 In 2002, upon taking on the royal prince character, he formed the Royal Prince Brothers unit with Junya Fukumasa and Takuya Sugawara, who were renamed to – respectively – Phillip J. Fukumasa and Henry III Sugawara and wore royalty inspired outfits.However, the group would go on hiatus at the end of the year when Fukumasa left wrestling and Sugawara returned to Mexico for more training.He would spend 2003 with various alignments, most notably the Italian Connection (Milano Collection A.T. & YOSSINO).