>>6344421Vince James McMahon used his connection with Inoki to get Hansen to NJPW because he had too much heat with the boys for hurting Bruno Sammartino. He works Japan and New York for a bit before Giant Baba makes a play for him and gets him, breaking the tie with WWF but opening work with Puerto Rico, Minnesota, Georgia and other territories. Hansen develops a loyalty to Baba where he will not leave AJPW as it is his home promotion. Even after you started making more money as a WWF midcarder than you did as a headliner gaijin in NJPW, Hansen stayed by Baba. Stan Hansen did a small but memorable role in the WWF produced No Holds Barred that was rumored to lead to Hansen going to WWF but he has said he never seriously considered it. He could have made a lot of money in America but he wouldn't have been the God that he was in Japan.
