The planned Metamoris 7 card is in peril. The headliner is no more.

After Marcus Buchecha and Roger Gracie decided to pull out of the rematch of their Metamoris 1 superfight, which was the headliner of Metamoris 7, news has emerged that Yuri Simoes is also calling quits.

Simoes was supposed to face Matheus Diniz, but decided to pull out in order to focus on another grappling superfight with Dean Lister in the upcoming Fight To Win 8.

Simoes told FloGrappling:

I will not be competing at Metamoris. I want to apologize to my opponent Matheus Diniz, and wish him good luck next week at Worlds.

Last week, retired MMA fighter and BJJ black belt Renato ‘Babalu’ Sobral told MMA Fighting that he hasn’t been paid yet for his Metamoris 6 bout vs Chael Sonnen, more than one year later. He joins the rising number of Metamoris competitors to have publicly criticised the organisation due to non payment: AJ Agazarm, Joe Lauzon, Marcel Goncalves…

Aj Agazarm shared his thoughts on social media on the demise of the Metamoris organisation following the recent fiasco as well as their past problems.

The professional grappling promotion, Metamoris, and most notably its founder Ralek Gracie has been under fire for the past few months for various reasons.

Main ones:

-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 (Including Agazarm who is owed 2,000$ since August 2015).

It is now unsure if the event is still set for July 17th at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles. Metamoris was hoping for the event  to be able to repay its debts and keep the company affloat.

Remaining full Card:

GABRIEL GONZAGA vs. SATOSHI ISHI (Olympic Gold Medalist in Judo).
DILON DANNIS vs. GILBERT “DURINHO” BURNS
RALEK GRACIE vs. TIM SPRIGGS
SECRET MATCH.