6 Most Insane Wrestling Reports Ever Published

2. BREAKING: MEGA DREAM MATCH CONFIRMED FOR WRESTLEMANIA 40!!!

Dave Meltzer is getting on a bit and essentially built the pro wrestling media empire, like a dirtsheet Rikidozan, by himself. He did this pre-internet. At one point very recently, he still used a computer monitor that was bigger than JD McDonagh’s head, and he still likes to use a pen to make his notes. His office floor is more papered than SummerSlam 2026. While the Wrestling Observer Newsletter is distributed only in digital format these days, Meltzer doesn’t seem to be the most tech-savvy guy in the world - which might explain why he got worked by a YouTube thumbnail in 2024. 

Dave covered the WrestleMania 40 press conference in Las Vegas, in which the Rock turned heel after his Bloodline powerpoint presentation and essentially owned the fact that returning to take Cody Rhodes’ place was a wildly misjudged idea. But Dave had a scoop! WWE had actually filmed a confrontation between the Rock and Triple H in which both men, face-to-face, said they’d love to run it back at WrestleMania, in front of a gigantic crowd, one more time. This didn’t air on TV, but it was all over social media. 

Holy sh*t! Triple H is going to wrestle despite being forced into retirement after his life-threatening cardiac event in 2021 - and he’s going out in style, against the Rock! That is absolutely huge!

Nope: Dave stumbled upon a backstage interaction between the Rock and Triple H on SmackDown. In a YouTube clip. A YouTube clip from 2014, which was basically them setting up some talking bullsh*t at WrestleMania 31. Dave might go on YouTube next, confuse an old match for something that just happened, and report that Roddy Piper has come back to life.

“It’s like, I’m not sure if he’s still got it. A lot of his stuff won’t fly today. And I mean a lot. But, you know, we’ll see.”