BITE-SIZE SHOW REPORT: Marigold New Year Golden Garden 2025 – Night 5 (Saturday, 25th January 2025)

Photo Courtesy: Dream Star Fighting Marigold

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.
  • 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.
  • Attendance Notes: The show emanated from Radiant Hall in Yokohama, Kanagawa. It is the first time Marigold have run the venue, but no attendance data is available. With NOAH (256 on 13/1) and Ice Ribbon (155 on 4/1) the only promotions to run the venue and announce their attendances thus far this year, an educated guess would put Marigold’s number somewhere in the middle, perhaps a little closer to the NOAH number.

Quick Results

  • Singles Match: Riara def. Ryoko Sakimura w/ RKO (7:03) (***)
  • Tag Team Match: Nao Ishikawa & Yuki Mashiro def. Naho Yamada & Rea Seto w/ Bladerunner (6:20) (***)
  • Singles Match: Tank def. Minami Yuki w/ Spear (5:03)
  • Tag Team Match: Chika Goto & Natsumi Showzuki def. Dark Wolf Army (CHIAKI & Nagisa Nozaki) w/ Wrist-Clutch Blue Thunder Bomb (13:58)
  • Tag Team Match: Miku Aono & Seri Yamaoka vs. Utami Hayashishita & Victoria Yuzuki Ended in a Time Limit Draw (15:00)
  • Singles Match: Nanae Takahashi def. Misa Matsui w/ Nana Racka (15:05) (****)
  • Tag Team Match: MiraiSaku (MIRAI & Mai Sakurai) def. Bozilla & Megaton w/ STF (12:25)

Show Notes

  • After teaming for the first time in over two years, Yuki Mashiro and Nao Ishikawa were not on the same page, coming to blows before the match even began and confronting each other after Ishikawa picked up the win.
  • Following the tag team time-limit draw and Nanae’s defeat of Misa Matsui, Utami Hayashishita and Victoria Yuzuki officially challenged for the Twinstar Championships currently held by Takahashi and Seri Yamaoka. The challenge was accepted, and has since been made official for the February 20th Korakuen Hall show. This will be both Yuzuki and Utami’s second time challenging for the belts as both were unsuccessful – with different partners – in unseating MiraiSaku in 2024.
  • After the main event, it was announced that the singles match between Bozilla and Tank the following night in Shin-Kiba 1st RING would officially be made a ‘loser leaves Japan’ match, with Megaton acting as a special guest ring announcer for the match.

You can check out the Marigold roster win/loss records for 2025 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 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)
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Hailing from Stoke-on-Trent, Rob fell back in love with the Wrestling Business in 2016 after a decade-long break. Rob is the host of the PodMania Wrestling Podcast, the StardomCast and reviews retro PPVs - with an odd fascination with 1995 WWF/WCW!

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