The son of wrestling legend The British Bulldog has revealed how he used his grappling skills to pull a ‘crying girl’ away from the edge of a bridge.
Harry Smith – son of WWE stalwart Davey Boy Smith – stopped his car and helped save the woman by dragging her back over a safety barrier.
Smith, 32, pinned the girl to the floor after she claimed to have a gun, telling her: ‘I’m an expert grappler and [you’re] not going to shoot me. I’m here to help you.’
Writing about the incident on Facebook, Smith revealed that the incident occurred on a bridge in Calgary, Canada.
Harry Smith – son of WWE stalwart Davey Boy Smith – stopped his car and helped save the woman by dragging her back over a safety barrier and pinning her to the floor
He wrote: ‘I saved a life today and I am grateful I was able to do so.
‘When driving up 16th Avenue past Bowness Road in Calgary I saw a girl crying and hanging off the bridge with someone trying to talk to her.
‘I stopped and jumped the barricade and tried talking to the girl. And she was crying and an emotional mess and threatening to jump if I got closer.
‘With people on the round waving her not to jump I decided to grab a hold of her and not take any chances. She started to slide and want to go more as I grabbed a hold [of] her.
‘Luckily [from] my years of grappling and self defence I knew to grab her HARD and how to pull her up from hanging off and jumping … I knew not to grab her clothing because she would have ripped through it.
‘When I yanked her off the bridge finally, I established the mount position as you do in grappling and did not let her budge.’
Writing about the incident on Facebook (left), Smith revealed that the incident occurred on a bridge in Calgary, Canada. Pictured right is Davey Boy Smith
Smith followed in the footsteps of his father by performing for WWE (shown in 2006), before eventually moving on to New Japan Pro-Wrestling
He added: ‘Life is a precious thing folks, never take it for granted. I’m glad I was at service to help somebody today and my years of grappling came into play.’
Calgary police confirmed that the woman was later escorted to hospital on a mental health warrant.
Smith followed in the footsteps of his father by performing for WWE, before eventually moving on to New Japan Pro-Wrestling.
Davey Boy Smith, originally from Golborne in Lancashire, died in 2002 at the age of 39 after a career stretching over three decades.
He suffered a heart attack while on holiday in British Columbia; an autopsy revealed that a history of steroid abuse may have played a part in his early death.
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Davey Boy Smith (pictured), originally from Golborne in Lancashire, died in 2002 at the age of 39 after a career stretching over three decades