Early years (1994–2006) Smith began wrestling at the age of eight, He made an early appearance with the then World Wrestling Federation (now WWE) on October 5, 1996, at the age of 11 when he teamed with his cousin
Ted Annis against
TJ Wilson and Andrew Picarnia at a WWF
house show in Calgary. He made his professional debut at the age of fifteen at the Rockyford Rodeo, and went on to become a mainstay of the Calgary-based
Stampede Wrestling promotion. In May 2002, Smith teamed with his father on two occasions, shortly before his father died. Smith was billed as the mystery opponent of
NWA World Heavyweight Champion Jeff Jarrett, ostensibly hand-picked by his uncle,
Bret Hart. While there, Smith met with WWE executives,
John Laurinaitis and
Carl De Marco, and signed a developmental contract with on April 4, 2006. He wrestled dark matches for the company before his debut, defeating wrestlers like
Rob Conway and
Mike Knox, and losing to
Randy Orton. Harry debuted in
Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), at the February 14, 2007 television tapings, in a tag team match with
Kofi Nahaje Kingston, in which they defeated The Belgium Brawler and
Nicholas Sinn. At the following taping, the duo of Harry and Kofi became collectively known as the Commonwealth Connection and faced
La Résistance in a losing effort. Smith was then sent to
Deep South Wrestling (DSW), where he reformed the "Stampede Bulldogs" with T.J. Wilson. After WWE ended its relationship with DSW, Smith moved to
Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW). They debuted in a six-person mixed tag team match, losing to Mike Kruel,
Vladimir Kozlov and
Milena Roucka. Smith then returned to FCW to form another version of the New Hart Foundation, along with Hart, Wilson and
Ted DiBiase Jr. He appeared in a winning effort against
Carlito in a dark match during a taping of
Raw in the
United Kingdom. On October 16, Smith lost the FCW Southern Heavyweight Championship to
Afa Jr. He was unable to make the referee's ten count and was
counted out, due to being in the United Kingdom with WWE. He made his television debut as "DH Smith" on the October 22, 2007 episode of
Raw, defeating Carlito using his father's trademark
running powerslam. He dedicated the match to his father. On November 2, 2007, it was reported that Smith had been suspended for 30 days due to violations of "
WWE's Substance Abuse and Drug Testing Policy". Smith returned to the active roster on December 17 by defeating
Charlie Haas on
Heat. After his return, Smith would wrestle primarily on
Heat. As part of the
WWE Supplemental Draft on June 25, 2008, Smith was drafted to the
SmackDown brand. Smith, however, returned to Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) on August 26, without making his SmackDown debut. He made the decision to return to FCW on a full-time basis so he could mature, and put more effort into developing his in-ring work and his personality. On October 30, Smith won the
FCW Florida Tag Team Championship with TJ Wilson, defeating
Joe Hennig and
Sebastian Slater, but they lost it to
Tyler Reks and
Johnny Curtis on December 11, 2008, at the FCW television taping. Smith made his ECW debut on May 12, as a
villain, attacking
Finlay during Finlay's match with Tyson Kidd (TJ Wilson), using the name David Hart Smith. Smith, Kidd and Natalya formed a new version of
The Hart Foundation, named The Hart Trilogy at first, although on the May 27 episode of
ECW, the name was tweaked to
The Hart Dynasty. Smith was victorious in his first match for ECW, defeating Finlay on the May 19 episode, with help from Kidd and Natalya. At the
WWE Bragging Rights pay-per-view in October, Smith and Kidd competed in a seven-on-seven tag match with
Chris Jericho,
Kane, Finlay,
Matt Hardy and
R-Truth as Team SmackDown to defeat Team Raw. In December 2009, they challenged
D-Generation X for the
Unified WWE Tag Team Championship, but were unsuccessful. The Hart Dynasty appeared at
WrestleMania XXVI, first competing in a battle royal which was won by
Yoshi Tatsu then helping Bret Hart during his match against
Vince McMahon, and the following night on
Raw they defeated the Unified WWE Tag Team Champions ShoMiz (
Big Show and
The Miz) in a non-title match at Hart's behest, effectively turning face in the process. At the
Extreme Rules pay-per-view, Smith and Kidd earned a Unified Tag Team Championship match by defeating ShoMiz in a tag team
gauntlet match (which also included the team of
John Morrison and
R-Truth and the team of
Montel Vontavious Porter and
Mark Henry). During the
2010 WWE Draft on the April 26 episode of
Raw, The Hart Dynasty, accompanied by Natalya and Hart, defeated ShoMiz to win the Unified Tag Team Championship, when Kidd made The Miz submit to the
Sharpshooter. The following day, all three members of The Hart Dynasty were moved to the Raw brand as part of the
Supplemental Draft. On the May 10 episode of
Raw, he was defeated by
Chris Jericho, granting Jericho and The Miz a shot for the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship at
Over the Limit, but The Hart Dynasty were able to retain. The following night, on May 24, they were attacked by
The Usos (Jimmy and Jey) and Tamina, provoking a feud. At
Fatal 4-Way, The Hart Dynasty defeated The Usos and Tamina in a six-person mixed tag team match when Natalya pinned Tamina, and Smith and Kidd defeated The Usos at
Money in the Bank to retain the championships when Smith made Jimmy Uso submit to the Sharpshooter. At
Night of Champions, The Hart Dynasty lost the WWE Tag Team Championship to
Cody Rhodes and
Drew McIntyre in a
Tag Team Turmoil match which also involved The Usos,
Vladimir Kozlov and
Santino Marella, and the team of
Evan Bourne and
Mark Henry. After a failed attempt to regain the championship, in which Kidd was pushed off balance during their double-team Hart Attack move, Kidd and Smith began to have a falling out with one another. This culminated on the November 15 episode of
Raw, when Kidd refused to tag in and attacked Smith during a match for the WWE Tag Team Championship against
The Nexus (
Justin Gabriel and
Heath Slater). ending their partnership. On the December 2 episode of
WWE Superstars, Smith beat Kidd in a singles match. Afterward, Smith offered to shake Kidd's hand, but Kidd slapped him across the face. On the next episode of
Raw, Kidd defeated Smith in a rematch. After losing to Kidd, Smith would be restricted to appearing on
Superstars, mostly participating in tag team matches with
Yoshi Tatsu or
Darren Young. Smith's last match was on the April 28 edition of
Superstars, where he lost to Zack Ryder. After months of inactivity, Smith was released from his contract with WWE on August 5, 2011. His release (as well as the releases of
Chris Masters and
Vladimir Kozlov) was referenced in a
worked shoot moment on the August 8 episode of
Raw by
WWE Champion CM Punk.
Independent circuit (2011–present) into the
Sharpshooter in November 2011 On August 20, 2011, Smith, working under his real name, made his return to the independent circuit defeating Dan Maff at Pro Wrestling Syndicate. On August 27, 2011, Smith, working under his real name, made his debut for Japanese
Inoki Genome Federation (IGF), losing to
Hideki Suzuki. On September 3, he teamed with
Bobby Lashley in a losing effort against
Kendo Kashin and
Kazuyuki Fujita. On November 6, Smith wrestled in the main event of a
Stampede Wrestling show in
Barrie, Ontario, defeating
Fit Finlay. In December 2011, Smith took part in
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's
India project,
Ring Ka King under the ring name Bulldog Hart. During the first week of tapings, Hart and
Chavo Guerrero Jr. were crowned the promotion's inaugural
Tag Team Champions. On January 20, Smith teamed up with Chavo, Jwala, Mahabali Veera and
Matt Morgan to take on Abyss, Deadly Danda, Scott Steiner,
Sir Brutus Magnus and
Sonjay Dutt in World Cup Of Ring Ka King steel cage match and won. On January 13, 2012, Smith defeated
The Almighty Sheik and
Kevin Steen to become the first Heavyweight Champion of Resistance Pro Wrestling promotion. Over the next few months, Smith would take on
Rhino in various matches culminating on May 11, in a steel cage match with special referee
Raven which once again Smith would win. However, the title was stripped on October 14, 2012. On June 28, 2024, Smith challenged Innovative Hybrid Wrestling Champion "The King" JP Simms for the IHW Championship at the Riverview Sunfest.
Return to NJPW IWGP and NWA World Tag Team Champions (2012–2014) On August 13, 2012, New Japan Pro-Wrestling announced that Smith would be returning to the promotion the following month as a member of
Minoru Suzuki's
Suzuki-gun stable, forming a regular tag team with stablemate
Lance Archer. Smith said that New Japan wanted a huge monster as Archer's partner. Also, he received a good offer from All Japan Pro Wrestling, but he chose NJPW due to the previous relationship. On September 9, Smith submitted
IWGP Tag Team Champion Hiroyoshi Tenzan in another eight-man tag team match, after which he and Archer, dubbing themselves
K.E.S. (Killer Elite Squad), made a challenge for his and Satoshi Kojima's title. On September 24, New Japan renamed Smith "Davey Boy Smith Jr.". On October 8 at
King of Pro-Wrestling, K.E.S. defeated Kojima and Tenzan to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship. K.E.S. made their first successful title defense on November 11 at
Power Struggle, defeating Tenzan and Kojima in a rematch. From November 20 to December 1, K.E.S. took part in the
round-robin portion of the
2012 World Tag League, finishing with a record of four wins and two losses, advancing to the semifinals of the tournament in the second place in their group. On December 2, K.E.S. defeated Always Hypers (Togi Makabe and
Wataru Inoue) to advance to the finals of the tournament. Later that same day, K.E.S. was defeated in the finals of the 2012 World Tag League by Sword & Guns (
Hirooki Goto and
Karl Anderson). On February 10 at
The New Beginning, Smith and Archer defeated Tenzan and Kojima for their third successful defense of the IWGP Tag Team Championship. On March 11, Smith entered the
2013 New Japan Cup, defeating
IWGP Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura in his first round match. Smith's main event win over the former three-time
IWGP Heavyweight Champion was referred to as the biggest of his career. Six days later, Smith advanced to the semifinals of the tournament with a win over
Yujiro Takahashi. On March 23, Smith was eliminated from the tournament in the semifinals by Hirooki Goto. On April 5, Smith and Archer made their fourth successful defense of the IWGP Tag Team Championship against Shinsuke Nakamura and
Tomohiro Ishii. Two days later at
Invasion Attack, Smith unsuccessfully challenged Nakamura for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship. On April 20, Smith and Archer defeated Ryan Genesis and Scot Summers in
Houston, Texas to not only retain the IWGP Tag Team Championship, but to also win the
NWA World Tag Team Championship. On May 3 at
Wrestling Dontaku 2013, K.E.S. lost the IWGP Tag Team Championship back to Tencozy in a four-way match, which also included
Takashi Iizuka and
Toru Yano, and
Manabu Nakanishi and
Strong Man, though neither Smith nor Archer was involved in the finish. K.E.S. received a rematch for the title on June 22 at
Dominion 6.22 in a three-way match, which also included Iizuka and Yano, but were unable to regain the title, when Kojima pinned Archer for the win. On August 1, Smith entered the
2013 G1 Climax. The tournament concluded on August 11 with a match, where Smith was defeated by his tag team partner Lance Archer, costing him a spot in the finals and ending his tournament with a record of five wins and four losses. On November 9 at
Power Struggle, K.E.S. faced Tencozy and
The IronGodz (
Jax Dane and Rob Conway) in a two-fall three-way match. In the first fall, they lost the NWA World Tag Team Championship to Dane and Conway, but came back in the second to defeat Tencozy for the IWGP Tag Team Championship. From November 24 to December 8, K.E.S. took part in the
2013 World Tag League. After winning their round-robin block with a record of five wins and one loss, they were eliminated from the tournament in the semifinals by their old rivals, Tencozy. On January 4, 2014, at
Wrestle Kingdom 8 in Tokyo Dome, K.E.S. lost the IWGP Tag Team Championship to the winners of the tournament,
Bullet Club (
Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson). K.E.S. received a rematch for the title on February 9 at
The New Beginning in Hiroshima, but were again defeated by Bullet Club. On May 25 at
Back to the Yokohama Arena, K.E.S. failed to regain the NWA World Tag Team Championship from Tencozy in a three-way match, which also included Rob Conway and
Wes Brisco. On June 21 at
Dominion 6.21, K.E.S. received another shot at the NWA World Tag Team Championship, this time in a regular tag team match, but were again defeated by Tencozy. From July 23 to August 8, Smith took part in the
2014 G1 Climax, where he finished eighth out of the eleven wrestlers in his block with a record of five wins and five losses, scoring a big win over
Hiroshi Tanahashi on the final day. On October 13 at
King of Pro-Wrestling, K.E.S. defeated Tencozy to regain the NWA World Tag Team Championship. From November 22 to December 5, K.E.S. took part in the
2014 World Tag League. The team finished their block with a record of four wins and three losses, narrowly missing the finals of the tournament.
Pro Wrestling Noah invasion (2015–2016) On January 10, 2015, K.E.S., along with the rest of Suzuki-gun, took part in a major storyline, where the stable invaded a
Pro Wrestling Noah show. During the attack, K.E.S. beat down
GHC Tag Team Champions TMDK (
Mikey Nicholls and
Shane Haste). This led to a match on February 11, where K.E.S. defeated TMDK to become the new GHC Tag Team Champions. In May, K.E.S. made it to the finals of the
2015 Global Tag League, where they were defeated by
Masato Tanaka and
Takashi Sugiura. After ten successful title defenses, K.E.S. lost the GHC Tag Team Championship to
Naomichi Marufuji and Toru Yano on May 28, 2016. K.E.S. regained the title from Marufuji and Yano on November 23. They lost the title to
Go Shiozaki and
Maybach Taniguchi on December 3. Two days later, it was announced that Suzuki-gun was gone from Noah, concluding the invasion storyline.
Return from Noah and departure (2017–2019) The entire Suzuki-gun returned to NJPW on January 5, 2017, attacking the Chaos stable with K.E.S. targeting IWGP Tag Team Champions Tomohiro Ishii and Toru Yano. On February 5 at
The New Beginning in Sapporo, K.E.S. unsuccessfully challenged Ishii and Yano for the IWGP Tag Team Championship in a three-way match, also involving Togi Makabe and
Tomoaki Honma. K.E.S. were primed for a run as NJPW's top foreign tag team, but the plan was changed when Archer was forced to undergo surgery on a herniated disc in his back. Following Archer's return to NJPW in August, he and Smith defeated
War Machine and
Guerrillas of Destiny in a three-way tornado tag team match on September 24 at
Destruction in Kobe to win the IWGP Tag Team Championship for the third time. At the end of the year, K.E.S. took part in the
2017 World Tag League, where they finished with a record of five wins and two losses, failing to advance to the finals due to losing to block winners Guerrillas of Destiny in their head-to-head match. On January 4, 2018, at
Wrestle Kingdom 12 in Tokyo Dome, K.E.S. lost the IWGP Tag Team Championship to
Los Ingobernables de Japón (
Evil and
Sanada). Smith would work in NJPW during the following year, usually in multi-man matches. He lost against Toru Yano in the first round of the 2018 New Japan Cup and faced the IWGP Tag Team Champions
Los Ingobernables de Japón at Wrestling Honokuni. Smith and Archer participated in the 2018 World Tag League, but they failed to win the tournament. He would lose again against Toru Yano in the first round of the 2019's New Japan Cup. On June 15, 2019, it was reported that Smith would no longer be wrestling for NJPW.
Major League Wrestling (2018–2020) In 2018 Smith begun wrestling for
Major League Wrestling as a member of
New Era Hart Foundation with
Teddy Hart and
Brian Pillman Jr. Their first feud was against the team of
Rich Swann and
A. C. H., whom they defeated on an episode of
Fusion resulting in a concussion for Swann. On the November 2, edition of
Fusion the Hart Foundation beat ACH, Swann and
Marko Stunt in a six-man tag team match. From there they began feuding with the
MLW World Tag Team Champions Lucha Brothers (
Pentagon Jr. and
Fenix). On January 2, 2019, it was revealed Smith signed a multi-year deal with Major League Wrestling. In the company's statement, they said he would continue to compete in Japan. At
SuperFight on February 2, Smith and Hart defeated Lucha Brothers for the MLW World Tag Team Championship. On July 6, Hart and Pillman Jr. lost the titles to The Dynasty (
MJF and Richard Holliday) in a ladder match, which aired on the July 13 episode of
Fusion. On the December 2, 2020 episode of
Fusion, Smith lost to
Low Ki in the opening round of the
Opera Cup. Following his loss, MLW owner Court Bauer announced in a press conference that Smith would be leaving MLW.
Return to WWE (2020–2021) On February 12, 2020, Smith would appear live via webcam on an episode of
WWE's
online talk show, The Bump, appearing alongside former tag team partner
Tyson Kidd. On March 12, during the After the Bell podcast hosted by
Corey Graves, it was announced that Smith's father,
Davey Boy Smith would be going into the
2020 Hall of Fame class, but the event was postponed to the following year due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. On April 6, 2021, Smith, along with his family, represented his father at the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony by accepting the award on his behalf. After wrestling in a dark match before
SmackDown on July 16, 2021, it was announced that Smith had signed a contract with WWE. However, he was released on November 4 without appearing on television. Smith has since confirmed the scrapped plans for his WWE return. Smith claimed that he was due to re-debut for the company as "The Stampede Stud" for the SmackDown brand. However, after missing several weeks of WWE television tapings due to catching
COVID-19, he was released before the debut could come to fruition.
National Wrestling Alliance (2022) On March 19, 2022, at
Crockett Cup, Smith made his NWA debut as
Doug Williams' tag partner defeating Alex Taylor and Rush Freeman in the first round of the Crockett Cup. On March 22, Smith and Williams were defeated by
The Briscoe Brothers in the finals of the Crockett Cup. On June 11, Smith & Doug Williams, now called the
Commonwealth Connection defeated
La Rebelión to win the
NWA World Tag Team Championship. On August 27, 2022, Smith and Williams vacated the titles when Smith suffered an illness that prevented him from defending the titles.
Return to MLW (2022–present) Davey Boy Smith Jr. returned to
Major League Wrestling for the first time in two years at the
Fightland event, teaming with
The Billington Bulldogs (
Thomas and Mark Billington) defeating The Bomaye Fight Club (
Alex Kane,
Myron Reed and Mr. Thomas). Smith defeated
Calvin Tankman in the semifinals and
Tracy Williams in the finals on the
2023 Opera Cup. On February 29, 2024, at
Intimidation Games, Smith and
Tom Lawlor defeated The Second Gear Crew (
Matthew Justice and 1 Called Manders) to win the MLW World Tag Team Championship. However, they vacated the titles two months later.
All Japan Pro Wrestling (2023–present) Smith was expected to make his
All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) debut in the 2020 Champion Carnival but was unable to travel to Japan for the show due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. Smith made his AJPW debut on December 31, 2023, where he teamed with
Hokuto Omori and
Minoru Suzuki to defeat Baka No Jidai (
Hideki Suzuki,
Hikaru Sato, and
Suwama). He took part in the 2024 Champion Carnival where he ended with 5 wins and 1 loss, losing the deciding match against
Kento Miyahara and getting eliminated. On November 4, 2024, Smith defeated
Yuma Aoyagi to capture the
Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship for the first time and his first world championship in a major promotion. He teamed with Kento Miyahara in the Real World Tag League, where they won all their matches to make it to the semi-finals. After defeating
Rising HAYATO and
Yuma Anzai, they lost to the Saito Brothers (Jun and Rei Saito) in the final. On December 31, Smith lost his championship to Jun Saito, ending his reign at 57 days. == Submission wrestling career ==