NEVER Openweight Championship
On September 17 at Destruction in Beppu, Taichi defeated Hirooki Goto to win the NEVER Openweight Championship, his first singles title in NJPW. At the same event, Suzuki was defeated by Tetsuya Naito in a special singles rematch. On November 3 at Power Struggle, Taichi lost the NEVER Openweight Championship back to Goto in his first defense, ending his reign at 47 days. From November 17 to December 9, three Suzuki-Gun teams would participate in the World Tag League, K.E.S, Suzuki and Iizuka and Taichi and Sabre. With each team finishing the single block tournament with 18, 10 and 16 points respectively, with K.E.S narrowly missing the finals after a head to head loss against Evil and Sanada.