Next amazing TOP class International WKF tournament in Tiraspol, Moldova.
Good hospitality, nice food and some of the best fighters in East and West meet in Tiraspol again.
Ínt. WKF Friendship Cup in Tiraspol
WKF K-1 World Grand Prix – big chance for any serious European promoter
At the world congress 2018 in Buenos Aires in Latin America, the WKF World Kickboxing Federation presented the premium league for the first time:
“WKF WORLD GRAND PRIX”
This is for all our AAA WKF promoter only. Our WKF EUROPE head office confirm the WKF WORLD GRAND PRIX in spring 2026 in Austria.
What are the conditions to promote in Europe next WGP
and to become AAA promoter level ?
International Champions from at least 3 continents!
Two air tickets for each foreign fighter and his corner man,
food and good Hotel, paid by the organizing team
Big Chance for any male / female European Champion to fight abroad !
International WKF licensed referee and supervisor, solely appointed by our WKF head office, TV contract (!) for the event and at least one professional WKF World title !
Are you interested to organize our WKF WORLD GRAND PRIX in your town ?
Sanction fee for the WKF World Grand Prix is part of negotiation.
For the WKF WORLD GRAND PRIX in Austria Champions from 10 countries and 4 continents in negotiation for the fight card.
The organizers in Austria confirmed already the “WKF WORLD GRAND PRIX” again for spring 2026. It’s good to have more time to register and prepare for our international champions.
Japan, China, Austria, Australia, Canada, Argentina, Spain, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Poland and more Europeans in negotiations …
This is again a cooperation with our partner in USA, “Global Gladiator Games” or often called “tripple G”
International K-1 eight man tournament, plus WKF sanctioned title fights, plus international Ladies fights, plus excellent show program, pretty ring girls and much more.
More details coming soon, stay tuned …
WKF EUROPE needs more female officials
WKF HEAD OFFICE work very hard in cooperation with our IRC-“International rules committee” to train our international officials and referees, to answer protests and requests for the competition rules and to develop our various WKF rules.
History has shown nothing is set in stone
Our last World referee seminar´s 2023 in Skofije, Slovenia, Alicante, Spain 2024 and Chisinau, Moldova 2025 appointed several new female WKF referees with international licenses.
Valid also for BOXING and BARE KNUCKLE division and for MMA!
Today we again have 19 female officials worldwide with an international WKF referee license.
The past has shown that:
we need more officially WKF licensed ladies in Europe and World wide.
To get the WKF license or to extend existing one, the next option is 2026 World referee Seminar in Cartagena, Colombia, before the next World Championships.
For the World Championships 2026 in Cartagena, Colombia, we need more European Referees, male and female!
The next but one World referee seminar will be held now in October 2026, the weekend just before the World Championships 2026 in Cartagena, Colombia.
As the world knows, our WKF was celebrating 60 years of existence last World Championships in Spain in 2024. We expect in Cartagena 2026 again more than 1.500 Champions, man and women.
Many TOP countries returned
to our WKF !
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Without valid WKF license – without exception – you are not an official in our World Kickboxing Federation!!
Today WKF has more than 150 international licensed referees on 6 continents. Like all knowledge, more and more strong female champions and athletes are fighting. Of these today unfortunately, we only have
19 WORLD CLASS female officials
Our executive board therefore emphatically requests all WKF country presidents to send more male / female referees To all our country presidents World wide:
send more female referees to the next World referee seminar on October 2026 in Cartgena!
It is in your hands and your own responsibility …
we just need
more female officials
in our WKF EUROPE
Many new updates in our World rankings
MANY NEW FIGHTERS IN
WORLD RANKING !!!
So many new male and female fighters in our PRO-AM World ranking as well as in our PPF – Pro Point Fighting World rankings.
Based on the results of the last European Championships in Wels, Austria.
Just in the last two weeks more than 50 new fighters are listed in the WKF World rankings.
Many photos of our Champions are still missed, please check all rankings and send your photo by mail ASAP.
Everybody likes the idea to give the best amateur fighters a chance to fight for a real valuable title, and still to be amateur.
This is to avoid any miss match, just to have an opponent in same amateur level.
How to get listed ?
Very simple, just fill in the online fighter profile on right hand, add a jpg of your male / female fighter and send to our head office. Can´t be much easier !!!
If you want to book any PRO-AM title , PPF title or PROFESSIONAL title for your next event title just contact our head office by mail.
TOP European female experts with new referee licenses
After the International Referee Seminar in Minsk, three new female European referees with official WKF licenses were positively assessed. With our new referees, the number of internationally licensed female referees increases to 19.
The youngest in the trio is Ksenia NOVIKOVA from Belarus, who received the C license after the seminar and an excellent exam.
The Russian expert Liliya VOROGUSHINA has been active in the scene as a referee for a long time and has been awarded the International B License.
By decision of the WKF Board, Mrs. Olga Nikolaevna STRIZHAKOVA was awarded the highest WKF A license. She has many years of experience as an international referee and, in the opinion of many WKF board members present in Minsk, was one of the best referees, both as a judge and in the ring.
In addition to Russian, Ms. STRIZHAKOVA also speaks fluent Spanish und English and will be another important expert and sporting link between Europe and South America at the upcoming World Championships 2026 in Cartagena, Colombia.
The WKF Board congratulates all three ladies and is pleased to have other highly qualified international referees from Europe on the team.
The next Latin American Referee Seminar under the direction of Amateur World President Carlos SUAREZ will take place on November 11th and 12th, before the Pan American Open in Bucaramanga, Colombia. Numerous new licenses will be awarded there, and existing ones renewed. It’s well known that our Latin American sports friends always have top-trained officials.
WKF PRO-AM division – for our best amateurs!
From the beginning in WKF we split very clearly amateur and pro business, in ring sport as well as in PPF and MMA.World wide valid rankings is the simply proof!
Mr. Carlos SUAREZ from Argentina is many Years expert in our sport and our very active World president for the huge WKF AMATEUR division.
Vice-president for the amateur division is Mr. Danil KARPENKO from WKF RUSSIA.
This is to follow many requests and wishes of our clients , managers and thousands of our fighters from all over the World.
On the next World Championships in Cartagena in autumn 2026 we have all fighting divisions, for male and females.
In WKF history we present AMATEUR BOXING, for male and females!
Today we are very successfully not only in pro sport but of course in amateur business too.
With great pleasure we want your poster of WKF sanctioned tournaments, with our logo on the poster. We would like to help with on-line advertising free of charge, of course. Short reports after would be great.
We just want to remind every WKF country president World wide to send fighter profiles of your amateurs or just non-professional male/female fighters in ring sport. We have same system like in other pro sport in WKF. We offer the chance to fight in all 6 ring sport divisions for our great demand WKF Champion belts.
Here are our 5 WKF divisions, with valid World ranking lists, rules, title fight minimum requirements and much more
PRO – AM / PPF / SANDA / PRO RING SPORT / MMA / BOXING
Our WKF PRO-AM titles has a great value because of our World wide network with more than 140 member countries you have the chance to fight not only at home. No fighter will lose his/her amateur status , he/she can fight still on any tournament, any World Championship World wide. You can be sure just to face another amateur fighter with perhaps 15 to 20 fights and not real pro with more than 100 fights.
The rules and regulations for PRO-AM are easy to understand and waiting for your download. All you have to do is just send your fighter profile and jpg photos like always and we post your team online in the PRO AM World ranking. Because: only male/female fighters in our PRO AM World ranking are qualified to fight for our WKF titles.
For further requests or interest on any possible PRO-AM title fights do not hesitate to send a mail , please.
Overview of our WKF forms or Kata disciplines
Dear friends in traditional martial arts!
As everybody know, our next European Championship is coming up in June 22nd to 29th 2025 in Chisinau, Moldova.
Today we have 6 categories for forms / Kata / poomse / Hyong / Taolu / musical creative etc.
To avoid any mistake or misunderstandings on the tatami or mat, we would like to remind you kindly one more time to read carefully the online WKF rule book for forms.
To see what is a WKF recognized traditional form, have a look here for Japanese and Korean forms.
What are the dress codes? When does the timer start e.g. for traditional forms with and without weapons ? Any traditional form / Kata / Taolu etc. can be customized, but it still has to be recognizable. From our official WKF recognized list and a traditional Japanese or Korean form or Kata!
In creative and freestyle: also compiled (with parts of existing forms) form using traditional techniques is permitted. What is the time limit in creative forms and soft style forms?
Traditional Forms must be using traditional moves only. A traditional Form / Kata / Pommse / Hyong / Taolu etc. must resemble a traditional work, an adaptation will be acceptable if added moves are of a traditional nature.
Any so called “allstyle” form is not a traditional one!
For all creative forms are just the division 4 and 5 creative forms with music, with and without weapon.
We thank you for the cooperation so far and wish all of us many traditional participants and a successful
WKF European Championship 2025
MMA in the WKF World wide network
WKF – World Kickboxing Federation – is one of the greatest and World wide sanctioning body for Kick boxing and MMA in amateur and pro.
On our web site mma.wkfworld.com you could find all important facts and news about MMA in our World sanctioning body.
More than 55.000 hits just in 2024 is the result of serious and hard work.
Dimitris PAPAKONSTANTINOU – new World MMA director
is another Greek on the world association board.
He is coach of numerous professional Greek MMA fighters competing in UFC , Bellator, Cage warriors, Fight Night, King of the cage, Abu Dhabi warriors Oktagon etc.
Dimitris holds his masters degree in sports management by university of Peloponnese and several Black Belts as well.
For any request in MMA division contact his office by MAIL
Just fill in the new online fighter profile here, add a jpg photo and we will post you in our MMA European or World ranking. For male and female!
For any further requests contact our WKF head office by mail and visit our WKF MMA and the main web site www.wkfworld.com
Иван Деркаченко – Iwan DERKACHENKO, CIS supervisor
At the last World Congress in Alicante, Spain, the last CIS Supervisor Roman LOGISCH from WKF GERMANY was unanimously elected new WKF Secretary General by the 60 presidents present.
Ivan DERKACHENKO from Minsk, Belarus, was also unanimously elected as his successor by the Board.
WKF division World Presidents Carlos SUAREZ / ARG, Daniel HIERLAU / HUN and Annis DOMETIOU / GRE were pleased to confirm the appointment and look forward to a good cooperation.
Mr. Derkachenko is well-known and high respected as a manager and expert in our sport.
He will also be serving as a supervisor at the next upcoming WKF Championships in East and West and will therefore be the link between Eastern and Western Europe.