July 17th at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles! METAMORIS 7: GRACIE VS BUCHECHA 2!!
Full Card:
ROGER GRACIE vs. MARCUS ALMEIDA “BUCHECHA”
GABRIEL GONZAGA vs. SATOSHI ISHI (Olympic Gold Medalist in Judo).
DILON DANNIS vs. GILBERT “DURINHO” BURNS
RALEK GRACIE vs. TIM SPRIGGS
YURI SIMOES vs. MATHEUS DINIZ
SECRET MATCH
PRELIMS TBA
Trailer:
The professional grappling promotion, Metamoris, and most notably its founder Ralek Gracie has been under fire for the past few months for various reasons.
The main ones 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.
BJJ black belt AJ Agazarm faced ex UFC fighter Karo Parisyan at Metamoris Underground last August. The match was extremely exciting and was a back and forth war between the two game athletes. After the 20 mins time limit, the match was declared a draw.
Agazarm still hasn’t been paid his 2,000$ match money by Metamoris. He was also promised another Metamoris match. Agazarm took to Facebook to write an open letter to Metamoris founder Ralek Gracie.
Another Metmoris fighter has just come forward, Marcel Goncalves from Florida. Goncalves won the Metamoris Challengers last November and was promised by Ralek Gracie to be paid the prize money of 10,000$ + travel expenses.
We are now in March and Goncalves, along with the other winners such as Aleksandar Rajacic or Dan Borovic, still haven’t been paid by Metamoris.
Goncalves made a video exposing the truth. He says that he’s been very patient with Gracie and that he gave him reasonable options to be paid. Goncalves also revealed that Gracie said that he should compete for free in an upcoming Metamoris event and that if the event did well, that he would get paid what was owed.
Here is Ralek Gracie’s response from last Januray. He assured that the athletes will be paid in due time:
“I can’t assure you that a certain individual had better intentions with an Instagram heist than pumping up his own ego for not being invited to compete at Metamoris Pro or other reasons not worth mentioning. With that said, I’m all about improvement and this is a good opportunity to shed light for the people who really care about our future and the future of submission grappling.
First, we started Metamoris to elevate the sport of Jiu Jitsu and its athletes. People think we are rolling in the dough because we have the best quality production and that we have been financially backed since M5. Truth is we lost our backer after M2. Metamoris 3 was a huge risk and the largest athlete payout yet. We broke even on M3, a huge victory.
Metamoris 5 and 6 did not bring in the expected live streams, setting us back in a big way. As a means of recovering we created Metamoris All Access, Metamoris Challenger and Metamoris Underground.
Although they are amazing ideas we spread ourselves thin. I’d like to apologize to everyone incorrectly billed through our site, we were not ready to launch when we did and we have since identified all the issues and brought on qualified people to develop the site. Still, you believed in us, trusted us and we let you down and that is something no amount of money can replace.
To the athletes athletes, most of whom are supportive and patient with our mission and know that we have gone big in building their individual brands as well as pushing to pay them above industry standards, it hurts me to delay but you WILL be paid. This patience is not owed to us, though we are grateful for it.
Lastly, to the fans of Metamoris I’m personally sorry for the loss in momentum. I made mistakes trying to honor what we all love and I fell short on many levels… We have now formed an executive team to manage our processes on a level that reflects our mission and capacity and are in talks with several qualified investors.
In essence we are regrouping, applying the lessons of our mistakes and gearing up for the strongest year in grappling history. That said, it won’t serve us to dwell on past mistakes. Onward and upward.
-Ralek- P.S. fun is doing the impossible.”
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