 He defeated Leprechaun and Eisa8, but was eliminated by Carístico at the semi-finals.After a few appearances in Pro Wrestling Land's End in 2017, Sugi returned to Pro Wrestling Zero1 in August.He challenged unsuccessfully Kotaro Suzuki for the International Junior Heavyweight and NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championships, after which he declared he would challenge Ikuto Hidaka and Takuya Sugawara for the NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship with an unknown partner, which would revealed to be Psycho.