Kensuke Sasaki

Roster
 3-Segment against The Mob where the hardcore title is introduced

## New Japan Legends(1990-1992)

At Starrcade 1990, Masa Saito introduced New Japan Legends consisting of him, Masahiro Chono, Hiroshi Hase, Kensuke Sasaki and The Great Muta, they all quickly turned heel on Masa and kicked them out of the group, Jushin Liger made his debut and started a feud with NJL

At Wrestlewar 1991 Jushin Liger defeated Kensuke Sasaki, the feud continued until Starrcade 1991 where after Muta defeated Liger, him and Kensuke Sasaki attacked Chono and Hiroshi Hase.

Hase and Chono started a feud with their former teammates which culminated at Superbrawl 2 as Muta and Sasaki defeated Chono and Hase in a tag team match.

## World title push and various feuds(1992-1997)

Kensuke shockingly defeated Sting and Barry Windham in a triple threat to become NO1 contender to the WCW Heaviweight Championship, due to this Muta and him turned babyfaces due to going up against the monster heel Vader. At Beach Blast they had a surprisingly brutal match that made him over as a lot of weapons were involved but he didn't manage to win the belt

He only returned on october in a win against Dan Spivey, on the Battlebowl he was the only man that was able to pick his tag team partner as he chose the debuting Davey Boy Smith, later on the night Smith immediatly eliminated Kensuke from the battle royal

Smith said he had way bigger plans on WCW than to be Kensuke's teammate which led to a feud between them. At Superbrawl 3 Smith defeated him to retain the TV Championship. He was attacked by a hooded man and allied himself with Terry Taylor who had also been attacked backstage, at Fall Brawl one of the 2 men who attacked them was revealed to be NJPW's Yuji Nagata and at Halloween Havoc Sasaki and Taylor defeated Nagata and a masked man who was then revealed to be the returning Masahiro Chono. At Starrcade 1993 the feud ended with Nagata and Chono defeating Taylor and Sasaki

Kensuke got a US title shot at Superbrawl 4 but lost to DDP and didn't do anything of relevance in 1994. In early 1995, Meng wanted a hardcore match in the only +16 PPV of the year Uncensored and Kensuke stepped up as his challenger, they went all out and both left the match a bloody mess but Meng defeated him

He got involved in the CWs vs HWs feud as he agreed that CWs were scum of this company turning heel, he started a feud with the former The Great Muta, now named Keiji Mutoh who had become a CW. At Bash at the Beach, he defeated Mutoh. At Starrcade 1995 the storyline ended as the CW division consisting of Jushin Liger, Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Dean Malenko and Keiji Mutoh defeated the HW division consisting of Steven Regal, Bobby Eaton, Fit Finlay, DDP and Kensuke Sasaki in a wargames match

In 1996 Sasaki was relegated to lower midcarder status as he didn't do anything. He stepped up in 1997's Uncensored to Perry Saturn's hardcore challenge but was defeated by him

## Birth of hardcore division(1997)

On the july 14th episode of Nitro, Sasaki turned back face saying he wanted a hardcore division on WCW and would be working towards getting one, a week later The Mob weirdly welcomed Sasaki into their group as they would try to get the hardcore division started. They introduced the hardcore championship and Sasaki was the first champion but then announced it was 24/7 rules as Sasaki was attacked by Finlay and defeated immediatly

This started a series of trades for the hardcore belt, Sasaki called the division a joke and that he actually wanted it to be a legit division, he was legitamatly frustrated with this and left WCW after a loss against Goldberg in the december 15th episode of Nitro

## Career history

### Heel/face turns

 Face
 Heel
 Face

## Championships and Accomplishments

* World Championship Wrestling
* Hardcore Championship(4 times)
* Match of the Year(1992) vs Vader at Beach Blast
* Shocking Moment of the Year(1992) the brutality of Vader vs Sasaki