Steven Gomez
Steven Alexander Gomez
The 2024 IBJJF brown belt world champion and a two-time purple belt European champion, he is a black belt at AOJ, the Mendes brothers’ academy in California.
- brown belt world title
- 1
- purple belt European titles
- 2
Who is Steven Gomez
Steven Alexander Gomez grew up competing for AOJ, Art of Jiu Jitsu, the academy Rafael and Guilherme Mendes run in California. In 2016, still a yellow belt, he was already an IBJJF American Nationals champion. As a juvenile blue belt in 2021 he won the open class at the No-Gi Worlds and reached the open class finals at the gi Worlds and Pans.
At purple belt he won the Europeans in 2022 and 2024 and took both his weight class and the open class at the 2023 American Nationals. At the Worlds he took bronze in 2022 and silver in 2023, behind his teammate Gustavo Ogawa.
His world title came at brown belt in 2024, at featherweight, with Ogawa in second place. That same year he won the No-Gi Pans. In 2025 he took bronze at the Worlds and the Europeans and silver at the Pans.
As a black belt he took bronze at the 2025 No-Gi Pans and silver in 2026. In June 2026 he won the American Nationals at featherweight with three wins, the last over Marco Mendes in the final.
Wins
- 2026Marco MendesAmerican Nationals, featherweight, final
- 2026João Pedro RochaAmerican Nationals, featherweight
- 2026Paulo Henrique VieiraAmerican Nationals, featherweight
- 2026Mateo CardonaJiu-Jitsu Con, featherweight
- 2026Sebastian SerpaJiu-Jitsu Con, featherweight
- 2026Luan GomesJiu-Jitsu Con, featherweight
Losses
- 2026Emilio HernandezNo-Gi Pans, featherweight, final
- 2026Lucas GarciaColumbus Open, open class
- 2026Ismael SantosColumbus Open, featherweight
- 2026Cleber ClandestinoOrange County Winter Open, featherweight · 7-2
Major titles
2026
- IBJJF American Nationals Featherweight Gold
- IBJJF No-Gi Pans Featherweight Silver
2025
- IBJJF No-Gi Pans Featherweight Bronze
Before black belt
- IBJJF Worlds 2024, brown belt, featherweight Gold
- IBJJF Worlds 2023, purple belt, featherweight Silver
- IBJJF Worlds 2022, purple belt; 2025, brown belt Bronze
- IBJJF Europeans 2022 and 2024, purple belt Gold
- IBJJF Pans 2023, purple belt; 2024 and 2025, brown belt Silver
- IBJJF No-Gi Pans 2024, brown belt Gold
- IBJJF American Nationals 2023, purple belt, weight class and open class Gold
- IBJJF No-Gi Worlds 2021, juvenile, blue belt, open class Gold
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