20 Years On From WWE In Your House: Canadian Stampede's Main Event: Where Are They Now?
5. Davey Boy Smith
Like so many others impacted by it, Davey Boy Smith was caught in the Montreal Screwjob's deadly crossfire and made several unfortunate choices that would stifle his career and aid his premature demise.
After briefly feuding with Ken Shamrock coming out of the Canadian Stampede blockbuster, he'd be almost exclusively confined to working as Bret Hart's goon alongside partner Owen Hart as Stone Cold Steve Austin's war on authority figures and the transcendent hijinks of D-Generation-X stole the headlines in the Autumn of 1997.
Remaining loyal to Bret, the Bulldog bought himself out of his WWE contract at huge expense to follow 'The Hitman' to WCW, but was critically injured midway through 1998 after he took a bump on a section of the ring gimmicked to allow the Ultimate Warrior to appear as if from nowhere.
Though physically wrecked and mentally fragile thanks to the breakdown of his marriage, spiralling drug problems and more personal devastation (more on that later), Smith had one last deeply unsatisfying run in WWE as a denim-clad heel between 1999 and 2000, but his sudden 2002 passing was sadly foreshadowed by his embittered decline.