Ferdinand Mack

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Ferdinand Mack, 2011

Ferdinand Mack (born December 26, 1959 in Mannheim ) is a German kickboxer and multiple WAKO world champion . He was national trainer of the full contact cadre of WAKO Germany from 1988 to 2011 and supervisor of IAKSA Germany from 2012 to 2017.

Athletic career

Mack fought for four world championship titles in three different weight classes with the amateurs in the period from 1979 to 1987. In 1991 he won the professional world title. From 1988 to 2011 he was the national coach of the German Kickboxing Association (WAKO Germany) and WAKO Germany in full contact kickboxing . In this function he looked after twelve world champions. In 2001, at the age of 41, Mack became the German pointfighting champion with the “Moskitos” team from Ebern , and in 2008, at the age of 48, he was the international German champion of WAKO-PRO in the super middleweight division.

Ferdinand Mack is currently training children, kickboxers and celebrities like Julia Neigel in his Supermack kickboxing school in Mannheim .

He started karate at the age of 15 . Two years later he competed in the first pointfighting competitions. In 1978 he switched to full contact kickboxing. In Milan he became European champion a year later and in the same year in Tampa (USA) world champion in his class. Overall, Mack was four times European champion and four times world champion of the amateurs.

In 1988 he switched to the professional field and in the same year he became European champion of the PKO , the professional association at the time that worked with the WAKO in Mannheim . Mack became world champion of the PKO and Intercontinental Champion of ISKA in 1991. He defended all his professional titles several times. Mack competed in his penultimate fight at the age of 50 at the Mack Mania in Mannheim over seven rounds.

As an association official, he was national coach in full contact kickboxing from 1988 to 2011. By his own account, his role model is Bill "Superfoot" Wallace .

Ferdinand Mack was inducted into the Hall of Fame at WAKO Germany.

At the end of 2017, Ferdinand Mack switched to the WKU Association . He and his fighters have been represented at the WKU tournaments since 2012.

On June 17, 2017, Mack got back into the ring at the WKU's International German Championship in Simmern at the age of 57 . After 28 years there was a rematch against Don "the Dragon" Wilson (USA) over five rounds. After the fight both were declared winners. Eight months earlier, Mack had received a new artificial knee.

Mack continues to work as a coach. One of his most successful protégés is the reigning professional world champion of the WKU in full contact kickboxing, Schahrsad "Princess" Shahmirzadi , whom he has been supporting since the end of 2009. She coached Mack in his 2017 rematch fight against Don Wilson.

Publications

  • Kickboxing. Ferdinand Mack - A life dedicated to sport. With training and examination guidelines from WAKO Germany. Sensei Publishing House; Edition: 3rd, revised. New edition (February 1999) ISBN 3-932-5761-95 .
  • Ferdinand Mack - Head Training in Martial Arts . Dortmund, Peters 2005; Edition: 1 ISBN 3-923868-15-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DELIAH ECKHARDT: Nidderau has a world champion Every step is a hit. (No longer available online.) In: Frankfurter Neue Presse. November 24, 2015, archived from the original on March 11, 2018 ; accessed on March 11, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ndp.fnp.de
  2. ^ Hall of Fame . Website of the Federal Association for Kickboxing - WAKO Germany eV
  3. ↑ KICK. Retrieved March 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Mack, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German kickboxer
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim