Hiroshi Hase
Sasaki returned to NJPW in March 1990, and formed a popular tag team with Hiroshi Hase, with whom he would have a long on-off tag team partnership. They quickly won the IWGP Tag Team Championships on November 11, 1990, defeating the team of Keiji Muto &amp; Masahiro Chono. Holding the titles for only a month facing teams like Super Strong Machine &amp; Tatsutoshi Goto, The Dragon Bombers (Shiro Koshinaka &amp; Takayuki Iizuka) before eventually falling to Hiro Saito &amp; Super Strong Machine on December 26 that same year. He would only win one more title with Hiroshi Hase a few months later, however that was very brief, lasting only 15 days. The pair would have two reigns as IWGP Tag Team Champions, and had memorable matches with The Steiner Brothers.