Melvin Yeoh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Melvin Yeoh

mixed martial artist

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1981

Place of Birth: Perlis, Malaysia

Profession: Thai boxer, mixed martial artist, taekwondo athlete

Nationality: Malaysia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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.