UFC: Loma Lookboonmee has ‘itchy knuckles’ as she plans to land knockout blow against Sam Hughes
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Three fights into her UFC career and Thailand’s Loma Lookboonmee says she finally feels at home.
The change in mindset came through a loss, in her second outing, to the veteran American strawweight Angela Hill. It showed the Thai fighter she had to stop worrying so much about where she was and who she was fighting.
“I realised I just had to be Loma,” she said.
And that’s exactly who the world saw last time out, in fight number three for Loma with the Las Vegas-based promotion. The 25-year-old from Buriram (5-2) faced Jinh Yu Frey (10-6) – a former Invicta FC atomweight champion – and she pounded the American around the cage on the way to a unanimous points decision that read 30-27, 30-27 and a questionable 29-28 on the cards.
Loma was all elbows and knees and flashes of fury, and she consigned the previous unanimous points loss to Hill (13-9) to history.