New Japan Pro Wrestling
While Sharpe's television appearances were always as the role of a jobber, and victories even at house shows were rare, he chalked up quite a few untelevised victories between 1984 and 1988. Sharpe had a few more memorable moments over his WWF career. He appeared on "Piper's Pit" in 1984, provided the opposition in Ivan Putski's 1987 comeback match at Madison Square Garden, and pinned Boris Zhukov to reach the second round of the 1988 King Of The Ring tournament. And though he wrestled as a heel in the WWF, Sharpe was also the tag team partner of Hulk Hogan during a tour of Japan against stars of New Japan Pro-Wrestling in early 1984 (Hogan was a heel in Japan). Sharpe also competed briefly as a fan favorite in late 1988, with televised victories over Steve Lombardi and Barry Horowitz. Sharpe also wrestled in the New Japan Pro Wrestling and Continental Wrestling Association (CWA) in Memphis during late 1984 and early 1985, holding their NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship. His last televised match was on June 6, 1995, in a losing tag-team effort with Duane Gill against the Smoking Gunns.