Matt Hume (born July 14, 1966) is an American former professional mixed martial artist, trainer, and businessman.

[1] Hume and his AMC team have trained several champions and world-class fighters including Josh Barnett, Demetrious Johnson,[2][3] Bibiano Fernandes, Tim Boetsch,[4] Jeff Monson, Bob Sapp, Chris Leben, Hayato Sakurai, Akira Shoji, Matt Brown, Rich Franklin,[5] and Caros Fodor.

While attending CWU in 1988, Hume started a pankration club, inviting all wrestlers, boxers, and other martial artists to train.

His relationship with Smith brought interest from Japanese reporters and Pancrase, who recruited Hume and many other AMC fighters.

[11][12][13] Hume rebounded by submitting Scott Sollivan with an armbar in under a minute, but lost against Minoru Suzuki by points in his final Pancrase fight.

He defeated Micah Pittman and Luis Brito but withdrew due to injury before facing John Lewis.

[16][17] In 1993, Hume founded United Full Contact Federation in order to sanction amateur pankration events.