Gabriel Arges and Marcos Tinoco met 5 times on record, and Arges holds a 4 to 1 edge. Both men live at Peso Medio, both carry a 66-win ledger on record, and their win rates sit close together at 70% for Arges and 74% for Tinoco. On paper they look like mirror images, but the head to head has been lopsided in one direction for most of their history.

Four of the five meetings came in the gi, and Arges won all four of those. The lone Tinoco victory came in no-gi at the 2018 IBJJF World No-Gi Championship, decided on points. Arges took the other four by a mix of methods: points at the 2019 IBJJF World Championship, an advantage in the final at the 2018 European Jiu-Jitsu IBJJF Championship, and two submissions, including a Gi Choke From Back in the 2017 final.

Stylistically the finishing numbers point the split. Arges finishes 32% of his wins by submission and leans on the Kneebar with 4 recorded wins there, while Tinoco submits at a 24% clip and favors the Armbar, also with 4 wins. In this rivalry the close gi matches broke Arges's way, but Tinoco showed the no-gi format changed the math.