# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/azem-maksutaj
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:54:15.247Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/azem-maksutaj"
name: "Azem Maksutaj"
slug: "azem-maksutaj"
description: "Azem Maksutaj[a] is a Swiss former kickboxer of Kosovar Albanian origin. He competed in lightweight, welterweight, middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, cruiserweight, and heavyweight divisions. Originally from Kosovo, he relocated to Switzerland and began training in Muay Thai at fifteen. After winning the Swiss national title as a lightweight in his first year of competitions in 1992, he won the European and world honors in 1994 while fighting around the 77 kg super middleweight mark. In the late 1990s, he moved between light heavyweight and cruiserweight divisions, taking five world titles. He eventually moved to heavyweight in 2001, where he spent the remainder of his career, acting as a journeyman in the K-1 promotion and winning four other world titles. He won fourteen world titles in various weight divisions before retiring in 2010 with a hundred professional contests."
tagline: "Kickboxer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Azemoo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
birthDate: "1975-07-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.47
  momentum:             6.366447622729029
  historical:           6.150721333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4312302/"
    handle:    "nm4312302"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.azem.ch/"
sources:
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%A1_%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%B9%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%88"
    title: "อาเซม มาคซูทาจ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azem_Maksutaj"
    title: "Azem Maksutaj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azem_Maksutaj"
    title: "Azem Maksutaj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%82%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4"
    title: "アゼム・マクスタイ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azem_Maksutaj"
    title: "Azem Maksutaj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azem_Maksutaj"
    title: "Azem Maksutaj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azem_Maksutaj"
    title: "Azem Maksutaj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q689028"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump