10 Wrestlers Who Had To Destroy Themselves To Get Over
4. Dynamite Kid
The Dynamite Kid was a relentless, overtly nasty human being. A polotical headache.
He was also very short by industry standard. Speaking in a near-indecipherable Wigan accent, and radiating little in the way of showman charisma, he didn't project himself as a star and make himself appear bigger than he was, like Randy Savage did.
He was spectacularly unsuited to the theatre of pro wrestling, and so he changed what wrestling was.
He was clever enough to realise that his style was best suited to Japan; the fans there were and are more inclined to receive more technical, spirited performers. Blandness is forgivable. As long as a performer left everything out there, it didn't matter as much what was there to begin with. Kid adapted the intensity that was his being into the ring which, combined with his influential genius, made him both star and revolutionary. His bumping was so bold that every time he threw himself to the canvas, it sounded like a shotgun blast.
Kid literally broke his back in pursuit of greatness. It wasn't the result of his bump clock slowly ticking down; it was as instant an impact as he made on a new genre of the art.