r/Marigold_joshi

• They're running 2 new venues for the first time: Acty Oroshimachi in Fukushima and Kissei Cultural Hall (Matsumoto Cultural Center) in Nagano Prefecture.
• I'm counting five 1-day tournaments in October and November surrounding Grand Destiny. Odd booking, but hopefully it's exciting.
• My usual note: For location, sometimes I put the city and sometimes the prefecture. I'll put which ever is more recognizable or if the venue name already includes the city/prefecture. Click on Event Info for detailed addresses.

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Date	Time (JST)	Live Stream	Location	Event Info
August 22	13:00	No	Fureai Cube, Saitama	Burning Desire 2026
August 28	18:30	Yes	Korakuen Hall, Tokyo	Dream Star Grand Prix 2026
August 29	13:00	No	Acty Oroshimachi, Fukushima	Dream Star Grand Prix 2026
September 5	12:00	No	176BOX, Osaka	Dream Star Grand Prix 2026
September 5	16:00	No	176BOX, Osaka	Dream Star Grand Prix 2026
September 6	13:00	No	Shimizu Marine Building, Shizuoka	Dream Star Grand Prix 2026
September 8	18:30	Yes	Shinjuku FACE, Tokyo	Dream Star Grand Prix 2026
September 12	13:00	No	Kariya City Aioi Hall, Aichi	Dream Star Grand Prix 2026
September 13	13:30	No	Sunpearl Arakawa, Tokyo	Dream Star Grand Prix 2026
September 19	18:30	Yes	Korakuen Hall, Tokyo	Dream Star Grand Prix 2026
September 20	11:30	Yes	Korakuen Hall, Tokyo	Dream Star Grand Prix 2026
October 3	13:00	No	176BOX, Osaka	Battle Heart 2026
October 4	13:00	No	Mie Prefectural Cultural Center, Mie	Battle Heart 2026
October 10	11:30	Yes	Korakuen Hall, Tokyo	Battle Heart 2026
October 11	13:00	No	Tochigi Prefectural Cultural Center, Tochigi	Battle Heart 2026
October 18	12:00	No	APA Hotel & Resort, Sapporo	Battle Heart 2026
October 18	16:30	No	APA Hotel & Resort, Sapporo	Battle Heart 2026
October 24	14:30	Yes	Ryōgoku Kokugikan (Sumo Hall), Tokyo	Grand Destiny 2026
October 31	13:00	No	Ushiku City Sports Park Gymnasium, Ushiku	Battle Heart 2026
November 1	13:00	No	Kissei Cultural Hall, Nagano	Battle Heart 2026
November 7	13:00	No	Yamagata Big Wing, Yamagata	Battle Heart 2026

With Mayu and Yuzuki back, we are currently getting a full on Icon, Peach, Arrow show with them greeting everyone together before shows and closing shows together with a smile. Which is fine all in all, but doesn't give the company the spice to make it interesting.

A great face, stable or team can only show it's real strength if it has a rival force. The natural rivalry would be Mayu-ism vs Sareee-sim, but with the Sareee team not being there regularly, it is not sufficient currently. Marigold also needs to find a way to have the same energy in terms of rivalries and matches, as when they are fighting outside forces like Marvelous and ChiChi, but it is currently rarely the case.

But who should be their rival group then?

Should it be DR, naturally as the heels to the ultra babyfaces?

Should Kizuna turn her back on Yuzuki when she comes back and form something like a New Arsion with Shinno and Seri? Since Marigold still doesn't seem to have a clearly established identity, they could rebel against the Stardom like glittery Mayu-ism with the more cold and shooty Arsion-ism of their parents.

Should Aono Miku, Kouki and Gochika finally have enough and rebel against the constant barrage and ridicule from fans and against clearly not being accepted partly due to their AWG past?

Does Sakurai with La vie en rose want take the spot as the real top group from them?

Maybe my ideas are crazy and just a thought experiment to fill the void that has been there since the Ota Ward show before the Dream Star, but I feel like they are in desperate need of more spice.

Aleah James def. The Lady AI

Rea Seto def. Megaton & Syoko Koshino (3 Way Match) | Rea pinned Megaton

tWin toWer (Chika Goto & Kouki Amarei) def. Nao Ishikawa & Hummingbird | Kouki pinned Bird

Darkness Revolution (Nagisa Nozaki, CHIAKI & Misa Matsui) def. La Vie en Rose (Mai Sakurai, Natsumi Showzuki & Erina Yamanaka) | CHIAKI pinned Erina

Icon Peach Arrow (Mayu Iwatani, Victoria Yuzuki & Komomo Minami) def. Miku Aono & Mad EGO (Shinno & Yuuka Yamazaki) | Yuzuki pinned Yuuka

Yuzuki won both today and yesterday with a Cross-Arm Suplex Hold, so that appears to be her finish going forward.

The VOD of this show will be up on Tuesday.