This is the Busted Open podcast.

Welcome to Busted Opens the Masters class, and we're here with our Masters of the Ring, Tommy Dreamer, Bullie Ray.

School is now in session, and I want to talk about something that seems to be on the tip of every wrestling fan's tongue, and that is the quote-unquote five-star

match.

It's something that David Meltzer made famous, and I want to ask Tommy and bully if there

is credibility to that five-star match, ranking and rating, and I'm also going to ask them if they had to put a star rating,

what would constitute a five-star rating in their eyes?

So, bully, let me start with you.

What's the, let me ask you this.

What's the first thing you think of when you hear of the five-star rating?

Bullshit.

So in your eyes, not much importance to the five-star rating.

Absolutely zero importance when it comes to the star rating, the five-star rating for a wrestling match.

A star rating on a wrestling match would mean something to me if somebody like Rick Flair

was giving out the five-star rating. If somebody like Hulk Hogan was giving out the five-star rating. If somebody like Hulk Hogan was giving out the five-star rating,

if somebody like Ricky the Dragon Steamboat or Ricky Morton or Robert Gibson,

I think you get the point.

If the top, top workers, the top money earners in our business want to put a star rating on a match.

I'm more apt to listen to what they have to say than anybody else who's come up with a star

rating just to manipulate wrestling fans more than the wrestling business manipulates

wrestling fans.

You know, it's funny bully, and I believe I talked about this with Tommy on Busted Open.

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