When Luke Thomas of MMA Fighting asked Metamoris President Ralek Gracie why since Michelle Nicolini vs Mackenzie Dern at Metamoris 2, they didn’t have any more women’s matches, Ralek had this to say:
“We had that one match and it was cool, but that was more of, ‘That’s cool and that was interesting and I want to see that again if the girls are cute.’ You know how it is. The UFC wouldn’t even have a women’s division if it wasn’t for Ronda Rousey. They wouldn’t even have it. It’s a really, really tricky thing.”
Metamoris are ready to put money on the table for one woman though:
“We’re interested in having Ronda Rousey and we’re willing to invest and potentially take a loss on that opportunity and risk that opportunity because of how big she is,” he says, “but we can’t do that on just any women as much as I’d like to.”
About why there aren’t more Gi matches, Gracie said that it was for financial reasons:
“We’re actually working on having some prelims on this next card, like gi prelims. More gi matches before the actual main card,”
“What it really comes down to is we only have six matches on the card and of those six matches, we have a lot of pressure to sell pay-per-views. An extreme amount of pressure. People think we’re just rolling in the dough and we can just choose whoever we want and we’re going to sell millions of pay-per-views no matter who we put on the card.
