Hurricane Helms On How His Royal Rumble Guest Spot Happened

In an interview with Chair Shots To The Cranium (via Wrestling Inc), Hurricane Helms spoke about how his return to the WWE at the 2018 Royal Rumble happened. Here are highlights:

On teasing the appearance on social media: “There have been talks before about doing a surprise for the Royal Rumble. But I was with a different company or injured or something like that. It just wasn’t the right time before. This time it was just the right time. They wanted a surprise. I had posted an Instagram picture — and this is how social media can be used in a really wonderful way — I posted a picture of the WCW Cruiserweight Title, which I still have and a replica of the WWE Cruiserweight Title. This was around the time when Enzo Amore got fired so they didn’t have a champion. So I put a picture up of the belts and said, ‘hey WWE I know a guy.'”

On Kane: “He’s a mayor now! He is a super intelligent guy which makes him even scarier. Because when you’re little you want the big guys to be dumb so at least you got an advantage over them, not with Kane. So I think he has a really uncredited career as far as longevity. He’s really up there, you know. I think because of his association with The Undertaker, sometimes that casts a little bit of a shadown but that’s really not fair to him. He’s one of the best big men that’s ever done it.”