WWE: 15 Greatest Technical Wrestlers – Number 6

On our quest to find some of the greatest technical wrestlers in the history of the WWE, today, we come down to number 6. These technical wrestlers are those who’re gifted athletes, and have honed their craft for years, traveling around the world and showcasing their abilities to the wrestling fans. Most of them never cared about making huge money, or being in the spot light for years. These are the performers who want to be known as the ‘best’, who want adulation and respect more than being featured in commercials and movies, and most importantly, they’re the ones who fall in love with professional wrestling and cannot fathom doing anything else. Today’s pick is one of those performers, and he is universally hailed as arguably the greatest technical wrestler in the history of professional wrestling! Not only that, but he was the reason many current performers got into the business. He’s one of the very few people that this generation’s crop of ‘wrestlers’ idolized and looked up to when they were kids. He is none other than ‘The Dynamite Kid’, Tom Billington.

 

 

“Pound-for-pound, Dynamite Kid is the greatest wrestler who ever lived” – Bret Hart

Dynamite Kid is considered to be the greatest name coming out of England, and is praised universally by all the ardent wrestling fans. While some consider him to be the greatest professional wrestler, alive or dead, some claim that he’s one of the most underrated performers in the history. Tom started his career in the UK, then moving to Canadian Stampede which was run by the legendary Stu Hart. It was here that Tom found his big break, putting on some of the greatest match in Stampede’s history. He soon became the idol of Bret Hart, and a very young Chris Benoit. Tom continued to tour Japan, where he had arguably one of the greatest feuds in professional wrestling history with Tiger Mask, and they put on some of the best matches in the business. Tom was then offered a contract by the WWF, and he teamed up with Davey Smith to form one of the greatest tag teams of all time, the British Bulldogs. They won the tag titles at WrestleMania 2, but didn’t taste much success in the WWF. Dynamite then quit the WWF due to differences with Vince and his peers.