Dynamite and Davey

I’ll admit, I approached this expecting a standard wrestling hagiography, all cape flourishes and kayfabe—but Bell’s account is far grittier than that. His narration sells the contrast between the Bulldogs’ early working-class grind and their later global stardom, especially in the chapters covering Davey Boy Smith’s WWE reign. The pacing never drags, even through the dense technical wrestling history, thanks to Bell’s knack for turning a match breakdown into a cinematic play-by-play. That said, the audio does stumble slightly in the mid-book section on legal drama; the legalese gets murky, and the performance loses a bit of its punch when Bell’s forced to read dense court transcripts instead of trading wrestling jabs with the mic. What stuck with me most was Bell’s unflinching look at the human cost behind the spectacle. The chapter on Davey Boy’s final years—his health crumbling, his relationships frayed—is heartbreaking not because it’s sensationalized, but because it feels like a truth most wrestling bios gloss over. The audiobook’s real strength is how it frames their lives as a case study in obsession: the kind of obsession that builds empires but also burns them to the ground. If you’re here for gossip or finishers, keep moving. If you care about the price of fame and the stories behind the spectacle, this hits like a chair shot to the chest.