Shingo Takagi
On March 22, 2010, Yamato defeated Naruki Doi via Gallaria to become the 11th Open the Dream Gate Champion at Compilation Gate 2010 in Tokyo. Following this match, Yamato enjoyed three successful title defenses against Susumu Yokosuka, Shingo Takagi and Masaaki Mochizuki. On July 11, 2010, Yamato lost the Open the Dream Gate Championship to Masato Yoshino at Kobe World 2010. On May 13, 2011, Takagi disbanded Kamikaze and the following day both him and Yamato joined Masaaki Mochizuki's new stable, Junction Three, to battle Cima's Blood Warriors. On June 18, Yamato, Gamma and Yoshino defeated the Blood Warriors team of Cima, Naruki Doi and BxB Hulk to win the vacant Open the Triangle Gate Championship. They would go on to lose the title to the Blood Warriors team of Kzy, Naoki Tanisaki and Naruki Doi on September 2. On October 16, Yamato lost his hair to Cyber Kong in a six-way steel cage Hair vs. Hair match. On February 9, 2012, Junction Three was forced to disband, after losing a fourteen-man elimination tag team match to Blood Warriors. On April 19, 2012, Yamato, alongside Shingo Takagi joined with Dragon Gate NEX Member Chihiro Tominaga, and the debuting Super Shenlong III and formed -akatsuki-. On July 22, 2012, Yamato and Shingo Takagi defeated Jimmy Kagetora and Jimmy Susumu to become the 22nd Open the Twin Gate Champions. They lost the title to Don Fujii and Masaaki Mochizuki on September 23, 2012. Yamato and Takagi won the title for their third time together on May 5, 2013, by defeating BxB Hulk and Uhaa Nation. They lost the title to Akira Tozawa and BxB Hulk on June 15, when Yamato turned on Takagi to join Tozawa's and Hulk's Mad Blankey stable. On August 1, Yamato became the new leader of Mad Blankey, when the stable turned on Akira Tozawa. On August 23, Yamato defeated Shingo Takagi to win the Open the Dream Gate Championship for the second time. On October 6, Yamato became a double champion, when he, BxB Hulk and Cyber Kong defeated Takagi, Akira Tozawa and Masato Yoshino to win the vacant Open the Triangle Gate Championship. However, just four days later, he lost the Open the Dream Gate Championship to Yoshino. On December 5, Mad Blankey also lost the Open the Triangle Gate Championship to Millennials (Eita, Flamita and T-Hawk). On December 8, the Mad Blankey duo of Yamato and Naruki Doi defeated the Millennials to win the Open the Twin Gate Championship. They lost the title to Akira Tozawa and Shingo Takagi on December 22. On May 5, 2014, Yamato won the Open the Dream Gate Championship for a record-tying third time by defeating Ricochet. He lost the title to former Mad Blankey stablemate BxB Hulk on July 20. On August 16, 2015, Mad Blankey was forced to disband after losing to Jimmyz in a five-on-five elimination tag team match, after being betrayed by K-ness. On September 23, Yamato formed a new stable named VerserK with Cyber Kong, Kotoka, Mondai Ryu, Naruki Doi and Shingo Takagi. On May 6, Yamato and Doi would lose the Twin Gate Championships to Big R Shimizu and T-Hawk, ending their record-breaking 267-day reign with record breaking 9 defenses. On May 5, Yamato was betrayed by his VerserK stablemates and later aligned with BxB Hulk, Kzy, and Yosuke♥Santa Maria, turning face in the process. The four ended up forming a new unit, which was named Tribe Vanguard on May 28, 2016. On June 12, Yamato defeated Big R Shimizu to win the annual King of Gate tournament. On July 24, Yamato defeated Shingo Takagi to become Dream Gate Champion for the fourth time. On September 22 at "Dangerous Gate", Yamato defeated Akira Tozawa marking his first defense. Yamato defeated Naruki Doi December 25 at "Final Gate" for his second defense. February 2 at "Truth Gate", Yamato defeated BxB Hulk marking his third defense. Yamato defeated Cyber Kong on March 5 at "Champion Gate", for his fourth successful defense. He defeated Shingo Takagi, Cyber Kong, BxB Hulk &amp; Naruki Doi in a cage match on May 5, 2017 at Dead Or Alive, marking his fifth defense. Afterwards, Cyber Kong was forced to unmask. On September 18, 2017 at Dangerous Gate, Yamato lost the Dream Gate Championship to Masaaki Mochizuki in his seventh defense.