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Gym thought it would be funny to play prank on new combat trainers
Champion fighter Gemaine Yeap, 30, pretended to be a weak beginner
She let trainers push her around before swiftly beating them to the ground

By Deni Kirkova for MailOnline

Published: 11:06 EST, 21 May 2015 | Updated: 01:20 EST, 22 May 2015

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With her diminutive stature and demure glasses, Germaine Yeap looks like a hard working student - but looks can be very deceiving.

In fact, the 30-year-old is a professional muay Thai fighter, who used her unassuming appearance to play a prank on two trainers at a Malaysian gym in a new YouTube video titled, 'Nerdy girl beats up guys at the gym'.

Germaine was filmed pretending to be a feeble beginner and luring two swaggering kickboxers into the ring - before giving them the fight of their lives.

Champion kickboxer goes undercover for funny gym prank

Germaine asks one of the new trainers to spar with her, but he's quite reluctant

In character she's shy, wearing glasses and wavy hair down, throwing meek, clumsy blows at a punch bag

The video opens with a montage of Germaine's typical training session, which involves the Kuala Lumpur Women's Champion sprinting, flipping weighted tyres, pummelling punchbags and doing fast press-ups without breaking a sweat.

It then cuts to the prank itself, as Germaine, who has been training for six years, enters the Damansara Perdana Muay Fit gym, near the capital of Malaysia.

Looking bashful, her hair down, and her arms held rigidly by her side, Germaine looks unsure as she throws weak punches at a bag and pretends to be too weak to do sit-ups, even tittering with embarrassment as one of the trainers tries to pull her up.

Finally she approaches one of the men, and asks him if he could show her how to spar.

He replies: 'I just don't want to hurt you.' But she retorts: 'I don't think you'll hurt me, it'll be safe.'

They enter the ring - with Germaine throwing in a fake stumble for good measure - where now wearing shin pads and her hair tied back, she is looking more like the famous kickboxer.

She ends up in the ring with a Muay Thai teacher and lets him punch and push her around a little

She is actually a professional fighter and a Champion in the martial art - and later beats the guy to the ground

The undercover fighter throws some listless punches at the over-confident trainer who bats them away and urges her to punch him more, taunting her by saying, 'don't be scared'.

He gestures at his jaw and urges her, 'come on punch me,' before demonstrating a rather ungentlemanly fighting style by punching the 'beginner' lightly in the face and pushing her into a corner so she's up against the ropes.

He even mocks her footwork, saying, 'it's not salsa', as he pretends to dance.

Intercut are other scenes of Germaine fighting another trainer who effortlessly flips her over and pushes her against the ropes.

One of them even manages a kick aimed at her stomach and they spar until she cries, 'stop, stop', and wipes hair from her eyes, as though she's exhausted.

The video cuts again and finally Germaine is seen unleashing her full power, pounding the unwitting trainer with her fists, backing him into the corner, kneeing him and flipping him to the floor until he's groaning on his back.

Only then does she lean over and ask, 'do you need a break?'

She's seen summarily despatching the other trainer in the same way.

Finally, she tells her opponent, 'there's a camera right there' and points in the direction of the lens, and gestures at a laughing onlooker and says, 'it was his idea.'

The trainer was left in good physical shape but no doubt his ego took even more of a beating.

He was left in good physical shape but his ego was no doubt pretty bruised

Germaine has previously said she hopes to inspire women to learn self-defence skills

The undercover female fighter, 30, from Malaysia, plays the role of 'nerdy girl', in the prank

The prank was organised by bosses at the popular gym, which employed the new fighters, together with prank YouTube channel MaxMan.tv.

A video of the mean - but funny - joke was uploaded yesterday and has already been seen 22,000 times.

Germaine has previously said she hopes to inspire women to learn self-defence skills.

In an interview with the Total Martial Arts Academy in Coventry which she attended, Germaine said she never planned to be a professional fighter herself.

'I happened to stumble into the sport of muay Thai in my final year of university.'

'The loud noises from the kicks and punches during a muay Thai class at the university really drew my attention and it made me peek through the doors of the class.

'The Kru Lakvinder Madahar [senior boxing instructor] took notice and welcomed me to join the class with open arms.'