About ringsidephotos.net
"My name is Blake...I like to take pictures..."
Thank you for visiting my site. RingSidePhotos.net is a photographic anthology
of professional wrestling. I have been a life-long fan starting in the mid
1980s with the last days of the Mid-Atlantic territory. In 2004 I was able
to get involved by riding on the coat-tails of my cousin and our friend (the tag
team formerly known as The UnderGround: Ken Magnum & Adam Jaxon).. Since then I have been welcomed into the families, locker rooms, promotions and
personal lives of the great talent that is in professional wrestling
today. I know that if I start thanking people, I will forget someone but
special thanks to: Eddie Rich, Adam Jaxon, Ken Magnum, Thomas Simpson, Ostgard,
Jerry Bragg, Gary Benfield, Kirby & TJ Mack, Neil Nitro, Dick Bourne, Mike
Bochicchio & the Highspots guys, Jerry Palmer, Greg Price, all the promoters
and all the talent for letting me be a part of the show.
I am completely self-taught in photography, so at times my pictures may have an odd angle, seem a little out of focus, or not be bright enough but what I try to bring to you, the visitor of my site, is the feeling of being in the best seat in the house-ringside.
Promotions/Companies that I have shot for: American Pro Wrestling (Spartanburg, SC) - High Velocity Wrestling (Hendersonville, NC) - Main Event Presents/WWC-AWC (Greenville, SC) - All-Star Wrestling Alliance (Bowman, GA) - NWA-Wildside/Anarchy (Cornelia, GA) - Southern Wrestling Association (Forest City, NC) - Live Action Wrestling (Sanford, NC) - Exodus Wrestling Alliance (Mooresville, NC) - Carolina Wrestling Association (Statesville, NC) - Universal Championship Wrestling - Carolina Championship Wrestling - CWF/AWA Mid Atlantic (Burlington, NC) - Inferno Pro Wrestling (Charleston, SC) - Southern Championship Wrestling (Lenoir, NC) - AWA-Power Pro Wrestling - G.O.U.G.E. (Raleigh,NC) - Appalachian Championship Wrestling (Marion, NC) - New Frontier Wrestling Association (Clayton, GA) - Unified Wrestling Association (Marion, NC) - Burke County Wrestling (Morganton, NC) - New Wave Championship Wrestling (Athens,GA) - Great Southern Championship Wrestling (Lenoir, NC) - Pro Wrestling World 1 South (Valdosta, GA) - United Wrestling Federation - Highspots - Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup - Gladiator Pro Wrestling (Gastonia,NC) - All Star Wrestling of the Carolinas (Marion, NC) - Alternative Pro Wrestling (Royston, GA) - National Championship Wrestling (Greenville,SC) - Wrestler's Alliance Revolution (Asheville NC) - NWA Charlotte (NC) -
I "retired" from actively photographing wrestling at the end of January 2010. You can read my blog in regards to this here. I'm not 100% done with wrestling, and I may still pop up at a show here and there, and who knows I may even have my camera.