What Book Are You Currently Reading ?

[El Kabong]

I'm reading 'Pure Dynamite' which is an autobiography of Tom Billington 'The Dynamite Kid' who was a great wrestler in the 1980's. It's interesting reading more so in that you get the back story, the behind the scenes dirt...it's not a cerebral read, but come on it was never going to be. Tom Billington was supposed to be one of the biggest assholes in all of wrestling, but so far (and I'm early on in the book) everything he's done seems understandable to a certain extent. He's pulled some tough pranks but mostly in retaliation, and he's only had fights or arguments with people who owed him money, reneged on promises, or attempted to ride his coattails. Apparently his cousin Davey Boy Smith was the bigger asshole in that he was big time riding on the coattails and he was very unappreciative of that too.

Dynamite was one of my favorite wrestlers when I was growing up as well which is why I'm reading the book a tiny bit of nostalgia for myself.

I watched him as a kid on TV, did you watch British wrestling too?

I did not get that opportunity, but I enjoyed a lot of British wrestlers when they wrestled for WWF/WWE or WCW or MidSouth or NWA or WCCW. I can check out a lot of the older matches on YouTube though from the territories I hadn't seen before Stampede out of Calgary, Portland Wrestling, etc but the best of the best is the stuff from Japan in the 1980's.

William Regal, Fit Finlay, Lord Alfred Hayes, Dave Taylor, Chris Adams, and hell I just saw Rockstar Spud at an event the other week, funny little guy.