Mid 20th Century 1970s and 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s and 2020s David Allen Meltzer[2] (born October 24, 1959)[3] is an American journalist who reports on professional wrestling and mixed martial arts.

1973–1974, which reported on the still-extant National Wrestling Alliance territories operating out of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Meltzer stated that he wanted to keep his friends in college "in the loop" for his tape trading and the happenings in the business, as the mainstream wrestling magazines catered to a somewhat younger demographic.

Bret Hart recalled that during his career most of his colleagues were keen to be featured and praised by Meltzer in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter,[5] and stated he was glad that WON served as a legitimate source of news within professional wrestling following the Montreal screwjob incident.

[5] Industry veteran Terry Funk recalled in his 2013 autobiography being impressed by WON: I immediately thought that this thing was going to take off.

Instead of talking about the matches as if they were real competitions, like the newsstand magazines had one, Dave Meltzer wrote about the business behind the scenes.

It had news and results from all over, and was obviously written about someone who understood the business...I saw it as a thermometer of sorts, to see how different things were getting over in different places.Conversely, PWInsider writer Dave Scherer has criticized Meltzer's work.

[19] In May 2015, Meltzer reported that Destination America had decided to cancel Impact Wrestling by late September 2015.