 He followed with a significantly successful tenure in the "Fire Festival 2018", scoring wins over Hino, Shinjiro Otani and Hiroshi Yamato, though victory escaped his grasp again.In November, Sugi would prove better in the short "Tenka-Ichi Junior Tournament 2018" for the vacated International Junior Heavyweight Championship and NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship, winning the tournament and the titles after beating Tatsuhito Takaiwa, Asuka and Hayata.Now as a champion, he resumed his team Kohei Sato to compete in the "Furinkazan Tag Tournament 2018", where they also won by defeating Chris Vice and Shogun Okamoto at the finals.