Elite program 

To date, the WMAC Elite is made up of the best athletes in the age group over 18 years old, from the kickboxing categories - pointfighting, light contact, kicklight, K1 kickboxing and full contact.

Each recognized WMAC member country can set a maximum of 2 athletes in the respective classes for the elite competitions at the Amateur World Championships. These are reported by the national director or national coach.

The elite hold their competitions separately at the World Martial Arts Games, alongside the Amateur World Championships as a separate discipline. 

The winners of the elite classes receive special prizes and are the recognized elite world champions of the WMAC, the highest title a tournament fighter can currently achieve. 

They are allowed to call themself WORLD CHAMPION.
Example : WMAC WORLD CHAMPION
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Participants in the amateur classes are requested to use the suffix - AMATEUR - in public communications.
Example: World Amateur Champion 

Difference to the amateur world champions

In the elite classes there is only one age group and therefore only one world champion per weight/gender/category.
All known categories will continue to be fought out in the amateur classes. 
We ask winners of the amateur classes to note the terms in social media, press or publications: 
Amateur World Champion (Veterans/Masters/Adults) / Children's World Champion / Junior World Champion / Cadet World Champion. Pay attention to the reference to the WMAC. 
Elite winners are permitted to use the term: WMAC Elite World Champion. 
Here too, we ask you to note the reference to the WMAC. 

We want to counteract the “FLOOD OF TRUE WORLD CHAMPIONS”. Unfortunately, the concept of the World Cup has increasingly become a “fast euro business model” for various associations in recent years.

More and more classes and more nominated participants guarantee the officials big profits in entry fees and hotel deals.
Sometimes it is more difficult to be eliminated than to win a medal. 
Weight classes with up to 5 ominous nominees per country reduce qualification to absurdity, as 5 participants in a class are rarely able to bear the immense costs of various associations (companies) of a so-called “World Cup”. 

We can imagine ,a youth national team in the future, as well as an elite team in the other disciplines. But at the moment we are limiting ourselves to one age group and the most popular disciplines. 
A WORLD CUP TITLE has to be worth again.