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Finally...  Michael  has come back to
rec.sport.pro-wrestling.moderated...

>Ebon Bear wrote:
>
>>From what I hear, Helms is pretty mild-mannered backstage and Bagwell
>> somehow managed to piss him off so much that Helms walloped Bagwell with a
>> dumbell. Ignoring whether Helms was right or wrong (hey, if you're giving up
>> that much size and weight, do what you have to), what the hell did Bagwell
>> do that riled him that much?
>
>IIRC, it was a couple of weeks before WCW debuted on RAW and a lot of 
>the WCW guys were training together in a WWE center.  For whatever 
>reason Buff was going off on how he was gonna make it big in the WWE and 
>that the smaller guys, zeroing in on Helms weren't gonna make it because 
>they were too small.  First shot was from Bagwell as he slapped Helms, 
>laughed, and said something to the point of "what're you gonna do about 
>it?", to which Helms wailed on him.  I have no memory of Helms using a 
>foreign object of any kind.
>

It was widely reported at the time that he whacked Bagwell with a
frozen water bottle that he was using as an ice pack, which split the
back of Bagwell's head open.  Other than that, what's typed above
matches all of the reported details.

Bill
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