 In August 2008 Morishima had a dark match tryout against Charlie Haas for WWE before a live "Raw" in Chicago, defeating Haas in 3 minutes with a missile dropkick.He then beat Jamie Noble the following night in another dark match, this time for "SmackDown".Later in 2008, he traveled back to the United States to face Bryan Danielson for ROH's Final Battle 2008, which he lost.