He was arguably part of one of the best tag teams of all-time when he and the Golden King were tag teaming as a cohesive unit.  Next to the Phantom Lords, the team of the Golden King and The Colonel are the best tag team ever to grace the IWF ring.  But with the highest of highs comes the lowest of lows.

The Colonel slowly but surely started to drift away from the tag team as the imminent breakup between the two men, who were seemingly like blood brothers, started in October of 2003.  In a tag team match pitting R. Bruce Tharpe with Psycho Simpson and Dusty Wolfe tagging with The Colonel, Tharpe was allegedly hurt by none other than The Colonel himself, who would later admit he intentionally tried to hurt Tharpe.  And thus the feud between Tharpe and Colonel began to prosper.  The Colonel was now intent on hurting R. Bruce Tharpe in any way, shape or form he could think of.  The climax of the feud took place when Colonel deliberately broke the right arm of R. Bruce Tharpe during a live interview.