Big Dave Meltzer Appreciation Thread

[Jmare007]

What story?

I'm too lazy write the whole thing up but basically, a woman, Moses, accused a former Elgin student (Sean Orleans) of sexually abusing her. Then it went from there to Elgin not believing her to Elgin covering up the whole thing (he was Paterno to Orlean's Sandusky, so to speak) to Elgin being mentally abusive to her. Dave has barely reported to whole thing and has basically treated Moses like a liar without even talking to her.

Here's more details from another board

Spoiler

Dave has mostly talked around the abuse allegations against Elgin (mental, not sexual) and allegations he "covered up" a sexual assault from someone at his school and focused on the comments he made about Jeff Cobb. He (and Ryan Satin) also reprinted Elgin's apology to Cobb and never contacted the woman, Moses, involved in the story who leaked the text messages.



At the same time, he's hinted that some of the text messages she released were edited. So last night after people on The Board were asking him about it again he posted a tumblr link that contained more text messages basically proving that they had in fact been edited or carefully selected and, whether you believe Elgin is a POS or not, there are certain parts of the story she's telling that don't square up making it very convoluted and difficult to report on ( which seems partly why Bix had problems reporting on it as well

https://twitter.com/...672578032263169 )



The tumblr is also completely one sided in Elgin's defense so it looks like Dave is taking sides and, to some people, basically calling her a liar. Moses also tweeted that she thinks Dave is the one behind the tumblr so it's a big fukkin mess.



She did an interview here if anyone wants to read her side.

http://www.pwponderi...1/speaking-out/

 

[stro]

I'm assuming Elgin has been a source for him in Japan/ROH in the past and he doesn't want to burn that bridge

 

[Jmare007]

I'm assuming Elgin has been a source for him in Japan/ROH in the past and he doesn't want to burn that bridge

Exactly. Though if Elgin is his New Japan source that would be fukking hilarious

 

[The Rainmaker]

I'm too lazy write the whole thing up but basically, a woman, Moses, accused a former Elgin student (Sean Orleans) of sexually abusing her. Then it went from there to Elgin not believing her to Elgin covering up the whole thing (he was Paterno to Orlean's Sandusky, so to speak) to Elgin being mentally abusive to her. Dave has barely reported to whole thing and has basically treated Moses like a liar without even talking to her.

Here's more details from another board

Spoiler

Damn. Didn't know all the details of the Elgin stuff. And if Meltzer is covering for him like that, that's fukked up.

 

[DoubleJ13]

Dave didn't bother reading the article, people told him he should instead of just going off the headline, & Dave refused to just admit he didn't read past the headline.



Then he came back again to it later to let everyone know he still didn't make it past the headline. Then 10 some odd hours later telling people they should go back & read what he wrote in an issue in 2014 & calling people stubborn.

 

[Vinny Lupton]

that rat had her twitter name as Moses Malone and everyone thinks that's her name now

 

[Finn Baller]

with Jimmy Jacobs out of there and Jericho more focused on NJPW at the moment, I'm not sure Dave has a single good WWE source at the moment

 

[The Rainmaker]

"Lots of tacks. Sad this wasn't at Korakuen. 3 1/4 stars"

 

[Arrogance.]

with Jimmy Jacobs out of there and Jericho more focused on NJPW at the moment, I'm not sure Dave has a single good WWE source at the moment

Wasn’t Ryder a source at one point? Not that he would be privy to high level WWE business but it’s better than nothing

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

Big Dave has some four and a half star biceps, brother

 

[hysteria416]

this is yall mans?

 

[Jmare007]

this is yall mans?

He's STILL talking about the N word being a "business term"

@Honga Ciganesta This breh Dave has gone full retard, dude is a fukking moron

 

[Hey_zeus]

Dave really is autistic huh?

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

He's STILL talking about the N word being a "business term"

 

[Honga Ciganesta]

@Jmare007 according to my sources, following the poor reaction from fans, Big Dave's heel turn will be dialed back in the coming weeks. Expect less twitter spats with marks and more stories of watching Toyota vs Yamada and more stories about Pillman.

OF COURSE, plans could always change depending on numerous variables so we'll see.