Phetjeeja Lukjaoporongtom will return to action against Martyna Dominczak at ONE Fight Night 38 in Bangkok on December 6 – and she’s back under familiar guidance.
The 23-year-old Thai, nicknamed ‘The Queen,’ has rejoined Mehdi Zatout’s Venum Training Camp ahead of her first fight since ONE 172 in March, when she outpointed Kana Morimoto in Tokyo to retain her atomweight kickboxing title.
That performance drew criticism from Zatout, her former head coach, who bluntly told the Bangkok Post backstage that night she had performed poorly, having left Venum in 2024 following an acrimonious fallout.
Now, the Algerian-French coach believes she has rediscovered her top level.
‘She is ready and she is on fire,’ Zatout told the Bangkok Post after Tuesday’s fight announcement.
Phetjeeja is undefeated in ONE Championship with seven straight wins and four finishes, having first earned her contract through the ONE Friday Fights series under the watchful eye of Zatout.
Poland’s Dominczak – formerly Martyna Kierczynska before her recent marriage to coach Maciej Dominczak – has won three of her four bouts since joining ONE in February 2024, including two in a row since dropping to atomweight.
The winner is expected to earn a title shot against Brazil’s Allycia Rodrigues, the long-reigning ONE atomweight Muay Thai world champion.
Rodrigues previously told the Bangkok Post she had already signed to face Phetjeeja before the fight was scrapped – a bout many believe remains destined to happen.