BITE-SIZE SHOW REPORT: Marigold New Year Golden Garden 2025 – Night 3 (Monday, 13th January 2025)

Pre-Show Notes

• 2nd Marigold World Champion Utami Hayashishita has been champion for 10 days – in her first reign. This will be the first title defence of her reign.
• Kizuna Tanaka will be missing from the next two month’s worth of shows due to the need to rest and heal a persistent back injury she has been working with.
• Komomo Minami will be missing shows for the foreseeable future after injuring the medial collateral ligament and the meniscus in her knee during a tag team match at the Korakuen Hall show on the 26th December. A timetable for her return has not yet been confirmed.
• Kouki Amarei will be missing from all shows due to a torn ACL. Her tentative return date is May 2025.
• Nagisa Tachibana has been removed from all cards until the end of February in order to recover from a rib injury.
• Freelancer Riara has been removed from the shows on the 11th, 12th and 13th of January due to a bout of influenza.
• Hummingbird was withdrawn from the card due to an injury sustained on the Nagoya card on the 11th January. She will now miss the Nagoya show with an injury to her left knee.

• Attendance Notes: The announced attendance for the show inside Chunichi Hall in Aichi was 307 people. This is the first time that Marigold have run the venue.

Quick Results

• Three-Way Match: Misa Matsui def. Natsumi Showzuki & Ryoko Sakimura w/ La Majistral Cradle (8:04)
• Tag Team Match: Bozilla & Megaton def. Nao Ishikawa & Minami Yuki w/ Drill-a-Hole Piledriver (6:53) (**1/2)
• Tag Team Match: Dark Wolf Army (CHIAKI & Nagisa Nozaki) def. Mai Sakurai & Rea Seto w/ Body Choke Facelock (13:47)
• 6-Woman Tag Team Match: MIRAI, Victoria Yuzuki & Seri Yamaoka def. Miku Aono, Chika Goto & Naho Yamada w/ Cross-Arm Suplex (18:21) (***1/2)
• Marigold World Championship Match: Utami Hayashishita (c) def. Tank w/ Hijack Bomb (10:27) (***1/4)

Show Notes

• Victoria Yuzuki opened the show with it being held in her hometown. Earlier in the day she had attended her Coming of Age ceremony before then coming to the show and performing in the semi-main event.
• Following Utami’s successful Marigold World Championship defence, she was confronted by Megaton – the former Bulldozer Todoroki in AWG – who challenged her to a special singles match at the upcoming Korakuen Hall show. Utami accepted, with this being Megaton’s first singles match since May of 2024, having lost all five of her previous matches.

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

• Sunday 19th January – New Year’s Golden Garden 2025 – Night 4, Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (LIVE)
• Saturday 25th January – New Year’s Golden Garden 2025 – Night 5, Radiant Hall, Kanagawa (VIDEO ON DEMAND)
• Sunday 26th January – New Year’s Golden Garden 2025 – Night 6, Shin-Kiba 1st RING (LIVE)
• Friday 7th February – New Year’s Golden Garden 2025 – Night 7, Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo (VIDEO ON DEMAND)
• Tuesday 11th February – New Year’s Golden Garden 2025 – Night 8, Chunichi Hall, Nagoya (VIDEO ON DEMAND)
• Friday 14th February – New Year’s Golden Garden 2025 – Night 9, Sendai PIT, Miyagi (VIDEO ON DEMAND)