Ryōgoku

I will just say, though, it's nice that Mika Wano is bringing out that baseball jersey again just in time for her to drop the Marigold World Championship.

But we will be talking about those predictions a little bit later on because, yes, we have got a couple of shows to go through, but the main crux of today is running through that card, our preview and prediction show for... for Grand Destiny 2026, 24th of October, in Ryogoku Gikan.

We'll be running through that card, including a main event which has had a lot of discussion online, a lot of discussion on this podcast last week.

But yeah, we'll be talking about it because again, one thing that is not up for debate is that it will be an absolutely fantastic match.

Couldn't agree more.

Couldn't agree more.

And I hope that she gets the send-off that she deserves in Ryogoku because she has been a pivotal part of the formative years of Marigold.

Just speaking of interviews, Mayu Iwatani did an interview with the Numba publication in Japan, where she was asked about the recent departures from Marigold, obviously Mirai leaving, Utami leaving, and now Maisakurai taking over.

And then that one, became kind of decrepit and old in an 86.

I think they brought it back to Ryogoku.

So the first one was in Ryogoku.

The second one was in a different neighborhood.

And the third one was in, I think, 86.

What do I have on this episode? A bunch of the shows we've talked about, actually.

So we're going to talk about the Noah Ryogoku show, October 25th.

Also the Marigold Ryogoku show that looks like possibly one of the lowest attended Ryogoku shows of all time, as we were talking about recently.

That's October 24th.

No, I

But I have to say something, man.

We're going to talk more about this show, this interesting show that Noah is presenting us for Ryogoku.

I know a lot of people will say that the N1 was boring, but for me, I'll take a tournament of all three to three and a half star matches.

There wasn't anything that reached match of the year status.

Let's just break it down.

Let's just ask this question, which I think everybody would want us to talk about.

Was this the right choice to win, Ozawa? Juice or not? Is this who you would have put over to face Naito in the Ryogoku

show? I think...

[upbeat rock music] Um, so Dave, let's, let's start, and we'll do a WeWork Stiff style review, preview, projection, future, past, all of these things.

Um, King of Pro Wrestling 2026 from Ryogoku Sumo Hall in Tokyo, Dave.

An attendance of 6,422, up over, uh, 1,100 or something on last year.

Uh, the gripsters are out in force.

Mm.

Yeah, the pacing and the structuring of his matches, and the ways he, the ways, the way that he is doing it, like people would liv- would go...

People would, would wrestle a lifetime and not have a match like he just had in the main event of, of Ryogoku.

And he's done it twice in a-

And again, we have got a lot of very good matches on this card, which we're going to be running through very, very shortly.

But the idea of, A, tying three of your belts up in one match when you are trying to draw a huge number to Ryogoku is an interesting tactic.

Again, who am I to question Rossi? But we're going to be talking again a little bit later about attendance numbers later.

I don't know if this is the way to go.

The entire thing is, who's going to be the first triple crown champion? Well, unless Mikawa wins, which I will be perfectly honest, I think is the least possible, the least likely of these three scenarios.

I think it's a shame.

I feel like Marigold might have thought they were backed into a corner with what they needed to do to get a good house at Ryogoku.

I don't know.