Jim Cornette Reviews A&E's Davey Boy Smith Biography
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2024
- From Episode 526 of the Jim Cornette Experience
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"I wasn't even there. It was Owen" - Davey Boy
"I wasn't even there!" is one of my favourite recurring utterances.
E wasn't even tha 💪🇬🇧
DAVEY BOY CHINLOCK
Gets me every time 😂
I always liked British Bulldog , Its kinda cool these couple words have been keeping his legacy around in 2024
Always applicable!
"They FOOKED him, they FOOKED Bret!" - Davey Boy Smith (Montreal ScrewJob)
"He fell flat on his fookin ass" (Shockmaster)
What's This All A-Boot, Aye?
😜
That's my Uncle Fred! - Cody Rhodes
Davey: "His arrrrrrsse, he fell on his fookin arrrsse"
Booker T: "Look at the size of him!!"
Sid: I TOLD YA!! I _told_ ya!
There are strongman spots that are legendary in pro wrestling history. A fully roidy McGoo-ed up Bulldog pulling his standing vertical suplex on Vader will always be impressive.
An O.S.W quote in the comments..you love to see it!
@@SpaceQuack Not really, it's sad how these morons became popular. They are the Meltzers of wrestling video 'reviews'.
Can of coke ti you 😊
Steeeeeeve! WHAT BAR is the British Bulldog?
@@InfiniCalendar A 4th of July box of Mike & Ike's
A&E in UK means “Accident & Emergency”, the US equivalent is ER (Emergency Room).
Davey and Owen both seemed like the best dudes to hang out with
"And then she died!" I really shouldn't have laughed at that.
The British Bulldog is gonna win, whether he wants to or not!
Kid was clearly reading the dirt sheets.
I watched summerslam 92 as a kid and laughing my ass off when that was said. Like WTF 😂
I’d like to take a second to thank Jim and crew for the outstanding content that just keeps coming at me full speed.
Old school wrestling in the UK was something special. I still have all my dad's VHS tapes from UK wrestling: Davie Boy Smith , Dynamite Kid, William Regal , Fit Finlay , Lord Alfred Hayes, Gentleman Chris Adams , Les Thornton , Billy Robinson , Terry Rudge, Jon Cortez , Adrian Street, and the Giant Haystacks Calhoun....shout out to the UK .🇬🇧
You gotta put them on dvd, this stuff is a treasure to be kept and transmitted
Wow! Sounds like you've got a serious VHS collection!!!
And a lot of them were actual deal deal catch wrestlers.
Giant Haystacks and Haystacks Calhoun are two different people. Calhoun was American.
When I was a kid, I watched Robbie Beookside at Butlins! It was great! Got my photo with him. In the women’s bout, the heel was Klondike Kate 👍🇬🇧
Davey's sister died from cancer, it was a brother of Teddy Hart that died by flesh eating bacteria.
For a man his size Davey had a damn good looking dropkick & he did those luchador moves like nobody's business
"Ah'm fooked! Ah'm fooked!"
"Becose I em bezarre!"
@MariuszMroczek-dd7ku I remember that, it was so random.
@marlondaniels7912 No, it was BEZARRE!😜
I heard Dynamite stopped talking to Davey because Davey trademarked The British Bulldog behind Dynamite's back. That factoid was conveniently left out assuming it's true.
Not sure it’s because he trademarked it, the WWF maybe did since they own everybody’s names lol. As far as I know it was just because he used the name for himself when he returned and he left dynamite.
Bret fell out with him too because he thought he betrayed Owen going back after his accident.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed the Hart family accent and the way they all sound exactly like each other
Great biography anyway
Love Davey tough life gone too soon damn
I noticed that with the Hart accent too, and I’m not sure if it’s Keith Hart, but he looks just like Owen, you look at him and your instantly reminded of Owen, you think “oh, that’s how Owen would look if he were alive today”.
Sounds more like Bruce. He was always blondish. Keith was more brunette.
@@paulmoneill
It would be Bruce then.
A local hero that Wigan seems to have forgotten. A childhood hero gone too soon.
Wigan of the Wigan Kebab fame? 🤤
It’s a disgrace!!
Theyve been trying to get a statue of him in his hometown town of Golborne for years. Just never happened
born and buried in golbourn. local hero
@wildwine6400 we need to get on to the council to try and get this done. be a nice touch to his memory
BOBBY HEENAN, WE LOVE THAT DOG!
When I was a young English lad and was still obsessed with wrestling, Davey was the first real wrestling hero we had who wasn't a massive fat guy 😂
"Because im bazaar " one of Daveys best promos 😂
I love Davey. My favorite part of Davey's game was when he really got goin' or when he was feeling a crowd, he'd do a front cartwheel with both hands, as you guys are saying, without even trying.
The thumbnail 😂😂😂
A friend of mine used to cut on Davey Boy's accent. "I beat Bret in front of 80 thoosand people!" And we went to the In Your House at Hershey Park Arena, where the main event was Bret Hart vs. Davey Boy for the World Title. It got a bit quiet during the match, and Bret gave Davey a backreaker or something, and my friend yells "OOCH!" ('ouch' in the Davey Boy accent), and our whole section started laughing!
Davey’s first WCW run was fun, especially his feuds with Vader & Regal. He def could’ve World Champ there at that time.
Saw Davey battle Vader twice in 1 night in Gainesville Georgia back in 1993 & they were some hard hitting slobberknockers.
Vader won the 1st match by count out & Davey won the 2nd by DQ. They battled again the next week with Davey getting the pin in Streetfight without the WCW Title on the line.
I wasn't even there!
glad Jim that in on this, had to do it
"Even there I wasn't, Owen it was" - British Yoda 😂
"Twisted by The Jam, young Skywalker has become."
Greatest chin lock of all time.
The dynamite kid stuff was rough
One hell of a talent yet not a nice man
@@ScottRen14
I respect Dynamite kid as a talent, for bringing Davey Boy to the states, and for influencing Owen Hart to get involved (as Owen was always 50/50 on it doing it).
But it’s really hard to like him as a human, he’s one of those sad cases.
At one point he had it all, fame, money, living his dream job, citizenship in North America (Canada), a Wife, he had the look, then he threw it all away.
He ended up living on a Council Estate (The Projects) in Britain, as a Wheelchair user, drugged up, out of shape, living on the state, and due to never being clean and sober, they had to use subtitles to understand, and deservedly so he had no wife.
I remember looking at him when he died, and thinking “I am better than him in every possible way”.
@@ScottRen14
I should point out, his lack of money, wheelchair, and drug use, is not something I will shame him for (Jake Roberts was once like that).
But the difference between Jake Roberts and Dynamite Kid, is Jake Roberts was a good man who fell on hard times, Dynamite Kid was a bad man who fell on hard times.
@@Mrs.Polizzi-Maloney I'm British so i loved DK as a child before Davey even teamed with him, when they did team i always wanted them to win, so it was disheartening finding out what kind of guy he actually was when i had grown up more, i was really disappointed, Davey was very loyal to him but i believe it was better for him to sever the ties
@@Mrs.Polizzi-MaloneyJake Roberts a good man?
Who sat by and did nothing while his father abused Robin growing up. Fuck Jake and everyone who sticks up for him.
We LOVED the British Bulldog in our house in the early 90s. Fabulous!! And we were all shit scared of Undertaker and Yokozuna 😂
World of Sport Wrestling was massive in the UK up until 1988 when it was pulled from TV. Theres loads of footage im sure of all them great days. In the UK wed get WWF matches every coupme of months too on ITV. Vividly temember obviously The Bulldogs,the Hart Foundation,killer Bees,Demolition. Loved it.
22:13
When I worked landscape and drove a big 454 I would keep the pizza on top of the engine all day to keep it warm.
Tasted a little funny though…
They don't say that another reason why Dynamite hates Davey. Davey trademarked "The British Bulldog" and prevented Dynamite from using it.
I'd been quite happy watching Big Daddy and Giany Haystacks bumping bellies on world of sport, but then ITV would cut to WWF footage toward the end of its run, and The British Bulldogs looked like they came from the future. It was a real trip seeing English people doing well in the USA. British wrestling did not last long on TV after that, and as much as it was superficial in certain respects, the Americans added so many little touches which created a superior form of entertainment.
I do remember that even before American wrestling was televised that British wrestling felt like entertainment from a bygone age, and arguably should have modernised itself well before the tsunami that was WWF Swept everything aside.
I always say that wrestling in that period took inspiration from fighting games you were beginning to see, the likes of Streetfighter 2, characters with a distinct persona and special moves, and as a 10 year old those things converged in a memorable manner.
'He's fallen flat on his fookin arse'
RIP British Bulldog
The funniest thing about that time was a lot of people in the UK not even realising that those mass monsters 'The British Bulldogs' were the same 'Dynamite Kid' that had been the skinny little lad that had tagged with Big Daddy years earlier and had ridden Tally Ho Kaye around the ring like a show pony in 'comedy spots' and that 'Davey Boy Smith' was the same skinny 'Young David' that had been tagging with 'Strongman' Allan Dennison! Despite their names it was only the third or fourth appearance that most people caught on who they 'really' were!
@SteveChiverton Their transformation was wild, at first I thought it was Americans playing the part of Brits based on how tanned and athletic they looked 😂
'You can't get a tan like that in England, lad'
Looking back, there was some foresight shown by WWF in seeing action movie stars like Arnie and Stallone and modifying wrestling to reflect that, obviously without hindsight that many lads pushed it too far when it was a bit of a wild west in getting juiced and whatnot.
Mr Hitman, I'm fooked.
I walk past the church where Davey Boy is buried on my way to work, local hero
The British Bulldogs are my favorite Tag Team of all-time. They were a hybrid team of (Power) Davey Boy & (Speed) Dynamite Kid. If it weren't for his drug problems, Davey should've been WWF Champion.
Davey Boy Smith the master of the chin locks 😂😂
Another thing left out was the story Bret has told about Davey and the Anvil doing hard drugs together the day before Summerslam 92 and pretty much because of it, Davey forgetting the match altogether while he and Bret were having it and Bret guiding him through it.
Does that make you feel better about yourself to have written that?
@@creativeartist83 Love Bret and re read his book plenty, but so fed up of hearing this story, and of Davey getting no credit at all for his greatest moment
@minechaftgamer288 so you're fed up of hearing it.. yet you mention it on here 🤔
@@creativeartist83it’s actually a pertinent part of the story. It would tell how destructive bulldog was the day before the biggest match of his career. Sorry snowflake but people take drugs and it’s not always third eye opening. Wake (woke) up!
@@minechaftgamer288what credit does he deserve for being so unprofessional? 🤷🏻♂️
I WASN’T EVEN THERE! IT WAS OWEN!
People always neglect to mention Davey at WM7........ His match v Warlord was a banger.
Im English Loved Bulldog but i was a Bret Mark.
WOS wrestling was regular lunch time viewing in our house when I was a kid. The first place I saw Dave 'Fit' Finley. He killed it as a heel!
According to Georgia, she said it was meant to be a 2 hour episode as they had recorded lots more footage and a lot was cut. Shes hoping that WWE will release that version or allow them to upload it to the British Bulldog YT channel
The Bulldog/Bret match is what convinced me that Bret Hart was better than Shawn Michaels; because as good as Michaels was, there's no way in hell he could've carried Davey Boy Smith to even a decent match, while Smith was higher than giraffe nuts.
Bret was better. Shawn oversold everything. Bret looked real 99% of the time.
Yes! Bret absolutely was better! Shawn is fantastic in ring, no doubt, but he's great in the way Flair is....but if you've seen 1 HBK match, you've got some pretty solid idea of what all HBK matches look like. Bret vs. Davey at SS92 and Bret's KOTR tournament and win-- totally different opponents, completely different matches-- are tangible proof of how amazing Bret was in ring. 🩷🖤🩷🖤
"Now everbody knows, the Grand Wizard there, Bret Hart ..." 🤣
@@JennaLeighBret Hart took it seriously in the best possible way, and like anything done right, it has aged so well.
'05 Shawn would've carried, '92 Shawn.. not so much, id give the Bret the edge, cuz that is one thing Bret could do, he could definitely carry ppl in matches.. hell he could carry YOU and put on a decent match and the only time you've ever wrestled is on 2k.. Shawn was great though, he just wasn't mature mentally back then to carry anybody
The Harts have a definite Western Canadian accent; SCTV used to play up some of the regional accents, especially when they were filming in Edmonton. Beyond that, most family members have similar voices and accents, not just the Harts.
I feel like this should have been a longer episode. There's so much they didn't touch on, and they could have had a lot more wrestlers comment or share stories (other than family members). I feel like they just focused on the bulldogs, then moved on to the Summerslam match with Brett and then it was on to the drug issues/decline. I wanted to hear from people who he worked with in that classic era as well as the start of the attitude era when the Hart Foundation were feuding with Austin, more about the DX feud, his partnership with Owen at a tag level. He was such a big character and I'm sure they all have stories about him which would be lovely memories to share with fans, but they left that out. Maybe it's bias because he's always been my favourite, I guess I was just left a bit disappointed and wanted to hear more about a superstar/legend who did a lot over 2 decades but doesn't gets talked about that much.
The thing I hate about these a and e shows is how they make wwe out to be saints and obvious wwe painting themselves out to be good.
Hbk refused to job to davey at one night only and was a prick. That was totally glossed over and they even had Hbk one there acting like he was his best friend.
There’s a lot of glossing over things to make there brand look good and you don’t get the real full unbias story with these shows
I agree, as the Vince McMahon one was awful.
As it basically told us everything we already knew, there wasn’t any newly filmed interviews for it, no unseen footage from the vault, no unseen baby pics, nothing.
It’s like as though someone went on TH-cam, downloaded as many clips as they could, used Wikipedia as a reference, and was like “Finished”, I expect this from a 16 year old who is doing it as a hobby, but not from a television production company.
@@Mrs.Polizzi-Maloney ya there wwe friendly for sure. Protecting there brand and names. Very bias.
The one night only 97 incident was really really bad. Bulldogs sister was dieing from cancer and he was suppose to win that match and dedicated it to his sister. And hbk refused and was a prick and somehow got his way and his victory. Bulldog was legit sad and torn up about this.
Having Shawn on this thing and try to act all nice and gloss over this incident made me sick.
I’m surprised hhh never inducted all his buddies again into the hall of fame this year.
DAVEY💥 BOY💥 SMITH💥💥 CHINLOCK!!💥💥💥💥
I started watching wrestling in 93, and Davey Boy was my first favorite wrestler
*BRET, I'M FOOKED*
I wish they told that story on the biography
The feud in stampede with davey was cut short because of a car accident with ross hart, jason the terrible and davey boy. Left him with a large scar on his forehead
I don't understand why some biographies are 2 hours and some are 1 hour? Also, Georgia is stunningly beautiful 😍😍😍
I attended Davey Boy’s second last match before he died. It was at a community centre in Winnipeg in front of approximately 200 people. Sadly you could tell he was struggling physically. RIP
As a Calgarian Brian I can say for certain that’s a Hart family accent. lol we don’t speak like them 😂
I loved the 94-96 Camp Cornette era.
We’ve been watching it back. Slammy Award-Winner Owen Hart was superb!!
@yelb9135 "Daveys got two belts but, I've got two Slammys!"
I miss Owen and Bulldog
Vader, Owen, Davey & Jim..... That's a sick crew..... Shame it landed in a downturn era.
The bulldogs 🐶. Were a top 5. Tagteam of all time. Right up there with the steiners roadwarriors. Hart foundation. Midnight express 👋✅
Excellent video
Davey Boy was great when he was motivated. Look at his matches with Bret & Owen, then you look at some of his worse matches.
He was a big kid, unfortunately he did have bad influences around him too which messed his career & life up in places & would wind up cutting his life short.
Good talent.
I remember Davey Boy Smith Vs Shawn Michaels on SNME for the IC title, another good match.
Wow, the Hart family was so numerous, they even got their own accent! 🤣
Only wrestler who could look like a million bucks wrestling in a pair of jeans 😂
I could openly weep if I think too long about the British Bulldogs/Midnight Express feud that could have been had the cards been dealt differently.
I don't know if it's still on TH-cam. But there's is a video of the British Bulldogs vs The Rock-N-Roll Express. It was good to watch.
Davey & Dynamite had some brutal chain & dog collar matches against each other when they went back to wrasslin in Canada...
Yeah i enjoyed this documentary. I got a little emotional because i love Bret Hart, and The Hart Family. The Hart Foundation, The Bulldogs. I Starting watching Wrestling in 1990, So by the time I started Davey Boy was already a Single, However Tape Trading, Plus my grandfather would Order PPV's and record The events on VHS. So as a kid I watched a lot of 80's Content from my grandfathers Personal Collection, Primarily WWF, NWA, WCW. I also remember watching some tapes in Spanish, and Japanese. The biggest bond my grandpa, and I had was Pro Wrestling. I'll never forget attending The Royal Rumble 1992, and WrestleMania 10 with my grandfather. I miss him very much.
The bulldog and Micheal bisping the UFC fighter sound very similar when they both speak. Probably because they're both from the greater Manchester area but had been in the states for a while so they kind of picked up the American twang to their voice a little as well lool but this was a really good short documentary but sad as well and it was a shame Davey boy passed away so young.
Can't wait to hear what he thinks of the next episode. The Roman Reigns one.
I wasnt even there !
A chef to craft your meals lol
The Mountie always gets his man! 👊
The way Diana STILL tries to get a payday from dbs after what she put in her book [ under the mat ] about him is sickening. If what she said was true, why would she want anything more to do with him or his legacy. There's pdf copies around - read even just the 1st paragraph and will see what I mean.
Bulldog did wrestle a few shows for ECW in early 93 before going to WCW
He had the best suplex execution
Davey had the best headlock in the business.
The trap door. Lmao.
davey was born and is buried up the road from where I live. proper northen English accent. none of this posh shite like people think we speak 😂
In Golborne?
@Millwall77 yes he's in St Catherine, all saints cemetery
When they come back to stampede crowd was a bit better they showed up walking thru the waiting crowd LATE 1,800 seater auditorium 450 attendees
I met Diana a few times in the 90’s….holy moly she was gorgeous.
You can't put into words what Bulldog was to me as a kid. I don't think Vince knew what he had with Davey ❤
Surprised Jim glossed over his great matches in 1993 with William Regal in WCW.
Come for the professional's opinions on professional wrestling, stay for the off the rail advertisements.
I watched this, great documentary.
Can't remember if it was Hart or Davey, but, one of em broke the other ones nose in a house show match right before the Wembley Summerslam match to get em ready to go into the Wembley match.. 🤔
One of the few wrestlers that Vince pushed even though he wasn't to tallest
Davey would have been a good world champion
It would have been an uphill battle because he was not that good on promos.
Jim cornette, the master of the promo
It wasn’t me! It was Owen! I wasn’t even there!
The editorial control they give some of these families really showed on this one. They really made it seem like he was on the brink of reconciliation with Diana, but isn't it known he was shacked up with Bruce's ex for quite some time before he passed away? Like a year, and she told people they were going to get married.
I've thought about why the Hart's accent is so hard to place. I'm far from Canadian so bear with me. I believe it was a hard mix of Stu's personal, thick Canadian accent mixed with Helen's thick Long Island accent. So you get those distinct sounding "not so Canadian, but REALLY Canadian" accent. Anyway.
The footage of Davey vs Mongo,I said the same thing! That botch was totally on Mongo as he literally didnt go up for the slam,David had to do it on his own . Wrestling without the cooperation just looks brutal 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
What’s Corny doing to Davey Boy here lol he looks like he’s about to MANAGE something 😂
Reference to Davey carrying Dynamite to the ring...
Corny just looks at what Davey is doing with Sunny.
'What's that poking in me back ya fooker'
What’s the origin of “I wasn’t even there?” They must say it once an episode.
I loved the british bulldog a & e episode davy boy was an addict sadly.
The flag I I;the back ground is not englands flag it’s the united kingdoms flag scotlands englands wales flag minus the red dragon. Shame it would look cool
This felt like a dark side episode
Davey kept telling everyone that he had an infection or something in his spinal column, but, nobody listened until it was too late as he'd become addicted to painkillers for it after the trap door incident. He really did have a slow killing infection in his spine that wouldn't heal... 🤔
Corny At TheEnd *Exposes* HimSelf as *NEVER* Eating a "Veggie-Burger" or "Chicken-Panini" in His Life.😜
Astonished, great word. Not used enough.