
Hey, that's me, Spencer Strickland! I'm a 27 year old web developer who has been programming and watching professional wrestling since the age of 8.
I've been doing ColdFusion development professionally since the age of 16. My first job was as a ColdFusion developer in the Research Triangle Park (North Carolina) for the summers before my junior and senior years
of high school. Following the second summer, I began working for a company in my hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and worked there for the next three years. After my first year of college, I moved on to my third job as a ColdFusion developer,
this time for a company in Washington, D.C. I worked out of my apartment in Baton Rouge for that company for the next three years, and was moving on to a new company in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit. Luckily, I was able to move up to
New York City as a result, and am currently working a block from the Mecca of Sports Entertainment, Madison Square Garden.
I built my first website back in 1996 - a personal website featuring custom-made levels for Descent II and Warcraft II. In 1999, I launched fourdown.com, a personal website for me and my friends. As is usually the case,
personal websites aren't as much fun as they seem, so I stopped working on any personal websites for 7 years. Late in 2007, I had the urge to start on a new personal project, and realized that as a longtime wrestling fan,
I could develop something that I, as a wrestling fan, would enjoy using. I went through a lot of different ideas and this site is what I ended up with.
I've been a fan of sports entertainment (professional wrestling) since the age of 8, though the first time I started following it outside of renting tapes at Blockbuster and Alfalfa Video was the summer following WrestleMania VI. The first episode
I remember watching on TV had The Brother Love show in which Earthquake "broke the back" of Hulk Hogan using a steel chair. SummerSlam 1990, headlined by Hulk Hogan vs Earthquake and The Ultimate Warrior vs Ravishing Rick Rude (in a steel cage), is the
first PPV I watched live. The first videotapes of wrestling I recall watching are WrestleMania V and the "Night of the Skywalkers" Starrcade. I've followed the online wrestling community since my days on Prodigy, participating in the fantasy wrestling
on the forums there.
I'm always looking for ideas to make this site more fun for wrestling fans, so if you have anything you'd like to see, let me know!
Me with the McMahons, October 2001
Me with Ric Flair, November 2008
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