From High-Flying Pioneer To Wheelchair Bound Recluse: The Tragic Life Of The Dynamite Kid

In the annals of professional wrestling history, few figures command as much conflicted respect as Thomas Billington, known to the world as The Dynamite Kid. Inside the squared circle, he was a revolutionary. He is universally credited with introducing a high-impact, snap-action style that influenced a generation of wrestlers, including Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, and Bryan Danielson. He was pound-for-pound one of the greatest in-ring performers to ever live. However, once the cameras stopped rolling and the locker room doors closed, a different and far darker reputation took hold. Billington was widely feared and loathed as one of the most vicious bullies in the history of the business. His “reign of terror” in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) during the mid-1980s is the stuff of gr