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[cameras shutter]

- I've got a lot of pressure on me on August 29th.

Cameraman: Look at this one.

- But, the British Bulldog is coming to Wembley Stadium,

and I'm not coming to Wembley Stadium to lose.

- "The Hitman" Bret Hart.

The British Bulldog, Davey Boy Smith...

About to collide here!

- I was the sister who was torn

between her brother and her husband.

- It's one of my greatest matches of my career for sure.

- One of the greatest wrestling matches of all-time!

- Davey Boy Smith was incredibly popular in the UK.

He was arguably as big as Hulk Hogan was in the United States.

- This man has done so much for England.

He's exported his talents here to the United States of America.

- Just seeing that representation,

seeing the Bulldog,

seeing the Union Jack flying every single week,

I can assure you, watching that as a kid inspired me.

- He was unbelievably talented without even trying.

- Pound for pound and perhaps no one

who is as strong as the British Bulldog.

- There is no bull in this British Bulldog.

- I think it's fair to say that Davey had issues.

And some of those issues got in the way of his performance.

- He had developed quite a serious problem

that nobody understood.

He just went into a really, really dark place.

It's amazing how fast this happened.

- Put that camera down.

- I remember seeing him throw up,

and seeing like seven Percocets in his throw up.

- Everyone around me thought,

"This guy's got a drug problem,"

and I did have a drug problem.

I couldn't get off the morphine.

- I remember seeing him night after night

fall down the stairs and not know if he's alive.

- The British Bulldog brings them to their feet.

- Look at that.

- I just wanted to show everyone out there

that despite what I've gone through,

and what I've lost, that I can do a comeback

and that I think as long as I'm breathing,

as long as I can walk,

I will put my boots and I'll get back in the ring

and perform like I've never performed before.

- I remember watching Flintstones and the Jetsons

you know I see the dad with the briefcase, and the suit on,

and have his breakfast and go out the door.

Our dad wasn't like that.

- No.

Well, in a different way.

- He had the suitcase.

- Yes, he had the suitcase--

- He had his Halliburton--

- Yes, he had, though it didn't have files or paperwork,

it had all his gear in there.

- A lot of people and kids didn't believe us.

- They didn't believe us and then they'd see our

dad pick us up like, "Oh, my God."

Next thing you know there would be a line up

and a swarm of kids wanting autographs.

- Your dad was one of the greatest.

- I know.

- He was, in my opinion, the greatest British wrestler

to ever step foot in the WWE ring.

- I feel like my dad put England on the map for wrestling.

- I started amateur wrestling when I was about 11, 12.

My cousin, the Dynamite Kid, who was a professional

wrestler at the time, he was the best pound

for pound wrestler in the world, and he was the greatest.

I looked up to him like he was a god.

Took me over to the training camp.

I went there and I did not like it.

I said, "This is not my cup of tea at all."

As time went along, I started to like it.

Then I had my first professional match when I was 15,

so I was the youngest professional wrestler

ever to turn pro at the age of 15.

Announcer: He's still at school, ladies and gentleman,

and Britain's youngest wrestler, Dave Boy Smith at 15 years old.

[applause]

- I got to see him live quite a lot because I used

to go to the wrestling shows every two weeks.

Straight away Davey Boy had an incredible skill level.

He went the same way as Dynamite and disappeared to Calgary.

- My cousin, the Dynamite Kid, he went over to Calgary, Canada.

Announcer: The Dynamite Kid, a sensation from England.

- He said to the promotor, I've got a cousin in England

who I think you should bring over, and give him a break,

and see if he can join the ranks of Stampede Wrestling."

Wow, here I am.

I'm 17, I'm going to leave England

and go over to another country, Canada.

When I got here it was like, "Wow, these big, huge men,

monsters in the dressing room looking at me like,

"Who's this young punk?"

- I met Davey I think in spring of 1981, I believe,

and he was working for my dad.

Announcer: Oh, this Smith is

going to be a favorite around here.

- He was very much like a little kid still,

and he was living with Dynamite, which was not good for him.

- They were like brothers, but he did have a nasty side.

- He often did lousy things to Davey

and more for his own amusement.

- He would give Davey a cup of hot chocolate,

but it was in that cup of hot chocolate there

was a melted box of ex-lax.

- He's going, "I don't feel very good,"

and Dynamite would tell him, "Have some more hot chocolate,

it'll make you feel better."

- His older cousin, who he looked up to,

he was so naive towards him.

- But Dynamite was always a huge influence on Davey,

right from day one.

Whether it was steroids, or whether it was pills,

and Dynamite wasn't a guy that always

had the best of intentions for Davey.

At the same time, he would've told you back then that Dynamite

was his best friend, and best guy, like a brother to him.

I called up Dynamite and I said--

I just made up a story that my dad didn't want him

staying at his house,

that he was more comfortable with Davey staying at my house.

I think that saved Davey right there.

- Bret took me under his wing, took me like one of his brothers

and he took care of me.

He really did.

- He was starting to become happier,

and he's starting to fit in.

I think my sister, Diana, put her hooks into him pretty quick.

They started a relationship maybe two or three weeks

after he got there.

- Davey came up and walked through the front

doors of my dad's house.

My sister Diana said, "This is the person I'm going to marry."

She literally said that while we were eating,

she saw him and he was cute.

- It's burned in my mind to this day.

I knew there was something special about him.

Then we started to court, as he put it,

behind the scenes because we knew the rules.

I wasn't supposed to be dating a wrestler,

and he wasn't supposed to be dating the promoter's daughter,

and we both knew this and we still carried on.

When love happens or when that arrow shoots

you through your heart, nothing can stop it.

- I'll have the groom repeat.

I, David, take you, Diana.

- I, David, take you, Diana.

- To be my lawful wedded wife.

- To be my lawful wedded wife.

I'd like to thank Stu and Helen.

- We want a rematch.

[laughter]

- I'd like to thank Stu and Helen for bringing up

such a beautiful, beautiful girl.

I'm very touched that she married me.

- It was like this huge celebration.

- [Indistinct]

We had hundreds of people from all over the world.

There was newspapers from Japan because Davey and Dynamite were

superstars over there.

- In the Calgary territory, they went against

each other all the time.

I remember I was going to Japan a lot in those days

with Dynamite, and Dynamite was becoming

this phenomenon in Japan, he was huge.

One of the biggest stars they ever had over there.

Dynamite wasn't interested in booking him for a long time,

and he used to go, "He's not ready yet."

They'd known each other all their lives,

but I think there was always tinge of jealousy towards

Davey for just being less uptight than Dynamite was.

Dynamite always was a guy that had a chip on his shoulder.

Dynamite eventually put in a word for him,

"Why don't you bring my cousin in?"

They started teaming up in matches as the British Bulldogs.

Dynamite and Davey both became huge stars

over there during that time.

It was right around the time I started in WWE.

I kept getting approached by George Scott,

who's Vince's right-hand guy in the booking committee,

and he kept saying,

"We want the Bulldogs. Vince wants the Bulldogs."

Announcer: What a tremendous tag team combination,

the British Bulldogs,

Davey Boy Smith and the Dynamite Kid.

- Now, I can say that the Bulldogs in those days-

- Over goes Davey Boy.

- -in 1985-

- Look at that nip up, and nice reversal.

- -were doing things that most tag teams could never do.

- Oh my.

- They were big stars.

They did different things, like the A-Team.

They started getting commercials, endorsements.

- The people at Hostess were really clever to pick us,

the British Bulldogs, as the spokesmen.

When you've got the munches.

- Nothing else will do.

- The Bulldogs were one of a kind.

There was never a team like them,

and there may never be another team like them ever.

Really until Dynamite got hurt.

Dynamite was at the end of his rope.

He wanted to take time off and he wanted to go home.

He couldn't keep on going the way he was.

His back was starting to become a problem,

but I think they thought we'll be home,

we'll help my dad, help Stu out,

we'll make our big money in Japan and we'll be good.

We don't need WWE anymore.

I think Davey was reluctant to leave WWE in the first place,

but he did so out of loyalty to Dynamite.

- I do remember disagreeing with Davey on that.

Davey and I had a huge mortgage.

We were at risk of losing that.

We had a family and then baby Georgia came along,

but Davey out of loyalty stuck with Dynamite.

- The British Bulldogs are coming back to Calgary

where we started from and we're going to come back

with the biggest bang that you've ever seen.

♪

- Davey and Dynamite were wrestling for my dad

but the territory was not doing well.

It was really struggling.

It was just not a good time in Alberta,

and Dynamite's back started to deteriorate.

When Davey told Dynamite that, "I want to go back to WWE."

Dynamite did not want to go, and he said you

won't make it without me.

Davey said, "Well, I have to.

I need to feed my family.

Dynamite said, "Well, if you go you won't make it on your own."

When Davey went back to the WWE it was

like a divorce with Dynamite and it hurt Davey a lot

that Dynamite never talked to him again.

I knew that Davey had something to prove to Dynamite that he

could do this on his own.

I said we need to give you a whole new image,

a whole new look.

I said, "What about these braids?"

No one had seen Davey in quite a while.

He was really big and he looked so magnificent.

- I think Davey definitely came back and was ready to shine.

[Davey Boy Smith's music plays]

- Davey Boy Smith back in the World Wrestling --.

- I think it was good timing.

A year prior to Davey coming back we began working with

Sky Sports in the United Kingdom.

- When we did first get Sky that's when

I noticed Davey's popularity rising.

I used to just sit there and say

"Mom, our David's on telly. Come out quick."

- You can bet that everyone from all over

the world principally the UK.

They are psyched to see the British Bulldog in action.

- Once the Brits had their own hero,

I think that really spurred the British fandom

on to a whole new level.

- I thought, "Man, I want to be like the Bulldog."

- Over there he was the number one dude.

- Monstrous standing ovation

and rightly so for the British Bulldog.

- He was selling tickets.

When we'd make the announcement he was coming in,

the roar that he would get, it was goosebumps.

- There was nobody who made more of an impact on Britain as

far as being a wrestler than Davey Boy Smith.

There was never anybody who got the coverage

that Davey Boy got in 1992

- The news is official.

One of the biggest events in World Wrestling -- history,

international in scope

will be held here at Wembley Stadium.

- It was massive news.

Everybody was talking about it.

- This summer London plays host to the toughest,

the most flamboyant sports event there is.

The World Wrestling -- SummerSlam is staged at

Wembley Stadium in August.

The first time it's been held outside America.

- I talked to Vince, "Let me work with Davey Boy,

that would be the guy."

He was in his prime and I was in my prime and

I knew I was really over in England.

We love Bret Hart, but we love the Bulldog.

Which one will win?

- All of a sudden, it's Bret against Davey because Davey's

the homeboy and Bret was the Intercontinental Champion.

We're going to put them together,

and not only that,

we're going to have them be the main event.

This was so exciting.

The pressure was on and the stress.

Davey was so excited,

but a few weeks later he wrestles Mike Sharpe and

he does a powerslam and something happens in his knee.

He didn't think much of it, but it burned and hurt like crazy.

- Actually, when he came back to Tampa,

Jim picked him up at the airport and he was sick as hell.

He stayed at my house for a few days just laid on the couch.

Jim got a friend, Doctor Price, to take a look at him and Doug

got him in to see the doctor.

He had the staph infection that was horrible

- I was rushed back to the doctors

and he drew like 30 CCs of this infection of my knee.

He said you got a flesh-eating disease.

I'd come so close to losing

my leg and or even dying, basically.

It was really scary.

- I thought, "How is he going to do this match?"

Nearly five years old wondering that.

- We got to England and he was taking antibiotics,

pretty strong ones three times a day

and I was just so nervous that nothing can go wrong.

[fans cheer]

- The British Bulldog's going to win whether he wants to or not.

[crowd chants "Bulldog"]

- As I remember, we drove up that day

to Wembley and you could see lines of cars weaving there

round and round to the stadium.

You got a sense of the grandeur and the size of what this is.

Once you walked inside the stadium,

I think I was about row 50.

It was dramatic.

[crowd cheers]

- Over 80,000 fans welcome you to the grandeur of SummerSlam.

- Well, you can certainly feel the nervous tension amongst

this crowd of 80,000 plus as we await the battle for the

Intercontinental Championship.

♪

- I had seen Davey and Bret wrestle each other in Calgary.

I knew what they were capable of,

but there was a lot of anxiety certainly on my part.

I was just so concerned that Davey's

going to blow out his knee.

- Here we go.

- If you didn't know Davey had all the problems that he had,

you'd never think about it when you watch that match back.

It was a great match.

It's one of my greatest matches of my career for sure.

- Right back at him.

Leapfrog by the British Bulldog, trying to hook him.

Yes, nice maneuver.

Bret Hart down.

Look at this.

My goodness.

- Ever since that day, it has been my favorite

wrestling match in history.

To see them two go out and into the ring and execute

a match that was almost flawless speaks to the in-ring

proficiency of the two guys.

- Six, seven, eight.

Whoa.

What a suplex.

From the top rope.

I think we've seen just about every wrestling

move there is to see thus far.

Oh, yes the sharpshooter applied

It's all over.

- Nobody's ever gotten out of this.

- Imagine the pain the British Bulldog is in.

Oh, God.

Yes and yes, he saves himself.

Sunset flip.

[crowd cheers]

[bell rings]

- As soon as Davey pins him and gets the three,

everybody just shoots up.

Everybody shoots up and I've never seen anything like that.

- If you watch that back now and you watch that finish,

that one, two, three.

Boom.

It's like there's an electric shock in the chair of

everybody in the stadium.

Everybody is on their feet when he finally wins the title.

♪

- When I think it was Howard Finkel who finally

made the announcement.

- The winner of this bout and new Intercontinental Champion,

The British Bulldog.

- It was just--

I'm still feeling the goosebumps right now.

- I can't believe it.

One of the greatest wrestling matches of all time

has just taken place.

- It was one of the greatest experiences of my life.

- He did it in his own backyard.

- It was really such an incredible--

I have never really come back down to earth from that.

I have never really come back down to earth from that.

- It was really, maybe, five, six weeks after the match

at Wembley that his career came to a dead stop again.

- SummerSlam '92 was one of my favorite experiences in my life.

It was just unforgettable,

but a couple of months after SummerSlam Davey left.

- I remember Vince called me on the phone,

and Vince said, "I just wanted to let you know first

that we're probably going to have to let Davey go."

He was getting growth hormone through some dealer, in England.

It was I think just poor choices.

- That was hard for us because we were still on this high from

being at SummerSlam.

Davey went onto WCW, but he just missed everybody.

He just wanted to be with his family,

literally, with Bret and Owen,

and my brother-in-law Jim Neidhart also.

He went back again, in '94.

- When he came back, he was no longer on any enhancement drugs,

and he looked great, he worked great.

He got cleaned up, and that was the real

Davey for a while there.

I think Davey was happy times for him.

I think for all of us, it was a happy time.

The Hart Foundation stands united.

It was a good time in the world,

and we were happy were, to be where we

and we were all doing pretty well for ourselves.

I think Davey was in a good place.

The life on the road, being around me and Owen,

it was fun for him.

- I'll drive.

- You'll drive?

- You'll kill him.

[Yelling]

[Laughs]

- More?

- Really, it was a great memory when I think back on it.

- Only on Monday Night Raw.

The British Bulldog catches a shark.

Yes, 25 feet.

[laughter]

- That's it.

- The guy that I saw was a dude who just wanted

to have a good match and then have fun.

- Did Davey Boy Smith like to have fun?

I think that's an understatement.

Davey Boy Smith was the fun.

- At the Fatal Four.

No, I wasn't supposed to say it, you were supposed to.

I was supposed to at Ground Zero.

- I think he had the most fun with my brother, Owen.

They were tag teaming and just having a blast.

- Something for Larry Rosen here.

- You can't get higher than this,

and we're at the top of Cape Town.

[chuckles]

- Don't worry about him.

- He's always smiling.

You never really seen Davey in a bad mood.

Such a funny guy.

- He was just like a big kid.

He was like everybody's best friend.

He was so funny,

he was like the uncle that was so light-hearted,

and he just wanted to have fun.

- All right.

Yeaaahhh.

- My dad and I were really, really close.

We had a really big connection and a strong bond.

- There's me in action.

- Good, Georgia.

- He was my best friend.

- Georgia is me, operating me.

- My dad was hilarious.

Look, you made me laugh, stop it.

My mom was more of the disciplinary, the strict parent.

My dad was just always like fun.

- We used to go jet skiing, swimming.

He was super strong.

He could pick me up, press slam me into the pool.

It was always fun traveling with Davey.

It was cool because I got to go down and see him wrestle live.

- The atmosphere is absolutely off the page.

- Being there, live, at the Canadian Stampede, aside from

Wembley Stadium, that's my favorite wrestling moment.

- This was like the pinnacle, maybe the greatest moment of

triumph to come back to our hometown.

It was like a magical time.

- There's a celebration for the entire Hart family

and the Hart Foundation.

- It was like the pinnacle of success,

and then right after that,

it was like everything just went completely in the

opposite direction like a train going out of control.

[crowd cheers]

- It was like a magical time.

Everybody was so happy to be in Calgary.

We were the heroes at home.

Maybe the peak of our career.

It probably was considering all the bad stuff that would happen

down the road in the next year or two.

After that, the screw job happened.

After I signed with the other company,

Vince called me the next day and said,

'Well, we're going to do that thing where you

drop the belt to Shawn, "and I said,

"Well, I've already told you that's not going to happen."

I said, "I offered to drop the belt to him, and he told me

basically to go to hell.

I will never do that for him if he would never do that for me."

Vince finally, the day of the show, said,

"We'll do it your way,"

but what he actually did was set me up and

went out there and screwed me in the middle of the ring.

Referee: Ring the bell.

Ring the bell.

[bell rings]

- Well, then I walked down to the ring and I asked Bret,

I said, "What went wrong?"

Bret said, "I've been screwed."

I just went home, and I was thinking about things.

There was no intention of me leaving the WWE.

I got a good career in the WWE, I was European Champion,

I was Tag Team Champion with Owen,

I was on top of the world,

I just wanted to make a stand because it was family.

- I feel again like what he did with Dynamite,

he just said, "I feel like I have to stick with Bret on this,

and I need to go join Bret."

- I don't want to be fallacious and blame everything on the

Montréal screw job, but I think that

that was a big reason for why everything happened.

Davey was having his issues at the time.

- I think Davey had got to where he was addicted to his drugs.

It was one of those things, it was a prescription drug,

downers, and pain pills, and muscle relaxers,

and that kind of stuff.

- Well, so I think that's probably one of the reasons

we hung out.

Some of the times, he would follow us to the car

because we were sort of like-minded in that respect.

Look, at the time, it was our normal.

I think all of us start from the pain aspect of it,

and then it just becomes what you do.

- Four tears in my right knee.

I need surgery.

Right now, I need surgery on it, but I put a knee brace on to use

as kind of like a crutch, to keep myself going and

in the wrestling business.

Along with my back, I've got two herniated disks in my back,

and I've got a neck that's totally ruined.

- It was catching up to him, but it wasn't pressure from the

industry as much as he was comparing what he was that day

of Wembley Stadium, SummerSlam '92,

and when you're starting to get broken down,

"How can I be what I was?"

It's like, "I'll take pain killers,

and that'll get me through,

but it became a nightmare that revisited Davey

a couple of times.

Well, more than a couple of times.

Unfortunately, it became a problem.

- What are you doing?

- Just filming you so you know what you look like when you're

like the way you are.

- Davey had left WWE.

He's quit and he's going to WCW, and he's already

having drug issues.

- I think it's fair and still respectful to say that Davey

wasn't at his best when he came back.

Davey had issues, and some of those issues got

in the way of his performance.

Referee: One, two, three.

[bell rings]

- The biggest issue that I had to deal with,

when it came to drug abuse in WCW,

wasn't the illegal drugs.

It wasn't cocaine, it wasn't heroin.

it wasn't even pot,

it was prescription drugs.

You get to a point when you've got an independent contractor

who has a doctor's prescription.

How much influence can you possibly have over that

individual and what he or she decides to take,

from their doctor?

The abuse was obvious, but most of the guys

had scripts for the drugs that they were abusing.

- You could see that he was deteriorating a bit,

as a performer, he was getting a lot of injuries

Then, I remember at Fall Brawl in 1998.

- That was the first match, I was a tag team

match with Jim Neidhart,

and I didn't know there was a trap door.

I went in the ring, I hit my back.

I was like, "Oh, my God.

I felt my life go out of me.

I almost messed myself to tell you the truth."

I came back to the dressing room,

and I said, "That ring is really hard.

There's something wrong with it."

They said, "Well, you get to watch out for the trap door.

I asked what trap door

and I thought they were joking with me.

I stayed around for the rest of the night and

then out pops the Ultimate Warrior through this trap door.

It was such a secret that the Ultimate Warrior was there

that no one knew that there was someone coming

out of the trap door.

That's when it all started.

♪

I endured it for a couple of weeks

and then I went to the doctor

and they put me on painkillers

and then they weren't working.

Then they put me on morphine

because I wanted to keep working.

Everyone around me thought this guy has a drug problem.

Everyone around me thought this guy has a drug problem.

The British Bulldog has been in wrestling for 20 years

since I was 15 years old.

Alex Wright, do you think you can beat the British Bulldog?

You're wrong.

You want a chance at me?

Come on and take a piece of me.

I did have a drug problem.

I couldn't get off the morphine.

- When he got addicted to the morphine,

it happened quickly, and it was to compensate

for this excruciating pain in his back.

Then his sister Tracy died.

She was his sister that walked him down

to the ring a year before.

She died of cancer.

I think that he was using morphine

to help him to cope with that.

Davey just seemed to be lifeless, like a vegetable.

You're hooked on pills.

Every night you're like this.

Every single night that I am with you you're like this.

You really worry me.

- I checked into a rehab in Grande Prairie and

I went into a 28-day program to clean my system out.

Two days after getting to rehab I get a call from my sister that

you better come home, your mom's sick.

I flew out Thursday, got there Friday, my mom died Saturday.

We buried her, but I'm carrying

her casket as a pallbearer, I almost fall on the floor.

My back gave in, but I got back to Calgary again

and did extensive tests on my back

and they said you got a fractured spine

and you got a staph infection that's eating your spine away.

They're scared I'm going to get one of my nerves inside

the little split there and if it closes it'll snap my nerves

and I'll be a paraplegic.

I asked the doctor today, I asked the specialist,

I said what about wrestling

and he said absolutely not.

All I know and all I've ever done all my life.

Now, all of a sudden, I've got to find a new job

and then Diana came to the hospital

and gave me a Federal Express envelope.

I said, "What is it?"

She said, "Read it."

It was my termination from WCW.

- "I don't know what I'm going to do now.

My back's done, we're running out of money."

You think it's never going to happen.

Owen came by a lot to cheer him up and that's when Owen put the

phone in Davey's room and Owen said, "I'm really happy.

Love to have you come back and maybe we can do something.

I don't know, you can be a manager or something.

I'm going to get you and Vince talking."

- He was the first person to call me.

He said, "How's it going?"

I said, "I'm doing all right."

He said, "Is there any chance you'll ever come back?"

I said, "I don't know."

I said, "Right now it doesn't look too good."

He said, "Well, if there is, I would like you to come back

to finish your career here in the World Wrestling --."

- Vince McMahon welcomed Davey back

and no one was really sure in what capacity

because he's still in the hospital.

It was like 10 days later Owen died.

- My phone rang and all I heard was Diana

screaming on the phone, "He's dead.

He's dead."

Owen was one of a kind.

One of my best friends in the business inside

and outside of the ring.

- To lose Owen and you start to question your longevity

in professional wrestling.

He was just determined to get back in the ring, though.

He was determined and he fought hard for that.

- My son has been a big help to me.

We trained together.

He told me he said, "Daddy, I don't want to see you quit."

He said, "You're too young.

You're too good to quit."

He said, " You've got to get back in the ring again."

I said, "I'll do it, Harry."

- He was motivated to go back to WWE

and work back in September of '99.

Michael Cole: The British Bulldog is back.

Jerry Lawler: I can't believe it.

It was the last man I expected.

I thought he was in a hospital bed somewhere.

- He had all that bad stuff happen to him and I thought,

"This is finally our time to enjoy this.

This is going to be a good run for you

and this is going to be your last run

so you're going to make it count.

You're going to become World Champion."

Jerry Lawler: Well, he just proved

there's a lot of fight in that Dog.

- I always knew that.

- He was still giving it his all in that first

and then he just started slipping again.

- WWE had put Davey in a rehab and

he checked himself out and came home.

I was like, "You can't be home, Davey.

You need to be in the rehab."

He's like, "No."

We started fighting so I said, "Well, I'm leaving."

I honest to God thought that me leaving that

that was going to shake him up to say

I'm going to get my act together, but he didn't.

I'm going to get my act together, but he didn't.

- It was getting bad, and I remember seeing him

throw up and seeing seven Percocets in his throw-up.

I remember seeing him night after night fall down the stairs

and not know if he's alive.

Him falling on his head.

This was happening a lot.

Him and my mom weren't getting along and they were divorced.

- I don't know if it's just me, but I think a part of all of us

where could justify it to a degree of like,

"Well, he is in pain.

This is why he is taking these pills

because he has to."

- I didn't really have any contact with him for months.

I was just disappointed because I felt like

he chose that life over us.

Then I think he was coming away from that and was like,

"This is not what I want."

- I honestly think that he just had hit rock bottom.

He really, really had.

I don't even know where he was living.

He didn't have a car

and he just didn't have any roots anymore.

He was coming back.

He was really, really trying to work things out with me

and with Harry and Georgia.

- I had started to hear and believe

that he was getting his act together.

I know Harry was a big sort of light in his life

and gave him hope.

- He was promoting that he was going to come back to wrestling

and he was excited.

Sort of said

that he had fallen off the face of the earth for while,

but he was looking to come back and work with me

Announcer: The spectacular Davey Boy Smith,

The British Bulldog.

[crowd cheers]

- It was cool to be with Davey.

He seemed to be in good spirits.

I think that he was happy to be back wrestling.

It was good experience that he was out with me.

We were traveling a bit.

- For anybody that was sort of a witness to it

or who were around

it thought that that was a really meaningful and

positive thing for Davey that gave him some hope

and gave him something to look forward to.

[bell rings]

- They had done a match with Harry in Winnipeg,

and they had come up for Sunday dinner.

Everybody was like, "Davey's back."

We're all sitting at the dinner table with him

and he had this huge sigh of relief

that he was back where he belonged.

Then it was like literally a week later

that I got the phone call.

♪

- Tributes are being paid today to the

World Wrestling superstar Davey Boy Smith

who died suddenly at the weekend.

- They just said that he died from heart failure.

It's just hard to accept it.

I know he's gone.

It's just hard to accept that.

I just want us all to remember

that there was more to Davey than trouble

and the problems that he had

in the last few years.

I know Harry and Georgia will remember him as a good father.

- I miss him so much.

To me, he was my best friend.

I'm so mad at God for taking him away,

but I know they needed him there

I just wish that I had had more time with him.

- It was a shock to me.

I think I've always felt that I wished I could have done more.

- There was just so much unfinished business

that was so close to being done but wasn't.

It was a really rotten way everything unfolded.

It just wasn't meant to be.

Harry and Georgia picked up the pieces.

I think Davey would be so proud of them

if he saw how devoted they are.

- I feel honored to be able to carry on my father's legacy.

- The resemblance is eerie, isn't it?

- Davey's legacy now continues on

with to be inducted in the Hall of Fame.

- The British Bulldog.

- I wish Davey was here

because this would have meant so much to him.

The star that shines the brightest

is the star that burns out the fastest.

He left us a little soon but what a legacy.

Announcer: England's favorite son

The British Bulldog.

- There's nobody more famous in Britain

as a wrestler than Davey Boy Smith,

never has been and then there never will be.

- Personally, he was a guy that just enjoyed himself,

was always pleasant to be around always in a good mood.

- A lot of good memories.

He was a fun guy, fun dad.

- He was truly loved by everybody.

That says a lot about Davey, how many people loved him

and really appreciated him.

- He was a really good dad.

No matter what, I feel like he's always with me.

- He'd give you the last pound in his pocket

just to put a smile on that person's face.

- Mom, dad, Tracy, Joanne, I love you.

I love England.

- He put his heart, his body, his mind, his emotions.

It was all because he loved what he did.