Horner signed to Jim Crockett Promotions in 1984, and formed The Lightning Express with Brad Armstrong.
[3] They won the Universal Wrestling Federation tag team title in 1987, defeating Sting and Rick Steiner.
[6] On televised matches he was used as a jobber in both singles and tag-team matches, while at house shows he was frequently victorious over other jobbers including Danny Davis, Jose Estrada, Barry Horowitz, Jose Luis Rivera, Iron Mike Sharpe, Tom Magee, Steve Lombardi, and Johnny K-9 (Taras Bulba).
In SMW, he also played the original "Kendo the Samurai"[1] (a masked samurai gimmick, also used by Scott Antol, Brian Logan, Dave Pillman and others) managed by Daryl Van Horne.
On June 16, 2013, he teamed with Tom Prichard to defeat Bob Orton, Jr. and George South at the Brad Armstrong Memorial Event.