{"id":404112,"date":"2026-01-12T06:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T06:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/404112\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T06:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T06:40:12","slug":"vietnam-fighter-strikes-gold-at-asian-mma-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/404112\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam fighter strikes gold at Asian MMA championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" data-author=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/lo-thi-phung-mma-1768122738512802753317-1768187417447714285567.jpg\" id=\"img_200605629106900992\" w=\"1566\" h=\"1019\" alt=\"Vietnam fighter wins gold at Asian MMA championship - \u1ea2nh 1.\" title=\"Vietnam fighter wins gold at Asian MMA championship - \u1ea2nh 1.\" rel=\"lightbox\" photoid=\"200605629106900992\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn2.tuoitre.vn\/471584752817336320\/2026\/1\/12\/lo-thi-phung-mma-1768122738512802753317-1768187417447714285567.jpg\" type=\"photo\" style=\"max-width:100%;\" width=\"1566\" height=\"1019\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-placeholder=\"Enter photo caption\">Lo Thi Phung of Vietnam (L) is declared the winner of the women\u2019s 49 kg final at the 2026 Asian MMA Championship in Luzhou, China, January 11, 2026. Photo: Photo: MMAVN<\/p>\n<p>Phung secured the victory on the ground after an early takedown, forcing her opponent to tap out under a submission hold.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament, held in Luzhou from January 7 to Sunday, marked the third Asian MMA Championship and featured a 10-member Vietnamese team.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-author=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/mma-1768123324787304035623-17681874174601090813181.jpg\" id=\"img_200605629076692992\" w=\"1980\" h=\"1503\" alt=\"Vietnam fighter wins gold at Asian MMA championship - \u1ea2nh 2.\" title=\"Vietnam fighter wins gold at Asian MMA championship - \u1ea2nh 2.\" rel=\"lightbox\" photoid=\"200605629076692992\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn2.tuoitre.vn\/471584752817336320\/2026\/1\/12\/mma-1768123324787304035623-17681874174601090813181.jpg\" type=\"photo\" style=\"max-width:100%;\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1503\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-placeholder=\"Enter photo caption\">Lo Thi Phung of Vietnam poses with her coach after winning gold in the women\u2019s 49 kg category at the 2026 Asian MMA Championship in Luzhou, China, January 11, 2026. Photo: MMAVN<\/p>\n<p>Phung reached the final after defeating Thailand&#8217;s Suksamran Thanyaret by technical knockout in under 90 seconds on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Results from the championship will count toward Asian MMA Federation rankings ahead of the 2026 Asian Games in Japan and the 2026 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lo Thi Phung of Vietnam (L) is declared the winner of the women\u2019s 49 kg final at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-404112","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-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404112","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=404112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}