HISTORY & FLASHBACK
CALI 🇦🇷🆚🇦🇷 MAIDANA
🎥The two special WKN championship belts
For the historic confrontation between Marco “El Chino” Maidana and Jorge “Acero” Cali, the WKN World President personally created two unique championship belts.
These two special belts were designed exclusively for this extraordinary event and were intended to be presented to the two champions at the end of their fight.
The event was scheduled for April 18, 2020, in Argentina. It was an exceptional confrontation between two great fighters coming from two different worlds of combat sports, exclusively sanctioned by the WKN and scheduled to be broadcast live on ESPN.
Sadly, due to the extraordinary circumstances of 2020, the fight never took place.
Today, these two belts remain with the WKN World President as a very special personal memory of Jorge “Acero” Cali, his friend and a great champion who is sadly no longer with us.
🥊 A vision ahead of its time
Today, confrontations between fighters coming from different worlds of combat sports have become increasingly common and attract huge international attention.
But in 2020, it was something completely exceptional.
The planned confrontation between Marco “El Chino” Maidana, former boxing world champion, and Jorge “Acero” Cali, WKN World Kickboxing Champion, was one of the first major projects of its kind.
At a time when this concept was far from being established, the WKN was already thinking beyond traditional boundaries and creating bridges between different combat sports.
A project that never happened, but a friendship and a piece of WKN history that will never be forgotten. RIP Jorge 🙏
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