Michael Richard Matarazzo (November 8, 1965 – August 16, 2014) was an American IFBB professional bodybuilder.

He turned to bodybuilding and won the first contest he entered: The 1989 Gold's Gym Classic in Massachusetts.

[1] He moved to Venice, California, in early 1991 and in a great surprise, won the USA Championships that year over favorite Flex Wheeler as well as Ronnie Coleman and Chris Cormier.

[6] On August 3, 2014, Matarazzo was in the intensive care unit of Stanford hospital in Palo Alto due to heart complications.

[9][10] At the time of his death he was residing in Modesto, California and had been forced to stop working as a bail bondsman[11] due to his 20% heart function.