However, Rivera and Estrada surprisingly scored a victory (albeit untelevised) over the Rougeau Brothers on January 10, which became one of the team's highlights. Success for the team came again on February 15, where Rivera and Estrada surprisingly defeated the team of The Killer Bees, albeit once again untelevised. On November 30, success for the team of Rivera and Estrada came as they defeated one of the most pushed tag-teams at the time, The Rockers, a team composed by Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty. The Conquistadors' biggest highlight as team came at Survivor Series (1988) where they were among the final teams in the ring alongside The Powers of Pain. The Conquistadors came close to winning, but The Powers of Pain won after help from manager Mr. Fuji. By 1989, the teaming of Rivera and Estrada became more and more infrequent, with Rivera eventually starting to use his old ring name of "Jose Luis Rivera" although he continued to appear as "Conquistador #1" on TV-Tapings, and by this time, he also turned face. Constantly on the losing end of matches against established wrestlers such as Nikolai Volkoff, and Jim Duggan, Rivera occasionally gained victories over fellow preliminary wrestlers such as Steve Lombardi and Paul Roma. Rivera had an opportunity to face his former partner on November 27, appearing as "Jose Luis Rivera" and Estrada appearing as "Conquistador #1", with Rivera winning. In 1990, Estrada left the WWF, and Rivera continued appearing as "Conquistador #1" Rivera first and last victory in that year came on January 15, where he defeated Brian Costello. On November 20, Rivera teamed with Chris Hawn to face his old rival and recently turned heel Paul Roma and Hercules Hernandez, known as Power and Glory. Rivera and Hawn were defeated. Rivera left in 1991 for WCW, but returned for one appearance with the WWF on April 22, where he was defeated by Koko B. Ware in an untelevised event, he then departed after a full decade signing with the company. In 1991, Rivera signed a contract with World Championship Wrestling. Rivera, nicknamed The Angel wrestled only three untelevised matches (all of which he lost) During this time, Rivera also challenged champion Tom Zenk for the WCW World Television Title, but was unsuccessful. After leaving both the WWF and WCW, Rivera returned to his homeland, Puerto Rico in late 1991.