Somebody Made A Graph Tracking Dave Meltzer's 5 Star Ratings By Year...

[Bob-O]

[Big Red Machine]

I've been talking about this for years. Post-2012 Dave would have been giving ***** to ROH matches and those HBK/Taker/Angle Mania matches left and right.

[Bob-O]

I've been talking about this for years. Post-2012 Dave would have been giving ***** to ROH matches and those HBK/Taker/Angle Mania matches left and right.

I always knew it was a "thing", but didn't realize he'd completely gone off the rails the last few years... the graph is pretty eye opening.

[Thelone]

It's more telling about Uncle Dave's obvious bias towards anything Japan, and Flair for the late 80s-early 90s era, and cruiserweight/indy-inspired matches. It's even more obvious when you add the dreaded 4,75* matches in the mix.

The graphic there does seem a bit inaccurate though since 1993 alone had thirteen 5* matches according to CageMatch.