An Olympian in 1984, Hiroshi Hase would go on the New Japan where he first gained traction as their Junior Heavyweight Champion.  Hase would win that championship twice, but he would move up the ranks to heavyweight where he would be one of the promotion's top tag team wrestler winning the belts on three occasions, two with Kensuke Sasaki and one with Keiji Mutoh.  He would also have stellar singles matches as a heavyweight, most notably against Mutoh where Muta (he wrestled as the Great Muta in that match) bled so much in a match that the famed “Muta Scale” was created by fans to gauge how much crimson occurred in a match.  Hase would later wrestle for All-Japan and was unselfish by putting over a lot of talent.  He would then become a very successful politician in Japan.