Tony Schiavone Recalls Bobby Heenan Being Drunk On Commentary At WCW Hog Wild 1996

On the latest episode of What Happened When with Tony Schiavone, the AEW broadcaster discussed the time when Bobby Heenan was intoxicated during a WCW commentary segment. You can check out some highlights below:

On Loser Leaves Town or Loser Must Retire matches: “You know, no one ever believed that ‘Loser Must Leave Town’ or retire-type match from all the way back, right? I mean, back in the territory days, Loser Must Leave Town. Well, that means he was going to a new territory. And they would have worked here for a little bit, and sometimes years later he would come back. So, then Loser Must Quit, Loser Must Retire — you know, no one ever bought that s**t. So be that as it may, it’s one of those things in wrestling about loser must retire.”

On Bobby Heenan’s drunk commentary for WCW in 1996 at Hog Wild: “This was not the one with Ric Flair and Eddie Guerrero, you didn’t mention that match. Okay, that match was — and you can go back and listen to it, if you think I’m a liar, good for you. But you can go back and listen to it. That was the one where Bobby had had too much to drink… He had this water bottle, which we thought was a water bottle but it was straight vodka. And by that — and of course, it was warm there. It was summertime, sun was baking us and everything early.

“And I never will forget that — this is when Dusty would ask Heenan a question on the telecast. And I knew Heenan was like, tipsy to the point to where he got kind of drunk. Or he got drunk. And Dusty would ask Heenan a question, and I would like elbow Dusty, like, ‘Don’t ask him a f**king question. He’s drunk.’ And he would keep doing it. And then there was one point where he said, Eddie Guerrero’s name, and he sounded like — if you remember, Foster Brooks from back in the Johnny Carson days, he sounded like that. And that always — when I go back and hear that, that always makes me laugh. Because you know, sure he had too much to drink, but what the f**k, right? He’s Bobby Heenan. Let him do what he wants to do.”

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