Keiji Mutoh and Taiyo Kea for the AJPW World Tag Team Championship on July 17, 2002. On the July 20, 2002 edition of AJPW TV KroniK participated in the Stan Hansen Cup Four Way initiative. KroniK would eliminate the team of George Hines and Johnny Smith, before being eliminated by "Dr. Death" Steve Williams and Mike Rotunda, Williams pinning Adams after the Doctor Bomb. Mike Barton and Jim Steele would win the tournament, with Barton pinning Rotunda. Despite KroniK's failure in winning the Stan Hansen Cup, after the match they would cut a confident and rather cocky promo talking about how they were still the AJPW World Tag Team Champions, calling everyone in the initiative "losers", "stupid" and "not smart enough" to be the champions. KroniK would only make one successful title defense against Barton and Steele on August 30, 2002 as part of a two day pay-per-view. On the second day of the pay-per-view on August 31, KroniK defeated Tomoaki Honma and Yuto Aijima in a non-title match. KroniK was later stripped of the titles in October as they cancelled the rest of their appearances in 2002, as Adams suffered a shoulder injury while training for a boxing career. They returned for the WRESTLE-1 show on January 19, 2003 in what would be KroniK's last match, losing to Keiji Muto and Goldberg. Along with Goldberg, Steve Williams and Mike Rotunda KroniK left AJPW during a gaijin exodus, which occurred after Mrs. Baba's last appearance behind the scenes in AJPW. In that match Adams suffered a spinal injury that forced him into retirement, and Clarke decided to leave during the exodus. This was also when AJPW's sale finalized, the company having been in the process of being sold in late 2002. Adams died of a drug overdose on August 13, 2007 by mixing the painkiller buprenorphine with the muscle relaxant carisoprodol and the sedatives chlordiazepoxide and alprazolam. Championships and accomplishments All Japan Pro Wrestling World Tag Team Championship (1 time) World Championship Wrestling WCW World Tag Team Championship (2 times) Wrestling Observer Newsletter Worst Worked Match of the Year (2001) vs. The Brothers of Destruction at Unforgiven Worst Tag Team (2000, 2001) References All Japan Pro Wrestling teams and stables World Championship Wrestling teams and stables WWE teams and stables