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Born | Gezary Matuda Bandeira 12 July 1983 Curitiba, Brazil [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other names | Gezary Matuda Kubis Bandeira | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Division | Light Feather (−53.5 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fighting out of | Coconut Creek, Florida [2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team | American Top Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Teacher(s) | Alexandre Penão | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trainer | Ricardo Libório | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rank | BJJ black belt [a] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | BJJ instructor and coach [3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | gezary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Gezary Matuda is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt practitioner from Brazil. A two-time World and Pan Champion in colored belts, she is a three-time IBJJF World Champion, a three-time Pan American Champion, and a European Open black belt Champion.
Gezary Matuda Bandeira was born on 12 July 1983 in Curitiba, Brazil. [1] Matuda started training Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) in 2004, in addition to Capoeira and Muay Thai. [4] Her first BJJ teacher was Carlos ‘Penão’ Alexandre Conceição, a black belt under Carlson Gracie, from whom she received all her belts from white to purple. [2] She kept training in Muay Thai, one of her first teachers being Anderson Silva. [5] As a blue belt in 2009, she won the CBJJF South American Cup then the CBJJE World Cup.
In 2009 Matuda and her husband, ATT pro-team Muay Thai coach Katel Kubis moved to the United States. [2] Matuda began training under Ricardo Libório at American Top Team. As a purple belt she won the IBJJF Pan American followed by the 2010 IBJJF World Championship. [6] In 2011 Matuda won the Pan in the brown belt division, a year later she was promoted to black belt by Liborio in July 2012 after winning the IBJJF World Championship. [7] [8]
As a black belt, she won the World Championship in 2013 and 2014. Competing at Polaris 2 Pro Grappling on 12 September 2015 in Cardiff, Wales, [9] she submitted Michelle Nicolini in 15 seconds with a flying armbar. [10] She became black belt 2015 Pan American Champion, then won silver at the 2015 World Championship facing Rikako Yuasa in the final. [11] In April 2016 at Polaris 3, her fight against Laurence Cousin ended in a draw. [12] That same year she won the 2016 World Championship for the third time as a black belt and the Pan American Championship. Facing Talita Alencar in the final of the World Championship light feather division, she won silver in 2017. [13] In 2018 she became Pan Champion for the third time and then won bronze at the World Championship. [1] Competing against Ffion Davies at Polaris 9 in March 2019 in London, Matuda was defeated via Submission. [14] At the 2019 World Championship Matuda won bronze. [15]
Main Achievements (at black belt): [1]
Main Achievements (at colored Belts): [1]
Mitsuyo Maeda > Carlos Gracie > Carlson Gracie > Ricardo Libório > Gezary Matuda [1]