BITE-SIZE SHOW REPORT: Marigold Winter Wonderful 2024 – Night 3 (Thursday, 28th 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. However, recent footage does show her to be without her neck brace and moving significantly better.
• Kizuna Tanaka continues to wrestle in a back brace, though continues to be advertised for shows.
• Attendance Notes: The announced attendance inside Tobu Friend Hall was 203. This is Marigold’s first time running the venue, which seems primarily to have been run by REINA – a promotion formerly owned by Stardom’s Syuri, though Big Japan and NOAH have run it before. The highest attendance I can find is around 350 from the one time NOAH ran the venue back in 2013, but this higher attendance seems to be a huge outlier with attendances tending to be anywhere between 150 and 220.

Quick Results

• Singles Match: Rea Seto def. Komomo Minami w/ Rotating Roll-Up (6:30) (**1/2)
• Three-Way Match: Nao Ishikawa def. Hummingbird & Myla Grace w/ Roll-Up (5:46) (***)
• Tag Team Match: Selene Flora (Victoria Yuzuki & Kizuna Tanaka) def. Naho Yamada & Natsumi Showzuki w/ Victoria Clutch (13:27) (***1/2)
• Tag Team Match: MiraiSaku (MIRAI & Mai Sakurai) def. Miku Aono & Misa Matsui w/ STF (16:18)
• 6-Woman Tag Team Match: Bozilla, CHIAKI & Nagisa Nozaki def. Kouki Amarei, Minami Yuki & Utami Hayashishita w/ Sit-Out Powerbomb (17:36)

Show Notes

• Before the official beginning of the show, Chika Goto came to the ring to do ring introductions as she has for the entirety of her time out through injury. She would then go on to say that she would be returning to the ring on the 13th December in Shinjuku FACE, the same show that already has the Marigold World Championship match between Sareee and Nanae Takahashi and the Twinstar Championships match between MiraiSaku and Nagisa Nozaki and CHIAKI.
• Following Selene Flora’s defeat of Naho Yamada and Natsumi Showzuki, Victoria Yuzuki officially challenged for the Superfly Championship at Marigold First Dream in Ota-Ward City Gymnasium on the 3rd January. This will be her second attempt at the belt after a time-limit draw in Korakuen Hall on the 7th October. This match will also be Showzuki’s fourth defence of the championship.

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 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)