Davey boy smith

[Guest Nevermortal]

The tragic pro-wrestling news continues...

 

Davey Boy Smith, well known for his days as the British Bulldog in the WWF, died last night of a heart attack. He was 39 years old. Smith was on vacation with his girlfriend Andrea Hart. No other details are currently available.

 

Smith accomplished a lot during his legendary career. He was the first ever WWF European Champion and also won the WWF's Intercontinental, Hardcore, and Tag Team Titles.

 

We send out our condolences to Smith's family and friends.

 

 

How many wrestlers have died in may? Its got to be in the double digits.

[Guest RickyChosyu]

That's very sad. Unfortunately, I can't say it's the most shocking news I've ever heard. RIP, Davey.

[Guest]

We'll miss you, Bulldog.

[Guest Anglesault]

Damn, that's sad.

 

NM, I think there were a bunch of April deaths, so the May number isn't that big....

 

Smith was on vacation with his girlfriend Andrea Hart

 

Diana's sister?

[Guest]

Oh no...

 

I just heard this as soon as i got online..NO!! this is not right!

 

Oh ..poor Bulldog...REST IN PEACE DAVEY! THANK YOU FOR THE OLD SCHOOL MEMORIES!

 

God bless you for being my hero

 

This has been the Taker Mark

[Guest]

May God rest his soul.

 

[Guest HartFan86]

I'm in fucking shock. He died way too young and this is just a horrible, horrible time for any wrestling fan.

 

God Rest your soul Davey..

[Guest]

*sigh* This is fucking depressing ... especially if you grew up watching him on TV.

 

R.I.P. .... a life too bent on self destruction met it's end with a heart attack, so sad.

[Guest RicFlairGlory]

The tragic pro-wrestling news continues...

 

Davey Boy Smith, well known for his days as the British Bulldog in the WWF, died last night of a heart attack. He was 39 years old. Smith was on vacation with his girlfriend Andrea Hart. No other details are currently available.

 

Smith accomplished a lot during his legendary career. He was the first ever WWF European Champion and also won the WWF's Intercontinental, Hardcore, and Tag Team Titles.

 

We send out our condolences to Smith's family and friends.

 

 

How many wrestlers have died in may? Its got to be in the double digits.

Well, he never did win that Grand Slam...

 

Still HBK & HHH...

 

say hi to Owen for me...

 

(and I aint laughin at 'em damnit!)

[Guest Choken One]

Damn. I was just talking about him with my cousin this morning. This is another sad chapter in the Hart family. Shame, I was hoping another death in the family would not happen. Well, I can only hope that Owen, Brian, Davey and Rick have formed a new stable in Wrestling Heaven.  

 

R.I.P Davey Boy Smith. You were a good one.

[Guest El Psycho Diablo]

This is something I really, really, really am upset to hear. I had always hoped he'd straighten himself out, and get back in the ring where he belonged. But I guess some things don't work that way. 39..jesus. Way too young. I didn't get to watch that much wrestling when I was younger, but he was one of them I did watch. He will be missed..

 

Rest In Peace, Davey.

 

-Shiro

[Guest muswp1]

I am unhappy to hear the Davey is dead, but given his actions the last few years and his lifestyle in general I can't say I'm totally suprised.

[Guest]

Bummer.

 

It's really a shame.  A shame that he died young, a shame that rather than a memorable, glorious end to his career, he had to have an ignominious end, slowly fading away in a haze of injuries, drugs, and all those disturbing stories about his out-of-the-ring behavior.

 

Very sad.

 

I always enjoyed watching the British Bulldog in the ring, even in his last WWF run when he was clearly deteriorated, had to wrestle in the jeans, and was stuck with The Mean Street Posse as survivor series partners that year.

 

Davey was one of my favorites back when I first started watching wrestling, and he was one of the guys that got me hooked.  He would hold those guys up in the air for what seemed like forever on those suplexes...

 

Even then, when I was a full-on mark for all the good guys, even Hogan, I liked Davey Boy the best.  He looked a hell of a lot more powerful than Hogan or the Ultimate Warrior, and plus he was on Superstars almost every week.  So on my personal fan heirarchy of faces, he leapfrogged over them both before long.  And because he was British, it really felt to this mark like a true "World" wrestling federation with him around.

 

Davey Boy vs Bret Hart at Summerslam 92 was the first great match I ever saw, and remains one of my favorite matches of all time.

 

R.I.P. Davey, and thanks for the memories.

 

[And he had better get some official observance on the next raw.]

[Guest]

I feel so bad for the Hart family. Davey, you were loved by millions. Thanks for the memories

RIP

[Guest y2jailbait]

Man, that is so damn shocking, Bulldog had to have been one of my favorite wrestlers ever. Its very sad with all the wrestler deaths as of late, and this just adds to the sorrow.

[Guest]

R.I.P

 

I-will-now-watch

The-British-BulldogVs.Bret-Hart-Summerslam1992.

In-memory-of-a-great-wrestler.

[Guest eiker_ir]

i'm in shock right now........

 

 

RIP Davey

We'll miss u........

[Guest caboose]

RIP Davey Boy Smith.

 

That is about the saddest thing I've heard all year.

This guy was my hero when I was a kid

He was the only really popular British Wrestler.

Thanks for the memories Davey, I'll never forget SummerSlam 1992, I was In the crowd, I felt a part of the pinnacle of British Wrestling, and it was thanks to The British Bulldog.

[Guest]

How many wrestlers have died in may? Its got to be in the double digits.

I counted six-

Big Dick Dudley

Wahoo MacDaniel

Lou Thez

The FMW Owner(Sorry I Forget The Name)

Erik Kulas

Davey Boy

Where there some I forgot to list???

 

Of all the recent wrestling deaths I think this is the biggest. Not any disrespect to the others who died......it is just that he was a big star more recently and alot of us grew up with him. I was always a big fan and it is so sad he died so young and it never looked liek he could get his shit together.

[Guest]

The Hart Foundation curse continues....

 

Rest in peace Bulldog, we'll all miss you.

[Guest Slapnuts00]

How many wrestlers have died in may? Its got to be in the double digits.

I counted six-

Big Dick Dudley

Wahoo MacDaniel

Lou Thez

The FMW Owner(Sorry I Forget The Name)

Erik Kulas

Davey Boy

Where there some I forgot to list???

 

Of all the recent wrestling deaths I think this is the biggest. Not any disrespect to the others who died......it is just that he was a big star more recently and alot of us grew up with him. I was always a big fan and it is so sad he died so young and it never looked liek he could get his shit together.

Don't forget former WCW referee Randy "Pee Wee" Anderson. :-(

 

This is such sad news. I can't believe Bulldog has died. Owen and Bulldog, possibly my favorite tag team ever, have both passed on. This has been a really bad period when it comes to wrestling deaths. It's a shame Bret never really got to bury the hatchet with Davey Boy, and this will just be another thing waying on Bret's mind, that he never made peace with Davey.

Another one dies, I can't believe it.

[Guest papacita]

I don't think there's anything I can add to this thread that hasn't already been said. RIP

[Guest Anglesault]

The Hart Foundation curse continues....

Wow, I forgot Pilman, Owen, Bulldog were all in the foundation. And then there were two.

[Guest]

Of all the deaths that have passed the past few weeks, this is the one that actually has me upset, considering I didn't really know about any of the  others.

 

I was reading an August 1991 issue of WWF Magazine just the other day, and there was an article about the British Bulldog pursuing Mr. Perfect's Intercontinental title. Davey was sitting there smiling with Winston pointing his paw at Mr. Perfect. I couldn't help but think of how cool he looked in that big Union Jack cape and with Winston at his side, not to mention how cool it was to name a British dog Winston.

 

Damn, and I was hoping he'd end up as part of NWA:TNA or something.

[Guest]

How many wrestlers have died in may? Its got to be in the double digits.

I counted six-

Big Dick Dudley

Wahoo MacDaniel

Lou Thez

The FMW Owner(Sorry I Forget The Name)

Erik Kulas

Davey Boy

Where there some I forgot to list???

Amy Robinson (Referee Charles Robinson's wife)

Robbie Dicks (WWF developmental wrestler)

 

I remember those...

 

RIP Davey Boy. It's such a shame.

[Guest bob_barron]

He's my all time favourite wrestler- I'm in too much pain to write more.

 

Bulldog is God- i will forever miss my all time favourite

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Man...I'm almost afraid to get back online these days, every time I check the news I'm reading about someone I use to watch dying.

 

I just finished Dynamite's book a week or so ago and have had the Bulldogs on my mind reciently.

 

Unlike many of the recient deaths, this is a name I've grown up with and have been watching since I was just a little kid...it just feels weird.

 

You guys might want to check out dynamitekid.com, they're not really friends, but he may post something about it, and I'm curious of what he's going to have to say.

 

And I hope Vince gives Davey a proper tribute, I'm not talking Owen-like...but the Bulldog is still well remembered by WWF fans and should be given tribute.

[Guest cabbageboy]

I am sitting here writing this with tears in my eyes, I really am.  Back in 1992 Davey Boy was my favorite wrestler.  Every Saturday morning I would watch Superstars hoping he'd wrestle some jobber.  When he fought Bret at Summerslam I debated about it for over a month with friends about who would win.  Since I didn't get the PPV (I never got any till Summerslam 1998) I ended up having to rent it.  Got it the first day it came out at Blockbuster, and god was I happy.  I even got the frisbee with WWF on it for being the first to rent the tape.  That match with Bret was one of those life changing moments for me, it really was.  It is still far and away my favorite match.  When Diana raised both men's hands at the end, it gave me chills.  

 

I also remember his IC match with Michaels.  I had been to a TV taping (my first WWF show) in OCT 1992 and it was the night after Michaels won the IC from Bulldog, but it had not been on TV yet.  I was hoping it wasn't the case.  At that point I had no idea about Davey's steroid use, or his WCW contract.....I was just incredibly upset when I finally saw that match on the last ever Saturday Night's Main Event.  It was the only time I had ever nearly cried over a wrestling match.

 

Even in an awful 1993 for WCW I was happy watching it if for no other reason than Bulldog got a decent main event run.  I really wish he had gotten the title from Vader on there, and in retrospect it would be the closest he would ever get.

 

I was really happy to see him back in the WWF in 1994 when he helped Bret fend off Owen and Neidhart.  I was even glad in late 1995 when he turned heel, since he finally got a decent haircut.  Bulldog never was a good heel, at least not to me.  I mean who are you gonna cheer for between Diesel and the British Bulldog?  I'd take Bulldog any day of the week and so would most people and that is why he never got any heel heat.  He seemed too nice.

 

I remember a lot of things as well, like Bulldog being one of the few reasons to watch the WWF in 1996.  Or his tag team with Owen that was great to watch, along with his semi feud with Owen.  I don't have the Euro title finals on tape, but man I wish I did.  Though it would be creepy seeing Davey Boy against Owen now.

 

Bulldog seemed so sad and misused in his last WCW run in 1998.  He seemed a shell of his former self.  When I heard Bischoff released him while he was in the hospital I was outraged.  I was hoping he would be ok and go back to the WWF, which he later did.

 

I know by late 1999 no one cared that much about Bulldog.  Not the WWF Attitude marks who had no concept of what wrestling really is.  At the last PPV he main evented, Unforgiven 1999, he was in the 6 pack challenge.   Ironically enough all the people over watching the PPV gravitated to cheering the Bulldog.  We knew he'd never won the world title and had won everything else.  I just wish they had put the title on him just one time, I could have cared less if he had jobbed it back a week later.  He deserved it in my view.

 

After he finally was released by the WWF and his career was for all intents over, I still sorta thought about him from time to time, hoping he'd get his life together.  I was kinda saddened hearing about his divorce from Diana too, and that Bret hated him for going back to the WWF after Owen's death.  It saddens me that he and Bret never made up.

 

Davey Boy Smith has been my favorite wrestler for the past 10 years, and was a childhood hero.  It tears me apart knowing that he is gone.

[Guest Smeghead]

It's amazing how young some of these guys were when they died.  Thesz and MacDaniel were both pretty old.  But Davey Boy was 39 and died from a heart attack, Shoichi Arai (FMW president) was 36 and took his own life, Alez Rizzo (Big Dick Dudley) was 34 (don't know how he died), and Erik Kulas was only 22! (don't know how he died either)

 

R.I.P.

 

It will be interesting to see if the WWE mentions this on Raw or not.

[Guest bob_barron]

My tribute to Davey Boy- it may sound like cabbage boys but Bulldog marks think a like-

 

My Tribute to Bulldog

 

 

I’ve been watching wrestling since 1991. I watched both WWF and WCW but I always had the same wrestler: British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith. I don’t know why- he was just so god damn cool. I liked him better than Hulk, Warrior, Sting- to me, an episode of Superstars was only good if I heard Hail Britannia.

Summerslam 92 was the largest attended card in the history of the WWF with over 80,000 people packing Wembley Stadium to see their countrymen defeat brother in law Bret Hitman Hart to win the intercontinental title. The feud was absolutely amazing and I remember being pumped to see who would win. My parents wouldn’t let me order PPVs so I called the PWI Hotline and I found out he won- I jumped around the house, screaming loudly and just marking out. When he lost the title I couldn’t eat. I was so depressed.

1993- Bulldog jumped to WCW and I almost exclusively watched WCW as I hoped Davey Boy would be the one to dethrone Vader and win the WCW Title. Many people call Bulldog’s tenure in WCW a disaster but I loved it. Seeing him main event was a dream come true. I loved his Halloween Havoc match v. Regal.

Bulldog would jump back to WWF and stay there till Montreal. I remember rooting for him to help shut up Owen and hopefully win a title. When he turned heel in 1995, there was no question. I still supported him and became a huge Jim Cornette mark because of it. From 1995-96 Bulldog main evented five PPVs- all of them were a financial disaster but I loved it and its one of my favourite parts of the WWF. I turned against HBK, I truly believed everything he did to Diana. Villainous homewrecker.

His tag team with Owen was just awesome since they were both great wrestlers and coaxed good matches out of everyone. They’re European Title match in 1997 was one of the MOTYs of 1997 and just showed you how awesome both guys were. The Hart Foundation angle of 1997 once again made Bulldog a main eventer and once again- I loved watching WWF TV knowing I’d get my weakly Bulldog fix.

After Montreal he jumped back to WCW and feuded with Mongo. I still marked out but I admit- this was a disaster. He should’ve stayed. After the Owen Hart thing, Vince wanted to look nice-nice and brought Davey Boy back and gave him a big main event push but the writing was on the wall- his career was on a downswing and since he admittedly sucked in the ring Vince sent him to rehab.

He came back one last time in 2000 and won the hardcore title from Crash. No one really cared and since he had personal demons to struggle with he didn’t last long. His last WWF match was against Eddie Guerrero.

I know he had his personal problems and wasn’t a saint but to me the Bulldog was just too awesome. I can’t watch him lose. One Night Only- I refuse to watch just because of the ending. Mr. Perfect is my second favourite and even I admitted he fucked up on the plane. But if this was the Bulldog- I would’ve made excuses- to me he is untouchable. He struggled with all his problems but sadly years of abuse caught up to him.

I’d like to think right now in heaven the Hart Foundation is being reformed and Davey Boy is taking on Owen in ***** matches. I will always miss him and when I look at my old tapes a smile will always come to me hearing Hail Brittiania.

Rest in Peace Davey Boy Smith- I will still always aspire to be like you.