WWF LiveWire (November 2, 1996)

Original Airdate: November 2, 1996

Your Hosts are Todd Pettengill and Sunny from the studio

On Superstars last weekend, Steve Austin took exception to Brian Pillman praising Bret Hart, breaking his ankle for the offense. And he was completely unapologetic about it on RAW, so I guess he’s just not a very nice guy

Earlier today, Faarooq and Clarence Mason arrived at the studio

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Highlights of the great Bret Hart/Steve Austin face-to-face interview segment from RAW

Two people email in wondering if Bret Hart can come back as good as he was before going on hiatus. I’m pretty sure he can continue to make Shawn Michaels and Undertaker seem more important than him, yeah. Sunny hopes he might let her be his manager. I think he’d rather stay ‘just friends.’ But maybe she can babysit his kids sometime

Faarooq is in the green room, with Mason giving someone an earful on the phone

In pre-taped Karate Fighters Holiday Tournament action, Mr. Perfect goes over Phineas Godwinn via a distraction finish. Clearly, whatever intern they had booking this graduated to booking RAW twenty years later

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Todd and Sunny talk about the Hall of Fame, and they’re very excited about all the mingling. Kind of weird that they use images of Shawn Michaels from 1994 to hype it, considering how wildly different he looked. It’s a wonder what a difference a mullet makes

Joe calls in from Ohio, and while he doesn’t agree with what Stone Cold is doing, it’s good for the ratings, so he’s happy. Does he have a financial stake in the promotion that we don’t know about?

Mark calls in from New York to ask Sunny on a date for Survivor Series weekend, and she kind of plays along, but then he makes the mistake of suggesting she ‘bring some friends’ in the form of Sable and Marlena, and you can just see the legitimate disgust creep across her face as she ends the call

Someone emails in asking why Bret isn’t going into the Hall of Fame. Well, maybe he didn’t have the votes. Did you think about that?? Did you ONCE think about that??

Roger calls in from Indiana, wanting more information on Faarooq’s helmet. Truly the hard hitting questions this week

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Ahmed Johnson calls in, and he’s really sick of Faarooq trying to attack him when he’s just chilling in the locker room and stuff. And he’s even more tired of that DAMN Gorilla Monsoon not knowing the whole story. Ahmed actually sounds pretty clear when he’s not doing shouty promo stuff

Todd and Sunny bring Faarooq and Mason in, and Faarooq clarifies that, no, we all just CAN’T get along. Well, not with that attitude

We take a look back at the aforementioned locker room incident, with Ahmed standing over Faarooq with a 2x4, which Johnson is claiming was just self-defense after Faarooq tried to attack him. While he was chilling, he was clear about that

Faarooq offers to go door to door around the neighborhoods, molding people's kids into the kind of men he wants them to be, who will then be part of his Nation of Domination, or else they’ll just grow up into ‘uncle Toms’ like Ahmed. Todd throws out that he doesn’t think Ahmed is an uncle Tom, which, I don’t even want to touch

Lola from Pennsylvania calls in to call Faarooq a poser, and some cheap Louis Farrakhan rip-off

Pete from California calls in, also to ask about Faarooq’s helmet. Boy, that was really scintillating topic in 1996, I guess. He doesn’t like Faarooq’s answer, so he calls Mason a ‘wannabe Johnny Cochran.’ More like Jackie Chiles

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Rob from Ohio wants Faarooq to cut the crap, since he’s Ron Simmons, former member of Doom, and everybody knows. Everybody knows. Faarooq appreciates him bringing that up, and now Rob had better shut his mouth, and recognize him as Faarooq

Bryce from Indiana calls in, and while he respects Faarooq’s choice to change his name, but he wants to know how he reconciles his legacy as Simmons, since he was the first ever black world champion, and that's a major legacy. Faarooq just kind of brushes that off by noting that he’s had his name legally changed, so stop calling him Ron

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Someone emails in, predicting that Sycho Sid will soon turn on WWF Champion Shawn Michaels

Don from Connecticut calls in, predicting that Sid will destroy Shawn at Survivor Series. Not a lot of love for HBK this week. Hopefully Vince wasn’t watching, poor guy would probably be crying into his pancakes by this point

Chris from Massachusetts has been following Shawn and Sid’s career for years, and he thinks it’s going to be a donnybrook. Okay, but what about Faarooq’s helmet? Let’s not get off topic here

Todd and Sunny hype up RAW, where Brian Pillman will be appearing from his home via satellite, and Steve Austin has promised to show up. Hmm, that sounds like it might be interesting

BUExperience: I still enjoy this show, but this was a weak one, and Faarooq was a weak guest. He just seemed so uncomfortable with callers stepping to him, and couldn’t give them that hard edged dismissal the way Austin did in his appearance.