[2] The Hillbilly family were portrayed as simple rural Southerners who performed square dances in the ring.

The duo won the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship on August 30, 1986, by defeating the Fire and Flame.

[6] Kean wrestled sporadically on the independent circuit throughout the mid-1980s, including in the NWA in 1988 under the name Cousin Junior once again.

[2] Later, he was renamed Big Daddy Cyrus and feuded with Jerry Lawler, who held the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship.

[1][7] He formed a tag team with Crusher Bones in 1995, main-eventing the Mid-South Coliseum against the likes of Lawler, Bill Dundee, and Sid Vicious.