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Professional wrestling journalist and sports historian Dave Meltzer has assigned his ratings to professional wrestling events since the creation of his publication, the Wrestling Observer Newsletter in 1982, and named his first 5-star match in 1983. Receiving a 5 or higher star rating is considered by many to be a great achievement. [1]
Meltzer has also given ratings that have exceeded five stars. The first 6 and 6.5 star matches took place in 1981 (as rated by Dooley, not Meltzer). [11] 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.
The event received universal acclaim from wrestling fans and critics and both the NXT North American Championship match and the Unsanctioned match between Gargano and Ciampa both received five-star ratings by wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer. It was the first time Meltzer gave five stars to two matches on the same North American show.
List of professional wrestling matches rated 5 or more stars by Dave Meltzer; List of Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards; Live Audio Wrestling; M. Dave Meltzer; S.
Unbreakable is chiefly remembered for the three-way match for the TNA X Division Championship, which received a rare five-star rating from wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer, the first and the only such rating that the company received until 2023. [2] The main event was ranked by TNA as the fourth greatest moment in the company's history.
This is a list of both active and inactive Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards created by professional wrestling and mixed martial arts (MMA) journalist Dave Meltzer.The first fourteen awards were created in 1980 as an informal poll between Meltzer and his friends and others he corresponded with on the subject of professional wrestling at the time.
Trae Young and LaMelo Ball are the biggest surprise omissions from the All-Star rosters. But are they? Young’s raw numbers stand out: 22.5 points, 11.4 assists — almost identical to Magic ...
Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter awarded, out of five stars, 4.5 stars for both the NXT Tag Team Championship and the North American Championship matches, 4.75 stars to the Walter-Dunne match, 3.75 stars to the Women's Championship match (the only match of the event below four stars), and 5.5 stars to the Gargano-Cole match ...