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As expected, there were numerous rule changes, new dates for 2025/2026, innovations worldwide and of course the eagerly awaited board election of the World Amateur Federation.
The WKF FRANCE President John LELONG has confirmed the “French Open 2025”, all information will be available in January.
The 2025 European Championship has now definitely been awarded to Moldova’s capital Chisinau. The venue is the newly built “Chisinau Arena”.
The date has been confirmed as June 22nd to 30th. The organizer is WKF MOLDOVA President Rustam ALIMOV, who also organized the last European Cup very successfully.
For this, WKF POLAND President Ms. Ewa HNAT is organizing the “Open European Cup” in October in the huge Orbita sports hall in Wroclaw.
Before that, the WKF WORLD CUP will take place in Minsk in September, the WKF will be visiting Belarus for the first time. As is usual in Eastern Europe, with public support, we are in the Olympic Training Center “Staiki” near Minsk. The South Americans , Europeans and many Asians have already confirmed their participation!
In return, the Europeans will come to Bucaramanga in Colombia in November and take part in the “Caribbean Open”. Promoter is WKF COLOMBIA President Louis MEDIOMUNDO. He is also the new WKF Caribbean direktor.
Two title fights for Austrian girls are already being negotiated there! An international K-1 title – 57 kg and another intercontinental title – 50 kg would be possible with sufficient funding.
The WKF World Championship was confirmed for Cartagena in Colombia in the fall of 2026.
The new elections brought the expected result.
The new Amateur Division World President is now the Argentinian Carlos SUAREZ, at the same time the Chilean Rodrigo MINO became the new South American Continental Director.
The elected Vice President is Mikhael GERASIMOV from Moscow, who has great influence in Eastern Europe and enjoys great respect.
The new division world president for Muay Thai is the Greek Annis DOMETIOU.
This gives Thai boxing more weight in the WKF and the number of participants will multiply in the near future. Dometiou is famous as a major organizer of his “MAD DOG” events.
A new division world director has also been confirmed in MMA.
Dimitris PAPAKONSTANTINOU 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.
We will introduce him in more detail shortly!
Daniel HIRLAU was confirmed as world president of the BOXING / BKFC division. Hirlau has very successfully anchored boxing in the WKF in a very short time.
German Roman LOGISCH is new WKF General secratary, new WKF GERMANY president is David SVIDER.
Further information about the rule changes, valid from January 1st, 2025, will follow shortly.