[3] Alongside Travis Banks as CCK (Commonwealth Catch Kings), Brookes won the Revolution Pro Wrestling tag team titles from Charlie Sterling and Joel Redman in his first match for the company.

[4] CCK successfully defended those titles against a number of teams including Ryan Smile and Shane Strickland,[5] Sami Callihan and Martin Stone,[6] and Los Ingobernables de Japón (Bushi and Hiromu Takahashi)[7] before losing the belts to Moustache Mountain (Trent Seven and Tyler Bate).

[14] On 20 March 2022, at Judgement 2022: DDT 25th Anniversary, CDK defeated Disaster Box (Harashima and Naomi Yoshimura) to win their first KO-D Tag Team Championship.

[16] On 21 May 2023, Brookes won the King of DDT Tournament, after having defeated Jun Akiyama in the semifinals and Kazusada Higuchi in the finals, granting him a title shot for the KO-D Openweight Championship.

When speaking to reporters immediately after his title loss, Brookes announced the formation of a new stable within the DDT roster, called SCHADENFREUDE International, which would include himself, Masahiro Takanashi, Antonio Honda, and Takeshi Masada.