10 Topics "Crossface" Movie Needs To Address

10. The Dynamite Kid

Even as a young man, Chris Benoit was different from other wrestling fans. While many would-be wrestlers idolised the top stars or the most fearsome grapplers in the business, Benoit's idol was Tom "Dynamite Kid" Billington, a man considered by some of his peers to be the very best of all time.

When Benoit finally did become a wrestler, his look and style mirrored that of The Dynamite Kid. He wore long tights and short hair, and boasted huge muscles. Between the ropes, his use of Dynamite favourites like the diving headbutt and the snap suplex drew immediate comparisons between the two.

While there are few wrestlers better to model oneself on from a talent standpoint, unfortunately, Benoit's story ended up having strange parallels to Dynamite's. Billington's excessive steroid and painkiller use took a tremendous toll on his health, forcing him to retire at a young age and confining him to a wheelchair by the time he was 40.

He was also notoriously abusive, infamously beating his wife and threatening her with a gun.