Shane “Hurricane” Helms and Molly Holly on WWE, Their Careers, More

Former WWE superstars Shane “The Hurricane” Helms and “Mighty” Molly Holly were guests recently on the internet wrestling podcast In Your Head. While on the program, hosts Jack E. Jones and One Inch Biceps take the former superstars through a number of different topics, such as Molly getting her head shaved, scripted promos from WWE creative, how wrestlers need to find a way to stand out, wrestlers belonging in the WWE, and much more. Some highlights from the podcast are…

Helms on wrestlers belonging in the WWE Today: “When I was in WWE, I would get frustrated a lot with guys because I just always felt that you should be good to be there. Now it’s where guys go to start their career. It used to be where guys go to end their career because you had to be good to get there. Now it’s where guys start and there’s like so many guys that aren’t ready for that stage. And because they’re presented as WWE superstars there are some fans who kind of just assume that they’re good and they kind of fall under that and get worked by it. But there are a lot of guys who just aren’t ready to be there, and that’s unfortunate. I think it shines through; I think that fans can see through a lot of it, and that’s why the ratings are kind of where they’re at today.” 

Helms on if it hurts younger wrestlers to have to read scripted promos from Creative instead of coming up with their own stuff: “Yeah, I definitely believe that. You know, there’s a lot of artistry to what we do, and if you don’t let artists practice their craft, you’re kind of holding them back. You can’t go out there and just give everybody free reign at the same time, but guys, whether it’s on house shows or Superstars or that Saturday show (Slam) or whatever, they need to get a chance to go out there and be able to talk, and be able to talk in front of people. Because it’s a hard thing to do for some people…some people, when the red light on that camera comes on, they can’t put two words together. It hurts some guys a lot of times; you go out there and you give them free reign to say what they want to say and it’s just garbage, you think “OMG, what did I do?”…I think they’re more afraid of that happening is what the deal is; that’s why they don’t give some guys the creative control to explore their character for themselves because they’re so afraid of somebody striking out.”

Molly having her head shaved at WrestleMania: “I was told by the writing team that they were not going to have a Women’s Championship match at Wrestlemania, and I was really hurt by that … so I just came up with an idea that I thought they couldn’t say ‘no’ to, and I pitched it … They said, ‘OK, you can be on Wrestlemania if you get your head shaved.’ … So yeah, I was excited about it, it was my idea, they actually did it, and even though there wasn’t much of a storyline and people didn’t really love or hate me that much as a character at that time, I still was really happy to be able to do something memorable.” 

You can listen to the entire interview here.

 

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