Thoughts on the Moondogs

[The Blue Nova]

One of my favorite teams and gimmicks is the Moondogs. They are also former WWF tag champions in the pre hogan era managed by Lou Albano. They went back to the south and came back to the WWF in 1985 to roughly late 1986 but with the depth of the wwf tag division in that era they were mostly jobbers to the stars.. They resurfaced back in in the southern territories (Memphis and Smoky mountain ) and were great heels and very violent wrestling the hardcore style . During that era there was several Moondogs, Spot Spike Splat Cujo(Imagine early Dudleys just instead of guys in tye dye it was a bunch of big bearded guys in jeans). What did everyone think of the moon-dogs?

[jason1980s]

I think they deserved better than the jobber role in WWF. But like you say, the talent of the tag division at the time really didn't allow them a better position.
I think they would also be pretty typecast if they had ever tried to get another position, as we saw with Rex. Spot also did himself no favors by sitting up right after his last match in WWF, after a loss from Koko. Both guys were early Vince/WWF guys so I would think if things had worked out for them early on with Vince, he would have brought them back at some point.
Also, it was crappy that Rex would sign photos of Barry Darsow's Smash. He surely knew it wasn't a photo of himself he was signing.

[Toilet Paper Roll]

Moondog Spot was like 30 years old during their run. Guy looked 50+

I remember watching some matches of his as a singles wrestler that were surprisingly good.

[johnnyk9]

Moondog Rex was to have a resurgence as Demolition Smash but he apparently was to recognizable to the crowd

[tafkaga]

The Moondogs looked like virtually every member of my dad's side of the family (including the women) and every person I grew up around in rural Midwest so it was confusing to me why Uncle Charlie and Uncle LLoyd were on TV but anyway I thought they were terribly boring and nearly unwatchable.