Results
- Seri Yamaoka, Shinno & CoCo def. Kizuna Tanaka, Komomo Minami & Yuuka Yamazaki (13:12)
- Kouki Amarei, Natsumi Showzuki & Hummingbird def. Nao Ishikawa, Nagisa Tachibana & Momoka Hanazono (9:58)
- Kuroshio TOKYO Japan def. Megaton (1:08)
- Kuroshio TOKYO Japan def. Megaton (1:01)
- Kuroshio TOKYO Japan def. Megaton (1:28)
- Utami Hayashishita def. Chika Goto (12:02)
- Misa Matsui & CHIAKI def. Nagisa Nozaki & Rea Seto (MARIGOLD Twin Star Championships) (17:22)
- Victoria Yuzuki def. Shoko Koshino (MARIGOLD United National Championship) (16:17)
- Mayu Iwatani def. Takumi Iroha (GHC Women’s Championship) (25:14) (Recommended)
- Miku Aono def. Mai Sakurai (MARIGOLD World Championship) (26:01)
Miku Aono gets win back against Mai Sakurai, defends MARIGOLD World Championship for the first time
Miku Aono avenged a past loss to rival Mai Sakurai in her first successful appearance as MARIGOLD World Champion on Saturday night.
Aono took down Sakurai in a 26-minute main event on Saturday night, headlining MARIGOLD First Dream 2026 from the Ota City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan.
An Avalanche Styles Clash followed by Aono’s Red Sensation piledriver finisher secured her the win following a lengthy match full of head-turning, high-risk spots.
Miku Aono got the win over Mai Sakurai with a finishing move called the “Red Sensation”.#pw_mg #青野未来 pic.twitter.com/3MSrxUzkbs
— meraWRESTLING (@meraWRESTLING) January 3, 2026
Aono got ahead early in the match with hard kicks, then a slam onto the ring apron at the eight-minute mark. Sakurai took over later and, at one point, delivered a scary piledriver at ringside.
Sakurai attempted her piledriver on top of a table nearby, although the moment didn’t go as planned. Due to the table almost fully breaking before the move was performed, both wrestlers took a hard fall to the floor behind where it was set up.
Mai Sakurai piledrives Miku Aono on a broken table.#pw_mg pic.twitter.com/Scbp6dJHWv
— Himanshu Doi (@Himanshu_Doi) January 3, 2026
Aono hit a Styles Clash in the ring and a trio of buzzsaw kicks as part of the finishing sequence as well.
Saturday was a full-circle moment for Aono, who had her reign as United National Champion stopped a year ago by Sakurai at MARIGOLD’s 2025 First Dream event. After not being able to overcome her in their three past meetings since 2024, Aono finally earned a victory against Sakurai this weekend.
Aono started her reign at MARIGOLD’s Grand Destiny card in October, defeating Utami Hayashishita and stopping her run just short of 300 days.
Mayu Iwatani adds GHC title to belt collection after war with Takumi Iroha
Mayu Iwatani gained champ-champ status in the co-main event of the night, taking Takumi Iroha’s GHC Women’s Championship.
Iwatani added another belt alongside her MARIGOLD Superfly Championship with a stellar 25-minute performance, finally putting away Iroha after a Dragon Suplex followed by a pair of top-rope moonsaults.
Defending champ Iroha was in control for the first 10 minutes of the match, beating down Iwatani and even pushing her down a flight of stairs at one point. But Iwatani battled back into the match in the second half and eventually prevailed in the physical contest.
Iwatani and Iroha did an incredible job at maintaining the momentum of the match through nearly 30 minutes, keeping the tension high and not overstaying their welcome despite having roughly a dozen near falls. Iwatani showcased her veteran presence late in the match, smoothly playing off what seemed like an unintentional slip while scaling the ropes as a moment of exhaustion.
The GHC Women’s Championship was established by Pro Wrestling NOAH in 2024 and has been defended around the Japanese wrestling scene. Iroha’s lengthy reign with the title saw her defend in appearances on NOAH and MARIGOLD cards, along with an overseas booking in Spain.
Iwatani has held MARIGOLD’s Superfly Championship since May 2025, a belt she has defended five times over the past six months.
Iwatani and Iroha have quite the history, previously meeting on STARDOM and Marvelous cards as early as over a decade ago. Saturday marked their first one-on-one pairing since a STARDOM world title matchup back in 2020.
A post-match angle set up a future singles match between Iwatani and Utami Hayashishita for the champ’s 15th anniversary card later this month on January 24.
Victoria Yuzuki keeps United National reign alive
Victoria Yuzuki’s run as MARIGOLD United National Champion was extended on Saturday, prevailing in a physical, hard-hitting 16-minute contest against Shoko Koshino.
The tone was set early on by Koshino, who delivered a nasty powerbomb onto the floor during the opening minutes of the bout. Yuzuki closed out the physical contest by coming off the top with her Victory Sunset finisher.
MARIGOLD is clearly buying into 20-year-old Yuzuki’s stock, having now won in a big spot during the promotion’s two most recent major shows. She had a breakout performance at the promotion’s Grand Destiny card late last year, dethroning Mai Sakurai to earn the belt.
Only in her third year as a wrestler, Yuzuki is putting together an impressive run with the promotion’s second-biggest belt currently.
Misa Matsui & CHIAKI retain tag gold against Darkness Revolution teammates
In a match which saw members of the Darkness Revolution faction matched up against eachother, the duo of Misa Matsui and CHIAKI retained their MARIGOLD Twin Star Championships against Nagisa Nozaki and Rea Seto.
The match featured tons of dirty tactics from both teams, willing to stoop to lows despite facing allies. Matsui earned a near fall late against Seto after a double stomp off the top rope. Moments later, she countered a move from Seto with a flying knee to the head, then her NKD finisher for the win in 17 minutes.
The next challengers for CHIAKI and Matsui are newcomers Seri Yamaoka and Shinno, who won the promotion’s single-elimination Twin Star Cup tournament last month. Yamaoka had a big spotlight in the opening match of the night and looks to be one of the promotion’s biggest rising stars.
A title match was proposed for January 12, but Shinno said she couldn’t do that date due to school. Instead, the match will go down at MARIGOLD’s January 24 Korakuen Hall card.
Kuroshio TOKYO Japan wins three matches in 10 minutes, Kouki Amarei returns
Megaton, who has been given mystery opponents on some of MARIGOLD’s bigger shows, was matched with ex-NXT talent and Japanese freelancer Kuroshio TOKYO Japan on the undercard. After he kept her waiting through his lengthy entrance, featuring numerous fake-outs of entering the ring, he rolled Megaton up for a win in 68 seconds. Megaton immediately demanded a rematch, then lost again, then demanded another rematch, then lost again.
Early action on the card saw former GHC Women’s Champion Kouki Amarei make their return to the ring, scoring the pinfall win in six-person tag action, after scoring a top-rope frogsplash to Nagisa Tachibana. Amarei had been absent since October 2025, when they suffered a left clavicle fracture.
