Masayuki Kono
On November 27, 2015, Hino returned to Wrestle-1 as the newest member of the Real Desperado stable. On January 10, 2016, he defeated Manabu Soya to become the new Wrestle-1 Champion. He made his first successful title defense on February 10 against Minoru Tanaka. After the match, Shuji Kondo entered the ring and challenged Hino to a title match, which resulted in Hino making his own challenge for Kondo's Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship. On March 6, Hino became a double champion, when he and Real Desperado stablemate Kazma Sakamoto defeated Kondo and Masayuki Kono for the Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship. This was followed by Hino making his second successful defense of the Wrestle-1 Championship against Kondo on March 13. On May 4, Hino lost the Wrestle-1 Championship to Kai in his third defense. On June 8, Hino and Sakamoto lost the Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship to Yasufumi Nakanoue and Yuji Okabayashi in their third defense. Over the next month, Hino made it to the finals of the 2016 Wrestle-1 Grand Prix, but was defeated there on July 1 by Manabu Soya.