Ralek Gracie is one of the most polarizing figures in bjj. While there might be a lot of more controversial figures his constant flip flopping and the inability to make payments towards athletes who were featured in his events permanently soured him to a number of jiu-jiteiros. Still Ralek insists AJ Agazarm is the villain in the situation – to a tragicomic degree.

He told jiujitsutimes:

“I called out AJ initially because I thought he would want the opportunity to help cover the athletes he screwed over when he pirated our M7 event to 100k people, live. Plus I would love to legally choke him for what he did. 10% of that number in sales would have covered our debt and he would have been better off telling people on his social media to support the PPV if he really wanted us to “pay our athletes”. But he didn’t want us to pay our athletes. He wanted us to disappear. He would not have done that if Roger and Buchecha had remained the headliner, but because I was the new headliner with Garry Tonon and was already the “bad guy” for a slew of bad press, he had an opening to make it look somewhat heroic to rob me and everyone else we owe or is otherwise associated.”

Of course 100.000 seems a tad far fetched but Ralek explains:

 “I called out AJ initially because I thought he would want the opportunity to help cover the athletes he screwed over when he pirated our M7 event to 100k people, live. Plus I would love to legally choke him for what he did.”

Not that any of it is going to deter Gordon Ryan who opted to approach it playful and limit himself just to certain submissions.

As a reminder Gordon Ryan – ADCC gold medalist in the 88kg division will be limiting himself to:

 I Will submit ralek with one of 2 moves in between 10 and 18 minutes. The 1st move being some kind of triangle and the second being a variation of an arm bar. Ralek will fall with one of these two moves between the time frame of 10 and 18 minutes.

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