The Dynamite Kid - a.k.a Tom Billington - didn't make his name because of moonsaults, corkscrew flips or shooting star presses. By today's definition of a high flyer, he may not even register as one to some fans. But this is the man that would pave the way for all high flyers that followed by forever changing the speed of pro wrestling. At a time when most wrestling organizations were still trying to find the biggest bodybuilders willing to step into a ring, Dynamite Kid went out there and used his smaller frame to travel 300 miles per hour around the squared circle while performing Olympic caliber maneuvers with an intensity that nobody had ever seen. One look at the way he would transition from move to move before destroying a man twice his size with the cleanest suplex possible and suddenly everything else seemed too slow. And yes, when he decided to take to the top rope he could do that better than anyone as well. As the direct inspiration for guys like Chris Benoit and Bryan Danielson, Dynamite Kid was clearly an innovator. He was so good at what he did that you could argue that few have ever really performed on his level to this day.
