Dream Star Fighting Marigold

Okay.

It is worse booked than Marigold.

Damn.

Like, easily.

shout

out to Chi Chi who currently has like a neck injury so she's out for a bit oh she's injured too? yeah Oh, I missed it.

That's why she's out with the Marigold shows that we're going to talk about later.

I think it's not as bad as Miku Kanai, because Miku Kanai is out for like six months, minimum, with an ACL.

Hello guys and welcome to the Marigold Standard, your weekly audio source of all things Dreamstar Fighting Marigold.

I'm your host Rob Goodwin and I am joined as ever by the man who dons his wrestling tights once more this weekend.

It is of course Mr Tuesday Night, it is Mr Matt Turner.

Anywho.

Anyway,

yeah, we have got a lot to talk about today because obviously Marigold continue on with the Dream Star Grand Prix.

We were slightly down after the previous Marigold show on the 29th, night two of the Dream Star Grand Prix.

You can listen back to that episode in the archives.

And so this was a surprise still, a shock still, because, you know, old girl don't go down very much.

No, I mean, Yuka Yamazaki just pinned the Marigold World Champion.

That's crazy for her.

Like, good job.

And listen, I got to say this.

I'm going to throw it out there.

It's my favorite Marigold show of the year.

Yeah, it was so enjoyable.

After that, we're gonna go through the Super Issue from today, number 2429, and the blogs before we get into stardom.

The Cor kin Hall show from Sunday, Marigold, Dreamstagram Prix, four shows.

Hell yeah.

Um, Tokyo Joshi Pro, the Yokohama Hall show, and Sendai Girls, the Osaka Hall show before we enter the indie zone.

Um, as you said, that's one of your goals.

And I've always thought that having a healthy, like, I guess promotion...

Like people just think of like STARDOM and like maybe TJPW and Marigold when they think of joshi, but I feel like you need all of those smaller promotions, um, just as, as like part of a healthy ecosystem 'cause-

Mm-hmm

so

what is it in particular about Julia that you'd love to obviously we've seen her during a stardom run and then obviously with the brief time she was with Marigold before she came into NXT what is it about her that you would love to wrestle because actually I've got a question later on what Joshi would you love to you know basically share the ring with already answered that question talk to me a little bit more about what it is about Julia

She's such a fierce competitor.

And I think that wrestling someone like Julia, that makes you step up.

The landscape has changed quite a bit in the last two years.

Obviously, we have Stardom.

We have Marigold that just started two years ago.

Tokyo Joshi Pro is doing some amazing business, and especially here in the States as well.

It's a very light week for them.

So we can get on to Marigold, who kicked off the Dream Star Grand Prix this...

They're on Friday, didn't they?

Yes.

Could you tell that there's probably

under...

Isn't it under D or Marigold? Where is it?

Oh, there it

they stopped doing like big title matches on every show because they are moving those title matches back into the arenas so they have to sell the arenas instead of Korakuen so they are doing they are still doing some titles matches on Korakuen but not as many as last year so it makes sense because they're running first they're running more shows than last year, and the strength of the cards for Korakens is less than it was before, so it makes sense for the average to go down.

Now, Marigold is down the most.

They are down 13.2% year-over-year on their Korakens average so far.

13.8%, excuse me.

This is extremely...

Before I forget.

I watched the Marigold show and then afterwards I watched the Sendai Girls show.

The first match, the Reina match, the opener... being after i watched the marigold show was really something let me tell you about the crowd noise oh