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Dave Scherer is an American sports writer and journalist, best known for writing about professional wrestling for the ECW Magazine, New York Daily News, 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 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 wrestlin