>>16862320That's the ting - Dave absolutely WAS NOT for a very long time. Wrestlers fucking hated him precisely because he wasn't part of it. For a very long time, 99% of all wrestling news came from Meltzer and Wade Keller (Alvarez as well towards the end of the newsletter era), then fags like Bob Ryder, Dave Schererererer, and Al Isaacs (who?) came online and started publically relating their sources, which bled over to Meltzer bad (Keller is now basically totally irrelevant and Alvarez is a podcaster). Journos gonna journo