The DARK TRUTH about 5 Star Matches | Dave Meltzer

The DARK TRUTH about 5 Star Matches | Dave Meltzer 0:00 AEW Forbidden Door 2025 Highlights1:05 Dave Meltzer and the DANGEROUS 5 Star Match 2:20 Swerve Strickland Knee Injury and Michael Oku at Forbidden Door 2025 3:00 Why 5 Star Matches are meaningless 4:20 Kota Ibushi 6:00 Hiroshi Tanahashi in AEW 6:39 Darby Allin AEW Return 7:44 Dave Meltzer and 5 Star Matches 8:38 Mitsuharu Misawa's Death 9:58 Will Ospreay AEW Neck Injury 11:48 Dave Meltzer loves Will Ospreay 13:30 Takeshita wins G1 and gets injured 15:00 CM Punk on five star Matches    • Dave Meltzer: AEW's Stuttering Sicko      • Dave Meltzer's Star Ratings BURY Black Wre...      • Is AEW Really Back or Just Pretending?      • WWE vs AEW Feud got so Petty it Led to the...   💥Pro Wrestling Bits 💥🤝🏾 JOIN |   / prowrestlingbits   🎁Get a FREE PWB Sticker! | https://forms.gle/2uhFAWfetziExDyH9Pro wrestling news, analysis and documentaries from the single-most creative human being to ever grace the wrestling media. I am the King of Black Wrestling Media. SOCIALS    / prowrestlingbitsinstagram   |   / akonuwa   Twitter |   / thisisnasty   TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@prowrestlingb... | https://linktr.ee/akonuwa Forbes | https://www.forbes.com/sites/alfredko... The five-star match is the gold standard among subredditors. The hardcore wrestling designation, often awarded to underground matches in renegade promotions, is meaningless and completely subjective. If you wrestle in AEW, New Japan Pro Wrestling or you're a five-star merchant like Will Ospreay or Kenny Omega, a 5-star rating is all-but guaranteed.Star ratings are championed by Dave Meltzer, who turns 200 this year. Like Dave, they've been around forever, so they've cultivated an underground following. Also like Dave, the star-rating system has overstayed its welcome, leaving a trail of internet darlings in its wake broken, injured, paralyzed and in some cases deceased. Today, we're going to talk about the undeniable damage that the five-star match has had on countless wrestlers, and why Dave Meltzer's fetishizing of strong style has had a negative, and sometimes deadly impact on the physical well-being of some of his favorite wrestlers. Subscribe in Creole. The five-star match has no criteria. It is not an objective rating, let alone a rating at all. It’s just five-star glazing. Getting 5 stars in the Observer just means Dave Meltzer has an unhealthy crush on you. If you run fast enough, jump high enough hit hard enough, and most importantly, drop your opponent on his head and neck to the point of potentially career-ending injury, you will be a strong candidate for a five-star match. It helps if you're white or Japanese. Objectively, most five-star matches are great. Subjectively, they serve as a low-rent marketing machine for Dave Meltzer to brainwash his audience about what "real wrestling" is. Real wrestling isn't an all-Black match because no exclusively Black match has ever received a five-star rating. In fact, the list of Black wrestlers to receive five-star ratings is shorter than Bryan Alvarez. That actually makes me happy, because most five-star merchants end up a physical mess. I'd never wish that on anybody, but I especially don't want to see my people bound to wheelchairs because their knees gave out while chasing shapes. Except Ricochet, I hope he ends up in a wheelchair. I'm just playing, Twitter Ricky, you know we tolerate you. Swerve Strickland, who—GOT ALFY BLOCKED ON SOCIALS—is one of the few Black wrestlers to receive a 5-star rating, and now that n!ggaz on the shelf with a serious knee injury, get well soon. British wrestler Michael Oku received a 5-star rating for wrestling Will Ospreay. During the Forbidden Door pre-show, he was all like. The significance of a "5 star match" and how it is viewed is discussed, especially in promotions like AEW Dynamite. Dave Meltzer's wrestling observer newsletter is mentioned in the context of Jim Cornette star ratings. Stay informed with the latest wrestling news and wwe updates. aew forbidden door 2025 results, aew on tbs, aew on tnt, aew dynamite highlights, aew forbidden door 2025 highlights, dave meltzer, dave meltzer five star match, dave meltzer 5 star match, jim cornette, will ospreay injury, will ospreay neck injury, will ospreay five star matches, how many five star matches have there been, kenny omega, hiroshi tanahashi, aew forbidden door, swerve strickland injury, michael oku aew forbidden door, aew forbidden door ppv,