WWF LiveWire (December 28, 1996)

Original Airdate: December 28, 1996

Your Hosts are Dok Hendrix and Sunny from the studio

We take a look at the closing moments of the Hunter Hearst Helmsley/Marc Maro match for the WWF Intercontinental title on Monday Night RAW, complete with the altercation between HHH and Goldust after the match

Hunter calls in to talk Goldust, and hype up a house show for tonight. He claims that Marlena is coming on to him, and he asks Sunny to confirm that, basically, women get wet at just the sight of him. She does not

WWF Champion Sycho Sid is hanging out in the green room. Oh God, we’re getting Sid on a live call-in show? It really is the holiday season!

Last year at the Royal Rumble, Jake Roberts cleared the ring with his snake. Nine televised Rumbles to choose from, and that’s the highlight they pick?

Dok and Sunny run down the participants in this year’s Rumble match

Vic Venom split screens in to walk back his comments from last week. Just to clarify, his prediction that Bret Hart would win the Rumble is just that: a prediction. Yeah, apparently Vince McMahon was none too pleased with that one, which led to the finish of the Rumble getting shuffled around to avoid being predictable

Sam calls in from Rhode Island wanting more Rumble predictions. Sunny predicts Hart as well, but Dok goes with Mankind. Vic is sticking with Bret, but he quickly adds that it might be Davey Boy Smith. Yeah, quit while you’re ahead there, Vic

Tim calls in from Alabama, and he thinks Steve Austin and Rocky Maivia are the guys to watch. Guy had an eye, give him that

A Sycho Sid… Christmas carol

Sid video package

Sid joins us, and he does a really weird take, doing an odd accent on ‘nice to be here’ that you need to hear to fully appreciate. Off to a good start!

Craig calls in from Florida, and he appreciates how Sid has beaten those punks Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart in the span of less than 30 days. Not many can say that

Bob calls in from New Hampshire, and he wants Sid to face Shawn in a Stretcher match. Uh, let’s not

Mike calls in from Connecticut, and you can hear his self satisfied smile over his ‘heartburn kid’ joke right through the phone

Someone faxes in wondering what Sid thinks his chances are against Bret at WrestleMania, should Hart win the Rumble. Considering Sid just beat him on pay per view a couple of weeks before this, I’d say pretty decent

Dok hypes up some new show that will be airing late nights from random locations in New York City. It’s still unnamed at this point, but that would be Shotgun Saturday Night

Someone faxes in hoping Sid will defend his title against Undertaker. Thanks for putting that idea into the universe, guy

Someone emails in wondering what Sid's strategy will be against Shawn at the Rumble. I think he’ll be trying to win

Todd calls in from California, though sadly it isn’t Pettengill. He wonders if Sid is worried about Shawn’s home field advantage in Texas, but Sid doesn’t know what a Texas is

Lou calls in from Florida, acting like a real telephone tough guy. I get why Sid was often booked as a heel, but man, they should have run with this guy as a babyface more. He has such natural charisma

Mike calls from Illinois, asking the same damn question for the five hundredth time, again about Sid’s strategy against Shawn or Bret. Did they screen these at all? Sid notes that no one can match him for endurance. Really? You went there?

Someone emails in wondering if Sid feels good about how he won the title. Sid, uh, does

Shawn Michaels calls in, and Sunny is very excited. Alert Helmsley! Anyway, he wants his belt back, but sounds like a kid crying about losing his toy, frankly. Shawn notes that his only worry is getting that belt back, not being the most popular, or having the match of the year. Don’t think that’ll be much of an issue

Mike from Michigan calls in, and man, these fans are just shitting all over HBK left and right. His act in 1996 was just horrible, and it was clear that a big change was needed. And, boy, did we get one

Mike calls in from Wisconsin, wondering when his balls will finish dropping. Kind of a weird question to call in with

Sunny appeared on MTV’s Singled Out last night, and Bob Backlund showed up to put one of the bachelors in a crossface chickenwing. Sunny complains that the guy she got matched up with was ‘too short.’ I’m not even touching that one

Royal Rumble ad

Someone calls in wondering whether Bret and Austin will ever settle their differences. Well, let’s all hope. I mean, I certainly hope they do. That would be much better than seeing them have a five-star match against each other amidst the hottest feud of the year

Someone calls in wondering when Sunny will get back to managing. Why would she do that? There’s a gig doing ring announcing for mini’s matches that’s just wide open! 

Someone calls in wondering if Sunny could give her advice about being a good manager, since she’s going to ‘manager school’ right now, but Vic cuts her off, since he wants ‘real questions,’ and is sick of everyone talking to Sunny. Manager school?

Someone calls in wondering why Undertaker isn’t WWF Champion. Vic actually gives a good answer, noting that everyone is always gunning for him (since a win over him would put them on the map), so he’s too busy to focus on the title

Vic is very excited about Bret and Shawn going face-to-face on RAW this Monday. He thinks it’s going to have ‘attitude’

Someone calls in complaining that WCW is ripping off the WWF, and Vic shares that he can’t even watch WCW anymore, because Eric Bischoff’s ego is too big to fit on his TV screen. Hello pot. This is kettle. 

BUExperience: Fun show this week! Sid + live TV. How bad could it be, really?