[8] BATT would bounce back in the fall as Frye would win the G1 World Climax Tournament[9] but left New Japan shortly after to return to Mixed Martial Arts.
On October 8, 2001 BATT main evented New Japan's Indicate of Next as Mutoh and Hase lost to Nagata and Jun Akiyama.
[5] A few weeks later on October 22, 2001, Mutoh and Kea would defeat Genichiro Tenryu and Yoji Anjo to win the World Tag Team Championship.
[14] Despite BATT having broken up, Mutoh and Kea would continue to defend the Unified World Tag Team Championship until they lost the titles to KroniK on July 17, 2002.
Two years later, on July 10, 2004, Mutoh and Kea would reunite at Pro Wrestling NOAH's first Tokyo Dome show, Departure 2004, as they challenged Mitsuharu Misawa and Yoshinari Ogawa for the GHC Tag Team Championship, but they failed to win the title.