with Dragon Gate USA. On July 24 at Enter the Dragon, Gargano lost to Cima. On September 26, Gargano offered himself to Cima's Warriors International stable. On October 29 at Dragon Gate USA's first live pay-per-view, Bushido: Code of the Warrior, Gargano wrestled in a four-way match won by Chuck Taylor. After Taylor turned down an offer from Cima to join his Warriors International stable, Gargano offered himself to Cima but was turned down. Gargano confronted Cima again, offering himself to Warriors International, before attacking him and Ricochet, along with Chuck Taylor and Rich Swann, forming the stable Ronin. On January 29, 2011, Gargano and Taylor entered a three-day-long tournament to determine the first ever Open the United Gate Champions. Gargano and Taylor defeated Naruki Doi and Ricochet and followed it up by defeating Cima and Dragon Kid, before losing in the finals to Masato Yoshino and PAC. On April 1 at Open the Southern Gate, Gargano lost to Cima, with Ronin now working as a babyface group against Cima's Blood Warriors. The following day at Mercury Rising, Ronin lost a six-man tag team match to Cima, Doi and Ricochet. On April 3 at Open the Ultimate Gate, Austin Aries, who lost a match with his Dragon Gate USA career on the line, feigned passing the torch to his former Ronin rivals, but turned on them and joined Blood Warriors. Gargano defeated Jon Davis on April 19 at Evolve's first live internet pay-per-view. Later that same night, he defeated Chuck Taylor in a tiebreaker match to become Evolve's new wins leader with a record of 6–2. On June 3 at Fearless, Gargano lost to Aries, but came back two days later at Enter The Dragon to force Cima and Aries to submit in a six-man elimination tag team match, where he teamed with Rich Swann and Masato Yoshino with Brodie Lee being the third member of Blood Warriors. On November 13 at Freedom Fight, Gargano defeated Yamato to win the Open the Freedom Gate Championship. On January 14, 2012, Gargano retained the title against Ricochet in the final professional wrestling match in the Asylum Arena. Following the match, Gargano was helped backstage and rushed to a hospital with a back injury, but was released the following day. On March 30, Gargano returned to Dragon Gate USA, where he and Chuck Taylor unsuccessfully fought Masato Yoshino and Ricochet for the vacant