Jody Hamilton wound down his in-ring career in the Alabama territory competing under a different identity as The Flame before starting up his own promotion in Georgia,
Deep South Wrestling, in 1986, which he ran for about two years before selling the promotion. He then opened up the
Power Plant as a training facility for
World Championship Wrestling and was last seen reprising his Assassin role as the manager of Pretty Wonderful (
Paul Orndorff and
Paul Roma) in WCW in 1994. Hamilton reopened
Deep South Wrestling in 2005 to serve as a developmental territory for
World Wrestling Entertainment, but WWE severed its developmental deal with DSW on April 18, 2007, and Hamilton continued running the promotion on his own as an independent until he folded DSW shortly after its October 11, 2007, event. Hamilton died on August 3, 2021 at 82. Tom Renesto retired from wrestling in 1974. On April 25, 2000, Renesto died at 72 years old. Randy Colley went on to form
The Moondogs tag team (as Moondog Rex), which competed in the then-WWF and in the
Memphis area, and he was also the original
Demolition Smash. He also competed in
Mid-South Wrestling as the masked Nightmare, wearing the same mask he had as one of the Assassins. He retired in 1996 and died on December 14, 2019, at age 69. Roger Smith went on to fame in Memphis in the mid-1980s under the ring name Dirty Rhodes (for his resemblance to
Dusty Rhodes in both appearance and mannerisms), both as a heel and a babyface. He has also since retired. Hercules Hernandez went on to fame under that name in
World Class Championship Wrestling, Florida, the WWF and Japan, as the masked Mr. Wrestling III in Mid-South, and as the masked Super Invader in WCW. He died in his sleep of a heart attack in
Tampa, Florida, on March 6, 2004, at age 47. Jim Ross stated that the Masked Assassins "were the greatest tag team that [he] ever saw." ==Championships and accomplishments==