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Ralek Gracie Backtracks: We Don’t Exist To Pay Our Debts!

Ralek Gracie Backtracks: We Don’t Exist To Pay Our Debts!

 

 

Ralek Gracie has been a controversial figure in bjj for quite some time. In fact he was featured on our Most Hated People in BJJ list.

The reasons for achieving that “prestigious status” ?

G in a Gi Music video , unprofessional way managing Metamoris, debts towards Metamoris competitors.

The main issues are:

-Scheduling events on the same weekend as EBI and the same day as Copa Podio.
-Disrespecting Female Competitors.
-Untrustworthy Online Site and Automatic Renewals.
-Not paying Metamoris Challenger/Underground Competitors, and staff.

 

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But for his last event he managed to get the audience to show up by using a common knowledge – how much people hate him (for lack of a better word) and arranged a Garry Tonon match where he was promptly defeated via toe hold to knee bar sequence.

In the time before the last Metamoris he was quite outspoken that he will be paying his debts even if that ment paying with his MMA career winnings.

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Looks like that won’t be happening any time soon. As Metamoris announced the new challenger series in spite of Not paying Metamoris Challenger/Underground Competitors, and staff in the past and he got called out on it –

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Given the hefty registration fee (the above announced 99$) fight to win competitor Nathan Hallford asked:

 


To which Ralek replied from his personal account in quite an arrogant fashion:

Oh and it doesn’t stop there, Ralek then goes and says he was taken out of the context although something like “We don’t exist to pay debts” is kind of hard to misunderstand but let’s have the G in a Gi explain:

I underestimated how much people want to take me out of context still. To be clear, paying debts from revenue earned is what businesses do to stay afloat. My response to Nathan (because he sounded like a troll) was based on the assumption that he knew our intentions were to cover anyone and everyone and my response was an attempt to give him more context as to our efforts toward growth in avoiding such issues, which I felt was the deeper issue at hand. No business has any chance of moving forward without applying the fullest efforts to pay what is owed.

About the link: Dream gave up. They never stayed in contact with me and they filed bankruptcy- they still owe me 60k but I wouldn’t take back the experience for anything. Now I have more compassion for them. They tried to build the Japanese audience and they took risks, they failed and future promotions will learn from them. I know the pain of not getting paid and I ended up paying people way too much to compensate for my emotions. That backfired.

We are pushing forward because that’s the most respectful thing to do if you owe anyone money. I should get back to it but I appreciate all your passion.

Of course the drama doesn’t end there – because the most respectful thing to do when you owe someone money cannot be characterized with “business as usual” as some commentators pointed out:

 

And then Ralek was finally prompted to find some actual PR help and spout of this phrase:

After some more fuss Ralek was forced to level and acknowledge just how his initial reply sounded – in his own context. To that he said:

“Man, I realize did come off cocky in my first reply. I am at war to follow through on a mission and I’m giving momentary thoughts in real time. That as a concept is a PR nightmare and many people would say I shouldn’t be answering comments because my focus is not on making you feel comfortable. but it’s cool because if you care than I care. Never had any intentions of hurting anyone or having such issues. Stopping isn’t an option but I will do all I can to make better moves and I appreciate the criticism, thanks for sharing your frustrations.”

 

 

And Grappling Industries head David Aguzi remains unimpressed as proven by this highly liked comment:

 

Elsewhere more people who Ralek owes money called upon him:

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To which he replied:

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Wait, how does not paying competitors bring up Jiu-Jitsu’s values ? Isn’t it the other way around?

 

 

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