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Preview · 30 May 2026

Two Grapplers, One Question: Who Gets It to the Mat First?

Loma Lookboonmee's clinch and control meet Jaqueline Amorim's first-rate submission hunting.

When two grappling-first fighters meet, the fight is usually decided by who imposes their game — and both women in this strawweight bout want it on the floor.

Jaqueline Amorim is the more explosive finisher. The Brazilian rattled off three straight submission wins — over Cory McKenna, Vanessa Demopoulos, and Polyana Viana — before running into a wall in Mizuki, who handed her a decision loss last October. When Amorim gets to the mat, she hunts the finish immediately; her submission instincts are the most dangerous single skill in the matchup.

Loma Lookboonmee offers a different flavor of grappling. The Thai fighter leans on clinch work, takedowns, and control rather than the early submission blitz, grinding out decisions when she can't find the finish. She's been steady, with wins over Bruna Brasil and Istela Nunes before a decision loss to Alexia Thainara in September.

The stylistic tension is real: if Amorim drags it down on her terms, her submission game is the more likely path to a finish. If Lookboonmee dictates where the fight happens and turns it into a positional, control-heavy grind, she can take the rounds. Whoever wins the battle to impose grappling probably wins the fight.

Published by the FightIQ desk on 30 May 2026. Claims about fights and records are checked against our own graded card data before publication — the same data behind the public track record.

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