{"id":305402,"date":"2025-11-25T07:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305402\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T07:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:05:08","slug":"fil-japanese-junna-tsukii-reflects-on-35-second-ko-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/305402\/","title":{"rendered":"Fil-Japanese Junna Tsukii reflects on 35-second KO win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you happened to blink over the weekend, you might have missed another electrifying showing from national team karateka-turned-MMA fighter Junna Tsukii.<\/p>\n<p>The Filipina-Japanese striker delivered a resounding first-round knockout against Princess Saaya in their rematch on the undercard of Deep Jewels 51, held Sunday at New Pier Hall in Tokyo, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Tsukii needed just 35 seconds to finish the job. The 2019 Southeast Asian Games gold medalist landed a stiff right hand that sent Saaya tumbling to the canvas, before she swarmed her opponent with ground-and-pound to close the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was incredibly tough and frustrating during the time when I struggled to showcase the best aspects of Karate in MMA and couldn&#8217;t meet expectations,\u201d Tsukii wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world of competition isn&#8217;t always smooth sailing, but this moment today\u2014where I could share the joy of victory with all of you\u2014makes me truly happy and reaffirms that it was worth taking the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, Tsukii avenged the disqualification loss she suffered in their first encounter back in September. The impressive stoppage also improved her professional MMA record to an even 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014JMB, GMA Integrated News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you happened to blink over the weekend, you might have missed another electrifying showing from national team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,136922,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-305402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-junna-tsukii","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305402","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=305402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}