Tomyamkoong Aims For Second Straight KO Win At ONE Friday Fights 149
Two losses back-to-back at the start of his ONE Championship career could have derailed Tomyamkoong Bhumjaithai before he had a chance to show what he was capable of. Instead, the 21-year-old from Surin went back to the gym and took his game apart.
He returns to headline ONE Friday Fights 149 this April 3 at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok against Moldovan debutant Bejenuta “Gladiator” Maximus in a flyweight Muay Thai main event. This is his first time topping a ONE Friday Fights card, and the ideal stage on which to prove the rebuild is complete.
“Following those two losses, I went back and completely overhauled my game,” he said. “I focused heavily on my defense and sharpening my weapons, and it paid off with two back-to-back wins.”
The most recent of those wins was emphatically punctuated. A one-punch knockout of compatriot Watcharaphon Singha Mawynn delivered exactly the kind of statement that contract conversations are built on, and Tomyamkoong has no intention of letting that momentum stall.
Maximus presents a different kind of challenge. The 24-year-old Moldovan trains out of Team Mehdi Zatout with a 14-3 record and a European boxing foundation that makes him unpredictable in terms of angles and combination patterns. He is the first international opponent Tomyamkoong has faced in ONE, and the Thai is candid about where he sees the threat.
“From what I’ve studied, Bejenuta is more of a kickboxing stylist — his hands are dangerous, but I haven’t seen much else from him in terms of traditional Muay Thai weapons,” he said.
That assessment shapes the game plan directly. Tomyamkoong intends to stay off the outside where Maximus’s reach and reach-maximising movement could become an issue, instead pressing forward relentlessly and taking the fight inside. Knees, elbows, clinch work against a fighter whose promotion record does not include evidence of a sophisticated answer to any of it.
“I’ll use my work rate to press forward and take the fight inside,” he said. “The goal is to shut down his weapons and just outwork him until he gases out.”
But the ambition extends beyond a points win. Tomyamkoong headlines a ONE Friday Fights card for the first time, and he has a specific idea of what that debut should look like.
“My goal isn’t just to win — I want to finish him and make it two KOs in a row,” he said. “Since this is my first time headlining a ONE Friday Fights card, knocking out a foreign opponent would really put my name on the map. Fans are going to see a stronger, harder-hitting version of me in this fight than ever before.”
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