{"id":905110,"date":"2026-09-22T08:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905110\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T08:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T08:10:16","slug":"asian-games-filipina-olympian-aira-villegas-exits-early-after-falling-to-indian-foe-in-boxing-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905110\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games: Filipina Olympian Aira Villegas exits early after falling to Indian foe in boxing opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>  Published  September 22, 2026 12:56pm  <\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=gmanetwork.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"gma-preferred-source-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">  Add GMA on Google <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. <\/p>\n<p>Filipina boxer Aira Villegas failed to shake off the ghosts of the past as the Paris Olympics bronze medalist made another early Asian Games exit on Tuesday at the Nishio Gymnasium in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/sports\/othersports\/1003223\/live-updates-team-philippines-at-the-2026-asian-games-sept-22-jean-claude-saclag-gilas-pilipinas-wome\/story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LIVE UPDATES: Team Philippines at the 2026 Asian Games \u2014 Sept. 22 | Jean Claude Saclag, Gilas Pilipinas Women 3&#215;3, PMNFT U23, other sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Villegas dropped a unanimous 5-0 decision to India\u2019s 26-year-old star Sakshi in the women&#8217;s 51kg division, ending her campaign in the opening round and sending the Indian bet through to the Round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>It marked a repeat of Villegas\u2019 fate in the previous Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, where she also suffered an opening-round defeat, then at the hands of Mongolia\u2019s Oyuntsetsegiin Yesugen.<\/p>\n<p>Sakshi swept all three rounds, with four of the five judges scoring the bout 30-27 in her favor, while the remaining judge handed her a 30-26 verdict.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Bea Micaller\/JMB, GMA News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published September 22, 2026 12:56pm Add GMA on Google Make this your preferred source to get more updates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[312925,1268,246765,703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-905110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-aira-villegas","tag-amateur-boxing","tag-asian-games-2026","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905110","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=905110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}