Phrederic Reviews Marigold — page 2

So after a pretty ugly noon show, let’s see if the evening show will be any better. We have Giulia coming out to start things off with a sling as she banters and has fun with the crowd and seems to be in good spirits.

Misa Matsui vs. Nao Ishikawa

Background: Nao has lost a few matches now and seems to be established as an undercard heel. Misa is an uppercard face who maybe will eventually show-off why she’s called the Speed Star. They’re both wearing their usual, though Nao has a pretty massive amount of tape on her knee.

Welcome back for some Marigold reviews, and after the tremendous success of their opening show in Korakuen, we’re in the much more humble Shin-Kiba 1st RING which has a whopping 284 people in it. Well, small building, small crowd, let’s hope they bring the energy. Up first we have the afternoon show.

Nao Ishikawa vs. Kouki Amarei

Background: So we saw both of these women before and I was not overly impressed but perhaps it was nerves. Nao remains with the orange/peach/yellow/saffron robe and the flower headband with orange gear that has a little half-skirt thing. Kouki has the white and purple lace entrance robe, she’s tall and has some highlights in her hair and wears various shades of purple gear including these weird half pants/chaps things around the side of her legs. Kouki was apparently pretty well pushed in AWG and is seen as a big prospect. Nao I think is supposed to be an also-ran who is looked over and has a complex about it.

Welcome  back to some more reviews and today I am tackling the debut show of the brand new joshi promotion Dream Star Fighting Marigold, which thankfully is just going to be called Marigold from here on out. If you don’t know, Marigold is founded by Stardom’s (and Hyper Visual Fighting Arsion) former owner and founder, Rossy Ogawa. He got fired/quit and recruited/was recruited by (it’s spicy and it’s all hot messy drama right now about what actually happened) some wrestlers to found a new promotion. They’re attached to CyberFight which is the parent company of NOAH, DDT, and TJPW and are now streaming on Wrestle Universe. Anyway, this is the debut show in a sold out Korakuen Hall and let’s get to the action.

We start with a big roll call of the entire roster and they’re wearing Marigold t-shirts. The production is pretty sick as we get a light show and some smoke machine action to bring ‘em all out. Utami says a few words in Japanese and we have Stu Fulton on commentary and translation duties for us. Well anyway that’s the intro and now onto the matches.