Shane Helms Recalls Shane McMahon’s Arrival at the Final WCW Nitro

– Shane Helms appeared on Talk is Jericho and discussed the end of WCW and more. Some highlights are below:

On Shane McMahon showing up at the final Nitro: “We got to TV and it was Panama, Panama City, Florida and [there] was a sign on one of the doors that said, like, either ‘WWE’ or ‘McMahons’ or something, but we still didn’t believe it because they were so weird down there trying to work the boys. But we had a talent meeting, one of those good talent meetings and Shane McMahon walked into the room and that was the ‘oh s–t’. It was silence and a little bit of ‘oh’, but that was the paradigm shift in the [professional wrestling] business right there. The war was over.”

On Shane’s speech: “He came in. He made some kind of weird comment toward Buff and Lex. It wasn’t even weird. It was just Shane. You know Shane. ‘Lex. Buff. How are you doing?’ Very [Vincesque], almost as if he’s his son. Almost. And we all caught onto that. That wasn’t very subtle at all. And then Shane gave a very good speech, that they bought WCW and they were going to carry it forward. It’s going to be it’s own thing and we’re like, ‘okay, whatever’. Nobody knew, no matter what anybody says, nobody in that room knew what their future held after that night.”

On his altercation with Buff Bagwell: “Apparently, Bagwell’s mama called and told Johnny [Laurinaitis] what had happened. How f–king ridiculous is that anyway? And now that we’re talking about it, I’m sure I’m going to hear about it again, but I’ve seen him at a bunch of shows and we kind of laugh about it. [It is] still odd that his version of the story, he still sticks with that. And that’s odd to me, but still, that was 2001. That was 15 years ago.”