20 years ago, we decided to open a website featuring womens' wrestling. We came up with the name SLAMminLadies and called our downloadable videos SLAMpegs as a play on then-prevalent mpegs. We actually opened on July 2, 2004 but had been shooting for several months before that in order to have enough content to make the site worth something when we opened it. We both thought it would be a little side hustle but it quickly grew to become our full time work. Within just a couple months, we knew we had something special and worked really hard to figure out ways to keep it going.
At the time, we were renting out rings in training facilities, shooting matches or photos before and/or after shows and driving crazy distances to meet up with wrestlers wherever we could. Some of the places were really nice. Others were not the best set ups, but we appreciated everyone who gave their time, effort and space to help us get this going. We could tell you stories of being in 100 degree warehouses or about the time, we finished a match to find we had a crowd of homeless people watching through the open door or about trying to shoot matches after a show when the road crew is putting up the chairs and making way too much noise. And so many more interesting road stories. We were doing our best and our fans seemed to like it.
Most of the matches before the site launched were paid for out of our own pocket. We hadn't started the custom match part of it yet except for a couple of customers that I had contact through from my own LexieFyfe.com website. Those customers were just used to getting me versus whomever I might be wrestling on a show with. Now we had a variety of wrestlers to choose from and it grew quickly.
I had worked with a couple other customs companies over the years and knew what I wanted to do and what I wanted to stay away from which is one of the reasons I wanted to start my own company.
We had a fun, opening year and made quite a few wrestlers some extra money while doing it.
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