YMMV / Junkyard Dog

• Irony: In an example of a Literal Metaphor, early on in his Mid-South run, in order to live up to the junkyard part of his name, he would wheel a shopping cart full of hard objects to the ring with him, which he was able to stop doing once he got over. The idea of using the objects on his opponents clearly was not considered at all back then. With the rise of ECW and hardcore wrestling in general in the mid-1990s, the sight of wrestlers using shopping carts, garbage cans, wheelbarrows, or whatever they could find to carry weapons to the ring became common.
• Tear Jerker: He died in a car accident while driving home from his daughter's high school graduation. What's more, in 2011 she passed away at the age of 31 after apparently falling down a flight of stairs while on the phone.
  • This can also make one of his most famous angles, the Fabulous Freebirds blinding him, thus preventing him from witnessing his daughter's birth, rather difficult to watch knowing this now.