 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.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.