At the inaugural edition of the event from 2012, he took part of the Block A and scored a total of two points after competing against Daisuke Sekimoto, Sami Callihan, Yuji Okabayashi, Masashi Otani and Takumi Tsukamoto.

[11] Another event where he fought is the Saikyo Tag League, making his first appearance at the 2011 edition of the event where he teamed up with Shinya Ishikawa, placing themselves in the Block A, and scoring one point after competing against the teams of Shadow WX and Kankuro Hoshino, Tommy End and Michael Dante, Abdullah Kobayashi and Masashi Takeda, Daisuke Sekimoto and Yuji Okabayashi, and Jun Kasai and Jaki Numazawa.

[12] His marked his best result at the 2018 edition after he teamed up with Kazumi Kikuta in the Strong Style Block and scoring a total of six points after competing against Kazuki Hashimoto and Yuya Aoki, Takuya Nomura and Fuminori Abe, Hideki Suzuki and Daisuke Sekimoto, Tatsuhiko Yoshino and Kota Sekifuda, Daichi Hashimoto and Hideyoshi Kamitani, and Ryota Hama and Yasufumi Nakanoue.

[14] He also won the 2013 Strong Style Rising Tournament by defeating D. J. Hyde in the first round, Masato Inaba in the quarter-finals, Shinya Ishikawa in the semi-finals and Yuji Okabayashi in the finals on June 5.

Kawakami placed himself in the Block A and scored a total of ten points against Isami Kodaka, Ryota Nakatsu, Sagat, Gouma Ryu and Smoke.