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Ariel Machado, is a Brazilian Kickboxing and mixed martial artist. He is the K-1 World Grand Prix 2024 Final Champion.
Combat Press ranked him as a top ten light heavyweight Kickboxing in the world between November 2021 and June 2022, with Machado peaking at #7.
He took part in the 2016 Glory Light Heavyweight tournament. In the semifinals, he defeated Pavel Zhuravlev by a unanimous decision. He lost the final bout to Zinedine Hameur-Lain by a second round KO.
Machado next fought in the 2016 Glory Middleweight Contender tournament. He lost the very first bout to Yousri Belgaroui by decision.
Machado was scheduled to fight in the 2017 Glory Light Heavyweight Contender tournament. He won a unanimous decision against Danyo Ilunga in the semi-finals. In the tournament final, he fought a rematch with Zinedine Hameur-Lain, and won by TKO in the first round.
Briefly fighting outside of Glory, Machado was scheduled to face Lucas Alsina during WGP Kickboxing 38. Machado won the bout in the third round, knocking Alsina out with a flying knee.
He fought for the Glory Light Heavyweight title during , held at the time by Artem Vakhitov. Vakhitov successfully defended the title, winning by unanimous decision.
His next two fights were outside of Glory, which he won by a split decision against Haime Morais during WGP KB 47, and by KO against Marcelo Nuñez during WGP KB 57.
Machado was scheduled to fight Michael Duut during Glory Collision 2. Machado won by unanimous decision.
Machado took part in the K-1 World Grand Prix 2024 Final on December 14, 2024. In the quarterfinals he knocked out Rhys Brudenell in the first round with a hook. In the semifinals he stopped Errol Zimmerman by second round technical knckout with low kicks. In the final he knocked out Feng Rui with a left hook 2 minutes and 55 seconds into the first round.
Awards
|- style="background:#cfc" | 2024-12-14 || Win ||align=left| Rhys Brudenell || K-1 World Grand Prix 2024 Final, Quarterfinals|| Tokyo, Japan || KO (Right hook) || 1 ||2:35
|- style="background:#cfc" | 2024-08-24 || Win||align=left| Jhonny Klever || K-1 World GP 2024 in Brasília, Final|| Brasília, Brazil || TKO (Low kicks) || 3 || 1:40 |- ! style=background:white colspan=9 | |- style="background:#cfc" | 2024-08-24 || Win ||align=left| Guto Inocente|| K-1 World GP 2024 in Brasília, Semifinals || Brasília, Brazil || Decision (Unanimous) ||3 ||3:00
|- style="background:#cfc" | 2024-08-24 || Win ||align=left| Abner Ferreira || K-1 World GP 2024 in Brasília, Quarterfinals || Brasília, Brazil || TKO (2 Knockdowns/low kick) || 2 || 1:40
|- style="background:#cfc" | 2024-07-06 || Win||align=left| Giannis Stoforidis || SENSHI 22 || Varna, Bulgaria || TKO (Punches) || 2 || 1:29 |- style="background:#fbb;" | 2024-02-03|| Loss||align=left| Arseniy Smirnov || RCC Fair Fight 26|| Yekaterinburg, Russia || Decision (Unanimous) ||3 ||3:00 |- style="background:#fbb" | 2023-09-10|| Loss ||align=left| Liu Ce || World Grand Prix Semifinals || Yokohama, Japan || KO (Low kick) || 2 || 1:57 |- style="background:#cfc" | 2023-09-10|| Win ||align=left| Michał Turyński || World Grand Prix Quarterfinals || Yokohama, Japan || Ext.R Decision (Unanimous) || 4||3:00 |- bgcolor="#cfc" | 2023-06-17 || Win ||align=left| Lucas Paredes || WGP Kickboxing #70 || Curitiba, Brazil || Decision (Unanimous) ||5 ||3:00 |- ! style=background:white colspan=9 | |- style="background:#fbb" | 2023-03-25|| Loss ||align=left| Valeriy Bizyaev || Ural FC 2 || Samara, Russia || KO (Punches) || 2 || 2:45 |- ! style=background:white colspan=9 | |- style="background:#fbb" | 2023-02-02|| Loss ||align=left| Beybulat Isaev || Muaythai Factory || Kemerovo, Russia || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 ||3:00 |- bgcolor="#cfc" | 2022-11-04 || Win||align=left| Lucas Monteiro || WGP Kickboxing #67 || Curitiba, Brazil || TKO (Low kicks) || 2 || |- bgcolor="#fbb" | 2022-07-15|| Loss||align=left| Nikita Kozlov || RCC Fair Fight 18 || Yekaterinburg, Russia || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00 |- bgcolor="#cfc" | 2019-12-21|| Win||align=left| Michael Duut || Glory Collision 2 || Arnhem, Netherlands || Decision (Unanimous) || 3 || 3:00 |- bgcolor="#cfc" | 2019-09-13|| Win||align=left| Marcelo Nuñez || WGP Kickboxing #57 || Curitiba, Brazil || KO (Right Hook) || 1 || 1:18 |- bgcolor="#cfc" | 2018-07-27|| Win||align=left| Haime Morais || WGP Kickboxing #47 || Curitiba, Brazil || Decision (Split)|| 3 || 3:00 |- style="background:#FFBBBB;" | 2017-10-28 || Loss||align=left| Artem Vakhitov || || Lyon, France || Decision (unanimous) || 5 || 3:00 |- ! style=background:white colspan=9 | |- bgcolor="#cfc" | 2017-07-01 || Win||align=left| Lucas Alsina || WGP Kickboxing #38 || Curitiba, Brazil|| KO (Flying Knee)|| 3 || 2:42 |- bgcolor="#cfc" | 2017-02-24 || Win||align=left| Zinedine Hameur-Lain || , Final || Hoffman Estates, Illinois, USA || TKO (Punches) || 1 || 2:43 |- ! style=background:white colspan=9 | |- |- bgcolor="#cfc" | 2017-02-24 || Win||align=left| Danyo Ilunga || , Semi-finals || Hoffman Estates, Illinois, USA || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00 |- bgcolor="#FFBBBB" | 2016-10-21 || Loss||align=left| Yousri Belgaroui || - Middleweight Contender Tournament, Semi-finals || Broomfield, Colorado, USA || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00 |- style="background:#FFBBBB;" | 2016-07-22 || Loss||align=left| Zinedine Hameur-Lain|| , Final || Norfolk, Virginia || KO (strikes) || 2 || 1:00 |- ! style=background:white colspan=9 | |- |- bgcolor="#cfc" | 2016-07-22 || Win||align=left| Pavel Zhuravlev || , Semi-finals || Norfolk, Virginia, USA || Decision (unanimous) || 3 || 3:00 |- bgcolor="#cfc" | 2016-04-09 || Win||align=left| Maycon Silva || WGP Kickboxing #29 || Brazil|| Decision || 3 || 3:00 |- bgcolor="#FFBBBB" | 2015-09-05 || Loss||align=left| Junior Alpha || WGP Kickboxing #26, Semi-final || Guarapuava, Brazil|| Decision || 3 || 3:00 |- bgcolor="#cfc" | 2010-06-21 || Win||align=left| Edvaldo Gameth || Copa Mestre Omar Dias de Muay Thai || Curitiba, Brazil|| KO || 2 ||
|- bgcolor="#FFBBBB" | 2009-04-05 || Loss||align=left| Alessandro Geloco || Brave FC || Curitiba, Brazil|| KO (Right Hook)|| 1 || |- bgcolor="CCFFCC" | 2009-01-|| ||align=left| José Carlos Oliveira || || Brazil|| Decision || 3|| 3:00
|- bgcolor="CCFFCC" | 2008-03-08|| Win||align=left| Ante Verunica || Obračun u ringu 7 || Zadar, Croatia || Decision (Split)|| 3|| 2:00
|- bgcolor="#cfc" | 2007|| Win||align=left| Fábio Pelézinho || || Brazil|| KO (Right Cross) || 2 ||
|- bgcolor="#FFBBBB" | 2005-10-27 || Loss||align=left| Cosmo Alexandre || K-1 Rules Heavyweight Factory GP || São Paulo, Brazil || Decision || 5 || 3:00
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|- bgcolor="#fbb" | 2021-10- || Loss||align=left| Bahram Rajabzadeh || W.A.K.O World Championships 2021, K-1 1/8 Final +91 kg || Jesolo, Italy || Decision (3:0) || 3 || 2:00 |- | colspan=9 | Legend:
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