Dave Meltzer aka The Hack owned by The UG

[Liquidrob]

Gordo1581 shows why Meltzer is just a hack and a shill now a days, and people pay for his site, lol, Dave showing that top notch journalism again

Dave Meltzer: "If you look at his video blog really closely. Nick isn't driving back from the San Francisco Airport. The freeway road is not the road coming from the San Francisco Airport."

Gordo responds

The video in question

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4EbRnFn0Tg&feature=player_embedded]Looks like someone don't want me to win ! - YouTube[/ame]

from the video

from google earth

zoomed out

zoomed out

Looks to me like he was on his way back to Stockton from SFO.

 

[Kuzzy Powers]

LOL @ Dave even going out of his way to try to point that out abt Nick..

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

who cares?

 

[Kuzzy Powers]

Obviously Dave cared enough to point something like that up. Id think Dave didnt have that kind of time on his hands.. some schill fan probably emailed him that and he jumped on it without doing some proper investigating.

 

[Liquidrob]

Meltzer is on a Diaz smear campaign right now, 3 negative 'articles' the last day

Dave going to get slapped

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Obviously Dave cared enough to point something like that up. Id think Dave didnt have that kind of time on his hands.. some schill fan probably emailed him that and he jumped on it without doing some proper investigating.

No, that's what I meant. Who cares what route he took? Waste of time, from Dave and the goofball who spent half his day on google maps supposedly proving it wrong. A colossal waste of time by all involved.

 

[EmpireWF]

I don't even recall Meltzer mentioning that on the episode the person said it was on.

Meltzer is on a Diaz smear campaign right now, 3 negative 'articles' the last day

where?

 

[Liquidrob]

No, that's what I meant. Who cares what route he took? Waste of time, from Dave and the goofball who spent half his day on google maps supposedly proving it wrong. A colossal waste of time by all involved.

The best in the biz, the best

 

[EmpireWF]

Why do you loathe Meltzer rob?

 

[Liquidrob]

Why do you loathe Meltzer rob?

You even have to ask this? I can't stand shill 'reporters', Meltzer, Iole, MDS, Shillawani, etc...

Throw in his ppv estimate scam and he even gets more hate

 

[EmpireWF]

You even have to ask this? I can't stand shill 'reporters', Meltzer, Iole, MDS, Shillawani, etc...

Throw in his ppv estimate scam and he even gets more hate

:rofl:


You so funny rob.

 

[clovett]

Who isnt a shill reporter in your eyes?

 

[Liquidrob]

Who isnt a shill reporter in your eyes?

It's hard to say really, if you have a zuffa press pass you have to shill, that's how they do business

I don't read many guys, I usually notice it from threads on certain websites, usually the same shills over and over, I guess if I had to name a couple off the top of my head, gross and hunt

 

[EmpireWF]

Can you give an example of how these guys shill? Well, besides Iole...he's obvious sometimes.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

The irony here is due to his relationships with Coker, Frank Shamrock, Cung Le, etc Meltzer was probably closer to being a Strikeforce "shill" than anything else. I don't think anyone, aside from maybe guys from tiny websites that nobody sees, gave more pub to SF than Meltzer, and he was doing it for Yahoo front & center.

rob is just being goofy when he talks about this stuff. A reporter saying something positive about UFC or negative about something non UFC does not mean they are "shilling". What you have to understand when it comes to Meltzer, is you have a lot of old school MMA fans (especially at the UG) who still get all twisted and offended when it comes to prowres, and it's gotten worse since Brock. So these guys will take one sentence or one paragraph from an article somebody wrote and scream about them being a shill. It's stupid.

I remember Meltzer saying on his radio show one time, that while most of the writers accept him now, it was hard in the beginning because of the prowres stigma, and there are still some guys who give him looks and whisper behind his back, but that's usually newer guys since he's one of the few guys who has been there since day one.

 

[Liquidrob]

Meltzer is a shill, it's just the truth, tell me how a guy rarely if ever has a negative thing to say about the ufc when it is the biggest mma promotion with the most fighters, money, press, stories, etc...it goes against the law of averages, especially the way the ufc runs, they are not under the radar, constantly in public battles with fighters, other promotions and reporters, it's just not possible to not criticize them

But he can parrot dana about M1, showtime or fighters dana doesn't like, to say this guy isn't shilling for zyffa is insane, yes he has giving SF pub, but he has to if he is covering the sport, but the zuffa bias is obvious

Like I said, the way zuffas runs it is impossible to not be critical of them unless you are shilling because they hold the access over the medias head besides a couple people how have questioned them and you see where that leads

 

[EmpireWF]

Not sure what you want from Meltzer. He breaks down stories from most angles. For example, the Diaz fiasco...he wrote about the business side of things and what the changes mean. Ultimately, he compared it to UFC being TNA in their handling of Jeff Hardy...which is anything but positive.. Meaning, one day they take Diaz out of the main event fight and are considering firing him, to putting him in the co-main event in a matter of hours.

Just because he doesn't tear them down in his Yahoo! stories doesn't mean he's a shill.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

You have to understand that rob is reading blurbs posted on UG from other wacky, paranoid anti UFC guys. Anyone who actually reads what Meltzer writes knows he's hardly a shill for anyone.

 

[Liquidrob]

If you're going to be critical of m1, showtime, fighters, etc...and not critical of zuffa you're a shill, plain and simple

Just like shillawani during the cro cop mess, classic zuffa shill reporting

 

[FedEx227]

I don't even follow MMA but I listen to every audio show F4W/WO posts and he's more than critical about UFC on a number of occasions.