SHOW PREVIEW: Marigold Rising Spirit 2025 – Night 1 (25/04/2025)

When & Where?

• When?: Friday 25th April 2025
• Where?: Korakuen Hall, Tokyo
• Time?: 6:30pm JST 🇯🇵/4:30am EST 🇺🇸/1:30am PT 🇺🇸/9:30am GMT 🇬🇧

The Press Conference

What is the Full Card?

• Marigold vs. Marvelous 5-on-5 Elimination Match: Team Marvelous (Takumi Iroha, Ai Houzan, Riko Kawahata, Maria & Sora Ayame) vs. Team Marigold (Miku Aono, Rea Seto, Natsumi Showzuki, Kizuna Tanaka & Chika Goto)
• Marigold Twinstar Championships Match: Nanae Takahashi & Seri Yamaoka (c) vs. Darkness Revolution (Misa Matsui & CHIAKI)
• Marigold World Championship Contender Assessement Match: Utami Hayashishita & Victoria Yuzuki vs. MiraiSaku (MIRAI & Mai Sakurai)
• Chanyota, Erina Yamanaka & Ryoko Sakimura vs. Darkness Revolution (Gigaton, Megaton & Nagisa Nozaki)
• Hummingbird vs. Komomo Minami vs. Nagisa Tachibana
• Minami Yuki vs. Riara

What do I Need to Know?

• After the initiation of the inter-promotional war between Marvelous and Marigold, the latter drew first blood with Nanae and Seri defending the Twinstar Championship successfully against the Marvelous team of Senka Akatsuki and Takumi Iroha. A brawl ensued between the two companies after the match, setting up a second inter promotional match at Marvelous’ Shin-Kiba show on the 10th April. In that match, the team of Victoria Yuzuki and Hummingbird lost to Ai Houzan and Riko Kawahata. Another brawl ensued, with this setting up a 5-on-5 elimination match between the two companies at Marigold’s Korakuen Hall show on April 25th.
• 4th Marigold Twinstar Champions Nanae Takahashi (1) & Seri Yamaoka (1) have been champions for 94 days – in their first reign. This will be the third title defence of their reign.
• This will be Misa Matsui’s first challenge for the Twinstar Championships, though CHIAKI is a prior champion alongside Nagisa Nozaki, having lost the belts to Bozilla and Tank at First Dream on January 3rd.
• Following Utami Hayashishita’s successful Marigold World Championship defence at the previous Korakuen Hall show, MIRAI came out to challenge her for the belt. However, Utami denied her the opportunity citing her lack of credentials, and in particular the fact that she lost to Bozilla in the number one Contendership match. As a result, a tag match has been set up for this Korakuen Hall show, with Utami granting MIRAI at title match if she proves herself and wins in this ‘contender assessment’ match.
• Komomo Minami will return to action at this show for the first time since the December 26th show at Korakuen Hall after injuring the medial collateral ligament and the meniscus in her knee during a tag team match.
• This will be the 14th time that Marigold have run Korakuen Hall, with the 1535 people drawn to their inaugural show in May 2024 remaining their highest attendance at the venue. Their average attendance at Korakuen Hall is 901, with their previous show there (30th March 2025 main-evented by Utami Hayashishita and Bozilla for the Marigold World Championship) drawing a house of 911.
• Kouki Amarei will be missing from all shows due to a torn ACL. Her tentative return date is May 2025. It has been announced however that she will be doing some guest commentary during the show on the Japanese broadcast.
• Naho Yamada will miss an undisclosed period of time through a knee injury she sustained in Shinjuku FACE on the 7th February.

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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