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Tough break for Roll as this fail follows the ongoing Kid Rock Maga music festival debacle.
 
42 years of WrestleMania and for the first time, Meltzer finally rewarded a main event (the final match) the full five star treatment with Roman & Punk.

Technically speaking, Usos vs Owens/Zayn closed night one at WM39 and got the full deal but we ain’t counting saturday mania cmon now.

edit: this is also Roman’s first time which is wild given some of those Shield six mans were absolutely worthy of it
 
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Nope, Dave didn't rate the Wrestlemania 25 match as five stars either because he thought the cameraman dive spot was a botch. He was really tough with his ratings especially in the 00s and early 2010s. Now its the opposite, where a forgettable brawl like Drew Mac vs Jacob Fatu gets **** 1/4 (Same rating he gave the HBK/HHH street fight from Summerslam 2002 for example), and there are multiple five star matches every week. Starflation is a thing with Meltz.
 
Interesting factoid to five star rating deal here is that Punk is only the fifth person to receive this “honor” in three different decades, joining Misawa, Fuchi, Kawada, and DUSTIN Rhodes that regard. Punk already reached this mark two years ago but it’s still an interesting factoid to me at least.

what a list that omits a lot of big names but that shows how hard it is to have long term quality.
 
Is the 90's five star match Dustin got War Games 92 or is it the tag match with Steamboat against The Enforcers on that Clash in 1991? I assume the one in the 2010's is the Cody match from the first AEW PPV in 2019, and the 2020's is the Fletcher match from Dynamite.

Who knows if Dave would've rated any Dustin match five stars in the 00's, but I wish he was taken more seriously when he returned in great shape in 2002. If Dustin would've been able to have a long PPV singles match with someone like Angle, Eddie, or Benoit in 2002, it could've possibly gotten to that level. A Jericho/Dustin singles on PPV that year would've been great as well, although I'm sure they had a four minute match on one of those Raw's during HHH's reign of terror.
 
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Wasn't there a great tag team match with Cody vs Shield members on an otherwise not-great ppv around 2012 or '13 too?
 
Brocklock said:
Is the 90's five star match Dustin got War Games 92 or is it the tag match with Steamboat against The Enforcers on that Clash in 1991? I assume the one in the 2010's is the Cody match from the first AEW PPV in 2019, and the 2020's is the Fletcher match from Dynamite.

Who knows if Dave would've rated any Dustin match five stars in the 00's, but I wish he was taken more seriously when he returned in great shape in 2002. If Dustin would've been able to have a long PPV singles match with someone like Angle, Eddie, or Benoit in 2002, it could've possibly gotten to that level. A Jericho/Dustin singles on PPV in 2002 would've been great as well, although I'm sure they had a four minute match on one of those Raw's during HHH's reign of terror.
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92 Wargames
2019 vs Cody
2025 vs Kyle Fletcher
 
I think his highest-rated 00s match outside of rumbles was a tag with Booker against Jericho and Christian.
 
AA484 said:
I think his highest-rated 00s match outside of rumbles was a tag with Booker against Jericho and Christian.
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They had a really great tag match on the Raw right before Christmas in 2002. They also had a good match at No Mercy that year, but I remember the top ring rope breaking towards the end which hurt the match and finish.

Looking at the results, and that 12/23/02 Raw had a main event of JR and Jerry Lawler vs Regal and Lance Storm and the announcers ended up going over lmao.
 
snuffbox said:
Wasn't there a great tag team match with Cody vs Shield members on an otherwise not-great ppv around 2012 or '13 too?
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They had I believe three matches with The Shield that were on TV and they were all fantastic. The one your thinking of was from Battleground 2013 where Dusty was the cornerman, and gave Moxley/Ambrose the Bionic Elbow. It had a stip that the entire Rhodes family would be fired if they lost, and the crowd was molten hot for it.

Also, shoutout to my guy Masa Fuchi for being on that list. He was so important in those all star tag matches in the 80's and 90's, and then had a nice legends run in the early 2000's with him being one of the only guys to stay in AJPW after the talent exodus to NOAH.
 
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Brocklock said:
Nope, Dave didn't rate the Wrestlemania 25 match as five stars either because he thought the cameraman dive spot was a botch. He was really tough with his ratings especially in the 00s and early 2010s. Now its the opposite, where a forgettable brawl like Drew Mac vs Jacob Fatu gets **** 1/4 (Same rating he gave the HBK/HHH street fight from Summerslam 2002 for example), and there are multiple five star matches every week. Starflation is a thing with Meltz.
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With the peak now being 7.5*, you can divide Meltzer's ratings by 1.5 and get a more accurate score based on pre-Okada/Omega/Ospreay credibility.
 
His ratings are always funny.

Hindsight what it is, kind of a shame Terry Funk didn't shatter the timeline scale. I'd go a full five for the One Night Stand match, fuck it.
 
Releases now include

-Zoey Stark
-Nikki Cross
-Alba Fyre
-Joe Gacy
-Dexter Lumis
-Bo Dallas
-Andre Chase
-Rowan
-Dante Chen
-Zelina Vega
-Aleister Black
-Apollo Crews
-Kairi Sane
-Alex Shelly
-Chris Sabin
-Santos Escobar
-Trill London
-Sirena Linton
-Tyra Mae Steele
-Chris Island
-Tyriek Igwe
-Tyson Dupont
 
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Kairi, Apollo, Zelina, MCMG, Santos and Aleister Black now added to the list.

Black went from being favored for a main event program to getting cut.
 
Kairi?! AEW could absolutely use her and MCMG
 
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