on september 17, 2010 following another loss, tanizaki finally snapped as he and his partner bxb hulk argued over the loss and was stopped by dr. muscle who then attacked bxb hulk and gave him an implant, he offered a handshake to tanizaki and was refused. later on in the main event pitting his world-1 teammates masato yoshino and naruki doi against k-ness and susumu yokosuka for the open the twin gate championship he attacked both yoshino and susumu giving both men an implant but then laying yokosuka over yoshino costing them the titles. he further cemented his betrayal of world-1 by joining up with the deep drunkers stable thus completing his heel turn. on october 3, 2010 he went on to win the three way match between himself, hulk, and doi following interference from his new deep drunkers teammates as he eliminated both men and went so far as to mock them by saying their diamonds were probably made of glass, a knock on the world-1 logo. on october 13, 2010, the deep drunkers were forced to split up, after losing a match against world–1 (bxb hulk, masato yoshino and naruki doi), but after the match doi turned on his partners to form a new stable with tanizaki, yasushi kanda, kzy and takuya sugawara. on october 25 tanizaki, kanda and sugawara defeated cima, gamma and genki horiguchi to win the open the triangle gate championship. they would lose the title to cima, dragon kid and ricochet on december 26, 2010. on january 14, 2011, team doi aligned themselves with the warriors stable, who turned heel in the process. on january 18 the new group was named blood warriors. on july 17, tanizaki attacked open the brave gate champion and member of rival group junction three, pac, and stole his championship belt. tanizaki then announced that since pac was heading home to england for the next month, he would defend the championship in his place. blood warriors named the title the "blood warriors authorized open the brave gate championship" with tanizaki defending it in matches, where he only needed to score two counts to win them. on september 2, tanizaki, kzy and naruki doi defeated gamma, masato yoshino and yamato to win the open the triangle gate championship. on september 16, the returning pac defeated tanizaki to regain possession of the open the brave gate championship. on january 8, 2012, tanizaki was sidelined with a shoulder injury. the injury also led to dragon gate stripping blood warriors of their open the triangle gate championship on january 19.