 Sugi and him defeated Hidaka and Sugawara in a non-title match, but failed at taking the titles.Sugi replaced Psycho by Sean Guinness for the "Furinkazan Tag Tournament 2017", only to be eliminated in the first round by Hidaka and Sugawara again.He spent the next weeks teaming with several wrestlers against his old enemy faction Voodoo Murders, until he announced Masamune as his next tag team partner in his quest for the tag titles.