BITE-SIZE SHOW REPORT: Marigold Winter Wonderful 2024 – Night 2 (Saturday, 23rd 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.
• Attendance Notes: The exact attendance isn’t known for the show in Utsunomiya Bunka Kaiken in Tochigi. It’s the first time Marigold have run the venue and running Tochigi as a while. The venue itself, seating around 500 in the small hall and 2000 in the ‘great hall’, was opened back in 1979, but doesn’t appear to be a regular venue for wrestling, but has housed concerts from Whitesnake and The Police amongst others.

Quick Results

• Three-Way Match: Komomo Minami def. Rea Seto & Misa Matsui w/ Komo Roll (6:55) (**3/4)
• Singles Match: Nao Ishikawa def. Minami Yuki w/ German Suplex (8:06) (***)
• Tag Team Match: Hummingbird & Natsumi Showzuki def. Naho Yamada & Miku Aono w/ Crucifix Pin (9:08) (***1/2)
• 6-Woman Tag Team Match: Bozilla, CHIAKI & Nagisa Nozaki def. MIRAI, Mai Sakurai & Myla Grace w/ Moon Wolf (15:50) (***3/4)
• Tag Team Match: Utami Hayashishita & Kouki Amarei def. Selene Flora (Victoria Yuzuki & Kizuna Tanaka) w/ Amethyst Butterfly (15:46) (***3/4)

Show Notes

• Each of the winning competitors was awarded a voucher that apparently entitled the winner to all you can drink and all you can eat – something that greatly excited both Nao Ishikawa and Bozilla in particular.
• Following the semi-main event, Nagisa Nozaki and CHIAKI officially challenged MiraiSaku for the Marigold Twinstar Championships, with the date being put forward for the 13th December in Shinjuku FACE – a show that will already see Sareee’s re-arranged World Championship defence against Nanae Takahashi.

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

• Thursday 28th November – Winter Wonderful Fight 2024 – Night 3, Edogawa-ku Higashibu Friend Hall, Tokyo (VIDEO ON DEMAND)
• 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)