{"id":900831,"date":"2026-09-22T03:28:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900831\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T03:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T03:28:28","slug":"asian-games-just-700gm-between-suchika-tariyal-and-spot-in-mma-final-asian-games-2026-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900831\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games: Just 700gm between Suchika Tariyal and spot in MMA final | Asian Games 2026 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/asian-games-2026-mixed-martial-arts.jpg\" alt=\"Asian Games: Just 700gm between Suchika Tariyal and spot in MMA final\" title=\"Nagoya: India's Suchika Tariyal takes a victory lap with the tricolour after securing a bronze medal in the women's traditional 60kg mixed martial arts event at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan. (PTI Photo)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Nagoya: India&#8217;s Suchika Tariyal takes a victory lap with the tricolour after securing a bronze medal in the women&#8217;s traditional 60kg mixed martial arts event at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan. (PTI Photo) Nagoya: Suchika Tariyal did not lose her fight in the arena. She lost it on the weighing scale.In a dramatic finish to the traditional 60kg MMA semifinal, the 36-year-old Indian was tied with Singapore\u2019s Hui Hoon Toon after the bout and the mandatory one-minute extra time. Two judges voted for the Singaporean, while one sided with Suchika.Unhappy with the verdict, Suchika and her team felt she had landed more punches and strikes. The Mixed Martial Arts Sports Federation of India president Nikhil Kunder then lodged a protest with the Asian federation, sending the contest into arbitration.\u201cWe had to pay a fee of $1,000 for the arbitration process. We get to choose three random judges, who go into a closed room and analyse the last round. They give their scores and, based on that, a decision is made. Even then, the match ended in a draw,\u201d Kunder told TOI.The Singapore federation was then given two options: go for counter-arbitration, allowing them to choose three judges from the panel, or have the fighters weighed, with the lighter athlete at the morning weigh-in declared the winner.\u201cThey opted for the latter,\u201d Kunder said.That left Suchika at a disadvantage. She was found to be 700gm heavier than her Singaporean opponent at the morning weigh-in and, under the sport\u2019s Asian body rules, was eliminated from the final.Kunder said the Indian team was also unable to verify the weight themselves because the athletes were staying on the cruise ship.\u201cThe players are staying on the cruise ship, so we officials don\u2019t have access to them. We didn\u2019t get to see the weight and had to take what was told to us at face value,\u201d he said.The decision left Suchika heartbroken.\u201cShe just wouldn\u2019t stop crying. It was very difficult to console her. But we had to accept the situation,\u201d Kunder said.Later, Suchika said, \u201cI gave my 100%, and I don\u2019t agree with the decision that went in her favour.\u201dThe medal was India\u2019s first in the sport, which made its debut at this edition of the Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nagoya: India&#8217;s Suchika Tariyal takes a victory lap with the tricolour after securing a bronze medal in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[469466,324080,64,63,786,469462,469461,469460,469465,785,469459,469464,85,469463,466635],"class_list":["post-900831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-60kg-mma-category","tag-asian-games-2026","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-hui-hoon-toon","tag-india-mma-team","tag-mixed-martial-arts-india","tag-mixed-martial-arts-sports-federation","tag-mma","tag-mma-semi-final","tag-nikhil-kunder","tag-sports","tag-suchika","tag-suchika-tariyal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900831","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=900831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}