What is Dave Meltzer?
{{Infobox writer <!-- For more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]]. --> | name = Dave Meltzer | image = Dave Meltzer 2018.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Meltzer in March 2018 | pseudonym = | birth_name = David Allen Meltzer | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|10|24}} | birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Author, journalist, historian | alma_mater = [[San Jose State University|San Jose State]] | period = 1971–present | genre = | subject = {{ubl|[[Professional wrestling]]|[[Mixed martial arts]]}} | movement = | notableworks = {{ubl|''[[Wrestling Observer Newsletter]]''|''[[Tributes: Remembering Some of the World's Greatest Wrestlers]]''}} | spouse = {{marriage|Mary Anne Mirabal|2002}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.armpit-wrestling.com/pick-my-brain-interview-dave-meltzer/|title=Pick My Brain Interview: Dave Meltzer|author=The Wrestling Professor|date=November 17, 2004|access-date=November 21, 2017|publisher=The Armpit|archive-date=July 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726162157/http://www.armpit-wrestling.com/pick-my-brain-interview-dave-meltzer/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=SlamJuly2016>{{cite web|url=https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2016/07/22/melby-award-for-meltzer-proper-recognition-for-pioneering-work/|title=Melby Award for Meltzer proper recognition for pioneering work|last=Laprade|first=Patric|date=July 18, 2016|access-date=July 22, 2016|work=Slam! Sports|publisher=[[Canadian Online Explorer]]}}</ref> | children = 2<ref name=SlamJuly2016/> | relatives = | awards = | signature = | website = {{Official website|http://www.f4wonline.com/|name=F4Wonline.com}} | portaldisp = | ethnicity = }} '''Dave Meltzer''' (born in 1959) is a man who writes about [[professional wrestling]] for his [[magazine]], and also on the [[Internet]]. Meltzer's website is called the ''Wrestling Observer''. Before Meltzer, most writers wrote that professional wrestling was real, but Meltzer writes th