 Two days later, he picked up another win over Koji Doi.Afterwards, Sitoci joined WNC's top heel stable Synapse.However, in Sitoci's first match as a member of Synapse on February 28, he turned on the stable's leader, Akira, costing him and Syuri their six-person tag team match against Makoto, Tajiri and Zeus, and afterwards challenged him to a match for the WNC Championship.