TV Champion
On March 12, 2017, Akiyama defeated Kenso to win the Gaora TV Championship for the first time. His Gaora TV Title reign would mostly be in the midcard in comedy or gimmick-heavy matches as Akiyama wanted to settle-down into a midcard role. During his tenure as TV Champion, Akiyama would team with Takao Omori to once-more win the AJPW World Tag-Team Championship in October 2017 to celebrate both men's 25th anniversaries in wrestling. The match, which was originally supposed to be against reigning champions Strong BJ (Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Okabayashi) of Big Japan Pro Wrestling, was changed before the show due to Okabayashi suffering a major shoulder injury and being forced to vacate. Big Japan's Ryuji Ito filled-in for Okabayashi. Wild Burning would lose the tag titles on January 3, 2018 to 2017 World's Strongest Tag Determination League winners, Suwama and Shuji Ishikawa. With Takao Omori going down injured around this time, Akiyama would revisit his old partnership with Yuji Nagata to challenge for the All Asia Tag Team Championship, held by NEXTREAM's Naoya Nomura and Yuma Aoyagi. The match, scheduled for February 3, would be changed due to Yuma suffering a broken ankle and vacating the titles. Ryoji Sai filled in as Naoya Nomura's partner in a losing effort to Nagata and Akiyama. When Takao Omori returned from injury he too chose to revisit an old partnership - teaming with Manabu Nakanishi in a Wild Child reunion to unsuccessfully challenge both men's regular partners on March 25. Despite saying in 2017 he wanted to take a step back from tournaments and main event titles, Akiyama participated in the 2018 Champion Carnival, presumably because of the large amount of injuries the rest of the roster was facing. In the B Block, Akiyama went 4-3 in the Champion Carnival, with a loss on the final block night to NOAH representative Naomichi Marufuji costing him the chance to advance to the finals. On July 15, Akiyama's 490-day reign as Gaora TV Champion came to an end in a technical bout against Tajiri who cheated to win. Two weeks later, on July 29, Akiyama and Nagata would lose their All Asia Tag Team Championship to Naoya Nomura and a fully healed Yuma Aoyagi. In February 2021 it was announced that Akiyama had let his contract with All Japan expire.