(1958-12-05)5 December 1958 Golborne, Lancashire, England
Died
5 December 2018(2018-12-05) (aged 60) Ince, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England
Spouse(s)
Michelle Smadu
(m. 1982; div. 1991)
Dot Billington
(m. 1997)
[1]
Children
3
Family
Billington Hart (by marriage)
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
Dynamite Kid The Dynamite Kid
Billed height
5 ft 8 in (173 cm) [2][3]
Billed weight
229 lb (104 kg)[4]
Billed from
Liverpool, England Manchester, England
Trained by
Ted Betley Jack Fallon Riley's Gym John Foley Stu Hart
Debut
24 December 1975
Retired
10 October 1996
Thomas Wilton Billington (5 December 1958 – 5 December 2018),[5] best known by the ring name the Dynamite Kid, was a British professional wrestler.
Trained by former wrestler "Dr Death" Ted Betley, he competed in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), Stampede Wrestling, All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). With his cousin Davey Boy Smith, he was also known for being one half of the tag team The British Bulldogs.
He had notable feuds with Tiger Mask in Japan and Bret Hart in Canada.
Billington is considered by many, including Bret Hart, to have been one of wrestling's most influential in-ring performers, having increased the level of athleticism involved in the art, bringing together styles from Britain, Mexico, Canada and Japan.[6][7][8]
^Lumsden, Michael (25 October 2016). "Desperate plea from former pro wrestler". Calgary Herald. Calgary: Postmedia Network. PressReader. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
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stardom as one half of The British Bulldogs tag team, alongside the DynamiteKid. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2020. Smith was born in...
defeated Corp. Kirchner with a DDT. DynamiteKid then faced Nikolai Volkoff (without manager Freddie Blassie); DynamiteKid attacked Volkoff, who had just...
professional wrestling tag team consisting of cousins Davey Boy Smith and DynamiteKid. They competed throughout the 1980s in Britain, North America and Japan...
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the Stampede International Tag Team Championship in Canada, with the DynamiteKid. Ruane was born in Camberwell, London, on 10 October 1946. He weighed...
Valentine and Brutus Beefcake) and The British Bulldogs (Davey Boy Smith and DynamiteKid) over the WWF Tag Team Championship. On August 24, 1985, Beefcake and...
1999 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: ECW November to Remember review, DynamiteKid book, more". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Retrieved January 8, 2020...
simultaneously. Sayama has the distinction of being a competitor (along with "DynamiteKid" Thomas Billington) in the first 5 Star Rating awarded for a Match by...
against Tom Billington, who was better known by his in-ring name as the DynamiteKid. In the midst of wrestling alongside his family, Hart made a point not...
Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 American independent coming of age teen comedy film produced by Jeremy Coon, Chris Wyatt, and Sean Covel, written by Jared...
Rob Van Dam, Ted DiBiase, Amy Dumas (Lita), Mike Tyson, Bret Hart, DynamiteKid, Randy Couture and Chris Jericho. In an interview with The Miami Herald...
top light heavyweight wrestlers of the era including Marty Jones, the DynamiteKid, "Iron Fist" Clive Myers, Kendo Nagasaki and Satoru Sayama (billed in...
described in at least three books by former wrestling personalities; DynamiteKid, Hulk Hogan and Gary Michael Cappetta, and by longtime WWF wrestler-commentator...
consisted of The DynamiteKid and Johnny Smith. The Bruisers were created by Stampede Wrestling as part of a promotional angle in which Kid turned heel on...
Outside of documentaries about Harts's family he has also appeared in DynamiteKid: A Matter of Pride. In 2008 Hart appeared on the E! Chris Benoit special...
Turquoise Mountain: Brian Blessed on Everest (1991) ISBN 9780747510468 The DynamiteKid (1992) ISBN 9780747512752 Nothing's Impossible (1994) To the Top of the...
Tag Team Championship to The Hart Foundation in a match that saw the DynamiteKid so debilitated with a back injury that he was virtually carried to the...
25, 2024). "Tony Khan, Jaguars exec and AEW boss, takes piledriver on 'Dynamite' ahead of NFL Draft". Fox News. Retrieved April 25, 2024. Weprin, Alex...
crowd. The Rougeaus had a real-life altercation with Tom Billington (the DynamiteKid from The British Bulldogs) backstage in 1988. "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig...
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