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Koko B. Ware Tells All – From Memphis to the Birdman Legacy: Prime Time Vault

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports, Sports News, News, Leisure, Wrestling

4.8761 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Mooney’s Vault: A Legendary Chat with Koko B. Ware!

This week on Mooney’s Vault, we sit down with “The Birdman” Koko B. Ware for an unforgettable conversation! Koko shares his journey breaking into professional wrestling, his early days in Memphis with Jerry Lawler and Jerry Jarrett, creating and perfecting the iconic Birdman gimmick, training his son Frankie, the story behind his WWF release, and much more. A must-listen for wrestling fans and historians alike!

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This is a prime time with Sean Mooney production. All right, as you know, if you're a loyal listener

1:05.9

to the program, you're aware that I certainly had some great mentors and people I was close to

1:10.7

during my time with the WWF,

1:12.4

WWE. Among them, of course, Lord Alfred Hayes, you know, Gorilla Monsoon, Gene O'Coland, and a lot of people behind the scenes.

1:19.7

But, you know, really very few wrestlers. And most of that was by choice. As I mentioned before, you know,

1:25.6

I was very aware of the fact that I wasn't one of the

1:28.1

boys and I thought it was really better to maintain, you know, kind of a level of professionalism

1:33.5

around them, around the wrestlers. But there were a few, you know, who I work with a lot, who I really

1:38.2

got along well with and, you know, who I considered as friends and who helped me out a lot

1:43.9

during the time that I was

1:45.2

with the WWF, and that would certainly include my guest today. Coco, beware.

1:51.4

Coco, thank you so much for coming on primetime. How are you?

1:55.2

Hey, I'm doing fine, Sean. What do you mean, Sean, that you wasn't one of the boys?

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