# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-meltzer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:27:56.715Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-meltzer"
name: "Dave Meltzer"
slug: "dave-meltzer"
description: "David Allen Meltzer is an American journalist, author and historian who reports on professional wrestling and mixed martial arts. Since 1983, he has been the publisher and editor of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (WON), a dirtsheet primarily addressing professional wrestling. He has also written for the Oakland Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Yahoo! Sports, SI.com, and The National Sports Daily. He has extensively covered mixed martial arts since UFC 1 in 1993 and also covers it for SB Nation. He has been called \"the most accomplished reporter in sports journalism\" by Frank Deford of Sports Illustrated."
tagline: "American sports journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dave_Meltzer_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1959-10-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.01
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.282636
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "davemeltzerWON"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.f4wonline.com/"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ডেভ ম্যাল্টজার"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dave Meltzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dave Meltzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dave Meltzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dave Meltzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dave Meltzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Dave Meltzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump