Defeating Jerry and Bobby Christy in later rematches, Hayes and Sweetan held the tag team titles for over two months before losing them to Bud and Ray Osborne on September 4.
Also teaming with Danny Babich against Joe Tommaso & Ed Sullivan, Hayes also faced Buck Jones, The Stomper, the Quebec Giant, Dan Kroffat and Stampede North American Champion Les Thornton, losing to him on April 23.
Fighting to a time limit draw against Danny Babich on February 2, later that month he teamed with Bob Pringle to defeat Frank Butcher & Eddie Sullivan and also challenged Stampede International Tag Team Champions Chin Lee & Sugi Sito fighting them to a double disqualification with Carlos Belafonte on February 19.
A week later, Hayes lost a 6-man tag team match with John Quinn and "Bulldog" Bob Brown against Buck Ramstead, Dutch Savage and Dean Higuchi on August 21.
Teaming with Ray Glenn and Dan Morgan over the next several weeks, he wrestled his last match in the promotion losing to Buck Ramstead on October 16.
Facing Carlos Belafonte, Geoff Portz and Gino Caruso in a 6-man tag team with Tomasso and Tor Kamata in Swift Current, Saskatchewan on November 30, they defended their titles in rematches against Dan Kroffat & Lennie Hurst as well as George Gordienko & Lindy Calder before losing the titles to Michel Martel & Danny Babich on December 15, 1972.
Agreeing to the idea, the match received considerable press coverage and was later aired on television with Hayes defeating Victor, the Wrestling Bear in the main event on June 29, 1974.
With Dutch Savage, he and Mr. Hito also faced Larry Lane, Bob Pringle and Keith Hart in a 6-man tag team match on September 20.
[5] Appearing at an event for the World Wide Wrestling Federation in Toronto, Ontario on April 25,[8] he also began touring Japan with International Wrestling Enterprise later that year as he and Gypsy Joe lost to the Great Kusatsu & Mighty Inoue in a 2-of-3 match for the IWA World Tag Team Championship at the Yamato Shatai-kogyo Gym in Kanagawa, Japan on December 4, 1976.
Fighting him to a no contest at the Victoria Pavilion in Calgary several days later, he also participated in battle royal later that night which included Leo Burke, John Foley, Gama Singh, Gypsy Joe, Mr. Hito, Ed & Jerry Morrow, the Cuban Assassins (Cuban Assassin & Bad News Allen) and Bruce & Keith Hart.
Later that month, he also defeated Mr. Hito and The Royal Kangaroos (Jonathan Boyd & Norman Frederick Charles III) in a 6-man tag team match with Keith Hart and Alo Leilani on March 27.
Failing to win the Stampede International Tag Team titles from The Fabulous Kangaroos with Keith Hart and Larry Lane in April, he also faced Mr. Hito and U.F.O.
[10] Hayes later worked as a city official for Edmonton involved in the streets department following his retirement as well as becoming an amateur woodworker producing wooden toys such as trains and puzzles later sold on consignment.
[2] In April 2007, he and several other Stampede Wrestling alumni—including John Cozman, Bob Leonard, Bret and Ross Hart—were honored at a special banquet held in Las Vegas, Nevada by the Cauliflower Alley Club,[11] hosted by Scott D'Amore and Greg Oliver.
Other Canadian honorees included Maurice and Paul Vachon, Killer Kowalski, Don Leo Jonathan, Angelo Mosca, Pepper Martin, Michelle Starr, Jack Laskin, Billy Two Rivers, "Beautiful" Bruce Swayze, Pat Patterson, and Nick and Jerry Kozak.