Fight 2 Win 157 Preview
Fight 2 Win 157 takes place this Saturday night, November 14th in Philadelphia. The main event will be a No Gi match between ADCC veteran, Tom DeBlass and 2X No Gi world champion, Chad Kodiak Fields.
DeBlass is well known as the man who gave Garry Tonon his black belt. He won the ADCC North American trials in 2009 and 2014 and has taken gold as a black belt at the Pan American No Gi Championships in 2013. DeBlass is also a credentialed MMA veteran with fights in the UFC. He is taking on Fields, who won IBJJF No Gi worlds in 2018 and 2019. Fields also took gold as a black belt in 2019 at the Euro Worlds.
Also, the card’s co-main event will feature two ADCC veterans, Vagner Rocha and Gabriel Almeida. Rocha won the ADCC trials three times (2010, 2015 and 2017) and took 1st at EBI Combat Invitational in 2017. Almeida won ADCC trials last year in Sao Paulo and took 1st place at SJJIF World Championships in 2018 and UAEJJF Grand Slam earlier this year.
Another standout name on the card is Gesias Cavalcante. Cavalcante is a black belt and former K-1 HERO middleweight champion (2006 and 2007). He will be facing the John Danaher protege, Nick Ronan.
Black Belts
Tom DeBlass vs Chad Kodiak Fields
Vagner Rocha vs Gabriel Almeida
William Wolk vs Jay Wadsworth
Nick Ronan vs Gesias Cavalcante
Dylan Royce vs Garret Lavaggi
Rich Hernandez vs Jared Weiner
Frank Rosenthal vs Scott Dance
Josh Pike vs Dom Hoskins
Steven Williams vs Kyle Myers
Joe Baize vs Kyle Hughes
Teen No Gi Title
Wilson Sojo vs Michael Gillin
Brown Belts
Ruben Blanco vs Jon Crow
Ryan Thomas vs Chris Thompson
Ellis Karadag vs David Weintraub
Rene Sousa vs Jeremiah Wells
Luke Shiomoios vs Aaron Harris
Manuel Farfan vs Yonathan Cardenas
Purple Belts
Julian Flenory-Mazur vs Steve Joachim
Gabriel Sanches vs Eric Williams
Daishi Goto vs Calvin Tacey
Jillian Peterson vs Samantha Fisher
Kyle Milanese vs Patrick Simpson
Tyler Rivera vs Nick Toscano
Chris Emery vs Benjamin Kunzle
Jacquelyn Gola vs Jess Bermudez
Christine K. Briggs vs Nicole Mathew
Gabby Etzel vs Cathryn Ivy
Blue Belts
Tyler Pendergast vs Brett McGill
Robert Andrews IV vs Justin Pack
Jack McGill vs Josh Dziewa
Jay Owens vs Mark Aguirre
F2W 157 will be streamed live on FloGrappling.