[9.0] "This is my favorite promotion right now. The wrestling is fast paced, stiff and technical, the storylines are heated (inter-promotional feud Marigold vs. Marvelous especially) and the players are memorable and they all have their own thing going on. There is only one stable in DR which I find a positive because I do not care for stables. There are plenty of rookies that are developing at a nice pace (I love seeing them flop around awkwardly just to get obliterated by the more experienced players) and even a few super rookies to spearhead the promotion's future. There hasn't been a single Marigold show I've haven't enjoyed. Watching Marigold has been the most fun I've had watching wrestling even though I'm a relatively new puro / joshi puro fan, I imagine there's even better stuff out there. Maybe I should try watching Stardom at some point? . One small nitpick I have is that the main event scene is a bit sparse, Hayashishita is the main champ but competition for the red belt is less than fierce, nobody is at her level yet besides maybe Iwatani. It doesn't help that Hayashishita feels a bit unmotivated or is just playing the stoic ace role, which works best with plucky up-and-comers and fiery challengers. Still the main events deliver, the middle of the cards is always stacked with talent and the rookies are exciting. Every single player in the roster seems really hungry and motivated and is evolving with every show, with exceptions few and far between."
[10.0] "Marigold is my favorite wrestling promotion right now. First and foremost, it's been a thrill to watch a new promotion grow and to follow it from the very beginning. They have a good mix of experienced wrestlers and promising rookies. The promotion as a whole is growing step by step, and so many (super) rookies are developing quickly that the future looks even brighter. With Mayu Iwatani now part of the roster, they also have a genuine draw. They're still cautious about forming stables, likely to avoid limiting matchup possibilities -- which is probably for the best. Storylines are told through social media and press conferences, which works well for me."
[8.0] "A lot of the roster is still new so even though the wrestling is very... botchy(? ) at times I think they have an excuse. But the highs of marigold are very high. The likes of Utami, Mayu, Miku, and MIRAI really help this company."
[8.0] "A decent company going into its second year. Talent has developed quite a bit and it feels a bit less "busy" than Stardom has as of late. Extremely promising rookies. I think having Mayu will be a major game changer moving forward, due to the name she's built for herself, the influence she will have on shaping talents in the company, as well as the outside talents she will draw who will be looking to work with her. A very promising future given the company's current size and worth keeping an eye on if only to see the talents grow."
[9.0] "People are trying to compare this to current Stardom. It's not the right comparsion, it's basically a bigger Sendai Girls or Marvelous. The only reason it doesn't have as high as a rating is because of the stupid AEW/WWE war and Marigold's perceived relationship with the latter."
[5.0] "The combination of feeling like a watered-down Stardom instead of creating their own identity, plus the shady business practices between Rossy & WWE, plus the thin roster that had to raid AWG to fill the gaps, make this a mid-tier promotion I just can't get into. The past year has basically just been Utami and Sareee with nobody else at their level. They finally got Mayu, but considering two out of the Three Daughters of Stardom are already in WWE, how long will that even last? You can say "give it time", but time is just going to thin them out even more: Their 1st big PPV was headlined by Iyo Sky who's already in WWE, and Giulia who was already on her way there, and their 2nd was headlined by their only two big names against each other. I understand why people are loyal to Nanae Takahashi. I don't understand the loyalty to Rossy Ogawa."
[3.0] "We didn't need more joshi promotions. As a result of Rossy Ogawa's sketchy poaching campaign last year, we are ultimately left with a weaker Stardom and a Marigold promotion that has been booked very poorly. Having watched many of their shows over the past year, I can say the majority of events had no purpose. No builds, interesting storylines, etc. I'm not sure why people praise Ogawa so often but he is not a good booker. Marigold's first year shows that he clearly doesn't know how to maximize talent because many bookers have done far more with far less."
"Okay I made an account to fairly comment about Marigold while Marigold is rough around the edges its fairly fun to watch with every show I seen them improving while they don't have anything major story yet they def have some serious future stars among them MIRAI, Seri, Utami, and esp Yuzuki. Unbias they have some spunk so hopefully with Mayu joining they get a bit more polished. They was just plagued with injuries bugs. Also GoChika movement ? AcChika KoChika? ? GoChika"
[6.0] "Marigold is a difficult company to rate because although they are improving little by little, they still have very inexperienced rookies when it comes to in-ring skills. Their ACE, Utami Hayashishita, is young and has a very enviable track record in STARDOM, yet he was not at his best and this is demonstrated in his title defenses. They're not even half as good as Sareee's defenses. Still, we can still get some good matches from the "super rookie" Seri Yamaoka, or the Superfly Champion Victoria Yuzuki, and we are also seeing the last run of Nanae Takahashi, who is considered a legend of wrestling yoshis and I believe she was the first STARDOM champion. While Rossy is trying to make good stories, the fact that he has so many rookies and doesn't have anything to elevate Marigold doesn't appeal as many people as they used to, plus, Marigold's biggest superstars, like Giulia and Sareee, have left. Giulia went to WWE, and Sareee is a freelancer, leaving Utami as the only main eventer left in Marigold, and this means there are no serious opponents for the title beyond Bozilla, who with his build can be dominant.Still, the fights aren't all bad, and we can see rookies like Rea Seto who have improved a lot, so yes, Marigold isn't a company of the present, but of the future."
[6.0] "Dream Star Fighting MARIGOLD at one point was the talk of the professional wrestling world! A new promotion by STARDOM founder, Rossy Ogawa and big stars joining the mix! It had a lot of buzz and it seemed like it was going to be the next big thing and might legit takeover STARDOM as the #1 Joshi Promotion in Japan. Everything was set in stone. May-June '24 were great! Good matches, steady pacing and very linear and clean shows. MARIGOLD had new eyes and it seemed like it was time for the Joshi world to change...Fast forward and it's the end of 2024. MARIGOLD for it's first year was fine. The last three months were nothing to watch. The promotion seemed directionless for a bit and many went back to watching STARDOM. MARIGOLD has seemed to have issues as well into 2025 and seems heading into a direction where nobody really cares to watch because we have STARDOM! [***1/4]"
[10.0] "There's something that needs to be said about the excitement of seeing a new promotion being founded and watching almost an entire roster of new talent being developed in real time. For some reason people seem to be too hard on Marigold, ignoring the fact that this is a 10-month-old promotion and one of its biggest attractions is rookies. The fact that it has quickly become the second biggest joshi promotion in terms of attendance and number of shows speaks volumes about the work being done. I can assure you that neither Stardom nor TJPW were bigger or better than Marigold when they were 10 months old."
[3.0] "I don't really think there's any sugarcoating it, there's at most 3 credible main event players in the whole company and 1 promising young rookie, attendances keep dwindling and they just pretend it isn't happening. Utami hasn't reached nearly the in ring quality of her peak in Stardom and the quality of the undercard is just awful on most shows."
[6.0] "Now that the dust has settled from bursting out of the gates the way they did, it's perhaps time to have a more honest appraisal of Marigold as they stand in early 2025. And, well, the key takeaway is that you can't just astroturf a new promotion into existence. You either need to be willing to invest a lot of money, like AAA and AEW did, basically have the entire locker room defect en masse, like NOAH did, or you have to start at the very bottom and work your way up. Rossy probably thought that the WWE in their corner would be a substitute for the either of those three, but as the past few months have gone, it's clear that Stamford's view of Marigold is more that of an organised scouting ground. Which, in the grand scheme of things, isn't a bad place to be, but it surely must be a disappointment to those who saw a possible challenger to Stardom at the top of the mountain. That said, my rating is not due to a long-term culmination of flaws, but from appraising the flaws that every burgeoning promotion must deal with. The roster is too thin and in a crowded space for joshi promotions, some of the talent beyond the upper-card needs work and even though Rossy might've found a hidden gem in Bozilla, the less said about her countrywoman Tank, the better. There's potential, to be sure, but perhaps it would've been better if Rossy went with the Sareee-ISM route instead."
[6.0] "Am Anfang als die Liga , , On-Air" ging war ich vollkommen investet und hab gehofft nach Stardom einer weiteren Liga beim wachsen zu schauen zu können, doch jetzt mittlerweile die große Ernüchterung. Die Road-Shows sind durchschnittlich bis schlecht und auch wenn die PPV's dann absolut durch die Decke gehen will der Funke nicht wirklich überspringen. Die Promotion hat ein Problem damit Zuschauer dauerhaft zu binden. Mittlerweile mach ich mir garnicht mehr die Mühe die Roadshows zu schauen weil sie wirklich nicht gut sind. Alles in allem sehe ich aber trotzdem sehr für Potenzial, und ich denke wenn man an den Richtigen schrauben dreht sollte da auch jede Menge möglich sein. Aber solange nichts passiert ist kann ich Marigold nur als mittelmäßig bewerten. Meine Hoffnung obliegen das man die Kurve bekommt und das Gesamtkonzept mehr festigen kann um Zuschauer fest binden zu können."
[6.0] "Marigold is a new promotion that has potential, it is fine overall but I am not the biggest fan of Rossy's booking lately, he always booked according to his hype he has toward wrestlers and once he finds someone who he has even more interest in, he has the tendency to forget about his former favorite and I am afraid that it will happen to Yuzuki since Hatman is really high on Yamaoka lately, he pushes rookies way too fast and doesn't let time to improve at their pace. The house shows look useless given he doesn't put much efforts to tell a really interesting story, and they are skippable. Another problem with the promotion is the roster, most of the wrestlers lack experience and it lacks more confirmed wrestlers which make the lower card and mid card weak. However, the upper midcard-main event scene is not bad at all, we have some great wrestlers like Utami, MIRAI, Miku, Nanae and they all bring a lot to the company. Overall, the promotion is fine but the booking is far from great imo."
[7.0] "I'll be keeping an eye on this promotion, it's a promising business with a good, young and strong roster with promising great matches and rivalries."
[6.0] "Marigold halbwegs fair zu bewerten ist kein einfaches Unterfangen. Jede neue Joshi Liga, vorallem mit den nötigen finanziellen Ressourcen, ist zunächst generell gut für das ganze Business aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinckeln und bestehenden Möglichkeiten. Marigold hatte viel Buzz im Jahr 2024, als die Liga an den Start ging und mit der ersten Show einen Homerun landete. Für mich kam dann aber relativ schnell die Ernüchterung, dass hier mehr nach einem Copy & Paste Formular von Rossy Ogawa gearbeitet wird, als etwas neue zu erschaffen. Wenn man Stardom etwas länger verfolgt, dann bekommt man bei Marigold das Gefühl, als wenn man einen Re-run der älteren Stardom Shows aus den früheren Jahren zu sehen bekommt. Es wiederholt sich vieles und auch die Konzepte wurden übernommen. Die Shows selbst haben mit der In-Ring Qualität zu kämpfen, die stark schwankt, da sich merklich viele Rookies im Roster befinden und die Main Matches oft einiges rausholen müssen aus den schwächeren Undercards. Es bleibt abzuwarten ob Marigold sich weiterentwickelt, oder ob man den routinierten und angestaubten Ogawa Kurs beibehält."
[7.0] "Ich vergebe erstmal eine 7. Mir fehlt aktuell einfach noch etwas, um eine 8 rechtfertigen zu können, auch wenn es diese wohl langfristig geben wird. Bisher finde ich die Shows aber nicht so spannend, als dass ich schon so hoch einsteigen könnte. Mir fehlt auch noch die eine richtige Banger Show, wo alles passt. Die beste Show war sicherlich die erste Show, aber dort gab es für mich eigtl. auch nur den Main Event, der mich vollends überzeugt hat. Dafür gab es dort auch ein 15-minütiges Tag Team Match, welches nicht so gut war. Ich bin gespannt, ob die Sumo Hall mich abholen wird. Wenn dem so ist, gibt es hier auch nochmal einen Punkt mehr. Edit: Ja das war eine richtig gute Show. Nicht absolut herausragend, aber endlich mal eine Show, die durchaus abgeliefert hat und sich vor der Konkurrenz nicht verstecken muss. Edit #2: Ich muss doch wieder runtergehen auf die 7, da Marigold es nicht geschafft hat mich übers Jahr an der Stange zu halten. Viele Shows waren einfach nicht gut genug, sodass die wenigen Ausreißer nach oben auch nicht ausreichend sind, um eine höhere Wertung zu rechtfertigen."
[4.0] "Marigold started with a lot of buzz and the first show was a hit. Unfortunately the shows increasingly fell flat and the quality was often not really good. Marigold has a lot of rookies which is noticeable and they need time. A hanfful of good joshi wrestlers still make the main matches on the PPVs and a few other shows worth watching. Rossy Ogawas booking is sometimes exactly the same as with STARDOM in the early years. He just copies many things like Mask Fiesta. I also hope that something like with Kizuna Tanaka won't happen again. That was irresponsible on the part of Ogawa and Marigold."
[6.0] "Anyone rating this promotion so highly has definitely never seen a full show. The wrestling is alright at best on any given show and they dont have a whole lot of stars on the roster. Its doing its thing but having it this highly rated for not really having accomplished anything is so weird."
[6.0] "The wrestling is great but there really isnt any direction for anything at all at the moment. They have a lot of wrestlers that I like but its just missing something at the moment. Their first tourney was solid I think they just need to get some stories I can really sink my teeth into."
[8.0] "It's fascinating to watch the birth of a new promotion from the very beginning. It's much easier to follow and watch than Stardom for me because i've watched every show and i'm familiar with everyone now. Sure the roster is thin and they probably need some new faces. WWE absolutely should send some people for a few months. I think Rossy has done a good job so far. They have everything a new company should have, the top stars (Utami, Sareee), good to very good wrestlers with ace potential (MIRAI, Miku Aono, Kouki) but they also have the future (Yuzuki & Tanaka), and thanks to their partnerships with WWE, they will have Giulia, Iyo and Kairi a few times a year which is huge for them."
[8.0] "Eine neue Liga, bei der man von Anfang an dabei sein kann und schon einen großen Teil des Rosters kennt, kannte ich noch nicht. Sie machen sich bislang echt gut, aber es gibt noch Potenzial nach oben."
"As big fan of Japanese wrestling i don't watch Marigold and maybe i will never do.The reason is what is behind this promotion.The fact Marigold is developmental company to WWE for me it's not good thing especially for Japanese women's wrestling scene because maybe this is the beginning to happen what happened on UK wrestling scene with the launch of NXT UK and is something i don't want to see.If the status of the company was different maybe i will give it a try.I will not give a rating out of respect to every talent that is part of the company because they don't have any responsible to this."
[7.0] "Right now, it feels a lot like a Stardom tribute promotion, in the same way as an indie show that hired a bunch of ex-ECW stars feels like an ECW tribute show. Though perhaps I have a problem, because as harsh as that may sound, I genuinely mean it as a compliment. When you remove any controversies in regards to the promotion's founding, it's a really fun watch, and as the years pass I'm sure my rating will go up. They just need to find their footing, and they'll be golden (no pun intended)."
[8.0] "Der Start ist Marigold geglückt. Natürlich ein bomben Roster und wahrscheinlich jetzt schon unter den Top 5 Japans. Das ganze Projekt vom Start ab zu verfolgen ist schon sehr spannend."
[10.0] "Happy to be able to watch the first episodes of Marigold so far. It's been about 3 months and from the beginning the company trapped me. Big names, big matches, big news, and big experiences too. They have everything a wrestling lover could want. And the last ppv is a clear example of what I'm promoting. Simply incredible. See a promising future for this organization and its wrestlers."
[5.0] "Still a new promotion so its hard to fully judge however this promotion started off already sour with me due to Rossy Ogawas antics of just stealing a bunch of wrestlers I like to just lock them down and keep them locked behind marigold. I think a lot of people who were fans of the Actwres stars that Rossy yoinked feel quite betrayed including me and it dissuades us from wanting to watch this promotion."
[7.0] "very controversial company on the get-go with the Stardom split and the WWE relationship. It's hard to say it's been failure for sure but neither is it clear that it's a start of what a legendary promotion would be. The roster is on the tight side and they work a lot of shows in the short period of time, which doesnt seem to align with the lighter workload promise. There is little major storyline build yet and all matches are very typical of an Ogawa booking. There isn't neccesarily anyone im excited to be on the top of a promotion (sorry MIRAI stans). Like this is just stardom with 20% of the roster, AWG girls, and bad gaijins (Bozilla is based though i tell you that much). Sure Stardom isnt being booked too well recently but this is really not mile ahead in any shape or form."
[4.0] "Das bisherige Roster enthält ehrlicherweise eigentlich nur Wrestlerinnen wo ich jetzt nicht so der Fan bin und für mich teilweise das Produkt Stardom sogar schlechter gemacht haben, da diese da in meiner Meinung zu viel gepusht waren. Aber ich bin mal gespannt wie es wird, mehr Konkurrenz und mehr Wrestling ist ja meistens eher gut. Edit: Meine Befürchtungen haben sich bis dato nur bestätigt. Es ist definitiv nicht meins. Ich sehe im Vergleich zu Stardom, TJPW und anderen bisher nichts besonderes. Ich gebe der Promotion definitiv noch weiterhin die Chance sich zu entwickeln, aber bisher sehe ich weder gutes Wrestling, noch irgendeine Besonderheit die für mich die Promotion zum herausstechen bringt. Aber ich aktualisiere meine Bewertung wenn es mir doch noch besser gefallen sollte."
[6.0] "I have mixed feelings about this one. Of course it's too early to call, but I don't think MARIGOLD is as inventive and new as the people are trying to make it. I liked the first event, but I think Rossy should make a better job at promoting the event with better matches, since the roster is fire."
[9.0] "The first show was great, not just because of the matches, but because of the people in Koraken Hall. It's one of the best arenas in Japan. The cheers are always very loud there in matches, just the wrestlers coming out. Strategically it was the right decision. We'll have to see what happens next, but so far it's a very promising start."
[10.0] "Excellent start! The programming was superb, the matches delivered, the production of the show was fantastic including this end where the Marigolds were displayed, beautiful lights, ... Fantastic start!"
"Mit Marigold hat Japan eine neue Joshi Liga die sich mit ihren Roster nicht zu verstecken brauch. Schade das einige von Stardom weg gegangen sind, besonderes um Yuzuki und MIRAI tut es mir am meisten Leid. Dann noch mit Nanae Takahashi und Utami Hayashishita haben Marigold zwei Aces im Roster. Mal sehen wie die Shows werden mit Rossy Ogawa als erfahrenden Promoter bin ich gespannt wie Marigold ankommt."
