Anil Mehta VS Muhd Afandi for Fight Fest K1 belt

Afandi is a young but upcoming fighter in the muaythai circle. He represented Sabah at the National Muaythai Championship in Sept. Afandi’s home state is in Pahang, but he is here in Sabah studying for his Bachelor in Sports Science in Universiti Malaysia Sabah.

Afandi (5th from right with the Sabah Muaythai team lead by Dhillon Tahing ( 6th from right)

Afandi is considered a late comer to martial arts, in high school he mostly played, football, futsal and bowling. His experience watching muaythai fights in shopping complex and the news in local media and social media sparks his interest to try it out.

At 72kg, Afandi thought of looking for a place to get fit and cut his weight. These reason brought him to the closest gym to his Uni. REVOLUTION Gym in Alam Mesra, Kota Kinabalu. Under the watchful eye of Coach Dhillon Tahing, he improve on his fitness and gain muaythai skills and started to participate in many muaythai competition. he won a Bronze in Sept National muaythai competition.

Afandi acknowledge his opponent Anil’s skill and know that he needs to be wary of Anil combos. But he promise that he will be giving his all out and be aggressive in his approach.

Afandi defeated muaythai veteran Alvin Chong in STAND series 1

Anil Mehta already tasted success in Kota Kinabalu. In Sept 2016 at STAND series 2, he won the 8 man tournament and became the K1 Kickboxing Light welterweight champion. Anil is in the Himachal Pradesh Police Force.

He started training boxing in India before starting MuayThai training. He has had 6 amateur boxing bouts. Anil started his MuayThai training at Santai MuayThai gym in Chiangmai and trained there for 7 months before fighting his 1st amateur MuayThai in Thape stadium in Thailand. He won his bout via KO. Heis  currently is under training with Team Relentless and looks to make a statement in Sabah by winning in Fight Fest 3.