Dream Star Fighting Marigold

Dream Star Fighting Marigold
Acronym	Marigold
Founded	April 15, 2024
Headquarters	Japan
Founder(s)	Rossy Ogawa
Owner(s)	Rossy Ogawa
Split from	World Wonder Ring Stardom; Actwres girl'Z;
Website	dsf-marigold.com/en/

Dream Star Fighting Marigold (stylized as Dream Star★Fighting Marigold), referred to simply as Marigold (マリーゴールド, Marīgōrudo) in shorthand, is a Japanese joshi puroresu or women's professional wrestling promotion founded in April 2024.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

History

Formation

Marigold was founded by former All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling co-producer and World Wonder Ring Stardom (Stardom) promoter Rossy Ogawa after Ogawa was fired from Stardom. In February 2024, Ogawa was dismissed from Stardom after being accused by the promotion's management of "poaching talent" for what would be Marigold. He has denied this claim.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Upon the announcement of the creation of the promotion, several active members of the Stardom and Actwres girl'Z (AWG) rosters defected to Marigold. Amongst them were Stardom roster members Giulia, Utami Hayashishita, Mirai, Nanae Takahashi, Mai Sakurai, Victoria Yuzuki and Nao Ishikawa as well as AWG roster members Natsumi Sumikawa, Miku Aono, Misa Matsui, Chiaki, Chika Goto, and Kouki.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] Ogawa named his new promotion after Aimyon's song titled "Marigold", as it contains the message that "Marigolds are often associated with the powerful strength of the sun, and represent the power, strength, and light that resides within people".^[5]

Marigold hosted their inaugural event, titled "Marigold Fields Forever", on May 20, 2024, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] The show, and subsequent shows, were announced as streaming on Wrestle Universe.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Personnel

Championships

On May 15, 2024, the promotion announced the creation of four titles, the World, United National, Twin Star and Super Fly Championships alongside the design of the first two of them which, similar to World Wonder Ring Stardom's World and Wonder championships, were bound to continue the "Showa" era tradition carried on from All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling with a red strap for the main title and a white strap for the secondary one. Additional to the main singles and tag team championships, the Super Fly Championship was introduced as a cruiserweight-type of title made for wrestlers under 121 lbs (55 kg).^[6]

Championship	Current champion(s)	Reign	Date won	Days held	Location	Notes
Marigold World Championship	TBD	N/A	TBD	N/A	TBD
Marigold United National Championship	TBD	1	July 13, 2024	—	Tokyo, Japan	Bozilla vs. Mirai or Miku Aono in the finals of the inaugural tournament at Marigold Summer Destiny.
Marigold Twin Star Championship	TBD	N/A	TBD	N/A	TBD
Marigold Super Fly Championship	TBD	1	July 13, 2024	—	Tokyo, Japan	Natsumi Showzuki vs. Misa Matsui in the finals of the inaugural tournament at Marigold Summer Destiny.

Major events

Event	Date	Location	Venue	Main event	Notes
Fields Forever	May 20, 2024	Tokyo, Japan	Korakuen Hall	Giulia and Utami Hayashishita vs. Sareee and Bozilla	^[7]
Summer Destiny	July 13, 2024	Tokyo, Japan	Ryogoku Kokugikan	TBA	^[8]