Dave Scherer is an American sports writer and journalist, best known for writing about

professional wrestling Professional wrestling, often shortened to either pro wrestling or wrestling,The term "wrestling" is most often widely used to specifically refer to modern scripted professional wrestling, though it is also used to refer to Real life, real- ...

for the '' ECW Magazine'', ''

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'', '' World of Wrestling Magazine'', 1Wrestling.com and founding the newsletter ''The Wrestling Lariat'' in 1995 and the website PWInsider.com, which he created in 2004 when he left 1Wrestling together with several other reporters. Scherer played an important part in making

Extreme Championship Wrestling Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) was an American professional wrestling promotion that was based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and operated by its parent company HHG Corporation. The promotion was founded in 1992 by Tod Gordon as Nationa ...

noticed in the early 1990s through tape trading and gained a cult following among the hardcore ECW fans at the time when he appeared at the promotions shows. Scherer later recused himself from covering ECW and helped the company in various capacities while still reporting with independent publications. PWInsider is one of the most popular pro wrestling news websites and has been cited by

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as perhaps the most trusted source for wrestling news, despite Scherer not being a traditionally trained journalist, but the site has also been criticized for its liberal use of advertising, many of which are pop-ups, which has been blamed on Scherer.

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