Marigold Summer Destiny | |||
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Promotion | Dream Star Fighting Marigold | ||
Date | July 13, 2024 | ||
City | Tokyo, Japan | ||
Venue | Ryogoku Kokugikan | ||
Attendance | 3,058 [1] | ||
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Marigold Summer Destiny was a professional wrestling event promoted by Dream Star Fighting Marigold. It took place on July 13, 2024, in Tokyo, Japan at the Ryogoku Kokugikan. [2]
Nine matches were contested at the event, including two on the pre-show. The main event saw Sareee defeat Giulia to become the inaugural Marigold World Champion. In other prominent matches, WWE's Iyo Sky defeated Utami Hayashishita, and both Miku Aono and Natsumi Showzuki defeated Bozilla and Misa Matsui in tournament finals to become the inaugural Marigold United National Champion and Marigold Super Fly Champion respectively. [3] [4]
The show featured professional wrestling matches that result from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches. [5]
On May 20, 2024, during the main event of Fields Forever, Marigold's first show, Bozilla alongside Sareee defeated Giulia and Utami Hayashishita, [6] where Giulia suffered a broken wrist. [7] After their match, Sareee challenged Giulia to a singles match, which was scheduled to Summer Destiny. [8] Giulia was later clear to wrestle Sareee at the event. [9] On July 12, it was confirmed that the winner between the two would be the inaugural World Champion. [10]
On June 11, after Utami Hayashishita defeated Nanae Takahashi, WWE's Iyo Sky made a surprise announcement by challenging Hayashishita at Summer Destiny. [11]
On June 23, Misa Matsui and Natsumi Showzuki advanced in a four-way tournament to comepte against each other at Summer Destiny to determine the inaugural Super Fly Champion. [12]
On June 16, a four-way tournament was launched to determine the inaugural United National Champion. [13] While Bozilla advanced to the finals, [13] Miku Aono and Mirai kept wrestling to a time limit draw. [13] Therefore, it was determined that Aono and Mirai would face each other at Summer Destiny, with the winner would face Bozilla at the tournament finals. [14]
The event started with two preshow bouts. In the first one, Rea Seto defeated Komomo Minami in singles competition, and in the second one, Kouki Amarei and Chika Goto vs. Victoria Yuzuki and Kizuna Tanaka wrestled into a ten-minute time-limit draw in tag team action.
Before the first match of the main card took place, Michiko Omukai presented her eldest daughter Shinno as the newest trainee of the promotion. The first main card match saw Nagisa Nozaki and Chiaki picking up a victory over Myla Grace and Zayda Steel in tag team competition. Next up, Natsumi Showzuki defeated Misa Matsui to become the inaugural Marigold Super Fly Champion. In the next bout, Ladies Legend Pro-Wrestling veterans Shinobu Kandori and Takako Inoue teamed up with ex-Ice Ribbon's NØRI to defeat Nanae Takahashi, Mai Sakurai and Nao Ishikawa. In the sixth match of the night, Miku Aono defeated Mirai in the first rounds of the inaugural Marigold United National Championship tournament after they previously faced each other for the same stake a couple of times. In the very next bout, Aono succeeded in defeating Bozilla to become the inaugural champion. In the semi main event, Iyo Sky defeated Utami Hayashishita. [15]
In the main event, Sareee defeated Giulia to become the inaugural Marigold World Champion. [16] [17] [18]
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