Sailor White

Last updated: April 28, 2014

Title History

  • WWWF Tag Team titles (as Moondog King) w /Moondog Rex, 1981;
  • International Tag Team titles (Montreal), 1982-84 (2);

Career Highlights

  • Sailor White was a top heel in Montreal, but was best known on in Eastern Canada and in South Africa.
  • Sailor White, as Moondog King, briefly held the WWWF Tag titles with Moodog Rex before being replaced by Moondog Spot.
  • ~~~White was caught at the Canadian border with drugs and couldn’t return to the U.S. so they brought in Spot.
  • Sailor White’s career was cut short by out-of-the-ring problems, including alcohol and drug abuse.
  • ~~~Sailor White also had a conviction on charges of assault and uttering death threats.
  • 1990: Sailor White was out of prison and announced that he was drug free and a born again Christian.
  • Sailor White was a candidate for the Canadian Extreme Wrestling Party in a 2000 federal by-election in St. Johns, Newfoundland.
  • ~~~Sailor White had a campaign slogan “Parliament needs a Moondog” and finished last in a five-candidate race.
  • Sailor White had a biography published in 1994, written by Dave Elliott.
  • August 25, 2005: Sailor “Moon Dog” White passed in St. John’s, Newfoundland from apparent heart failure. He was 56.

 

birthday: 1949
hometown: Newfoundland, Canada
height: 5'11"
weight: 310lbs
debut: 1972
previous names: Moondog King
Big John Strongbo in South Africa in 1979-80
finishing move(s): Bear Hug
notable feuds: Dino Bravo
Gino Brito
Rick Martel

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