{"id":5359,"date":"2025-02-19T14:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T13:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=5359"},"modified":"2025-02-19T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T19:24:00","slug":"ritu-phogat-faces-ayaka-miura-at-one-171-qatar-and-aims-to-become-indias-first-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/ritu-phogat-faces-ayaka-miura-at-one-171-qatar-and-aims-to-become-indias-first-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ritu Phogat faces Ayaka Miura at &#8220;ONE 171: Qatar&#8221; and aims to become India&#8217;s first champion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indian fighter Ritu Phogat returns to the atomweight division in mixed martial arts (MMA) at the &#8220;ONE 171: Qatar&#8221; event by ONE Championship, which will take place at the Lusail Sports Arena on Thursday, February 20.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Phogat, who is competing for the first time after a two-and-a-half-year absence, will face Japan&#8217;s Ayaka Miura, ranked third in the atomweight division.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 30-year-old Phogat had secured 7 wins in ONE before suffering two consecutive losses and deciding to step away from competition in 2022.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During her hiatus, she gave birth to a child while maintaining her training, considering martial arts a priority in her life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Phogat draws her strength from two main goals: inspiring mothers and women in India, and winning the ONE Championship gold belt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Phogat said, &#8220;My goal is to become India&#8217;s first world champion in mixed martial arts. I want to show that India has the best fighters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Phogat also seeks to break stereotypes about the role of mothers in Indian society, stating, &#8220;I want to prove that a mother is capable of achieving anything she desires, even with the responsibilities of childcare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The event will be broadcast live from Qatar at 5:00 PM Mecca time. Phogat faces a significant challenge against Miura as she strives to achieve her dream and inspire others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian fighter Ritu Phogat returns to the atomweight division in mixed martial arts (MMA) at the &#8220;ONE 171: Qatar&#8221; event by ONE Championship, which will take place at the Lusail Sports Arena on Thursday, February 20. Phogat, who is competing for the first time after a two-and-a-half-year absence, will face Japan&#8217;s Ayaka Miura, ranked third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"category-one-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5361,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions\/5361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}