Marigold Summer Destiny was a

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event promoted by Dream Star Fighting Marigold. It took place on July 13, 2024, in

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at the Ryogoku Kokugikan. Nine matches were contested at the event, including two on the pre-show. The main event saw

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defeat Giulia to become the inaugural Marigold World Champion. In other prominent matches,

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defeated

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, 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.

Production

Background

The show featured

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that result from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed

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, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

Storylines

On May 20, 2024, during the main event of Fields Forever, Marigold's first show, Bozilla alongside

defeated Giulia and

, where Giulia suffered a broken wrist. After their match, Sareee challenged Giulia to a singles match, which was scheduled to Summer Destiny. Giulia was later clear to wrestle Sareee at the event. On July 12, it was confirmed that the winner between the two would be the inaugural

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. On June 11, after Utami Hayashishita defeated

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made a surprise announcement by challenging Hayashishita at Summer Destiny. On June 23, Misa Matsui and Natsumi Showzuki advanced in a four-way tournament to compete against each other at Summer Destiny to determine the inaugural Super Fly Champion. On June 16, a four-way tournament was launched to determine the inaugural United National Champion. While Bozilla advanced to the finals, Miku Aono and Mirai kept wrestling to a

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. 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.

Event

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,

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veterans

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and

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teamed up with ex-

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's NØRI to defeat

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and

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. 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,

defeated

. In the main event,

defeated Giulia to become the inaugural Marigold World Champion.

Results

References

External links

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