Marvel.com continues their “Fighting Fanboys” series, as they interview the ultimate fanboy wrestler and the former Hurricane, Gregory Helms:

Marvel.com: Where did the name come from?

Gregory Helms: One of the names I was going to use early on in my career was Shane “Hurricane” Helms—it has a good flow to it. [Another one] of my first wrestling names was going to be the Hurricane Kid and my partner was Hail. [Later when I got to the WWF] I was on a plane with Matt Hardy, I was like man, I can’t just be Gregory Helms, it’s just so vanilla.

And it was a point in my career where I needed people to know who I was. So I sat on the plane and I was writing all kinds of silly names down. And then I just put down Hurricane Helms. I was like, why don’t I just be Hurricane Helms, I don’t need a first name. And I took it and I gave to Stephanie [McMahon] the next week at TV and she ran it through legal and legal cleared it. And the next time I saw Vince [McMahon] he just looked and me and he goes, “Hurricane Helms, I like it.” Just like that and I was Hurricane Helms, and I think [it] sounded like [I was] a superhero.

Helms, currently nursing a neck injury, also talks about his love for Annihilation, Captain Marvel and the Beyonder.

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