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Patty - Wrestling Editor

Hi Patty,

no conplaints from me. I really enjoy the feedback from those who take the time to do so. And it's always interesting getting opinions from People who have a different view on things than myself.

Anyway, my main reason for this reply is to ask if you would write a little life story essay re: your time in wrestling and what job you did, where and when? etc.

I've read heaps of passing remarks by you about what a certain wrestler was like when you worked with them, etc, but have no idea what you did. I think a few stories about the inside of a wrestling company and it's stars (from your point of view) would be pretty interesting.

Hope you can comply

Tikus

Yes have to agree with Tikus, come on Patty tell us about you and some of the things you have seen.

When you go to the site, if you click on my name in the left top corner, my bio will come up, there, you will see what I did in the past and what I do now.

When we have our chat, feel free to ask me anything you want. I can't tell certain secrets but I can tell you whatever you may want to know about what I did or who I know etc.

But the bio gives you a good idea of my background.

If you have any other questions, ask them here on the forum. I would be glad to answer them.

Patty

Sorry Patty, we want stories. (the ones you CAN tell anyway).
I checked out your Bio. Makes me even more curious as to what you could say.
For eg. When were you working for WCW magazine?
Were you still there near the toll of the final Bell for Nitro and WCW? What was it like?

Tikus

I worked for WCW Magazine from 1995 until August of 1999. I was a writer, then Associate Editor, then Executive Editor.

I wrote a lot of stories and interviews and managed everyone else who wrote including the wrestlers who guest wrote. Jericho was the best, Stevie Richards was also easy to work with. A few others, who I won't mention, were just grrr to deal with. I also discussed with the publisher, who was my very close friend by then and I respected and still respect immensely, ideas for stories, interviews, covers and the layout of the magazine. We had a WCW rep who looked at everything to be sure we didn't break kayfabe or say something tat would make one of the bigwigs or wrestlers mad and that kind of ticked me off but that was how it was.

I traveled to all the PPVs and many televised shows, stayed in the same hotels with the workers and staff, had full backstage privileges and was part of the gang but....not because I was a woman. That is where "On the Fringe" came from. I was on the fringe of being in and out of the business.

I left WCW Magazine in August of 1999 when they asked us to move to Atlanta and work in house. We were producing the magazine from all over the world. I was in NY, my publisher was in FL, our designers were in the UK, other writers were in Chicago and other places. It all came together fine for years.

But they wanted it in house and we all decided (bar one guy) not to do it. Thankfully because WCW collapsed only months later!

I saw the decline. When I was very involved, we were on top. Money flowed like water. I had a HUGE salary (You wouldn't believe it), a large multi room office near my hone with several employees I hired to do different types of jobs, a beautiful sports car leased for me, several charge cards with no limits, free travel everywhere and hotel, room service, whatever plus many other perks (like the Bruise Cruise which was a cruise with the wrestlers to the Bahamas Amazing!). Anything I wanted or needed, I got.

And so did many others within WCW.

Which led to their financial collapse. I think we all knew it wouldn't and couldn't last forever. I mean even Ted Turner has a limit, but we were having so much fun and enjoying huge ratings (I am talking in the 8's....WWE does high 3's and very low 4's on good weeks now) and everything was great.

Slowly though WWE was creeping back up and finding its attitude. Now, this was tough for me because I was always a WWF/WWE fan and never missed it. I wanted it to do well. It was sad on Tuesdays when the ratings came in and we had beaten them so badly.

83 weeks later, they beat us in the ratings by a small margin and that was the beginning of the end for WCW. It was all downhill from there. Management changed, Russo came over, Eric and him could not work together, the wrestlers, who were so used to doing whatever they wanted refused to adhere to new rules, and everyone got miserable and started to rebel.

I was already Editor in Chief of RollerJam magazine when WCW was sold. But it was no surprise, I knew about it months before it happened.

It was sad but the era had ended when we left and things changed so I wasn't really upset. I was hoping Vince would keep the WCW brand alive but he didn't, which was disappointing. I also was sad to see some of my friends out of a job and then ECW collapsed! And WWE took THAT over too.

I knew then that wrestling as we knew it would not be the same for a very long time and it isn't.

I am just holding out hope that TNA makes some difference and that it gives the workers somewhere to go when they are axed or unhappy.

If you want to start a thread asking me things, go ahead. I can't say some things as you might imagine but I can talk about what I saw and did and thinks like that. Just not anything that would get me chokeslammed ....again <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />


Big Show was The Giant in WCW. This is about 7 years old!

To quote Carlito: "Now THAT WAS COOL."

I want more, that was very interesting.

~Chris <img src="/images/graemlins/king.gif" alt="" />

Now that pic really does put across how huge the Big Show really is..

LOL, Either Patty is teeny tiny, or Show is a Giant...or maybe Patty is teeny tiny and Show IS a giant. I saw him at a house show once. THE MAN IS GIANORMOUS!

~Chris <img src="/images/graemlins/king.gif" alt="" />

I am 5'5" and had 2 inch Harley boots on. He is HUGE. His hand went around my neck with plenty of room to spare. And he was really mad at me that day too. Luckily, he calmed down or I never would have gotten that close to him. lol.

Well I'm sure The Great One would have taken that Chokeslam to save you Patty... <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Yes, Mikieboy, I would have taken a chokeslam for Patty. Well, either that or for just the honor of being chokeslammed by the Big Show. Who said chivalry is dead, hmmm?

~Chris <img src="/images/graemlins/king.gif" alt="" />

I remember the guys on the last Tough Enough Comp. The one with Puder.

There were some guys pretty keen to get Slammed by the Big Show. Once big Paul had slammed them, none were looking too keen. In fact the last few were pretty damn shy about the idea. Who can blame them.

I'll never forget Big Show swinging Rey Mysterio around whilst on a stretcher into the Ring Post. I know Rey is small compared to the Big Show, but I was amazed at his strength. Thats one heavy Base Ball bat.

Tikus

Tikus, there is footage of Show flipping not only cars but SUVs over with his bare hands. I don't know if he was mechanically helped, but I bet he could. He is one guy I would definatley not want to be on the bad side of, I think he could make me cry like a girl!

~Chris <img src="/images/graemlins/king.gif" alt="" />

I like to wrestle too.

umm, ok. That makes two of us.

~chris <img src="/images/graemlins/king.gif" alt="" />

Show is huge and strong. Mark Henry is stronger but still, anyone who is 1100 pounds and 7'1" is going to be strong. Heheh. He is getting a bit bulkier day by day, that crazy hotdog lovin Paul Wight! <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

DITTO! Sounds like a great plan!

Al

Well, there was something I didn't know. who knew Show Was a hot dog fanatic? lol

~Chris <img src="/images/graemlins/king.gif" alt="" />

If its edible, he's a fanatic for it. lol

LOL Patty. I would hate to have his food bill!

~Chris <img src="/images/graemlins/king.gif" alt="" />

Ummm? Stupid Tikus question N03.

How do I add my picture to my profile? Tried, can't work it out. Step by step if you don't mind. Ta

Tikus

Tikus. It took me forever to figure it out myself. First you have to recrop the image intil it is less then 600 by 600 pixels. Then it should work. If you want, email your picture to me as a gif or Jpeg file and I'll fix it for you, send it back then you can upload it.

~Chris <img src="/images/graemlins/king.gif" alt="" />

Uploading is the problem. I click on the blank space where the picture should be and it asks me if I want to save the picture. ??

I've tried cut and paste. No luck. My photo is already reduced to the correct size. HELP!

Ummm, then I dunno. Patty might have to help you with that one.

~Chris <img src="/images/graemlins/king.gif" alt="" />

Ok, so how do you do it?

Step by step. I'm missing something.
Here's how I've been trying
1. Open Edit Bio
2. Go to picture
3. Try copy (my picture) and paste on blank spot. Nope
3. Click on blank spot. Nope
3. Try one of the two options above the blank spot, I don't even know what they are asking. Nope.

Help Patty (or anyone else)

Tikus

Tic,

Follow this EXACTLEY.

1: Go to "Edit Bio".
2: Scroll down to "Your current avatar".
3: Select "URL to your avatar". Enter the address. Mostly see where it is in your files. It may be easier to save your picture online somewhere (email your picture to yourself, then open it. Look on your browser, hit right click on your mouse, copy the location, then go back to the avatar screen and paste it.)
4: Your picture must be no more then 200x200 max pixels, can be less.
5: Click "Change".

Hope that helps.

~Chris <img src="/images/graemlins/king.gif" alt="" />

I think I'm computer iliterate.

I still can't do it. Maybe if I knew what URL was?

Do you mean I email to my hotmail the picture.
And then copy the http address info or what?

Thanks Chris

I believe the photo has to be hosted somewhere. It can't be on your computer. You can go to www.photobucket.com or many other free imaging places and upload the pic there. Then you can take the URL and add it to the instructions above.

It has been so long that I forgot the exact way I did mine but I know mine is hosted on photobucket and I checked other user pics and they are all hosted somewhere.

Try that and I will look more into it.

Or you can make a separate post asking users how they got their picture up. MikeyBoy and Ice have theirs up so they should know.

Some help *I* am!

Tikus,

When I added my pic, I first posted it on my blog. The I copied the location there. I think Patty is right, your picture needs to be hosted somewhere. If you have ablog or even a picture on the profile you use for your service provider, that's where you can get it. And yes, the http address.

~Chris <img src="/images/graemlins/king.gif" alt="" />

Hey!!!!

I finally finally did it. Thanks guys.
The photobucket tip worked a treat.

By the way. I'm the one on the right, doing my best Sting Impersonation. There's a story in that photo I can tell you.

Tikus

Ok, Tikus, I am always up for a good story. Let's hear it!

~Chris <img src="/images/graemlins/king.gif" alt="" />

Later TGO, I'm off to get Root Canal.

Believe it or not I'm looking forward to it. At the moment I could almost punch my own tooth out it hurts so much

See ya

If you would let me give you a clothesline I would have taken care of the toofie problem for you.

~Chris <img src="/images/graemlins/king.gif" alt="" />

I'm in the mood for a good story. BTW How's the tooth?


Se7en

Hey Seven. Go to page 2 of this forum. You'll see my post "What's your Wrestling Story?". The photo story is in there.

As for the Tooth. It was absolute hell!!!!

The tooth crapped itself on Friday, by Sat/Sun it was already unbelieveable, I was swallowing pain killers like you wouldn't believe. Finally by Wednesday Arvo I got to see the Dentist. The tooth was freakin' raging by now.

I had so many needles I lost count. She wouldn't/couldn't continue as the teeth was still sensitive. And the treatment was gonna be pretty nasty. Soooo, she refers me to another Dentist in downtown Denpasar. (I was nervous, this is Indonesia were talking about, not Australia or the USA).

When I get there the Dentisit gives me 1 shot and says "a little pain now, 1hr+ and all over"

So, away they go. I FELT EVRYTHING!!!!
The tooth was so inflamed they couldn't numb it. I knew I had to tough it out, but man, a few times it was just unreal!!

It took forever, finally two nerves are pulled out, along with most of my pain threshold. But, despite an xray, they can't find the last nerve. The Head dentist is called in. He says he has to drill to find it, no other way. So he just drills straight into the tooth and hits the nerve. I nearly jumped right outta the chair. He had 3 attempts before he drew sufficent blood to know where it was.

Anyway. 4hrs later, non stop action. (TNA eat yor heart out).
I left for home. It took a bit over a week to fully recover as far as eating etc goes. All good now though. Was it worth it. Yes. But one of the most painfull things I've EVER experienced.

Thanks for asking. heh heh

Tikus

OK, That gave me shivers. I had a similar thing happen. Yeck. <img src="/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Very appropriate smiley face thingy you chose to.

Tik'

I see grown men wrestling on TV, and I wonder if they could not channel their energies more constructively.

Channel their energies more creatively? What they do is pretty creative as it is and they are doing it for our entertainment and enjoyment

Although I do not watch them too often, I have family and friends who do and I think they are doing quite well to "creatively" provide fun entertainment to millions!

Question. I've noticed whilst I'm online with Bellaonline that it shows how many others are on line, and how many guests, and how many spiders. What the heck is a Spider?
And....Why is C rap censored when I type it? Is it a bad word in the USA?

Tikus

I'll answer the spider question, because I had all the other editors laughing at me about it at one time, LOL!

Spiders are basically search engines that send out "webs" to see what word searches match what people are looking for on the web.

As for the word being censored, it is in the general programming. Most bodily functions and parts are considered "cussing". The computer can't really tell the difference between the severity of a word, so it censors it all.

I actually noticed this in a movie on TNT the other night. They censored out the word "cra*", yet left in the word "G-dam", which to me seemed insane! My husband explained to me about the censoring of bodily functions. But apprently it is OK on tv to say GD.

Although, I have to admit - the movie was "Blade Trinity" which has a curse word in at least every other sentence - and listening to some of the cover words they came up with was pretty amusing.

Hmmm, ok well I guess that makes sense.
Thanks ladies.

Tikus