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27-488: The final champions, PG-13, holds the record for most championship reigns as they held the belts on 15 different occasions across the years, in addition each member also held the championship with a different partner, making them tied for most overall reigns for an individual. The Moondogs ( Spot and Spike ) reign as champions lasted between 123 and 152 days, the longest of any championship team. In April 1992 Moondog Cujo replaced Spike, but records are unclear as to what date

54-656: A WWF Championship title shot against Hulk Hogan . In 1987, Rex was repackaged as Smash of Demolition , along with Ax . However, fans easily recognized him and gave him chants of "Moondog," leading to him being quickly replaced by Barry Darsow . Rex and Spot then teamed together until 1990 in various promotions. The Moondogs had two runs in Memphis. Their first run took place in the Continental Wrestling Association in 1983, where they were managed by Jimmy Hart and feuded with The Fabulous Ones . They captured

81-573: A babyface , defeating Davey O'Hannon. On 30 May 1973, he teamed with Haystacks Calhoun and defeated Mr. Fuji and Professor Toru Tanaka to win his first WWWF World Tag Team Championship . Garea and Calhoun feuded with Fuji and Tanaka for the rest of the summer before losing the titles back to Fuji and Tanaka on 11 September. Garea continued the feud with Fuji and Tanaka with a new partner, Dean Ho . On 14 November, Garea and Ho defeated Fuji and Tanaka for Garea's second and Ho's first WWWF World Tag Team Championship. Garea's second tag team reign

108-804: A road agent for the WWF until leaving the Company in 2014. He appeared with former tag team partner Rick Martel at Vengeance: Night of Champions in June 2007. They came to the aid of the team of Sgt. Slaughter and Jimmy Snuka , who were being attacked following their losing to Deuce 'n Domino . When WWE came to New Zealand on 11 June 2008 in Auckland, Garea was a guest on the first international V.I.P Lounge along with Bushwacker Butch. The segment's host, Montel Vontavious Porter (MVP) announced him as Bushwhacker Luke but then apologized. Eventually, MVP attacked Butch and Garea with

135-505: A rematch to win their second WWF Tag Team Championship as a team, though, it was Garea's fifth and final individual reign. Garea's final run as a tag team champion ended on edition of 17 October of Championship Wrestling after Garea and Martel were defeated by Mr. Fuji and Mr. Saito for the tag titles. Garea and Martel continued to feud with Fuji and Saito, trying to regain the titles but failed to do so. Martel left WWF in 1982 while Garea went on his own. Garea teamed with newcomers to

162-532: A tag team with new partner Larry Zbyzsko in August 1977. They began teaming after entering a tag team tournament for the vacant tag titles, where they were defeated by Mr. Fuji and Toru Tanaka in the finals on 27 September 1977. They continued to challenge for the titles before defeating The Yukon Lumberjacks ( Eric and Pierre ) for Garea's third and Zbyzsko's first WWWF World Tag Team Championship on edition of 21 November 1978 of Championship Wrestling . They held

189-731: The AWA Southern Tag Team Championship from the Fabs on April 4, 1983, and lost it back to them on April 25, in a no-disqualification match. The feud continued throughout 1983 and ended when The Moondogs lost a leaves town match to the Fabs on January 16, 1984. In October 1987, the Moondogs wrestled for All Japan Pro Wrestling . Moondog Spike and Moondog Spot faced opponents such as Jumbo Tsuruta , Mighty Inoue , Haruka Eigen and Tiger Mask II . In late 1991, The Moondogs returned, this time managed by Richard Lee. Spot and Spike captured

216-705: The Clash of the Legends show in Memphis on April 29, 2007, where he defeated The Barbarian . Tony Garea Anthony Gareljich (born 20 September 1946) is a New Zealand retired professional wrestler , better known by his ring name , Tony Garea . He is best known for his appearances in the United States with the World Wide Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Federation in the 1970s and 1980s. The son of Croatian-born Ivan Gareljich, Anthony Gareljich

243-645: The NWA San Francisco Tag Team Championship in May 1976. Also worked in Georgia from 1975 to 1976, Los Angeles in 1977, Japan and Australia both in 1978. Garea left New Zealand in 1972 and went to the United States where he signed a contract with Vince McMahon, Sr. 's World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF). He made his WWWF debut at a TV taping in the Philadelphia Arena on 20 September 1972 as

270-716: The USWA Tag Team Championship on November 30, 1991. In early 1992, The Moondogs gained a new ally in The Big Black Dog, whom they would later feud with. Moondog Cujo was added to the group in April 1992, teaming with both Spot and Spike separately. The New Moondogs of Spot and Cujo recaptured USWA Tag Team Championship and traded the title with Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Lawler throughout 1992. During October 1992, The Moondogs gained another ally in Moondog Fifi , who won

297-512: The USWA Women's Championship from Miss Texas . The feud between Jarrett/Lawler and The Moondogs was voted the 1992 PWI Feud of the Year by Pro Wrestling Illustrated . Cujo left the group during September 1992. On December 28, The Moondogs lost the title to The Harris Brothers , managed by Bert Prentice and Mike Samples. The teams traded the belts back and forth until the Moondogs captured them for

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324-545: The WWF and continued to wrestle in the tag team division, with another former WWF Tag Team Champion Rene Goulet . The two participated in a tag team tournament for the titles, where they were defeated by The Wild Samoans ( Afa and Sika ) in the finals on 27 September 1980. Garea formed a tag team with new partner Rick Martel , which was Garea's most successful and most popular tag team. They defeated Wild Samoans on 8 November for Garea's fourth and Martel's first WWF Tag Team Championship. Garea and Martel continued to feud with

351-482: The WWF such as Eddie Gilbert and B. Brian Blair in 1983 and 1984, but was unable to recapture the success he previously enjoyed as a tag-team champion. He moved to the jobber to the stars status, jobbing to rising newcomers before retiring full-time in 1987. Garea participated in a World Wrestling Federation "Legends" battle royal , which was won by Lou Thesz on November 16, 1987. He would occasionally wrestle until his last match in 1989. He thereafter worked as

378-428: The change was made. The teams of Jim and Ron Harris , Tommy Rich and Doug Gilbert , and Flash Flanagan and Nick Dinsmore , all lost the championship on the same show that they won the championship, tying them for the shortest reign. As it is a professional wrestling championship, the championship was won not by actual competition, but by kayfabe to a match determined by the bookers and match makers . On occasion

405-672: The former champions for the rest of the year. After Wild Samoans left WWF, the champions began feuding with The Moondogs ( King and Rex ). They dropped the titles to Moondogs on edition of 17 March 1981 of Championship Wrestling . Martel and Garea continued to feud with Moondogs, trying to regain the titles. On 8 June, Garea beat a young rookie named Man Mountain Canyon in Madison Square Garden , who returned to WWF four years later as King Kong Bundy . On edition of 21 July of Championship Wrestling , Martel and Garea defeated Moondogs in

432-655: The gimmick in Portland, Texas, California and Georgia. He died in 1978 after an automobile accident. In 1980, Moondog Hawkins wrestled in the WWF, in which the gimmick was short-lived. Hawkins became Moondog Rex. Moondog Rex and Moondog King joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in October 1980, where they defeated Rick Martel and Tony Garea for the WWF Tag Team Championship . After winning

459-526: The last time on February 22, 1993. The feud ended in March 1993, when The Harris Brothers beat The Moondogs in a manager's hair vs hair match with Samples' hair vs Lee's hair on the line. On January 30, 1993, the Moondogs gained another ally in Moondog Splat, who replaced Spike. On March 8, 1993, Brian Christopher teamed with The Big Black Dog to defeat The Moondogs for the tag team title. The Moondogs won it back

486-690: The next week. Moondog Cujo and Spike replaced Spot and Splat in July 1993. August 1993 saw the Moondogs meet one of their noteworthy rivals, The Dogcatchers, which played off of the Moondogs' name. The teams feuded throughout August and September 1993. From November 1993 to March 1994, the team appeared in Smoky Mountain Wrestling , feuding again with The Harris Brothers and The Rock 'n' Roll Express . Spike and Splat also appeared in W*ING's 1993 Most Dangerous Tag War Tournament, finishing with 0 points. 1994 saw

513-521: The nickname from the 1940s. His instrumental song "Moondog Serenade" inspired DJ Alan Freed to use the Moondog moniker in the 1950s until legal action from Hardin resulted in a judgement in Hardin's favor. Had album was used under his name in 1969 called Moondog The Moondog gimmick in wrestling was born in 1973 when Lonnie Mayne became Moondog Mayne in the World Wide Wrestling Federation . He continued using

540-520: The old USA Tag Team Championship belts that was originally used in the short-lived USA Championship Wrestling promotion in 1988, before Continental Wrestling Federation used them to replace the NWA Continental Tag Team Championship belts to represent their title. In 1996, USWA changed the red straps to black and repainted the red design on the centerpiece and the blue design on the sideplates to black. The USWA Tag Team Tournament

567-524: The promotion declares a championship vacant, which means there is no champion at that point in time. This can either be due to a storyline, or real life issues such as a champion suffering an injury being unable to defend the championship, or leaving the company. The original belts to represent the title were the WCWA World Tag Team Championship belts. In 1990, the WCWA belts were replaced by

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594-475: The team change again with Spot and a new Moondog Rex taking up the Moondog name until Moondog Rover replaced Rex in 1996, before the team disbanded. In the latter part of 2003, the Moondogs (Spot and Puppy Love) began working in Memphis Wrestling , with April Pennington acting as their manager. On November 29, 2003, Moondog Spot died in the ring during a battle royal in Memphis. Moondog Cujo appeared at

621-510: The title, Moondog King was replaced by Moondog Spot after King—a Canadian—was denied entry into the United States in 1981. Rex and Spot's gimmick consisted of them carrying chewed up bones to the ring and wearing cut-off blue jeans. While in the WWF, the Moondogs feuded with Tony Garea , Rick Martel , Bob Backlund , Ivan Putski , Pat Patterson , and the Wild Samoans . In 1984, on an episode of Maple Leaf Wrestling , Moondog Rex earned

648-455: The titles for four months before losing them to Valiant Brothers ( Jerry and Johnny ) on edition of 24 March 1979 of Championship Wrestling . Later that same month, Wide was dropped from the promotion's name, renaming the promotion World Wrestling Federation. Shortly afterwards, Garea left the WWF and went to work in Japan and Mid-Atlantic for a year. In the summer of 1980, Garea returned to

675-895: Was a one-night single elimination tag team tournament held in Dallas, Texas on December 1, 1989, for the vacant USWA World Tag Team Championship. The Moondogs (professional wrestling) The Moondogs were a professional wrestling stable in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and in the Memphis promotions: the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA), which became the United States Wrestling Association (USWA). They were known for wrestling in frayed blue jeans, sporting shaggy blond hair and beards and carrying animal bones around with them (which they chewed and used as weapons). The name " moondog " seems to have originated with American musician Louis T. Hardin (1916–1999) who used

702-609: Was born in Auckland , New Zealand, to parents of Yugoslavian and Irish descent. He was originally an accomplished sprinter and a rugby player. Garea was trained by Wild Don Scott. He made his professional wrestling debut in his native New Zealand in 1971. In 1972, he came to North America and made his debut in Florida. He worked in the NWA San Francisco territory where he and Pat Patterson defeated Don Muraco and Invader I for

729-510: Was longer and better than his first reign. They held the titles for five and a half months before losing them to the Valiant Brothers ( Jimmy and Johnny ) on 8 May 1974 episode of All Star Wrestling . They continued teaming for a while before disbanding their tag team and working on their own. Garea, who had been successful as a tag team wrestler, began a singles career. Garea continued his singles career for three years before forming

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