Melvin Yeoh
Mixed martial artist
- Born
- 5 January 1981, Perlis
- Citizenship
- Malaysia
- Sport
- taekwondo
- Occupation
- mixed martial arts fighter, taekwondo athlete, Thai boxer
Melvin Yeoh (born 5 January 1981) is a Malaysian mixed martial artist and Muay Thai champion. As of April 2012 he is the most successful mixed martial artist in Malaysian history with a professional record of 6–1.
He began training in Taekwondo in Perlis at the age of 13 and later took up Muay Thai. As a teenager he was encouraged to participate in martial arts by his grandparents because he got in a lot of fights at school. Yeoh's work as a school teacher took him from Perlis to Johor Bahru where he founded the first MMA camp in the region in 2006.
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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.