The Wrestling Observer editor gave Sunday's main event - which saw Roman Reigns successfully retain the WWE Universal Championship against Edge and Daniel Bryan in a triple threat match - the most stars in his reviews of the two nights.
It received four-and-a-half stars. The next best matches - in the review - were two from Saturday, Cesaro .vs. Seth Rollins and Sasha Banks versus Bianca Belair and Sunday's US Championship match which had four stars each.
With four-and-a-half stars being the highest scoring rating in Meltzer's review, Kambi's 'Exact Star Rating of the Highest Rated Match' will be settled with '4.5 Stars or More' as the winning selection. It was 17/20. As was the losing 'Under 4.5 Stars'.
The best match of the weekend appearing on Sunday night's card means that 'Any Match On Night 2' will be the winning selection in a head-to-head market in which customers could have gambled on the evening that had the highest scoring night.
The eventual winner was a 4/6 favourite over the 7/5 that was offered for 'Any Match On Night 1'.
Had there been a tie, with a match from night one also getting four-and-a-half stars, then 'Same Star Rating' would have been the winner at 43/20.
The fact that there was no tie means that the 'Joint Winner' proposition market - which asked customers whether two or more matches would receive the highest number of stars for Mania 37 - will settle with the 2/5 favourite, 'No'' being declared the winning selection.
Another prop bet which will be settled coming off the knowledge that Sunday's main event scored the highest number of stars in Dave Meltzer's review is the one titled 'Margin of Victory'. In it, customers were asked whether there would be a half-a-star difference between the top rated match - or matches - and the next best.
As noted, Cesaro's victory over Seth Rollins and Bianca Belair's WWE Smackdown Women's Championship win from Sasha Banks from Saturday were the next best matches at four stars. Another four star match-up was Sunday's meeting between Riddle and Sheamus. Therefore, 'Yes' will be the winning selection.
'Yes' had started out at 5/4 with 'No' an 11/20 favourite. However, a week later, Kambi adjusted the market with the eventual winner down to 11/10 and its opposition up to 13/20.
Sasha Banks .vs. Bianca Belair went up against Bobby Lashley .vs. Drew McIntyre in a head-to-head featuring two of the most promoted matches for Saturday's card.
The ladies' four stars was enough to beat Bobby Lashley's win over the Scot. The winning selection was second to the WWE Championship match at odds of 23/20.
You'll be able to view the actual star rating Lashley .vs. McIntyre received in the table below. It'll show all of the results from Kambi's O/U star ratings markets for the matches from both nights.
Saturday's opener scored three-and-three quarter stars, so was a quarter short of tying the head-to-head with Saturday's main event in the head-to-head.
In the table there are two requests to see notes. The first is for the result of the Women's Tag Team Turmoil match.
Of the four match-ups that took place in this particular contest, the highest scoring was the one which saw saw Natalya and Tamina pick up the win against The Riott Squad. It scored one-and-three quarters from the reviewer, which was below the line of 2.25 Stars.
The worst score, in the gauntlet style tag match, was the Riott Squad versus Billie Kay and Carmella which was given half-a-star.
Kambi published a market for the tag team turmoil match on April 6th, but it was later removed. I don't know how it'll be settled due to all of the matches being graded. However, if I were to grade the market, I would have chose the score of the highest rated match of the four and decide whether it has gone over or under the line. In this case, it would be the one-and-three-quarters from the final match in the contest.
The second thing I wanted to point out is that - due to earlier reports pointing to the possibility that The Fiend .vs. Randy Orton may have been set to be a cinematic match - Kambi did not price up a market for it.
It turned out to be a regular match (if you can call it that). However, it ended up being the lowest rated match in the reviews with a score of minus one star.
You'll see in the table that four matches from the two nights were rated four or more stars in Meltzer's review. This will mean that 'Yes' will be the winning selection in a proposition market in which punters gambled on there being over three-and-a-half matches with scores of four stars or higher over the two nights.
'Yes' was a 7/10 favourite initially. It fell into 13/20 by the morning of night one and was then down into 13/25 with an hour and forty-five minutes until the event was supposed to have started.
The four matches with at least four stars were split over the two nights. With that in mind, it's worth looking at how two other prop markets will be settled.
For Saturday, Kambi asked whether two or more matches would receive at least four stars in Meltzer's review.
'Yes' will win as a 4/5 favourite.
'No' will win in the proposition for Sunday's card because it asked customers whether there would be at least three matches with bouts rated four stars plus.
The eventual winner was priced as an 8/13 favourite over the 23/20 for 'Yes'.
One of the four star matches from Sunday night was the winning selection in another head-to-head.
Sheamus' US Championship victory over Matt Riddle beat Saturday's AJ Styles and Omos' WWE Raw Tag Team Championship triumph over The New Day by one-and-three-quarter stars.
On the subject of 'Same Star Rating' - it was the winning pick in the final head-to-head that was available for Mania.
In the market, with both selections featuring bouts from night two, Asuka's WWE Raw Women's Championship loss to Rhea Ripley and Kevin Owens' victory over Sami Zayn tied with three-and-three quarter stars each meaning the winning selection will be the 2/1 for the third option.
If you haven't read it yet, I published THIS POST yesterday. It's all about how Kambi settled its markets for NXT TakeOver: Stand and Deliver after Dave Meltzer reviewed it in last week's issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
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