| 词条 | Dave Meltzer |
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| name = Dave Meltzer | image = Dave Meltzer 2018.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Meltzer in March 2018 | pseudonym = | birth_name = David Allen Meltzer | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|10|24}} | birth_place = New York, New York, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Author, journalist, professional wrestling historian | alma_mater = San Jose State | period = 1980–present | genre = | subject = Professional wrestling Mixed martial arts | movement = | notableworks = Wrestling Observer Newsletter; Remembering Some of the World's Greatest Wrestlers | spouse = {{marriage|Mary Anne Mirabal|2002}}[1][2] | children = 2[2] | relatives = | awards = | signature = | website = {{URL|http://www.f4wonline.com/}} | portaldisp = | ethnicity = }} David Allen Meltzer[3] (born October 24, 1959) is an American journalist known for covering professional wrestling and mixed martial arts. Since 1983, he has been the publisher and editor of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (WON). He has also written for the Oakland Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Yahoo! Sports, and The National Sports Daily. He has extensively covered mixed martial arts since UFC 1 in 1993 and currently covers the sport for SB Nation. He has been called "the most accomplished reporter in sports journalism" by Frank Deford of Sports Illustrated.[4] He is also a frequent lecturer on many aspects of the business of MMA, professional wrestling, and boxing at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.[5] Early lifeMeltzer was born in New York City,{{citation needed|date=December 2017}} and lived in upstate New York[6] until he was ten,{{citation needed|date=December 2017}} before his family settled in San Jose, California.{{citation needed|date=December 2017}} Meltzer earned a journalism degree from San Jose State University and started out as a sports writer for the Wichita Falls Times Record News and the Turlock Journal. He demonstrated an interest in professional wrestling and a journalistic approach to it early in life. Meltzer wrote several wrestling-related publications that predate WON, dating back to 1971. The most notable of these was the California Wrestling Report, ca. 1973–1974, which reported on the still-extant National Wrestling Alliance territories operating out of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Wrestling Observer Editorial Page{{main|Wrestling Observer Newsletter}}The beginnings of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (WON) date back to 1980, when Meltzer began an annual poll amongst those with whom he corresponded regarding professional wrestling. According to Meltzer, he was just a fan at first. A short time later, he began maintaining a tape-trading list, and would occasionally send match results and news updates along with tape updates. Meltzer stated that he wanted to keep his friends in college "in the loop" for his tape trading as well as the happenings in the business, as the mainstream wrestling magazines catered to a somewhat younger demographic.[7] Star rating system and impactMeltzer popularized the "star rating" system (devised by Jim Cornette and his childhood friend Norm M. Dooley),[8][9] which rates matches on a scale of zero to five stars (sometimes going to negative five stars in the case of very bad matches) in a similar manner to that used by many movie critics.[6] Meltzer has also given ratings that have exceeded five-stars. The first match Meltzer has given a rating that was above five-stars was Mitsuharu Misawa vs. Toshiaki Kawada from a June 3, 1994 All Japan show.[10] The highest he has ever rated a match was seven stars (*******), given to Kazuchika Okada and Kenny Omega for their match at Dominion 6.9 in Osaka-jo Hall in June 2018. Wrestlers, such as Bret Hart, have written how proud they were when their performances were praised in the WON.[11] Bibliography
Awards and accomplishments
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.armpit-wrestling.com/pick-my-brain-interview-dave-meltzer/|title=Pick My Brain Interview: Dave Meltzer|last=Wrestling Professor|first=The|date=November 17, 2004|accessdate=November 21, 2017|publisher=The Armpit}} 2. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://slam.canoe.com/Slam/Wrestling/2016/07/18/22652538.html|title=Melby Award for Meltzer proper recognition for pioneering work|last=Laprade|first=Patric|date=July 18, 2016|accessdate=July 22, 2016|work=Slam! Sports|publisher=Canadian Online Explorer}} 3. ^Wrestling Observer Newsletter trademark, Trademarkia, Accessed 2010-08-12 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/sports/wrestling-reporter-dave-meltzer-tries-to-keep-it-real.html|title=In World of Wrestling, Trying to Keep It Real|last=Rossen|first=Jake|date=2013-05-15|accessdate=2013-05-18|work=The New York Times}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/10018851|title=Lecture by guest speakers Mike Church and Dave Meltzer in Prof. George Foster's class in SearchWorks|publisher=}} 6. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://deansplanet.com/interviews_dave_meltzer.html|title=Dean S. Planet's Celeb Interviews.|authorlink=deansplanet.com|work=Dean S. Planet's|accessdate=2007-07-11|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030803035612/http://deansplanet.com/interviews_dave_meltzer.html|archive-date=2003-08-03|deadurl=yes|df=}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.deathvalleydriver.com/Benaka/Meltzer.html|title=The Lee Benaka Interviews - Dave Meltzer.|work=Benaka, Lee|publisher=Death Valley Driver Video Review|last=Benaka|first=Lee|year=1991|accessdate=2007-07-11|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070730111838/http://www.deathvalleydriver.com/Benaka/Meltzer.html|archivedate=2007-07-30|df=}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.jimcornette.com/fighting-spirit/stars-their-eyes-fsm138|title=STARS IN THEIR EYES--FSM#138|last=Cornette|first=Jim|accessdate=November 21, 2017|website=JimCornette.com}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=https://deadspin.com/rating-pro-wrestlings-new-best-match-ever-is-way-more-1796026082|title=Rating Pro Wrestling's New "Best Match Ever" Is Way More Contentious Than It Needs To Be|last=Bixenspan|first=David|accessdate=November 21, 2017|work=Deadspin}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/davemeltzerWON/status/817071112802578433|title=Dave Meltzer on Twitter: "Misawa vs. Kawada"|date=January 5, 2017|website=Twitter|accessdate=November 21, 2017}} 11. ^{{cite book|last=Hart|first=Bret|title=Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling|publisher=Grand Central Publishing|year=2009|isbn=978-0-446-54528-0|page=214}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.caulifloweralleyclub.org/congratulation-to-dave-meltzer-the-2017-james-melby-historian-award-winner/|title=Congratulation to Dave Meltzer, the 2017 James Melby Historian Award Winner|publisher=Cauliflower Alley Club|date=December 20, 2016|accessdate=November 21, 2017}} External links{{Portal|Professional wrestling}}
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