Dave Meltzer

Hi Scott,

Like everyone I’m loving the Meltzer flashbacks. From Ireland, I never knew who Dave Meltzer was until I came online a good few years ago, so good to actually see what his newsletters are like. I just have a few questions/thoughts on Dave,wonder what you think.

How much do you regard Dave’s opinion on the product? When it comes to news and doing journalism, he is brilliant and would take everything he reports as good as anything. But I’ve notice he would criticise the product and the booking but never give his own opinions on what they should do. I know he can have very good foresight for things (I.e.the future of the territories,how house shows will do.) but I feel its more he has a good understanding on how a business should operate and how economics in general works.
But in reading the flashbacks, he under sells massive debuts and angles (Randy Save debut,Snuka coconut), but puts over Jack Victory big time, it seems like he always misses out on TV/PPV shows. So for me, when it comes to news, I would go to Dave,no doubt. But giving opinions on the actual product or booking or TV shows, I would take what he writes with a pinch of salt.
So do you think it’s a case of "one guy thinks the others" I mean, not everyone would agree with you, (im not one!!) but would still read from your blog regularly.

Thoughts?

Thank you

​Just to be clear, what you’re reading with the Observer Flashbacks is a heavily-edited ​recap of a lengthy newsletter, so Dave frequently does offer suggestions and "how he would do it" ideas for booking, but I don’t tend to include them because they’re fairly repetitive and I’m trying to get to the Jack Victory jokes. Plus it would be boring to recap the 8 times out of 10 he’s correct about trends overall because, as Vince would say, I’m doing these for entertainment purposes and not as a serious examination of the journalism or anything. Especially moving past the Wild West of the 84-86 issues, his stuff gets much more accurate and well thought out as he gains experience as a real journalist, which is why it’s so much fun to point out when a major angle goes down and he just passes it over with a second-hand comment.

And this blog is a bad example to use, because everyone here loves and agrees with me at all times. Especially my dank memes.