8 Wrestlers You Didn't Know HATE Each Other For Real
2. Hurricane Helms & Shawn Michaels
A mostly one-sided beef that booted off on Twitter in 2010/11, Shawn Michaels stood back when Hurricane came through, choosing not to engage with a flurry of angry tweets that came his way from the former Cruiserweight Champion.
Building upon comments he'd also made in shoot interviews around the time, Helms didn't hold back sharing his thoughts on Michaels' attitude behind the scenes in WWE as well as his penchant for hunting wild animals. Some of the sharpest barbs were as follows;
“I wonder if I backstab a bunch of people and hurt careers and families and slaughter animals for fun but then pray onstage, that make it okay?”
"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."
“I think I might go murder some animals for fun and hang their heads on my wall cuz that’s what Jesus would do. Right @ShawnMichaels_ ?”
"[Ric] Flair got over people that absolutely SUCKED!! Shawn hadn't gotten over anyone but himself in the last decade!!"
Outside of responding in the form of a non-response, Michaels mostly no-sold the barrage, and a substantially more quaint era of wrestling Twitter moved politely onto whatever else there was happening that day. All ended well too, especially following Helms' return to WWE in 2019. As he put it in an interview with 411 Wrestling Interviews Podcast that same year; "It kind of went away when my son was born about 10 weeks early...it was a pretty worrisome moment in my life. And a fan tweeted and for whatever reason, tagged Shawn in the tweet, saying ‘did you know about Hurricane’s son’, and Shawn said ‘I’ll pray for him’. And so at that moment right there, all the heat was done for me....things like that mean more to me than any beef in pro-wrestling.”