- Dave Meltzer, 1986Why didn't any of the WWF officials or wrestlers try to get George Steele any help with his handicap? Like he just walks down to the ring all alone? No nurse or someone to help him?
>>19784527Has anyone ever hated a wrestler as much as 80s Meltzer hated JYD?
"I ain't got nothing against the mentally disabled brother, but I don't want no retard marrying my daughter!"
>>19784548Starting calling him "Junkfood Dog" at some point
>>19784597freezing cold take
>>19784532>pretends to be too stupid to do an interviewthat's my gimmick too
Dave came from money right? I can’t imagine he ever had enough readers to pay the bills and his informants.
>>19784750He had some form of a newsletter at age 10 and by college he had a good number of tape trader contacts and such. Graduated college, worked for two newspapers while doing the newsletter as a hobby, but then switched to doing it full time when he had enough subscribers. Didn't need to pay informants when it rose up because younger wrestlers wanted to get their side of the story out and get coverage. Guys like Cornette and Eddie Gilbert as teenagers were already part of the underground fan nerd world so Dave had them as contacts.
>>19784750Dave(14) had chaperones to these shows. Usually, it would be two older girls he know, both around sixteen, who were happy to accompany him for their own reasons: after the shows, "they would go out and they would have sex with various wrestlers," Meltzer recalls "They'd go with the guys, I'd stay in the VIP parking lot for two hours and I would transcribe my notes, and around 2 or 2:30 [a.m.], we'd go home." The age of consent in California as of that time, the mid-1970s, was eighteen.
>>19784750He had/made enough money by 2002 to start ring of honor and only sold it because he got caught trying to hook up with a 14 year old boy.
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>>19784987Wrong jew.
>>19784527>a guy who bring a snake to the ring(Jake Roberts)Good to know that 40 years ago, Meltzer was atleast as dumb as he is today
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