Davey Boy Smith

Davey Boy Smith was one of those wrestlers who made you believe in the spectacle completely — a genuinely massive, legitimately skilled guy who could carry anyone through a match and make it look like a war. Growing up in Golborne and cutting his teeth in British wrestling as a teenager, he had the technical foundation that his WWF contemporaries often lacked, and it showed every time he locked up. That Wembley Stadium match against Bret Hart at SummerSlam 1992 is still a legitimate candidate for the greatest match in WWF history — 80,000 people going absolutely berserk for him, and he delivered. The British Bulldog character was goofy in the best way, but underneath the Union Jack trunks and the dog was a real wrestler's wrestler. Gone far too young at 39, and genuinely missed.

Name (English)

Davey Boy Smith

Name (Japanese)

デイビーボーイ・スミス

Reading

でいびーぼーい・すみす

Born

November 27, 1962 – May 18, 2002

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Tiger

Origin

Golborne, United Kingdom

Height

180 cm

Occupation

professional wrestler

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davey%20Boy%20Smith
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q452557

Tags

• professional wrestler

Last updated

2026-06-02

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