[2] He made his FMW debut as a fan favorite with Masato Tanaka by losing to Dark Ranger and Masaru Toi in a tag team match on October 15.

[2] Kuroda's first main event match took place on November 26, 1994, when he teamed with Atsushi Onita, Katsutoshi Niiyama and Masato Tanaka to defeat Mr. Pogo, The Gladiator, Hideki Hosaka and Hisakatsu Oya in a no ropes barbed wire street fight deathmatch.

[17] Five days later, at Kawasaki Legend: Fall Spectacular, Kuroda won a royal rumble match by last eliminating Ricky Fuji to win a cheque of 10,000,000 yens.

[21] On December 20, Onita, Hido and Kuroda lost the World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship to Hayabusa, Hisakatsu Oya and Masato Tanaka during the Super Extreme Wrestling War tour.

On January 7, 1998, Onita, Nakagawa and Kuroda competed at ZEN's first promoted show and scored a win against Gannosuke, Kanemura and Hido to gain revenge.

[23] On February 13, Onita, Nakagawa and Kuroda defeated Gannosuke, Kanemura and Jado to win the World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship.

[25] Kuroda and The Gladiator lost to TNR members Horace Boulder and Super Leather at the company's first pay-per-view event 9th Anniversary Show.

[26] The following night, Kuroda debuted for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) at the company's twenty-fifth anniversary show Showdown at the Egg by teaming with Gladiator and Hideki Hosaka against Akira Taue, Takao Omori and Masao Inoue in a losing effort.

[27] On May 5, Onita, Nakagawa and Kuroda lost the World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship to TNR members Hido, Kodo Fuyuki and Yukihiro Kanemura.

[41] In December, Kuroda participated in an Over the Top Tournament to determine the #1 contender for the Double Championship by defeating Super Leather in the first round and Muhammad Yone in the quarter-final before losing to Hisakatsu Oya in the semi-final.

[46] Tanaka and Kuroda participated in a round robin tournament for the vacant Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship, in which they defeated Hido and Yukihiro Kanemura,[47] Hideki Hosaka and Super Leather,[48] Hisakatsu Oya and Mr. Gannosuke,[49] and Armageddon.

[50] while fighting Hayabusa and Kodo Fuyuki[51] and Daisuke Ikeda and Muhammad Yone to thirty-minute time limit draws[52] and suffered their only loss against Gedo and Koji Nakagawa.

[53] On May 3, Tanaka and Kuroda defeated Gedo and Nakagawa in the playoff match and Hayabusa and Fuyuki in the final round to win the tournament and the tag team titles.

[62] On August 25, Kuroda, Oya and Yoshinori Sasaki unsuccessfully challenged Kodo Fuyuki, Koji Nakagawa and Gedo for the WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship.

On September 23, Kuroda, Oya and Masato Tanaka defeated Fuyuki, Nakagawa and Gedo to capture the six-man tag team title.

On June 26, Kuroda, H and Hisakatsu Oya defeated Fuyuki, Kyoko Inoue and Chocoball Mukai to win the WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship.

[81] Kuroda, Hayabusa and Hisakatsu Oya lost the WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship to Fuyuki, Mr. Gannosuke and Shinjuku Shark on September 15.

[89] On December 24, Kuroda and Fuyuki defeated Tamon Honda and Naomichi Marufuji to win the WEW Tag Team Championship at Pro Wrestling NOAH's Great Voyage pay-per-view.

Kuroda and Gannosuke lost to Hayabusa and Sasuke in an exploding octagon cage electric bomb death match at the 12th Anniversary Show on May 5.

[2][99] On May 22, Kuroda lost the WEW Heavyweight Championship to Hayabusa in a barbed wire double hell match, with Kodo Fuyuki as the special guest referee.

[100] On June 8, Kuroda turned into a fan favorite by siding with Hayabusa and Shoichi Arai after Kodo Fuyuki announced that he had bought 48% of the shares in FMW.

[2][101] On August 11, Kuroda was defeated by Gannosuke via submission in a best of three match series between FMW and Fuyuki's team with Hayabusa's 5% stock in the company on the line.

[111] Kuroda would soon begin competing in the Japanese independent circuit along with WEW, most notably his friend Eiji Ezaki's Wrestlings Marvelous Future (WMF).

[2][112] On October 23, Kuroda won the WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship with Gosaku Goshogawara and TAKA Michinoku by defeating Masato Tanaka, Shinjiro Otani and Kuroge Wagyuta.

[121][122][123][124] He primarily competed for Hayabusa's WMF, debuting for the company at The Independence Day by teaming with Hisakatsu Oya to defeat Mr. Gannosuke and Jinsei Shinzaki with the show airing on September 5.

[2] In early 2003, Kuroda teamed with Chocoball Mukai to participate in Pro Wrestling NOAH's first Differ Cup tournament, in which they lost to Kudo and Mikami in the quarter-final.

[136][139] On March 12, 2005, Kuroda and Onryo defeated Takeshi Sasaki and GENTARO to revive the WEW World Tag Team Championship in Apache Army.

[142] On April 16, 2005, Kuroda and Hido defeated Kintaro Kanemura and Tomohiro Ishii to win Riki Pro's World Magma the Greatest (WMG) Tag Team Championship.

On January 28, 2006, Kuroda debuted for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) by teaming with Kintaro Kanemura and Hido against Control Terrorism Unit (Jyushin Thunder Liger, Jado and Gedo), with the match ending in a no contest after Apache Army and CTU began brawling with each other.

[166] Kuroda then teamed with Tatsuhito Takaiwa to beat Okuda and Hashimoto for the title at Apache Army's last show Final Gong on December 25.