SHOW PREVIEW: Marigold Rising Spirit 2025 – Night 6 (04/05/2025)

When & Where?

• When?: Sunday 4th May 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?

• Passion Countdown Match: Nanae Takahashi vs. Mayu Iwatani
• Marigold United National Championship Match: Mai Sakurai (c) vs. Misa Matsui
• Utami Hayashishita & Victoria Yuzuki vs. MIRAI & Seri Yamaoka
• Miku Aono vs. Kizuna Tanaka
• Natsumi Showzuki, Chika Goto & Chanyota vs. Darkness Revolution (Nagisa Nozaki, Megaton & CHIAKI)
• Erina Yamanaka vs. Nao Ishikawa vs. Riara
• Komomo Minami, Rea Seto & Hummingbird vs. Minami Yuki, Ryoko Sakimura & Nagisa Tachibana

What do I Need to Know?

• This match will mark Mayu Iwatani’s first ever match for Marigold after the press conference announcing her signing on 1st May.
• This will be Nanae Takahashi’s last Korakuen Hall match, having wrestled 304 times there over the course of her career.
• This match will mark the first time since 10th June 2012 that Mayu and Nanae have met in a singles match. Mayu is yet to defeat Nanae, having lost all three of their previous singles matches.
• 2nd Marigold United National Champion Mai Sakurai has been champion for 121 days – in her first reign. This will be the fourth title defence of her reign.
• Should Mai Sakurai defeat Misa Matsui, she will become the most successful United National Champion in history – moving ahead of the three defences of Miku Aono.
• This will be the first time Misa Matsui’s first attempt at the United National Championship, and her fourth attempt at a singles championship in Marigold having previously failed three times to capture the Superfly Championship.
• Mai Sakurai won the only previous singles match between the pair, which took place during the 2024 Dream Star Grand Prix on 28th September.
• MIRAI is the new number one contender for the Marigold World Championship, with the match between her and Utami Hayashishita confirmed for the Shine Forever 1st Anniversary show in Yoyogi on 24th May 2025. The tag match will act as another preview to the growing intense heat between the two.
• Seri Yamaoka has previously expressed interest in Victoria Yuzuki’s Superfly Championship, with the pair being on opposite sides during the Marigold World Championship Preview tag team match.
• The show will also fall on the 5 year anniversary of Nao Ishikawa’s wrestling debut, where she lost to Suzu Suzuki in Ice Ribbon.
• Following the culmination of the Marvelous and Marigold main event on 25th April, Kizuna Tanaka explained that she wanted to face Miku Aono in singles action. Aono currently holds the sole singles victory between the pair, happening during the 2024 Dream Star Grand Prix.
• 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, though early reports have stated that tickets for this event have sold out. Their current average attendance at Korakuen Hall is 855, with their previous show there (25th April 2025 main-evented by the 5-on-5 Elimination Match between Marigold vs. Marvelous) drawing a house of 690.
• 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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