History

Present WMMAF started its activities back in 2003 with the name of WORLD KICK-JITSU FEDERATION and only recently we decided to change our name into WORLD MIXED MARTIAL ARTS FEDERATION.

The reason is quite simple: Kick-Jitsu is the acronym of Kickboxing and Ju Jitsu. Just the fact that two notorious Martial Arts and fighting sports tried to live together, created immediately a "mixed martial art". Kickboxing is a "mixed martial art" by itself, to say the truth.  But then we had the idea  not only to deal with different important styles of mixed martial arts (free fight, ufc, submission, grappling), but also with different  Martial Arts and fighting methods  like Muay Thai, French K1 (a real French version  of K1 we are used to watch on TVs). We are an open and a very professional organization of experts in the different fields of competence who are at the service of our community. Our goal is to promote excellent shows all over the world  in different Martial Arts  in which  we will grant excellent fighters and performers.

WKJF before and now WMMAF, acted mostly in Europe. Mr. Patrizio Rizzoli from Livorno is the current European WMMAF president and is working very  closely with our WMMAF headquarters placed in Kiev (Ukraine). He is  the coordinator of a Shoot Boxe section in a national federation in Italy.

WMMAF is moving quickly and , just to name a few, we already have  representatives in  France (Federation Française des Sports de combat, leaded by our WMMAF  vice-president Mr. Denis-Marie Cintura) , in Portugal (Carlos Ramjanali), in Brazil (Paulo Zorello), in South Africa (Pat Carney), in USA (Frank Babckok - KICK International president - the main amateur MMA organization in the States).

 In our country, every year we promote an Open event in Yalta (Crimea-Ukraine) in the first week of October.  From now on, all information regarding our activity will  be placed in our web site so that everybody loving our styles can follow us and take part in our activities.

Our General Secretary, Evgenia Borshevkaya, will be at your disposal for anything you may need. Just contact us.

See you soon hopefully in our of next events.

Andrei Chistov