ADEM YILMAZ

Biography

An Australian-Turkish striker who travelled to Myanmar during the early WLC era. His willingness to fight under full traditional rules — including headbutts — opened the door for other Australian fighters to follow. Now retired but remembered as a credibility-builder for the international Lethwei circuit.

Fighting style

Signature technique

→ Stepping rear elbow

Titles & honours

• Early WLC international invitee

Reading this record

Adem Yilmaz is recorded at 12–5–1, with 8 of those 12 wins ending by knockout. Modern-era figures are the more dependable ones on this site: WLC and MTLF cards are sanctioned and their results published, so these numbers can be checked against event results rather than oral history.

67% of those wins came inside the distance, which ranks 3rd of the 29 profiled fighters with a documented record. In a sport whose traditional ruleset offered no decision at all, a finishing rate that high is the clearest signal of a fighter built to end contests early.

Adem Yilmaz is one of 6 fighters profiled at middleweight, and fights orthodox, as 28 of the 32 profiled fighters do.

Adem Yilmaz is no longer competing, so the record above stands as documented.