Lawler speaks about Dave Meltzer and his Wrestling Observer Newsletter. He informs that a lot of performers couldn’t stand Meltzer and the promoters didn’t like him either because they felt that he was bad for business. Lawler agreed with that opinion at the time and was not a fan of what Meltzer was doing.
He notes that part of the mystique of the wrestling business is not knowing what’s going to happen next, and Meltzer was like a movie critique watching an early preview of a film and then spoiling it for everyone else. He informs that he’s only met Meltzer a couple of times and he doesn’t know him well enough to hate him nowadays.
Lawler mentioned on a previous podcast that he believed WWE’s female talents would get paid for the Greatest Royal Rumble, even though they didn’t work the show. Lawler clarifies that he just said that off the top of his head and it didn’t come from any WWE officials, but that’s the way Meltzer made it seem. This is the kind of stuff that Meltzer has always done; he’s always sensationalized things and looked for dirt in the lives of performers.
Lawler suspects that there’s been more than one person leaking things to Meltzer over the years, and he’s sure Vince McMahon would quickly dismiss those individuals if he were to find out who they were. Moore mentions that he believes Lawler was involved int he first ever Meltzer 5-star match, but Lawler doesn’t care about that, noting that Meltzer’s rating didn’t earn him anymore money for the match that evening.
