Metamoris är en gala som enbart fokuserar på grappling och dom har hittills bara haft en enda kvinnlig match på sina fem event och nu förklarar Metamoris varför dom inte har kvinnliga matcher.
Metamoris menar att dom har en press på sig att sälja pay-per-views och måste därför noggrannt välja vilka som kommer att tävla på deras galor och tron på att det kommer finnas kvinnliga utövare på den nivån som krävs som kommer att leverera bra matcher är liten förklarar Metamoris president Ralek Gracie.
”We’re actually working on having some prelims on this next card, like gi prelims. More gi matches before the actual main card,” sa Gracie.
”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.”
”It’s not the case, at all,” sa Gracie. ”It’s absolutely not a joke who ends up on the card. With every match, there has to be a unique story and there has to be an element that will bring out people from all walks of life in a lot of ways. Even though we know the core audience and what they’re interested in, we have to constantly be on the boundaries. We have to be constantly pushing the edge of what our viewership is, otherwise we won’t survive. All we’re doing is reinvesting all of our money into these athletes. We’re spinning a wheel. We have to keep the wheel moving. I just don’t think there’s women who are really going to bring it on that level.”
På Metamoris 2 fanns en kvinnlig match mellan Michelle Nicolini och McKenzie Dern. Det blev en väldigt lyckad match, men trots det så verkar det bli några fler kvinnliga matcher på Metamoris inom en snar framtid.
”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.”
Det är stor press på Metamoris att få in pengar för att kunna ha flera galor och dom vet inte om kvinnliga matcher skulle sälja så bra.
”We’re not a charity right now,” förklarar Gracie. ”I have aspirations beyond Metamoris that are charitable and everything I need to do, but right now we have to succeed. We have so many people riding on it with so many things and people wanting to see it succeed. Our obligation is to make sure people say, ’Holy shit! I need to watch that!’ Otherwise, there’s no way.”
”Because of the way we push it and because of the production value we bring, we’re risking so much by putting one bad match-up together,” sa Gracie.
Metamoris är intresserade av att ha med en match med Ronda Rousey (11-0).
”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.”
