Fig hunt stories

Ok, this is gonna sound pretty incredible, but as far as I know it’s true.

There was this friend of mine back in 2003 who was a web designer. Early days of the internet and all. Anyway, according to him, at one point he was involved with WCW and, with the WWF recently purchasing the company, still talked with the now WWF superstars. I didn’t believe him for crap. No fn way. This guy had stories that there was no chance were true...

Until they started coming true. Back then, with the internet being as young as it was, the dirt sheets seemed a little smaller than they are now. And this guy would tell me stories that I’d never heard any wind of but later would hit the dirt sheets and the internet as having really happened.

So, against my better judgement, I started to believe some of his stories.

Anyway, on to the toy hunt part.

This guy was dating my very good friend. And there was a WWE show in town that weekend. They were headed out and about so I asked them if they could stop by Toys R Us to do some figure scouting. I knew they had no money (they were extremely poor at the time) and my friend was super bummed about not being able to afford tickets to the show. They agreed to stop by TRU and I guess when they were in the figure aisle they ran into Gregory Helms. He was happy to see the guy (who, again, he knew from his time with WCW) and asked him if he was coming to the show. They both said no, but Helms shook his head and said, “The hell you aren’t”.

He got them tickets. When I got back to the house that night, they were so excited to tell me all about Shane’s cage match against Kane. (I was unable to attend due to prior commitments. Still mad about that.) I couldn’t believe that they had gone but my friend told me what happened and, well, to this day I wonder what might have been had I just gone with them to TRU.

Again, it sounds farfetched, but considering this guy knew things in 2003 that would make Dave Meltzer wet his pants, I sort of have to believe it.

(Note: NOT getting into any of the stories though, mostly because it was 20 years ago and I’ve forgotten all of them. Except one. And that one I'm not repeating here. I’ve mentioned it elsewhere before, but with the context contained herein I don’t feel comfortable attaching it to this story. Sorry.)