During 1989, The Hood (under his real name Jeff Gaylord), would appear on WWF Wrestling Challenge, teaming with Tim Horner against The Fabulous Rougeaus on April 16, before debuting in World Class Championship Wrestling, facing veterans such as Jimmy Jack Funk and Kerry Von Erich.
Wrestling for World Class Championship Wrestling as the masked wrestler The Hood during the late 1980's, he briefly feuded with Jeff Jarrett and Bill Dundee, later teaming with "Stunning" Steve Austin, Gary Young and Skandor Akbar in an eight-man Texas Tornado match and losing to Jeff Jarrett, Bill Dundee, Eric Embry and Percy Pringle in early 1990.
He would appear on several house shows for the World Wrestling Federation, wrestling Jerry Lawler at several house shows in early 1993. On November 24, he would also make a pay-per-view appearance at the WWF's 1993 Survivor Series as "The Black Knight" along with The Red Knight and The Blue Knight against the Hart family and was later pinned by Owen Hart, becoming the first man eliminated.
Gaylord made one final appearance on the November 28, 1994 taping of WCW Saturday Night, where he defeated Rip Rogers.