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To me, a spot monkey is a guy or a tag team that relies too heavily on certain "spots" to carry all of their matches.
For example, I hate Team 3D/The Dudleys because most of their matches feel horribly the same to me. I know I'm going to see that stupid wassup headbutt, I know Bubba Ray will hit his full nelson sit-down bomb thing and D-Von will hit his big flying reverse elbow off the ropes. And they do. Everytime. Fucking spot monkeys.
In the same vein, RVD became a terrible spot monkey toward the end of his WWE run. You knew you would see the shoulder-butts in the corner followed by the back hand spring spot. You knew you would see the rolling thunder spot and possibly the spinning leg drop across the barricade spot. You might see the split legged moonsault if you're lucky, but you will definitely see the flying karate kick from the top rope. And you did. Every time.
Does that mean that RVD himself is a spot monkey? No. I know he can have incredible matches that are different every time, but that's given circumstances (amount of TV/screen time given to have his match, limitations on his moveset, his opponent, etc).
Lots of people call Sonjay Dutt a spot monkey. I disagree. When I watch his matches, I know he's going to hit some huricanranas and some planchas over the top rope and shit, but I have no idea when they're coming and when they do, they're usually too damn fast for me to see them coming. Does he consistently high-fly? Yes, he does. Does that make him a spot monkey? No, it means his ring style is consistent (CONSISTENT, not repetitive).
I also consider many of The Undertaker's matches to be spot-monkeyish in that he pretty much always just hits the same spots every match and never really shakes things up unless he's main eventing a PPV or something like that.
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