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Star ratings or any kind of trustworthy match reviews were important at a time where shows were difficult to come by if they weren't on TV where you lived. You either had to trade tapes or later buy tapes or DVDs. Now where everything is at your fingertips they really aren't that important, you can just watch stuff.
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a lot of people enjoy ratings, rankings, figures, made up statistics, and the like. it's been that way for thousands of years. i don't know what's being discussed. thank you
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For whatever it's worth, Meltzer's ratings also tend to be largely in line with fan ratings as a whole. I recall him talking about his highest rated matches of the year and comparing them to cagematch or grapple or whatever and I think they agreed with like 19/20. As with any critic, it helps to know their likes and dislikes and how they compare to yours to use them as a guide as to whether or not something is worth your time. Like Dave isn't a fan of comedy matches, so for Toru Yano matches I see what's mentioned in the MOTYC thread to see what to check out.
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Ignoring busted Dave Meltzer for his younger more talented business partner: I'm watching "Unidentified" on Tubi and two reporters ordered apple juice.
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MassRafTer posted:Ignoring busted Dave Meltzer for his younger more talented business partner: For babies?!
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MassRafTer posted:Ignoring busted Dave Meltzer for his younger more talented business partner: man i could go for a good appy juice
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GoutPatrol posted:Dave also has talked about how his original purpose and model of the newsletter wasn't about ratings - it was a trade publication, not a fanzine. It was designed to be read by people in the business. The things the wrestlers cared about were gate sizes, so they could see if the promoters were screwing them on pay.
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MassRafTer posted:Star ratings or any kind of trustworthy match reviews were important at a time where shows were difficult to come by if they weren't on TV where you lived. You either had to trade tapes or later buy tapes or DVDs. Now where everything is at your fingertips they really aren't that important, you can just watch stuff. There's so much stuff you can't possibly watch all of it, so it's just as important to know which are the good matches, the great matches, and double extra great matches.
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Cavauro posted:a lot of people enjoy ratings, rankings, figures, made up statistics, and the like. it's been that way for thousands of years. i don't know what's being discussed. thank you Callimachus should have made Kurt Angle the 8th
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Lone Goat posted:There's so much stuff you can't possibly watch all of it, so it's just as important to know which are the good matches, the great matches, and double extra great matches. Aye, that's where the utility is now. You could be wealthy enough to never need to work a day in your life & dedicate yourself to 16 hours of wrestling viewing a day & you'd still hit a fraction of what's out there. Probably, I haven't done the sums. Point is that it's really useful to have other people who are experts in the stuff you'd not normally watch to flag when something essential happens outside your regular orbit. I have no interest in watching full episodes of US TV wrestling, but if something from AEW has a Cagematch rating above 8 it's probably worth my time.
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https://x.com/davemeltzerwon/status/1776001284102865156?s=46&t=AwMtDeZF_tX5DmOd53fE0g
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Yeah they say I'm bad but they also said YOURE WORSE. So I don't care. 
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Lone Goat posted:There's so much stuff you can't possibly watch all of it, so it's just as important to know which are the good matches, the great matches, and double extra great matches. I don't really just want to watch random great matches. I found the companies that run the kind of styles I want to watch and watch those. I can just watch everything from the companies I like without having to hope I can get tapes or buying $20 DVDs to follow the company.
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he should have used the 'I dont think about you at all' meme here
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The Punk camp https://twitter.com/Fumihikodayo/status/1776490531356581910 presumably Fumi was front row because he was a Bull Nakano or Rossy +1
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Reminder that Bischoff turns 69 at the end of next month. What a way to live out your twilight years arguing with people on the musk app.
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Bryan's reviews last night were the best in a long time. Especially Dalton vs. Johnny
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Listening to the start of WOR is amazing. Bryan: I've done 4 shows today. I've covered Smackdown, Bloodsport, NXT, Supercard of Honor & Wrestlemania 40, so I want the fans to know tha- Dave: We still have to cover those! Bryan: I want the fans to know that I don't want t- Dave: There's news from those shows we have to cover! Bryan: Don't want to hear that w- Dave: We gotta talk about them! Bryan: Hear that we didn't cover this or that, because we did cover them. Anyway, Dave's watched the Hall of Fame an- Dave: I haven't watched all of it! Bryan: The Hall of Fame and als- Dave: I've seen bits and pieces, and heard news, but I haven't watched it all.
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I think Dave is wide awake and wired at 1am when he wants to do the shows, and Bryan is half dead from sleep deprivation, and it results in beautiful comedy. Whenever Dave and Bryan are together in the same place and in the same time zone they always seem to be so much more in sync.
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Dave thinks Gabe Kidd's promo about how Tanahashi should go into Tony Khan's office, bend over and take it (in reference to AEW getting New Japan talent) was insinuating that Tanahashi is doing sexual favors for Tony Khan 
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What Deadlock ep had the Patron named "I have a small dick and even smaller balls" I need to hear it again
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RealityWarCriminal posted:the f4w website is very unpleasant
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Forgetting the best part which was in response to Mania being cold Bryan bragged about wearing a short sleaved shirt to his guns when he picks up his kid from school in 45 degree weather
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I haven’t been listening to WOR much recently, did Bryan say why he didn’t go to Mania? I feel like he generally went outside of the pandemic years.
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TL posted:I haven’t been listening to WOR much recently, did Bryan say why he didn’t go to Mania? I feel like he generally went outside of the pandemic years. traffic lol
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TL posted:I haven’t been listening to WOR much recently, did Bryan say why he didn’t go to Mania? I feel like he generally went outside of the pandemic years. His kids' Spring Break is this upcoming week for some weird reason, and the Alvarez family isn't going to spend their Spring Break in Philadelphia. Also, Dave didn't want to go so there was no chance of making money on the trip.
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apophenium posted:What Deadlock ep had the Patron named "I have a small dick and even smaller balls" I need to hear it again you're gonna have to be way more specific
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Jerusalem posted:I think Dave is wide awake and wired at 1am when he wants to do the shows, and Bryan is half dead from sleep deprivation, and it results in beautiful comedy. Whenever Dave and Bryan are together in the same place and in the same time zone they always seem to be so much more in sync. I was under the impression that Dave watches the east coast feeds of Raw and Dynamite and Bryan watches the west coast feed so why is Bryan always complaining about starting late?
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dave is usually up lifting until like 3 in the morning, then he's back at it by 5 or 6. he's a machine
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Jerusalem posted:I think Dave is wide awake and wired at 1am when he wants to do the shows, and Bryan is half dead from sleep deprivation, and it results in beautiful comedy. Whenever Dave and Bryan are together in the same place and in the same time zone they always seem to be so much more in sync. Sounds about right with Dave. He was arguing with randos at 3:30am on Twitter.
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1glitch0 posted:I was under the impression that Dave watches the east coast feeds of Raw and Dynamite and Bryan watches the west coast feed so why is Bryan always complaining about starting late? Bryan usually watches well after the west coast feed has aired so he can fast-forward.
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