This is fascinating! Benoit must have felt elated. Dynamite was clearly not that developed on the mic, there’s no dramatic delivery, but that adds to the raw reality of it. Kind of haunting.
When I was a kid, I loved the British Bulldogs and cried when they lost the WWF tag team belts to the Hart Foundation. I knew what Davey Boy did afterwards in the 90s but Dynamite was my favorite and I always wondered what became of him so I looked him up. 35 years later and I’m pleased to hear that 10 year old me wasn’t fooled. To hear how highly regarded Dynamite Kid was by those in the industry is pretty cool.
I was watching a video of Chris Benoit crime scene pictures, and in it there’s a case of the shoes with a picture of benoit and dynamite. Crazy how benoit kept them after so many years, it must have meant the world to him to get these
The thing is the rabid Wolverine (Chris Benoit) dedicated all his young life watching and learning from Dynamite Kid (Tom Billington). Benoit idolized Dynamite and you can see him as a child watching Dynamite in the stands at Stampede wrestling. While Owen and Bret took a little from Dynamites style, Benoit wanted to be Dynamite. I was blessed to be at the pavilion every Friday to watch Stampede wrestling and to talk to all the wrestlers.
he sounds sober aswell his speech isn’t slurred a lot , he sounds out of breath since he just wrestled not drunk, clearly sour grapes from whichever member of the hart family towards tom
The absolute greatest worker of all time. I can’t even think of a close second. Maybe Brett Hart; who coincidentally learned everything from Dynamite. Just ask him, he’ll tell you.
Davey, Owen, Beniot..... they all tried to be like Dynamite. There facial expressions, move sets, delivery, etc. For me they are in the top.10, maybe top 5 of all time. But still nowhere near, not even close to the Dynamite Kid
@@neilclark1681 Haha nah, we never did that and by that point he was very unwell. He did ask if I had any money on me which I didn't at the time. He loved horse steroids, learned from Harley Race apparently
@@philthatcher6111where abouts in Wigan did he live? I remember on that 2007 show they did about Benoit, they showed a block of council flats that he lived in bit could never find where they were
He probably saw that , that could of been him killing himself and his family and was probably one of the reasons why he never went back to see his kids. Was because he was afraid of hurting them and no knowing what he was doing
struck me that the commentator says wwf by name. i know stampede and wwf had a relationship but it's still striking. you never heard commentators mention another promotion by name (except in the AWA vs NWA feud for a bit)
He didn't retire tho he had a chain match with Jonny Smith again then turned on Davey boy, was supposed to have dog fight of the decade matches against Davey and Chris Benoit but they never happened cause Davey boy got in a car accident almost killed him
One guy ruined his life jumping head first off the top rope passing the torch to another idiot who did the same thing. We may need to start checking on Brie
