International Wrestling Enterprise
Appearing at an event for the World Wide Wrestling Federation in Toronto, Ontario on April 25, he would also begin touring Japan with International Wrestling Enterprise later that year as he and Gypsy Joe would losing to the Great Kusatsu &amp; 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. Although Gypsy Joe scored the first fall over the Mighty Inoue, he and Gypsy Joe forfeited the second fall via disqualification with Hayes being pinned by Inoue to take the third fall. While in Japan, he would become close friends with fellow Canadian wrestler Archie Gouldie.