He joinedTōryūmon in 1999 as Makoto, with a vampire style gimmick. As Makoto he was a member of the legendary Crazy Max stable. However, he did not get along withTaru, and eventually was kicked out of the stable after losing to Taru in a loser leaves match.
He returned to Tōryūmon as Darkness Dragon, a takeoff on the Último Dragón lineage, joining heel stable M2K. With the help of his stablemates he became a main event performer. He had a bitter feud withDragon Kid that ended in 2002 with Kid winning the feud after winning a best of 3 falls mask vs mask match. Darkness Dragon unmasked and briefly went face, forming a face stable called Do Fixer with Kid andRyo Saito. His face turn, however, was a ruse designed to cause dissention between the faces. He would soon turn heel again, joining the remnants of M2K and revealing that they were the real Do Fixer. He remasked and reinvented himself as K-ness., and engaged in a major feud and rivalry withYossino.
In November 2003 he suffered a major shoulder injury which caused him to miss out on the majority of 2004, and the switch from Tōryūmon toDragon Gate.
By the time K-ness returned, Último Dragón had left the promotion and taken the Tōryūmon trademark with him.
On returning, K-ness re-united members from the various M2K factions that had split up over the past few years and created Final M2K. He had a relatively quiet 2005. He faced long term rival Yossino for theOpen the Brave Gate Championship, but was defeated.
In 2006, he spent a lot of time on the shelf again, recovering from nagging injuries. When he returned at the end of the year, he was no longer himself in terms of his health, and began to wrestle in the opening matches on Dragon Gate cards to reduce the possibility of re-injuring himself. He then held an office position as field manager and booker.
In late 2007 he began to take matches in the upper card again. Teaming withMasaaki Mochizuki andDon Fujii, he ended up with a reign as one third of theOpen the Triangle Gate champions. After dropping the titles, K-ness primarily returned to his background role. During that time, he unofficially allied with the "Over 30" veterans of Mochizuki, Fujii andMagnitude Kishiwada, and occasionally took upper card matches with them.
In 2009, K-ness began wrestling as 'X' although no one knew who exactly X was.Genki Horiguchi eventually called out X, who turned out to be K-ness. He stopped teaming with the other veterans and joined Real Hazard, reuniting the K-neSuka team withSusumu Yokosuka. On January 11, 2010, he defeatedNaoki Tanizaki to become the Open the Brave Gate Champion.
On January 10, 2010, Genki Horiguchi announced that Real Hazard would start winning matches through teamwork rather than illegal tactics. He initially started out alone on this mission, but six days later, Yokosuka and K-ness decided to help him in his pursuit of clean fights. However, they all found themselves on the losing end of trios matches, with Horiguchi taking the fall every time, and a divide formed in Real Hazard over the clean fights issue, with them on one side andYasushi Kanda,Kzy, andTakuya Sugawara – who wanted to win through illegal methods – on the other. On February 10, afterKagetora accidentally cost Sugawara a shot at becoming the next challenger for theOpen the Dream Gate Championship, tensions boiled over. Yokosuka and K-ness left Real Hazard, along with Horiguchi. K-neSuka also agreed to stop teaming with Horiguchi, since they all did not like how Horiguchi was losing constantly, and they all felt that that was preventing K-neSuka from getting to the top of the tag team division.
On February 27, K-ness dropped the Brave Gate title toSuper Shisa. On May 13, 2010, K-ness and Susumu Yokosuka defeatedCyber Kong andShingo Takagi to win theDragon Gate Open the Twin Gate Championship. After the longest reign in the title's history, with four successful defenses, K-ness and Yokosuka lost the Open the Twin Gate Championship toGamma andNaruki Doi on November 23, 2010.[3] On December 4, K-ness and Susumu Yokosuka joined World-1. In a match on February 6, 2011, K-ness suffered a dislocated right shoulder and took time off to heal. On April 14, 2011, World-1 was forced to disband after losing a match to the Blood Warriors.[4] On September 9, 2015, upon joining the Jimmyz stable, he was renamed Jimmy K-ness J.K.S.[5] On September 18, 2017, the Jimmyz were forced to disband after losing a match to VerserK.
In December 2021, K-ness announced that he would be retiring in April 2022 due to a lingering neck injury.
