Ronnie

(Not an admin, just a very occasional visitor, but one familiar with the software.) It seems that the default template has been customised. In the default template, the site name appears in the top row; next to it is a hamburger menu, from which one can access one's profile. It's followed by the breadcrumbs, plus icons for the activity stream, the create menu (when logged in), and search: PWO, on the other hand, displays like this, with the row ordering inverted: There's no sign of the code for the hamburger menu, so it seems that the template edits haven't kept it. (You'd expect globalTemplate to call the template mobileNavigationIcon, @Loss, if this is an oversight rather than intentional.)

To read, it's necessary to scroll horizontally, so this happens: You'll be in the clear whenever you upgrade, then; there's no sign of that line in the latest versions' framework.css

Hi! I've popped back casually after a few years away and noticed the upgrade. One thing isn't quite right though. On mobile, images break the natural page width: It seems to me that the cause is the addition of .cPost div[data-role="commentContent"] img.ipsImage_thumbnailed{max-width:1000px;max-height:750px;} to your framework.css. That's saying that if your image is larger than 1000px wide, then reduce it to that width, which is what is happening. However, it's taking priority over another rule which says do not allow an image to be wider than the page width. I don't know what this rule was added for but it's clearly problematic. (And not the correct approach to take; changes should be made in custom.css. The stock CSS files will either be overwritten in future upgrades (meaning that you lose your changes) or not overwritten (meaning that changes that are part of upgrades won't be introduced) -- the jury's out as to which of the two approaches apply here!) You need to get rid of this rule as it stands because of the knock-on problems it's causing but there'll be an alternative way of doing what you intended. What is it you were trying to achieve by adding this rule?

Doing as close an impression of a rockstar as a gelatinous beardy can by visiting four different countries, Butch! I know if I log into the UKFF I'll spend all day on it so I'm trying to be super disciplined and stay away until I clear a backlog of work ... and the longer I leave it the more anxious I become because the more I'll have to read, so the more time I'll be distracted and um ... Mind you, Summerslam was all the more a cracker for not having discussed it or read about it beforehand, so there's the plus.

I don't think it would be possible for this version of the board (IPB 2.20), which dates back to 2006, prior to widespread mobile browsing. As best I can tell, a mobile skin wasn't shipped with the board until 3.10 in 2010. If it's not displaying well on your device, you might be better served to consider using the lofi version of the site.

There are companies that do it extremely quickly, including some that use some magic sort of 3D scanning so they don't even have to flick through the pages. I'm associated with a charity looking at digitising its library (13,000 books) and that's one of the options we're looking at because many of the books are old and possibly the only extant copies and so the customary destructive scanning (breaking the spine to speed up the process) isn't an option. It's unfortunate that we've only just started sourcing quotes, otherwise this post could've been a little bit more helpful by giving an indication of the potential cost.

In late 2009 Lance Storm recalled in one of the F4W podcasts that he heard this story from two of the people involved. He was sat with Flair and Undertaker once when they were discussing the Tuesday in Texas match. Apparently Hogan went into spasm in the ring and sought attention for his injury, and Undertaker was distraught at what he'd caused to happen. Flair backstage consoled him and told him that he needed to look on the monitor. All became clear when Undertaker saw the repeat; Hogan's head was eight inches clear of the canvas. Undertaker was doubly upset that Hogan caused him to think he'd injured him, when he was really BS-ing to protect his spot at the top of the card (since that newcomer "couldn't work" and injured a main-event guy).

I imagine that this will appeal to a few of you chaps. WWE.com has put up a series of photos documenting a recent visit by Howard Finkel to WWE's video vault. There are photos of thousands of tapes, a digital-archiving robot and little tidbits such as some tapes being so frail that they simply digitize the whole lot if a single match is needed for fear that it will disintegrate and the existence of a second storage site in a nuke-proof cave. I find stuff like this fascinating. Here's Howard with some of his favorite AWA tapes:

I have no idea of the veracity of this but I love Sheiky's phrasing when responding to this question once. He concurred that this was true and threw in there that any reluctance from Backlund wouldn't have mattered because "even he don't want, Iron Sheik beat him anyway".

No. As he's done for years he poured water over his head when doing his entrance. Unlike in previous years, he no longer has any hair to soak up the water, and so it ran down his back and left an unfortunately located patch:

I've never seen him post here. The author was the chap who goes by the name Jay Bower/East.Coast.J, a thoroughly pleasant, classy guy who worked so quickly on this that his own twin brother replied when people speculated that he was the author that he couldn't possibly be because he's so busy. If the name rings a bell it might be because he's the guy who once had a fair bit of time on airlines during a spell and spent it by fishing quotes out of old Observers and posting them on DVDVR, The Oratory Forums etc. It's a shame he gave it up within a few months of starting the Pro-Wrestling Chronicle because it was the highlight of my online reading during the time it was up.

Lewis had a fight with Razor Ruddock scheduled shortly after SummerSlam which was heavily advertised at the time. I'm fairly sure that the UK version of the event had commercial breaks in it in which the Lewis-Ruddock advertisements appeared prominently. Lewis was something of a new hope for the Brits at the time, a man who won gold in the 88 Olympics for Canada but chose to represent the UK upon turning professional in 1989 and who was one fight away from being able to challenge for one of the heavyweight titles. So it would stand to reason that Lewis was there as part of the campaign to generate interest for his fight with Ruddock, which was an unusual one for us in that it was airing live at a time that suited the Brits rather than the customary early-hours fights that emanated from the US (or so I remember, at any rate). I think he was also appearing on breakfast TV at the time.

Good news for the producers and bad news for me. As of 14 hours ago they hit their target. I know it because I've just gone to contribute and have left it too late. I don't suppose you know, Dylan, whether the DVD will be purchasable for people who didn't pay by Kickstarter, do you? I'd love to get my hands on a copy.

Is it? I couldn't see it on the page when looking just now. There's nothing from Meltzer and Vince is still showing as CEO on WWE's corporate site, which also features no mention in the list of media updates. Did you actually see it yourself or was it on newz sites?

$$$$. The IPO (for 10% of stock, I think) generated $175m. McMahon became a billionaire by assets. Even though the stock price has dropped it's more than offset by the massive income in dividends that McMahon gets every year for his majority share. On top of the simple idea that Vince now has even more money to spend, he put himself in a situation to get closer to that acceptance that he craves from his "snob" neighbours in CT, who look down on him as a peddler of low-brow entertainment. He got a company on the stock exchange, got his moment on Wall Street, made the Forbes Rich List and used the cash explosion to set up his own football league. He's no worse off for having taken this action, since he still owns the majority of shares, answers to no-one and micro-manages every aspect of the business. I'd have done the same thing as him, except I'd have probably sold the lot and had a spectacular retirement instead of continuing to put in the 80-hour, 7-day weeks.

Is Dave's math bad? I certainly don't get that impression when listening to the podcast and he pulls some quick mental arithmetic when calculating, say, percentage changes. Bryan, on the other hand, seems to struggle with anything like that.

I'd never seen that before - thanks for that! My exposure to the Genius is limited to his run as a manager and the odd match of Leaping Lanny flinging his frisbees into the crowd via YouTube. Not having an idea of how the character of the Genius would translate into a wrestling match, and one which was broadcast nationally at that, meant that I really got a kick out of watching how that played out just now. Even better was that I didn't know what the result was going to be (well, "didn't know that the result was not going to be the one I expected" is a fairer summary), so that made for a particularly pleasant surprise. I think that this was probably the most fun I've had watching wrestling all year. My attention span has shrunk to nothing so I never got particularly invested in the notable WWE matches of the recent past, whereas the fact that this was all wrapped up in ten minutes and was absolutely fresh to me meant that I was glued to it from start to finish. I might just go back and rewatch it right now

^^ Yeah, exactly. If anything to do with steroids comes out (and I doubt it will) then I'm sure the reaction of the mainstream, who probably don't even know that Cena exists, will be indifference. The layman will assume that all of these bug, muscular men are on steroids anyway. They won't know about the Wellness Policy, they won't know about the deaths and, more to the point, they simply won't care about "fake wrestlers". I think the bigger surprise shouldn't be that Cena is filing for divorce but that he got married in the first place. I can't picture him as a man who ever makes it home during his time off anyway. And, really, the attempt to suggest that "phony wrestler who takes steroids gets divorced" is supposed to be anywhere near "murdered his wife and seven-year-old before killing himself" in notoriety, exposure and damage to WWE is ridiculous.

That was a brilliant sequence, that really stood out amid the gloom of the subject matter. I found it humanised Vince too, not least because it came across as a cheeky boy trying ineptly to tell a lie, which countered any image of "godfather whose empire is proliferated with sexual harrassment and dishonesty." John Arezzi - Didn't Vince say in published reports that you were devastated when Hulk Hogan made those statements on Arsenio? Vince McMahon - I wasn't devastated. Dave Meltzer - That was the word you used to me. Vince McMahon - Well, alright *adopts a cheeky "shucks, you got me" grin whilst the audience laughs good naturedly and gives a round of applause*

Absolutely. I thought it was great story-telling. Austin was on his way to Wrestlemania to regain the title he'd lost the previous September in McMahon-engineered chicanery; Vince McMahon cheated him out of it unworthily, not by being a better athlete, but by being the long-time thorn in Austin's side who used illegal means to snatch victory. It lead to a whole series of questions about what would happen next regarding the main event of Wrestlemania. At the time we were yet to see the clichéd "winner of the Royal Rumble puts his WM main-event shot on the line at the February PPV", so the drama was ramped up. Then we got Austin finally getting his hands cleanly on McMahon at the St Valentine's Day Massacre PPV, getting his shot back because McMahon had initially waived it so as not to battle The Rock, and then was informed that he would need to defend it against Austin otherwise it would revert to Stone Cold anyway, since he was the runner-up in the Rumble. It was a phenomenal few months of TV and I don't know how anyone could be driven to give up on the back of it given that it was so gripping, one of the few spells when I've perceived wrestling that way. I absolutely concur, with the exception of his in-ring ability. He's not the most natural (Triple H and Jericho both laugh their heads off discussing this on the McMahon DVD) but he's a phenomenal modern-day talent for entertaining TV. I loved him at that time.

In what way did Andy Kaufmann "respect da biz" more than Arquette did? Hell, Andy's entire gimmick was that he didn't respect the business.He didn't say that Arquette didn't respect the business. It had already been established (by DDP, with examples) that he did. But the clear category that Arquette belongs in (whether he respected the business or not) is "badly cast". Settle down.

Yeah, Pillman's. DDP said that on the programme. He was clear that Arquette didn't want to do it (because he "respected the business") and JR was equally clear that he has no problem with Arquette as a person, but that he had no business being presented as the promotion's champ. I don't see why that makes JR any different to anybody else. I've never seen anybody argue that that decision was a good one.

But DDP jumped all over JR before JR had even got around to saying anything about "respecting the business". And I don't agree at all that his approach would've been "WWE's celebs = good, WCW's = bad". He even indicated that the use of inappropriate celebrities began in "the Wrestlemania era". Not "in WCW", but linked to the WWF's national expansion. (And whilst he's saying this there are shots of Ozzy Osbourne, Nick Turturro etc.) Cyndi Lauper was the second person whose name shot off his lips when asked to give examples. And I'm sure that had Jay Leno made Austin whince in agony rather than Hogan he'd have mentioned that too, the motivation being that it is an embarassment to the business rather than an anti-WCW bias.

What? DDP started it, interrupting JR's first comment. JR explained that Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier had played the role of guest referees in the past and that promoters were smart to use former heavyweight champions for publicity. "But in the Wrestlemania era, that all changed." Okerlund mentioned that Verne Gagne told him that Jack Dempsey's presence "absolutely made" Gagne's title match with Lou Thesz. JR: "The whole idea regarding celebrities in our business was to embrace mainstream media [but] there were a lot of celebrities that got involved in our business that were absolute jokes. They should not have been near- Okerlund: Do you wanna name any names? JR: Yeah, sure. David Arquette; one. Cyndi Lauper; another. David Arquette was- DDP, dismissively: We'll come back to that. I'm surprised you're throwing that in there first. We'll come back to that. JR: The fact [was] that David Arquette was the WCW champion. And so it continues, with DDP constantly interrupting for the duration, even though he later goes on to say that he thought at the time that it was a stupid decision and so did Arquette. So does everyone. Considering that the celebrity involvement in this case involved holding a strap rather than simply associating with the product then JR was perfectly reasonable in having him at the forefront of his mind as an example of an inappropriate use of a celebrity. DDP's constant interjecting and pettiness over it wasn't. But no, ignore all that. "DDP was supportive of Bischoff. I bet that's why JR was a dick to him (even though he wasn't)."