Following Mr. Gannosuke's injury, Kodo Fuyuki took over as the leader of TNR. On May 5, Onita agreed to end ZEN if Fuyuki, Yukihiro Kanemura and Hido were able to beat him, Koji Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda in a street fight for the World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship. TNR won the title, forcing ZEN to disband. On May 19, Fuyuki and Kanemura formed a tag team called The New Footloose, a spin-off of Fuyuki's old tag team with Toshiaki Kawada called Footloose. Fuyuki began getting influential in FMW by getting the right to book his own matches and he made a match between TNR and ZEN on May 25, with the stipulation that if ZEN lost then TNR would pick a member of ZEN. ZEN lost and TNR picked Hideki Hosaka as their slave. The same stipulation was for the next night and TNR won again with Tetsuhiro Kuroda being forced to become TNR's slave. On May 27, New Footloose defeated Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka to win the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. On May 31, New Footloose defended the title against Atsushi Onita and Koji Nakagawa, during which Nakagawa turned on Onita by hitting him with a crutch to end Onita's alliance and joined TNR. TNR misused Hosaka and Kuroda and Nakagawa would often beat and attack his former ZEN teammates to prove his loyalty to TNR. On June 1, TNR vacated the World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship and regained it later in the night as Fuyuki, Kanemura and Nakagawa defeated Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka and Hisakatsu Oya to win the title.
