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https://groups.google.com/g/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/c/LJY34YnX9d0/m/Fd-4plw_dWoJ > Dave Prazak starts the thread: While I have yet to see the PPV, reaction to this week's WON where the Meltz man gave Bret vs. Owen FIVE STARS has people wondering... exactly what kind of drug is Dave on this week?
> I thought the match was boring as hell. It barely deserved three stars. The WWF concept of cage matches is such that guys have toclimb the cage in literal slow motion, until their nearly-unconsciousopponent develops the presence of mind to leap up from the matat lightning speed in order to grab an arm or a handful of hair. It's ridiculous, and virtually impossible to suspend disbelief while watching this kind of crap. There's no logic to it at all. I actually erased my SummerSlam tape. I taped Sesame Street for my kid over it. And you know what? I was more entertained by that.
> Dave Scherer (PWInsider): You are 100% on the money with you above analysis, and really your whole post. Meltzer, and also the Meltzerites, have lost touch with the the common fan. They really have. And I have told him that before, and he never really replies.
> What has happened to the Observer in the past six years or so has been inevitable, but depressing.Early issues have Dave raving about stuff just like the present ECW fans. If he got into something, he put his heart into his opinions.
> While I love the Observer, I think Dave has probably been at this biz a little too long... His rationalization of his rating of the cage match made no sense... just as when he compared the hogan injury (a hit in the knee) to the Sting injury two years ago, rather than to harding-kerrigan. Hell, 90 percent of the nerds watching this show had never heard of the sting injury angle two years before... but 99 percent of them knew all about the kerrigan knee blow. That's what made the angle so idiotic and cartoonlike -- a suspension of reality.
