Suzuki is also known for his tenure withAll Japan Pro Wrestling. He made his debut in the company on the first night of theAJPW Raising an Army Memorial Series 2016 on October 9, where he teamed up withKoji Doi to defeat Nextream (Naoya Nomura andYuma Aoyagi).[6] During his time with the promotion, he chased for various titles and took part of the "Total Eclipse" stable led byJake Lee and formed a sub-tag team with his old Wrestle-1 tag team partner Koji Doi.[7] AtAJPW Raising An Army Memorial Series on October 2, 2022, he and Doi unsuccessfully challenged Gungnir Of Anarchy (Ryuki Honda and Shotaro Ashino) for theWorld Tag Team Championship.[8]
Suzuki competed in the promotion's biggest yearly series of events, the "AJPW New Year Wars". On the first night of the 2021 edition from January 2, he teamed up with Koji Doi as a sub-group of the "Enfants Terribles" in a losing effort againstEvolution (Dan Tamura and Hikaru Sato).[9] On the second night, he and Doi unsuccessfully challenged Purple Haze (Izanagi and Zeus) for theAll Asia Tag Team Championship.[10] On the second night of the 2022 edition from January 3, he teamed up with his "Total Eclipse" stablemates Koji Doi and Ryuki Honda in a losing effort againstAbdullah Kobayashi,Daisuke Sekimoto andRyuji Ito.[11]
He competed in various of the promotion's signature events such as theChampion Carnival in which he made his first appearance at the 2020 edition where he scored a total of two points in block A after competing againstZeus, Jake Lee,Jiro Kuroshio, andSuwama.[12] At the 2022 edition, he placed himself in the block B where he scored a total of two points after competing againstYuma Aoyagi,Kento Miyahara,Takuya Nomura, Suwama andYoshitatsu.[13] In theŌdō Tournament, he made his first appearance at the 2021 edition where he fell short toShigehiro Irie in the first rounds.[14]
In theReal World Tag League, he made his first appearance at the 2016 edition where he teamed up with Koji Doi and scored a total of two points in the block B after competing against the teams ofTakao Omori and Manabu Soya,Jun Akiyama andKendo Kashin,Bodyguard and Zeus, Yuma Aoyagi andNaoya Nomura, andHikaru Sato andSuper Tiger.[15] After five years of hiatus, he returned at the 2021 edition where he again teamed up with Doi, won the block D with a total of four points after going against Koji Iwamoto andRyuki Honda, Zeus and Shigehiro Irie, and Takao Omori andIsami Kodaka, advanced to the semifinals where they outmatched Suwama and Shotaro Ashino but fell short to Kento Miyahara and Yuma Aoyagi in the finals.[16] At the 2022 edition, they teamed up again to score a total of six points in the only block of the tournament after going against Kento Miyahara and Takuya Nomura, Shuji Ishikawa and Cyrus, Jake Lee and Yuma Aoyagi, Suwama and Kono,Jun Saito and Rei Saito,Yuji Nagata and Yuma Anzai, and Shotaro Ashino andRyuki Honda.[17]
Suzuki is probably best known for his time in the now-defunct promotionWrestle-1. He made hisprofessional wrestling debut atW-1 WRESTLE-1 Tour 2015 West Side Story on February 13, 2015, where he fell short to Shotaro Ashino in asingles competition.[18] During his time in the company, he chased various titles promoted by it. Suzuki is a former four-timeWrestle-1 Tag Team Champion, titles which he held with two different partners, a four-timeUWA World Trios Champion, and a formerWrestle-1 Result Champion. AtW-1 WRESTLE-1 Tour 2019 Shining Winter on December 26, he unsuccessfully challenged Daiki Inaba for theWrestle-1 Championship.[19] On April 1, 2020, atW-1 WRESTLE-1 Tour 2020 Trans Magic,Wrestle-1 held its last event before closure. Suzuki teamed up with Shotaro Ashino as "Enfants Terribles" and Daiki Inaba and Koji Doi in a losing effort againstKaz Hayashi,Keiji Muto, Masayuki Kono, and Shuji Kondo as a result of aneight-man tag team match.[20]
He is known for competing in various of the promotion's signature events. In theWrestle-1 Grand Prix, which was the biggest yearly event promoted by the company, he made his first appearance at the 2015 edition which was also the first ever held, where he fell short toRyota Hama in the first rounds.[21] At the 2016 edition he fell short toYasufumi Nakanoue in the first rounds.[22] At the 2017 edition, he fell short toManabu Soya in the first rounds.[23] At the 2018 edition, he defeated Takanori Ito in the first rounds, but fell short to Koji Doi in the second ones.[24] At the 2019 and final edition of the tournament, he defeated Pegaso Illuminar in the first rounds but fell short toDaiki Inaba in the second ones.[25]
As for theWrestle-1 Tag League, Suzuki made his first appearance at the 2017 edition where he teamed up with Koji Doi as "DoiKuma" and won the entire tournament. They finished the A Block on the second spot with three points after going against the teams of New Era (Daiki Inaba and Jiro Kuroshio),Tokyo Gurentai (Mazada andNosawa Rongai), and Team 246 Presidents (Kaz Hayashi and Shuji Kondo), and then qualified for the semifinals where they defeated Beast Tyrant (Yuji Hino and Jake Omen), and furtherly Inaba and Kuroshio in the finals.[26] At the 2018 edition, he teamed up with Shotaro Ashino and competed in block A where they failed to score any points after competing against Manabu Soya and Daiki Inaba, Kaz Hayashi and Pegaso Illuminar,Andy Wu andEl Hijo del Pantera.[27] At the 2019 and last edition, he teamed up withRené Duprée and topped the block B with a total of six points after competing against Daiki Inaba and Koji Doi,Seiki Yoshioka, andEl Lindaman, and Shuji Kondo and Manabu Soya, and then falling short toT-Hawk and Shigehiro Irie in the finals.[28]
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