WWE/F Livewire: The Early Days

[Chazz 0]

Does anybody remember an early episode of Livewire (They were still accepting calls from viewers, although I believe this was the last or next to last week before they changed the format,) In which J.R. and "Vic Venom" (I.E. Vince Russo, who was still writing for The WWF Magazine at the time), hosted the show. Both went off on just about every viewer who called In that day. It just wasn't about the line of questions recieved, It also had to do with callers being slow In getting out their questions. Pretty funny stuff, especially seeing J.R. flip out on The marks. Is It any wonder this show's Live Call In Feature was axed? Did anybody else see this particular show? This would've been around January 1997. Anybody else think this was as funny as I found It to be?

[Guest Fook_Hing_Ho]

I didn't see that show, but I have a clip of one with Vince, Sunny, Cornette, and Michael Hayes all hosting when Paul Heyman calls in and starts blasting Vince and Co.

 

Good times.

[LooseCannon25 0]

The only two episodes i remember is when "paul" from connecticut called in and put over ECW....lol

 

The only other one was when Faarooq was on the show shortly after he injured Ahmed Johnson and Ahmed called in. The conversation was funny as hell

 

Faarooq --- Ahmed, cmon brother you from the streets just like me. You know we gotta do whatever it takes to survive out here. Thats why i did what i did to you brother.

 

Ahmed ---- You lucky i ent efen dare rot now. Cuz if iwa...i'd stick mah fooooot up yo ass.

 

 

Anybody remember this?

[Guest Fook_Hing_Ho]

The only two episodes i remember is when "paul" from connecticut called in and put over ECW....lol

That was Heyman. He called in as "Bruce from Conneticut" to get past the call screeners.

[Guest Zack Malibu]

Heh, shockingly enough, the only eps I really remember were the aforementioned Russo and Heyman ones.

 

I never taped LiveWire, but I'd tape Mania because they used to have at least one exclusive match. I think I've got a Bret Hart vs. Buddy Landell match (!) somewhere. And the first time they showed the Brian Pillman Press Conference was on Mania, but they cut it off before he flipped out on Gorilla, Dillon and Dok Hendrix. They then showed that part on the ensuing RAW.

[LooseCannon25 0]

The only two episodes i remember is when "paul" from connecticut called in and put over ECW....lol

That was Heyman. He called in as "Bruce from Conneticut" to get past the call screeners.

I know that buddy.....im just saying how funny it was

[Guest Youth N Asia]

The show was fun when it first started cause everyone would sneak past the screeners. Nash or Shawn was either on and 2 PEOPLE said the "I wasn's suppose to ask this to I lied to the screener..." then asked about the Clique.

 

And the episode where Backlund went nuts was great.

 

Caller: "I want to wish Sunny a happy birthday."

Backlund: "I've had enough of you. Hang up on this guy!"

[Guest AndrewTS]

The only two episodes i remember is when "paul" from connecticut called in and put over ECW....lol

 

The only other one was when Faarooq was on the show shortly after he injured Ahmed Johnson and Ahmed called in. The conversation was funny as hell

 

Faarooq --- Ahmed, cmon brother you from the streets just like me. You know we gotta do whatever it takes to survive out here. Thats why i did what i did to you brother.

 

Ahmed ---- You lucky i ent efen dare rot now. Cuz if iwa...i'd stick mah fooooot up yo ass.

 

 

Anybody remember this?

Yes! I actually saw those! Once they stopped doing the calls I stopped watching.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

The only two episodes i remember is when "paul" from connecticut called in and put over ECW....lol

 

The only other one was when Faarooq was on the show shortly after he injured Ahmed Johnson and Ahmed  called in.  The conversation was funny as hell

 

Faarooq --- Ahmed, cmon brother you from the streets just like me.  You know we gotta do whatever it takes to survive out here. Thats why i did what i did to you brother.

 

Ahmed ---- You lucky i ent efen dare rot now.  Cuz if iwa...i'd stick mah fooooot up yo ass.

 

 

Anybody remember this?

Yes! I actually saw those! Once they stopped doing the calls I stopped watching.

Yeah, it was pretty boring after that.

[Mecha Mummy 0]

Gaaah, those sound hilarious. Too bad I started watching WWF after that...

[Guest TheHulkster]

I remember one caller on the show asked some tough questions and got cut off when he asked when Bruno was going to be inducted into the WWF hall of fame. The hosts looked visibly pissed. I also remember one time a black lady went off on Sunny about how much of a ho she was and kept calling her Tammy Lynn. That show was great before they killed it.

[Guest El Gigante]

I remember when Russo came on there and he said he knew about Dok Hendrix and he started calling Dok Michael Hayes, while yelling at Sunny and calling her Tammy.

 

Well remember when they tried to bring back the call in show when they came up with Excess, which the calls there lasted only a few weeks also.

[Guest Eagan469]

In 1994 there was also a call-in special after an episode of RAW. It was hosted by Vince and King, and Lawler had a button that cut-off the callers connection when he pushed it.

 

One guy asked if the fake Undertaker used to be in the Twin Towers, and Vince was all like, "umm, yeah, maybe, sure...".

 

1994 marks, gotta love em'.

[Guest NoCalMike]

Besides the hilarious Heyman call, I remember the first three callers all asking questions like, "So, is the WWF afraid that the nWo is gonna take over, I mean they are pretty powerfull" and then Tod and Dok had to no-sell the nWo like they have no idea what it was. Funny stuff.

[ChrisMWaters 0]

I remember one time they had "Hogan" send a fax in for Sunny to take off her top for one episode...

[Guest AndrewTS]

WWE fears fan feedback. It's true, it's true. They want to just shove their heads into the sand and live in their own little world.

 

Much like WWE apologists stick their heads into the sand and say "I want to enjoy it as a fan! Not a smark!" I know some one online who does that and thinks that maybe HHH doesn't have as much influence as we think and that the WWE might get better.

 

I didn't tell him about spoilers.

 

Enjoy seeing Vince's big white ass again Ken. Enjoy it "as a fan."

[Guest AndrewTS]

I remember one time they had "Hogan" send a fax in for Sunny to take off her top for one episode...

He wanted her to rip it a la Hogan, right?

[River City Rocker 0]

In 1994 there was also a call-in special after an episode of RAW. It was hosted by Vince and King, and Lawler had a button that cut-off the callers connection when he pushed it.

That one I remember.

 

The last caller was Chicago radio personality Mancow Muller, who basically used his time to rip into Jerry Lawler and challenge him to a charity softball game. "What do they call your team, King? Lawler's Losers or something?!"

 

I think the WWF won that game.

 

I also vaguely remember the "Bruce from Connecticut" call on Livewire.

 

-Ben

[Guest claydude14]

The only two episodes i remember is when "paul" from connecticut called in and put over ECW....lol

That was Heyman. He called in as "Bruce from Conneticut" to get past the call screeners.

I remember this episode... I thought it was to set up ECW is RAW?

[Guest Eagan469]

In 1994 there was also a call-in special after an episode of RAW.  It was hosted by Vince and King, and Lawler had a button that cut-off the callers connection when he pushed it.

That one I remember.

 

The last caller was Chicago radio personality Mancow Muller, who basically used his time to rip into Jerry Lawler and challenge him to a charity softball game. "What do they call your team, King? Lawler's Losers or something?!"

 

I think the WWF won that game.

Yeah, they showed highlights from it at Summerslam 1994.