despite losing all of his matches during his trial series, he joined do fixer stable and became shingo takagi's rival. he was soon overshadowed by shingo and bxb hulk and showed signs of breaking into singles competition. he was recruited for cima's blood generation stable and after showing heelish mannerisms, he eventually turned on his do fixer stablemates and joined up with cima in 2006. the night that he joined, blood generation split into two separate factions known as the muscle outlaw'z and cima's new version of the blood generation. tanizaki joined up with muscle outlaw'z but soon had a losing streak against jack evans and any other gaijin wrestler cima brought in. his contract was then terminated in july and he officially left in december.