TheBalrogsLair.com
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TheBalrogsLair.com: The Best in Wrestling Since 1996
Description
TBLWrestling.com brings you the best wrestling coverage online! Since 1996, TBL has been the originator of exclusive content from columns to news to wrestling facts and more!
Site History
On April 14, 2006 The Balrog's Lair celebrated its tenth birthday! This is unheard of for professional wrestling "fan sites."
Why TBL? The creator of The Balrog's Lair always had an interest in computers. Through some browsing on the internet he found out that one could actually get their OWN website at a place called GeoCities.com. "Imagine that," he thought. "I could have my own internet and put things up on it that the guys in school could see. Cool!" Needless to say, it was time for the creator to get a website!
The original Balrog's Lair was the creator's place to whine and complain! But wrestling did a find a way into TBL, even back then. You see, back in my high school we had a bit of a celebrity as a substitute teacher. You may know him as WWE Hall of Famer Tito Santana, but we knew him as Mr. Solis. Tito was a great substitute and a good freshman football coach (I never had him as a coach, but some of my younger friends did). He never did anything worthwhile of getting posted on the website until that one day in the lunchroom...
There was a fight going on between two little bratty kids and Tito came up and just ripped the two apart and held them like seven feet apart from each other. The entire cafeteria broke out into a "Tito, Tito, Tito!" chant that brought the biggest smile to Tito's face. This, obviously, was TBL-worthy material!
That night, the first wrestling related column was posted on TBL. Within a week the site had something like 1000 hits, which was monumental at the time. Most personal websites back then were getting 5 hits in a week - and they were usually from the kids who were making them. So when TBL was getting that insane amount of hits, the creator had to respond in kind.
At that point, TBL wasn't strictly a wrestling website, but wrestling was integrated here and there...and a website was born.
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Additional Information
Did you know that TheBalrogsLair.com is now TBLWrestling.com? The name change and new branding scheme was instituted in August 2006.
TBLWrestling.com was one of the original wrestling websites on the internet, pre-dating WWE.com (then WWF.com), WCW.com, 1Wrestling.com, and every other "major" wrestling website on the internet today.
The owner of TBLWrestling.com has produced an opinion column for more than a decade. His column alone has more history than 98% of the wrestling websites on the internet.
TBLWrestling.com's webmaster is named Eddie and he lives in California.
XHeadlines.com is owned by the same company as TBLWrestling.com and is considered a "sister site" to TBL.
TBLWrestling.com's owner is named Joe and he lives on the New Jersey shore.
TBLWrestling.com was the first professional wrestling site on the internet to offer "other" features such as weekly opinion columns by outside journalists, top ten lists, and other exclusive features.
