[3] The Towers had before feuded with each other when the Big Boss Man was known as Big Bubba Rogers and Akeem was known as The One Man Gang in the Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF), when Rogers defeated Gang to win the UWF World Heavyweight Championship.
The Towers made their pay-per-view debut on November 24, 1988, at the WWF 1988 Survivor Series, captaining a team with Haku, Ted DiBiase, and The Red Rooster against a team captained by The Mega Powers (Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage), Hercules, Koko B. Ware and Hillbilly Jim in a five-on-five elimination match.
On Saturday Night's Main Event XXI, Hogan superplexed Boss Man from a steel cage, which he then left to win the match and resolve the feud.
[12] After Demolition lost the title to The Brain Busters (Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard), they continued to feud with the Towers, who teamed with André the Giant who would lose to them and King Duggan at SummerSlam 1989, much to the surprise of commentator Jesse Ventura who had previously claimed that there was no way that he thought that Duggan and Demolition would beat the Towers and André.
During this time, the Boss Man was embroiled in a feud with Dusty Rhodes, who had stolen his nightstick and handcuffs.
On a February 24, 1990 episode of WWF Superstars of Wrestling, Boss Man retrieved a bag containing the belt and Roberts' python, Damien.
On The Brother Love Show, he refused to accept DiBiase's money for the bag, and returned it to Roberts.
Boss Man defeated Akeem at WrestleMania VI in only 1:49 despite DiBiase (who had wrestled the previous match against Jake Roberts) jumping him before the opening bell.
He then joined forces with former foe Hogan, primarily against Earthquake, Jimmy Hart and Dino Bravo at SummerSlam 1990 and the 1990 Survivor Series.
After losing his feud with his former partner, Akeem dropped back down to mid-card status, and left the WWF in October 1990 and reverted to the One Man Gang.