 During the next two months, he would team with the Blue Avenger in the GWF World Tag Team Championship Tournament being eliminated by Bill Irwin and Johnny Ace and, during the GWF North American Championship Tournament, lost to John Tatum in the opening rounds.During this time, he was involved in an altercation with Eddie Gilbert at a Dallas wrestling event in which Gaylord allegedly "sucker-punched" Gilbert during an argument in Gilbert's dressing room at the Dallas Sportatorium.The two began fighting, until it was broken up by Doug Gilbert who assaulted Gaylord with a Coke bottle.