 On April 7 at Invasion Attack, Shibata and Sakuraba suffered their first tag team loss, when they were defeated by Hirooki Goto and Yuji Nagata via referee stoppage, when Sakuraba was injured and unable to continue the match.Shibata and Goto faced off in a singles match on May 3 at Wrestling Dontaku 2013, which ended in a draw.A rematch between the two took place on June 22 at Dominion 6.22, where Shibata was victorious.