3. Dynamite Kid Would Beat The Hell Out Of His Japanese Opponents
Dynamite Kid is one of the most tragic figures in professional wrestling. Hailed by his peers as one of the best in-ring workers of all time, innovator of the flying headbutt and inspiration for a swathe of wrestlers like Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho and Ultimo Dragon. Even the Excellence of Execution, Bret Hart, has claimed to have copied the legendary Brit's style. However, he lives as a recluse these days after an accumulation of injuries left him with severe spinal damage and permanently robbing him of the ability to walk. Despite everything that wrestling took from him, DK looks back on his time in the squared circle with an intractable fondness, talking of his travels throughout the UK, America, Germany and especially Japan, with pride. As well as being one of the greatest high-flyers and technicians of his generation, Dynamite Kid also gained a reputation of being stiff as f***, often brutalising his opponents, and he certainly doesn't deny it, citing his time in Japan as particularly violent. The more he physically beat up the Japanese, so he says, the more the crowd loved him. In one match, he recounts, he was facing Kantaro Hoshino. Evidentally Hoshino did something to anger the Dynamite Kid, because he recounts biting him to escape from a wristlock, before beating the blue pudding out of him and trying to break his arm. The next time the two men met in the ring, in a tag match (Hoshino/Tiger Mask vs Dynamite Kid/Bret Hart), as soon as Kid tagged in, Hoshino scarpered, immediately tagging out of the match in fear of one of the best, and stiffest, workers of the age.
