 Soon after their defeat, Cox and Lane began feuding and was defeated by Lane in the semi-finals of the GWF North American Championship Tournament after defeating Rod Price in the opening rounds on August 9, 1991.Traveling to Japan in mid-1992, he began competing for the Japanese shoot wrestling promotion UWF International and lost to Nobuhiko Takada in Shizuoka, Japan on July 12 and again on August 28 in a tag team match with Kazuo Yamazaki against Takada and Mark Fleming at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan.After losing a match to Kiyoshi Tamura at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium on September 21, he returned to the United States shortly after.