WWE's "Live Wire"

[dannyrctv]

Remember this show Saturday mornings on USA?For a brief moment it was my new favorite show.It was a live interactive show where fans could fax,e-mail or call in & talk about Wrestling.
This a was at the height of the Monday night wars.Originally I thought this was going to be another boring & lame rehash show recapping & showing everything that happened on RAW the previous Monday & nothing new.
But with the viewer participation it was exciting.I was shocked on the debut episode when Sunny read faxes from fans asking about WCW & the NWO.That was taboo back then for WWE to even acknowledge or mention their competition.
So the show was brilliant originally.Then some of the "live" calls appeared staged like when Vince Mcmahon was a guest talking to a caller about Steve Austin attacking Brian Pillman in his home & why weren't the police called.But that was okay.It helped forward the story line.Plus Vince Russo would appear on there(when he was a writer) as Vic Venom(?) & he would tell it like it is & address what was going on in wrestling even exposing Dok Hendrix as being Michael Hayes.It was a thrilling show.
I marked out when Paul Heyman called in long before WWE & ECW ended up working together.It totally looked like a shoot!and it seemed this was a shoot show.
All of a sudden the show began sucking the big one!There was a pay per view coming up with Sean Michaels defending against "Psycho" Sid.To me this was a"Who Cares?" PPV as Michaels had soundly beaten Sid on RAW before.
To my shock all the calls coming in were asking about the PPV & debating who would win between Sid & Sean & you could tell these "live call ins" were staged.
I was very disapointed in this broadcast & tuned in the following week hopping they'd go back to shoot talk on the wrestling world.Todd Pettengill comes on saying that on today's show they wouldn't have time to take calls & e-mails as they really wanted to focus on the events if that past Monday's RAW & regards to the up coming PPV & of course the entire hour was recycled garbage most RAW viewers all ready knew about.Then guess what?from then on that's all the show was!No more mention of being interactive it became another back up show rerunning the previous events of that week's RAW in one hour!"Live Wire" my Ass!I can't believe a few year's later when WWE came back to USA,they had a retrospective talking about "Live Wire" & how innovative it was that fans could participate but no mention how it went south & began sucking royally!
I actually got to speak to Vince Russo at the recent Fan Fest in San Francisco asking him about it.he agreed with me how great the show was initially but then they changed it.He told me the company got panicked because the show was starting to expose too much about the business so that's why they changed it in to a generic rehash!

[Tyfo]

Yup, I remember the early Live Wire shows. Same thing basically happened with Excess when it debuted in 2001. I remember the first episode had Triple H and someone called in and said they told him not to ask this, but what did he think about Scott Hall and Kevin Nash possibly coming back to the WWF. Triple H said something like, hey its live, what are they gonna do.

A few weeks later, it became a taped show and the calls were edited.

[texaswhopper]

Of course I remember Live Wire.


I remember they had someone call up and supposedly they were mad because Triple H denied an autograph.

Triple H told them to not come near him. He was in full Bluebood mode

[Can you afford to pay me, Gah]

I remember trying to call it and alway got a damn busy siginal. I can't even member who was the guest was when I called. Good times.

I remember Byte This being that way. The fun that people on this forum had with that a few years ago. Maybe the reason why it's no longer around.

[Vice honcho room temperature]

tyfo85 said:

Yup, I remember the early Live Wire shows. Same thing basically happened with Excess when it debuted in 2001. I remember the first episode had Triple H and someone called in and said they told him not to ask this, but what did he think about Scott Hall and Kevin Nash possibly coming back to the WWF. Triple H said something like, hey its live, what are they gonna do.

A few weeks later, it became a taped show and the calls were edited.

I remember that. Why does the WWE take stuff that are fun away from us.

[Can you afford to pay me, Gah]

theone6643 said:

tyfo85 said:

Yup, I remember the early Live Wire shows. Same thing basically happened with Excess when it debuted in 2001. I remember the first episode had Triple H and someone called in and said they told him not to ask this, but what did he think about Scott Hall and Kevin Nash possibly coming back to the WWF. Triple H said something like, hey its live, what are they gonna do.

A few weeks later, it became a taped show and the calls were edited.

I remember that. Why does the WWE take stuff that are fun away from us.

Because there afraid that the question gets ask if they doubt El Dandy and we all know that they do. There avoiding to have to answer that to the people.

[@TenaciousBe]

Because people have to be pricks and treat the show like a joke. How is WWE supposed to advertise something like Byte This as a viable online show when it's 40 minutes of internet jackoffs getting their 10 seconds of semi-fame thinking they're clever by throwing some lame over-run inside joke at Todd Grisham?

[8-BitAssassin]

ibleedpurple said:

How is WWE supposed to advertise something like Byte This as a viable online show when it's 40 minutes of internet jackoffs getting their 10 seconds of semi-fame thinking they're clever by throwing some lame over-run inside joke at Todd Grisham?

You make a really good point. The fact that someone is inevitably going to answer that question with "I DON'T KNOOOOW!" just strengthens the argument.

[x]

If there was a live show with unedited calls, a bunch of kids would call in and say that 2+2+2=6, 6x29=165 and Chris Jericho's great grandfather would be 165 if he were alive. So Save Us 222 is Chris Jericho.

Stupid internet ruining everything.

[texaswhopper]

Bring back Tuesday Night Titans damit!

[wolfmoon103100]

"Live Wire" is a great song by Motley Crue.

[nerdinitupagain]

Mmmm Lime Wire... cough syrup tasting Moutain Dew..

Oh. Yeah. Um..

The Heyman thing was cool.

[yourgoingdown]

tyfo85 said:

Yup, I remember the early Live Wire shows. Same thing basically happened with Excess when it debuted in 2001. I remember the first episode had Triple H and someone called in and said they told him not to ask this, but what did he think about Scott Hall and Kevin Nash possibly coming back to the WWF. Triple H said something like, hey its live, what are they gonna do.

A few weeks later, it became a taped show and the calls were edited.

I definately remember both. Excess was awesome when it first came on. Like you said they had Triple H on air when he was out with his quad injury. lol and I remember that guy asking him about Hall and Nash coming to the WWF. Then like everything else they do it started sucking.

[wildojinx]

texaswhopper said:

Bring back Tuesday Night Titans damit!

Only if we have Santino Vice, Santino General, and the Santino Bandito!