Doug Furnas and Phil LaFon Doug Furnas and Phil LaFon were a professional wrestling tag team that wrestled in All Japan Pro Wrestling ( AJPW ) , Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) , Universal Wrestling Association ( UWA ) and World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) . They teamed up together for nine years from 1989 to 1999 and held success as tag team competitors . In AJPW , they were a record 5 time All Asia Tag Team Champions . In ECW , they were 1 time World Tag Team Champions and in UWA , they were 2 time World Tag Team Champions . Career . All Japan Pro Wrestling ( First run , 1989 - 1992 ) . Doug Furnas and Dan Kroffat were long - time mainstays in All Japan Pro Wrestling ( AJPW ) . Both men stood 5 ' 11 " tall . They teamed for the first time as heels on June 5 , 1989 beating Footloose ( Samson Fuyuki and Toshiaki Kawada ) for the AJPW All Asia Tag Team Championship . They spent their early beginnings as a tag team and champions , feuding with Fuyuki and Kawada . After four months , they lost the titles back to Kawada and Fuyuki on October 20 . Furnas and Kroffat regained the titles from Kawada and Fuyuki on March 2 , 1990 winning the titles for a second time . They lost the titles a month later to the popular tag team of Kenta Kobashi and Tiger Mask II . They wrestled many makeshift tag teams and tried to regain their All Asia tag titles . They spent the rest of the year , feuding with tag team champions . On April 20 , 1991 , they defeated Dynamite Kid and Johnny Smith ending their short reign of just two weeks . As a result of this victory , Furnas and Kroffat became 3 - time All Asia Tag Team Champions , a record held by former champions Samson Fuyuki and Toshiaki Kawada . As a result , there were only two teams during that time to hold the All Asia tag titles three times . On July 8 , they would lose the titles to Johnny Ace and Kenta Kobashi . AJPW wanted Furnas and Kroffat to regain the All Asia tag titles , so Joel Deaton and Billy Black were used as champions and defeated Ace and Kobashi for the titles and eight days later , they were defeated by Furnas and Kroffat for the titles . As a result of this victory , this unlikely Canadian - American duo became All Asia Tag Team Champions for a fourth time holding a record for most time as champions . They would hold the titles for 304 days , becoming eleventh longest reigning champions before they eventually lost the titles to Tsuyoshi Kikuchi and Kenta Kobashi on May 25 , 1992 becoming a dominant team of their era . They left Japan and went to work in Mexico . Universal Wrestling Association ( 1992 - 1993 ) . After losing the AJPW All Asia Tag Team Championship to Kikuchi and Kobashi , Furnas and Kroffat left AJPW and debuted in Universal Wrestling Association ( UWA ) , where they worked as Can - Am Express ( A common misconception is that they worked as the " Can - Am Connection " ) . Shortly after debut , they defeated Los Cowboys / Los Effectivos ( Silver King and El Texano ) for their first UWA World Tag Team Championship . They started a historic feud with Los Cowboys and defended the titles twice against them in July . Furnas and Kroffat retained their titles until they lost to Los Villanos ( Villano IV and Villano V ) on November 28 of that year . Furnas and Kroffat began feuding with the Villanos but they did not get a title shot for the rest of the year . They eventually won the titles for a second time on March 7 , 1993 by defeating Los Villanos . In the next month of April , their lengthy feud with Los Villanos ended after Los Villanos defeated them for a second time to win the titles . Furnas and Kroffat left UWA shortly after and returned to AJPW . All Japan Pro Wrestling ( Second run , 1993 - 1994 ) . Furnas and Kroffat returned to AJPW in May 1993 . On May 21 , Dan Kroffat surprisingly won the AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Championship from Masanobu Fuchi which culminated in a feud between the two junior heavyweights . Kroffat reigned as champion for the summer of 1993 before eventually losing the title back to Fuchi . However , the next month , on September 9 , the duo became a record - breaking 5 - time All Asia Tag Team Champions after beating The Eagle and The Patriot for the titles . They continued their domination in the tag team division while Kroffat won the World Junior Heavyweight Championship for a second time on July 12 , 1994 becoming a double champion . On December 5 , Kroffat and Furnas vacated the All Asia Tag Team Championship to focus on the AJPW Unified World Tag Team Championship but became the fifth longest reigning champions in history with a reign of 451 days . Kroffat also reigned as champion for over a year eventually losing the title to Yoshinari Ogawa on September 10 , 1995 . Extreme Championship Wrestling ( First run , 1996 ) . Kroffat and Furnas debuted in hardcore wrestling promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) in 1996 . After losing to Rob Van Dam , in the late summer of 1996 , Furnas refused to show respect and suplexed RVD across the ring . Deciding that he wanted to teach Furnas about respect , RVD challenged him to a tag team match . Furnas brought in Kroffat , while Van Dam chose Sabu as his partner . Sabu and Rob Van Dam had been feuding all year , but worked very well together . The two teams had a great series of matches , regarded as some of the best in the company ' s history . Not long after , Furnas and Kroffat left ECW . World Wrestling Federation ( 1996 - 1997 ) . Dan Kroffat renamed himself " Phil LaFon " and then they were repackaged as Doug Furnas and Phil LaFon . They signed contracts with World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) . They made their pay - per - view ( PPV ) debuts at Survivor Series 1996 , participating for the first time in a WWF ring in a Survivor Series match where they teamed with The Godwinns ( Henry and Phineas ) against WWF Tag Team Champions Owen Hart and British Bulldog and New Rockers ( Marty Jannetty and Leif Cassidy ) . Furnas and LaFon were the survivors , last pinning tag champions . As 1997 began , they began feud with Hart and Bulldog over the tag titles , due to having pinned the champions . They got a title shot at and won the match by disqualification after Owen hit LaFon with his Slammy as Bulldog had LaFon in the powerslam . Though , Furnas and LaFon won the match they did not win the titles because a title cannot change hands by a DQ . In the summer of 1997 , Furnas and LaFon were in a car accident which kept them out of action for several months . They returned in the fall of 1997 where they teamed with the British Bulldog and Jim Neidhart as apart of Team Canada at Survivor Series 1997 against Team USA ( Vader , Goldust , Marc Mero , & Steve Blackman ) . LaFon would be the second eliminated from Team Canada by Vader while Furnas was able to eliminate Mero before he was eliminated by Vader . Bulldog would be the sole survivor . After Survivor Series , Furnas and LaFon would make a few more appearances mostly on Shotgun Saturday Night with one match being against the then - unknown Hardy Boyz before being sent to ECW . Extreme Championship Wrestling ( Second run , 1997 - 1998 ) . In late 1997 , Furnas and LaFon returned to Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ) . Upon their return , they were apart of the Team WWF / Team Titan stable . One of their first notable appearances was at ECW November To Remember 1997 where they assisted Rob Van Dam in a match against Tommy Dreamer . On December 5 , 1997 , they defeated the FBI for the ECW World Tag Team Championship . 24 hours later on December 6 , they lost the titles to Chris Candido and Lance Storm in a three - way also involving Ballz Mahoney and Axl Rotten . Following the title loss , the team broke up in early 1998 when LaFon left ECW . Furnas continued to wrestle as a singles wrestler throughout 1998 before he too eventually left .