Matheus Diniz

Matheus Oliveira Diniz, born on 8 April 1993 in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, is a Brazilian submission wrestler and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt competitor whose most notable achievement is winning the 2019 ADCC World Championship in the middleweight division, and who is also a medalist at the IBJJF World Championships in both gi and no-gi formats. He began with capoeira at ten, switched to Brazilian jiu-jitsu in 2008 under Rodrigo Ranieri, trained in Poços de Caldas under Paulo Rezende, won silver in the medium heavy division at the 2012 IBJJF World Championship as a purple belt, and was invited by Marcelo Garcia to train at his academy in New York City, who promoted him to black belt in April 2015. At the 2019 ADCC he beat Pedro Marinho, Gabriel Arges and Josh Hinger to reach the final, where he beat Craig Jones on points. In October 2020 he lost to Gordon Ryan by heel hook in a match later named Match of the Year at the 2020 Jitsmagazine BJJ Awards.