For the tag-based game, see British Bulldog (game). For Great Britain's national Australian rules football team, see Great Britain men's national Australian rules football team.
Professional wrestling tag team
The British Bulldogs
Tom Billington (Dynamite Kid, left) and David Smith (Davey Boy Smith, right)
Tag team
Members
David Smith Tom Billington Matilda (bulldog) Winston (bulldog)
Billed heights
Smith: 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Billington: 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Combined billed weight
218 kg (481 lb)
Billed from
Wigan, England
Debut
1983
Disbanded
1990
The British Bulldogs were a professional wrestling tag team consisting of cousins Davey Boy Smith and Dynamite Kid. They competed throughout the 1980s in Britain, North America and Japan and have consistently ranked among the top tag teams in history.[1]
Both men died prematurely.[a]
^Greg Oliver and Steve Johnson (2005). The Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Tag Teams. ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-55022-683-6.
^Premature death cancer.gov
^Lewer, Dan; Jayatunga, Wikum; Aldridge, Robert W.; Edge, Chantal; Marmot, Michael; Story, Alistair; Hayward, Andrew (1 January 2020). "Premature mortality attributable to socioeconomic inequality in England between 2003 and 2018: an observational study". The Lancet Public Health. 5 (1): e33–e41. doi:10.1016/S2468-2667(19)30219-1. PMC 7098478. PMID 31813773.
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