SHOW PREVIEW: Marigold New Year Golden Garden 2024 – Night 4 (19/01/2025)

When & Where?

• When?: Sunday 19th January 2025
• Where?: Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
• Time?: 11:30am JST 🇯🇵/6:20pm EST 🇺🇸/9:30pm PT 🇺🇸/2:20am GMT 🇬🇧

The Press Conference

What is the Full Card?

• Marigold United National Championship Match: Mai Sakurai (c) vs. Nagisa Nozaki
• Marigold Twinstar Championships Match: Bozilla & Tank (c) vs. Nanae Takahashi & Seri Yamaoka
• Marigold Superfly Championship Match: Victoria Yuzuki (c) vs. Yuki Mashiro
• Utami Hayashishita vs. Megaton
• MIRAI & Misa Matsui vs. Miku Aono & Natsumi Showzuki
• Nao Ishikawa & Rea Seto vs. Naho Yamada & Riara
• Chika Goto vs. Minami Yuki
• Ryoko Sakimura vs. CHIAKI

What do I Need to Know?

• 2nd Marigold United National Champion Mai Sakurai has been champion for 16 days – in her first reign. This will be the first title defence of her reign.
• This will be Nagisa Nozaki’s second challenge for the United National Championship after falling short against Miku Aono on the 24th October 2024.
• Nozaki does have some success against Sakurai, having been part of a team with CHIAKI that ended Mai and MIRAI’s reign with the Twinstar Championships back in December.
• Though having faced each other 15 times in multi-woman matches, this will be their first-ever singles meeting. In fact you would have to go back to August to find the last time Mai Sakurai was on the winning team against Nozaki, with the latter winning the last 5.
• 3rd Marigold Twinstar Champions Bozilla (1) & Tank (1)) have been champion for 16 days – in their first reign. This will be the first title defence of their reign.
• 2nd Marigold Superfly Champion Victoria Yuzuki has been champion for 16 days – in her first reign. This will be the first title defence of her reign.
• Yuki Mashiro, who left Ice Ribbon to become a freelancer in November and was until recently their ICExInfinity Champion, challenged Yuzuki after winning the New Year Rumble on January 3rd.
• The Marigold World Championship will not be on the line at this Korakuen Hall event, with Utami Hayashishita having successfully defeated Tank in Osaka on January 13th. She will instead be in special singles action against Megaton – formerly Bulldozer Todoroki from AWG.
• This will be the 42-year old Megaton’s first singles match since May of 2024. More interestingly still, is that Megaton is yet to win a singles match in her career, with a current record of 0-5, with all five of those matches coming in AWG.
• Freelancer Riara returns on this show after missing the last three dates due a bout of influenza.
• As announced at the press conference, Kouki Amarei has sustained an ACL tear in her right knee and will be out of action for the foreseeable future, though she has given the May Anniversary show as a potential return date.
• Kizuna Tanaka and Komomo Minami will be missing from the show due to injury.
• Nagisa Tachibana will also be missing shows though until the end of February as she recovers from a rib injury.

How do I Watch the Show?

The show will air LIVE on WRESTLE UNIVERSE, complete with English commentary. You can sign-up to the service with a seven-day free trial from this link.

Rob & Matt’s Predictions

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