Episode 728: New Generation Declassified: Livewire: 25 Years Too Soon

Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast

Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling

Wrestling, Sports

4.8 • 356 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week's New Generation Declassified features a look back at the highly underrated and certainly in the argument for ahead of its time, WWF Livewire. Replacing the clip show of WWF Mania, Host Todd Pettingill and a revolving cast of the WWF's most recognizable on air characters all gathered at the TV production studio in Stamford, CT to take phone calls, faxes and even emails from the WWF fans. What would happen is a mix of shoot / storyline character portrayal by the superstars and a side of them not seen during the New Generation era. Join special guest Jeff Lane from Vince Russo's Russo Brand as we look back at this innovative concept, forgotten by most but not lost to time.

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0:00.0	The upcoming presentation is a two-man power trip on wrestling podcast production. All right. Let's get it going right now. This is New Generation D Classified,
0:37.1	and you're listening to a brand new generation
0:39.2	be classified here exclusively on the two-man power of wrestling podcasting Empire. If you
0:45.1	didn't know by now, my name is Chad. And every single week, I'm joined here by members of the
0:49.2	crack broadcast team. And we go back in time when we dig into some of the old stories, some of the old
0:55.0	happenings of the World Wrestling Federation between 93 and 97-ish. And this week,
1:02.2	joined by a very special guest, one of my favorite people in the whole entire podcasting
1:07.0	medium. I am honored to have on New Generation DeFide a guy who's already admitted he tapped
1:12.8	out during the new generation, the one and only the great Jeff Lane. Hey, what's going on?
1:19.5	Thanks for having me, man. You tapped out, Jeff. What's going on? We'll get into it. But,
1:25.4	I mean, this was like, i couldn't believe you said you'd
1:27.7	never heard of live wire before well i i never watched it when it was when it was on i've seen
1:34.4	the clips throughout the years you know on youtube and stuff all the all the stuff with vince and
1:39.6	in in jr with you know having the bad day i've seen all that stuff but when the show was on live i
1:44.9	had never watched it because this is this is why i think this is such an interesting podcast to do
1:50.4	because i know there's a lot of people in my age range anyway that this was the era
1:57.2	when we stopped watching wrestling for a while and the numbers show you know, a bunch of people stopped watching in this era.
2:04.3	I was, let's see, 90, you know, late 90s, I was probably 14 to 18-ish during this time.
2:14.5	And I'm just trying to do quick math here.
2:16.8	But, you know, of all my friends, only one of them continued to watch wrestling during this time and I'm just trying to do quick math here but you know of all my friends only one of
2:19.6	them continued to watch wrestling during this time he's never quit he's been to die hard for life but
2:24.0	that's why I think this is such a cool concept because I think a lot of a lot of us miss this while
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