17:45Mershima and Kato, they haven't had the wins over one another in a singles environment, but Nagai and Yasuda have had.
17:59They've only wrestled one another one-on-one four times, all of them 10-minute draws.
18:08So even though you can come through the same Young Lion class, that doesn't necessarily mean you'll be tied as rivals.
18:17Oh, my goodness.
18:20Making a guy making even more of an enemy out of Shomakato here, my goodness.
18:27And quick tags here.
18:34He's obviously trending to be a heavyweight. Shomakato arguably might be as well with recent size put in, but just the style.
18:42I love the way cover here.
18:45I love things like that. I love the kitchen sink being buried in there.
18:50That avalanche power slam holder's been using.
18:55Not always the prettiest, not always the most graceful, but it's about impact.
19:01It's strange to say it, but Tanahashi has been able to help Mershima tap into a little bit of anger, a little bit of aggression that he was lacking early in his career.
19:12Hip toss, feel out the corner. No. Shomakato reverses. Oh, that was right to the bread basket. Upstairs as well. Here comes Mershima. Nice.
19:22Arm drag there. Didn't stay on him, but does there with a dropkick. And badly, badly, badly needs a tag to Shomakato.
19:32Tomas Toriaso, who is waiting there on the apron. Tag made one side. We'll come in on the plus position with a dropkick.
19:40But that's sending closer to the corner.
19:46Yasuda, that ring positioning almost a fatal area there, but gets him away and scores that dropkick in triplicate now.
19:58Not by a long way is Mershima and Kato the senior to Yasuda and Daiki Nagai in terms of career.
20:06But there is that hierarchy. There is that we call the Senpai-Kohai system in New Japan Pro Wrestling as there is in Japanese society.
20:14Mershima almost had that seniority cost him there. It was a cover by Yasuda.
20:21And if you are the junior, if you are the kohai able to get a win over a senior, a Senpai, even though you're both in black tights, you're both young lions, that means an awful lot in your career.
20:40Deep, deep squat there for Boston and that Boston crab. Yasuda has applied to Mershima who makes the ropes.
20:50A lot of power on Mershima, a lot of size on Mershima. Yasuda tries to muscle him up and fails.
21:07This is how you do it.
21:08Oh no. Up the back door during the last machine when Yasuda has applied to Vasudori.
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