SHOW REPORT: Marigold Winter Wonderful 2024 – Night 1 (Thursday, 14th November 2024)

Pre-Show Notes

• As announced at Korakuen Hall on the 24th October, Chika Goto will be absent from Marigold shows for a month as she recovers from a sternum injury. This means that her current timetable for return is the end of November.
• Nanae Takahashi has been removed from this card, with the latter’s due to an injury sustained whilst taking a Urunage from Sareee in Hokkaido on the 2nd November. She will be at ringside for the match between Sareee and Nao Ishikawa.
• 1st Marigold United National Champion Miku Aono has been champion for 124 days – in her first reign. This will be the third title defence of her reign.
• 1st Marigold Twinstar Champions MiraiSaku (MIRAI (1) & Mai Sakura (1)) have been champions for 107 days – in her first reign. This will be the third title defence of her reign.
• This will be Kouki Amarei’s second attempt at the Twinstar Championships, having previously failed with Chika Goto against MiraiSaku in Korakuen Hall on the 7th October. This will be Utami’s first attempt at the Twinstar Championships, and her first title match since joining Marigold.
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Quick Results

• Singles Match: Hummingbird def. Naho Yamada w/ Mad Splash (8:16)
• Singles Match: Minami Yuki def. Rea Seto w/ Front Facelock (5:12)
• Tag Team Match: Bozilla & Myla Grace def. Misa Matsui & Komomo Minami w/ Vader Bomb (9:22)
• Tag Team Match: CHIAKI & Nagisa Nozaki def. Selene Flora (Victoria Yuzuki & Kizuna Tanaka) w/ Noir Lancer (11:35)
• Marigold Twinstar Championships Match: MiraiSaku (MIRAI & Mai Sakurai) (c) vs. Utami Hayashishita & Kouki Amarei Ended in a Time Limit (30:00)
• Marigold United National Championship Match: Miku Aono (c) def. Natsumi Showzuki w/ Styles Clash (13:12)
• Special Passion Injection Match: Sareee def. Nao Ishikawa w/ Urunage (10:49)

Show Notes

• With the Twinstar Championship match going to a time-limit draw, we expected new challengers to emerge for the belts. However, having just captured the GHC Women’s Championship – becoming the inaugural champion in the process – Kouki Amarei laid out a challenge to her tWin toWers teammate Chika Goto for the belt at Ota-Ward City Gymnasium on 3rd January at First Dream. Goto emerged from the back and thanked Amarei for nominating her before accepting the challenge.
• After the end of the United National Championship match, Mai Sakurai came out to challenge Miku Aono for the belt, citing their time-limit draw in the Dream Star Grand Prix as her justification for challenging, wanting the match to take place at Marigold First Dream in Ota-Ward City Gymnasium on January 3rd.
• Sareee hit the Diving Double Footstomp on Nao Ishikawa but pulled her up before the count of three. Instead, she pointed at Nanae Takahashi and hit Ishikawa with the Urunage – the same move that had injured Nanae in Hokkaido on the 2nd November.
• Following the culmination of the match, Sareee took to the microphone and said that she would be putting the Urunage away for her match with Nanae and would prove that she could beat her without it. Takahashi responded to this by saying that she had never been so insulted, and that she Sareee wouldn’t be able to hit the Urunage anyway. Their rescheduled Marigold World Championship match is set for December 13th in Shinjuku FACE.

You can check out the Marigold roster win/loss records for 2024 right here; https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11_PWxd5BDxeHIfKqtQ2YtiwhGteRrVUZ3B5L4yrDQE0/edit?gid=517287206#gid=517287206

You can check out a comprehensive run down of the Marigold Championship Histories here; https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18MJ2Cebe36Nvfcpj8uVs1AtMbAV1chn-lG7t-xn44DY/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Upcoming Shows

• Saturday 23rd November – Winter Wonderful Fight 2024 – Night 2, Tochigi Prefectural Cultural Center, Tochigi (VIDEO ON DEMAND)
• Thursday 28th November – Winter Wonderful Fight 2024 – Night 3, Edogawa-ku Higashibu Friend Hall, Tokyo (LIVE)
• Saturday 7th December – Winter Wonderful Fight 2024 – Night 4, Osaka 176BOX, Osaka (VIEDO ON DEMAND)
• Sunday 8th December – Winter Wonderful Fight 2024 – Night 5, Taharu City General Gymnasium, Aichi (VIDEO ON DEMAND)
• Friday 13th December – Winter Wonderful Fight 2024 – Night 6, Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo (LIVE)
• Friday 20th December – Winter Wonderful Fight 2024 – Night 7, Sendai PIT, Miyagi (VIDEO ON DEMAND)
• Saturday 21st December – Winter Wonderful Fight 2024 – Night 8, Yamagata Big Wing, Yamagata (VIDEO ON DEMAND)
• Thursday 26th December – Winter Wonderful Fight 2024 – Night 9, Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (LIVE)
• Thursday 31st December – Winter Wonderful Fight 2024 – Night 10, Shin-Kiba 1st RING, Tokyo (LIVE)
• Friday 3rd January – First Dream 2025, Ota-Ward City Gymnasium, Tokyo (PPV)