Todd Grisham Explains Why WWE Eventually Canceled Byte This, Matt Hardy Calling in During Edge & Lita Angle

During a recent interview with Insight With Chris Van Vliet, former WWE broadcaster and announcer Todd Grisham recalled hosting the now-defunct WWE internet series, WWE Byte This! Grisham served as one of the hosts of the WWE digital series before it went off the air, and the show was cancelled in 2006.

Grisham revealed that the show was ultimately taken off the air after it devolved into him arguing with “random 13-year-olds” who would call in and start insulting him. He also recalled the instance where Matt Hardy called in as part of his worked-shoot angle with Edge and Lita. Below are some highlights from Insight:

Todd Grisham on Hosting Byte This

“Yes and no. It was kind of the wild west of the internet. It was a call-in show. But very quickly we found out people would call in, and they would screen the calls. Hey, what do you want to talk about? What do you want to ask? And they’d be like, I want to talk about Batista’s world title match against Jeff Hardy, or whatever it would be. And then as soon as they’d get on the line with me, they’d say something stupid, or call me an idiot. At first I was doing the like, oh, well, obviously that’s not the kind of calls we want. I’d do that. And then eventually I just got to the point where I was like, calling people the R word, ‘You retard. Stop calling here.’ [They said] ‘TNA is great.’ I’m like, well, call their show, you idiot. It became that kind of show. Eventually they just took it off the air, because it was just basically me arguing with random 13-year-olds.”

On Matt Hardy Calling Into the Show as a Worked Shoot

“We had a pretty cool thing going with Matt Hardy and Edge with the Lita thing. That blew up on Byte This, they acted like it was a surprise call where we had Lita on and then Matt calls in, and that was at the time that we found out that she left Matt and was cheating on him with his best friend behind her back, which was Edge. So Matt Hardy called into the show, and they had their little back and forth. And I remember thinking at the time, I didn’t know what was real and what wasn’t. You’re like is Matt Hardy gonna kill Edge? What’s gonna happen? People still ask me about that. Did you know that Matt Hardy was gonna call into that show? Yeah, but I didn’t know what he’s gonna say.”