Apparantly the Turkish fighter Serkan Yilmaz had 150wins from 150fights before his 2 losses in K1 MAX.

Does anyone know what kind of fights these were? I am guessing, from his style, above the waist rules but it`s a lot of fights for a 28 year old from Europe.

I think it says something that his first two losses come in the K1 MAX, must have been a step up in either style or class.

probably contact karate or something like that????

he has lost to mike cope

maybe TKD bouts?
or even FC bouts?

serkan yılmaz is the student of my student sadık oflu (who was also worldwide champ)from istanbul...sadık was from my fc-class 1985's(at that times we had 3 classes;fc, kb,mt trained seperately)...serkan's most of the fights (except some low-kick bouts) were fc-fights ...and as far as i see,his fighting strategy and tactics are exactly the same as sadık had "spin,back kicks,direct long punches,high kicks etc needed in fc-fights "in the past...
serkan has also no mt-experience...he has fought in "iaksa and wako"in amateur in the past ...however, he is a very bravehard guy ,no fear and has a very good top physical condition...the only disadvantage of him is that he has left his trainer and training alone in different gyms...he was discovered by tarık solak in istanbul when he brought the guy of solak into trouble during sparring and since this time been frequently brought to k-1 fights or to australia a week before profi fights( since he is a ready dish for the organizator...)
as far as i see this 150 fight figure is a bit exchagerated ...however, i believe that he has done about 100 fights at least...
it seems so that his success in k-1 max story is coming from the reason namely that in k-1 series %98 fighters are dealing generaly with direct fight strategy (low kicks ,punches,knees etc) and when they are faced suddently with "back,spin kicks etc" they got easy surprised and it seemed that those most of the japanese fighters were not qualified since they couldn't awake early and arrange their startegies against serkan's spin,back kicks and direct punches...

prolly tkd sine thats his background

fc is his background...however, his teacher was also training tkd at those times (1985's) and it takes a very short time for him to be adopted from long range tkd- type spin,back kicks to the short ones of fc-classes...if you see those spin kicks it is easy to see the difference that they are very short range...(although they seemed to be the same ;there are some differences between tkd and fc type spin, back kicks...)

serkan is fighting masato soon!!

i had 200 fight 200 wins


in a sonly playstation game.

i guess i am better

wmc thai style,

it seems so...i think that solak has found a ready dish to promote...however, if serkan would not get serious k-1 type or muay thai training ,the success over masato is far away with just a few week prior trainings with some trainers abroad...it takes long time to digest those type technics and style into the deep of the brain (especialy if you are an fc-fighter)...

cheers.