Ryota Hama
On July 10, 2013, Nakanoue was announced as part of Keiji Mutoh's new Wrestle-1 promotion. During the promotion's inaugural event on September 8, Nakanoue teamed with Ryota Hama in a tag team match, where they were defeated by Kohei Sato and Ryouji Sai. At , Nakanoue lost to Satoshi Kojima. On March 9, 2014, Nakanoue appeared for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as part of TNA's working agreement with Wrestle-1, teaming with The Great Muta and Sanada to defeat Chris Sabin, Christopher Daniels and Kazarian in a six-man tag team steel cage match at Lockdown. On May 4, Nakanoue and Seiki Yoshioka unsuccessfully challenged Strongest-K Tag Team Champions Hiroki and Yuji Hino. In November, he teamed with Taiyō Kea in the First Tag League Greatest but failed to progress to the semifinals. In September 2015, Nakanoue would form the stables Jackets with Jiro Kuroshio and Seiki Yoshioka. On October 9, the trio defeated new Wild order (Akira, Jun Kasai and Kumagoro) for the newly revived UWA World Trios Championship. On November 3, they lost the titles to Real Desperado (Kazma Sakamoto, Koji Doi and Nosawa Rongai) but would regain the belts on November 27. On January 7, 2016, Jackets would vacate the titles due to Yoshioka being sidelined following cecum surgery and being unable to attend a title defence set for January 10. On January 31, Jackets lost to Kaz Hayashi, Minoru Tanaka and Tajiri for the vacant title. In April, Nakanoue began teaming with Big Japan Pro Wrestling's Yuji Okabayashi and split his time between Wrestle-1 and BJW. On June 8, they won the Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship from Real Desperado's Kazma Sakamoto and Yuji Hino. On June 28, it was announced that Nakanoue and several other wrestlers would be leaving Wrestle-1 due to their contracts expiring. Nakanoue and Okabayashi remained champions until June 29 when they lost them to new Wild order's Jun Kasai and Manabu Soya.