[1] In June 1987, they unsuccessfully challenged for the NWA United States Tag Team Championship, losing to the Midnight Express (Stan Lane and Bobby Eaton).
Their final match came on December 9, 1988, at the NJPW Japan Cup Series 1988 - Tag 21 television show, where they lost to Kotetsu Yamamoto and Yoshinari Tsuji.
[5] Tracy Smothers and eventually Steve Armstrong made a jump back to the CWA, where they became embroiled in a feud with the Stud Stable.
Smothers and Armstrong made their debut for World Championship Wrestling on April 23, 1990, in a dark match at a Main Event/NWA Worldwide taping in Marietta, Georgia.
Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes were able to gain a measure of revenge by defeating them on the June 16th, 1990 episode of WCW Worldwide after holding the tights.
Smothers and Armstrong would continue to feud with the Midnight Express before transitioning to a series against the self-declared "Southern Champions" The Fabulous Freebirds.
In August they engaged in a "best of 3" series against The Freebirds, and on September 5, 1990, they defeated Hayes and Garvin at Clash of the Champions XII "Fall Brawl: Mountain Madness".
On May 19, 1991, their televised win streak came to an end when they were defeated by The Freebirds at SuperBrawl I in a match to claim the vacated United States Tag Team Championship after "Badstreet" (a masked Brad Armstrong) interfered.
This began a renewed feud with the Freebirds, and on June 12, 1991, they teamed with Tom Zenk to defeat Michael Hayes, Jimmy Garvin, and Badstreet at Clash of the Champions XV.
On September 21, 1991, they received a non-title match against the eventual winners of that tournament, The Enforcers (Arn Anderson and Larry Zybysko but were unsuccessful.