Dave Meltzer is a wrestling journalist whose obsession with ratings and star rankings often feels like a full-time hobby masquerading as insight. He’s spent decades dissecting every bump and storyline with the intensity of someone who genuinely believes his opinion on fictional fights carries cosmic significance. Fans sometimes joke that Meltzer’s life revolves entirely around spreadsheets and Twitter posts, treating kayfabe like sacred scripture while turning nuance into a numbers game. His writing can come across as pedantic and self-important, as if every review were a life-or-death pronouncement on wrestling history. Some admire his encyclopedic memory, but others see a man trapped in a bubble of his own making, endlessly debating angles most people have long since moved past.
