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Pawel Jaworski gave ONE Fight Night 47 one of its fastest grappling finishes by submitting Rafael Lovato Jr. in Bangkok. ONE Championship listed the middleweight submission grappling result as a kneebar at 1:51 of round one. The finish came on the same U.S. primetime card headlined by Stamp Fairtex’s split-decision win over Selina Flores, giving Jaworski a major result against a former Bellator champion at Lumpinee Stadium. Jaworski Finds The Kneebar Early The official highlight showed Jaworski attacking Lovato’s leg and forcing the tap before the bout reached the two-minute mark. Jaworski entered the card as an IBJJF No-Gi World Champion, which made the matchup one of the strongest grappling pairings on the Bangkok lineup. Lovato brought serious crossover credentials into the bout as a former Bellator middleweight champion and decorated Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt. That background made Jaworski’s first-round submission a clean breakthrough result in front of ONE’s U.S. primetime audience. The Bangkok event also produced Ricardo Bravo’s first-round knockout of Mohamed Younes Rabah, a unanimous decision for Fabio Henrique over Ryohei Kurosawa, and a split-decision main-event victory for Stamp over Flores. MiddleEasy has followed this ONE run closely, including Stamp’s pre-fight redemption plan against Flores, Bravo’s ONE Fight Night 47 knockout, and Sunvo’s ONE Friday Fights 169 main-event win.