms noted that Shawn Michaels was his idol growing up, however,
said that “he really let him down as a person” when getting to know him. When asked who his
least favourite wrestler of all-time is, Helms answered with Shawn Michaels. His reasoning
behind his choice came from how Michaels carried himself backstage and how he tried to undercut
multiple wrestlers such as: Mr Kennedy and Shane Helms himself. As The Hurricane would
say: “What’s up with that?” Yeah Shawn, what’s up with that? Helms took the conversation
further by calling Shawn Michaels one of the biggest drug abusers and hypocrites in the
history of pro wrestling and a “cock-eyed cross-eyed piece of sh*t!” Shane
Helms has also been very vocal about his opinion on Shawn Michaels on Twitter especially when
it was announced that Shawn Michaels was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. He went on a Twitter
rampage and tweeted the following… When asked by a fan why Helms hated Shawn so much,
Helms replied with the following: “Cuz Shawn went out of his way to hurt my
career for no reason. He's a KNOWN LIAR and I'm not. So believe who you want.”
Helms also said this about Michaels on a separate occasion:
“I wonder if I backstab a bunch of people and hurt careers & families and slaughter
animals for fun but then pray on stage, that make it ok? Just wondering? :-) But enough
about that hypocrite, I’m home after a great but hard working tour and got to catch up
on my DVR’s.” After reading the comments Helms made about
him, Michaels replied to Helms with the following: “From u all I hav. Verbal attack? Wow pretty
scary. Thoughts? Sticks & stones I guess? :-)”
There’s clearly no love lost between the two and it seems like it will stay that way.
But according to Helms, the only way this problem can fix itself is if the Heartbreak
Kid apologies to him, which Helms says Michaels will never do.
Maintaining a good physique in the world of wrestling can be a very gruelling task especially
with all the travelling wrestlers do and the strict eating regimes they need to follow.
Doing this for years and years can be very stressful for some wrestlers. Notice how I
said “some wrestlers” … One of these wrestlers in particular is The Viper Randy
Orton. Speaking on the Edge and Christian podcast, Randy Orton explained how it was
hard for him to maintain his physique now compared to when he was younger saying:
“I'm always up and down when it comes to my body. It’s stressful, it is.”
He then took a shot at Kevin Owens by saying: “I guess Kevin Owens has it figured out.
He started fat and he'll finish fat. He's trying to get himself over as the fat guy
that can fight. Bless his heart, that's great. I'm jealous.”
Orton continued his tirade against Owens by tweeting publicly at him after a fan tweeted
how grateful he was that Kevin Owens showed up to his dessert wedding. Orton replied to
the tweet saying: “Of course he stopped by...... it was a
DESSERT PARTY.🍩🍪🍭🍰🎂” Owens replied to his tweet with an almighty
burn which simply read: “You vape.”
In response to Owens exposing Orton’s vaping
habits, Orton replied back with a savage tweet of his own which read:
“I actually quit vaping this European tour, but you wouldn’t know because you ain’t
here.” This was in response to Kevin Owens and Sami
Zayn getting sent home from the European tour “for conduct deemed detrimental to the WWE.”
In other words, they went against a WWE creative. But, just when you thought Kevin Owens got
RK”Owned”, he responded back to Orton saying:
“I got so excited for a second…I thought you said you had quit the company. Congrats
on quitting vaping though that’s great! 😊😊😊”
Although no further comments were made since Owens’ reply, their dislike to each other
still remains. So, Kevin Owens should watch his back because like Nia Jax, Orton might
just reply with an RKO outta nowhere!
The 16-time champ John Cena has been the poster boy of the WWE for over a decade and that’s
not always easy to accept especially with many different wrestlers’ egos flying around.
As a result, many WWE superstars have taken a dislike to John Cena because of this and
Dolph Ziggler is no exception. Dolph Ziggler’s hatred towards John Cena is definitely a one-sided
thing and it seems to be more out of jealousy rather than anything else. Ziggler straight
up admitted his hatred to John Cena on Sam Roberts’ podcast saying:
“I hate Cena, and, like, for real. Yeah, I hate everything he stands for, I hate how
awkwardly he runs. I hate that I’m better at wrestling, but he has this awesome connection
with the fans and I’m so great at wrestling and I haven’t made that great connection
with all the fans that aren’t in New York. He’s the face of the company. What do we
know about me? I’m jacked, shredded, look like a movie star, and have great matches.
That doesn’t connect with everyone.” Ziggler also talked about how the two don’t
always see eye-to-eye and that he hates John Cena because he’s the poster boy and he
wants to be in his spot, saying that someday he will be. Four years after Ziggler admitted
his hatred towards John Cena, Ziggler was asked again more recently by Planeta Wrestling
if he still hated Cena honestly to which he said:
“Absolutely. I would love to be in the position that John Cena is in with the company. Of
course. To be that guy that is always fighting for the championship, to be the guy who is
always giving back to the fans, doing something important in the business, absolutely.”
If that’s not clear enough, Ziggler’s hatred towards John Cena still remains. I
guess sharing an ex didn’t make things any easier for Cena and Ziggler…
When Sasha Banks and Alexa Bliss were feuding for the Raw Women’s Championship, Sasha
Banks made it very clear about her dislike towards Alexa Bliss. It all started with Sasha
Banks going in “borderline” shoot mode on an episode of Raw Talk when she said the
following about Alexa Bliss: “You know, she came in so cute, so humbled.
She came in so fake, with her fake little stories, her fake little “I love wrestling
growing up, I love Matt Hardy”. You know what? You can’t even tell the difference
between Jeff and Matt. You idiot. Yeah, we call you on all your lies, sweetheart. You’re
just here to be another girl. Another heel. You just want to be here for a Hollywood act.
You’re on Total Divas now, you’re getting what you want and you can talk your way into
everything, but you know what? You can’t run away from me.”
Alexa Bliss, however, did not seem amused by this as she replied on Twitter in a since
deleted tweet which said: “acting like she knows me HAHAAHAHAHAH 😂😂😂 ...
not even worth my time..#AndSTILL” Although there was a chance that this could
have all been scripted as it was said on Raw Talk after all, Alexa Bliss pretty much confirmed
the fact that Sasha Banks did not like her when Peter Rosenburg asked her about the rumoured
“backstage heat” between her and Banks. Bliss said the following on the Cheap Heat
podcast: “I’ve always been the person to say business
is business, personal is personal. I will never let my personal feelings about somebody
get in the way of business. I’ve seen the things she said about me. If that’s how
she feels, that’s fine. But we know that we put it to the side and have a productive,
professional match because that’s what it’s all about. I’m trusting her with my body,
she’s trusting me with hers, and I will never ever… I never want to have somebody’s
injury or somebody’s misstep or something happen on my watch. So, I know that no matter
what I’m always going to be in professional mode. It doesn’t matter how we feel about
each other; the point is we have a job to do and we have to go and we have to do it
well.” More recently in the Open Late show with Peter
Rosenburg, Sasha Banks revealed how there were some female wrestlers in the locker-room
who she didn’t like which immediately caused Rosenburg to bring up Alexa Bliss. When pressured
if she’d ever like to wrestle Bliss again, Banks simply replied: “Not really.” Looking
at the situation as a whole, it seems like Sasha Banks is the one who dislikes Alexa
Bliss and not the other way around. Judging from Little Miss Bliss’ tweet, it seems
she isn’t too bothered about Sasha Banks taking a dislike to her.
If there is one WWE superstar you don’t want to get into a real-life fight with it’s
and has a reputation of not backing down to anyone and that includes The Beast Brock Lesnar.
After the 2016 SummerSlam pay per view ended with Brock Lesnar leaving Randy Orton in a
pool of his own blood, Chris Jericho immediately went to confront Lesnar backstage about the
finish which left the two in a face-to-face confrontation. Jericho spoke about the incident
on the Chael Sonnen podcast saying: “I said something and Lesnar said something
and next thing you know we’re nose to nose kind of yelling at each other.”
But more recently, Jericho shared his thoughts on Twitter about this year’s Royal Rumble
as well as taking shots at Brock Lesnar’s weight in a since deleted tweet which read:
“But let's be honest, Brock Lesnar needs to pull up his pants and lose the gut... the
dream is over dude. I don't play by the script..." No offence to Jericho but he’s the last
person to be talking down on someone’s physique. I’m sorry but the guy has basically let
himself go! It’s clear that Jericho still has some resent towards Lesnar for his actions
back in SummerSlam 2016. But as for Lesnar, I couldn’t see him giving a sh*t to be honest!