10 Lies About Famous Wrestling Matches That You Probably Believe

10. "Dave Meltzer Is Biased"

Dave Meltzer awarded Kenny Omega Vs. Kazuchika Okada from NJPW Wrestle Kingdom XI ******, and the internet has never truly recovered.

In an incidental lie, he didn't "break" his own star rating system, to which he never set a maximum limit in the first place. Manami Toyota had earned a '*****+' rating, and Meltzer also said that a Ric Flair Vs. Ricky Steamboat match was literally better than a televised match he had rated *****.

The real, poisonous lie is that Dave Meltzer is biased, and this single match proves it. "Six stars in the Tokyo Dome," they said, whenever Dave awarded a WWE match a mere 4.75 (John Cena Vs. AJ Styles, Royal Rumble 2017) which, as it happens, is a Match of the Year candidate.

And when the ******* match happened, Jesus Christ. A lot of people absolutely lost their minds. That match, Omega Vs. Okada IV, headlined Dominion 2018. The average Wrestling Observer Newsletter star rating for that show is 4.1. The average star rating for NXT TakeOver: New York?

4.6.

To reiterate, Dave Meltzer - who last week awarded two matches from a WWE show 4.5, where the highest-rated AEW match sat at 4.25 - rated WWE NXT TakeOver: New York a 4.6, positioning it higher than a show he described at the time as NJPW's best ever offering.

Dave Meltzer is an e-drone, if anything.