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The Hurricane and Rosey (a.k.a. The Super Heroes) were a babyface tag team with the gimmick of superheroes that were based on World Wrestling Entertainment's RAW brand.

The Hurricane superhero character is loosely based on The Green Lantern; he sports a tattoo of the hero's logo on his right biceps. His real life fixation of the character was parlayed into The Hurricane gimmick - as Helms gradually evolved into a full superhero character, to the point of wearing a costume to the ring. Throughout The Invasion of The Alliance, Hurricane was portrayed as a heel and could be seen teaming with fellow Alliance members, Ivory and Lance Storm. After the fall of the Alliance in November 2001, Hurricane was re-enstated to WWE by Ric Flair and became a face character. After the Brand Extension in March 2002, Hurricane wrestled exclusively for SmackDown! in the Cruiserweight division, before finally getting traded to RAW in September 2002 and won the World Tag Team Titles with Kane from The Un-Americans(Lance Storm and Christian), and held them for around a month in an alliance known as Hurri-Kane and they parted after that.

Shortly after Rosey's old tag team partner Jamal was released from WWE in 2003, Hurricane "discovered" Rosey's potential as a superhero, and christened him Rosey, the Super Hero in Training (or the S.H.I.T.). Throughout this time, Rosey came to the ring clad in makeshift superhero costumes, with each clearly depicting the S.H.I.T. reference on the front. On the July 19, 2004 episode of RAW, Rosey appeared with a new costume, seemingly graduated to a full superhero and began tag teaming with his mentor.

While on RAW, Stacy Keibler joined forces with Hurricane and Rosey, acting as their valet. She accompanied them to the ring wearing a mask and superhero costume of her own, calling herself Super Stacy until she was traded to SmackDown! on August 22, 2005.

From this point things only went from bad to worse for the team. On September 5, 2005, Hurricane and Rosey were defeated by Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch, during their debut match on Monday Night RAW. Though this was a non-title match, the pair earned themself a title match at Unforgiven 2005. During the title match, Murdoch delivered an elevated DDT on The Hurricane to the outside. The DDT caused Hurricane to suffer a "stinger" (in kayfabe) and allowed Cade & Murdoch to beat the injured Hurricane later in the match to win the World Tag Team Titles from the pair.

The loss of the titles began a sliding path that brought the team to an end, for weeks after the pair would begin a losing streak, mainly caused by Hurricane's injuries. During the October 17, 2005 episode of RAW, The Hurricane was assaulted by Kurt Angle at the request of Vince McMahon, after the beating footage was shown of Hurricane ripping off his mask and striking Rosey (who had come to the ring to his aid). The next week, The Hurricane no showed a World Tag Team Title match leaving Rosey to face the champions alone. During the match, The Hurricane (out of costume) appeared at the top of the entrance ramp, going now by his real name, Gregory Helms watched as Rosey was double teamed and defeated. After the match, Helms announced that he was fed up of being funny for the crowd and that he had been carrying Rosey as a tag team partner.

Helms requested a match with Rosey, or as he called him 'fat piece of trash'. Helms managed to defeat Rosey with a Shining Wizard to end their partnership permanently. This was Matt Anoai's last match with WWE, as he was released shortly thereafter, while Helms went on to win the WWE Cruiserweight Championship and go to SmackDown!, quickly establishing himself outside of The Hurricane identity. He was and is now known as Gregory Helms.

• Finishing and signature tag team moves
  • The Hurricane and Rosey
    • Super Hero Splash (The Hurricane would leap from the shoulders of Rosey and deliver a high-impact splash to the prone victim)
    • Sidewalk slam by Rosey followed by an Eye of the Hurricane by The Hurricane
    • Samoan drop by Rosey followed by a flying neckbreaker by The Hurricane
  • The Hurricane and Kane
    • Double chokeslam
  • The Hurricane's finishing moves
    • Eye of the Hurricane (Spinning headlock elbow drop)
    • Chokeslam - 2002-2004
  • Rosey's finishing moves
    • Super Hero Slam (Swinging side slam)
  • Kane's finishing moves
    • Chokeslam
    • Tombstone Piledriver (Kneeling belly to belly piledriver)

• Managers
  • Super Stacy
  • Mighty Molly

• Theme music
  • "Eye Of The Hurricane" (WWE Anthology)

• World Wrestling Entertainment
  • World Tag Team Championship (2 time)