The Life and Tragic Times of Dynamite Kid with Dave Meltzer

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

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4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Dave Meltzer joins to pay tribute to the late Dynamite Kid (aka Thomas Billington) who passed away last week on his 60th birthday. Dave and Y2J discuss Dynamite’s complicated legacy, the influence he had on many including Chris Benoit, Bret Hart, and Finn Balor, his early days in Calgary at Stampede Wrestling, and his jump to WWE and his tempestuous relationship with Vince McMahon. They remember Dynamite’s run in Japan and some of the incredible matches he had with Tiger Mask, his tag team partnership with his cousin Davey Boy Smith as the British Bulldogs and their matches against the Hart Foundation, and the devastating injury that all but ended Dynamite’s wrestling career.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome to talk is Jericho. It's the part of Thunder and Rock and Roll and today Dave
0:17.6	Meltzer returns the show to help discuss the life and tragic times of the dynamite kid dynamite
0:24.6	real name Tommy Billington passed away last Wednesday on his 60th birthday had a lot of serious health
0:30.4	issues since retiring from wrestling which he did at the very young age of 33 years old but one of
0:35.6	most influential performers of all time one of my favorites when I was a teenager and watching the
0:41.6	WF at the time Dave and I talk all about the fact that dynamite was confined to a wheelchair by the
0:47.2	time he was 38 or 39 years old but the influence he has on wrestling to this day his style lives on
0:53.1	and so many of the guys I mean Chris Benoit had dynamite down to a tee Brent Hart took a lot
0:59.0	from dynamite for talking with Jamie Noble you're talking with even guys like myself
1:02.8	a ultimate drag and the juicin Lager you know how much he inspired the guys for my generation
1:09.0	Dave and I talk about his complicated career from coming to stamp you wrestling and eventually
1:13.7	landing at the WF and becoming the British Bulldogs with his cousin David Boy Smith we'll talk about
1:18.4	dynamite's tenuous relationship with Vince McMahon his relationship and falling out with Davey Boy
1:24.3	his time in Japan when he jumped ship from New Japan to all Japan without telling anybody the
1:29.0	amazing matches he had with Tiger Mask the basically career ending injury he had in the ring so much
1:37.6	to talk about the very controversial critically claimed yet critically deplored dynamite kids so
1:43.6	here we go with Dave Meltzer from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter as we talk about the late dynamite kid
1:54.8	all right so back again on Talk to Jericho one of my favorite guests especially when it comes to
2:01.2	talking about a certain performance life Dave Meltzer from Wrestling Observer Newsletter
2:05.7	and you know we've talked about Chris Benoit we've talked about Bruiser Brody and you know
2:12.1	the whole Montreal screw job and you know all these controversial things but I think one of the most
2:18.1	mysterious guys as far as for the level of influence he has has to be the dynamite kid and dynamite
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