Dave Meltzer
Dave Allen Meltzer (born October 24, 1961 in San José , California ) is an American journalist and the editor of the renowned Wrestling Observer Newsletter , which discusses the latest news and backgrounds from wrestling and mixed martial arts .
Meltzer says he has been a wrestling fan since his early youth. His first wrestling-related publications date back to 1971 . In his youth, Meltzer was a bodybuilder and also actively competed in wrestling. The Wrestling Observer began as a newsletter , through which Meltzer wanted to keep his friends up to date on current sports topics and his own activities in the field of trading wrestling videos ( tape trading ). In 1987 Meltzer began writing full-time for his observer .
While the Observer used to specialize in the dissemination of news that many fans could not receive or received late, this changed with the advent of the Internet. Since this means that news can be disseminated much faster, Meltzer designed the Observer practically as a pure editorial , in which he takes a position on already known news from the wrestling world and discusses its possible significance for the future of business.
Since Dave Meltzer has made a significant contribution to easing the kayfab with the Observer and continues to do so, his medium is not officially recognized by those in charge of the larger wrestling leagues. Nevertheless, Meltzer has an excellent reputation in the scene and was even employed for a short time in 1987 by the then World Wrestling Federation (now WWE).
Until the end of September 2007, Meltzer produced together with Bryan Alvarez a recognized radio show called Wrestling Observer Live , which was broadcast live by many American radio stations. However, Meltzer passed on his post as host to Alvarez and has only appeared as a guest on the show since then.
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Dave Meltzer is widely recognized as one of the key pioneers of the Star Rating System . This is a variant of evaluating wrestling matches, with a scale from zero (also known as DUD , English RIVET ) to five stars. The accuracy of the rating is usually up to a quarter of a star. Many different factors decide on the evaluation, for example the difficulty and clean execution of the executed moves, the psychological structure of the match, the history and rivalry of the participating wrestlers, as well as the generation of reactions from the audience. A rating of five stars describes a quasi-perfect match and is therefore difficult to achieve. Meltzer himself has only rated eight WWE matches with this maximum number of points: the ladder match between Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon at WrestleMania X, the steel cage match between Bret Hart and Owen Hart at SummerSlam 1994 , the submission match between Bret Hart and Stone Cold Steve Austin at WrestleMania 13, the Hell in a Cell match between Shawn Michaels and the Undertaker in In your House: Badd Blood 1997, the match between John Cena and CM Punk in Money in the Bank 2011 , the match between Andrade Almas and Johnny Gargano at NXT Takeover: Philadelphia, the ladder match between Adam Cole , EC3, Killian Dain, Lars Sullivan, Ricochet and The Velveteen Dream and the Unsanctioned Match between Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa at NXT Takeover: New Orleans. The record holder with the highest match rankings is the Japanese wrestler Mitsuharu Misawa with 21 five-star matches. In 2017, Meltzer broke his own rating system by giving 6 stars for the first time to the match between Kenny Omega and Kazuchika Okada at Wrestling Kingdom 11. This value was broken again half a year later when Meltzer gave the second match between Omega and Okada at Dominion 6.11 in Osaka-jo Hall a rating of 6.25 stars. The match between Kazuchika Okada and Kenny Omega at NJPW Dominion 6.9 Melzer rated 7 stars in Osaka-Jo Hall, making this match the highest rated match in wrestling history.
The Star Rating is the most recognized and widely used system for evaluating a match today.
Meltzer created the Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame in 1996 - a symbolic hall of fame for wrestlers, promoters, bookers and managers. Since other well-known Hall of Fames (such as those of the WWE) are hardly neutral, the WON Hall of Fame quickly became the most important independent hall of fame in wrestling. While Meltzer still determined the recorded people himself in 1996, they have since been chosen by insiders of the business as well as wrestlers selected by Meltzer.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meltzer, Dave |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meltzer, Dave Allen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American wrestling journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Jose , California |