Carmelo "The Fury" Marrero (born January 26, 1981 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American professional mixed martial artist with a record of 10 wins and 4 losses. Carmelo is currently fighting in the UFC although he started out in smaller fight promotions like Cage Fury Fighting Championships.

Upon finishing his final wrestling season at Rider University Carmelo still had a drive to compete so he naturally fell into MMA. His first five professional bouts were against meager opponents in small fight promotions along the New Jersey shore.

Carmelo would go on to win and dominate all five bouts. Carmelo even overcame a horrific broken jaw in one of his early MMA fights and still go on to win. In only his sixth fight he got a chance to fight in the UFC against a much larger and more experienced opponent in Cheick Kongo who already had two wins inside the octagon.

Carmelo would use his superior grappling skills to control Kongo the entire bout and go on to win via a split decision. In his next fight he would go against Gabriel Gonzaga with the winner to get a shot to fight Mirko Cro Cop for the #1 contender spot. Carmelo would lose this fight in the first round via submission. For Carmelo's next bout he dropped down to the light heavyweight division to face Wilson Gouveia at UFC 71. He was defeated at 3:06 into the first round by submission.