‘He’s Perfect For Me’ – Martyna Dominczak Reveals How Her Coach-Turned-Husband Fuels Her ONE Championship Dream
Martyna Dominczak came to Muay Thai searching for strength, discipline, and a path to greatness. The Polish striking sensation never expected to find the love of her life, too.
When she returns to face ONE Women’s Atomweight Kickboxing World Champion “The Queen” Phetjeeja at ONE Fight Night 38: Andrade vs. Baatarkhuu on Prime Video, the Legion Glogow warrior will step into the ring with the man who’s been shaping her career since the beginning, standing beside her not just as a coach, but as her husband.
Before she faces the dangerous Phetjeeja in an atomweight Muay Thai battle, which will broadcast live in U.S. primetime from Bangkok’s legendary Lumpinee Stadium on Friday, December 5, the 23-year-old phenom details her unique relationship with Maciej Dominczak, whose love provides the foundation for her to chase her dreams in the world’s largest martial arts organization.
From Coach And Fighter To Soulmates
After getting engaged in 2022, Martyna and Maciej chose simplicity over spectacle for their wedding day, which took place this past September. Rather than a grand celebration surrounded by hundreds of guests, the couple opted for intimacy.
The ceremony took place near Sveti Stefan, one of Montenegro’s most breathtaking locations, where dramatic cliffs meet turquoise waters. It was just the two of them, the Adriatic Sea, and their shared dreams for the future.
For a couple whose lives revolve around grueling training camps, international competition, and the relentless demands of professional fighting, the decision to keep their wedding intimate felt perfect.
She told onefc.com:
“We got married, just the two of us, without any family or friends, in a beautiful, breathtaking place near Sveti Stefan. It’s a very popular place in Montenegro. It was awesome. We enjoyed the time together. It was a really perfect day.”
But their love story didn’t begin with romance. It started with gloves, heavy bags, and the singular focus of a young warrior determined to become a World Champion.
Maciej was her coach — a skilled technician who saw potential in the ambitious Polish athlete standing before him. Martyna was his student, hungry to learn and willing to put in the work necessary to compete at the highest level.
But proximity has a way of revealing deeper connections, and as they traveled together to competitions across Europe — Polish Championships, European Championships, World Championships — something shifted between them.
The 23-year-old recalled:
“At the beginning, it was just [a normal relationship] as a fighter and a coach. But we were at many tournaments together. When I started my amateur career, we were going almost every month to competitions.
“Then, we started to get closer. We started to talk more about not just a fighter’s life, but also about private life. We spent a lot of time together. We were very close. When I got older, we started feeling something different — feeling that he’s not just my coach, but also a friend, and then something more.”
The Perfect Partner For World Championship Dreams
For Martyna Dominczak, falling in love with Maciej never created a conflict between her personal desires and professional ambitions. Instead, it strengthened both, providing emotional stability while maintaining the necessary competitive edge to compete in “the art of eight limbs.”
In Maciej, who serves as her head coach at Legion Glogow, she’s found someone who’s been an integral part of her development both as a fighter and a person.
His understanding of what she’s working toward, his technical expertise in developing her skills, and his unwavering belief in her potential create a partnership that most athletes can only dream of.
The Polish striker continued:
“He’s perfect for me because the main thing is that we have a common goal. We have a common passion in life and a common goal. Both of us are looking in the same direction.”
This alignment matters immensely.
While many fighters struggle to balance their sport with relationships, they move in sync, their personal and professional lives intertwined rather than competing for attention.
When she trains, he’s there guiding her development. When she celebrates victory, he’s there sharing the joy. When she faces setbacks, he’s there providing both technical adjustments and emotional support.
Martyna shared:
“That’s great because he knows what I want to do in life, he supports me, and he has the same goals as me. I love that he’s very confident with his work as a coach, but also confident in life as a man.”
Beyond their joint professional goals, Maciej possesses qualities that make him the ideal life partner.
His confidence, his protective nature, and his ability to create space for his better half to be vulnerable allow the Glogow native to embrace both sides of herself without feeling torn between competing identities.
That sense of security has proven invaluable for someone whose profession requires projecting strength, aggression, and dominance:
“When I was a younger girl, I always wanted to have a strong, independent husband who would be a true man, so that I would feel very protected by him. And he’s like this.
“When I’m with him, I’m 100 percent taken care of by him. I just feel that I can be a woman, a girl with him, and don’t have to worry about other things.”
Balancing Love While Chasing Glory In ONE
The duality of their relationship — coach and fighter, husband and wife — requires careful navigation, but they’ve mastered the balance through clear boundaries and mutual respect.
Before every training session or during fight week, Maciej demands excellence from Martyna. He wraps her hands, demands perfection, and instills the necessary mindset needed to tackle every assignment on the global stage.
At home, however, Martyna admits he showers her with nothing but love. More importantly, they can sit down and share moments like most loving couples do:
“The relationship is sometimes a little bit hard, but we separate these roles. At home, we are a wife and husband. We love each other, we take care of each other, and we can talk about many problems and many things. We can show our emotions.
“But at the gym, we are coach and fighter, so there’s no place for hugging or kissing between rounds. We focus on my opponent, on me, on how to make me a better fighter. He’s really hard on me in training, but I’m not complaining because I know we have a more important goal, so everything is there for a reason.”
On December 5 inside the Mecca of Muay Thai, Martyna will be ready to take another step toward chasing history with her soulmate in her corner, ready to prove that love and World Championship glory aren’t competing priorities.
A victory over Phetjeeja — one of Thailand’s most accomplished strikers — would bring her closer to her dream of becoming Poland’s first ONE World Champion and a dream clash against reigning ONE Women’s Atomweight Muay Thai World Champion Allycia Hellen Rodrigues.
Above all, standing beside her will be the man who prepared her for every battle, who believed in her potential before the world knew her name, who married her along the Montenegrin coast. He promised to support her dreams no matter how difficult the journey becomes.
Martyna concluded:
“I was the first Polish fighter contracted in ONE, and my plan is to be the first Polish ONE World Champion. It’s my dream. It’s my goal. I have to believe in this if I want this.”
