Marigold 8/2/2025 Dream Star Grand Prix 2025 Day 1 Morning Show

Marigold 8/2/2025 Dream Star Grand Prix 2025 Day 1 Morning Show

Hummingbird, Megaton, Nagisa Tachibana & Nao Ishikawa vs. Komomo Minami, Minami Yuuki, Shinno & Yuuka Yamazaki

Hum's team attacks to start. Hum facebusters Komomo. Hum and Nao knock over 2 opponents together. Komomo takes corner attacks. Hum slams Minami for 2. Nagisa hits a nice dropkick on Minami then Minami dropkicks her back.

Shinno gets in and is dropkicked by Nagisa. Nagisa stunners her. Nagisa hits a bulldog on her for 2. Shinno chest kicks Nagisa down then sharpshooters her but it's broken up. Shinno's team all put submissions on at once together and the ref makes them break.

Nagisa crossbodies Shinno. Mega comes in, does a tiger pose and is kicked by Shinno. Shinno drops her with a high kick. Yuuka hits shoulderblocks on Mega then Nao shoulders yuuka over. Mega splashes Yuuka then steamrollers her. Yuuka basement dropkicks Mega.

Nao is tripped then she takes a double basement dropkick. Yuuka step up enzugiri's Mega for 2.
Nagisa dropkicks Yuuka. Hum hanging triangles Yuuka. Mega splashes Yuuka for 2. 3 members of Nagisa's team take dropkicks. Shinno jumping knees Mega. Mega then takes a dropkick + russian legsweep combo. Yuuka cutters Mega and pins her.

Thoughts: It was acceptable for an opener. Nagisa had a good night here and no one really botched anything. Maybe things could have been a bit more clean but I was alright with this. 

All of the girls in the Dream Star Grand Prix come out to the ring with sashes and the trophy. Victoria Yuzuki and Seri Yamaoka seem to take some kind of pledge together. The girls then all pose for a photo.

DREAM STAR Grand Prix 2025 DREAM League Match - CHIAKI vs. Seri Yamaoka

Chi claws her to start then hair throws her twice. Chi knee chokes her. Chi snapmares her then pulls her arms back. Seri misses a dropkick then Chi crabs her.

Chi stomps her while she's down then does facewash kicks. They trade chest forearms. Chi pulls her down by the hair and legdrops her for 2. Chi cartwheel double knee drops her. Seri slaps her then Chi tilt-a-whirl backbreakers her.

Seri back body drops her then ties her legs up. Chi claws her again. Seri hits a shotgun dropkick for 2. Chi hits punches then spears her. Seri no sells it then spears her back for 2. Seri hits mounted forearms. Seri spinebusters her for 2. Chi powerslams her for 2. Chi chokeslams her for 2. Chi torture racks her. Seri flips. Seri hits triple gutwrench suplexes without letting go and does a full-nelson pin to win.

Thoughts: It was an average match for the most part. No one did anything bad or anything and Seri did alright for her experience level but it wasn't great. Seri's gutwrench suplexes were a thing of beauty. I didn't like Seri no selling the german though.

DREAM STAR Grand Prix 2025 STAR League Match - Nagisa Nozaki vs. Kizuna Tanaka

Kiz corner dropkicks NN before it starts then hits a forearm flurry. NN chest forearms her then Kiz flying lariats her for 2. NN corner facekicks her. NN then sleepers her and Kiz ropebreaks. Kiz's head is banged off chairs outside then she is sent into the post. NN curbstomps her outside then does her pendulum kick inside.

NN top rope dropkicks her. Kiz hits forearms to the gut then she rolls her up for 2. Kiz low flying knees her for 2. Kiz fisherman suplexes her for 2. NN superkicks her in the gut then Kiz hits re:dream for 2. NN facekicks her for 2.

NN superkicks her in the head and hits a basement dropkick for 2. NN hits a flying claymore kick and wins.

Thoughts: It was short and not too much of note. Kiz brought the fight, was the spunky underdog and got beaten pretty easily. NN did her usual kicks and not a lot else.

DREAM STAR Grand Prix 2025 DREAM League Match - Kouki Amarei vs. Rea Seto

Rea dropkicks her in the knee then stomps the knee. Rea pulls KA's leg around the ropes then dropkicks it. Rea is tripped into the ropes and KA facekicks her there. Rea dropkicks her for 2.

Rea ankle locks her then does a calf crusher variation. KA cutters her then she splashes her for 2. KA facekicks her then Rea rolls her into a leglock. KA backdrops her. KA jumping facekicks her for 2. KA jumping facekicks her and wins.

Thoughts: Rea tried to take out the leg here with boots to the knee and an ankle lock. KA fought through and won. There was some logic but both of these girls are rather limited and there wasn't much to it than that. This was also a shorter bout.

DREAM STAR Grand Prix 2025 STAR League Match - MIRAI vs. Chika Goto

Goto takes her down and Mir rolls her over. Mir armbars her then goes for another when Goto breaks it up. Mir yanks on her arm then elbows it. Mir presses Goto's arm into the mat. Goto hits chest forearms.

Mir trips her and goes for a hold but Goto ropebreaks. Mir hits a corner lariat. Mir goes onto the 2nd rope, Goto grabs her and Mir cradles her. Mir pulls both of Goto's arms back and Goto ropebreaks.

Mir runs into a big facekick from Goto. Goto hip attacks her on the ropes then kicks her in the head over the 2nd rope for 2. Mir misses a corner attack. They shoulder battle. Goto shoulders her over. Mir shoulders her over. Goto slams her for 2. Goto giant swings her. Mir then rolls her into a pin and wins.

Thoughts: It was short and the lack of time hurt it. I didn't think it clicked that well and it was not a very exciting match. They should have just shoulder battled and lariated each other most of the match until someone went down and I think it would have worked out better.

Mirai is given a prize from a sponsor for winning after.

DREAM STAR Grand Prix 2025 STAR League Match - Miku Aono vs. Misa Matsui

MM spin kicks her in the gut. Miku dodges a dropkick and hits her own. MM running dropkicks her then throws her out. MM chairs Miku right in front of the ref, who doesn't care. Miku is then sent into the seats. Miku kicks her in the back then MM clubs on her. MM is sent into the post then MM high kicks the post when MM ducks.

MM bangs Miku's leg off the post. Miku is put in tree of woe. MM slaps her there and running knees her in the gut. MM figure fours her. MM ties her up in the ropes then pulls on her face and running knees her. Miku drops her chest first off a casadora attempt and kicks her in the ribs. Miku corner dropkicks her then hits chest kicks. Miku hits a hard leg kick then double underhook suplexes her. Miku sliding lariats her for 2.

MM eye rakes her then flying knees her. Miku then does a bad lariat from behind. They trade chest forearms. MM stretch mufflers her. Miku ropebreaks. MM wraps Miku's foot and leg in the ropes then she kicks the rope. MM top rope dropkicks her. MM flying knees her for 2. Miku swinging twisting slams her for 2. Miku then goes for the buffalo sleeper.

Miku hits chest forearms then lariats her on the buckles. Miku blocks a hurricanrana then high kicks her. Miku tiger drivers her for 2. MM rolls out of a glorious driver and bridge pins Miku to win.

Thoughts: Misa worked the leg for a lot of this though at the end it was all Miku getting the offense in. I didn't like Misa chairing Miku in front of the ref with no punishment for it. They tried and I think the idea was alright enough here for this to be okay but if they sped things up a little and went a little harder, I think it could have been better.

DREAM STAR Grand Prix 2025 DREAM League Match - Mayu Iwatani vs. Maria

Maria rolls out of a lock up and poses. Maria thne rolls out again and stalls. She taunts Mayu outside. Maria stalls more then is armdragged. Maria hits a basement dropkick then rubs Mayu's face on the top rope.

Maria chokes Mayu with a towel. Maria whips her with a towel. They trade shots and Maria stomps on her. Mayu hits kicks to the back. Mayu stomps on her and whips her head first into the buckles.

Mayu dropkicks Maria against the buckles for 2. They trade forearms. Mayu spin kicks her in the gut then Maria dropkicks her. Maria facekicks her on the ropes. Maria then slingshot double stomps her. Maria kicks her in the back for 2.  

Mayu germans Maria. Maria no sells it and claymore kicks her for 2. Maria goes for a slam and Mayu rolls her up and wins.

Thoughts: The story of this was Maria stalling and getting on Mayu's nerves then Mayu roughing her up for it. Something happened at the finish here as it didn't seem planned and Mayu sold her wrist like crazy after. This was fine but could have used a better finish.

Mayu taunts her and Maria boots her before leaving.

DREAM STAR Grand Prix 2025 STAR League Match - Mai Sakurai vs. Chanyota

They trade chest forearms to start in an aggressive fashion. Chan shoulders her over. Mai cartwheels out of a hair throw and dropkicks her. Mai kicks her in the chest then running facewash kicks her for 2.  Mai armbars her.

Chan flying shoulders her. Chan corner lariats her. Chan 2nd rope diving shoulders her. Chan samoan drops her for 2. Mai basement dropkicks her. Chan hits corner spears. Chan sliding lariats her for 2. Mai backdrops her.

Mai flying knees her. Mai suplexes her. Mai tries a top rope elbow drop and Chan gets her knees up. Chan crossfaces her. Mai 2nd rope superplexes her. Mai goes back up top and Chan headbutts her. Chan 2nd rope samoan drops her. They fight outside. Chan hits some bolo punches to the head and lariats her for 2. Mai then stf's her.

Mai hits an STO for 1. Chan fires up, runs into a face kick then is hit with a buzzsaw kick. Mai shotgun dropkicks her for 2. Chan sleepers her then grounds her with it. Mai ropebreaks. Chan hits a big lariat for 2. Chan jackhammers her then hits a wrist-clutch sitout powerbomb and wins.

Thoughts: It started off hot with some fiery forearms and strikes. It cooled off as it went on but Chan kept doing comebacks and showing fire and I thought it was good overall even if it wasn't perfect. I'd like to see this one again and I thought the two worked pretty well together.

DREAM STAR Grand Prix 2025 DREAM League Match - Utami Hayashishita vs. Victoria Yuzuki

They trade wristlocks. Utami side headlock takeovers her and Yuz headscissors her. They then stand off. Yuz armdrags her then dropkicks her. Yuz springboard dropkicks her. Yuz then top rope plancha's her outside.

Yuz top rope dropkicks her for 2. Yuz tries a chickenwing and Utami ropebreaks. Utami dropkicks her. Utami blocks a flying headscissors with a backbreaker. Utami slams her. Utami hits a basement dropkick to her back for 2.

Yuz rolls into a dropkicks on her. Utami samon drops her for 2. Yuz side headlock takeover her and dropkicks her through the ropes for 2. Yuz low dropkicks her. Utami catches her in the corner with an air raid crash for 2. Yuz flips out of a german and double stomps her. Yuz then superkicks her in the head for 2.

Yuz backdrops her for 2. Yuz wrist-clutch sitout powerbombs her and is german'd. Yuz no sells it then is back body dropped. Yuz germans her for 2. Utami lariats her.

Yuz armdrag rolls her into a crucifix for 2. Yuz superkicks her then rolls her again into a crucifix and wins.

Thoughts: I liked it for the most part. This was all about Yuz going for the upset with various pin attempts until she managed to pull it off. Utami could have used a little more of her brutal offense here but I thought they mostly got this one right. 

Yuz then does an excited speech after and is given a gift for winning.

Overall thoughts: The opener was fine. Chiaki/Seri was average. Nagisa/Kizuna wasn't that good. There was some logic to Rea/Kouki. Mirai/Goto didn't work as well it should have. Miku/Misa was alright with Miku working the leg. I liked Mayu/Maria minus the weird finish. Mai/Chan was the best match of the night with Chan going for the upset and showing a lot of fire. The main was similar to the sei-main with Yuzuki also pulling off the upset. I think I'd give this a 7 out of 10 total. It had enough solid wrestling and they beat my expectations here with a decent main, semi-main and third match from the top. I liked this show overall.