on june 13, 2010 he started showing some heel tendencies during his match against super shisa where he used a low blow to set up for his implant finisher. later during the main event he almost cost his fellow world-1 teammate masato yoshino a chance at becoming the number one contender for yamato's open the dream gate title by mistakenly hitting him with the deep drunkers signature blue box nearly costing him the match to deep drunkers leader takuya sugawara. on june 20, 2010 he teamed up with naruki doi and pac to defeat the warriors team of genki horiguchi, cima, gamma to win the open the triangle gate championship for the first time. during the final moments of the match he once again used a low blow as a set up for his implant finisher further teasing a heel turn. however, only 4 days later they were beaten in a rematch and lost the titles back to the former champions.