Mateusz Gamrot

Mateusz Gamrot (born December 11, 1990) is a Polish professional mixed martial artist.

He currently competes in the Lightweight division in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

Gamrot is a former KSW Featherweight Champion and KSW Lightweight Champion.

As of March 12, 2024, he is #5 in the UFC lightweight rankings.

Gamrot started wrestling at the age of ten.

In middle school age, he moved to a boarding school in Milicz to train there in freestyle wrestling.

While studying in a technical school, he belonged to the national wrestling team where he won medals in the Polish junior and youth championships.

As a 20-year-old he moved permanently to Poznań.

There he trains and has a family and two children.

In 2002, he began his journey with martial arts, starting with wrestling.

During his wrestling career he achieved many successes in Poland and internationally.

He fought over 300 duels on the mat, wrestling, among others, at the European and World Championships.

Since 2011, he has been training mixed martial arts.

He gained his training experience under the supervision of an excellent trainer, Andrzej Kościelski, World Champion in wrestling.

In 2012, he won a gold medal at the European Amateur MMA Championships (Brussels) and a year later he defended the championship title again winning gold in the 70 kg category (Budapest).

He made his professional MMA debut on February 4, 2012, at XFS Night of Champions, defeating Chechen Arbi Shamayev.

By the end of the year he had won two more fights for the federation and then he signed with KSW.

Two times in a row (2013, 2014) he won the gold medal at the Polish championships in grappling in the purple stripes category (Luboń).

On June 8, 2013, he had his first fight in KSW, beating Mateusz Zawadzki via TKO at KSW 23: Khalidov vs. Manhoef.

On September 28 at KSW 24 he defeated former UFC fighter Andre Winner on points.

At KSW 27, Mateusz defeated Jefferson George on points.

In 2014 he won the ADCC Submission Wrestling European championships in up to 77 kg class.

On September 13, 2014, he fought for the British organization Cage Warriors, defeating Welshman Tim Newman in the 1st round at CW 72.

He returned on December 6, 2014, to defeat Łukasz Chlewicki at KSW 29 via unanimous decision.

At KSW 30 on February 21, 2015, he won over Brazilian Rodrigo Cavalheiro Correia by technical knockout six seconds before the final bell.

Gamrot earned a Knockout of the Night bonus award with the performance.

At KSW 32: Road to Wembley, Mateusz defeated Marif Piraev via TKO in the second round, getting his tenth straight win to start his career.

On May 27, 2016, at KSW 35, he fought for the vacant KSW Lightweight Championship belt against former British BAMMA and Russian M-1 Global champion Frenchman Mansour Barnaoui.

He claimed the title via unanimous decision and both fighters were awarded the Fight of the Night bonus.

At KSW 36: Materla vs. Palhares on October 1, 2016, he defended his title via heel hook against Renato Gomes Gabriel in the second round.

Gamrot faced former UFC fighter Norman Parke at KSW 39: Colosseum on May 27, 2017.

He won the bout and retained the title via unanimous decision.

Gamrot rematched Norman Parke at KSW 40: Dublin on October 22, 2017.

At the weigh-ins, Parke came in one pound over the championship limit and the bout was deemed a non-title bout.

After the bout was stopped due to eye pokes that left Parke unable to continue, Parke shoved Gamrot's cornerman, Borys Mankowski, which resulted in Marcin Bilman, another professional fighter who was in the champion's corner, responded by landing a punch on Parke.

Gamrot was subsequently fined 30% of his purse and Bilman was handed a two-year ban from KSW events.

On March 3, 2018, at KSW 42: Khalidov vs. Narkun, Gamrot defeated Grzegorz Szulakowski via keylock submission in the fourth round, defending the KSW Lightweight Championship.

On December 1, 2018, at KSW 46: Narkun vs. Khalidov 2, he fought for a second belt, this time for the KSW Featherweight Championship, against submission specialist Kleber Koike Erbst, where he won the bout after a five-round domination, capturing the organization's second crown.

On May 17, 2019, in a video on Borys Mankowski's YouTube channel, Gamrot announced that he had vacated his two belts and did not renew his contract with KSW.

On March 6, 2020, KSW announced Gamrot's return to the organization.