Last week, I read a borrowed copy of Pure Dynamite, the autobiography of "Dynamite Kid" Tom Billington.

The first thing I got from reading it was that he really wasn't a nice man. He came off as incredibly mean and brutal. Part of that can be attributed to the steroids, but you can't pin everything on it.

Davey Boy Smith comes across as a total git - but then, he is from everything I've heard, so that comes as no surprise.

Dynamite also seems to stay entirely in kayfabe; reading this book, you get the feeling that wrestlers do beat the crap out of each other often, and most of the older guard are mean drunks and thugs. Maybe they are, and we just didn't know it.