{"id":239969,"date":"2025-10-25T13:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239969\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T13:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T13:48:07","slug":"mma-ace-charlie-ratcliff-earns-second-ph-gold-in-asian-youth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239969\/","title":{"rendered":"MMA ace Charlie Ratcliff earns second PH gold in Asian Youth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\tCharlie Ratcliff, a Filipina-Australian who hails from Negros Occidental, rules the girls’ 45kg modern MMA class as the Philippines matches its two-gold tally in the last Asian Youth Games\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

SAKHIR, Bahrain \u2013 Mixed martial arts ace Charlie Ratcliff needed just a little over a minute to win the Philippines\u2019 second gold medal in the Asian Youth Games.<\/p>\n

The 16-year-old from Negros Occidental delivered a dominant display as she submitted Thailand\u2019s Nakanantaphon Khaihong in the girls\u2019 45kg modern MMA final at the Exhibition World Bahrain here on Saturday, October 25. <\/p>\n

Flashing her superb grappling skills, Ratcliff quickly took down Khaihong and forced the Thai to tap out with 1:57 minutes remaining in the opening round to become the second Filipino in this edition to win gold after pencak silat standout Kram Airam Carpio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Her victory allowed the Philippines to match its two-gold tally in 2013, the last time the Asian Youth Games were held. <\/p>\n

It also made up for the defeat of her 17-year-old brother Travis, who fell short of the gold after his unanimous decision loss to Iran\u2019s Amirmohammad Hatamianafshari in the boys\u2019 60kg traditional MMA final. <\/p>\n

Born in the Philippines to a Filipina mother and an Australian father, the Ratcliff siblings learned grappling at a young age then transitioned to MMA. <\/p>\n

Their mother, Maria Aisa, also competes internationally and became part of the national wrestling team. <\/p>\n

In all, the Philippines won three MMA medals, with Alexander Tagure Jr. bagging bronze in the boys\u2019 50kg modern MMA. \u2013 Rappler.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article. Charlie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-239969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}