Chris Fields, Tom King on leaving SBG: ‘It’s time to forge our own identity’

Team KFOn Saturday, former Cage Warriors middleweight champion Chris Fields and Irish jiu-jitsu black belt Tom King announced that their gym had “ceased all association with, and affiliation to SBG Ireland and SBG international” via a social media post.

King was the first person to be awarded a black belt by John Kavanagh in July 2013 and Fields was synonymous with the gym’s early emergence as an international force when he claimed the Cage Warriors middleweight title in 2012. He later appeared on the UFC’s reality television platform, The Ultimate Fighter.

Formerly known as SBG Swords, the north county Dublin gym will now be known as Team KF. Since the gym’s formation three years ago, they…