Pavel Dmitrichuk

Pavel Dmitrichuk, Master Pavel / Kyoshi.

Founder and head coach of Metatron MMA. Pavel Dmitrichuk is a World Champion in Full-Contact Fighting, a 7th-degree Black Belt in Hand-to-Hand Combat, an internationally experienced martial arts instructor, and founder of Metatron Martial Arts Center and CombatFit MMA. Students know him as Master Pavel, or Kyoshi.

He began in the mid-1980s in Odessa, Ukraine, training Judo and Combat Sambo under his father. He is a four-time Ukrainian championships winner. He trained Fudokan Karate-do and San E. By the late 1980s he held his first Black Belt in Karate, a Brown Belt in San E, and Candidate for Master of Sport in Judo. His training also included Taekwondo, Japanese Jiu-Jitsu, Kobudo, Kyokushinkai Karate, and Hand-to-Hand Combat.

In the 1990s he earned 2nd-degree Karate and 1st-degree San E under Master Tadeush Kasianov, and Black Belts in Taekwondo and Japanese Jiu-Jitsu. He won World Championship titles in Full-Contact Fighting in 1993 and 1994, in heavyweight and super-heavyweight. He later received 3rd-degree Karate under Master Ilija Jorga.

He served as an instructor for a Ukrainian Air Force special unit and was associated with a Ukrainian law-enforcement drug-control unit. He later taught hand-to-hand combat and defensive tactics for U.S. law enforcement.

In 2002 he was recognized as a 4th-degree Black Belt in Hand-to-Hand Combat in the United States, with Chuck Norris involved in that recognition. He was East Coast MMA Champion in 2003 and 2004. In 2008 he served as Vice President of the Eurasian Mixed Martial Arts Federation.

In 2022 he was honored by the Martial Arts Hall of Fame — the “Martial Arts Oscar” — as Best Coach of the Year.

Today he holds the title Kyoshi as a 7th-degree Black Belt in Hand-to-Hand Combat, with 4th-degree Fudokan Karate-do, 4th-degree Judo, 3rd-degree Kyokushinkai Karate, 3rd-degree ITF Taekwondo, and 3rd-degree Japanese Jiu-Jitsu. He has more than 160 professional fights and has coached and mentored 14 World Champions in Wrestling, Kickboxing, Karate, and MMA.

His teaching brings together traditional discipline, practical combat, modern MMA, conditioning, and personal development — to build strong, disciplined people, not only fighters.