Moondog Spike

Moondog Spike
Bill Smithson
Ring name(s) Moondog Spike[1]
Dizzy Golden[1]
Inferno #1[1]
Billed height 6'2"
Billed weight 345 lbs.
Trained by Tojo Yamamoto[1]
Debut 1978[1]
Retired c. 1994

Bill Smithson was a professional wrestler who wrestled as Moondog Spike during the early 1990s with Moondog Spot from 1991 to 1992 and Moondog Cujo from 1992 to 1993 as part of the Moondogs.[1]

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Career

Trained by Tojo Yamamoto in Tennessee, Smithson made his debut in 1978 as a tag team partner of Jerry Ralph in one of the many incarnations of the "Inferno" tag teams managed by Mike Duprée.[1] During the mid-1980s, under the name Dizzy Golden, he formed a tag team with his storyline brother Mike Golden[1] in the Mid-South area winning the Texas All-Star U.S.A. Tag Team Championship twice during a feud with the "Dream Team" of King Parsons and Tiger Conway, Jr. in 1986 and reigned as its last tag team champions until the title was retired in November 1986 following the federation's purchase by World Class Championship Wrestling.He briefly went to Memphis after the demise of Texas All Star Wrestling as the Australian "Bluey".He was bought in by George Barnes to help feud with Bill Dundee who Barnes had turned on and said Dundee had gotten too "American".After that he went to ICW in the New England area where he wrestled there in late 87 and 1988 as Moondog Spike.He won the Hwy Title as well as twice the Tag straps

In 1991, Smithson began teaming with Moondog Spot in the Memphis-based United States Wrestling Association. Together they violently feuded with Jeff Jarrett and Jerry "The King" Lawler throughout the year; the feud being featured in Pro Wrestling Illustrated's "Feud of the Year" in 1992.

With Moondog Spot's retirement the following year, Lanny Keane, Jr. was brought in as Moondog Cujo to replace Moondog Spot. Smithson and Keane, Jr. would feud with The Dogcatchers and win the USWA Southern Tag Team Championships several times before Lanny Keane left to pursue a singles career as Bloody Ox Brody. Smithson disappeared soon after the split however, possibly due to health problems resulting from his weight gain, and has been inactive as of 2007.

Championships and accomplishments

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