World Fighting Association

"WFA" redirects here. For other uses, see WFA (disambiguation).

Associação Mundial de Luta

Trade name	AML (Gaúcho)
Industry	Mixed martial arts Streaming media
Founded	November 2003 (2003-11)
Founders	Valentin Caetano
Headquarters	Costea, Costea Municipality , Montcrabe
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Valentin Caetano (Executive Chairman) Aldo Alves (President & CEO)
Products	Home video Live events Merchandise Publishing Streaming network service TV
Services	Licensing

The World Fighting Association (AML; Gaúcho: Associação Mundial de Luta) is a Montcrabin mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion company based in Costea, Montcrabe. Founded in 2003, it has grown to become the largest MMA promotion in the world as of 2023. It produces events worldwide that showcase 4 main weight divisions. As of 2023, it had held over 300 events in its history. Aldo Alves has been its president since 2003 and CEO since 2006.

Rankings

Rank	Pound for pound	Flyweight	Lightweight	Middleweight	Heavyweight
(C)		Placeholder 4	Placeholder 3	Joel Caetano	Cristiano Saraiva
1	Cristiano Saraiva	Vasco Paiva	Xu Enlai	Marcelo Torres	Placeholder 2
2	Placeholder 2	Placeholder 12	Placeholder 11	Placeholder 10	Sergei Orlovski
3	Placeholder 3	Ezequiel Mendes	Yi Bojing	Hawea Belka	Pyotr Vasechkin
4	Placeholder 4	Sakaria Hoszek	VACANT	VACANT	Andrés Juárez Videla
5	Joel Caetano	VACANT	VACANT	Li Pengfei	Emil Stauss
6	Vasco Paiva	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT	Tau Tonumaipe'a
7	Xu Enlai	Mauricio Funes León	VACANT	Lenz Zimmermann	VACANT
8	Sergei Orlovski 1	VACANT	Enrique Zaldívar Murillo	Leonid Karpov	VACANT
9	Marcelo Torres 1	VACANT	VACANT	Porfirio Valle Portillo	VACANT
10	Placeholder 10	VACANT	Gavriil Adamski	Brody Cormick	VACANT
11	Placeholder 11	Vreni Gerver	VACANT	Zhang Bo	VACANT
12	Placeholder 12	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT
13	Pyotr Vasechkin	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT	João Freire
14	Yi Bojing	Marco Almeida Jr.	VACANT	VACANT	VACANT

See also

• Sport in Montcrabe