The ADCC Natal Open 2023 took place on October 8th, 2023 and several fantastic competitors made the trip to Brazil in order to compete. This was the second ADCC Open to take place in Brazil this year and the success of the Sao Paulo event was a good sign that there would be plenty of action when the promotion stopped off in Natal. In the end there was more than a few exciting matches and brilliant finishes throughout the event, but two grapplers in particular were able to walk away with the biggest prizes of the day.
Nikolas Souza in particular stood out as he submitted all four of his opponents in the under 76kg division, and the last two lasted less than 30 seconds each on the mat with him. He later entered the absolute division as one of the smallest competitors in it, and managed to win his second gold medal of the day from there. Although there was no other women in the under 65kg division for Aurelie Le Vern to compete against, she put in a great performance in the absolute division to take home a gold medal there. Le Vern submitted all three of the women who stood in her way and it took her just a little over 8 minutes in total to beat all of them.
ADCC Natal Open 2023 Results
Men’s Divisions
Under 60kg
1 – Pedro Fontes
2 – Raphelson Pereira
3 – Gabriel Fonseca
Under 65kg
1 – Guilherme Balieiro
2 – Julio Martins
3 – Fernando Paiva
Under 70kg
1 – Yona Cardenas
2 – Hudson Brito
3 – David Santos
Under 76kg
1 – Nikolas Souza
2 – Matheus Ferreira
3 – Matheus Ellery
Under 83kg
1 – Isaac Souza
2 – Bruno Cavalcante
3 – Daniel Barros
Under 91kg
1 – Tyrone Gonsalves
2 – Mauricio Pereira Junior
3 – Romario Fagundes
Under 100kg
1 – Washington Goncalves
2 – William Fernandes
3 – Italo Vieira
Over 100kg
1 – Salomao Stanford
2 – Joao Fernandes
3 – Lucas Braga
Absolute Division
1 – Nikolas Souza
2 – Lucas Bezerril
3 – Joao Fernandes
Women’s Divisions
Under 55kg
1 – Evellyn Azevedo
2 – Fernanda Priscila
Under 65kg
1 – Aurelie Le Vern
Over 70kg
1 – Yennefer Vera
2 – Allana Galvao
3 – Juliana Moura
Absolute Division
1 – Aurelie Le Vern
2 – Laysla Barbosa
3 – Evellyn Azevedo
The full results for all of the other divisions at the ADCC Natal Open 2023 can be found here.
