BITE-SIZE SHOW REPORT: Marigold New Year Golden Garden 2025 – Night 10 (Sunday, 16th February 2025) – Talk Joshi | The Home of The Stardom Cast & The Marigold Standard!

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.
Hummingbird will continue to miss an undisclosed period of time through a knee injury she sustained in Nagoya on the 11th January.
Naho Yamada will miss an undisclosed period of time through a knee injury she sustained in Shinjuku FACE on the 7th February. Due to her missing the show in Kanagawa, the card was altered.

Attendance Notes: The announced attendance inside the Hodogaya City Public Hall was 225. This is the second time Marigold have run the venue, with the announced attendance being a 28.7% increase on the last time they ran the venue (175 on the 7th November 2024).

Challenge Match: Natsumi Showzuki def. ~~Riara~~ w/ Buzzsaw Kick (5:55)
Challenge Match: Miku Aono def. ~~Minami Yuki~~ w/ Double Arm Suplex (8:59)
Challenge Match: Mai Sakurai def. ~~Ryoko Sakimura~~ w/ STO (8:03)
Challenge Match: Utami Hayashishita def. ~~Nao Ishikawa~~ w/ German Suplex (7:36)
Challenge Match: Nanae Takahashi def. ~~Rea Seto~~ w/ Back Drop (12:12)
Challenge Match: MIRAI def. ~~Chika Goto~~ w/ Modified Stretch Muffler (10:55)
Three-Way Match: Victoria Yuzuki vs. Seri Yamaoka vs. Misa Matsui Ended in a Time-Limit Draw (15:00)
Tag Team Match: Bozilla & Megaton vs. Dark Wolf Army (CHIAKI & Nagisa Nozaki) Ended in a Double Countout (9:18)

Utami Hayashishita was very vocal following a great match with Nao Ishikawa, telling her that she needed to show more aggression from her.
Rea Seto is determined to become a pro-wrestler in her own right and someone that is known for her abilities not just the wrestler that ‘likes Jojo.’ Nanae Takahashi responded by telling her that there was only her that could change that.
MIRAI took to the microphone following her defeat of Chika Goto, shedding tears of frustration at the fact that Marigold is not good enough for where they need to be in the world of women’s pro-wrestling.
Immediately after the double count out between the Dark Wolf Army and Bozilla and Megaton, the two teams reconciled their differences with the quartet being joined by Misa Matsui to form the ‘Darkness Revolution’.

Thursday 20th February – New Year’s Golden Garden 2025 – Night 11, Korakuen Hall, Tokyo (LIVE)
Saturday 22nd February – New Year’s Golden Garden 2025 – Night 12, Osaka 176BOX, Osaka (VIDEO ON DEMAND)
Thursday 27th February – New Year’s Golden Garden 2025 – Night 13, Tobu Friend Hall, Tokyo (VIDEO ON DEMAND)