10 Wrestlers You Didn’t Know Have Bad Reputations
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Davey Boy Smith was the cousin and tag team partner of the Dynamite Kid.
The Dynamite Kid was a shoot sociopath. He used to beat up vagrants as a recreational hobby and terrorise everybody in the locker room. His conduct was significantly more appalling than that of a mere problematic, sadist wrestler. He was ritually abusive towards his wife Michelle. He once stuck a shotgun under chin, telling her, chillingly, that one day it would be loaded.
Davey Boy, meanwhile, was primarily known as a bumbling and downright weird figure who was presented in WWF canon as an upstanding family man. Juxtaposed with Billingston, he was a relative, almost comically endearing saint. Or seemed to be.
Consequently, his own awful, alleged conduct is often lost to time.
Davey Boy was Billington’s accomplice - literally, on one occasion, when the pair were arrested for brutalising a teenager in their Stampede days.
Bret Hart once claimed that an impressionable Davey Boy was corrupted by Billington, but he was a grown man - a grown man who was accused by Jake Roberts of throwing lit cigarettes into the bag in which his snake was kept. Roberts also accused Davey Boy and Billington of injecting a fan with an intellectual disability with steroids.