10 Weirdest WWE Alumni Trainwrecks

By Jack Morrell /

6. The Dynamite Kid

Tom €˜Dynamite Kid€™ Billington could well be the wrestler most loathed by his peers €“ and that includes his friends and family. Heavy muscles artificially packed onto a small frame, in his heyday the Kid was probably the finest and most exciting professional wrestler in the west, named as such by no less a talent than Bret Hart himself. He€™d inspire countless wrestlers with his hard-hitting, death-defying style, amongst them one Chris Benoit, who idolised him. Now Billington lives in a crapped-out council estate in England, by all reports confined to a wheelchair, broke and filled with hate€ and there are few that would argue that he didn€™t deserve it. A vicious, racist thug, a man with more weasels thrashing around in his head than he had brains, Billington would be the curse of every locker room and family get-together, a near-psychotic, nasty piece of work. Imagine the worst of all possible school bullies, literally on steroids and with an honorary degree in stretching and hooking earned from Stu Hart€™s Dungeon. The stories about him include how he literally tortured his wife with agonising shoot holds that popped out her jaw (horrifyingly, absolutely true) and tying his own niece down to a bed and breaking her kneecaps in order to commit insurance fraud (hopefully apocryphal, but €“ crucially €“ no one would put it past him). The Dynamite Kid, one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, still alive but disabled after a recent stroke and living in constant pain, is anathema to the industry precisely because of the kind of man he is.