Pre-Show Notes
- 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.
- 1st Marigold World Champion Sareee has been champion for 174 days – in her first reign. This will be the third title defence of her reign.
- Utami Hayashishita has earned this title shot by becoming the inaugural winner of the Dream Star Grand Prix, beating Mai Sakurai in the final.
- Sareee has questioned Utami’s big match mentality, and if she has what it takes to wrestle her. This was made even more poignant after Sareee hit three Ururnages and then a Wrist-Clutch variation at Korakuen Hall to emphatically defeat the challenger in a preview 6-woman tag team match.
- 1st Marigold United National Champion Miku Aono has been champion for 174 days – in her first reign. This will be the fourth title defence of her reign.
- In the pair’s only singles match during the Dream Star Grand Prix, Aono and Sakurai went to a time-limit draw leading to Sakurai challenging the champion after Aono’s successful defence against Natsumi Showzuki. Prior to that, Aono had publicly stated that Sakurai and Kouki Amarei were people she was very interested in defending the belt against.
- 1st Marigold Superfly Champion Natsumi Showzuki has been champion for 174 days – in her first reign. This will be the fifth title defence of her reign.
- Natsumi Showzuki has successfully defended the belt more times than any other champion in Marigold.
- Her and Victoria Yuzuki have gone to two consecutive time-limit draws in their previous two singles outings, first in the Dream Star Grand Prix, and then in their first Superfly Championship match in October.
- 2nd Marigold Twinstar Champions Dark Wolf Army (CHIAKI (1) & Nagisa Nozaki (1)) have been champion for 21 days – in their first reign. This will be the second title defence of their reign.
- Dark Wolf Army defeated MiraiSaku for the titles on December 13th in Shinjuku FACE with the help of Bozilla. They accidentally drew the ire of Bozilla though when they hit her with a chair, causing Bozilla to disown the pair and challenge them to a title match – with a mystery opponent – at First Dream 2025.
- Bozilla and Myla Grace had an impromptu Twinstar Title match on Boxing Day in Korakuen Hall, with Nozaki offering it to Grace as a going away present. The champions would retain after Bozilla and Nozaki brawled into the audience allowing CHIAKI to pin Myla.
- Bozilla’s partner has been revealed to be Tank The Iron Lady, a 5’11” and 200lbs Netherlands-based wrestler currently plying her trade in Europe.
- 1st GHC Women’s Champion Kouki Amarei has been champion for 53 days – in her first reign. This will be the first title defence of her reign.
- Kouki Amarei won the belt on November 11th in a battle royal on Noah Magic Autumn Volume 3 to become the inaugural champion.
- Kouki and Chika Goto are a tag team called the tWin toWers though the relationship is currently fractious. Goto went out with an injury in November and said to Amarei to do her own thing until she got back, which Amarei did, immediately teaming with Utami Hayashishita in her stead. Success for Amarei has driven a wedge between her and Chika, even though it was Kouki that offered the title match to Chika.
- The pair have faced off just once in singles action, with Chika Goto getting win in the Dream Star Grand Prix in September 2024.
This will only be Chika Goto’s second-ever singles title match after losing an AWG Championship match to Natsumi Showzuki in April 2024. - Two joshi legends who retire in 2025 in Nanae Takahashi and Meiko Satomura clash for one final time in a tag match, with Meiko set to end a 30-year career in April, and Nanae in May.
- Highly-promising teenage ‘Super Rookie’ Seri Yamaoka makes her debut on this show, wrestling MIRAI.
- Attendance Notes: The announced attendance for the show inside Ota-Ward City Gymnasium was 1,830. This makes this show the second-highest attendance in Marigold’s history. Though not as high as the two shows run there by All Japan and New Japan in 2024, the attendance is higher than all four of Stardom’s shows at Ota-Ward in 2023, including the opening night of the 5Star Grand Prix and Flashing Champions 2023.
Quick Results
- New Year Rumble: Yuki Mashiro def. Nagisa Tachibana, Hummingbird,
Minami Yuki, Rea Seto, Nightshade, Naho Yamada, Flying Penguin, Misa Matsui, Ryoko Sakimura, Momoka Hanazono, Riara & Hamuko Hoshi by last eliminating Minami Yuki (20:25) (**1/4) - Singles Match: MIRAI def.
Seri Yamaokaw/ Lariat (17:52)* (****) - Marigold Superfly Championship Match: Victoria Yuzuki def.
Natsumi Showzuki(c) w/ Moonsault (13:41) (***3/4) - Margiold Twinstar Championships Match: Bozilla & Tank, the Iron Lady def. Dark Wolf Army (
CHIAKI& Nagisa Nozaki) (c) w/ High-Angle Powerbomb (7:10) (**1/4) - Tag Team Match: Passion Sisters (Nanae Takahashi & Nao Ishikawa) def. Meiko Satomura &
YUNAw/ Queen Bee Bomb (16:46) (***1/2) - GHC Women’s Championship Match: Kouki Amarei (c) def.
Chika Gotow/ Amethyst Butterfly (8:21) (NR) - Marigold United National Championship Match: Mai Sakurai def.
Miku Aono(c) w/ STF (25:17) (****1/4) - Marigold World Championship Match: Utami Hayashishita def.
Sareee(c) w/ Spinning BT Bomb (22:23) (****1/2)
*Original match ended in a 15-minute time-limit draw, but was extended into overtime at the behest of Yamaoka.
Show Notes
- Marigold announced that their first anniversary show on May 24th will be called Marigold Shine Forever 2025: A Glorious Celebration, and will be a celebration of Nanae Takahashi. The show will emanate from the Yoyogi National Gymnasium #2.
- After winning the Superfly Championship from Natsumi Showzuki, Victoria Yuzuki was challenged by current ICExINFINITY Champion Yuki Mashiro, though no date or venue has been confirmed as of yet.
- Aswell as being accompanied by Tank, Bozilla was also accompanied to the ring by the former-Bulldozer Todoroki of AWG.
- As a result of pinning CHIAKI and winning the match, Bozilla and Tank become the first ever gaikokujin champions in Marigold history.
- Following the culmination of the tag team match between Passion Sisters and Meiko Satomura and YUNA, a singles match between Meiko and Nanae for the Giant Baba Memorial Show on January 31st in Korakuen Hall. Nanae also gave Seri Yamaoka as her early favourite to win the Dream Star Grand Prix.
- After losing the GHC Women’s Championship match, Chika Goto made a plea to Naomichi Marufuji on Japanese commentary for another opportunity at the belt.
- Following the match, Kouki Amarei took to her personal Twitter in order to explain that she had injured her knee during the match when executing a Pump Kick, but with it being so close to the new year, she had been unable to get an MRI to assess the damage.
- After successfully defeating Miku Aono for the United National Championship, becoming the second ever champion, Mai Sakurai nominated Nagisa Nozaki to be her first challenger at Marigold’s next Korakuen Hall show on January 19th.
- Post-show, new Marigold World Champion Utami Hayashishita was confronted by Tank, the Iron Lady. After a brief stare down, Hayashishita said that Tank could be the next challenger for the belt, though she warned her that she was strong as well.
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 11th January – New Year’s Golden Garden 2025 – Night 1, 176BOX, Osaka (VIDEO ON DEMAND)
- Saturday 12th January – New Year’s Golden Garden 2025 – Night 2, KBS Hall, Kyoto (VIDEO ON DEMAND)
- Monday 13th January – New Year’s Golden Garden 2025 – Night 3, Chunichi Hall, Nagoya (VIDEO ON DEMAND)
- 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)
Be the first to comment