The newly crowned World Champion, Dake was unable to defend his US World Team spot in June at Final X: Rutgers against US National champion Alex Dieringer, due to a "freak accident" which required surgery, pushing the wrestle–offs for later on. Instead, he came back on July at the prestigious Grand Prix of Spain, where after five matches, Dake was victorious and stood on top of the podium. The wrestle–offs for the US World Team spot with Alex Dieringer took place in August, and the same results as in the five previous matches popped up, with Dake defeating Dieringer twice to defend the spot. A month later, Dake competed at his second World Championships. After notably defeating 2017 U23 World Champion from Russia Gadzhi Nabiev and two–time Asian Continental champion from Uzbekistan Rashid Kurbanov, he once again downed Jabrayil Hasanov from Azerbaijan to repeat become a two–time World Champion.