{"id":22455,"date":"2025-07-25T06:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22455\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T06:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:42:08","slug":"smashed-every-metric-ayaka-miura-says-she-is-ageing-backwards-ahead-of-one-173-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22455\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Smashed every metric!\u2019: Ayaka Miura says she is ageing backwards ahead of ONE 173 shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ayaka Miura said she was in the best shape of her life as she prepared to fight Denice Zamboanga for the vacant atomweight MMA world title at ONE 173 in her homeland in November.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 34-year-old Japanese star submitted Juliana Ot\u00e1lora in the first round last weekend at ONE Friday Fights 116, using her trademark scarf-hold Americana, widely known now as the \u201cAyaka Lock\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It was her third submission in four straight wins and her 11th career victory by tapout.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI always aim to finish,\u201d Miura told the Post. \u201cIf you don\u2019t finish, it can be boring, especially in women\u2019s fights. I want to show that female fights can be exciting. That\u2019s why I go for the submission every time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Miura said she was told she would be receiving the title shot during her post-fight interview in the ring at Lumpinee Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ayaka Miura (right) lost to China\u2019s Xiong Jingnan in a strawweight title fight in 2022. Photo: ONE Championship\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/07\/25\/d47ce3b1-0b32-4b3c-9da0-2193fa9e4b65_d8cac2a8.jpg\" title=\"Ayaka Miura (right) lost to China\u2019s Xiong Jingnan in a strawweight title fight in 2022. Photo: ONE Championship\"\/>Ayaka Miura (right) lost to China\u2019s Xiong Jingnan in a strawweight title fight in 2022. Photo: ONE Championship<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe past few years were very tough, but I told myself: don\u2019t quit. Keep going. Believe in yourself. Now the results are coming.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ayaka Miura said she was in the best shape of her life as she prepared to fight Denice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[18531,18532,18526,5553,49,48,95,18525,641,18533,2454,18528,18529,638,13019,18535,82,18534,18530,18527],"class_list":{"0":"post-22455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-alyona-rassohyna","9":"tag-ariake-arena","10":"tag-ayaka-lock","11":"tag-ayaka-miura","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-china","15":"tag-denice-zamboanga","16":"tag-fighting","17":"tag-ham-seo-hee","18":"tag-japan","19":"tag-juliana-otalora","20":"tag-lumpinee-stadium","21":"tag-mma","22":"tag-one","23":"tag-one-friday-fights","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-stamp-fairtex","26":"tag-tokyo","27":"tag-xiong-jing-nan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}