Meggie Ochoa

[4] For college, she attended the Ateneo de Manila University, where she graduated in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in business management.

[6] After graduating from college, Ochoa took up mixed martial arts (MMA) but she was deterred by the lack of opponents in her weight class at the time.

[11] She added another World Championships gold medal in the 2022 edition held in the United Arab Emirates, this time in the women's -48kg.

She took part in the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Turkmenistan, where she won a gold medal in the women's -45kg.

[24][25] She founded Fight to Protect, a non-profit organization which teaches child survivors of abuse martial arts.