Ringside

A wrestling promotion management platform for booking events, managing rosters, tracking championships, and organizing storylines.

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Ringside The Laravel Architect

Project overview

Built with

Laravel
Livewire
PHP
Pest
Larastan
Tailwind CSS
MySQL

Areas of focus

PHP
Laravel
Architecture

Project story

The problem

Independent wrestling promotions often rely on spreadsheets and disconnected tools to manage rosters, contracts, events, matches, titles, and storylines. That makes complex business rules difficult to model and easy to lose.

The solution

Ringside is a full-featured management platform built around the way wrestling promotions actually operate. It brings roster management, contract tracking, event booking, championship lineage, match results, and storyline planning into one focused workspace.

Highlights

Reactive roster, event, and match workflows built with Laravel and Livewire
Action-based architecture for business operations
Eloquent relationships for championship histories, faction memberships, contracts, and event cards
Computed wrestler status based on real employment and career data
Pest browser coverage, Larastan static analysis, and Rector automation

The result

Ringside turns a promotion's operational data into a connected system instead of a collection of spreadsheets. It is also the project where I have sharpened my skills with action classes, complex domain relationships, and domain-driven design patterns.

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